He Brought Me Back: He Brought Back Our Marriage

He Brought Me Back: He Brought Back Our Marriage

Ephesians 5:22–33 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless. 28 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of his body. 31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. 32 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband. 

God blesses marriage according to design, not .  

1. The submission of a wife is meant to bring and peace, not or pain.

Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in everything. 

• Submission is especially when confused with .

Ephesians 5:33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Proverbs 30:21–23  Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up: 22 a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food; 23  an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress. 

2. The authority a husband has is established through love, and .

Ephesians 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word. 27 He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.

• A husband must want to be like more than he wants .

Proverbs 20:28 Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. 

3. The love of Jesus love.

Ephesians 5:28-30 In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church, 30 since we are members of his body.

• When He created marriage, He had things in mind.

Ephesians 5:28-31 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

 No marriage thrives when we focus on what we .

Ephesians 5:32-33 This mystery is profound, but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.