Husbands Who Love Like Christ and the Wives Who Submit to Them
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 11 June 1989
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ephesians chapter 5 will start in verse 21. |
| 0:09.0 | Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. |
| 0:17.0 | Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church, his body, and is himself its Savior. |
| 0:25.0 | As the Church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. |
| 0:31.0 | Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, |
| 0:39.0 | that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present |
| 0:45.8 | the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might |
| 0:52.0 | be holy and without blemish. Even so husbands should love |
| 0:56.5 | their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. |
| 1:01.0 | For no man ever hates his own flesh, |
| 1:04.0 | but nourishes and cherishes it |
| 1:06.0 | as Christ does the church, |
| 1:09.0 | because we are members of his body. |
| 1:11.0 | For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and |
| 1:15.0 | and be joined to his wife and the two shall be one flesh. |
| 1:18.0 | This mystery is a profound one, |
| 1:21.0 | and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. |
| 1:25.0 | However, let each one of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she |
| 1:31.1 | respects her husband. |
| 1:38.7 | Let's pray together before we begin. |
| 1:45.0 | We would collectively, Father, pool our faith right now and unite our hearts to resist the devil. You have told us resist the devil and he will flee from you. |
| 1:57.8 | And in another place you said the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking those to devour, resist him, |
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