Lesson 8Wives Submit Husbands Be Considerate

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Lesson 8Wives Submit!Husbands Be Considerate!
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Introduction

• Eph 522-23
• Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ
  is the head of the church, his body, of which he
  is the Savior.
• Women, what are the things that can make it hard
  to obey this command?

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Introduction

• Eph 525
• Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved
  the church and gave himself up for her
• Men, what are the things that can make it hard to
  obey this command?

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Scripture Reading
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1 Peter 31-7 Wives and Husbands     1Wives, in
the same way be submissive to your husbands so
that, if any of them do not believe the word,
they may be won over without words by the
behavior of their wives, 2when they see the
purity and reverence of your lives. 3Your beauty
should not come from outward adornment, such as
braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and
fine clothes. 4Instead, it should be that of your
inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and
quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's
sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the
past who put their hope in God used to make
themselves beautiful. They were submissive to
their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed
Abraham and called him her master. You are her
daughters if you do what is right and do not give
way to fear.     7Husbands, in the same way be
considerate as you live with your wives, and
treat them with respect as the weaker partner and
as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life,
so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
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For Women Only!
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For Women Only!

•     1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your
  husbands so that, if any of them do not believe
  the word, they may be won over without words by
  the behavior of their wives, 2when they see the
  purity and reverence of your lives.

• Submit
• to yield oneself to the power or authority of
  another to submit to a conqueror.
• Hupotassounder agreed position

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For Women Only!

•     1Wives, in the same way be submissive to your
  husbands so that, if any of them do not believe
  the word, they may be won over without words by
  the behavior of their wives, 2when they see the
  purity and reverence of your lives.

• 2 Cor 614
• "Be ye not unequally yoked together with
  unbelievers
• Christians shouldn't marry unbelievers
• But sometimes it happens!

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For Women Only!

• 3Your beauty should not come from outward
  adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing
  of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4Instead, it
  should be that of your inner self, the unfading
  beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of
  great worth in God's sight.

• Adornment
• Kosmosdecoration, i.e. the arrangement of the
  stars
• Outward beauty is good
• Inward beauty is better!

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For Women Only!
Sarah

• 5For this is the way the holy women of the past
  who put their hope in God used to make themselves
  beautiful. They were submissive to their own
  husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and
  called him her master. You are her daughters if
  you do what is right and do not give way to fear.

• Submission is
• Impossible!
• With God all things are possible!

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For Men Only!
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For Men Only!

•    7Husbands, in the same way be considerate as
  you live with your wives, and treat them with
  respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with
  you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing
  will hinder your prayers.

• Considerate
• Gnosiswith understanding
• Respect
• Timehonor, treat as expensive

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For Men Only!

•    7Husbands, in the same way be considerate as
  you live with your wives, and treat them with
  respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with
  you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing
  will hinder your prayers.

• Weaker Partner
• Asthenes skeuosweak vessel
• Physically weaker
• Men protect your woman!

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For Men Only!

•    7Husbands, in the same way be considerate as
  you live with your wives, and treat them with
  respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with
  you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing
  will hinder your prayers.

• Context
• Christian husband
• Unbelieving wife
• Goal
• Make her a co-heir a believer.
• Husbands submit
• So that nothing will hinder their prayers
• For her salvation.

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Application

• Believing spouses need to submit to their
  unbelieving spouses to win them over to Christ
  with love.
• If both are believers, they should be submitting
  to each other already
• Eph 533However, each one of you (husbands) also
  must love his wife as he loves himself, and the
  wife must respect her husband.
• All this is done for the sake of the Lord.

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