Your Husband Has Needs You're Probably Overlooking

Main message: The sermon teaches that wives should honor their husbands by yielding to the husband’s God-given mission, not by becoming passive or inferior, and that marriage requires mutual consideration rather than acting single within the covenant. It argues that healthy submission is not abuse, silence, or loss of agency, but a willing refusal to let pride and hyper-independence get in the way of unity.

Key points:

• Respect the husband and avoid disrespectful attitudes, even when frustrations are legitimate.
• Submission does not mean inferiority, invisibility, passivity, abuse, or surrendering common sense.
• The Greek idea behind submission is willingly placing oneself under the husband’s mission and the mission of the household.
• Wives are called to relinquish hyper-independence, bringing their voice without insisting it always be final.
• In marriage, each spouse should consider the other’s needs, including physical and relational needs.
• Paul’s teaching on intimacy calls for mutual consent for abstaining, and warns that prolonged deprivation can increase temptation.

Scriptures mentioned: Ephesians 5:22, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:5