Title: Let's Keep the Home
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: Ephesians 5:22-25
A family starts as a basic unit by a couple. The home is the most beautiful space God has given, and it is a community. Also, the basic group of the nation and society is the family. For the nation and society to be healthy, the family must be healthy. For a healthy family, husband and wife must have healthy faith and thoughts. According to recent statistics, one-family divorces out of four-family marriage. In the future, the number of divorced families is expected to rise from 30% to 40%. This is clearly the work of the devil, and let's summarize the causes of it in six ways.
① Women's participation in society. As the number of working women increases, the opportunity to contact the opposite sex other than their spouse has increased, and the chance of having an affair has also increased.
② It is because women were desperate to live without their faults and had to live because of their children, but now, as women's economic power has increased, the path to self-reliance has expanded rather than relying on men.
③ It is the corruption of the mass media. It is said that TV and broadcasting are biased toward business, and they promote a social atmosphere by using adultery, which people are interested in, as a regular menu item for broadcasting.
④ The development of individualism. As the family becomes a nuclear family, children have symptoms of princess disease and princely disease, which makes them isolated and left behind in social and family life without understanding others.
⑤ The development of the perfume industry. The proliferation of love hotels, etc., promotes sexual depravity.
⑥ It is a mistake of national policy. The lack of control over the bar has led to a low-level drinking culture.
Today's text summarizes two things for a healthy married relationship.
1. A good wife is submissive to her husband.
Verses 22-23 “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the head of the church, who himself is the Savior of the body. I did.
This is God's order. Both husband and wife are the same person, soul. However, God created Adam first and then made a woman (Eve) from Adam's rib. Therefore, it is not a humiliating act for a wife to be embraced by her husband, but a mysterious blessing. This is the marital relationship in the Bible.
2. A good husband values his wife.
Verse 25 says, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.” I did.
The husband is not the ruler of his wife. Guardian. women are fragile
Bowl. That's why, even when dating, you wear a woman on your left arm and protect it with your right arm. Husbands! Let's cherish and love our wife. Let us love with all our lives as Jesus Christ loved the church and gave Himself.
So, is the couple one? two? There is a story in the Talmd, a book of Jewish wisdom:
A deformed child with two heads and one body was born in a village. People have been arguing about whether this child is one or two. Then, undecided, he went to the rabbi and asked if he should see this child as one or two. The rabbi gives an answer after a lot of thought. "Strike a child on one side of the head. If both cry, they are one; if one cries, they are two."