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  • Husbands Love Your Wives as Christ Loves the Church (Ephesians 5:25-27)
    "Husbands love your wives as Christ loves the church" is the primary command for husbands in Ephesians 5:25. Read or listen to this material from Your Marriage God's Way, or watch the message from the Your Marriage God's Way Conference to learn what a husband's love looks like.
    https://youtu.be/9C5IgzTNu1c
    Husbands Love Your Wives as Christ Loves the Church is the second message at Your Marriage God's Way Conferences.
    Table of ContentsWhat Does a Husband's Love Look Like?Husbands Love Your Wives as Christ Loves the Church by Sanctifying and CleansingHusbands Love Your Wives as Christ Loves the Church by Setting the Standard for HolinessA Husband Gets the Wife He Prepares for HimselfA Husband's Reaping and Sowing in MarriageHusbands Love Your Wives as Christ Loves the Church by Caring for HerNourishing and CherishingThe Sacrifice Needed to Love a WifeChrist's Sacrificial Love for His Bride
    What Does a Husband's Love Look Like?
    Here is a question that deserves serious thought: What does it look like for a husband to love his wife? Love is not feelings and emotions—rather, it is actions. So another way to ask that question is this: What do good husbands do? If we were to pose that question to different people, we might get answers like these:
    Buy their wife expensive jewelry
    Take her to fancy restaurants
    Whisk her away on exotic vacations
    Provide an impressive home for her to live in
    In the world’s way of thinking, a husband’s love for his wife is demonstrated through material goods. This is why a husband can be a failure in the world’s eyes while being a great husband in God’s eyes or a great husband in the world’s eyes while failing in God’s eyes. The good news—at least for husbands—is that we don’t have to buy our wives anything expensive or glamorous to be pleasing to God. The bad news is that spending money on our wives is much easier than doing what God requires of us as husbands.
    There is a very high standard for husbands. The primary passage about husbands loving their wives begins, “Husbands, love [agape] your wives, just as Christ also loved [agape] the church and gave Himself for her” (Ephesians 5:25). Agape is used twice to describe two different relationships:
    A husband’s relationship with his bride
    Christ’s relationship with His bride, the church
    The two words “just as” reveal that the way Christ loves the church and gave Himself for her is the way a husband is commanded to love his wife and give himself for her. A man should model his relationship with his bride after Christ’s relationship with His bride. With Christ as the standard for husbands, every man must recognize that he always has more room to grow. No husband can ever sit back, relax, and feel like he has arrived.
    Ephesians 5:25 reveals for us the characteristics of agape:
    The words “gave Himself for her” reveal the sacrificial nature of Christ’s agape. In John 3:16, if God the Father’s agape for the world is shown in being willing to sacrifice His Son, then in Ephesians 5:25, the Son’s agape for His bride, the church, is shown in being willing to be sacrificed. Christ gave everything He had, including His own life. That is the standard for husbands—they are commanded to show an unreserved, selfless, sacrificial love for their wives.
    The absence of the word if reveals the unconditional nature of Christ’s agape. The verse does not say, “Husbands, love your wives if…” Just as Christ loves the church unconditionally, a husband is to love his wife unconditionally. Christ loves the church even when it does not submit, does not love Him in return, or disrespects Him. Simply put, Christ loves the church even when she’s unlovable. A husband should love his wife even when she’s unlovable and does not submit, does not love him in return, or disrespects him. When a husband is upset with his bride, he must remind himself of Christ's love for His bride—a steadfast love regardless of what the bride has or has...
    25 min
  • The Ram’s Substitutionary Atonement for Isaac (Genesis 22:13-14)

    Genesis 22:13 (ESV) says, “And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.” The ram is a vivid picture of substitutionary atonement because it died in Isaac’s place, pointing forward to Christ dying in the place of sinners.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/rams-substitutionary-atonement-for-isaac/

    22 min
  • Biblical Advice on Forgiveness from David (2 Samuel 16:9-13)

    David’s response to Shimei shows how trusting God can help us resist revenge and forgive those who mistreat us. In 2 Samuel 16:9–13, David refused to let Abishai kill the man who was cursing him. He trusted God’s sovereignty and hoped the Lord would repay him with good. His example also reminds us to consider the mercy we need for our own sins.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/biblical-advice-on-forgiveness/

    1 hr 16 min
  • Shimei’s False Accusations Against David (2 Samuel 16:5–8)

    In 2 Samuel 16:5–8, Shimei accused David of bloodguilt and blamed him for the downfall of Saul’s house. His accusation was wrong, making Shimei a vivid example of how confidently we can accuse someone when we do not know all the facts. This study gives three reasons to avoid false accusations and two safeguards: hear the other side and make sure there are adequate witnesses.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/shimei-teaches-us-to-avoid-being-accusing/

    54 min
  • How Is Joseph a Type of Christ? (Genesis 50:20)

    Joseph is a type of Christ because key events in his life foreshadow Jesus: he was sent by his father, rejected by his brothers, humiliated, exalted, and then used by God to save many lives. Genesis 50:20 especially points to the pattern of evil intended by men being sovereignly used by God for salvation.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/how-is-joseph-a-type-of-christ/

    22 min
  • Is Repentance a Condition for Forgiveness? (Luke 17:3–4)

    Does forgiveness require repentance? Examining Luke 17:3–4, Scott LaPierre explains his understanding of the relationship between repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. The message distinguishes an unreconciled relationship from mistreating an offender and considers why rebuking sin should aim at restoration.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/is-repentance-a-condition-for-forgiveness-or-forgive-unconditionally/

    52 min
  • Blessed Is the One Who Perseveres Under Trial (James 1:12 and 5:11)

    James 1:12 (ESV) says, "Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial," and James 5:11 says, "we consider those blessed who remained steadfast." These verses teach that perseverance under trial is blessed because steadfast faith endures testing and looks to God’s promised reward.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/blessed-is-the-one-who-perseveres-under-trial/

    26 min
  • If He Repents Forgive Him (Luke 17:3-6 and Matthew 18:21-35)

    Jesus said, “If he repents, forgive him” (Luke 17:3-6). In Matthew 18:21-35 Jesus told the parable of the unforgiving servant. Both passages teach the importance of forgiving because we’ve been forgiven. Christians should be the most forgiving people because we are the most forgiven people.

    Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/if-he-repents-forgive-him/

    55 min

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Understand the Bible and apply God’s Word to your marriage, family, church, and everyday life. Pastor, author, and Christian speaker Scott LaPierre shares verse-by-verse sermons, biblical teaching,…