"In the Same Way..."
“In the Same Way…”
Blessings folk!
In the same way that Christ loves the Church…
Husbands are to love their wives.
Ephesians 5:28-33
28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
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.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
The Lord is speaking of several things here...all in one subject.
Each husband is to love his wife as he loves himself.
Each wife is to see to it that she respect her husband.
Each husband is to nourish and cherish his own flesh...his wife.
Christ does so with the church and is the example for us.
The Lord quotes Genesis 1…”therefore a man shall leave his father and mother…”
The man is to leave.
The man is to hold fast to his wife.
The man initiates the two becoming one.
These things are a mystery.
Profound.
The two as one.
Christ and the church.
Husbands loving.
Wives respecting.
Seek the Lord.
Allow Him to speak...