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