All right. How are we doing, church? Everybody good? I don't know if you know this, but happy birthday, 1122. Today is our six-year anniversary. So, isn't that cool? We're six years old.

Hey, listen, if you've got your Bibles, Ephesians chapter 5, I hope you're ready to put the fun in dysfunctional, because that's what we're going to talk about for the next three weeks. We are going to talk about family. And some people ask, like when we finish up

the Roman series, where do we go from here? And so I want you to understand how important this

series is because if the 34 weeks that we spent studying the deep doctrines

found in the book of Romans don't end up affecting the way we treat one another in our homes,

then we wasted our whole year.

You see, this is how God works that right theology leads to right

doxology. Think about like the 10 commandments. The first four commandments are about our

vertical relationship with God, and then commandments 5 through 10 are then therefore about our

horizontal relationships with one another. Or think about the book of Romans itself.

Remember, chapters 1 through 8 are about the doctrine that we are justified by faith alone.

Chapters 9, 10, and 11 are about God's faithfulness,

faithfulness to His covenant, and then chapters 12 to the end

are about how we live out that faith with one another.

Or Jesus has asked, what's the greatest commandment of all?

And he says, it's pretty easy.

You love the Lord of your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.

And the second one is like it.

We love our neighbors as ourselves.

And so in this year of diving deep into our relationship with Jesus,

that should deeply affect our relationships with one another. In fact, as I was praying through

this sermon, and I prayed like never before for this one one because we're going to talk about wives.

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