04/09/2024
Understanding Roles in Marriage
As we established earlier, marriage is a holy covenant between two people. Today, we're going to explore the roles each partner is expected to play in a godly marriage.
The Role of the Husband
In Genesis 2:15, God told Adam to tend, guard, and keep the Garden of Eden. Now after God gave Adam his duty, He then created Eve to help Adam. When you as a man know your garden and the work you are supposed to do, it will be easier for your wife to submit to you and to your vision. This also shows that men have a responsibility to lead and care for their wives.
Ephesians 5:23 and 1 Corinthians 11:3 remind us that the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the Head of the Church. This means men should:
1. Have a vision and purpose for their family (Genesis 2:15)
[15]Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
2. Take care of their wife's physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Ephesians 5:23-29
[23]For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
[24]Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
[25]Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,
[26]that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
[27]that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
[28]So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.
[29]For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
3. Operate like the brain, listening, processing, and commanding action
(Colossians 2:19)
[19]and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God.
4. Be connected and committed to their wife, feeling her pain and protecting her Just like Jesus Christ is connected and committed to the Church (Acts 9:4)
Acts 9:4
[4]Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
Look here Paul was persecuting the early Chuch but Jesus said you are persecuting me. Sometimes as a husband you must make your relatives know that when they do wrong to your wife they are doing wrong to you also. You must not be comfortable when when people disrespect your wife. When my wife is not feeling well I feel the pain before she even tells me. The same happens to her when I am seek. Thats the level of connectivite we have become.
We are becoming one flesh day by day.
( Genesis 2:24)
[24]Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
_Remember, men, your role is to lead, care for, and love your wife as Christ loves the Church._
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