Post by TomLine on Apr 6, 2018 0:19:42 GMT -5
HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES
by Tom Lineaweaver
by Tom Lineaweaver
Ephesians 5:25-33:
"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but mourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become on flesh.' This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particualar so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband." - NKJV
Colossians 3:19, "Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them." - NKJV
We see here that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church. Jesus went to the cross for the church. He sacrificed His own life for the benefit of the church. This shows the the highest form of love. Agape love. It is giving of yourself to benefit another. Jesus showed us how it's done.
All too often men do not love their wives as Christ loved the church. That type of love does not lend it self to beat a wife. To kill a wife. To cheat on a wife. To be demeaning to a wife. To be demanding of a wife.
If Scott Peterson loved his wife as Christ loved the church, Laci would be alive today, along with their child. If Matthew Winkler loved his wife as Christ loved the church, he would be alive. If husbands would love their wives as Christ loved the church, we never would hear stories like "The Burning Bed."
If husbands loved their wives as Christ loved the church, the divorce rate would not be as high as it is. Many of societies' ills would be diminished. Families would become stronger.
I have seen statistics of how children from a fatherless home more often get into trouble with the law than do children of two parent homes. Today, more than half of the nation's are children come from homes where no father is present in the home. All to often, when a girl gets pregnant, the father runs.
So often, men are just little boys in adult male bodies. They need to grow up and become responsible when women and children are involved. It's a little hard for a husband to love his wife, if he doesn't marry the girl he planted his seed in.
Let's face it, the American male is really messed up. Very few have risen above their fleshly lusts. And, those who are married, all too often they act like they're still single.
And, I could go on and on with the problems with the American male. But, he is the reason that society in America is so wicked. It is because Aamerican men are wicked, even those that call themselves "Christian." Matthew Winkler was called a preacher, yet the way he treated his wife and children was just plain wicked. So many times I've seen or heard reports of married Pastors having affairs with the church secretary. Or a TV evangelist paying women for favors.
All this because, men in America do not love their wives as Christ loved the church.