Re-Inventing the Family Series

Wife, Submit To Your Husband

Ephesians 5:22-24;

1Peter 3:1-6

LADIES, THIS IS NOT A SUGGESTION BUT A COMMAND FROM THE LORD!

Wife Submit To Your Husband

• Define Submission:

• Microsoft Dictionary -

The act of submitting to the power of another or the state of being submissive, compliant, Meekness.

• Greek Dictionary -

The word submission is an “present imperative” which is a command to do something and involves continuous or repeated action.

Submission to conform to some standard as a means of demonstrating its purpose-to obey. Heb. 13:17; 2 Cor.9:13 ref.

NoteNote: Remember Restoration is taking something damaged and restoring it to a better condition

Reinventing is to recast something familiar or old into a different form.

Wife Submit To Your Husband

• Look at your husband the way that God does

We are to reverence our husband which is to *respect him *defer

*revere him *honor

*esteem *appreciate

*prize *to adore him (in a human sense)

*admire him *praise

*be devoted to *deeply love

*enjoy him

Submission is effective according to God’s Word and it Submission is effective according to God’s Word and it works.works.

Wife Submit To Your Husband

• The Amplified Bible starts off saying…However, let each man of you without exception love his wife as being in a sense his very own self

( Eph. 5:33; 1 Peter 3:2)

• He who loves his wife loves himself

(Eph 5:28)

Wife Submit To Your Husband

Husband & Wife (both) can lead• But God tells the wife to give up her “option to

lead” and become a “follower”.

Two heads create a disaster and confusion

• Does this mean the husband can do anything he

wants… NO.

Wife Submit To Your Husband

Why is submission important to a family?

• It allows God to bring out the best in both the husband and the wife.

• The purpose of submission is to bring order in the family.

• As each person takes their divine appointed position, then the home will come to a rest.

Wife Submit To Your Husband

• God in his wisdom designed the nature of the man and the woman in accordance with his order.

• God make man- Gen 1:26• God make him a help Mate - Gen 2:18, 21-24• Adam formed first- 1 Tim 2:13• The woman came from the man God ordered-

1Cor 11:8-9

Wife Submit To Your Husband