Reflecting Christ: The Beauty of Marriage and Submission
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Well, Peter is going to talk in verses 1-6 here about women. Men, your turn is next week. He's going to tell you next week that you are to be honoring, that you are to be gentle. But here he is going to tell the wives that they are to be respectful, that they are to be obedient, otherwise known as the S-word. Submission. Right? Lock the doors. No one leaves. [00:03:30]
The purpose for submission is that you have to have someone lead and you have to have someone follow. I don't care if it is in the home or if it's the workplace or if it's in the church or even in something as simple as a touch football game. You've got to have a quarterback. You got to have a guy that's calling out the signals in the game. [00:05:56]
Paul deal with this whenever you see him deal with submission in 1st Timothy chapter 2 1st Corinthians chapter 11 the foundation of submission and both of those texts is the order of creation did you know that God did not make Adam and Eve simultaneously from the earth otherwise there would have been quite a bit of confusion. [00:07:01]
It only means two things, ladies. It means respect, and it means obedience. Respect and obedience. And that is all that submission is. It means that you respect your husband and you respect him not only in public but in private. See if a wife is a very respectful woman they will never willingly hurt their husband in private. [00:10:39]
And by that, I mean that she will yield to the spoken word of her husband. And here's the deal. That doesn't mean that she blindly follows no matter what. When my wife, when I'm making a decision and it seems to her that I'm not making the right decision, what she will do is she will come to me and she'll go, are you sure about that? [00:12:03]
And so she tries to get me to listen to her. And she doesn't do it by raising her voice. She will do it by being respectful in the way that she does it. And when she does it in that way, because of her great wisdom, I am compelled to listen to her and what she has to say. And many a time she has changed my mind. [00:12:37]
What happens if a wife is converted in the middle of a non-Christian marriage and her husband is not a believer? Well, Peter says here that you still be subject. That you need to be poised. You need to be a great wife. Not because of how He treats you, but because God tells you to be a great wife. [00:15:31]
She so modeled godly conduct that Bob Lilly, who saw himself and was ashamed, and he realized that the hero of his life was his wife. And he followed her without a word. She didn't preach to him. She just modeled Christ-like behavior. He saw his disobedience in the light and the beauty of her conduct, and he followed her example. [00:16:42]
And the idea here is that you don't merely look at your external beauty. You are not to look merely at your hair, at your jewelry, or the dress that you wear. But in verse four, you go deeper. But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with imperishable beauty. And he says imperishable there, because your looks, ladies, will all perish. [00:18:16]
And so if you have been outspoken about this, here is my question, and that is for all of you, no matter which side of this you are on. Are you fighting as hard for the hearts of these teenage girls as much as you are about the dresses that they will wear for a couple hours of their life. Are you fighting as hard for their hearts? [00:22:55]
Simon Peter knows that it is a scary thing for you to have to trust your husband sometimes it's tough to willingly place yourself under the authority of another sinner and he understood understands that but Peter tells you here ladies you be a great great wife and it's rare it's a rare evil man that will take advantage of that you trust God and don't be afraid. [00:26:17]
The one who gives all of us fellas in a room something really to follow. But wives, as your husbands try to be as much like Christ as they can be, it is your job to come alongside of Him and willingly place yourself under that leadership. Will He always deserve it? Nope, probably not. But you do it because that is what makes the home most functional. [00:36:21]
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The purpose for submission is that you have to have someone lead and you have to have someone follow. I don't care if it is in the home or if it's the workplace or if it's in the church or even in something as simple as a touch football game. You've got to have a quarterback. You got to have a guy that's calling out the signals in the game. [00:05:56]
Paul deal with this whenever you see him deal with submission in 1st Timothy chapter 2 1st Corinthians chapter 11 the foundation of submission and both of those texts is the order of creation did you know that God did not make Adam and Eve simultaneously from the earth otherwise there would have been quite a bit of confusion. [00:07:01]
It only means two things, ladies. It means respect, and it means obedience. Respect and obedience. And that is all that submission is. It means that you respect your husband and you respect him not only in public but in private. See if a wife is a very respectful woman they will never willingly hurt their husband in private. [00:10:39]
And by that, I mean that she will yield to the spoken word of her husband. And here's the deal. That doesn't mean that she blindly follows no matter what. When my wife, when I'm making a decision and it seems to her that I'm not making the right decision, what she will do is she will come to me and she'll go, are you sure about that? [00:12:03]
And so she tries to get me to listen to her. And she doesn't do it by raising her voice. She will do it by being respectful in the way that she does it. And when she does it in that way, because of her great wisdom, I am compelled to listen to her and what she has to say. And many a time she has changed my mind. [00:12:37]
What happens if a wife is converted in the middle of a non-Christian marriage and her husband is not a believer? Well, Peter says here that you still be subject. That you need to be poised. You need to be a great wife. Not because of how He treats you, but because God tells you to be a great wife. [00:15:31]
She so modeled godly conduct that Bob Lilly, who saw himself and was ashamed, and he realized that the hero of his life was his wife. And he followed her without a word. She didn't preach to him. She just modeled Christ-like behavior. He saw his disobedience in the light and the beauty of her conduct, and he followed her example. [00:16:42]
And the idea here is that you don't merely look at your external beauty. You are not to look merely at your hair, at your jewelry, or the dress that you wear. But in verse four, you go deeper. But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with imperishable beauty. And he says imperishable there, because your looks, ladies, will all perish. [00:18:16]
And so if you have been outspoken about this, here is my question, and that is for all of you, no matter which side of this you are on. Are you fighting as hard for the hearts of these teenage girls as much as you are about the dresses that they will wear for a couple hours of their life. Are you fighting as hard for their hearts? [00:22:55]
Simon Peter knows that it is a scary thing for you to have to trust your husband sometimes it's tough to willingly place yourself under the authority of another sinner and he understood understands that but Peter tells you here ladies you be a great great wife and it's rare it's a rare evil man that will take advantage of that you trust God and don't be afraid. [00:26:17]
The one who gives all of us fellas in a room something really to follow. But wives, as your husbands try to be as much like Christ as they can be, it is your job to come alongside of Him and willingly place yourself under that leadership. Will He always deserve it? Nope, probably not. But you do it because that is what makes the home most functional. [00:36:21]
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