If Jesus Christ is the Bridegroom of Church, the crucifixion, the literal bloody torturous death of Jesus Christ, is the most awesome sign a spousal love in human history.We are going to get into the image of Jesus Christ as bridegroom and we have three objectives:
1. Identify in the Old Testament the main contributors and themes related to the Bridegroom analogy.
2. Analyze the New Testament contributions to the bridegroom analogy.
3. Understand the impact of this beautiful vision on Christian marriage and discipleship.
Ephesians 5;21.33. Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no man ever hates his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church; however, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
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