Vintage, Not Outdated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.

The Marriage God Made

Genesis 2:15–23

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026

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Big Idea: God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.

I. God Created Man with Dignity and Responsibility

“Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.”

Genesis 2:15, NASB95

II. God Revealed Man’s Need for Companionship

Marriage is a covenant partnership.

“The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”

Mathew Henry

III. God Created Woman with Equal Value and Complementary Design

“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 11:3, NASB95

“For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man.”

1 Corinthians 11:8, NASB95

IV. God Presented Woman as a Gift to Man

The Conclusion of the Matter

Ecclesiastes 11:8–9; 12:1; 12:13–14

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 17, 2026

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1. ENJOY YOUR YOUTH — BUT DON’T WASTE IT

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

2 Corinthians 5:10 (CSB)

2. REMEMBER YOUR CREATOR BEFORE LIFE HARDENS YOU

3. THE WHOLE POINT OF LIFE

He has made everything [a]appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, [b]yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NASB95)