A Husband has a responsibility to uphold according to our scripture passage below. In verses 25 and 26 we are called to love our wives just as Jesus Christ loved the church and sacrificed His life for her, we are also called to cleanse our wives with the washing of the Word of God. Many arguments arise from the scripture below because the husband wants their wife to submit to their authority as head of the house hold. Wives want husbands to love them as Christ love the Church in a sacrificial love. God did not lead us astray on this matter, like many debate over which came first, the chicken or the egg. Jesus Christ died for sinful man and resurrected so that His church could be formed. The body of Christ came after the His sacrifice on the cross. Just like in any other situation were someone is called to lead, they must make the first move in order to earn the trust of the people following. Now, if a woman got married to a man who was not a Christian or who was not already studying the Word of God, their expectation should not be that once they got married that her husband should fulfill this role. The husband once again must want Christ for himself and out of obedience to his Heavenly Father with the help of the Holy Spirit, he will fulfill this scripture. Husbands, Christ did not wait for man to get themselves together before he decided that they were worthy enough for Him to die for. When you married your wife, you made a covenant between her and God that you would love her with a love that is not based on performance but based on choice. You chose to love her until death do you part, it will take Christ dwelling in you to lead her properly and with Him all things are possible!!! Today, HUSBANDS stand up and show this world the beauty of Christ Loving the Church through your example of how you love your wife!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of enjoying Marriage on purpose!!!!!
Ephesians 5
Marriage—Christ and the Church
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 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. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body,[d] of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”[e] 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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