Therefore, just as
the church is subject to Christ,
so let the wife speak
to their own husbands in every thing.
Husbands, love your
wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for
her that He might sanctify the and cleanse herwith the washing of
water by the word, that he might present her to Himself a glorious
church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing,
but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to
love their own lives as their own bodies;he who loves his wife
loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but
marriages and cherishes it, just as the Lord does
the church.
Ephesians 5: 24 -- 29
God created
Adam, a single person, a male, and then from this single male, from his rib,
Eve was formed. Adam had the
requirement after the forming of Eve from his rib to teach her, to love her,
to protect her, and Eve was to be his helpmate. Adam was no longer to do things
as a single person for now he had a responsibility towards another person and
that responsibility given to him by God, therefore, as Eve and Adam had been
joined together so to Christian are joined together with Jesus Christ and make
up a single unit called the church.
This joining together is making them one as we are one with Jesus Christ: "For we are members of His body, of
His flesh and of His bones. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and
mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’ (Genesis
2: 24). This is a great mystery, but I
speak concerning Christ and the Church.
Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love is all the wife
as him self, and let the wife see that she respects her husband"
(Ephesians 5: 30 -- 33). Paul has
made this so plain and clear that to disregard his is simply an ignoring of the
Word of God so that you can live the way you want to live. Paul made it very clear in quoting Genesis
to show that there is a joining together, bones and flesh, making one unit. This is true of the church for the church is
to be one unit all in harmony were shipping and serving our Savior and Lord
Jesus Christ. How can one say that he
loves his wife if he's out running around doing everything outside the house
whether it be immoral or not, he is not taking care of his responsibility to his
wife. And the same is true of the wife
who get so busy doing all sorts of things, attempting to be so beautiful, so
wanted sexually, so that any man who looks at her will save, "boy I wish I
had her" and then say that she is in love with her husband. Both are wrong, both love themselves more
than the other person. This cannot
occur in the home, this cannot occur in the church. I related the story and other blogs about related again: while
being at my mothers side at the hospital where she lay dying my father and I
went to take care of Social Security matters on the other side of town and on
the way my dad sat quietly which was unusual for my dad often spoke much to
me. So I asked him this question;
"that you and mom have been together for 60 years as man and wife, what
kept you two together for so long?"
Life had not been all roses and cherries chocolate and strawberry, as in
all lives there was much strife and struggles, and sometimes-heated
discussions, and yet they stayed together for all those years. Here is his answer:
"COMMITMENT!" There it is in
a single word: "COMMITMENT!"
When a person marries they make a vow to one another, did they not? Yes!
Within a vow contains the word promise but a vow is more than a promise
so we must not confuse those two words to mean the same for they do not. Promise are serious a matter how they are
made but promises are not a vow for a vow is a solemn promise, eight legged, a
personal commitment, and to be devoted to that which was spoken in a vow: "It is a snare for a man to devote
rashly something is holy, and afterward to greet consider his vows"
(Proverbs 20:25). "When you make a
vow to God, do not delay to pay it; for He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed -- better not to bow
then to vow and not pay. Do not let
your mouth caught your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that
it was an error. Why should God be
angry at your excuse and destroy the work of their hands" (Ecclesiastes
5:4 -- 6). Oh how his accusers are
made constantly between a husband and a wife one condemning the other, pointing
fingers at the other, saying such things as "you've changed, or all or I
have changed," they began looking for something to replace that other
person. Example: you see the grass
growing well on the other side of the fence, but let me warn you, that grass is
green and growing because it is growing over a cesspool. You want your grass is green and growing on
your side of the fence then fertilize and care for that grass.
Husbands,
this is all you're responsibility for you are to love your wife! The wife is to respect her husband but how
can she respect her husband who is not showing her love. What is taking up your time away from your
wife? If it is anything other than that
which is necessary to be a responsible worker and to provide for the family
financially, let me remind you here I said the word necessary, and that
necessity is not because you bought too much of a car or too much of a house or
spend too much on cell phones or other such things so that you have to work
hard to pay for them, how can this be love, it cannot be! Jesus Christ died for you! Let me say that again Jesus Christ died for
you! Are you willing to die for your
wife? Is she as important to you as you
are to Jesus Christ? I pray that you
will take these words of Paul who was inspired to write to the Ephesians this
council because they too had a problem within the family and a problem within
the church is similar to that of the family.
Stolen water is a sweet,
and bread
eaten in secret
is pleasant.
But he does
not know
that the dead are there,
that her
guests are in
the depths of hell.
Proverbs 9: 17 -- 18
Love, that is the answer
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