Inner Beauty and Respect in Marriage

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so we saw last time that Peter focused on the clothing the jewelry and the hair of these women and said now don't don't focus there go for the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that in God's sight is very precious and all of this is trying to unpack what it means for a wife to be subject to a husband who does not obey the word so that she might win him without a word by the conduct which is respectful and pure [00:01:19]

now the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by submitting to their husbands that was the outer form of this gentle and quiet spirit it resulted in a submitting to their own husband's and he gives Sara a specific example Sara obeyed Abraham calling him Lord we'll come back to that and look and see where she did that and what why he chose that as an illustration [00:03:23]

if you do good fill your life with not just avoiding things the husband doesn't like but filling your lives with good things that he and your neighbors think are really admirable and beautiful in conduct flowing from this new heart and don't fear anything so what's the relationship between holiness and hope and fearlessness and doing good and Submission [00:04:24]

first there is hope in God that's the root thing and flowing from hope in God is I belong first and foremost to God that's what holiness means holiness means being separated to God not to a husband we are the wives here are separated unto God they are holy to God God is their true master they are hoping in God not in their husbands [00:04:58]

become holy in God being fearless in God and now you go back into this relationship as a new kind of woman so that's the the second thing I hope in God I belong to God that is I'm holy and then I would put fearless courageous not fearing anything that is frightening that's what makes these women so inexplicable they are quiet and gentle and fear nothing bold is a lion [00:05:44]

full of good deeds this woman is not a couch potato wasting her afternoons on soap operas she is out and about making the world different with good deeds and she's doing it not in a way that offends her husband but in him in a way that makes her husband standing on and say this woman is amazing she's not afraid of anything she's filling her lives with good deeds and I'm the beneficiary of most of them [00:06:30]

Peter argues he doesn't argue from culture argues from Hope in the covenant God holiness and separation under the covenant god fearlessness flowing out of faith and hope in God a life full of good deeds overflowing so that the husband experiences some of those in submission to him as he is treated with such respect and is the beneficiary of so many of those good deeds [00:07:05]

if God is the woman's hope and he is the Supreme Lord he will never follow she will never follow this house into sin never follow him into sin because her other Lord who is above this Lord says don't sin be holy and I think that instance of Sarah back there where she was sold into or taken into the harem just may have been something Peter did not want to consider admirable [00:08:41]

amazingly Peter chooses to say Sarah is a good example of the kind of submission I'm talking about not because she obeyed Abraham when he went down into Egypt and told her to lie about fact as she was his wife but when she was just off the cuff saying milord and so I think I think the poll is here let let a heart of respect and submission to the husband be so native [00:10:38]

so natural so default to the woman's heart that her natural way of speaking to him is one of respectful milord in that culture that was the way to say it today she might find other ways of saying it so she is hoping in God she is therefore holy she is now fearless she is full of good deeds and therefore her default spirit here is quiet and ready to to say I love my husband and I respect him [00:11:04]

now maybe maybe this husband would be one without a word by that kind of conduct of his wife we have one more thing to do in asking the question okay all that considered what is submission and what isn't it [00:11:56]

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