5:22
"Wives, submit to your husbands, as to the Lord". Oh, what a terrible thing to say! But we say this only because we have a worldly perspective on what submission means, not a kingdom perspective, not a Jesus perspective. Who is the person who walked this planet who was more submitted than any other person who has ever lived? Jesus, in His submission to the Father. Who is the one who exercised more authority than any other person who has walked this planet? Jesus! In the kingdom submission is enabling, empowering. We need to remember this when we are the ones who submit, and especially when we are the ones who people submit to. We will see this in the context of the husband and wife in a verse or two's time, but the general principle is that if we are in authority we use that authority first for God and then for the well being and the upbuilding of those we have authority over.
5:23
Paul now draws a parallel between the relationship between man and wife, and between Christ and the church. Christ is the head of the church, hopefully we can all agree on that. The church is His body. Christ and the church are inseparable. And He is the saviour of the church. Without Christ the church would not and could not exist.
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