1. Ephesians Class Schedule
11/11/18 Eph 5: R. Henderson

2. The Family Life 5:15-6:9* General Direction of Personal Conduct
Care with Regard to One’s Walk 5:15-16
Persistence with Regard to God’s Will 5:17
Being filled with/by the Sprit of God 5:18
Results of being filled with/by the Spirit 5:19-21
Subjection (to line up under) in the Believer's Life
As Pertains to the One Another 5:21
As Pertains to the Wife 5:22-24
As Pertains to the Husband 5:25-33
As Pertains to the Children/Parents 6:1-4
As Pertains to the Slaves/Masters 6:5-9
* adapted from McCalley

3. 25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her*,
[26  so that He might sanctify her*, having cleansed her* by the washing of water with the word, 27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her* glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she* would be holy and blameless.]
28  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
* the church

4. 25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
The husbands, be loving your wives Wuest
be loving (present tense continuous action)
parallel verse:
Col 3:19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them see Eph 5:28 & 33
As the duty of the wife is submission, so the duty of the husband is love that answers to the love of Christ exhibited in the giving of Himself for us McCalley

5. 25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
just as or as also – we again see Christ & the church as
the example of a Christian marriage
1st - Christ also loved the church
25b with a love self-sacrificial in its nature, in the manner
in which Christ also loved the Church (Wuest)
see 1 John 4:7
2nd – and Christ also gave Himself up for her (the church)
25c and gave himself on behalf of it, (Wuest)
see Eph 5:2

6. 25  Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
How does the husband love his wife sacrificially?
Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Col 3:12 So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved,  Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
How does the husband give himself on behalf of his wife?
1 Cor 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things
It is the not I but Christ’s life! Gal 2:20

7. 26  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word
In these two verses (v26 & v27) Paul digresses from the subject of marriage in order to dwell on the purpose of Christ for the church McCalley
so that – hina – with a purpose that (1st)
He - Christ
sanctify - hagiazo - means to set apart, usually
for a particular purpose
Heb 10:10, Heb 13:12
her – the church
The rest of the verse tells how this was accomplished!
11/11/18 Eph 5: R. Henderson

8. 26  so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word
having cleansed her - katharizō - to make clean, to cleanse;
in a moral sense, from the defilement
of sin – 1 John 1:7, 2 Peter 1:9
by the washing of water with the word
1 Cor 6: but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Titus 3:5 He saved us --- according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
The Word of God cleanses us in the sense that when we believe the gospel it washes our sins away as water washes dirt away. Thus washing is a metaphor of redemption.*
* Constable

9. that – hina – with a purpose that (2nd)
27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
that – hina – with a purpose that (2nd)
He might present to Himself the church in all her glory
He might Himself present to Himself “the Church” glorious
Wuest
present - paristanō - "to place beside" (para, "by," histēmi,
"to set"), "to present,” - Col 1:28
This reminds us that we are seated with Christ – Eph 2:6
in all her glory – éndoxos - metaphorically, a glorious church, signifying the church adorned in pure and splendid raiment as a bride – Rev 19:7-8

10. having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing
27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing
spot - spilos - "a spot or stain," is used metaphorically
of moral blemish
wrinkle - rhytis - a wrinkle, as drawn together, contracted. Used figuratively Eph. 5:27.
Of the Church it is said that each and every member of that glorious company will be conformed to His image, and when those who are His own see Him, they will be like Him Chafer

11. 27  that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.
that - hina – with a purpose that (3rd)
she (the church) would be holy and blameless
holy - hagios - separated from sin and therefore
consecrated to God, sacred
blameless - amōmos - spotless, without blemish
parallel verse:
Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love

12. ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies
28  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
So husbands
The word “so” signals Paul’s return to his analogy between Christ and the church and the husband and the wife.
McCalley
ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies
“as” sets up another analogy
How do we love our own bodies?

13. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
28  So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
He who loves his own wife loves himself;
The husband’s love is derived from the oneness of marriage. The oneness is so strong that to love her is to love himself McCalley
What does Scripture say about “oneness” in marriage?
see Gen 2:24 – God’s design in marriage
Matt 19:5-6 – restatement of Gen 2:24 and a warning

14. Lit: for no one ever yet – almost an impossible situation
29  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
Lit: for no one ever yet – almost an impossible situation
nourishes - ektrephō - to nourish, rear, feed
cherishes - thalpō - to make warm, heat - in the NT, used
figuratively meaning to cherish, nourish
three points:
It is unnatural not to nourish and cherish your own body
2. Since you are “one flesh” loving your wife is loving yourself
3. Since this is the case (a man loving his wife as his own body), a man who does not love his wife does as much damage to himself as he does to her. (McCalley)

15. 29  for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,
How does Christ nourish and cherish the church?
Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.14 "He will glorify Me, for He will take of Mine and will disclose it to you.