True Love in Marriage Colossians 3 19 Marriage

True Love in Marriage Colossians 3: 19

Marriage • 18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. (Colossians 3: 18 -19)

Agape Love • 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5: 25 -27)

Agape Love • We love, because He first loved us. (1 John 4: 19)

Love is Sacrifice • We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1 John 3: 16)

Love is… • 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails… (1 Corinthians 13: 4 -8)

Love is… • “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. ” (John 15: 13)

Love is Service • “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. ” (Mark 10: 45)

The Purpose of Marriage 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Mirror God’s image on earth Mutually complete one another Multiply a godly heritage Manage God’s creation Model Christ’s relationship with the church

Christ and the Church • 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord… 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her… (Ephesians 5: 22, 25)

Christ and the Church • 31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH. [Genesis 2: 24] 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. (Ephesians 5: 31 -33)

Christ and the Church • Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her… (Ephesians 5: 25)

The Marriage Bond • “For I hate divorce, ” says the LORD, the God of Israel… (Malachi 2: 16) • Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13: 4)

Embittered • Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. (Colossians 3: 19)

How to Spell Love • • • C-loseness O-penness U-nderstanding P-eacemaking L-oyalty E-steem • Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs • Love, Marriage, and Sex by David Jeremiah

How to Spell Love • Time • Talk • 28 Her children rise up and bless her; her husband also, and he praises her, saying: 29 “Many daughters have done nobly, but you excel them all. ” 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise. (Proverbs 31: 28 -31)

How to Spell Love • Tenderness • 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body. (Ephesians 5: 28 -30) • The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary

How to Spell Love 1. 2. 3. 4. Time Talk Tenderness (see The Song of Solomon) Touch (see The Song of Solomon) • Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. (Colossians 3: 19) • Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. (Ephesians 5: 25)

True Love in Marriage Colossians 3: 19