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.
Ping.
There will be only one Victor in this spiritual conflict and whichever side wins will control and determine the nature, future and "reality" of the country from here on out going forward.
Either we will live in a modern version of godless "1984" injustice, and unreality, with the uniparty politicians, globalists, "deep state", the alphabet DOJ organizations and the MSM fake news controlling everything; Or truth, justice and reality, along with a genuine return to a constitutional, nationalist government; one nation under Almighty God, where truth and impartial "justice for all" prevails and reigns supreme.
This spiritual battle where these two different spiritual, national destinies and "world views" for America are presently, openly warring against each other are in full view for all who have eyes, and are willing to see, can see.
They are diametrically opposed to one another, as are God and Satan. There can and will be no compromise, and only one will be victorious.
So repent of your sins, pray, participate and vote; because the very survival and future of our nation, you, your entire family and future generations of Americans depends upon it.
And, if Almighty God, in His mercy chooses to pass over our multitude of sins against Him and be gracious, our nation will be preserved.
However, given the innumerable, number, measure, nature, and depth of our sin and the extent to which we, as a nation and individuals within it have willfully rejected God and His beloved, Son; our Lord, and the world's one and only Savior Jesus Christ; He may, in righteous judgment allow our nation to fall.
Our nation's fate ultimately rests with God and His will.
They are simultaneous. Not one without the other.
Well explained...but it has to be explained in rap verse and less than 140 characters to reasonate with todays facultative morons. But God can make it reasonate even using old fashioned prose.
Most hated verses...matthew 7:22 and 23. Hypocrites beware.
Boy am I messed up. I thought that was Corinthians II.
If Protestants really believed in this verse none of their churches would be for divorce, contaception or abortion because these things are not of Christ
Amen
Hung up on kephale?
Covfefe!
Ping
Honestly; tain't too many on the Right be likin' it; either.
That is what it says. It also says in vs 25, “Husbands, love (agape in the Greek - love unconditionally) your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Dang, the thirty years war breaking out again on your thread and all you wanted to do was do a sermon on today’s reading!
And thank you for that sermon. (Men and women are not equal, they are complementary!)
It is sickening that they don’t understand this as a passage of love and commitment.
To the left, they think a traditional relationship is about slavery not love.
“This is just Paul the woman-hater, who was captive to the culture of his day.”
Our pastor gave a sermon the other week about Deborah (a Judge/ruler back in the O.T.). As an aside he spoke about how some folks pick some of the verses that make women seem subservient, but how the Bible uses powerful women throughout history.
“And some people make some of the ‘subservient’ verses to just be due to their ‘backwards’ culture. I don’t think we can or should do that. Then ANYTHING that we find difficult can be explained by ‘culture’. Like taking care of the poor and the widows. ‘Well - that was back then. NOW that’s the government’s problem - not mine!”
Amen by the grace of God!