Ephesians 5:21-26

21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

    

22 Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.

    

23 For the husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the Savior of [His] body.

24 As the church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to their husbands.

  

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

  

How many sermons have we heard on these verses? What the wives are responsible for, what the husbands are responsible for. Do these verses still apply to today’s marriages? The key is that Jesus will cause us to be victorious in these Truth’s as well as all of His Truth’s. Jesus will cause us to submit where we must submit and serve where we must serve and love as we must love.

I am not teaching that all of these verses no longer apply, all scripture applies. What I am teaching is that it has to be Jesus within us causing all scripture to be fulfilled and realized through us. Husbands must love their wives. Wives must submit to their husbands, but it has to be Christ within us causing us to do it all. We need to place the responsibility on Jesus where it belongs, and He welcomes this thought process. He is the One driving us to this thought process. Jesus wants and demands that it be Him and if it isn’t Him, then we can have no part of Him.  

26 So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,

Jesus is the only one Who can and He is the only One responsible for sanctifying us. We do not sanctify ourselves. We do not cause ourselves to be holy. Holiness is just a gift, it’s part of being saved, and it is all Jesus’ responsibility. 

For both He Who sanctifies [making men holy] and those who are sanctified all have one [Father]. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren; Hebrews 2:11

Jesus is now our Husband. He loves us and He ever lives to intercede for us and because He does we are now saved to the uttermost.

Therefore He is able also to save to the uttermost (completely, perfectly, finally, and for all time and eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He is always living to make petition to God and intercede with Him and intervene for them. Hebrews 7:25