Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
There is no question how much a husband is supposed to love his wife, “even as Christ also loved the church”. Why did God never tell the wife the same requirement, it is because the wife is subject to her husband. Husbands and wives are not on equal footing in the family, the wife is subject unto her husband, yes even in the twenty-first century. Ephesians 5:22 - 24 "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (23) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. (24) Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." There is really no question what the word submit means, it means “to be subordinate” which means “under the authority or control of another”. There is not a more blessed woman than one who serves the Lord in the family as the Lord has commanded her. This is the way God has ordained the family, the husband is the leader, then the wife, then the children, and God is head of the family. There is no question what God is saying, He could have not spelled it our any clearer. But our focus today is on the husband, and how much he is to love his wife, “as Christ also loved the church”, men, that is a tall order! A man’s wife is a gift from God, as children are and as Christian men we are to love and cherish God’s gifts to us. It is sad that most families do not understand God’s order for the family, but the world also does not accept much of what God orders. Only true Christian families are subject to God’s commandments, those who do not accept and follow God’s commandments are obeying the world and not God. The reason God ordered the husband to love his wife with such great love, compared only to Christ’s love for His church. Now husbands that is a great love, we are not commanded to love anyone outside of the Lord Himself with such a love. People often ask other people who have been married for such long time “what’s the secret” it is a family living biblical ordered lives. The key to everything in life is “love and obedience”. The greatest Christian, church, or family is those who obey God and His scriptural commands. Those that refuse are scriptural dysfunctional, and nothing works as God said it would. A marriage between a man and a woman is meant to be for a lifetime, and obeying God is the foundation to that marriage lasting for a lifetime. Gentlemen let us all show our wives the love God has commanded, and we are without excuse if we do not. Ladies serve you husbands as a help mate and not as a ruler, a good wife always inserts the scripture in her life. We are to obey God and not the opinions of the world, Satan controls the thinking of this world. Husbands love your wives as Christ Loves the church, think about that.
