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Submit Yourself
to God's Order
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You must conduct yourselves according to God's order in your relationship
to each other. This means submitting yourselves to God, which is opposed to the popular "I did it
my way" philosophy. You may say, "Not me!" But, if you are doing it your way now
and it isn't accomplishing what you want, why don't you try it God's way.
God's way is found in the Bible, He says:
The Christian wife is to submit herself to her husband in
everything.
The idea of submitting our
will to anyone is discouraged and ridiculed by most in the world today. But
remember, if this is something you decide to do, you are doing what you want
to do. It is your choice.
The Christian husband is to love his wife as Christ loved
the church and gave himself for it, to dwell with his wife according to
knowledge, and to love his wife as
himself.
The word "love" is so often misused, it needs defining. The "love" we are
capable of having after we accept Jesus Christ, as our Savior is the type of
"love" that caused Him to suffer and die for the sins of all mankind. It is
the type of "love" that caused Him, as he hung on the cross for your sins and
mine, to say, "Father forgive them (those who hung him there),
they know not what they do."
This is the
type of "love" that does what is in the best interest
of the one loved, which in marriage is the spouse.
When either the husband or the wife fails to relate to the other in this
way, they cannot have the best that marriage can provide.
1 Ephesians 5:22-23,
1 Peter 3:1-7
2 Luke 23:34 |
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Ephesians 5:22-23
Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of
the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
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1 Peter 3:1-7
1 Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands,
that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word,
may be won by the conduct of their wives,
2 when they observe your
chaste conduct accompanied by fear.
3 Do not let your adornment be
merely outward; arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine
apparel;
4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the
incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very
precious in the sight of God.
5 For in this manner, in former times,
the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being
submissive to their own husbands,
6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling
him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid
with any terror.
7 Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with
understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel,
and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers
may not be hindered.
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Luke 23:34
34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what
they do." And they divided His garments and cast lots.
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