Sermons About Wives
It Starts Close to Home
Every day in little ways, we try to control our closest relationships. We want to get our way. We treat those closest to us poorly because we are looking out for ourselves. Paul's challenge to his audience was to systematically look at the relationships closest to them and to challenge them to live their new lives in Christ there - close to home.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 2
Today, we follow up last week’s teaching on wives with teaching directed towards husbands. The role of husbands in a biblical marriage is significantly different than what most men (and women) imagine. But it is one that men must take seriously in order to follow Christ. As men, we must expend great energy to be the kind of husbands that God has called us to be. This is important, not just because our marriages depend on it, but because our own relationship with God depends on it. God tells us that he will interrupt our fellowship with him if we are not the right kind of husbands. So men, let us listen carefully to the Word today and commit to being the kind of husband God has called us to be.
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Marrying Like a Christian by Suffering Like Jesus - Part 1
For God, marriage is not a political issue or a social one. It is first and foremost a gospel issue. Marriage for Christians is to be lived with the overwhelming sense of the meaning of the gospel that Jesus came to die for us to make us holy. With that backdrop, Peter writes about marriage in our passage this morning. He writes to tell us how to have a Christian marriage in a non-Christian world. By following the Bible’s teaching, we can have a marriage that honors God and that preaches the gospel to the world around us.
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The Biblical Wife
"1Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening." 1 Peter 3:1-6
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Submission
Guidelines God provides in His Word for those in a Spirit-lead life, on submission to others, and to whom and under what circumstances we are to submit.
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Is Jesus-centeredness culturally relevant?
Underneath this text is a big question - namely, how do you understand the Bible? This is a bigger question because it really informs the answers at which you arrive. How you read and interpret the Bible has a direct impact in your conclusions. So the issues in play here are not just about women, slaves, and masters.
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Jesus-Centered Families
Christianity is supposed to be very practical. God never intended for there to be a separation between what we believe and how we live. On the contrary, his design is to transform our hearts and fill us with the Holy Spirit so that we will be radically different in every area of life. In other words, Jesus is gloriously invasive. His very nature demands it. A Jesus-centered life is simply the natural extension of understanding who he is.
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