This document summarizes Ephesians Chapter 5, which discusses obedience to Christ and relationships between husbands and wives. It instructs believers to imitate God through love, walk in light by avoiding sin, and submit to one another. Wives should submit to their husbands as the church submits to Christ, and husbands should love their wives as Christ loves the church. When marriage reflects the relationship of God and His people, it can bring joy by submitting to God first.
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Ephesians Chapter 5 Be Imitators of God Christ
This document summarizes Ephesians Chapter 5, which discusses obedience to Christ and relationships between husbands and wives. It instructs believers to imitate God through love, walk in light by avoiding sin, and submit to one another. Wives should submit to their husbands as the church submits to Christ, and husbands should love their wives as Christ loves the church. When marriage reflects the relationship of God and His people, it can bring joy by submitting to God first.
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Summary
Ephesians Chapter 5 Be Imitators of God
Obedience to the example of Christ
and the relationahip between husbands and wives.
Paul open this section of the epistle by
giving the Ephesians instructions about Keeping pure and staying away from sexual immorality.
Living in Christ, how believers are to be
imitators of God through focus the love demonstrated by Christ, walk in love should engage in thanks giving and other holy things.
Living in Light, Believers are to find out
what pleases to God. Careful how we lived so that we will be a good examples, take no part in sin but rather expose sin, nothing to hide. Walk with wisdom, understand the will of God and do not get drunk with wine, Instead filled with the Holy Spirit
Rules for wives and husband
Wives should submit to to their husband
and husbands should love their wives as Christ love the church. Respect one another, the two become one in one flesh, leave the parents and joined to his wife. Christ and the church, to love his wife, even as himself. Part of obedience to the Lord, surrender to God. Husband head (authority) they will become responsible to their decisions and the wife obey submit and love, true Joy when you are submitting to your husband submit to God. Joy filled with the spirit, to be filled with Holy Spirit, we go to the church, hear music from the heart of Lord, show gratitude to God. The bible is the instructional manual in marriage. Put GOD in the center of your relationship.
Application: As God’s beloved children,
we are to imitate Him in loving one another as Christ sacrificially love. The bible uses marriage relationship to picture the relationship between God and His people. ( Christ and the church)