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Ephesians 5:21-33 1. Humility v21 And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. • Submit = Subject= is primarily a military term meaning to “rank under” or exhibit under the eyes of” Love and respect are two sides of the same coin NEARLY EVERY MAN'S NEED- adequacy & respect NEARLY EVERY WOMAN'S NEED- not alone (adjoined) & loved v22 For wives, this means submit your husband's as to the Lord. v23 For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. Husbands you are designed to fulfill the wife's needs 25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her 3. Spiritual Dynamic v26 to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God's word. 27 He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. 28 In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. 29 No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church. 30 And we are members of his body. v31 As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. • The unity of God is understood thusly: God is one, yet eternally exists in three persons—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—each soverign, each Omnipotent, each omnipresent, each creator, each saving, each redeeming, each delivering, each eternal, each perfect, each Love, each completely ONE GOD. |
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