Key Truth: Marriage in Christ should serve as a sacred canopy for the display of His redemptive love for the life of the world.  

Introduction:

How have you been affected by the health, good or bad, of other people’s marriages?

The Call to Display the Mystery of Christ in Marriage as a Sacred Canopy:

Ephesians 5:22-33

“Now to lose oneself that the other may find his or her self—that is the essence of the gospel in Christ. It is also the essence of the marriage relationship, for as the husband loves his wife and the wife submits to her husband, each is seeking to enable the other to become more fully himself and herself, within the harmonious complementarity of the sexes.”

John R.W. Stott, The Message of Ephesians: God’s New Society

Whose purpose is marriage to serve primarily in Christ?
What do marriages that serve as a sacred canopy for the display of Christ’s redemptive love for the life of the world look like?

Application: 

Ephesians 5:22-33 teaches us that:
-marriage in Christ should serve as a sacred canopy for the display of His redemptive
love for the life of the world  

Benediction:

Ephesians 6:23-24