Jesus’s Joy in Marriage
Solid Joys Daily Devotional
Desiring God
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | October 18, Jesus' joy in marriage. |
| 0:06.8 | Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave |
| 0:12.4 | Himself up for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed |
| 0:18.4 | her by the washing of water with the Word so that He might |
| 0:21.9 | present the church to Himself in splendor, if |
| 0:26.1 | Ephesians 5, 25 to 27. |
| 0:31.4 | The reason there is so much misery in marriage is not that |
| 0:36.6 | husbands and wives seek their own pleasure, but that they |
| 0:41.7 | do not seek it in the pleasure of their spouses. |
| 0:48.5 | The biblical mandate to husbands and wives is to seek your |
| 0:52.6 | own joy in the joy of your spouse. |
| 1:00.0 | There is scarcely a more hedonistic passage in the Bible than |
| 1:06.5 | the one on marriage in Ephesians 5, 25 to 30. |
| 1:10.4 | Husbands are told to love their wives the way Christ loved |
| 1:15.5 | the church. |
| 1:17.0 | How did He love the church? |
| 1:20.2 | Verse 25 says, He gave Himself up for her, but why? |
| 1:27.3 | Verse 26 says, that He might sanctify her and cleanse her. |
| 1:32.7 | But why did He want to do that? |
| 1:34.8 | Verse 27 answers, that He might present the church to Himself |
| 1:41.0 | in splendor. |
| 1:43.1 | Ah, there it is. |
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