Husbands Love your wives (pt 2)
Ephesians 5:20-33
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25 Husbands, love your wives,
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25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
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26 that he might sanctify her (make opposite of common), having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
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27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Observation of human behavior-
Whatever we choose to love and practice loving becomes attractive to us.
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28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body.
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31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
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32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
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33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Preparation
The sons and daughters of God are in preparation.
We are created to bear, together with God, the weight of the glory of His kingdom in this life and the life that goes throughout eternity.
The eternal weight of Glory cannot be support by man alone but by The Spirit of God that lives in and fills the man and the woman.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Marriage is the picture of
Jesus and The Church
A Husband is commanded to give himself up for his wife. Like Jesus gave himself up for the church (for the husband).
1 Peter 3:7 ESV
Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
The natural inclinations of man are self-focused, self-preoccupied, and self-serving.
Marriage requires being other focused, other pre-occupied, and serving. This Love is modeled by God.
One flesh/life/body - Genesis 2:23-24
23 Then the man said,“This at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh;�she shall be called Woman,� because she was taken out of Man.”
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33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself,
Luke 6:45
The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.