{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FA Church","title":"Marriage Matters - Ben Johnson | First Assembly Church","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2439,"description":"This past Sunday, our Lead Pastor, Ben Johnson, preached a message entitled \"Marriage Matters.\" Pastor Ben unpacked Ephesians 5:25–33, reminding us that God's design for marriage reflects the profound relationship between Christ and His Church. He encouraged us to believe right by embracing God's purpose for marriage, build right through the foundational principles of love and respect, and love right by following Christ's example of sacrificial, selfless love. This message challenged us to honor God's design for marriage by cultivating relationships marked by humility, mutual respect, and Christlike love that points others to the Gospel.\n✍️ Notes\nTitle: Marriage Matters – Ben Johnson\nHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her  to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her\nto himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:25-33\n⭑ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy (25.26)\n⭑ This is a profound mystery - but I am talking about Christ and the church. (32)\n1. Believe Right\nFor this reason, a man will leave his father and mother an be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (31)\n“Haven’t you read,”he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2rS6CncygjSrU4_eAytDXGn13c_aC8wKWWeu0LjCRnQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81OTgy/MDQxMzg5MTZiY2M3/MzMxYjY2OWU4N2U0/ZTA0Ni5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}