BIG IDEA: Joyfully submit and fulfill God’s design for husbands

1. Know your wife intimately
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way,

(At the end of my point, I'll mention these application points)
1. Be someone your wife wants to submit to
2. Study your wife- ask good questions. Pursue her. Woo her. Here’s a gauge: is she increasingly becoming your best friend?
3. Regularly assess your role as husband- am I in line with God’s word? Is my wife receiving my attempts to conform myself to God’s pattern? Book suggestions: Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, God, Marriage and Family by Andreas Kostenberger

2. Honor your wife appropriately
showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel,
Honor her:
1. Maritally-
2. Verbally-
3. Preferentially-
4. Protectively-
5. Repentantly-
since they are heirs with you of the grace of life,

3. Refuse to and God will refuse you
so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Links to Books Mentioned in Sermon -

http://www.amazon.com/Recovering-Biblical-Manhood-Womanhood-Redesign/dp/1433537125/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429640214&sr=1-1&keywords=rediscovering+biblical+manhood+and+womanhood

http://www.amazon.com/God-Marriage-Family-Second-Rebuilding-ebook/dp/B003KGBGJU/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429640241&sr=1-2&keywords=God%2C+Marriage%2C+and+Family