Aug 16, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
Does loving someone mean giving up your voice, freedom, or power? What does healthy love look like when you disagree, want different things, or feel like you’re always the one compromising? Real love…
Now, the passage we just read describes mutual submission to one another as a foundation of the Christian life and how we interact with each other.
Submit to one another, that's all of us together, out of deep respect for Jesus Christ.
That last song we sung, I think, was a perfect example of just idea of surrender.
So if you're filling in the blank, you like to take notes, the first one is Jesus.
Who would have thought that in church, the first answer would be Jesus? I'll point you there first.
And how that submission is expressed will change due to the nature of the relationship.
So a husband and wife will submit to one another in a way that two friends who are not married won't submit to one another.
And this brings us really to our main point that loyal love sacrifices and submits.
If there's one big idea I want you to walk out with is loyal love sacrifices and submits.
Now, we tend to react unfavorably to the word submit in our modern context, and I kind of understand why.
We've seen the abuses of power in government, maybe some churches, in the workplace.
We've seen it even in our homes, right? And so we have this negative connotation for the word submit.
Now, sometimes I daydream about what you guys are going to say about these sermons after you get home during the week, talking to your neighbors, talking to your coworkers and go, yeah, church was fine and all, but the preacher, he used the S word.
I think in some of the worldly context, someone else would rather use that profane word and use the word submit because our culture has become so repulsive to honoring any authority, even worthy ones.
See, we equate submission to authority with abuse of power, but that's not the case biblically.
Now, the passage we just read describes mutual submission to one another as a foundation of the Christian life and how we interact with each other.
Submit to one another, that's all of us together, out of deep respect for Jesus Christ.
That last song we sung, I think, was a perfect example of just idea of surrender.
So if you're filling in the blank, you like to take notes, the first one is Jesus.
Who would have thought that in church, the first answer would be Jesus? I'll point you there first.
And how that submission is expressed will change due to the nature of the relationship.
So a husband and wife will submit to one another in a way that two friends who are not married won't submit to one another.
And this brings us really to our main point that loyal love sacrifices and submits.
If there's one big idea I want you to walk out with is loyal love sacrifices and submits.
Now, we tend to react unfavorably to the word submit in our modern context, and I kind of understand why.
We've seen the abuses of power in government, maybe some churches, in the workplace.
We've seen it even in our homes, right? And so we have this negative connotation for the word submit.
Now, sometimes I daydream about what you guys are going to say about these sermons after you get home during the week, talking to your neighbors, talking to your coworkers and go, yeah, church was fine and all, but the preacher, he used the S word.
I think in some of the worldly context, someone else would rather use that profane word and use the word submit because our culture has become so repulsive to honoring any authority, even worthy ones.
See, we equate submission to authority with abuse of power, but that's not the case biblically.
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