And I want to go back and begin
in verse 21 and work our way through the remainder of this
chapter. And this will probably be our
last study in this chapter. Let's begin reading here in verse
21 and read down through verse 33. Ephesians chapter 5. Submitting yourselves one to
another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the
head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and
He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject
unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even
as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for that he
might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by
the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should
be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives
as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
himself. For no man ever yet hated his
own flesh, but he nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the
Lord the Church. For we are members of his body,
of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and
they too shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery, but
I speak concerning Christ and the Church. Nevertheless, let
every one of you in particular so love his wife, even as himself,
and the wife see that she reverence her husband." Now, I want to
deal with the subject today, and I want to go back in verse
21 and work my way down through. Paul is setting up these first
few verses here in the text that I read. He is wanting to reveal
to us a great mystery. It's one of the greatest mysteries
in the entire Bible, and that is the union of Christ with his
church. The union of the Lord Jesus Christ
with his church. But he makes a general statement
here in verse 21 in this matter of submitting yourselves one
to another. And of course that applies to
the church. We know he was speaking to the
church. But this applies to society in general. And when we were
looking at this verse, I remember very well making this statement
to this effect, that I would not want to live in a society
that rebelled against authority, that lived in open rebellion
against the rules and regulations of society. What a heart-breaking
society. And what a dangerous society
it would be to live where men and women and girls and boys
would not submit themselves unto the authority. And it begins
in the home, doesn't it? It begins in the home with the
children. That's where we first learn to submit to authority. Parents have authority over the
children. You're not first and foremost
your child's friend. You're your child's parent. And
you have to make the rules. You have to guide. And the children
learn to submit there in the home to the parents. And then
what happens? It works its way out in society. Now, under the Old Testament,
the Jewish economy, you'll remember this, and I'm not advocating
this at all, but the Lord did. He gave commandment that if there
was a rebellious child that would not submit themselves unto the
parents, they were to be taken out and to be stoned. And there
was a reason for that. Because a rebellious child that
would rebel against its parents probably will be, in its adult
years, rebellious against the state. So he says, stone the
child now, and you'll save society a lot of trouble in the future.
So submission, submission in the church, submission in the
homes, submission in the schools, submission in the courts, submission
in society. Submitting yourselves one to
another. Of course, the ultimate submission,
where is that? That's when a sinner who had
lived in rebellion against the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and had said in his heart, I will not have him to reign over me.
He is brought to submit to Jesus Christ, to give himself up to
him, to be saved by him. That is the ultimate submission. So that's the general statement.
Then he goes on here in verse 22, from a general statement
to this specific statement. Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husband. That is reverence your husband.
Respect your husband. He may be a good husband, or
he may be a bad husband. He doesn't say, does he? He just
says reverence your husband. Peter talked about a wife having
an unbelieving husband. And he said, submit yourselves
to him, even though he's an unbelieving husband, and perhaps by the grace
of God, he may be won by that meek and quiet and submissive
attitude of the wife. So wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands. And then the latter part of verse
He tells the attitude that the wife is to submit themselves
unto the husband. Look at this. Submit yourselves
unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. This is your duty to
the Lord, to submit yourselves unto your husband. You serve
the Lord in this manner as you submit yourself unto your husband. Look in chapter 6, look here
in verse 5. He explains it as the servant
submitting himself to his master, or as the employee submitting
himself to the employer. Look in chapter 6 and verse 5. Servants, be obedient to them
that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling
and singleness of heart, as unto Christ, not with our service
as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of
God from the heart, with good, well-doing service as to the
Lord, and not unto men." I was sitting and talking with a Presbyterian
minister. He is a very, very educated man,
several years ago. He pastored a church just north
of Muncie. large congregation. And I was sitting and talking
with him, and he asked me what I did for a living. And I told
him, I'm a trash hauler. I haul trash. And you know what
that educated man said? He said, what a way to honor
Christ. What a way to honor Christ. And that's what Paul is saying
to the wives. Wives, here's the way you honor
Christ. Here's one aspect of your service
to Christ, submitting yourselves unto your husbands. Wives, what
a way to honor the Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting yourselves
as unto the Lord. Now in verse 23 of chapter 5,
he gives you wives reason for doing this. They wouldn't have
had to give us a reason, would they? He could have just said,
submitting yourselves unto your husbands after the Lord, and
go on and say nothing about it. But he doesn't do that. In verse
23, he gives a reason. And what is this reason? Why
should a wife submit herself unto her husband? It's God's
order. See what he says? For the husband
is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the
church. From the very beginning of creation,
it has been this way. God created the man first, and
then he created the woman out of the man. The man is before
the woman, therefore the man is the head. The Bible even says
this, the head of every man is Christ. And the head of the woman
is the man, and the head of Christ is God. Be submissive to your
husband because he is your head. That doesn't mean the man is
inferior, the woman is inferior. It doesn't mean the wife is inferior
to the husband, that he is smarter than she is. It doesn't mean
that at all. It simply means that in the kingdom
of God, You may be all as one. There's no male or no female.
And in heaven, there'll be no relationships of husbands and
wives, but in this earth, in this marriage relationship, this
is God's order. Man, the husband, is the head
of the wife. Submit to him, therefore, because
it's God's order. And now he goes on in verse 24. Look in verse 24. He gives the
wife an example of how to submit unto her husband. And he points
to the church. Look in verse 24. Therefore,
as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to
their own husbands in everything. You know, you wives, bless your
hearts, As you understand the union between Christ and His
church, this should encourage you more and more to be submissive
unto your husband. If you fear, if you reverence
the Lord Jesus Christ, if you love the church of the Lord Jesus
Christ, what would you wives think if the church talked back
to Christ? What would you think if the church
lived in open rebellion against Christ? You would be horrified,
wouldn't you? If you loved the Lord, you would.
If you reverenced the Lord, you would. It's the same way. It's the same way. As you see
the union between Christ and His church, you see Him as the
head and her subject unto Him, obeying Him. seeking His will,
seeking to please Him. You stay within yourself. There
is a beautiful picture of my relationship with my husband.
Just as I want Christ to submit to her head, I want to submit
to my head. I want to submit to my husband. Just as the church submits herself
to the Lord Jesus Christ. And then the last part of verse
24, look at this. Now, some have been very confused
about this, and some wives and husbands have even got themselves
in trouble because they didn't understand the last portion of
verse 24. Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husband in everything. In everything. Now what does
that mean? The simple meaning is this. In
everything that pertains to your duty as a wife. As a wife. I knew a situation,
a man and his wife, and I'll not tell you much detail, you
would laugh, it was so trivial. But this wife, had a problem
with going to this certain place with her husband. She felt convicted
about it. She went to this place, and again,
you would laugh if I told you where it was and what they did.
It was very, very trivial. It was nothing. But when she
went there with him, she felt so convicted in her conscience,
she says, I cannot go back there again. What was he to do? What was she to do? Was she to
submit herself to him and go back there and defile her conscience,
override her conscience? What was she to do? She approached
her husband with this. And he said, sweetheart, you
don't have to go back. You don't have to go back. What if he had said, no, you
will go with me? First of all, that would have
been wrong on his part. And then it would have been wrong
for her to go. No one has any place in your
conscience but the Lord Jesus Christ. Not even the husband
is to enter the conscience of the wife. So when he says in
everything, everything that pertains to your duty as a wife. But not to override your conscience. Now look in verse 25. He goes
now to the husband. I can't dwell on these long because
he's building up to something. Husbands, he gives the husbands
this command. Husbands, love your wives as
Christ loved the church. Husbands, love your wives. That's a command. And let me
say this. Love the good ones and love the
bad ones. Love those who are submissive
and love those who are rebellious. He doesn't say what kind of a
wife. He just says, Husband, love your wife. Isn't this a
good reason why a believing husband should seek out a believing wife?
And why a believing wife should seek out a believing husband?
You know, it's much easier for a wife to submit herself unto
a husband that loves Christ and therefore will love her. And
it's much easier for a husband to love a wife who has first
submitted herself to the Lord and to Him in the Lord. It's just easier that way, isn't
it? Husbands, love your wives. And he gives two examples. He
gives one here, and he gives one in verse 28 on how to love
our wives. The first one he gives here in
verse 25, the second portion, is this, As Christ also loved
the church. Now listen to this and see if
this isn't true. As Christ also loved the church. Husbands love
your wives as Christ loved the church. Almost every time a wife
or a husband reads this passage, they read it wrongly. They don't
misunderstand. They misunderstand it until they
get into this verse and begin to really see what it says. Here's
the way the husband especially reads this verse. Husbands love
your wives even as Christ spoils the church. Now that's the way they read
it. That's not what it says, but that's the way they read
it. Husbands love your wife as Christ spoils the church. I was dealing with a young man
and his wife, and he had a wife that wouldn't stay home. He worked
himself half to death, and there are some husbands that work themselves
half to death, to support and maintain a wife who is lazy,
who won't clean the house, won't cook, won't wash any dishes,
and yet he continues to work his self-hate to death to support
her lazy and slothful ways. And I was talking to this young
husband, and I said, who's my wife? He said, she won't stay
home. She runs the road. I said, who's that vehicle? That's
a nice vehicle. Whose is that? He said, well,
it's hers. I said, where did she get it? He said, I bought
it for her. I said, who maintains it? Who
puts gas in it? When it turns up, who fixes it?
He said, I do. And here's the instructions I
gave to him. Stop enabling her to live and
waste everything and destroy not only herself, but the family. When the vehicle goes down, don't
fix it. Save your money. Pay your bills
and don't provide her, don't enable her to run the roads and
waste your money. Put your foot down as a husband. Oh, he was shocked. Do I have
a right to do that? Can I do that? Well, he didn't. He didn't do that. And it got
worse and worse and worse until finally they divorced and now
they're both miserable. But let me tell you this about
that young man. And this is his problem. He did
not love his wife. That's his whole problem. That's
what Paul is saying here. This young man would rather his
wife go on in a destructive lifestyle than he would to take his place
as a husband and say, no, I love you too much. We have a good
example here of true love in verse 25. Husbands, love your
wives as Christ loved the church, and look at this, and gave himself
for her. He humbled Himself and became
a servant to man. He gave up the glory of heaven,
the worship of heaven, the rest of heaven, and He came to this
earth and debased Himself, was despised and rejected. Did He
enjoy the temptations? Did He enjoy the betrayal? Was
it fun to go to the cross, to that place of shame and spitting? The Bible says the Lord pleased
not himself. He never lived to please himself.
As a man, he never lived to please himself. As a man, he denied
himself, even of a place to live, sometimes of sufficient food
and clothing. Why did he do that? That's what
true love does. That's what the Apostle Paul
is saying. Stop considering, first and foremost,
your petty, sissy feelings. Love your wives. And when a man loves his wife
as Christ loved the church, what will he do? He'll do the same
thing that Christ did with His church. He'll seek her eternal
well-being and everything. Ain't that what he said? Husbands,
love your wives as Christ loved the church. Look at this, and
gave himself for her. In verses 26, that he might sanctify
and cleanse her. Verse 27, that he might present
her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or
any such thing. So ought men to love their wives. Ain't that a wonderful example
of how a husband should love his wife? We love our wives when
we, above everything else, above our own embarrassments, we seek
their eternal well-being, their good above everything else. And I tell you, when the church
gets out of line, what does the Lord Jesus do? He corrects her,
doesn't He? Why does He do that? He loves
her. He loves her. Husbands should
take their place as the head of the wife to love her in that
way. That's the first example Paul
gives. Seek the eternal well-being of
your wife. And then he goes on in verse
28. Look at this. He gives another example. In
verse 28 he says, So ought men to love their wives, look at
this, as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves
himself. Now Paul is beginning to do something
here. He is setting up this subject
of the union of Christ with his church. The mystery of it all. And he does this first by showing
us the union between the husband and the wife. And you know what
he tells us here? The union between the husband
and the wife is the closest union and relationship in all this
world. And it's the oldest. Here's how
he says it, and he quotes this verse in verse 31 from Genesis
chapter 2. For this cause shall a man leave
his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they too shall
be one flesh. The man and his wife, they are
one flesh. Now, in Genesis chapter 2, we're
not going over there yet, but we will in just a minute. Remember
this. Remember the Lord put Adam to
sleep, and He took a rib from Adam's side, and of that rib,
He made a woman. Completely out of that one rib,
He made a woman. So Eve literally was bone of
His bone and flesh of His flesh. And that's why the Lord said
there in Genesis chapter 2, For this cause a man shall leave
his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, because they're
one flesh. And you remember what He said
there in that verse. You remember why they call one
woman to begin with. Because she was taken out of
man. And God quoted this himself. This is what he said. You two
are one flesh. He joined the first couple together,
the first man and his wife. But you know something? God not
only joined the first couple together, but he's still joining
men and women as husband and wife. I want you to turn over
here in Matthew chapter 19. This is so important. Matthew
chapter 19. This is so important for you
and I to understand this. If we don't understand this,
I don't think we'll understand marriage as we should. The union
of a man and his wife. And I think the more we understand
the union of a man and his wife, the more we're going to appreciate
the union of Christ with his church. Look here in Matthew 19. Look in verse 3. The Pharisees came unto him,
tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to
put away his wife for every cause? And the Lord answered and said
unto them, Have you not read that he which made them at the
beginning made them male and female? And here is what he said,
the Lord God said, For this cause shall a man leave father and
mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they too shall be one
flesh. Verse 6, Wherefore they are no
more two, but one flesh. What God therefore has joined
together, let not man put asunder. And they said to him, why did
Moses think a man to give her a written of divorce meant to
put her away? And Jesus said unto them, Moses, because of
the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your
wives, but from the beginning it was not so. A wife. Eve was a vital part of Adam. She was taken out of him. And
when God brought Eve to Adam, He looked at her, embraced her,
and said, You're my wife. You're bone of my bone and you're
flesh of my flesh. We are one. And when He loved her, He loved
Himself. Paul said, Love your wives as
you love yourself. That's how close the union between
husband and wife is. When you love your wife, you
love yourself. No man ever hated his own flesh,
did he? What do we do with our flesh?
Well, we nourish it, don't we? We feed it. We give it rest. We take care
of it. We cherish it. We clothe it. We keep it warm. Paul said, that's
the way the husband is to love the wife, even as he loves himself. Is the wife sick? Then the husband's
sick. Is the wife tired? Then the husband's
tired. Is the wife in trouble? Then
the husband's in trouble. Is the wife in need? Then the
husband is in need. If the wife is in trouble, Whatever
the situation she's in, the husband is there, because he looks at
her, and what does he say? That's me. That's my flesh. The husband loves his wife as
he loves himself, for she is one with him. And who made them
one? God did, didn't he? But God has
joined together. Let not man put asunder. Or see
what a union that is? See what a union that is? And
to understand it properly, we have to go back to the beginning
and see that Eve was literally one with Adam. But God still
considers it to be that way today, because He joins them together,
just as He joined them together there in the beginning. Now,
here's the mystery. Look back over at our text. Here's
the mystery. Here's what Paul calls the great
mystery. Here in verses 29. For no man
ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth
it, even as the Lord the Church. For we are members of his body. Now, you and I can understand
that. This is what we call the mystical union of Christ and
the Church. And Paul has been talking about
this through this book over and over. Look back in chapter 1
of Ephesians. Here's what he said about it
at the very beginning. When God raised the Lord Jesus
from the dead, there beginning in verse 20, and set him at his
own right hand, in verse 22, and hath put all things under
his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church,
which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all."
The church is Christ's body. Now, you and I can understand
that. Paul goes on in this book and speaks of that mystery over
and over again. And I said this is one of the
greatest mysteries in all the Word of God, this mystical body.
But we're told about this mystery in places like John 15 where
the Lord said, I am the vine, you are the branches. The vine
and the branches are one, aren't they? And here Christ is the
head, the church is the members of his body. That's what we call
a mystical union. But I want you to notice here
in verse 30. I want you to notice what a mysterious union this
is, because notice what he says here in verse 30. We are members
of his body. We can understand that, but look
what else he says. Of his flesh and of his bones. Now, that's not speaking literally.
In the strictest sense of the word, the Lord Jesus Christ has
a human body, a physical body, and that body is in heaven today.
Physically, you and I cannot be members of His physical body. But I tell you, we've got to
consider what He says here, we're members of His flesh and bones. What does He mean by that? First
of all, I think this. He says this to help us realize
that this union is indeed a great mystery. It is a mystery. We're members of his flesh and
of his bone. Can you understand that? Can
you get a hold of that? When you read that, don't you
say, my soul, this must be a mystery. This must be a mystery. How can
this be? But you know, a mystery is revealed,
isn't it? It's not a mystery anymore because
it's revealed to us here, and we need to go on and study it
and see if we can enter into it just a little bit. And secondly,
Paul says this to let us know this is a real and vital and
close union. We're members of His flesh. You don't have a member. You
don't have your arm just stuck anywhere on your body, do you?
And you can't just reach and pull it off because it's loosely
attached and stick it somewhere else. This union of these members to
this body is a vital union. It's a real union. And he said
it's this way with Christ and His church. It's real. If you're
in Christ, you're vitally linked to Him. You're not just stuck
onto Him. That you can just be plucked
away and cast away and burned? It's vital, it's real, just as
our members are vital and real in this body. Now, if we don't understand this,
I want you to go back to Genesis chapter 2. And I won't keep you
much longer, but I want to try if I can. The easiest thing for
me to have done this morning is just to say, let's go to chapter
6. But that's a cop-out, isn't it? That's a cop-out. When you
go to the commentaries, some of them leave out, were members
of his flesh and of his bones. But our Bible has that in there,
so let's look at it and see if we can see something of what
a glorious mystery this union But to understand it, let's go
back to the first man and the first woman in Genesis 2. And I want to go back here because
Paul quotes these verses here in Genesis 2. Let me say this. The church is
in union with Christ the same way Eve was in union with Adam. Now, let's see how that was.
Look in verse 20. Adam gave names to all the cattle
and the fowls of the earth, and to every beast of the field,
but for Adam there was not found that helped fit for him. And
the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his ribs,
and closed up the flesh, and stid thereof. And the rib which
the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman, and brought
her unto the man. And Adam said, This is now bone
of my bones, and flesh of my flesh." That's what Paul said
about the church, wasn't it? So we see in what sense she was
bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh, and then we can see
what sense the church is that with Christ. She shall be called
woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man
leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife. and
they too shall be one flesh." First of all then, how did Eve
become united to Christ? How was she related to Him? How
was she in union with Him? The first thing we see here,
it was by an operation of God. She became His wife by an operation
of God. God put Adam to sleep, and out
of his side, the Lord God took this rib, and this is an amazing
thing. Adam was created out of the dust,
but not the woman. The woman was created out of
the man. God took this rib, and from this
rib, He formed this woman. And he said, this is your wife. She's taken completely out of
you. She don't have a mixture of you
and the dust. She's taken completely out of
you. In other words, because I've performed this operation,
Eve has her bend out of your sight. Her life comes from Adam,
her husband. by an operation of God. Now, how can we apply this to
Christ and His Church? You see it, don't you? You see
it, don't you? The Church has her life out of
this operation of God upon His Son, Jesus Christ. There he hangs
upon Calvary's tree, and what happens to him? God Himself brought
him unto the dust of death. This deep sleep comes upon the
Son of God, and out of His side comes what? The church's life. There came out blood and water. That's where the church gets
her life. Her life comes from heaven, from Him who is heavenly,
from the Son of God incarnate Himself. The life of the flesh
is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar, because
it is blood, My blood, that makes the atonement for the soul. Listen
to the Lord Jesus in John chapter 6. I came down from heaven. to give life unto the world. I am the bread which came down
from heaven to give life, to give life. Where does our life
come from? From the Son of God. It has nothing
to do with this world, does it? It's not partly of you and partly
of Him. Where does the church get its
life? It's all from Him, isn't it? due to this operation of
God. And he further goes ahead and
says this, except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink
His blood, you have no life in you. Whosoever eats my flesh
and drinks my blood hath eternal life, and I will raise him up
at the last day. Just as Eve received her life
from her husband, the Church receives her life from her husband,
her head, her mediator. The Church has no life but that
which comes from the Lord Jesus. God hath given to us eternal
life, and this life is in His Son. That life eternal that the
Church possesses at this very instant is the same life The
Son of God possesses in Himself. There's union. One life. One life. The life that's in
Him is the life that's in us. That's union of life. When one
is born of the Spirit, we are joined to Christ and we become
one Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 6.17, he that
is joined unto the Lord is one We are one by Spirit. By Spirit. Christ, Holy Spirit,
comes to us and we become one with Him. One in life and one
in Spirit. And something else, just as Adam
was the head and the beginning of the fallen, sinful race of
humanity, Jesus Christ is the head and the beginning of a new
humanity. When you look at yourself, you
know whose image you bear. You bear Adam's image. You know
why we're having pains in places where we used to didn't even
have places. You know why we're wrinkling. You know why we're
having to take medication. You know why we're so sorrowful?
You know why this life sometimes is so dark? And why it will all
end by us going back to the dust? You know why that is? We bear
the image of our first head, the first Adam. We bear his image. And it's a sorrowful image, because
sin has entered and defiled everything, but thank God there is a second
Adam. There is a mediator between us
and God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and in this new birth, He gives
us His life, He gives us His nature. If any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature, a righteous and holy nature. And you know
something? He doesn't even stop there. But
let me say this. Everything you have in the way
of life and righteousness, is it not from Christ? Has it all
not come out of Him? What have you but what you've
received? Where did we get it? Just as
Eve got everything, her existence, her life, her image from her
husband, We get life. We get righteousness. We get
the very image within from our Mediator, the Son of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ. But it can't stop there. In 1
Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 49, Paul was speaking here of
the resurrection of the saints. And he makes this statement.
As we have borne the image of the earth in, And that's just
what I said. We bear the image of the first
fallen Adam. A sad state we're in. A sad image
it is. But thank God he didn't stop.
He said this. As we have borne the image of
the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Oh, what a wonderful thought
that is. We shall bear the image of Jesus Christ. And that is
a new humanity. Just as the Lord took the rib
from Adam's side and fashioned a new human being in the image
of her husband, so the Lord Jesus Christ one day at His appointed
hour will descend from heaven with a shout and He will change
these vile bodies and fashion them likened to His glorious
body. That's what it means to be bone
of His bone and flesh of His flesh. I know I just touched
on it because I don't know anything else about it. I can't get into
it any more than to say this. Adam is the head of an old humanity,
and everybody burns his image. We're born of his bone and flesh
of his flesh. But Jesus Christ is the Lord
from heaven. He is the second Adam, but he's
a heavenly Adam. And he gives us everything new. From the creature inside that
births his image now, God has predestinated us to be conformed
to the image of his Son. And this begins in the new birth. And thank God there's coming
a day when it will be completed. And we'll be in the very image
of the Lord Jesus Christ. David said there's coming a day
that I'll be satisfied. And he said it's this, when I
awake in His likeness. That's it, ain't it? That's it. Bone of His bone and flesh of
His flesh. taken out of Him, just like Him,
one with Him. It does not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be
like Him, just like Him. The old humanity that is outside
of Christ will be perishing for all eternity. But there is a
new humanity in Heaven which will be joyful and happy. for all eternity. And the image
of her head and her husband. What a real and glorious mystery. The church's union with the Lord
Jesus Christ. Let's pray.