I absolutely loved this message! This is a must hear message for everyone, because most everyone has a family and this can be useful for anyone and everyone.
There is a tension between what is real and what is ideal.
This sermon explores the verse: Wives submit to your husband.
Although men like to use that as a way to say their wives are not obeying the rule was really given to everyone. The verse has more context:
Ephesians 5:21-33- Instructions for Christian Households
21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church
This verse is not about wives being obedient to a man who orders her around, this verse is about mutual submission. For reverence of Christ, not for each other.
When Jesus discovered he was all powerful he immediately washed the feet of his Disciples, showing them that he was there to serve them with everything that he had. Whether you are mom, dad, sister, cousin, aunt, you should be using your power and your resources to lift each other up. No one puts themselves above the other. He was setting an example for us. We do that for other people because Jesus did that for us. Not for that person but for Jesus because we are following his example. Best family dynamic, relational dynamic.
Always ask your loved ones: What can I do to help? What can I give you to benefit you?
Happiness does not equate to getting everybody to do everything you want them to do all the time. Leverage all of yourself to your family. You don’t get happy when you control everyone around you. You get happy when you give yourself to the people around you, just like Jesus did for you.
The reason why Jesus is the head of the church is because he gave his life away.
Romans 5:6-8: 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
What does love require of me? Jesus’ greatest command was Love.
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