1 Corinthians 13:11 // When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
- What does love require of ME?
- CONTRACT: We PROTECT our rights and LIMIT our responsibilities.
- COVENANT: We GIVE UP our rights and PICK UP our responsibilities.
Genesis 2:21-25 // So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
- RIGHTS WE GIVE UP
- 1. PRIORITY.
- 2. OWNERSHIP.
1 Corinthians 7:4 // The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
Ephesians 5:22-33 // Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
- RESPONSIBILITIES WE PICK UP
- 1. LOVE unconditionally.
- 2. HONOR respectfully.
- 3. SUBMIT mutually.
Ephesians 5:21 // Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
