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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Husbands and Wives as God's Created Partners


Pastor Joseph Prince is also teaching about a man and a woman as God created them and their meaning in Hebrew. Very interesting. Very revealing. Very powerful. However, TBN calls them 2006 Classics.

 Marriage is a sacrifice to one another as well. Our house, our property, our children, etc.

 Ephesians 5:22-33
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
(Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV)

 Since we are in the fallen world, submission of this world may mean something very different from what God intended. Ebiseera bingi Abaami bagamba, "mbu Omukazi tampulira" What do they mean? Is it what God intended? Obufumbo bungi ennaku zino bufuuse bwa nfunamu ki! Nze nfunira wa? Oluusi owulira Abakyal nga bagamba nti, "Omusajja simusobola!!!" Mu ngeri ki? How does sexual gratification differ from sexual lust or orgies? Deep questions that need careful pondering so as to have a fulfilling marriage. Marriage is not an experiment. it is a full commitment. Without God, without Jesus, without the Holy Spirit in the marriage, there is FIRE only. It is in demonstrated in Hebrew and it is true.

 Man and woman as a couple in marriage means power. Not imbalanced power though, but equal yet different power.


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