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Vintage, Not Outdated
Ephesians 5:22–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7
Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026
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God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.
1. A Word for the Wise Wife: Respectful Submission
“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”
Colossians 3:18, CSB
so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.
Titus 2:4-5 CSB
a. Submission is not inferiority
“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28, CSB
b. Submission is not silence
c. Submission is spiritual beauty
d. Submission is ultimately unto the Lord
2. A Message for the Modern Man: Sacrificial love
a. A husband’s love is sacrificial
b. A husband’s love is sanctifying
c. A husband’s love is sensitive
d. A husband’s love is nourishing and cherishing
“To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.”
Ephesians 5:33, CSB
e. A husband’s love honors
3. But How?
a. Stop saying, “They started it.”
b. Obey your command, not your spouse’s command.
c. Replace reaction with obedience.
d. Speak your spouse’s God-given language.
e. Remember marriage requires the gospel.
