How should man love? By. Bro. Randy T Williamsinquiry@realisticimaginatio ns.comwww.realisticimaginations.com< SPAN> 

Ephesians 5: 24-32 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26to 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. 28In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church 30for 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." 32This is a profound mystery I am talking about Christ and the church. 33However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Beloved

I have seen a sight that is part of our body that should be recognized and eliminated in further efforts to encourage the body of Christ. It is this. In many services I have attended and seen even on T.V. we as the proclaimed Body of Christ insult and criticize each other shamefully. It biblically noted that when people are accepted and loved there you will see them flourishing. This should be adopted in marriage and all relationships as well that the honoring of someone can make them flourish. By honoring, encouraging, or just being respectful to someone you know or don know you can move mountains of disbelief in themselves and purpose they are for. It is the nature of support. Yet the edification of most churches is far from the teachings we receive.

It is the consistent insulting of ministers, churches, and people that seems to occur every second of the day, around the world, that gives fuel to the people who we need for Jesus. In the book of Ephesians it says, "Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. (Ephesians 1:4) Still a majority of reasons most people defend their disbelief in Jesus, is the many instances they hear and see of the people who are mis-representing for Jesus. If it is not the adultery, then it will be the prosperity teachings. If it is not denominational warfare then it is the hypocrisy. In as much, who then has the right to defend Jesus anymore? Where is the consciousness of teachers and families who aim for exhortation but, leaving out the commands of being holy and loving your brother as yourself?

If we, as people in general, can spend more money on Valentines Day to show a paganistic belief of love to someone in one day. Yet we can be at the dinner table with family and be even more discouraging to the ones closer to us 364 days. Then how can you credit the development of your own family without challenging the diplomacy and lack of truth from your own heart?

This does not fulfill the will what God says in the Bible you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.(Ephesians 2:19-22)

In the bible passage above it gives reference to 'Husbands" to love your wives as Christ loved the church. That in a state of Love, Christ, gave himself up for her. In a figurative explanation, Jesus had no discrimination for the church which is men, women, and children of God. Then in verse 26 it states: to make her (church and wife) holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and present her a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any blemish, but holy and blameless. This is a calling to all mankind itself who love Jesus. That by true application and practice of reading the word to the people around us you begin to love people as yourself. That you fulfill the spirit of God's command in the goal of presenting to Jesus and yourself a church of much glory (radiance). The real Jesus can have your spouse, friend or church with a natural glow and irreplaceable smile that true from the heart. Jesus implies: that in any relationship if we speak blessings and treat people, our wives, and husbands in the love of Christ. That God rewards us in heaven for this and it manifests here on earth. That even as a new member of a church you can edify its state by writing legible proclamations of the word to its leader. In an act of love, the word can cleanse ALL THINGS into a state that is always filled with joy, fellowship, and most of all love for God. 

If we take the same amount of care that we put into our image, our cars, our MySpace pages, our hair, our homes, and things that perish; Instead of injecting the word of God to edify ourselves to be more loving for the person next to us. To be able to edify the fellowship within a church that we attend or we may have seen on T.V. This is random acts of love of cleansing our relationships with the washing of water through the word. We bring more fulfillments to what pleases God that in return fulfills ourselves. What joy is it to use the word in your relationship not for debate or war, but to bring more love? What joy is being able to affect a church with discernment, righteous love, and humility by washing it with the word in places the pastor may not see? In this we don't sin by not loving our brothers by recognizing issues and not addressing them or using it as gossip at home when there is nothing else to talk about. Jesus even said, I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell." (Matthew 5:22 NLT)

How can we make a better body if we never realize that by even being angry with someone we are subject to judgment, more or less calling someone an idiot? And he says this because this is not truly love for someone. If we are temples for the Holy Spirit and his spirit is to come out of us. We do more in defiling ourselves than we do trying to correct someone else incorrectly. Therefore there is a calling in such a message Jesus says for someone he loved so much which was his church. And as for men, we are to love our wives as Christ loved the church. 7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. (1 Peter 3:7)

Prayers, both Men and Women, are subject to not being heard from God. Depending on how we treat people. And if so, can we see how we can affect our churches and body as a whole? So beloved, be encouraged to encourage some else with love by washing them with the water of the word in love. Do it not angrily neither immaturely to rebuke someone to make you look smarter. However, with grace speak those things into your atmosphere, your spouse, your church the things that shall become sound doctrine.///////////

New Living Translation (NLT)Holy Bible. New Living Translation copyright 1996, 2004 by Tyndale Charitable Trust. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers.

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