Building Strong Families: Husband's Responsibility

Building Strong Families: Husband’s Responsibility

Preaching Passage: Ephesians 5:25–27

Scripture Reading: Ephesians 5:22–33

Introduction:

Genesis 1:27–28

Five Characterizations of a Husband’s Responsibility to Love His Wife:

1) The Command to Love (vs. 25a)

Titus 2:4

Ephesians 4:2, 15–16; 5:1–2

1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Colossians 3:19

2) The Comparison of Love (vss. 25b–27)

Ephesians 5:2

Romans 5:6–10

1. a) Self-Sacrificing Love (vs. 25b)…

1 Timothy 5:8, 14; Titus 2:5; Proverbs 31:27

Luke 9:23

John 10:18

1. b) Sanctifying Love (vs. 26)…

Leviticus 11:44–45

Hebrews 9:13–14; 13:12

Hebrews 10:10     

1 Corinthians 1:30–31

Romans 8:30

1 Thessalonians 5:23

2 Corinthians 7:1

Ephesians 4:22

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3) The Commitment of Love (vss. 28–30)

4) The Conception of Love (vs. 31)

5) The Conundrum of Love (vs. 32)