Title Lessons to Husbands / Ephesians 05:25-30
Contents Let's start with some funny stories about the attitude of a husband towards his wife.
What a husband says to his wife. Dating: Eat a lot Engagement: You want to eat more After marriage: You eat like a pig
A wife talks to her husband while pampering her. "Honey, don't I look like an aunty because I dress like this?" "Yeah, like a parent." It's a story that makes you think why you can't please your wife with better words.
This is what happens when a couple sits down at the table. It's a bit of a dirty and vulgar story, but it's a story you can think about.
As soon as our eyes meet, people in their 20s push the table away and prepare for bed. People in their 30s eat all their meals and get ready for bed when their eyes meet. People in their 40s eat all their meals, clear the table, and prepare for bed when their eyes meet. In their 50s, when our eyes meet, my husband bluntly shoots me, "What are you eating?"
We pray that the couple in the Christian family who believes in Jesus will be a blessed family in which the love of Christ is confirmed as they get older, rather than becoming like this. To that end, we must be able to heed the lesson to husbands today.
with the love of Christ
Verse 25. “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it.”
This is the standard for a husband to love his wife. By this standard, a husband must love his wife.
Husbands do not just rule their wives and earn their respect. Today's text can be seen that the wife imposes a greater duty on the husband than the duty of obedience to the husband. In conclusion, it is the husband's duty to love for his wife as Christ sacrificed himself for the church. It is agape love.
Romans 5:8 teaches the love of Christ. "God demonstrates his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." The important word here is “while we were still sinners”.
Applying these words to the family, it is a wonderful duty for a husband to love his wife like Christ, who sacrificed himself on the cross for her, even if her wife was made a sinner. It is correct to say that it is a love duty rather than a coercive duty. There is no joy in compulsory duty, but there is joy in voluntary duty. The Lord's sacrifice was just that. The original text of a husband's love for his wife is 'agafate', a word that expresses the love of Christ and means unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love. And what's even more surprising is that the word is in the present imperative. In other words, it is a term that indicates that you should always love your wife in all circumstances.
Husbands! Do you love your wife this much now?
The reason why Christ loved the church so much is explained in detail in verse 26. The theologian's view is that the theological interpretation of verse 26 means baptism and the gospel. However, if we introduce it into the home and illuminate it in the relationship between husband and wife, we must realize that the husband's extreme agape love becomes the most beautiful ministry of a husband by making his wife sanctified, beautiful, and fulfilling the duties of a spiritual wife. In other words, the secret to obeying the husband in the position of a wifey wife can be established because of the husband's love. If you say 逆說, it is also said that a good wife is possible because of a good husband. Although we universally understand that having a good wife makes a good husband, the teaching of the Bible is that a good wife is the fulfillment of the duties of a good husband. It is a decision of happiness that is possible in the performance of the couple's beautiful duties.
The decisive word is verse 27. “He set before him a glorious church, without speck or wrinkle or such, holy and without blemish.”
We are well aware that the ultimate purpose of Christ's sacrifice on the cross was to cleanse and sanctify the church and welcome him as his bride. In the same way, there is a message to remind the husband that in order for his wife to be a good wife that is spotless and spotless, holy and without blemish, a husband must give sacrificial love for his wife. That is, we should not overlook the words, “He set before him a glorious church.” This is the great duty of a husband's love. With this duty of love, the wife is obedient to the position of the wife, and there the beautiful family life of a happy couple blooms with blessings.
like you love yourself
Verse 28. “In the same way, husbands must love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”
It is truly a beautiful word of truth. The beautiful crystallization of a husband's love for his wife and a wife's obedience to her husband is contained in these words. All that obedience and love is ultimately for oneself.
The Bible teaches that loving a wife is ultimately for oneself, and obedience to a husband is ultimately for oneself.
Husbands everyone! Your wife also has one weakness. Do you not hurt your wife's heart even more through that weakness?
This is the kind of husband that the wife hates. He is a harsh, blunt, stinging husband. A husband who cuts off conversations with one word. He's a husband who doesn't respond and only speaks for himself. A husband who never looks at his wife's face and talks. "honey I love you." "Honey, was it hard today?" "I miss you." A husband who never said such a thing.
As long as you live, you don't need anything to eat. How about riding in a lower car? Wearing cheap clothes, that's not a problem either. If the taste of rice goes down while looking at the husband, the wife loses even the taste of flesh. When do you feel that way?
* He is a selfish husband who ignores his wife and only thinks of himself.
* A husband who uses violence with his mouth and hand.
* He is proud of his bad habits such as drinking, playing cards, and all kinds of catching.
* Complaint The words of dissatisfaction do not fall out of my mouth even for a moment.
* He is a husband who spends a lot of money without knowing it is a waste of money.
* He is kind to others, but is stingy with his family.
* He is an unpredictable husband who keeps going like this and that like a whim.
* The more I live, the more I don't know what the goal of life is.
What does it mean to be a husband who says he loves his wife but cannot please her?
Husbands everyone!
* Do you have a picture of your wife in your notebook?
* Have you ever saved a few bucks for cooking for your wife and gave it to her as a special bonus?
* Not on a rainy day, not on a cold winter day, but on a summer day, while washing the car with your wife, have you ever played with your wife in the water with a hose?
* In your life, have you ever delivered a letter of warm love to your beloved wife after marriage?
* If you think about it, your wife's strengths far outweigh her weaknesses, but didn't she often say something that hurt her heart?
* Have you ever been truly moved by your wife's hard work while sitting at the table eating?
* Have you ever looked at just how weak your wife's body is right now?
There is no end to speaking. In one word, reduce. As Jesus loves the church, I hope that you who are husbands will love your wives that way. And bless you for making a small heaven through a happy family. I bless the family where the husband's undying love is poured out for the wife who is moved and obeyed with sincerity every day. Amen.