God’s Design
For Husbands and Wives
God’s Design
For Husbands and
Wives
What God expects
of Husbands and Wives
What God expects of Husbands
and Wives
If we are to know what God expects we
need to know what the Bible says.
What God expects of Husbands
and Wives
If we are to know what God expects we
need to know what the Bible says.
This session will be centered on what God
says in the Bible.
Ephesians 5:32
Ephesians 5:32 A
mystery
Marriage is Gods
Idea
Ephesians 5:32 This mystery
is great – but I am actually
speaking with reference to
Christ and the church.
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness, . . .
Image Bearer
Relationship with God
male and female he created them.
Image Bearer
Relationship with God
& with each other
Then God said, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness, . . .
So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God he created him; male
and female he created them.
Image Bearer
Created for Relationship
as sexual beings
Hebrew for Male
Zakar
The pointed one
Created for Relationship
as sexual beings
Hebrew for Female
Neqevah
The pierced one
Hebrew for Male
Zakar
The pointed one
Created for Relationship
as sexual beings
Hebrew for Female
Neqevah
The pierced one
Initiator Responder
Ephesians 5:32
Ephesians 5:32 A
mystery
Marriage is Gods
Idea
Created for Relationship
as sexual beings
Initiator Responder
Genesis 1:28
dress & keep the garden
subdue – under control
dominion – be in charge
Image Bearer
male
Impact
Genesis 2:15,19-20
Take care of the garden
Name all the animals
Image Bearer
male
Impact
Genesis 2:20
Alone
Genesis 2:18, 20
No longer alone
helper suitable for Adam
Genesis 2:18, 20
No longer alone
helper suitable for Adam
companion / helper
corresponds to:
Intimacy
Created for Significance
IntimacyImpact
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Perfect Garden:
Significance from
relationship with God
and dominion over
animals/ Garden
Significance from
relationship with God
and Adam
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Perfect Garden:
Worship
in service
Worship
in relationship
Ephesians 5:32
Ephesians 5:32 A
mystery
Marriage is Gods
Idea
Created for Relationship as
sexual beings
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Created for Relationship
ResponderInitiator
RespectLove
IntimacyImpact
HelperProvider
Not Good News
Hebrew for Male
Zakar
The pointed one
Created for Relationship
as sexual beings
Hebrew for Female
Neqevah
The pierced one
Initiator Responder
Created for Relationship
ResponderInitiator
Broken Relationship
ControlPassivity
To the woman he said, “I will
greatly increase your pains in
childbearing; with pain you will
give birth to children. Your
desire will be for your
husband, and he will rule over
you.”
5:22 Wives, submit to you husbands
as to the Lord,
5:23 because the husband is the head
of the wife as also Christ is the head of
the church – he himself being the
savior of the body.
5:24 But as the church submits to
Christ, so also wives should submit to
their husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5
Sin Intrusion2
Sin Intrusion
Ephesians 5:32
Ephesians 5:32 A
mystery
Marriage is Gods
Idea
Created for Relationship as
sexual beings
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Created for Relationship
ResponderInitiator
IntimacyImpact
Broken Relationship
ControlPassivity
ColdSlave Driver
In a demand for impact
outside of God, men
become:
Angry Avoider
Driven Performer
workaholics
Women use distance
close down to protect
their hearts from the hurt
and hunger for
relationship or find
substitutes
Husbands
Move into the Chaos at
home with
Love
Wives
Respond to the husbands
movement with
Respect
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
5:25 Husbands, love your wives just as
Christ loved the church and gave himself
for her
5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with
the washing of the water by the word,
Ephesians 5
5:27 so that he may present the
church to himself as glorious – not
having a stain or wrinkle, or any such
blemish, but holy and blameless.
5:28 In the same way husbands
ought to love their wives as their own
bodies. He who loves his wife loves
himself.
Ephesians 5
5:29 For no one has ever hated his own
body but he feeds it and takes care of it,
just as Christ also does the church,
5:30 for we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5
5:31 For this reason a man will leave his
father and mother and will be joined one
flesh. – but I am actually speaking with
reference to Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Christ and the Church
Love
Love causes you to
think first of the
other person
I’d like to have a new
snow machine, but Kathy
needs a new washing
machine more.
How does a husband deal with a wife who is not
obeying the Word?
Confide in 1 or 2 other Men
Know and understand her
Take time to talk
Be a true lover drawing out her desire
Be a true leader making decisions in her best interest
Share Kindly from scripture (wash with the water of
the word)
How does a husband deal with a wife who is not
obeying the Word?
Don’t get bitter
Set an example by how you submit to your head
Jesus Christ. Talk about it!
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
Created for Relationship
ResponderInitiator
RespectLove
IntimacyImpact
Broken Relationship
ControlPassivity
DisrespectUn Love
ColdSlave Driver
Men who feel
disrespected run away
into Selfish & Unloving
actions
Women who feel
unloved come
across as
disrespectful
“However . . . Let the wife see that she
respects and reverences her husband . . .”
Notices him
Regards him
Honors him
Prefers him
(Ephesians 5:33 Amplified)
Venerates & esteems him
Defers to him
Praises him
Love and admires him
What can wives do whose husbands
drink and beat them or their
children?
Keep a clean house
Praise and Build him up in whatever way possible
Build him up before the children in what
ever way possible
Let the police take him, don’t send him out of
the house
Discipline the children
A Woman’s two most powerful
weapons against a husband
who does not obey God are:
1. Silence
2. Prayer
Created for Relationship
ResponderInitiator
RespectLove
IntimacyImpact
Broken Relationship
ControlPassivity
DisrespectUn Love
ColdSlave Driver
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
HelperProvider
Husbands
Move into the Chaos of a
cursed world as a
Provider
Wives
Look for ways to come
along side as a
Helper
1 Peter 3:1-7
3:1 In the same way, wives, be
subject to your own husbands. Then
even if some are disobedient to the
word, they will be won over without a
word by the way you live,
3:2 when they see your pure and
reverent conduct.
3:3 Let your beauty not be external –
3:4 but the inner person of the heart,
the lasting beauty of a gentle and
tranquil spirit, which is precious in
God’s sight.
3:5 For in the same way the holy
women who hoped in God long ago
adorned themselves by being subject
to their husbands,
3:7 Husbands, in the same way, treat
your wives with consideration as the
weaker partners and show them
honor as fellow heirs of the grace of
life. In this way nothing will hinder
your prayers.
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
Provider
17 To Adam he said, “Because you
listened to your wife and ate from the tree
about which I commanded you, ‘You must
not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground
because of you; through painful toil you
will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It
will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field. 19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat
your food until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken; for dust you
are and to dust you will return.
If anyone does not provide for
his relatives, and especially
for his immediate family, he
has denied the faith and is
worse than an unbeliever.
1 Timothy 5:8
In the sweat of your face you shall eat
bread Till you return to the ground, For
out of it you were taken; For dust you
are, And to dust you shall return.“
Genesis 3:19
Exodus 21:10 If he marries
another woman, he must
not deprive the first one of
her food, clothing and
marital rights.
1 Cor. 7:3 The husband should fulfill
his marital duty to his wife, and
likewise the wife to her husband. 4
The wife’s body does not belong to
her alone but also to her husband. In
the same way, the husband’s body
does not belong to him alone but
also to his wife.
Do not deprive each other except
by mutual consent and for a time,
so that you may devote
yourselves to prayer. Then come
together again so that Satan will
not tempt you because of your
lack of self-control.
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
HelperProvider
3:1 In the same way, wives, be
subject to your own husbands. Then
even if some are disobedient to the
word, they will be won over without a
word by the way you live,
3:2 when they see your pure and
reverent conduct.
Broken Relationship
ControlPassivity
DisrespectUn Love
ColdSlave Driver
RescuerUse (leach)
When life is to
difficult, when
providing like God
asks seems to
hard, men escape
to addictions,
pleasure,
temporary
diversions
Instead of coming
along side as helpers,
Women move into a
rescuing role, become
a “second mother”
Often out of goodwill to help
their husbands grow, become
better, but sometimes out of a
demand to meet their needs.
This ends up emasculating
and driving their husbands
away.
Ephesians 5:32
Marriage is Gods
Created for Relationship
Initiator Responder
Intimacy
Created for Significance
Impact
Respect
Christ and the Church
Love
HelperProvider

God’S Design For Husbands And Wives

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  • 6.
    What God expects ofHusbands and Wives
  • 7.
    What God expectsof Husbands and Wives If we are to know what God expects we need to know what the Bible says.
  • 8.
    What God expectsof Husbands and Wives If we are to know what God expects we need to know what the Bible says. This session will be centered on what God says in the Bible.
  • 9.
    Ephesians 5:32 Ephesians 5:32A mystery Marriage is Gods Idea
  • 10.
    Ephesians 5:32 Thismystery is great – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
  • 11.
    Genesis 1:26 Then Godsaid, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, . . . Image Bearer Relationship with God
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    male and femalehe created them. Image Bearer Relationship with God & with each other
  • 13.
    Then God said,"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Image Bearer Created for Relationship as sexual beings
  • 14.
    Hebrew for Male Zakar Thepointed one Created for Relationship as sexual beings Hebrew for Female Neqevah The pierced one
  • 15.
    Hebrew for Male Zakar Thepointed one Created for Relationship as sexual beings Hebrew for Female Neqevah The pierced one Initiator Responder
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    Ephesians 5:32 Ephesians 5:32A mystery Marriage is Gods Idea Created for Relationship as sexual beings Initiator Responder
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    Genesis 1:28 dress &keep the garden subdue – under control dominion – be in charge Image Bearer male Impact
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    Genesis 2:15,19-20 Take careof the garden Name all the animals Image Bearer male Impact
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    Genesis 2:18, 20 Nolonger alone helper suitable for Adam
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    Genesis 2:18, 20 Nolonger alone helper suitable for Adam companion / helper corresponds to: Intimacy
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    Intimacy Created for Significance Impact PerfectGarden: Significance from relationship with God and dominion over animals/ Garden Significance from relationship with God and Adam
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    Intimacy Created for Significance Impact PerfectGarden: Worship in service Worship in relationship
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    Ephesians 5:32 Ephesians 5:32A mystery Marriage is Gods Idea Created for Relationship as sexual beings Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact
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    Hebrew for Male Zakar Thepointed one Created for Relationship as sexual beings Hebrew for Female Neqevah The pierced one Initiator Responder
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    To the womanhe said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
  • 38.
    5:22 Wives, submitto you husbands as to the Lord, 5:23 because the husband is the head of the wife as also Christ is the head of the church – he himself being the savior of the body. 5:24 But as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5
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    Ephesians 5:32 Ephesians 5:32A mystery Marriage is Gods Idea Created for Relationship as sexual beings Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact
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    Created for Relationship ResponderInitiator IntimacyImpact BrokenRelationship ControlPassivity ColdSlave Driver
  • 49.
    In a demandfor impact outside of God, men become: Angry Avoider Driven Performer workaholics
  • 50.
    Women use distance closedown to protect their hearts from the hurt and hunger for relationship or find substitutes
  • 51.
    Husbands Move into theChaos at home with Love
  • 52.
    Wives Respond to thehusbands movement with Respect
  • 53.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love
  • 54.
    5:25 Husbands, loveyour wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 5:26 to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of the water by the word, Ephesians 5
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    5:27 so thathe may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless. 5:28 In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. Ephesians 5
  • 56.
    5:29 For noone has ever hated his own body but he feeds it and takes care of it, just as Christ also does the church, 5:30 for we are members of his body. Ephesians 5
  • 57.
    5:31 For thisreason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined one flesh. – but I am actually speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Ephesians 5
  • 58.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Christ and the Church Love
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    Love causes youto think first of the other person I’d like to have a new snow machine, but Kathy needs a new washing machine more.
  • 61.
    How does ahusband deal with a wife who is not obeying the Word? Confide in 1 or 2 other Men Know and understand her Take time to talk Be a true lover drawing out her desire Be a true leader making decisions in her best interest Share Kindly from scripture (wash with the water of the word)
  • 62.
    How does ahusband deal with a wife who is not obeying the Word? Don’t get bitter Set an example by how you submit to your head Jesus Christ. Talk about it!
  • 63.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love
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    Created for Relationship ResponderInitiator RespectLove IntimacyImpact BrokenRelationship ControlPassivity DisrespectUn Love ColdSlave Driver
  • 65.
    Men who feel disrespectedrun away into Selfish & Unloving actions
  • 66.
    Women who feel unlovedcome across as disrespectful
  • 68.
    “However . .. Let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband . . .” Notices him Regards him Honors him Prefers him (Ephesians 5:33 Amplified) Venerates & esteems him Defers to him Praises him Love and admires him
  • 69.
    What can wivesdo whose husbands drink and beat them or their children? Keep a clean house Praise and Build him up in whatever way possible Build him up before the children in what ever way possible Let the police take him, don’t send him out of the house Discipline the children
  • 70.
    A Woman’s twomost powerful weapons against a husband who does not obey God are: 1. Silence 2. Prayer
  • 71.
    Created for Relationship ResponderInitiator RespectLove IntimacyImpact BrokenRelationship ControlPassivity DisrespectUn Love ColdSlave Driver
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    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love HelperProvider
  • 73.
    Husbands Move into theChaos of a cursed world as a Provider
  • 74.
    Wives Look for waysto come along side as a Helper
  • 75.
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    3:1 In thesame way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 3:2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
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    3:3 Let yourbeauty not be external – 3:4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. 3:5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands,
  • 78.
    3:7 Husbands, inthe same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers.
  • 79.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love Provider
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    17 To Adamhe said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.
  • 82.
    If anyone doesnot provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. 1 Timothy 5:8
  • 83.
    In the sweatof your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.“ Genesis 3:19
  • 84.
    Exodus 21:10 Ifhe marries another woman, he must not deprive the first one of her food, clothing and marital rights.
  • 85.
    1 Cor. 7:3The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
  • 86.
    Do not depriveeach other except by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  • 87.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love HelperProvider
  • 88.
    3:1 In thesame way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 3:2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
  • 89.
  • 90.
    When life isto difficult, when providing like God asks seems to hard, men escape to addictions, pleasure, temporary diversions
  • 91.
    Instead of coming alongside as helpers, Women move into a rescuing role, become a “second mother” Often out of goodwill to help their husbands grow, become better, but sometimes out of a demand to meet their needs. This ends up emasculating and driving their husbands away.
  • 92.
    Ephesians 5:32 Marriage isGods Created for Relationship Initiator Responder Intimacy Created for Significance Impact Respect Christ and the Church Love HelperProvider

Editor's Notes

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