"The two-toed tree toad tried to win, The three-toed she-toad's heart, For the two-toed tree toad loved the ground, That the three-toed tree toad trod. But the two-toed tree toad tried in vain. He couldn't please her whim. From her tree toad bower, With her three-toed power, The she-toad vetoed him."
The late Dr. Frank Pollard used the classic tongue twister to launch his sermon on one a passage of scripture fraught with peril and misinterpretation: Ephesians 5:21-33. You know, the part about wives submitting to husbands and husbands respecting wives. The wisened preacher wisely interspersed his penetrating sermon with a heavy sprinkling of humor. Enjoy the 1997 sermon posted below.
Start at 4:20.
Scripture: Ephesians 5:21-33
(NIV)21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. 22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[b] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[c] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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