SUBMISSION!

Hello! I hope everyone is having a Great and Productive morning! I’m going to be talking about submission to day and not the Ric Flair kind where he makes his opponent submit because of the figure four. I am going to be talking about the order of submission within the home. It’s tense already so I’m going to start off with a Joke but reality! There was a female (American) reporter who visited Kuwait and was outraged! She noticed that the women walked at least four steps behind their husbands. With great agitation she told the woman that this was taking submission too far. Several years later the same reporter returned to Kuwait and found the men walking 4 steps behind the women. The reporter was thrilled. She then talked to a Kuwait woman and expressed how happy she was to see things had finally shifted and now the Husbands were being submissive to the Wives and following their lead. She told the Kuwait woman now progress would really be made for women’s rights. “What caused the change,” she asked! “Land mines,” was the reply! You know we laugh at this joke but this really happened! Now to the main point many Christian men sense that their wives have one thing they need to do and that is to submit. In Ephesians 5 21-33 the Apostle Paul presents a prelude to a woman’s submission to her husband. The first thing is notice it’s a dual submission. Submission is found in the passage as a wife to a husband, a husband’s identification with Christ’s sacrifice, a child’s obedience to his parents, and an employee obeying the employer read Chapter 6 as well. Ephesians Chapter 5 verses 21-28 says “21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 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. 24 Now as the Church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to Love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.” We all know Men Love themselves! If you don’t think so look at one today and tell him he is ugly! Watch the response you get! Ha! Ha! The final point is Paul said it best in these verses. I believe as Dino Pedrone said one time. A happy family is one that knows God’s order and sacrificially submits to each other out of reverence for Christ. This type of submission produces a sense of dependence on God that is healthy and fulfilling. This is true Biblical submission. So the question for you, Do you have order in your home? If not why, I personally have never made a mistake following scripture you will not either! Love you guys! Jason