Bishop Prof. Julius O. Soyinka

HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES Study Text: Ephesians 5: 22 – 30 Introduction: -            Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. We ought to love our wives as part of ourselves. Every time you hurt your wife, you hurt yourself. -            We need to be devoted to our wives and provide for them emotionally, spiritually, and physically. This means "to provide for the development of and to attain the health of." -            The command is not hard to understand, but it's tremendously hard to do. It is to love your wife unconditionally. Our purpose in loving our wives is to help them become all God designed them to be. -            We shall discuss the topic under three sub-headings: 1.          The Meaning of Loving your Wife 2.          The Manner of Loving your Wife 3.          The Measure for Loving your wife 1.          The Meaning of Loving your Wife -            There is no relationship, s

THE LOVE OF MONEY Study Text: 1 Timothy 6: 6 - 10 Introduction: -            There is a tremendous difference between money and the love of money. And what Paul speaks of here to Timothy is not a Christian possessing money, but money possessing a Christian, or money possessing anyone, for that matter. -            He is speaking of the love of money giving rise to something evil, the love of money causing something evil, the love of money being that from which something evil springs. -            So, when you love money something evil happens, something evil springs from that root, something evil grows and is nurtured by that love you have for money. -            Now, by "all evil" we must not understand that all instances of evil can trace their origin to the love of money. Because we know that there was no money in the Garden of Eden, and yet Eve sinned, and so did Adam. So, Paul does not here refer to every instance of evil having as its source as the lov