<html><head></head><body><div><div><div><div><br></div>Ephesians 5;25-28<div><br></div><div><b>25. &nbsp;Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,</b></div><div><b>26. &nbsp;that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,</b></div><div><b>27. &nbsp;that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she height be holy and without blemish.</b></div><div><b>28. &nbsp;Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. &nbsp;He who loves his wife loves himself.</b></div><div><br></div><div>We see the power of the&nbsp;cycle of love is set forth in this passage.</div><div><br></div><div>Everything&nbsp;Jesus has done for us; atoning for our sin by his death on the cross, washing away that sin in holy baptism, giving us the gift of the Holy Spirit in baptism thereby sanctifying us, inspiring us to present our bodies to God a living sacrifice, serves to make us to partake of his own&nbsp;purity and&nbsp;beauty. &nbsp;</div><div>We share in the glorious splendor of God himself, we become most desirable to him, our dowry to him&nbsp;is a treasury of holy good works, the praise of the nations. &nbsp;All this is God’s doing, <i>“For we are his workmanship, created <u>in Christ Jesus</u>&nbsp;for good works, which he has prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Christ has taken on flesh, that he might cleanse our souls and bodies to be his holy dwelling place, the very Bride of Christ. &nbsp; &nbsp;His very&nbsp;own&nbsp;love for us has come back to him, the cycle of love.</div><div><br></div><div>Prayer: &nbsp;Merciful Father, increase our faith to believe all good works we do are truly You at work in and through us. &nbsp;To You belongs all honor and praise, in Jesus we pray, Amen.</div><div><br></div><div>Love,</div><div>Dad/Baba/Eric</div><div>Grandpa Pickle Pastor</div><div>“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word. &nbsp;God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”<br><br><br><div><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&amp;c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&amp;af_sub1=Acquisition&amp;af_sub2=Global_YMktg&amp;af_sub3=&amp;af_sub4=100000604&amp;af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>


Ephesians 5;25-28
25.  Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,26.  that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,27.  that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she height be holy and without blemish.28.  Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies.  He who loves his wife loves himself.
We see the power of the cycle of love is set forth in this passage.
Everything Jesus has done for us; atoning for our sin by his death on the cross, washing away that sin in holy baptism, giving us the gift of the Holy Spirit in baptism thereby sanctifying us, inspiring us to present our bodies to God a living sacrifice, serves to make us to partake of his own purity and beauty.  We share in the glorious splendor of God himself, we become most desirable to him, our dowry to him is a treasury of holy good works, the praise of the nations.  All this is God’s doing, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which he has prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Christ has taken on flesh, that he might cleanse our souls and bodies to be his holy dwelling place, the very Bride of Christ.    His very own love for us has come back to him, the cycle of love.
Prayer:  Merciful Father, increase our faith to believe all good works we do are truly You at work in and through us.  To You belongs all honor and praise, in Jesus we pray, Amen.
Love,Dad/Baba/EricGrandpa Pickle Pastor“A chapter a day, every day, progressively, be transformed, ‘soak’ in the living Word.  God’s Word is our habitation, and we are His.”


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