Downtown Church: Memphis, Tn

Ecclesiastes 2:1-11

Judges 2:6-13, Deuteronomy 6

Christian Marriage Ephesians 5:21-33 "In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to deathâ€" even death on a cross!" Phil. 2:5-8 I. Mutual submission fuels deep friendship II. Wives are to submit, submit and respect their husbands. “Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.” Gen 3:16b “I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.” John 6:38 “We must obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29 III. Husbands are to Love as they love their own bodies. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing wi

1 Corinthians 7:25-40

“In marriage, it is the covenant that sustains the love, not the love that sustains the covenant.” Bonhoeffer