Guys (girls),
I would like to introduce my first ever web-cast! Informative? Possibly. Hilarious? Certainly. Ridiculous? Without a doubt. I would love some input about the message. You may also make fun of me as much as you like. Small children seem to have no problem with that.
Love you guys,
j
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CAMALOG! Cool.... While I was writing the message for the wedding I also took note of the verses in Ephesians 5.
Note that only 3 or 4 verses deal with the responsibility of the wives submission but 7 to 8 verses deal with the obligation of the husbands.
I think many have clearly misunderstood their obligations to their wives and families but they themselves have demanded submission from the like.
Lord, help us to be godly men and loving husbands and fathers. Imitating Your holy Son in His love for His bride the church.
Sorry, no cam, can't look like a Bruce Lee movie....
First let me say I don't know if you, Jason, or anyone else is saying this or not (And I don't think you are) but hearing some others speak on this topic, it seems they are under the impression (the wrong one) that because the husbands role strecthes through more verses than the wives in this passage the wives is somehow not as noteworthy or somehow less important than the husbands role. Scripture says, wives submit, husbands love your wives as Jesus loves His bride. Scripture means just what it says, whether it says it once or 100 x's. As we spoke Sunday night, it seems some peoples impression is that when a husband ASKS their wive to do something, if they perceive it to be a ridiculus request or the husbands motives are wrong its okay to not do it. Scripture doesn't allow for this unless it is something sinful. Wives should submit whether the husband is loving them as Christ loves His church or not. Likewise husbands ought to love their wives as Christ loves the church even if they aren't submissive. As a wise man told me more than once, son you take care of your wive, love her, and take care of her needs and she will have no problem doing the same for you. This same wise man told my wive, take care of your husband, love him, and take care of his needs and he will have no problem doing the same for you. Now, thats scriptural. If all of my wives needs are taken care of by me, and mine by her, our needs are met. And before any of you say the bible doesn't say for the wive to love the husband answer this. Do you think scripture teaches wives not to love their husbands? (Hint, no it doesn't, so don't give me that crap.)
Now let me step down from my soapbox and answer Jasons question, or at least what I think you were asking.
Do I do this well? (that is, love my wive as Jesus loves His church)
......yes
Do I do this perfectly?
NO!
All depends on your definition of well. Mine; well=not terrible.
Thing is we are sinners saved by grace, God's grace. We are still sinners. We still sin. We are declared not guilty because of Jesus. So are we going to do this perfectly all the time? No. Excuse, no. Truth, yes. We should obviously look closely at our marriage relationship daily, but more important than that our relationship with our Savior. They both go hand-in-hand. Husbands lead their wives, families in a Godly manner, wife closer to God, husband closer to God=husband and wife closer to each other. As scripture states, we are works-in-progress, if we were done, we'd be home w/ our Savior. So, the way I analyze my marriage realtionship, is it better today than yesterday, scripturally speaking? Mine doesn't always fall into that catergory, but I love my wife like Jesus loves His bride more than I did when we first started. I gauge it this way. Am I loving her more like Jesus does His church than when I started, and how much space is in between?
Call me prideful(you would be wrong, but go ahead if you like), but Valerie and my marriage is doing well in that respect, (me and her acting in accordance with scripture concerning marriage).
Its further than when we started, and although not as much space as we'd like, theres some good distance from start to now.
Note: I didn't just throw this out here without consulting my wife, and she has okayed what I wrote about our relationship.
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