The Spirit Filled Husband (Part 1): A Call To True Love | Lord’s Day Sermon | 16th February, 2025 | Adeola Ogundele

Marriage between a Christian man and woman is ultimately not for their sake, but it is meant to serve as a human portrait of the relationship between Christ and his church. Marriage is a mirror of Christ's love for his church. The overarching theme in this marriage relationship therefore, is love. The admonition for a Christian couple to submit to each other is predicated on the understanding that this submission must be driven by nothing else but love.

But this love could mean different things depending on the lenses you're looking through. Love has several facets or "types" if you like. And while this is so, the christian universal concept of love is not found in picking one of these facets as it is rooted in the expression of true love as imbibed and expressed by Christ. 

The entire essence of love is understood only through the lenses of Christ and what he has done for the church. Every other expression of love that leaves out the Christ-kind of love, is not true love.

In this new series, Pastor Adeola teaches that a husband’s love—not authority—defines his role, mirroring Christ’s selfless love for the church. This love flows from the perfect unity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, making husbands both stewards and recipients of a divine, sacrificial love. True leadership in marriage, he emphasized, is not about lordship but about loving as Christ loves.