The Duty a Spirit filled Husband: Sacrificial Love (Eph.5:22-33 - Part.3) by Gideon Macgovern Mpeni - a podcast by gideon macgovern

The third in the Ephesians 5 Sermon Series on the Marks of a Spirit Filled Husband. 

God is the author of Human relationships. He has established laws in relationships that have not changed with the passing of time.

To violet God-ordained relationship principles in the family is to invite disaster.

Jesus is the Lord of all believers whether they are at Church or at work.

The Kingdom of God is, in fact, the rule of God in every area of life, including the church, the home, workplace, and neighborhood.

To ignore these truths when entering any sphere is to do so at one’s demise.

Africa must also nurture and defend the biblical idea of family.

Biblically speaking, marriage is a permanent and exclusive union of one man and one woman. On this foundation, tough though it is to maintain, strong families and nations can be raised.

Of course it cannot be sustained without a spirituality that mandates love above lust, submission as the secret of greatness, meekness as the source of glory, and service as the path to power.

But how is it faring in the community that has the greatest reason to uphold it?

The Bible commands the church, after all: “Let marriage be held in honor among all” (Heb. 13:4); and the gospel depends on such: “This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it [marriage] refers to Christ and the church” (Eph. 5:32).

How is the church doing with respect to marriage?[1]

Redeeming of Headship and Submission

When sin entered the world, it ruined the harmony of marriage (see Genesis 1–3).

Not because it brought headship and submission into existence, but because it twisted man’s humble, loving headship into hostile domination in some men, and into lazy indifference in others. And it twisted woman’s intelligent, willing submission into manipulative obsequiousness in some women, and into brazen insubordination in others. Sin didn’t create headship and submission; it distorted them and inclined them toward being ugly and destructive.

Now if this is true, then the redemption we anticipate with the coming of Christ is not the dismantling of the original, created order of loving headship and willing submission, but a recovery of it from the ravages of sin. And that’s just what we find in Ephesians 5:21–33.

[1] Collin Smothers - https://cbmw.org/2020/07/30/marriage-in-rapid-decline-even-among-evangelicals/

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