December 17 , 2014

“Wives…”

Blessings folk!

The Lord is showing us how to live together...

• addressing one another is psalms, hymns, spiritual songs
• giving thanks
• submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ

Now, the Lord deals with specific relationships…

Ephesians 5:22-24
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

Wives are instructed to submit to their own husbands.
Not someone else’s husband.
Their own husband.
Wives are to submit in the same manner that they do unto the Lord.

Why?

It is the governmental structure of the family as designed by God.

The husband is head of the wife...even as Christ is the head of the church.

In the same way that the church submits to Christ, wives are to submit to their husband in everything.

Again, this is not a “cave-man” mentality. We will see more later when the Lord instructs the husband.

Know this.

There is vast power in the God-fearing, submissive wife.

Much favor is found with God.