What is submission, according to 1 Peter 3:1-6? When I preached about this passage about twenty years ago, the women in my church found it really useful because we used to insert assumptions from our experience into the text. You can hear that submission means six or seven things. Five look horrible and two look good.
When you bring your prejudices to the Bible, you run the risk of throwing the baby with the water from the bathroom and saying, “If that’s the meaning of submission, I’m out. “That would be sad. Maybe you’re right, maybe you’re wrong, but that would be sad. I wrote six things that submission to a husband at a wedding isn’t. I really want you to identify them in the text.
- “Women are also submissive to their own husband.
- So if she still doesn’t obey the word.
- She will win.
- Without saying a word.
- By her wife’s procedure.
- To observe her honest behavior full of fear.
- The woman’s ornament is not external.
- As beaded hair.
- Gold ornaments.
- Clothing; I know.
- However.
- The inner man of the heart.
- United in the incorruptible suit of a peaceful and gentle spirit.
- Which is of great value before God.
- Also in this way that the holy women who waited for God once were united to themselves.
- Submitting themselves to their own husbands.
- As Sarah did.
- Who obeyed Abraham.
- The lord.
- Whose daughters you became daughters.
- Practicing good and without fear of any disturbance ?(1 Stone 3: 1-6).
Submission doesn’t agree with everything. For example, the husband of 1 Peter 3:1-6 is a disbeliever. If in a situation like this, the husband says, “You can’t be a Christian. Do we worship Isis (or any other deity) in our family?”The woman must say, “I’m sorry, but I’m not. “It is possible to be submissive and refuse to think as your husband wants you to think. This sense doesn’t make sense without that. She swore allegiance to Jesus. Jesus is now her Lord and King, she is like a stranger and an exile in this marriage, this husband belongs to another god and she is called to live with him, do not divorce by religion.
If he says, “I don’t want to be a Christian,” what should she say?She must say, “I love you. I want to be sent. I intend to submit to you. But in this sense, I have no choice. I belong to Jesus ?. Maybe I’ll fire you. This happens in 1 Corinthians 7. It’s a great tragedy when the disbeliever splits up.
Submission doesn’t mean you have to agree with your husband’s opinion, even on issues as fundamental and serious as the Christian faith. God created you in spirit. You have to think, you are a person, not a body and not a machine, you are a thinking being, able to reflect on the truth of the gospel, and if the gospel is true, you believe. If he says, “You can’t believe it,” you must humbly refuse to submit.
This point may be a repetition of the previous one, but it is important to express it in these words: Every man who says, “In this family, the function of thinking is mine”, is sick and has an unhealthy view of his. I once had to deal with a couple whose wife said they had to ask permission to go to the bathroom. I looked at him and said, “You’re not well. You have an incredibly distorted view of this coertion of the grace of life. You don’t understand the Bible, what you do is you take words like “Authority”?And
Submission never leaves the brain at the altar. Throughout the marriage, the husband interacts with an independent mental center that has thoughts worth listening to, this is how the union of a single flesh works. Leading doesn’t mean you don’t have to listen. And directing doesn’t always mean having the last word. Good leadership often says, “Were you right, I was wrong?
Leading is taking the lead. Sometimes I say, “Who says” Come on?”More often in your relationship.
“Are we going to eat outside?”
“We’ll try to organize our finances. “
“Let’s go to church next Sunday. “
Who says it more often? If it’s the woman, there’s a problem and the problem is that of the man, if it’s the man, he’s probably happy because he doesn’t mean ‘come on’. Don’t women mean? In general, do I know that I generalize ?, leadership is to have initiative, that is where women develop the most, leadership does not mean imposing and never listening, that does not mean even having the last word.
If she asks my wife, “How does submission in the Piper family work?” she would say, “Since the beginning of marriage, we have established the principle that if we cannot come to an agreement, what does Johnny prevail in deciding?”. It’s really basic. And that’s something that rarely happens. One of the reasons this rarely happens is that we’ve been together a long time and we know how others think. Another reason this rarely happens is that I often give in to what Christmas wants. You don’t have to be right, it doesn’t have to be my way and the last word shouldn’t be mine.
Submission does not mean avoiding the effort to influence or change the husband. The very purpose of the text is to “win”. His life is dedicated to transforming this husband from disbeliever to believer. Can you imagine if someone said that submission means “Stop trying to change your husband?” Well, I understand what they might mean. But if your husband lives in sin or if your wife lives in sin or disbelief, do you want them to change and you wouldn’t be a loving person if you didn’t want to?If you’ve stopped wanting your spouse to change. For some, this may seem like insubordination. Biblically, this is not the case.
Submission does not place the will of the husband above the will of Christ. Christ is now her Lord and, for the love of the Lord, she will be subject to her husband, but he is not her Lord. Therefore, whenever you need to choose between the two, choose Jesus. If the husband says, “Are we going to get hit? OrAre we going to participate in an?”The woman’s decision must be clear: “I stay with Jesus. “He should speak not with pride or pride, but submissively and captivatingly. He will be able to see in her the desire he does not ask for so that he can enjoy his leadership position. Do you have the idea?” I’m not going to obey you in this matter, but the way not to obey is to point out that I want to follow your leadership, though right now I can’t?”at least not that way?
Submission does not mean that all the spiritual strength of a woman must come from her husband; in this text, she receives no spiritual strength from her, but is full of strength; your hope is in God
She probably goes to church on Sunday morning before he wakes up, strengthening herself elsewhere, shaping her worldview elsewhere.
This God-fearing woman is not afraid
I’m a supplement. I think men are called to have a special kind of leadership in marriage. I think women are called to a particular form of submission into marriage. And I think it’s a beautiful thing: the way the two roles complement each other and complement each other. If we dig deeply and continue to delve into the scriptures, even if they were written in another time, they will give a very beautiful form to the marriage of our time.
Therefore, in light of all that I have said that submission is not, I would define submission in marriage as follows: submission is the wife’s call to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership, helping her exercise that leadership through her gifts.
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