Ephesians 5:28-33
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Ephesians 5:28–33 (NASB95)
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
because we are members of His body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
Why work?
What? (we do)
How? (In what way)
Why? (Benefit)
Why? (Being)
Why? (Duty)
Review:
What is Paul asking believers to do?
How is supposed to be done?
Why?
Last week we looked at Paul’s call to wives to be subject to their husbands. We recognized the association between submission and authority. Whenever there is an authority there is some kind of submission.
Often times our disposition towards authority or our past experience with authority influences how we view submission whether toward husbands, towards one another, toward government: all kinds.
The example of submission given to us is that submission we bring to Christ as His church. In reality, wives ought to recognize a submission in the church unto Christ, present in their brothers and sisters, as an example to follow.
In addition to this call to submission for wives, Paul gives a very clear call to love to husbands that has the same example, Christ and the church. The love which Christ extends to the church in giving up Himself is for the spiritual growth and flourishing of the church. Similarly, the love of husbands ought to be so like Christ that it brings real spiritual growth and flourishing to their wives.
What? How? Why?
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
What: love their own wives
How: As their own bodies
Why? He who loves his own wife loves himself.
for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
Why? for no one ever hated his own flesh,
What: nourishes and cherishes it
How: Christ also (nourishes and cherishes) the church.
because we are members of His body.
Why: we are members of His body
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.
The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
Why: bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh
What: Leave his father and his mother and become one.
We as Christians understand how we are made and what God intended for us in marriage.
What is the cultural disposition towards marriage? Why?
Without this how and fundamental understanding of why, we shouldn’t be surprised when the world abandons the values.
Our preservation of values is founded in the how and why. The how and why are timeless and enduring realities. This is where we begin when working to preserve fundamental values like marriage.
This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.
How should we understand the oneness we have with Christ?
“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.
The oneness of the church
Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall become one flesh.”
But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.
If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness.
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband.
