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a. Vs: 23 He is the head of his wife. This means that d. Vs. 26 He is to sanctify and cleanse her.
he is to provide leadership for his wife in all things,

To sanctify is to set apart and make special. No-

spiritually, financially, morally etc.

body will make your wife special like you. She is

b. Vs: 23 He is the saviour of the body i.e his wife.

not to be available for your relatives to abuse and

He is the deliverer, protector and defence of his

insult because you would have set her apart and

wife. Spiritually speaking the husband can take authority over anything that attacks his wife. The best
person to pray healing, deliverance and breakthrough for a woman is her husband. God has giv-

made her very special. I am glad to say that not
one member of my family has ever insulted or spoken in a derogatory manner to my wife before. It is
because I honour her before them and make her

en him so much power in his home such that he can special.
get things done cheaply. Therefore as a husband you . To cleanse her on the other hand is to improve
must have some spiritual fibre.
But he is also a physical protector for his wife. On

her by helping her with her weaknesses. Polish
and refine her every bit.

his body are the muscles that his wife does not have.
God gave you muscles for your wife's protection and
not for her destruction of maltreatment.

c. Vs. 25. They are to love their wives like Christ.
In John 15:13. A husband is to make sure that he
loves his wife to death. He should choose to die for
her where necessary. If she needs a liver, kidney or a
heart the man should give up his own. Just like Jesus
gave up His only life for our redemption. I hear
women say that submission is harder than the loving role that God gave to husbands; well you will
think so because you did not understand the qualification of this love. Jesus qualified it by saying "as
Christ loves the church". And Je loved us by dying
for us. So husbands die for your wives.
Isaac stood in the gap for Rebekah in prayer until
her womb was opened by God. Genesis 25:21. Most
men would rather make the woman do all the running around for the fruit of the womb, but not Isaac.
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e. Vs.27 He is to make his wife presentable to himself.
She is not to look shabby or uncared for. She is to
have no wrinkles whosoever.
Wrinkles are signs of aging due to stress, tiredness
and suffering. Why should your young wife start
looking aged after marrying you, and why should