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The Man In Love
Love Elicits Reciprocal Love
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39
Paul as a member of the church of Christ was writing here about the experience of love from the head! He stated emphatically that nothing that he could think of or imagine would be strong enough to separate them from the love that he had experienced in Christ. He conveyed the fact that the love of Christ was too sweet, too compelling not to be reciprocated with submission, or better still, love in return. We draw from this statement the conclusion that love of the husbands will surely elicit reciprocal love by way of submission from their wives. Wives would assume the position of Paul, saying in response to their husbands’ evident love, that nothing can separate them from
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