Marriage Husbands, Love Your Wives

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MarriageHusbands, Love Your Wives

• Ephesians 533

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Last weekThe FamilyGods Original Small
Group Genesis 218-25
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• Ephesians 533 (NASB)
• Nevertheless, let each individual among you
  also love his wife even as himself and let the
  wife see to it that she respect her husband.

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• General Marriage Principles
• Remember Purpose of Marriage

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• Our marriages are to visibly demonstrate Christs
  love relationship with His Bride,
• the Church.

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The PrerequisiteOne Flesh Union(Ephesians
531 Genesis 224)
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• Covenant of Marriage- Vows
• "I, Brad, take you Susan, to be my wife,
• and I promise before God and these witnesses,
• to be your faithful husband,
• to share with you in plenty and in want,
• in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health,
• to love and to care for you as Christ instructs
  me,
• so that together we may serve God and others,
• as long as we both shall live.
• I give you this ring today as a tangible symbol
  of these promises."

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• One spouse can kill
• a marriage,
• but it takes two
• to keep it one.

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• General Marriage Principles
• Remember Purpose of Marriage
• We are selfish (fleshly/sinful)
• We want our needs met first
• We are different- by design
• We cant do this on our own

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The ContextBe Filled with the
Spirit(Ephesians 518)
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• General Marriage Principles
• Remember Purpose of Marriage
• We are selfish (fleshly/sinful)
• We want our needs met first
• We are different- by design
• We cant do this on our own
• Learn spouses love language

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• Five Love Languages
• By Dr. Gary Chapman
• Gift Giving
• Acts of Service
• Quality Time
• Physical Touch
• Words of Encouragement
• See www.fivelovelanguages.com

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• General Marriage Principles
• Remember Purpose of Marriage
• We are selfish (fleshly/sinful)
• We want our needs met first
• We are different- by design
• We cant do this on our own
• Learn spouses love language
• Move toward your spouse

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Husbands UnconditionallyLove your Wives!A love
that demonstrates

• Value (Prov. 3110)

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Proverbs 3110

• An excellent wife, who can find? For her worth
  is far above jewels.

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Husbands UnconditionallyLove your Wives!A love
that demonstrates

• Value (Prov. 3110)
• Submissiveness to Others (Eph. 518-21)
• Servant Leadership (Eph. 523 Jn. 135-15)
• Sacrificial Giving (Eph. 525)
• Tenderness Care (Eph. 528-30 1 Pet. 37)

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1 Peter 37

• You husbands in the same way, live with your
  wives in an understanding wayand show her honor
  as a fellow heir of the grace of life

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Husbands UnconditionallyLove your Wives!A love
that demonstrates

• Value (Prov. 3110)
• Submissiveness to Others (Eph. 518-21)
• Servant Leadership (Eph. 523 Jn. 135-15)
• Sacrificial Giving (Eph. 525)
• Tenderness Care (Eph. 528-30 1 Pet. 37)
• Family Commitment (Eph. 64)
• Protection Support (1 Tim. 58)
• Openness and Honesty (Ps. 322)
• Purity and Fidelity TRUST (Heb. 134)

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Next in Family SeriesWives, Respect Your
HusbandsEphesians 533
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• Applications
• Move toward your spouse!
• Even if you dont feel like it
• Sometimes as an act of obedience
• Gets easier (usually) more you do it
• God will bless your efforts

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• Ephesians 533 (The Message)
• And this provides a good picture of how each
  husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in
  loving her, and how each wife is to honor her
  husband.

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