Wife Respect Your Husband / Powerful Word from Apostle Al Simmons

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Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, apostle Al. Come to you live at nine o'clock in the morning on March 28th, 2026, when the Lord gave me this message, it was so deep that I had to go back and rethink how am I gonna deliver such a powerful message. How am I going to go past those people that's gonna be offended? I really don't care.'cause this message is not for the world. This message is for those believers that's calling Jesus his Lord, their Lord, and is gonna do his will. What is the title? Wife Respect. Your husband. Now, the minute I say that, all people gonna get offended because he says, wife, respect your husband, because the next thing they're going to say is, why can't the husband respect the wife? This is lack of knowledge. See, first of all, let's deal with that word respect. Respect is a positive feeling. Action that acknowledges the importance. Value or the right of others. I don't see why that's a big deal, but the world gonna have a problem. But let's get into the word where they're pulling this from. Paul is writing in the book of Ephesians chapter five. It really starts at verse 22 to 33, but the end of 33, that's when it says, and wife. Must see to it that she respects her husband now has the problem with the average believer. They don't know what the story's about. I'm going to take you deep into the scripture. A concept of God, so we can understand why he said that. Why did he put that at the end of his thought process? Well, let's get into the word then. So before I can give you what he was talking about back then, I gotta tell you what's leading up to the story. So in Ephesians chapter five, verse 22 to 33, we talk about New American standing Bible. He says, husbands love your wife. Just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. Well, if you don't understand that, you are not gonna understand the rest. First of all, Christ died on the cross for me. I'm the church for you. If you are a believer, you are the church. So it is now giving us a reference. Why the end is so important. He says, I would have died just for you. But here's the problem with understanding that you me are sinners. We was born sinners, and we have no right to God unless. He sacrificed his blood for us, which now cleansed us from our filthy, corrupt thoughts and desires into holiness. That's why a man and a woman can live together. That's sin man. And a wife married, that's no longer sin. Two people, same act. Different principles. Why marriage commitment, not marriage. No commitment. Let me keep going'cause we going to get, dig deep in this thing here. Wife, respect your husband. See, so when he goes into verse 36, 26, guess what it says? So that he might what? Sanctify her. Having cleansed her by the washing of water. What's the word? Now, here's the reference that a lot of people don't get'cause they don't understand it. The spirit is, what is this washing? When we come to what Christ is doing for us, he washes us with his spirit, which now cleansed us by the promise. So that's why when you really start understanding the principle of God, he said, I came from the father to what? Come and get my bride. That's what first he beholds us, means I'm gonna make you a promise and then later I'm gonna come back and marry you. That's not man nor woman. That is all of us who are believers. We are the bride. Is the bride groom. Oh, we going deep now. We going deep. Hold on'cause we going deeper. See in verse 27, he said that he may present to himself the church in all her glory. That's us man, all woman. We are the church. We are the bride. But he goes on having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing that she would be holy and blameless. You are not blameless. You are not holy because of your act. You are blameless and holy because of his act. You accepting him now gives you the justification which brings on the purification, which brings on the sanctification, which brings on the holiness. Come on. That's why when you get to this point, you are going to hate sin. Why? Because sin is an opposition of God. Oh, wife, respect your husband. So then he goes on and he says in verse 28, to husbands also I to love. Watch that. Watch this now. Love their own wives. As their own body. Now, in the last I check, I feed me. Why? Because I'm hungry. The last I check, I wash me. Why? Because I'm dirty. Why? When I'm sick, I take care of myself. When I butt my hand or hurt my hand or cut my hand, I put on I, I. Put on a bandaid. I try to take care of it. Why?'cause it's a part of my body. So now when we start to understand that, and we are body of the body of Christ, we are not talking about religion, we are not talking about color. We are talking about our body because you are part of his body and that's why it says. If you are the ear, are you disappointed at the hearing? If you're the hearing, are you disappointed at the leg? This is why envy does not make any sense to God. Rather, you are the pastor on the lay person. You are still a part of the body. Let me keep going, but he goes on. He says, oh man. He says, he who loves his own wive loves himself. Now, I'm about to give you something that a lot of people don't wanna deal with. A lot of people don't love themselves, so getting married is irrelevant because they don't know how to love. Because you don't know how to love. There's a lot of women don't know how to love. There's definitely a lot of women that don't have respect for their husband because a lot of people don't have respect for themselves. When you talk about love and respect, see there are certain things you can't do for me'cause I'm not gonna accept it. Why? I got respect for who I am. I know I'm a king and a priest, so I expect it to be treated a certain way. Regardless of how you may think, I know who I am. Most men don't. Most women don't. And now you asking a person that don't love themselves to love, it's impossible. It's. That's why it's hard for me to understand how a person can be addicted to something, whether it's alcohol or drugs. You are gonna do this to your body not understanding how precious it is. You don't get the one, let me go on for no one ever hated his own flesh. Nourish it and cherish it just as who Christ also does. The church, that's Christ's love for us. That's Christ's protection for us. The church is not a building is a person. And then in verse 30, it is all in capital letters. It's a loud voice. Saying, because we are part of his body. We talk about believers. Now, this is not for everybody. That's why more than 50% of marriages fail. Why? Because they married him in feelings and then after the feeling way off they run. Why? I don't love you no more. Why did you ever love me? You can love somebody and don't leave them because they don't understand who you are. Some of the price you pay was too much. All we going on now, but watch what it says. For this reason, a man shall leave his father. And his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. All of this is stealing capital letters. This is a loud saying. God is talking loud and he's saying this is important. Now, here's the problem with that. We don't understand Jewish tradition. We don't understand that when a young man leaves his father and mother house, because now he's going to get his wife, he comes back to the same father house, he builds onto that house, and now they start a family. Joined with that family. The wife leaves her family and she's joined to her husband. Up till this point, the woman never leaves home. She's always there under the protection of the father until she is patrolled and then gets married. Oh, we done went deep now. So now that you, in Ephesians chapter five, verse 22 to 33, we are going in a deeper part of what we already covered because in verse 32, watch what he says. This mystery is great. Most people get married. I got married not even understanding the principle of what I just did. I had to learn later on what I did. He said, this is a great mystery. I can guarantee you 95% of the preachers don't know this. So now they're marrying people without understanding what is really transpiring in the flesh, which is the spiritual, spiritual. Watch what it says next door. But I. Speaking with reference to Christ and the church. Oh, let me say that again. Now he's speaking. What about Christ? And the church. Nevertheless, we, in verse 33, now we bringing it home, all of this together. Nevertheless, as for you individually, each husband is to love his own wife, the same as himself and wife. Must see to it that she respects her husband. Now, I started out at the end and then I brought you full circle, and now I brought you back to the end. Now watch the revelation. If you really can grab a hold of how deep this really is as a man, I decided my wife Brenda, she's gonna be my wife. So now I also make a commitment that I'm going to protect her and take care of her as I do myself. I'm gonna love her and cherish her as I do myself. And in the midst of doing that, I'm also in alignment with Christ and the church. And now I'm not telling her I just wanna sleep with you. I just wanna be with you. I wanna make a commitment to you. I wanna marry you. And we we stick that in there. You know, for better, for worse, for rich, for poor, until death. Feel pot. That was not a part of God's word. Divorce was never even an issue. Moses allowed them to do that because he said your heart was hardened and they was put the wife out with no sense of responsibility of how she's going to take care of herself because they did not go into the workforce. Oh, we just talking about wives, respect your husband. That was God's message of how this was designed. And how we have lost focus. That's the word of God for today.