DAD'S DAILY BREAD

Sermon notes     Pastor Kobe Orr

19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Col 3:19

Husbands love you wives and do not be harsh with them, for this is God’s design for you. Husbands love your wives. Biblical love- an active self giving commitment to seek the good of another. We are called to a decision of love. Eph 5:25 Love your wives as Christ loves the church. Eph 1 Love like Christ. It is not contingent on our past or future actions. It is unbreakable! Rom 8:38-39 Consistent and unqualified and unbreakable! Does my wife have to earn my love and affection? Does my love feel unshakable or unbreakable?

We are called to a sacrificial love. Eph 5:25 Jesus sacrificed His life for us. Are we doing the same for our wife? Who benefits most from my sacrifice? My wife or I? We are called to a purifying love. Eph 5:25 We need to be agents of their sanctification. Guarding their purity. Washing her with the Word. Am I Leading my wife spiritually? Am I building godly habits with my wife? Do I guard my wife spiritually? Our protection is way more then just physical? Do I lovingly confront my wife’s sin? If my wife is more like Christ in five years from now, is it because of my influence or in spite of it? God has called us into this position. Do not do it because she is worthy but because Christ commands us to. Be obedient!

Do not be harsh with them. Do not let sin corrupt your love. Silence can still be harsh. Does my wife feel safe bringing hard things to you? Because God’s design is good for you. Loving your wife strengthens your relationship with God. 1 Pet 3:7 Loving your wife strengthens your marriage. Testify what God has done in your marriage! Confess and repent and change the things you see not in line with God’s Word. God is not asking for perfection. Be faithful and be humble and be obedient. Ask my wife how I can be better. Be obedient and be an example for my kids. Do not wait for my wife to change. Be like Christ and love first. Let Christ handle her. Do I believe God’s commands are true? Do I believe God is good?

APPLICATION:

Submit to the Lord and read His Word. Be sure that I’m leading my family in the right way. Let God’s Word dictate everything I think and say and do. Put my wife above myself. Stay humble at all times. Let the Lord do all the fighting for me. Pray for my wife everyday. Love my wife as Christ loves the church.

IN HIS NAME