Wives, Husbands, and Christ, Part 2

We also should rejoice as we consider God's work in ordaining marriage, the family, the church, and civil government.

Now we have to be careful. When we look at creation we know we are seeing creation groaning under the fall and God's judgment.

When we look at the institutions God established, we come face to face with sinners and rebellion.

But the presence of sin and rebellion are not the only things we are to see.
We can still rejoice in a beautiful day, a sunset, a majestic mountain.
We are to rejoice that God established marriage between a man and a woman.
We rejoice that marriage is a picture of Jesus Christ and His Church.

Jesus when he was tested by the Pharisees regarding marriage and divorce made this point.
Matt. 19:8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

I am sure that you have read, studied, and listened to many sermons coming from our text at the end of Ephesians 5.
What is the goal as we consider this text once again?
First, it is good to hear and consider what is familiar.
Second, this text directs us to rejoice in the salvation that we have in Jesus Christ and consider the profound nature of marriage and the bond of Jesus Christ and His church.