Relationship Role of the Husband’s Love

FINDING WHO I AM IN CHRIST

Relationship Role of the Husband’s Love EPHESIANS 5:23-33 ESV
Speaker - Owen Mason

Sermon Notes

23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body. 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1. The husband is called to be the head.
Ephesians 5:23 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church,
his body, and is himself its Savior. 

Colossians 3:19 19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.

2. The husband is to love as Christ does the church.
Ephesians 5:25 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Devotional Books
a. “Moments Together for Couples” by Dennis Rainey
b. “Draw Close” by Joyce and Willard Harley
c. “Mr. & Mrs. 365 Devotions for Couples” by Rob Teigen
d. “The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional” by Gary Chapman
e. “(Staymarried)” 30 minute weekly devotional” by Michelle Peterson

3. Husbands are to give sacrificially for their wives.
Ephesians 5:26-29 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 

1 Peter 3:7 7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

4. Cleave to their wife.
Ephesians 5:31 31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”