[Pastor Ralph]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

[Commissioned]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?
Christ is our Husband as individuals in the sense that He is Head of the Church, and as individuals we are the Church. So that in our submission to Him we are trusting that He will take care of and provide for us in our daily living.

[cct1106]

Husbands are head of the wives, Jesus Christ is the head of the husbands. Should show honor, love and respect to Jesus. Jesus has a head and he is Our Creator, God.

[Helenmm]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

Christ is father to the fatherless and husband to the widow. He is my husband seeing that I am alone. He has most amazingly brought me help as I have needed it - with my car miraculously, and with my health by hearing my prayer and responding immediately! I can have no doubt that He is watching over me all the time, listening also. It is as if I had someone right here to ask for the help I need. Indeed I have!

As a church He also hears our prayers and ministers to our need, for our need is His need, seeing that we are one with Him. i think that when our prayers reflect the unity with Him, with His divine purpose, He responds fast. When we step out from that unity He is unable to be so responsive.

The implication of this is that we are to study unity with Him, to remain under his protection and in his care. If the bride steps out of the marriage and its culture, then the husband can no longer support her. So, if the church becomes out of alignment it does not receive the protection of the Master. Unity with Jesus is the key for the church.

Jesus seeks to keep all who are committed to Him as He did with the disciples excluding Judas. In speaking with the Father He stated that He had done this - been faithful to that duty. He is faithful at that same time He prayed for all of us who would laterbelieve in Him through the word of His disciples. He had us in mind right from the beginning and is committed to us. Praise Yeshua!

[JustJeff]

Jesus is our husband as Jehovah Jirah, our Provider. He is the Chief Shepherd of our family, keeping us together and watching over us at all times. He is love and shows us how to love one another. He is humble and teaches us to be humble. He is always available to us when needed and always ready to listen. These are wonderful qualities for any husband and church.
What all of this implies is a standard that the whole body of Christ must strive to apply to our lives. How wonderful this could be.
Our Lord wants to have complete dominion over us. We are His sheep and He is the Shepherd of the flock. As sheep are to the shepherd so ought we to be to Jesus.

[masika]

Christ is our Husband in that- We are united to Christ in two ways -
1. By believing in His death ( the sacrifice of His flesh) and resurrection,
2. By devoting ourselves to living as He require , depending of His teaching for quidance and trusting in the Holy Spirit for Power.
The impliation is that we are to submit to Christ and be willing to follow His leadership.
Christ responsility towards us is that - He loved us so much to the point of dying for us and He can not leave us no matter what comes our ways.

[charisbarak]

Christ is our husband as individuals because we are to love & respect Him above all else.

As a church, he is our husband--the church is His bride. We are to love & respect Him by loving & respecting other members.

For our lives, we must think our submission to a husband as submitting to the Lord. It sometimes helps me to think I am not really doing this for my husband, really, I am doing it for the Lord. We also need to submit to others & love & respect others in the church body.

Christ leads us, loves us, empowers us, helps us because He really loves us--unconditionally. He is planning for the day when He takes us home as clean vessels totally submissive to Him.

[June]

We should be married and united as one in Christ. Living only for Him. Forsaking all others(idols,etc.) and keep our minds only on Him. When we do what we are suppose to do then God always does what He said He'd do if we but obeyed. We are His children and He will provide all we need. Now our wants are a different thing. Christ always makes a way when there seems ( to us) to be no way.
He has given us the same qualifications as Jesus, it is up to us to perfect these ways under His leadership of the Holy Spirit.

[BJB123]

1) As individuals, we are to love and respect the husband as we do Christ.
2)As a church, we surrender to Christ as we surrender to the husband as the Head.
3)We will be taken care of by the husband the same as Christ cares for the church.
4)To love and care for the wife as one loves and cares for Christ the Church.

[Stan]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

Christ is husband,caretaker,provider,savekkeper for the church as we are apart of the church then is Christ our husband,keeper,provider.
We are to be the wives in the relationship by loving Him with our whole heart mind and strength. We are to serve and give Him our loyalty and respect for what He does for us and be thankful at all times.

Christ will do as He said He would by taking care of us,providing for our needs and being their tos uport us when we are down, I can' think of all the time I get down and call out to God and He is always their lifting me and getting me going again. We must always remember that He alone is our rock and safe keeper. He is our shelter when times are hard as our shepard he alone can give us what we need to live each day in the presence of the Father and to give Hime His Glory ,Honour, and Praise.

[sis. dee]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

Christ is our husband because He loves me, take care of me, provide for me. Jesus is the head of the Church, He is the husband and we are His bride. We she be submissive to Cfhrist in all that we do. Christ responsibilities towards us is to love us (which He does) care for us, provide and protect us.

[Lisa Rupert]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?
Christ is our "Husband" because he is the Head of us as individuals and the Head of the church. He is the Bridegroom and we (the church) are his bride.
By having him as our husband we are living a life of truth, faith and belief. We dedicate our lives to the service of the Father. We put no one or no thing before him. We treat our spouses and others with that same type of love and respect that we show Jesus the husband.
Christ in returns shows us the ultimate love and devotion that a husband shows to his new bride. This never wears away and it never fades away and die, it grows stronger each and every day, because his love is the ultimate love. A love that is caring, a love that is special, kind, loving, it can be stern when needed to discipline, it supportive, it strong and powerful,etc.....

[PCHRIS]

Here with the thought of the Church prepared as a bride for her marriage, and living as a wife in love and unity and loyalty with her husband, here is the beauty of the divine pattern and ideal for marriage. Paul strived and exhorted husbands and wives to work out that pattern in the stuff of daily living.

'I speak concerning Christ and the church'- they are made one together. The are made one together. The husband's position as head, and his duty of sacrificial love and devoted care for his wife are but pictures, imperfect, but the best this life can offer, of Christ as Head, and of His love, self sacrifice and concern for His Church. The dependance of the wife on her husband and her duty of submission are a picture of how the Church should live and act towards her divine Lord.

[linda bass]

Christ is our Husband as individuals because He is our Head. We are to be submissive to Him.
Christ is Husband of the Church because we are His Bride.
The implications of this for our lives is, we are to be obedient to His leadership. We need to place ourselves under the Lord's care and protection.
Christ's responsibilities toward us are is that He is our protector and provider.

[haar]

The times are evil and Paul wants us to live our lives so that we will ever be ready for Christ return. We must always be ready to use every opportunity to do good ie to let our light shine.

For us to be able to make use of every opportunity to good, we maust srrender our lives to the leading of the Lord who will enpower us.

[sahala p.s.]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

Christ is our Husband as individuals in a sense that each of us is His wife. The implication of this is each of us must submit to him and therefore “submit to one another out of reverence for Christ” (Ep. 5:21).

Christ is our Husband as church in a sense that we the church is Christ’s wife. The implication of this is we the church must voluntarily submit to Christ, and we each as the members of the church must love one another , honoring uniqueness, celebrating unity, and performing our functions each in church according to our gifts.

[Minchar]

Q4. (Ephesians 5:32) In what sense is Christ our Husband as individuals? As a church? What are the implications of this for our lives? What does this say about Christ's responsibilities towards us?

Christ is the center of everything in our lives. He is the one that we must follow and submit to. Christ must be the center for everything in our church. We must follow and submit to His authority as a church. We are the body and He is the head. We must put Him first in everything and allow him to be Lord over everything in our life. Christ will take care of us. He said if we seek His kingdom first and all of His righteousness then everthing will be added unto us.

[Jewell]

The principles which underlie our marriages, also underlie Christ and his church: love, honoring uniqueness, and celebrating unity. We all must voluntarily submit to Christ, whether or not we happen to like it at the time.

[Jewell]

As noted in the lesson, "The principles which underlie our marriages, also underlie Christ and his church: love, honoring uniqueness, and celebrating unity. We all must voluntarily submit to Christ, whether or not we happen to like it at the time."