LOVING AS CHRIST LOVED
IN YOUR MARRIAGE
Brother James, OIC
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Eph 5:21-24 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thin.
Eph 5:25 -32Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Eph 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
God today is building His Church a Spiritual Body of believers. Christ today is saving those who would be God the Fathers out of darkness, separating them from entanglements, covenants, fellowships and partnerships with the world.
The greatest visual example of this is when a man and woman are truly yielded to God in marriage. In this you see the love of Christ protecting and you see the support of the Church Body yielding to her husband.
These marriages are rare today I have been fortunate in seeing this in living examples like our own Chaplain Woody’s marriage; the mystery of Christ and the Church revealed. I believe I myself have this in me and it is my hope for each of you that, if you are experiencing difficulties in your relationships that you turn fully to the study of Gods Word while steadfastly committing the scriptures above to your life and your marriage.
This is not to say every marriage that has a marriage license is of God nor is it to say that everyone married by a preacher is of God, it is to say that you that are of God, if you both turn fully to obeying Gods Word will know the mystery, the inexpressible joy of Christ and The Church.
Yielding to God is your allowing Jesus reign in your life. For some it means a moving from and replacing in totally different surroundings for their walk to be complete in Christ.
Mat 10:34-40 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
And this means that those that want Gods best must break the yokes that keep them looking back.
Php 3:13-14 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Jesus meets each of us where we are at, and He places us where He wants Some He will leave in unequally yoked marriages others He will divide the house where the person that is His can be at peace. That is His business, and He knows the reasons why.
1Co 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
