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The Man In Love
has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:7-11
The commandment given to husbands to love their wives is a call for men to extend to their wives also, the love that God showed toward them by sending His only begotten Son to die for us. Men, as children of God, are beneficiaries of God’s great love and God expects them to show the same love to others, especially their wives. God is the one who first loved us. We did nothing to merit His love neither can we really and truly earn it. His love was simply at His discretion and it represents a blessing that He expects and actually demands us to equally bless others with. More pointedly, we are ‘duty bound’ as husbands to extend to others the same blessing of love that God showered upon us.
The parable of the unforgiving servant in Matthew 18:23-35 is a great example of this expectation from God. Whereas the king in the story was moved with compassion toward the servant who pleaded for forgiveness of his debt and actually forgave him, the same servant turned around to throw into prison his fellow
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