Mystery 5 Mystery of The PURE CHURCH –The WIFE (Eph 5:22-6:9)
– “Mystery of Christ and The Church” Eph. 5:32 (Body in 5:22, 31)
A. Paul gives us the order of both headship and service which are both centered in love. (Eph 5:22-24) The purpose of submission is to raise up and mature every person in The Lord.
- Paul emphasizes the walk of the Christian, and he gives reference to this eight times in this short epistle. Always this walk is associated with conduct and manner of our Christian life.
-Christianity requires– Godly love in Christ, it excludes lust, HIS light excludes darkness, and His wisdom excludes folly.
- Lust is from our flesh but love is from God. Christianity puts an end to the degradation of womanhood and the neglect of childhood.
B. Wives and husbands are the foundation of ordered human life. Is it any wonder that Satan’s greatest attacks today are on the home? Submission and love is required between husbands and wives; Christ likens this union to that of Himself, and the Pure and Spotless Church.
- Children are to be obedient “in the Lord” because it is right. The discipline and instruction of parents should be “of the Lord.” Slaves are to act as serving the Lord, and masters are to remember that they too have a Master.
C. Here we see the Mystery of The Church as The Perfected Bride for Christ.
- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (5:25) So that:
- He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, (5:26)
- 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 5:27)
- So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Eph 5:28
- For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. (Eph 5:30)
- 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. (Eph 5:31)
- This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. (Eph 5:32)