Why Aren’t Pre-Fall Adam and Eve the Model for Marriage? Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 5
If Adam and Eve were married and without sin before the fall, why are they not our primary model for Christian marriage today?
Feb 15, 2022
Look at the Book
Look at the Book is John Piper's ongoing series of 8-12 minute videos to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself.
Episodes
Submissively Not Following a Husband: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 4
What does it mean that the wife is called to submit to her husband “in everything”?
Feb 12, 2022
Wives, Submit ‘As to the Lord’: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 3
What does it mean for a Christian wife to submit to her husband “as to the Lord”?
Feb 10, 2022
Factors Feeding a Wife’s Submission: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 2
Wives take their cues from the church as she submits to the Lord. Husbands take their cues from Christ as he loves the church.
Feb 08, 2022
The Most Glorious Relationship Among Humans: Ephesians 5:22–24, Part 1
What makes marriage the most glorious relationship on earth? Because it is uniquely modeled on the relationship between Christ and his church.
Feb 05, 2022
The Sweet Experience of Fearing Christ: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 9
Our fear of Christ is not only a fear. We do fear him, but we also trust him and love him and delight in him.
Feb 03, 2022
Submit to One Another, Full of the Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 8
How do we count others better than ourselves, even when we might be more gifted than they are?
Feb 01, 2022
Give Thanks for Everything — Really? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 7
God does not command us to give thanks for some things, or even most things, but for all things. How could we do that?
Jan 29, 2022
How to Be Filled with the Holy Spirit: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 6
How do we obey the passive command to be filled with the Holy Spirit?
Jan 27, 2022
Sing! Sing! Sing! — To Each Other and the Lord: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 5
When we gather together, we not only sing to God. We sing to one another in order to build one another up.
Jan 25, 2022
The Root Problem with Drunkenness: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 4
Drunkenness is anti-living. It wastes time. It wastes wisdom. It wastes our ability to honor the Lord.
Jan 22, 2022
Don’t Let Evil Days Make You Stupid: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 3
We live in evil days. Therefore, walk wisely, purchase time, and seek to understand the will of God.
Jan 20, 2022
Be Shrewd and Buy Up Time: Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 2
Do you just let life happen to you, or do you pray, do you plan, do you act, do you consider how you spend your time?
Jan 18, 2022
How Does Gratitude Serve the Will of God? Ephesians 5:15–21, Part 1
Are you a thankful person? When we are truly filled by the Spirit, we increasingly give thanks for everything.
Jan 15, 2022
How to Speak to the Spiritually Dead: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 8
God uses our voice to do the impossible. He sends us to open the eyes of the spiritually dead through our words.
Jan 13, 2022
What Kind of Speech Is Shameful? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 7
How do you confront and expose works of darkness without speaking in ways that dishonor Christ?
Jan 11, 2022
How Do We Expose Works of Darkness? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 6
To expose unfruitful works of darkness means the uncomfortable work of confronting them, rebuking them, and showing them to be wrong.
Jan 08, 2022
Can Imperfect Christians Please the Lord? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 5
Is it true that we are so sinful that nothing we can do could please the Lord?
Jan 06, 2022
The All-Nourishing Fruit of Light: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 4
The lifestyle of those who walk in light is full of fruit and goodness. The lifestyle of those who walk in darkness is barren and full of evil.
Jan 04, 2022
How Being Becomes Doing: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 3
All the effort of holiness flows from the new birth, the new heart. If you reverse the order, you don’t have Christianity; you have legalism.
Jan 01, 2022
What Makes Christianity Different as a Religion? Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 2
Once we were lost in darkness as children of darkness. But now, we are light in the Lord. Therefore, walk as children of light.
Dec 30, 2021
A New Argument for How to Live: Ephesians 5:8–14, Part 1
How do you think of yourself? If you are in Christ, do you consider that he already calls you “light” in the Lord?
Dec 28, 2021
How to Escape the Coming Wrath of God: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 6
No one is justified because they stayed sexually pure. But no one inherits the kingdom of God while living a sexually impure life.
Dec 25, 2021
How Does Thankfulness Clean Up the Mouth? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 5
Foolish talk, crude joking, and shameful speech have no place to grow when our communities are filled with explicit thankfulness to God.
Dec 23, 2021
How Is Something Not Proper for Saints? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 4
The apostle Paul rarely, if ever, calls believers “Christians,” but he often calls us “saints.” What does the name mean?
Dec 21, 2021
Sexual Immorality Is Not Even to Be Named: Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 3
What does it mean that sexual immorality should not even be named among Christians?
Dec 18, 2021
How Is Covetousness the Root of Sexual Idolatry? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 2
If Christ is not the King of your heart on earth, he will not be the King that satisfies your heart for all eternity.
Dec 16, 2021
Should Saints Be Warned About Wrath? Ephesians 5:3–7, Part 1
Those marked by sexual immorality, impurity, and covetousness will not inherit the kingdom of God. Are such warnings aimed at Christians?
Dec 14, 2021
Was God Pleased with the One He Cursed? Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 3
If the Father crushed the Son on our behalf, could he also be pleased with his Son while he died?
Dec 11, 2021
Christian Love Is Sacrificial Love: Ephesians 5:1–2, Part 2
Loving others as Christ loved us is not a safe or convenient enterprise. It is a sacrificial love that bleeds.
Dec 09, 2021