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Ephesians 5:25-27
Ephesians 5:25-27
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” That’s Paul’s admonition to Christian husbands in Ephesians 5:25 and of course we have to ask ourselves the question, what kind of love is he talking about? Well, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” What kind of love was that? It was a sacrificial love, “and gave himself for it.” Love is not selfish. Love does not turn people into slaves. Love brings freedom. The Lord Jesus Christ came and gave Himself for the Church. He loved the Church and gave Himself for it. Paul said He loved me and gave Himself for me. If you have trusted Christ as you Savior, then you have experienced something of His sacrificial love.
If a husband loves his wife the way Christ loves the Church, then he will sacrifice. He won’t be demanding, bossy. He won’t throw his weight around. Rather he will look for opportunities to sacrifice for those whom he loves. More than that, our Lord’s love for the Church is not only a sacrificial love it’s a sanctifying love. Verse 26 of Ephesians 5, “That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the Church] with the washing of water by the word.” I wonder how many of us as Christian husbands help our wives to be more sanctified through our words, our deeds, our love, through our ministry of the Word of God as we pray together and read the Word together? Are we sanctifying our wives? Is your wife a better Christian because she lives with you?
Finally, it’s a very secure love. There’s a future to it. “That he might present it [the Church] to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Here’s the future. In the past He gave Himself for it. In the present He sanctifies the Church. In the future Christ will glorify the Church. The best is yet to come. Where there is true Christian love in the fullness of the Spirit the best is yet to come. A husband and a wife grow old together and it becomes more glorious together because the husband loves his wife “even as Christ also loved the church.”
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“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” That’s Paul’s admonition to Christian husbands in Ephesians 5:25 and of course we have to ask ourselves the question, what kind of love is he talking about? Well, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church.” What kind of love was that? It was a sacrificial love, “and gave himself for it.” Love is not selfish. Love does not turn people into slaves. Love brings freedom. The Lord Jesus Christ came and gave Himself for the Church. He loved the Church and gave Himself for it. Paul said He loved me and gave Himself for me. If you have trusted Christ as you Savior, then you have experienced something of His sacrificial love.
If a husband loves his wife the way Christ loves the Church, then he will sacrifice. He won’t be demanding, bossy. He won’t throw his weight around. Rather he will look for opportunities to sacrifice for those whom he loves. More than that, our Lord’s love for the Church is not only a sacrificial love it’s a sanctifying love. Verse 26 of Ephesians 5, “That he might sanctify and cleanse it [the Church] with the washing of water by the word.” I wonder how many of us as Christian husbands help our wives to be more sanctified through our words, our deeds, our love, through our ministry of the Word of God as we pray together and read the Word together? Are we sanctifying our wives? Is your wife a better Christian because she lives with you?
Finally, it’s a very secure love. There’s a future to it. “That he might present it [the Church] to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Here’s the future. In the past He gave Himself for it. In the present He sanctifies the Church. In the future Christ will glorify the Church. The best is yet to come. Where there is true Christian love in the fullness of the Spirit the best is yet to come. A husband and a wife grow old together and it becomes more glorious together because the husband loves his wife “even as Christ also loved the church.”