Understanding Biblical Submission in Marriage

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### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the times to come. You see, she's laughing at the future because she knows who holds the future. She hopes in God, and therefore she's not afraid of the future. She is a woman who has a strong theology of the sovereignty of God, the sovereign power of God, which Rob talked about this morning, in terms of even controlling the weather. That's the God we worship, the one who controls everything." [05:04] (36 seconds) ( | | )

2. "We get old, but our spirits are getting stronger and more beautiful, and that's this woman. So it's a unique kind of submissiveness. It's a submissiveness that has a spirit that expresses itself in a unique kind of submissiveness to her husband. Unshakable hope in God, courage and fearlessness, quiet tranquility, and a humble submission to God. To her husband. Amazed." [09:05] (34 seconds) ( | | )

3. "The truth is that headship and submission are really beautiful. We submit ourselves to Christ. This wedding that Nancy was talking about, which was between Alana Classen and Mike Lipinski, one of the things that they asked me to talk about in the message was, that this is a covenant. That marriage is a covenant. And so in the New Testament, the church is seen as the bride of Christ. And we as the bride submit ourselves to Christ." [10:24] (37 seconds) ( | | )

4. "The goal of all of this, says Piper, is everlasting holy joy. I'll just read this out at this end of what he says. So Andy says, with a reminder that marriage is not mainly about staying in love, it's about covenant keeping. I thought that was interesting because one of the things I said to this couple on Sunday is that in 1 Corinthians 13 where Paul talks about love, there's not one single word in that passage about feelings." [20:02] (31 seconds) ( | | )

5. "It's a God-designed relationship between a husband and a wife and a wife. It's a to represent the relationship between Christ and the church. This is the deepest meaning of marriage and that is why ultimately the roles of headship and submission are so important. If our marriages are going to tell the truth about Christ and His Church, we cannot be indifferent to the meaning of headship and submission." [20:53] (30 seconds) ( | | )

### Quotes for Members

1. "Peter's portrait of womanhood, is a powerful portrait. He portrays woman, as having deep, strong roots. Underneath this whole idea of submission, is a powerful image of a woman. The roots make submissions strong and beautiful. And that's why I asked Jeanette to read that passage from Proverbs. You see, because, the woman that he's talking about here, he's talking about women who are married to men, who are possibly, and most likely, in this situation, unbelievers. So it's even more difficult for these women." [04:16] (49 seconds) ( | | )

2. "Submission does not mean avoiding every effort to change a husband. The whole point of this text is to tell the wife how to win her husband. Be subject to your own husband so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives. If you didn't care about the Bible, you might say, well, submission has to mean taking a husband the way he is and not trying to change him. But if you look at this verse, that's the opposite." [13:13] (29 seconds) ( | | )

3. "Submission does not mean putting the will of the husband before the will of Christ. The text, says Piper, clearly teaches that the wife is a follower of Jesus and above being a follower of her, and is a follower of Jesus above being a follower of her husband. Submission to Jesus relativizes submission to husbands, the governments and employers and parents. And when Sarah called him Lord, it was Lord in the lower case, as I've mentioned. And the obedience that she rendered to Abraham is a qualified obedience because her supreme allegiance is to the Lord, capital L." [14:06] (38 seconds) ( | | )

4. "Submission does not mean that a wife gets her personal spiritual strength primarily through her husband. A good husband should indeed strengthen and build up and sustain his wife, but he should be a source of strength. What the text shows is that when a husband's spiritual leadership is lacking, the Christian wife is not bereft of strength. In other words, she's not lacking in strength. Submission does not mean she's dependent on him to supply the strength or virtue or character. The text, in fact, assumes just the opposite, that she is being strengthened and supported by Christ in her marriage to help her husband come to Christ." [14:37] (45 seconds) ( | | )

5. "When then does submission say, what then does submission say in such a situation? Piper here says, so he's putting in quotation marks what would be going through the woman's, the wife's mind. It grieves me when you venture into sinful acts and want to take me there with you. You know I can't do that. I have no desire to resist you. On the contrary, I flourish most when I can respond joyfully to your leadership. But I can't follow you into sin. As much as I love and honor your leadership in our marriage, Christ is my King." [16:49] (41 seconds) ( | | )

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