Pastor Rusty MiltonEphesians 5:22-25 ESV"Be Filled with the Spirit: Part 3: Submission"A wife's submission to her husband's spiritual leadership demonstrates the church's relationship to Christ. All throughout the Biblical narrative, we see evidence of sin ruining the glory of marriage, as God's purpose in the institution was oneness and equality with both men and women operating in different roles. Through the curse, these roles became points of contention, with the fleshly desires of each rising up to seek dominance and power over the other. Christ, however, restores the glory of marriage (vs. 22), clarifying that headship and submission are not about authority, but about mutually loving and serving one another. Ephesians 5:22-25English Standard VersionWives and Husbands22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,