Love always seeks the absolute purity of its object and it seeks it

sacrifices. And husband if you're filled with a spirit, if your heart is right, your

life is right, you're going to purify your wife. It may mean confrontation, but it certainly means you protect her

from temptation and you expose her to the purifying influence of God's true. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. Love your wives as Christ loved the church.

That biblical standard for husbands couldn't be higher.

How can you ever hope to reach it?

Well, the first step is making sure you know what the Bible means by love.

Today on Grace to you, John MacArthur takes you to First Corinthians Chapter 13, that's the Bible's love chapter, to show you that for a husband,

love is primarily what he does, it's not about what he feels.

Our lesson is part of John's current study the fulfilled family. So take

your Bible if you're able and follow along with John as he begins today's lesson.

We need to be reminded that 96% of all men and 94% of all women will say I do.

And then most of them sooner or later in our culture will say I don't and get divorced. But the fact

of the matter is, well over 90% of people still pursue marriage. The sad reality is they can't

make it work and the collapse of marriage and family

relationships is certainly predictable in our culture. Can marriage be rescued in the

midst of all of this?

Here we are fighting it on the inside, fighting it on the outside, fighting it on the outside,

fighting it in terms of the very time in which we live when prophecy is coming to pass? Is there any hope? Well the answer comes to

us over in Ephesians 5 so you can turn to that text. Now coming to verse 25 we

embark upon the husbands. A clear principle then is given in

verse 25 the husband's responsibility is to love his wife. It doesn't say

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