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CHEW on IT! High Fidelity (Part 4)

Chew on the scriptures from High Fidelity (Part 3) - Roles.

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Ephesians 5
21…submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

The most important thought you will ever think is what you think about when you think of God!

PROVIDE

Genesis 3
16 Then he said to the woman,
“I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy,
and in pain you will give birth.
And you will desire to control your husband,
but he will rule over you.”
17 And to the man he said,
“Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree
whose fruit I commanded you not to eat,
the ground is cursed because of you.
All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.
18 It will grow thorns and thistles for you,
though you will eat of its grains.
19 By the sweat of your brow
will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
and to dust you will return.”

PROTECT

Proverbs 4
23Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. nasb

Protect her out of LOVE, not from the fear of LOSING her

1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.

PLEASE

1 Corinthians 7
3 The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. 4 The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
33 But a married man has to think about his earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife.

RESIST LOVING HER the way you LOVE TO BE LOVED

PEACE

1 Peter 3
7 In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.

Colossians 3
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.

Proverbs 15
1 A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

Romans 8
9 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you.
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

Romans 6
4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

Philippians 3
10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.

1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

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High Fidelity - Headship (Part 4)

Watch Part 3 of the High Fidelity series.  This message is on ROLES in marriage.

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CHEW on IT! High Fidelity (Part 3)

Chew on the scriptures from High Fidelity (Part 3) - Roles.

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Ephesians 5
21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything.
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

1 Peter 3
1 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over 2 by observing your pure and reverent lives.
7 In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.
All Christians
8 Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude. 9 Don’t repay evil for evil. Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you. Instead, pay them back with a blessing. That is what God has called you to do, and he will bless you for it.

Colossians 3
18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and never treat them harshly.
20 Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord. 21 Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.

Titus 2
4 These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children, 5 to live wisely and be pure, to work in their homes, to do good, and to be submissive to their husbands. Then they will not bring shame on the word of God.

SUBMISSION SUSPICION

There are MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES to ONE ANOTHER

The wife is submissive to her HUSBAND

The husband is AN authority, but not the ULTIMATE authority

How you follow the ROLES will REVEAL what you think about God

MEN: BE LIKE JESUS

Ephesians 5
25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body.
31 As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

FOLLOW THE ROLES!

1 Samuel 15:22
“…To obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed is better than the fat of rams.”

1 Peter 3:5
“This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They trusted God and accepted the authority of their husbands.”

Psalm 119:174
“your law is my delight”

Romans 1:25
“trade the truth about of God for a lie”

Psalm 118:7
The LORD is with me; he is my helper.

Ephesians 5:21-22
And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

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High Fidelity - ROLES (Part 3)

Watch Part 3 of the High Fidelity series.  This message is on ROLES in marriage.

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High Fidelity Q&A

Watch the Q&A with Brandon and Susan from this past weekend’s service.

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High Fidelity - The OTHER People (Part 2)

Watch Part 2 of the High Fidelity - The OTHER People - series.

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CHEW on IT! High Fidelity (Part 1)

Chew on the scriptures from High Fidelity (Part 1) Before You Were One.

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FIDELITY: a) loyalty ; b) the degree to which the simulation matches the real thing.

Hebrews 13
4 Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage.

Song of Solomon 8
4 Promise me, O women of Jerusalem, not to awaken love until the time is right.

1 Thessalonians 4
3 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

1 Corinthians 6
15 Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which is part of Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never! 16 And don’t you realize that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, “The two are united into one.” 17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.

2 Corinthians 11
2 For I am jealous for you with the jealousy of God himself. I promised you as a pure bride to one husband—Christ. 3 But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent. 4 You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.

COMMIT TO A LIFESTYLE OF FIDELITY

CONFESS YOUR INFIDELITY

Psalm 32
1 Oh, what joy for those
whose disobedience is forgiven,
whose sin is put out of sight!
2 Yes, what joy for those
whose record the Lord has cleared of guilt,
whose lives are lived in complete honesty!
3 When I refused to confess my sin,
my body wasted away,
and I groaned all day long.
4 Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me.
My strength evaporated like water in the summer heat.
5 Finally, I confessed all my sins to you
and stopped trying to hide my guilt.
I said to myself, “I will confess my rebellion to the Lord.”
And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.

How you deal with your PAST sins is a template for how you will deal with your FUTURE sins

1 John 1
9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

James 5
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.

Romans 8
9 But you are not controlled by your sinful nature. You are controlled by the Spirit if you have the Spirit of God living in you.
11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

Romans 6
4 For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.

Philippians 3
10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead.

God can renew your heart!

Revelation 21
5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!”

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High Fidelity (Part 1) Before You Were One

Watch the first message in the High Fidelity series.  This message is entitled Before You Were One.

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Q&A this Weekend

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Q&A with Brandon and Susan

On February 13/14, Brandon and Susan will be taking your questions about relationships. At some point in the service they will answer them.

You can submit your questions in 2 ways:

TEXT the word FIDELITY to 99503 with your question
TWEET @poll with the word FIDELITY and your question

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High Fidelity Trailer

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FIDELITY: a) loyalty ; b) the degree to which the simulation matches the real thing.

Do you feel like your relationship is a bad copy of some other great relationship? Do you wish you could have the real thing?

Beginning Valentine’s weekend of February 13,14 we will explore how to experience true loyalty in love. It is real, and it is available to you! Join Brandon Thomas as he walks us through God’s design for relationships.

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