How does a husband glorify God in his marriage?

In this video, Robert McCurley discusses how a husband or father can glorify God in his marriage. He references Ephesians 5, where husbands are instructed to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.

Love is emphasized throughout the New Testament and is not a weak character quality but rather a strong and substantial one. Love is defined as self-sacrifice, self-denial, and giving for the benefit of one's spouse. A husband can glorify God in his marriage by studying the relationship between Christ and his bride and cultivating biblical love with the help of the Spirit.

1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV) - "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

So how can a father or husband be glorifying God in his marriage? Well, Paul tells us in Ephesians 5 that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. And the emphasis in not only Ephesians 5 but elsewhere in the New Testament, the emphasis falls on love. Now this whole picture of marriage reflecting a Heavenly marriage between Christ and the church is not unique to Paul. We we we see it through the prophets We see it in the Song of Solomon.

We see it in the Psalms like Psalm 45 We see it in the narratives even in all the way to the end of of the book of Revelation. We're in Revelation 21 there's the new Jerusalem descending as a bride, adorned and prepared for her husband. So that's helpful because it means that the husband glorifies God in his marriage by reflecting the Lord Jesus Christ in relationship to his wife with the emphasis falling on love. Now we tend to think we tend to think of you know virtues or features like courage, holiness, power as strong features. And in the modern world, we tend to think of love as more of a soft or a weak feature.

Maybe you picture, you know, a very sweet grandma who's super loving and so on Nothing could be further from the truth actually. I Mean when we think of love we should think of colossal strength Solidity sighs Love is more like a mountain than it is the soft sand at the seashore. How do we know? I mean, in 2 Timothy 1 and in 1 John you have the Lord contrasting love and fear. So perfect love casts out fear.

We're not given a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind. So there love and courage are actually over against fear The Bible says it explicitly places like the Song of Songs Chapter 8 love is as strong as death Many waters shall not quench it The floods cannot extinguish it and and so on. So love is something strong and substantial. That's the way we should think of it. Ultimately love is giving for God so Love the world that he gave his only begotten son husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for entered Galatians 2 20 elsewhere love is giving so it's it's self-sacrifice as we see in 1st Corinthians 13 It's self-denial.

It's taking up our cross it's saying no to self in order that we might say yes to benefit our wives. So love is not just a romantic feeling, it's not just an emotion, it's concrete, it's tangible, it's expressed in the nit and grit of everyday life where a husband is sacrificing himself in order to be a benefit spiritually, physically, and every other way to his wife. So A husband that wishes to glorify God in his marriage needs to study again carefully the relationship between Christ and his bride. How does Christ deal with his bride? And needs by the help of the Spirit to be cultivating Biblical love.