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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 38
Ephesians 5:7-33 - Part 2
When we’ve got a wife who submits to her husband, he may not always be right, he may at times stumble, yet if she plays her role as God intended it, He will make up the differences. Always remember that Paul is talking about the marriage relationship of believers. What is to walk in the life of rejoicing and happiness, knowing the Lord is the head of the husband, as the husband, in turn is the head of the wife. Nothing in Scripture ever gives men that prerogative. Now verse 23.
Ephesians 5:23
"For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body."
Now always remember that the word "Church" does not mean that building on the corner. "We’re going to go to the Church house." The Church is made up of the true believers who meet in that Church house. The Church is made up of the believing element, "the Body of Christ." and that’s the way Paul always uses the word Church. Neither was it a Church that practiced the Lord’s Supper, and had pastors, bishops, and deacons. "...even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24. Therefore as the church..."
If we’re born again and children of God, we are automatically in that Body of Christ, and that Body of Christ will be meeting in Church buildings. But always remember that not all people meeting in those Church buildings are in the Body of Christ. Now completing verse 24 we find that this true Church,
Ephesians 5:24b
"...is subject unto Christ, so (in like manner then) let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
Now goodness sakes Christ has never brow beat a member of the Body of Christ, has He? Christ has never made life miserable for a member of the Body. Christ has never made unfair demands on the Body, neither should a husband do that to his wife. I Peter 3:1a
"Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;..."
Now the rest of this verse deals with a Christian wife with an unbelieving husband. I Peter 3:1b
"...that, if any (husband, they’re an unbeliever) obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation (manner of living, or the lifestyle) of the wives;"
Listen believing wives don’t preach at your husband, don’t try and drag him to the Church house against his will, don’t nag him to get into the Book, but rather you practice the Christian walk so that he can’t help but be amazed at what an example of Christianity that wife really is. Now it may take longer or shorter, depending on the case, but sooner or later, God’s going to honor that wife’s testimony. Now let’s read verse 2.
I Peter 3:2
"While they (the unsaved husband) behold your chaste (pure) conversation (manner of living) coupled with fear."
Now here in verse 3 is how the wife is to actually have an impact on that unsaved husband.
I Peter 3:3
I Peter 3:4
Now verse 5.
I Peter 3:5
"For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, (in the realm of the spirit) being in subjection unto their own husbands:"
Now verse 6.
I Peter 3:6-7a
7. Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel,..."
Now reading on in verse 7.
I Peter 3:7b-8a
Ephesians 5:25a
"Husbands, love your wives,..."
Paul has all kinds of them for us in this Church Age we’re in right now. Whether you think you have reason to love her or not, the command of God is, "you love her." "Men are commanded to love the wife, the wife is never commanded to love the husband." That God has so constructed in the creation of the female, assuming that she’s normal, "that if she has a husband who loves her as much as Christ loves the Church, she is automatically going to love that man, and she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to do it."
Never! Genesis 2:23-24
Ephesians 5:25-26
"Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26. Now verse 27, Paul continues on with the spiritual.
Ephesians 5:27
Ephesians 5;28
"So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."
Ephesians 5:29-33
"For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: 30. 31. For this cause (because we’re one with Christ, and one with our wife) shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33. Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband."

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