1. Roles & Attitudes A Blessed Marriage

2. Husband’s Roles One Who Provides: – Physical Needs (Gen 2:15; 3:17-19; 1 Tim 5:8) – Spiritual Needs (Gen 18:19; Eph 6:4; Col 3:21) A wife’s participation (2 Tim 1:15; 3:15) A wife’s needs (1 Cor 14:34-35)

3. Husband’s Roles One Who Provides: One Who Protects: – Like Jesus The Shepherd (Jn 10:11-13; 1 Pet 5:4; Heb 13:20) – Like Elders In The Church (Acts 20:28-29)

4. Husband’s Roles One Who Provides: One Who Protects: One Who Sacrifices: – Like Jesus Does For The Church (Eph 5:25; Matt 11:28)

5. Husband’s Attitude One Who Nourishes & Cherishes: – As Jesus Cares For The Church & As A Man Cares For His Own Body (Eph 5:25; 1 Pet 3:7)

6. Wife’s Roles To Desire Her Husband: – A Singular Focus (Gen 3:16)

7. Wife’s Roles To Desire Her Husband: To Bear His Children: – To Confidently Fill The Earth With Godly Offspring (Gen 1:26-28; Gen 9:1, 7; Psa 127:3)

8. Wife’s Attitude To Have A Submissive Spirit: – As The Church Is Subject To The Will Of Christ (Eph 5:23-24; 1 Pet 3:1-5; Prov 14:1) “Hupotasso” – to subordinate; to obey (not by force but by free moral choice)

9. Accepting God’s Roles In Marriage With The Proper Attitudes Will Result In Heaven’s Blessing “Through wisdom a house is built, & by understanding it is established; 4 By knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious & pleasant riches” (Prov 24:3-4).