1. As to One’ s Home (5:22-6:4) V.22-24 a) Willing submission - 3 reasons wives should submit to their husbands: 1. It is submission to the Lord, even as wives submit to the Lord they should submit to their husbands. 2. It is submission to the position of the divine position, even as the head of the Church is the Lord they should allow their husbands to be the head of the home. 3. It is submission to the divine ordained authority even as the Church submit to the Lord they should submit to their husbands in everything. V.25 b) Wholehearted love - I. Husband should love their wives with a greater love, love that is strong as death. Songs 8:6 II. God didn’ t take the bone from man’ s feet that he should trample the woman, He didn’ t take it from the head that he should be exalted above her, but He took it from his side under his arm that he should care and protect her. Songs.2:4 V.26-27 c) Washing of water by the Word - Husbands should manifest wisdom like Christ: I. Sharing the Word of God with her and thereby washing her mind from worldliness and sins. II. The goal of any husband should not be the outward beauty of their wives but the inward holiness. III. Husbands should seek to present his wife glorious for she is the glory of himself. 1.Cor.11:7 IV. Conclusion: He should love as strong as death, sanctify, cleanse and wash her, present her glorious. V.28-33 d) Wise love - Real love manifested through wisdom is shown in: I. Loving their wife as themselves for they are one flesh. II. Loving their wife in helping her to mature in person and in the Lord. III. In understanding (It is a mystery that is now revealed) Christ love for the Church and manifesting that same love to their wife.