Loving Husbands

Bible Text: Colossians 3:19 | Preacher: Alan Conner | Series: 2008, Colossians

Intro

In context, Paul has been teaching about how God’s grace has turned us into a new man, the old man has been set aside and we have put on Christ.  But the point he is now making is that saving grace in the heart transforms all of our domestic relationships so that the new man also creates a new home.

 

 

THE HUSBAND AS HEAD. Eph. 5:23

 

1) God ordained headship.

 

2) The meaning of headship.

 

 

THE NATURE OF THIS LOVE.

 

1) Present tense.

 

 

2) Meaning of agape love.

 

 

THE MODEL OF THIS LOVE. Eph. 5:25-33.

 

The model is Christ’s love for His people.  Both husband and wife are to imitate Christ.

 

 

1) A _______________ love.  Eph. 5:25 – “as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her.”

 

 

2) A __________________ love.  Eph. 5:25 – “and gave Himself up for her”.

 

 

 

3) A ____________________ love.  Eph. 5:23. “the Savior of the body.”  This answers to the last part in Col. 3:19 “And do not be embittered against them.”

 

 

 

4) A _________________________ love.  Mk. 10:45. 

 

 

 

Conclusion –