LOVING YOUR WIFE 6: THE FAITHFUL HUSBAND
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Loving Your Wife
a) The Bible commands men to love their wives as Christ loves the church. This is a very difficult command to obey because Christ gave His own life for the church. In fact He died for it. The church is spoken of as the Bride of Christ and Jesus is the Bridegroom and the two are engaged to one another. The marriage feast of the Lamb of God will take place after the consummation of the marriage at His return. The kind of love that Christ has for the church is the divine kind of love; a self sacrificing and unconditional love that humans can only hope to mimic.
b) So how are husbands to love their wives the way that Jesus loves the church? Instead of consulting a Marriage Counselor or reading a book about marriage, we will go to the soundest of all logic. There is no better marriage advice for husbands given anywhere, by anyone, at anytime, than in the Bible. There is wisdom for husbands in how they should love their wives that is unlike any advice you will find in the world; the Holy Bible.
c) Let God speak to us on how a husband should love his wife.
d) Needless to say, committing adultery may be going past the point of no return in a marriage. Exodus 20:14 is the seventh commandment where God warns couples to not commit adultery.
e) Ephesians 5:5 says: “No whoremonger, no unclean person has an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.”
f) Colossians 3:6, we are told that fornication, uncleanness, and inordinate affection will cause “the wrath of God to come upon the children of disobedience.”
g) Adultery can come from the heart as Jesus declares in Matthew 5:28, “Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
h) For husbands, adultery in the heart is one of the most frequent of problems in this society. Pornography destroys lives and devalues women. Pornography, unfortunately, is far too accessible; on the Internet, on cable, pay-per-view, TV, and in magazines. Pornography is just as serious as adultery, for when a man lusts after a woman in their heart, they have in essence committed adultery.
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1. Loving Your Wifea) The Bible commands men to love their wives as Christ loves the church. This is a very difficult command to obey because Christ gave His own life for the church. In fact He died for it. The church is spoken of as the Bride of Christ and Jesus is the Bridegroom and the two are engaged to one another. The marriage feast of the Lamb of God will take place after the consummation of the marriage at His return. The kind of love that Christ has for the church is the divine kind of love; a self sacrificing and unconditional love that humans can only hope to mimic.
b) So how are husbands to love their wives the way that Jesus loves the church? Instead of consulting a Marriage Counselor or reading a book about marriage, we will go to the soundest of all logic. There is no better marriage advice for husbands given anywhere, by anyone, at anytime, than in the Bible. There is wisdom for husbands in how they should love their wives that is unlike any advice you will find in the world; the Holy Bible.
c) Let God speak to us on how a husband should love his wife.
2. The Faithful Husband
a) Husbands made a vow before God and before witnesses to love their wives unto death do they part. God does not take that lightly.
b) Adultery is a very serious sin and God can not be mocked. Husbands will pay severely with marital infidelity. There is no room for compromise here. The lesson for husbands is to remain forever faithful to their wives. Adultery, or even flirting with another woman which can lead to adultery in the heart, can shatter families, wreck a home, cause bankruptcy, destroy children’s faith in marriage, and can bring down the mightiest of men.
c) We return to Ephesians 5:3 again for Paul’s stern warning to husbands, as well as wives, writing: “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”
a) Husbands made a vow before God and before witnesses to love their wives unto death do they part. God does not take that lightly.
b) Adultery is a very serious sin and God can not be mocked. Husbands will pay severely with marital infidelity. There is no room for compromise here. The lesson for husbands is to remain forever faithful to their wives. Adultery, or even flirting with another woman which can lead to adultery in the heart, can shatter families, wreck a home, cause bankruptcy, destroy children’s faith in marriage, and can bring down the mightiest of men.
c) We return to Ephesians 5:3 again for Paul’s stern warning to husbands, as well as wives, writing: “But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.”
d) Needless to say, committing adultery may be going past the point of no return in a marriage. Exodus 20:14 is the seventh commandment where God warns couples to not commit adultery.
e) Ephesians 5:5 says: “No whoremonger, no unclean person has an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.”
f) Colossians 3:6, we are told that fornication, uncleanness, and inordinate affection will cause “the wrath of God to come upon the children of disobedience.”
g) Adultery can come from the heart as Jesus declares in Matthew 5:28, “Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her, has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
h) For husbands, adultery in the heart is one of the most frequent of problems in this society. Pornography destroys lives and devalues women. Pornography, unfortunately, is far too accessible; on the Internet, on cable, pay-per-view, TV, and in magazines. Pornography is just as serious as adultery, for when a man lusts after a woman in their heart, they have in essence committed adultery.
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