“The Quotable Paul: An Ideal Husband”

• Sermon, Pastor DeMass
• text: Ep 5.22-33
• Our chief duty as husbands is to love our wife.
• Love is the sum of our duty to God and to man.
• Love is the principle which leads one moral being to seek delight and joy in another.
• We are to desire and delight in our wife and are to find our joy in imparting ourselves to her.
• Love is a deep unity, maintained by the will, deliberately strengthened by habit.
• Love is not an emotion, it is a choice.
• ASK YOUR WIFE GOOD QUESTIONS.
• Draw her out
• LISTEN TO HER ANSWERS
• don’t interrupt
• what are your non-verbal actions indicating?
• do you follow up?
• TAKE THE FIRST STEP IN RECONCILIATION
• SHARE YOUR LIFE WITH HER
• An ideal husband will not only be willing to die for his bride, but also to daily live for her and serve her.
• The next time your wife hurts you, may God give you the strength to return grace to her.
• Love your wife as you are loved by Christ.
• Forgive your wife the same way you forgive yourself.
• Loving an unloving spouse is exactly what Jesus did.
• Let us give our wives a thousand expressions of our daily love.