Husband and Wife Relationship

Name: Husband and Wife Relationship
Uploaded: 2026-09-30T18:00:00-04:00
Channel: Mark Palmer

Mark Palmer · September 30, 2026 · 6:00 PM service

Mark Palmer preaches from Ephesians 5 and 1 Peter 3 on the relationship between husband and wife, explaining that a wife's submission is a willing yielding to her husband and not slavery, and that a husband's love for his wife must be sacrificial, patterned after Christ's love for the church. He urges husbands to help at home, honor and brag on their wives, and never treat them harshly, reminds wives that reverence brings a husband peace and that godly conduct can even lead a lost husband to Christ, and stresses that each spouse must obey the Word regardless of the other's performance, relying on God's power rather than their own. The pastor follows by sharing how he learned to stop trying to fix his wife and fix himself instead, calls older women and widows to teach the young, and laments homes, schools, and churches that fail to train young people, reminding hearers that God never abuses anyone but points out sin in order to deliver and change them.

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”Ephesians 5:22-33 (KJV)