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The Book Of Colossians
March 17, 2024
Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. —Colossians 3:18-19
A covenant is a deep, exclusive, legal, personal, and permanent commitment that is made between two parties.
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. —Ephesians 5:22-2425 Husbands, 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 to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. —Ephesians 5:25-27
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. —Ephesians 5:28-30
“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 5:31-33
Wives Follow, Husbands Love
1.) WIVES ARE CALLED TO SUBMIT TO THEIR HUSBANDS.
Why do wives Submit to their husbands?
A. Submission for Christ.
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. —Ephesians 5:22
B. Submission affirms God’s design.
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. —Ephesians 5:23
C. Wives do what the Church does.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything —Ephesians 5:24
2.) HUSBANDS ARE CALLED TO LOVE THEIR WIVES.
Husbands, love your wives… —Ephesians 5:25a
A. Husbands love their wives as Christ loves the Church.
Husbands, 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 to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. —Ephesians 5:25-27
B. Husbands love their wives as their own bodies.
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. —Ephesians 5:28-30
“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. —Ephesians 5:31-32
God created marriage to serve as a dramatic illustration of the relationship between Jesus Christ and His Church.
We must say to ourselves something like this: ‘Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us - denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him - and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely. That is why I am going to love my spouse.’ Speak to your heart like that, and then fulfill the promises you made on your wedding day.” —Tim Keller - The Meaning of Marriage