{"id":6222,"date":"2020-11-22T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2020-11-22T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T19:07:35","slug":"redeemed-relations-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=6222","title":{"rendered":"REDEEMED RELATIONS (PART I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sermon By Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rec-11-22-20.mp3\">rec 11-22-20<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><strong>REDEEMED RELATIONS\u00a0 (Part I)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>Ephesians 5: 22-33<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>THE SUBMISSION OF LOVE\u00a0 \u00a0Ephesians 5: 22-24<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Wives,\u00a0submit to your own husbands,\u00a0as to the Lord.\u00a0<strong>23\u00a0<\/strong>For\u00a0the husband is the head of the wife even as\u00a0Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is\u00a0himself its Savior.\u00a0<strong>24\u00a0<\/strong>Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit\u00a0in everything to their husbands.<\/h3>\n<h3>1 Peter 3: 1-4<\/h3>\n<h3>Likewise, wives,\u00a0be subject to your own husbands, so that\u00a0even if some do not obey the word,\u00a0they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,\u00a0<strong>2\u00a0<\/strong>when they see your\u00a0respectful and pure conduct.\u00a0<strong>3\u00a0<\/strong>Do not let your adorning be external\u201d\u201dthe braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear\u201d\u201d\u00a0<strong>4\u00a0<\/strong>but let your adorning be\u00a0the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God&#8217;s sight is very precious.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>THE EXAMPLE OF LOVE\u00a0 \u00a0Ephesians 5: 25-30<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and\u00a0gave himself up for her,\u00a0<strong>26\u00a0<\/strong>that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by\u00a0the washing of water\u00a0with the word,\u00a0<strong>27\u00a0<\/strong>so\u00a0that he might present the church to himself in splendor,\u00a0without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. <strong>28\u00a0<\/strong>In the same way\u00a0husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.\u00a0<strong>29\u00a0<\/strong>For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,\u00a0<strong>30\u00a0<\/strong>because\u00a0we are members of his body.<\/h3>\n<h3>1 Peter 1: 18-19<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0knowing that you\u00a0were ransomed from\u00a0the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,\u00a0<strong>19\u00a0<\/strong>but\u00a0with the precious blood of Christ, like that of\u00a0a lamb\u00a0without blemish or spot.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>THE COMMITMENT OF LOVE\u00a0 \u00a0Ephesians 5: 31-33<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cTherefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and\u00a0the two shall become one flesh.\u201d\u00a0<strong>32\u00a0<\/strong>This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.\u00a0<strong>33\u00a0<\/strong>However,\u00a0let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she\u00a0respects her husband.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon By Rev. Richard Jones rec 11-22-20 REDEEMED RELATIONS\u00a0 (Part I) Ephesians 5: 22-33 &nbsp; THE SUBMISSION OF LOVE\u00a0 \u00a0Ephesians 5: 22-24 Wives,\u00a0submit to your own husbands,\u00a0as to the Lord.\u00a023\u00a0For\u00a0the husband is the head of the wife even as\u00a0Christ is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=6222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","category-sermon-series","category-sermons-by-rev-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6224,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}