Ephesians 5:22-33 (Part 3)

I. Husbands are commanded to love their wives.
a. Christ is the example of love.
i. Love that is sacrificial.
ii. Love that is purifying.

b. Christ and the church is the picture of marriage.
i. Husbands must care for their wives as Christ cares for His church.
-ought = opheilo = be bound to, obligated, owe a debt
-cherishes = thalpo = cherish, to show affection and tender love
ii. Husbands and wives become one flesh as Christ's church become members of His body.
-leave = kataleipo = to leave behind;
-joined = proskollao = to be glued to, joined to
-I Cor. 6:15-21
c, Each husband must love his wife and each wife must respect her husband.

Ephesians 5:22-33 (Part 2)

I. Husbands are commanded to love their wives.
-love = agapao = love, show or prove one's love, place first in one's affections
a. Christ is the example of love
-gave up = paradidomi = deliver up, hand over
-MacArthur “He (God) loves because it is His nature to love that which He has created and because the objects of His live need to be loved – not because they are attractive or deserve His love…He loves because He cannot do otherwise. God can command His own kind of love from those who belong to Him because He has given them the capacity to love as He loves, and because He commanded love must be a matter of choice…Loving as Christ loves does not depend in the least on what others are in themselves, but entirely on what we are in Christ. A husband is not commanded to love his wife because of what she is or is not. He is commanded to love her because it is God’s will for him to love her.”
i. Love that is sacrificial.
ii. Love that is purifying.
-sanctify = hagiazo = set apart, regard as sacred, consecrate, purify
-cleansing = katharizo = purify, make clean
-Ezek. 16:8-14
-washing = loutron = cleansing, bath
-word = rhema = what is said, saying, word
-Rev. 19:7-8

Ephesians 5:22-33 (Part 1)

I. Wives are called to be submissive to the leadership of their husbands.
-be subject to = hupotasso = line oneself under, take a subordinate place
-hupo = under, tasso = arrange, order, appointed
-Luke 7:8, Acts 15:2
-O'Brien "At the heart of this submission is the notion of 'order'. God has established certain leadership and authority roles within the family, and submission is a humble recognition of that divine ordering...Paul's admonition to wives is an appeal to free and responsible persons which can only be heeded voluntarily, never by elimination or breaking of the human will, much less by means of servile submissiveness."
-Gal. 3:28
-MacArthur "That is where the battle of the sexes began, where women's liberation and male chauvinism came into existence. Women have a sinful inclination to usurp man's authority and men have the sinful inclination to put women under their feet."
a. In obedience to the Lord.
-Col. 3:23
b. As a reflection of the relationship between Christ and the church.
i. The husband is the head as Christ is the head.
-head = kephale = authority, rule, authority over
ii. The wife is submissive as the church is submissive.

Ephesians 5:15-21 (Part 2)

I. Do not get drunk.
-dissipation = asotia = excess; idea of debauchery, self-indulgence, intemperate living, reckless living
-Ps. 104:15, Is. 55:1, Prov. 23:29-35
-Hebrew word shekar, Greek sikera = strong drink
-Hebrew tirosh, Greek gleukos = sweet wine, new, fresh wine
-Hebrew yayin (root word to boil), Greek oinos = mixed wine;

II. Be continually filled by the Holy Spirit.
-Rom. 8:9, II Pet. 1:3
-be filled = pleroo = to fill, fulfill; Present passive Imperative = "be being kept filled."
-MacArthur "The continuous aspect of being filled, involves day-by-day, moment-by-moment submission to the Spirit's control. The passive aspect indicates that it is not something we do but that we allow to be done in us. The filling is entirely the work of the Spirit Himself, but He works only through our willing submission."
a. Singing with one another.
-speaking = laleo = to speak
1) to one another
2) with all your heart
b. Directing our singing and thanks to the Lord.
-always = pantote = at all times, always
c. Submitting to one another.
-be subject = hupotasso = as a passive verb = line oneself under, submit to, be subject to, place self under authority of, take a subordinate place