Bridegroom’s Love For The Wife Of His Choice

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Old Testament Scripture Reading: Genesis 2:15 – 25 (KJV)

Gen 2:15  And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Gen 2:16  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

Gen 2:17  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Gen 2:18  And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Gen 2:19  And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

Gen 2:20  And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Gen 2:21  And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

Gen 2:22  And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Gen 2:23  And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Gen 2:24  Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Gen 2:25  And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

New Testament Scripture Reading: Ephesians 5:22 – 33 (KJV)

Eph 5:22  Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Eph 5:23  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Eph 5:24  Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Eph 5:25  Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Eph 5:26  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

Eph 5:27  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Eph 5:28  So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Eph 5:29  For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Eph 5:30  For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Eph 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

Eph 5:32  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

Eph 5:33  Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Transforming Power Statements:

1) Throughout the Bible God has always considered the people whom He had chosen to be relationally to Him Just as a Bride should be to her husband, which is seen either in type or shadow through prophetic inference as we can see in a number of passages in the Old Testament such as Isaiah 62:1 – 12; Hosea 2:19; Jeremiah 31:32 etc.

2) The creation of the beautiful institution of marriage, which God created as stated in Genesis is a projection of God’s perfect wisdom for many reasons, however, let us consider that this is the reason why marriage has always been the thong that the devil hates the most, and that this is the reason that marriage is not an easy thing to maintain without considerable difficulties, and marriage is also the thing that the devil hates the most, and this is why marriage is always being assaulted from so many diffrient angles.

3) The New Testament reveals that the mystery of marriage is GREAT; therefore, we must really meditate on it in order to get a rich Biblical understanding of what it really means and how we should perceive it and learn to promote and excel in it, as we have become the Bride of God’s Choice through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus His Perfect Son and our marriage to Him!