Building Strong Families: Husband's Responsibility, Pt. 2

Building Strong Families: Husband’s Responsibility (Ephesians 5:26–30)

Introduction/Review:

Genesis 2:18, 24–25

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

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

Love is “a Spirit-created desire of the heart for the spiritual good of others, which produces self-sacrificial actions on their behalf.” (Mueller, Let the Men Be Men, p. 39)

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

Self-Sacrificing Love

Sanctifying Love

1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 John 3:2; Romans 8:13

Ezekiel 36:25–27, 28 … 16:1–15

John 15:3; 17:17

Matthew 7:3–5

Purposeful Love

1 Corinthians 11:2, 3; Colossians 1:22

2 Corinthians 4:14

Titus 2:11–14

Isaiah 54:5–7; 62:3–5; Hosea 2:19–20

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

Zealous Love

Leviticus 19:18

1 Peter 3:7

Integrated Love

Ephesians 5:31

Caring Love

Genesis 47:17; Ephesians 6:4; 1 Thess 2:7–8

Ephesians 4:11–12; Romans 12:4–5

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4) The Conception of Love (vs. 31)

5) The Conundrum of Love (vs. 32)