Eph 5:25 Husbands love your wives

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Husbands love your wives

Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Notice that while wives were instructed to obey their husbands, the husband is instructed to love his wife. This is the language of love in any vertical relationship. The one under authority expresses love for the authority through obedience and consequently respect. Those in authority express love by being gracious to their subordinates.

Consider the humiliation it may take to be such a husband. "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!" Php 2:5-8

A husband's role is reflect in that of Christ.

Some Aspects of the role of Husband:

To Provide

2Peter 1:3 "His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness"

To Instruct

1Cor 14:35a "If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home"

To Discipline

Rev 3:19 "Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent."

To Reconcile

Jer 3:12-14 "’Return, faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will frown on you no longer, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will not be angry forever. Only acknowledge your guilt— you have rebelled against the LORD your God, you have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every spreading tree, and have not obeyed me,’" declares the LORD. "Return, faithless people," declares the LORD, "for I am your husband."

Col 1:22 "But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—"

To Encourage

2Th 2:16,17 "May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word."

And with regards to the exercise of authority, consider the kinds and purpose of the Lord's commands to his church. He has commands concerning their own sanctification, the preparation of then next generation, and concerning influencing those in the world to be reconciled to God.