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Voddie Baucham - Leading As A Husband & Father · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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Speaker 1: Well, good morning. Praise God for another day and another
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opportunity to worship Him. If you have your Bibles with
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you this morning, we will open up to where we
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left off on last night in the Book of Ephesians.
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We're going to look today at Ephesians, chapter five and
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chapter six. Today we address the issue of a man's
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leadership in his home, his leadership of his family. This
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is a crucial topic for in fact, a man's leadership
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in his home is pivotal not only to the church,
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but also to the state. Was Manton who said that
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the home is the seminary of both the church and
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the state. The home is the place where leaders for
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the church are forged. In fact, a man is to
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be examined for leadership in the church by first looking
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at his track record of leadership in his home. It
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is a man's leadership in his family that is foundational
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to determining whether or not he is even qualified for
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leadership among God's people. This is crucial. It is also
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the home that is the place where citizens are forged
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for the state. The state has no charge, no responsibility,
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or no jurisdiction over children informing them as future citizens.
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It is the home that is charged with this duty,
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with this responsibility. It is the home that forges the
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character of future leaders, in the state where we learn
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to follow and where we learn to lead. So it
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is absolutely critical that we look here in Ephesians chapter
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five and six and see what it actually means for
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a man to lead in his home. First, listen to
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this from James Alexander speaking about the issue of a
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man and his leadership in his home. He is their head.
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He is such by a divine and unalterable constitution. These
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are duties and prerogatives which he cannot alienate it alienate.
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There is something more than mere precedents in age, knowledge,
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or substance. He is the father and the master. No
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act of his and nothing in his character can fail
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to leave a mark on those around him. A man
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is the head, master and lee of his home, and
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there's nothing he can do about that. He will be
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the lead effectively, or he will lead poorly, but he
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will lead. A man's failing to lead is actually a
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man leading in failure. This is not optional. There are, however,
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objections to the idea of a man leading in his home.
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There are those objections, of course, that we would not
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be surprised by in the culture at large, we know
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that the feminist movement has huge problems with what I've
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just said, the idea that the man is the head
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of his household, that the man is the leader in
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his family. Ari Houkiman, a leader in the United Nations
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Population Fund, has in fact referred to the breakdown in
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the family in the West as a triumph. It's a
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good thing, he argues. Why would a man say something
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like this? Ari Hoykuman actually argues, is that high divorce rates,
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out of what locked birth rates actually signal a triumph
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of human rights over patriarchy. In other words, male headship
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in the home is oppressive, and divorce and out of
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what locked birth rates represent liberation from that oppression. Again,
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it's almost unfathomable that anyone would say such a thing,
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let alone a leader of the United Nations. But if
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you're troubled by that, you don't know much about the
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United Nations. All Right, I said that out loud, did
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not oh came up back. Other radical feminists feel the
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same way. Linda Gordon, for example, Listen to this statement.
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The nuclear family must be destroyed and people must find
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better ways of living to get whatever it's ultimate meaning.
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The breakup of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
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No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because
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of her special responsibilities to her children. Families will be
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finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization
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permits people's needs for love and security to be met
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in ways that do not impose divisions of labor or
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any external roles at all. That's radical. But wait, there's more,
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Andrea Dwarkin. Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live
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her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under
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patriarchy or male headship, every woman is a victim, past, present,
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and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential
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betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.
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That's our cultural context. But you say that's out there. Certainly,
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that's the radical feminist people who don't even claim to
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know God. But there are also objections in here. Evangelical feminism,
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as it is euphemistically called, has objections to the idea
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of male leadership and male headship in the home. There
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are three basic objections, and we have to deal with
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these before we move forward. With this text here in
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Ephesian chapter five. And the reason that we have to
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deal with these is quite simple because they have gained
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much headweight in the church, and there are many in
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the church, even in churches that you would consider, you know,
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run of the mile conservative evangelical churches, some of these
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ideas have crept in and have become assumed for many
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of you as students. You assume some or all of
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this about the idea of male headship, that somehow it's
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an archaic concept, that somehow it's anachronistic for us to
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talk about men as heads of their household and to
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look at passages like Ephesians chapter five in that context.
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Three main arguments I'll give them to you and then
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we'll address them in turn. One the culture, two the curse,
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and three the confusion. Those are the three arguments. The
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first argument is the culture that Paul's admonition to male
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headship and Ephesians chapter five, and they have to deal
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with Ephesians chapter five. By the way, you give this
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just no way around it. You cannot assault this idea
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of male headship and the home without somehow dealing with
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Ephesians chapter five. So evangelical feminism deals with the Fgians
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chapter five, and the first line of argumentation is this
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is cultural that Paul here in Ephesians chapter five is
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merely making a cultural statement because of circumstances on the ground,
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as it were. Now. The problem with this argument is
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that the Bible teaches male headship and the home in
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a number of places, not only Ephesians five, but also
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Colossians three and one, Peter three, as well as Titus
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two and five. All of these places we see men
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called to lead as heads of their household and women
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called to submit to the leadership of their husbands. But
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more importantly and more foundational to this is the teaching
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in Genesis chapters one through three, which solidify the idea
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of male headship. So there is no way that what
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Paul teaches in Ephesians chapter five is merely some cultural
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accommodation that calls for male headship in this particular setting
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and circumstance, and does not see male headship as the norm. This,
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for example, does not take into consideration Paul's teaching in
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one Coristians chapter eleven, where he says the head of
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the woman is the man, the head of every man
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as Christ and the head of Christ is God. We
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also see in First Timothy chapter two that Paul roots
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male headship in the creation order. Not only do we
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see that argument, but also the argument of the curse
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that actually what we're dealing with here is male headship
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as a result of the curse. In Genesis chapter three
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and verse sixteen, when God looks at Eve, or it
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looks at the woman before she was named Eve and
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says that because of what she's done, the consequence will
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be that her desire will be for her husband, but
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he will rule over you. That's the idea that when
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God says that in Genesis chapter three and verse sixteen,
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you have male headship established as a byproduct of the curse.
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Listen to this. Her curse now was to be ruled perversely,
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to long for her husband and he to rule over her.
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She would want to be dominated by her husband, and
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he would submit to this desire. God does not command
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Adam to rule or govern his wife. Rather, the curse
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is Eve's. The ruling is a consequence of Eve's longing
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and her fall. That's the argument from even deelical feminism
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that this is a product of the fall. Now, there
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are a couple of problems with this. If this is
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a product of the fall, my first question is why
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do we find in Ephesians five, in Colossians three, in
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Titus two this same allusion to male headship referring to
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people who are in Christ who have been redeemed from
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the curse. If it's just a product of the fall,
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here's my second question to those who would argue that
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male headship is a product of the fall. My second
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question is this. Have you been in the delivery room
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with a Christian woman giving birth? You go, what does
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that have to do with anything? Well, okay, think about this.
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Male headship is a product of the fall. Therefore, when
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we are in Christ, that curse is removed and we
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no longer have male headship. But God also said to
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Eve there would be much pain in her childbearing. So
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if logically becoming a Christian removes the curse, there are
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to be screaming in the delivery room of non believers,
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and peace and calm in the delivery room of believers.
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I know better. I was there. I have heard the
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famous you did this to me. I have watched the
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woman whom I love with every fiber of my being
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turn into a creature who looked at me with eyes
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that said, if you I'm too close, I will kill you.
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Now wipe my forehead. The other problem here is that
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we see male headship before the fall. We see male headship.
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For example, in Genesis chapter two, the woman was made
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after the man male headship. The woman was made for
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the man. I will make him a helper suitable for him.
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Male headship. The woman was made from the man male headship.
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The woman was brought to the man male headship, and
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the woman was named by the man male headship. And
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if that's not enough for you, all you have to
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do is go later on in chapter three when Adam
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receives his curse, and God says, because you have listened
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to the voice of your wife, because you did not
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exercise your headship. If that's not enough for you, just
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go to Romans chapter five. Or Paul doesn't say, because
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of the sin of one couple Adam and Eve death
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under the world. No, because of the sin of one
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man Adam, Jesus is not referred to as the last
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Adam and Eve. He's referred to as the last Atam.
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Why male headship, So what's happening there? In Genesis three
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sixteen with the curse, I'm glad you asked. God says,
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your desire will be for your husband, but he will
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rule over you. Now, Fortunately, our evangelical feminist author here
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completely misses the nuance of that text. She says that
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somehow the woman is going to be pining for her husband.
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If you just go to Genesis, chapter four and verse seven,
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you see the identical phrase God says to Cain and
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Genesis four seven, Sin is crouching at your door. Its
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desire is for you, but you must rule over it.
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God is not saying to Cain, sin is yearning and
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pining for you, Oh, it loves you. No, he is saying,
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sins desires to overtake you, and you must rule over it. See,
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the curse is not male headship. The curse is the
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woman's natural rebellion to the headship of the man. That's
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the curse. Your desire will to usurp your husband's authority,
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and yet his authority will not be removed. And because
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of this desire there should be a clash between you
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and your husband. But in this clash, creation order will
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not be overturned. He will rule over you. That's the
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nuance there. In Genesis chapter three and verse sixteen. Male
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headship is not invented in Genesis chapter three. It is
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reinforced in Genesis chapter three. But the clash against male
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headship is what we see as a product of the fall.
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There is a third argument, and that is the argument
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of the confusion that we have completely and utterly misinterpreted
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this passage here in Ephesians chapter five, because we have
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forgotten verse twenty one. If you look with me, there
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in five loogat verse twenty one, and it reads submitting
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to one another out of reverence for Christ. So here's
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the argument, and you find this even in just very
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conservative circles. The argument is that because of verse twenty one,
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what we have is the idea of mutual submission between
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husband and wife. We don't have the idea of male
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headship male leadership within the context and confines of the home.
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But we have the idea of mutual submission of believers
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to one another, and they just have sort of different
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roles within this mutual submission, but the submission is mutual.
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That's the argument that we've completely mistaken what Paul meant
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to say, because we have not paid close enough attention
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to verse twenty one in our assertion of male headship.
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First let me give you my technical theological response, and
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then we'll look at this exegetically. My technical theological response
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to that assertion is not. But let's do a little
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exegetical work here, shall we. Couple of problems. One problem
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is the verb that is used here submitting to one
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another out of reverence for Christ. In verse twenty one,
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wives submit to your own husbands. Now, that verb there
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in verse twenty two is the verb carried over from
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verse twenty one. One basically says wives to husbands. And
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the verb there is hupo tasso. So it's actually a
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military term. And this military term refers to the voluntary
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submission of an inferior officer to a superior officer, or
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to a soldier, or of a soldier to a superior officer.
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That's what the verb means. It means that you submit
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to someone because of their rank. You submit to them
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because of the office that they hold. The problem with
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the idea of mutual submission is that it doesn't work
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with this verb. There is no mutual submission in military ranks.
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The captain does not come to the private and say private,
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there are some things that I'd really like to discuss
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with you. I really think we need to take that
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hill over there. But I know we're called to submit
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to one another mutually, So I'd really like to discuss
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with you private whether or not you feel like charge
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that hill over there as we mutually submit to one another.
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Private thing coming back and saying Captain, I really appreciate that.
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I really appreciate you honoring this mutual submission agreement that
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we have to one another. There's a machine gun up there,
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and I just really think, maybe, no, not the way
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the military works. How does the military work. Superior officer
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gives order, inferior salutes and executes. That's how the military works.
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It is not mutual submission, and that's the term. The
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term does not allow for the mutual submission interpretation. There
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is another problem. The second problem is that this mutual
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submission clause, supposed mutual submiss clause and Ephesians five twenty
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one does not exist in Colossians three, does not exist
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in First Peter three, does not exist in Titus two.
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So elsewhere where we have the headship of the husband
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and the submission of the wife, we do not have
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this mutual submission clause. So here's what evangelical feminism argues.
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You don't take all of these texts together and read
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them the way they normally read in all of their senses.
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You take this one text that has what appears to
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be a mutual submission clause, and you then superimpose that
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clause on your reading of all the other texts. That's
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the argument. Doesn't work that way hermeneutically in anything else
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that we do, but in this particular instance, that's what
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we're supposed to do. There is a third problem, and
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it's the immediate context broader context problem. In order for
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us to understand this, and we're going to get to
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Ephesian chapter five and mail headship, but trust me, this
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is necessary. The third problem is when you go back
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to this text and put it in context. Ephesians chapter
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five and verse twenty one is the end of a paragraph.
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I don't know about you, but generally when I start
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reading something, I go to the beginning of paragraphs, not
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the end. Maybe you do that me, I go to
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the beginning of paragraph. So Ephesian chap Verse twenty one
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is the end of a paragraph that begins in Ephesians
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chapter five and verse fifteen. When we get there, here's
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what we find very interesting. We have three commands. On
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the third command, you get excuse me, go to verse
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fifteen with me, three contrasts. I'm sorry, like, why is
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that not what I'm talking about? We get three contrasts
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on the third excuse, I'm sorry, just had a senior moment.
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There we have three contrasts. On the third contrast, you
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get three commands, and on the third command you get
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three contexts. All right, look at the beginning of verse fifteen.
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Let's look at these three contrasts. Look carefully, then, how
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you walk, not as unwise, but as wise, making the
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best use of the time, because the days are evil.
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So there's a contrast, not unwise, but wise. The second one. Therefore,
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do not be foolish, but understand what the will of
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the Lord is. There's the second contrast. First one, not unwise,
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but wise, the second one not foolish, but understanding the
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will of the Lord. Here's the third contrast. Do not
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get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be
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filled with the spirit. There's the third contrast. On the
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third contrast, you get three commands. Three commands as to
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how to fill the third contrast. Look at verse nineteen.
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First addressing one another in psalms, hymn, spiritual songs, singing
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and making melody to the Lord with all your heart.
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There's the first command, the first command related to what
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the third contrast is, how you live that spirit filled life.
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What's the second command, giving thanks always and for everything
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to God the Father in the name of our Lord
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Jesus Christ. There's your second command created correlated to what
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that third contrast. Here's how you do it. This is
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the spirit filled life. And then there's the third command.
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Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. That's
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the third command as it relates to the contrast of
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the spirit filled life versus drunk with wine. On the
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third command, you get three contexts. What are they? Wives
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to husband five twenty four to the end of the chapter,
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children to parents six to one through four, slaves to
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masters six' five through. Nine in other, Words ephesians five
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twenty one is not the umbrella over the rest Of
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ephesians chapter. Five it's actually the umbrella Over ephesians five
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twenty two through six.' nine and here's why, that's important
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because in all of those relationships the husband, wife relationship
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the verb used there is not a mutual submission verb
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in the parent child relationship not. Mutual submission children are
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called to hearken to the voice of. Their parents parents
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are not called to submit to. Their children and in
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the third one slaves, and masters masters are not called
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to submit to. Their slaves slaves are called to submit to.
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Their masters so in each one of, these contexts submission
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works in. One direction there is a person who is,
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the head and there's a person who's called to submit
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to the one who is. The, head therefore because of
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all of, these things the idea that We've misunderstood paul's
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teaching here about the husband and his headship in his
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home is not an acceptable explanation for. The, text instead
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what we Get is paul is very clear, and unambiguous
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and the husband is to exercise headship in. His Household
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now here we have the. Household codes whenever you see the,
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household codes, for example if we Go to colossians, chapter
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one or if we Go To first peter, chapter three
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or if we go To tie this, chapter two always
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either right before or right after you have husband, and
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wife you have children, and parents and you have slaves.
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And masters these are household. Old codes so the first
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thing we see about a man's leadership in his household
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is this that a man's leadership in his household goes
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to his government of all the affairs of. HIS home
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a man's leadership in his household goes to the government
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of all the affairs in. His, Home, first yes there
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is the idea of a man in his headship and
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his leadership with. His, wife unfortunately for many, of us
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that's sort of where. We stop the whole thing is
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about who is the man the head of. His, marriage
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yeah the man's ahead of, his marriage but please don't.
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Stop there the man is also the head of his
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household as it relates to the training and discipleship of,
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his children which means men cannot and must not abdicate
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when it comes to the training and discipleship of. Their
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children here's the. Great irony the great irony is we
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have men who want to stand up and pound. Their
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Chests the, BIBLE says i am. THE head i am
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the head of. My marriage so when my WIFE and
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i have, A disagreement i have the. Last word, hey
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rah good. For you let me ask, you this are
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you the chief and principal discipler of. Your children, We'll
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see we'll see when my WIFE and i when when
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when we when, we're when when we're Trying To i'm
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i'm the boss. Of her have you laid a roadmap
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for how your children learned to believe the right things
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in order that they might be transformed By? THE gospel i,
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would see you would See, the Yeah the bible says that,
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my wife she's supposed. To see that's where we want.
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To end but the, text, says fathers do not provoke
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your children, to anger but bring them up in the
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discipline and instruction Of. The lord does this mean that
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my wife doesn't have a role to play in the
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discipleship of. My, children no any more than it means
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if my wife doesn't have a role to play in
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any of the other aspects of our. Family life but
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the idea here IS that i am to exercise headship
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when it comes to the discipleship of. My children we have,
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Lost this we have. Missed this and let me say
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a word in particular to those of you who are considering.
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The ministry there has been an idea in. Generations past
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you take Care of god's Business and he'll take care of.
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Your family the same idea is the idea that has
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allowed evangelists to be world renowned while they, spend, three,
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four five six months at a time away from their
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families and the name of Serving. The lord this attitude
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has been the excuse for pastors who devote their lives
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to taking care of the problems in everyone else's household
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while they neglect. Their family so commonly that we have
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a phrase called THE p k which refers to, these, neglected,
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untrained undisciplined undiscipled children who grew up in pastors households
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but were not. Disciple there and, it's sin pure. And
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simple my, first calling my first ministry is To be,
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bridget's Husband And, Jasmine, Trey, Elijah Asher, judah Micah and. Sophia's,
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father yep, this many that's. My job go and make
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the Disciples of panta tapes every. People group we love that.
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Great commission don't we baptize them in the name Of, The,
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father Son The, holy spirit teaching them to observe all
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the Things that i've. Taught you let me ask, you
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this HOW dare i do that out there and not
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do it? At home HOW dare i disciple your children
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and fail to. Disciple mine that is my duty as.
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A father this, last one we're uncomfortable with this idea
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of a father and his headship in the context of
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a slave. Master relationship let me explain this. To you
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and this one it used to be difficult for me.
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As well there's a family in our church who got
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an opportunity to move To The, middle east and they're
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In The. Middle east this individual is. A pilot he
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was recruited by an airline over In The. Middle east
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there in the country where, they live it is common
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for households to. Have servants in fact that you can't
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find a place to rent there that doesn't have servants.
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Quarters attached it is just. Absolutely come it's the air,
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they breathe it's the way. Things, are well he's there
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for a, little while and, you know, we're skyping we're
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keeping up with, one ANOTHER and i have had two
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opportunities now to go and visit with them there In
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The middle east and to, preach there and it's. Been
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incredible but here's what began. TO happen i began to
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get these messages from him and we began to Talk
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on skype about the incredible things that were going on with,
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their maid, their servant this woman from another country who
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is In That middle eastern country basically to serve as
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a servant as. A housemaid the airline that hired him
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pays him a salary also pays for them to have,
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a housemaid and some incredible things began, to happen like
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they began to invite their maid and her husband into
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their household with them for family worship, every day and
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as a result, of It This sri lankan maid and
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her husband. Were converted not only Was This sri lankan
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maid and her, husband converted But Other sri lankan maids
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began to hear about the relationship that this woman had
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with her master as they, call them and would just
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sort of show up around the house from time. To
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time and when they showed up around, the house they
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would be invited to join the family and. Family worship
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and so long, story short my first trip to go
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visit them In The, middle east first opportunity to go
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and preach there A number i had the privilege of
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going out into the Ocean in dubai And The United.
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Arab immirates here's The. Birds dubai you know that huge
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hotel that looks like the sale of. A boat i'm
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standing in the shadow of, A. Bird Dubai there's, muslims eirwhere, not,
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everywhere airwhere that's. Beyond everywhere. All right they're at the
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beach with the hijab on the whole nine YARDS and
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i walk out into the Ocean Baptizing sri lankan maids.
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And BUTLERS can i just tell you the church? REAL
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quick i, was scared thanks people going to. Drown me
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what an incredible? Testimony is people came over to ask what's?
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Going on? The household codes a man shepherding, his wife
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his children and, his Servants and god blessing. The work
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male leadership in the home. Is comprehensive you're responsible to
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set the trajectory for your entire household in the time that.
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We have let me say THIS because i want this to.
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Be clear male headship in the home is not something
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that is achieved. Through domination it's something that. Requires submission,
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in fact look with me beginning of verse, twenty four verse.
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Twenty two. I'm sorry notice he doesn't say husbands make your.
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Wives submit he says in verse twenty, two wives submit
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to your own husband's as To, the lord for the
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husband is the head of. The wife Even as christ
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is ahead of, the church his body and Is himself.
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It's savior now as the church Submits, to christ so
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also wives should submit in everything to. Their husbands this
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is not something that's forced on. A wife this IS
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why i say to, young men if you find a
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young woman that you're interested in and she, is, unsubmissive
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run do, not, pass go do not collect two hundred
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dollars get. Out now by, the WAY when i say,
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SHE'S unsubmissive i don't mean she submissive, to you because
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she's not called to be submissive. TO you i get that.
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Sometimes too, you know, my girlfriend she's not really submissive.
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To me my response to that complaint is always good. For,
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her yeah but she's supposed to, be, Submissive right yeah to.
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Her husband put a ring on. Her finger have you married,
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her yet then she must not submit. To you well wait.
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A minute if she's not supposed to submit to me
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until i'm, her husband then HOW will i know if?
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She's submissive watch her with? Her? Father why because that's
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the only context wherein she is now commanded to submit to. Male,
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headship yeah but you don't know her father's relationship. WITH
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her i. Don't, care yeah well. YOU know i mean
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they're just like special. Mitigating circumstances REALLY because i, don't
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care because a daughter's submission to her father is not
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based on her, Father's worthiness it's Based on. God's command
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now HERE'S what i want to, ask. You sir what
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makes you think that this woman will find an excuse
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not to submit to the man who gave her birth
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and shelter. And food but somehow you're gonna be so
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fine that she'll just gladly submit. To you you better.
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Wake up if she doesn't submit to her father because
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her father, is flawed then she will not submit to you, because, you,
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too sir. Are flawed and if you marry an, unsubmissive
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woman you're in a world. Of hurt how you what
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are you? Gonna do are you're gonna arm wrestle her
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for leadership in? Your home the, next, context children obey
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your parents And, the lord for this. Is right honor
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your father. And mother this is the, first commandment with
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the promise that they may go well with you and
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that you may live in. The land children are called
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and commanded to submit to their parents the command It
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to It is god who. Calls this when it comes
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to slaves in, their masters go down to. Verse five
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slaves obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling with a,
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sincere heart as You. Would christ so in each of,
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These contexts god does, not, say sir you are the
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head of. Your household you must rule with an iron
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fist and force everyone in your home to bow the knee.
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To you. Absolutely not the idea is that they submit
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to you out of Reverence. For god so if someone
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is not submitting to you within the context of, your household,
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first thing meaning to know this, is universal your head
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sip in. Your, household secondly it requires submission from those under.
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Your leadership but how do they achieve that by you?
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Shepherding them, that's how by you. Shepherding them what do
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you do with? Your wife go back to five point. Twenty,
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five husbands love your Wives as. Christ Love the church
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gave himself up for her that he might, sanctify her
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having cleansed her by the washing of water with, the
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word so that he might Present the church to himself
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and splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such thing
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that she might be holy and, without blemish in the
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same way husbands ought to love their wives as their.
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Own bodies when men come to me, and, say oh
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my wife has a, Submission, problem, okay fine she has a,
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submission problem and she has to deal with That. Before
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god but let me ask you. A question are you?
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Discipling her she being washed with the water Of. The
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word are you bringing the true Truths Of god's word
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to bear in her life so that she is being
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built up and sanctified? In him are you living, with
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Her as peter Says In first, peter three, chapter three,
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verse seven in an, understanding manner as with a. Weaker
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vessel are you praying? For her are you falling on
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your face before A holy god begging him to sanctify?
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Your wife or are you merely pointing your finger at
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her saying you are? Not submitting with, your children how
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do you get? Them, there fathers do not provoke your children,
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to anger but bring them up in the discipline and
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instruction Of. The lord are you discipling? Your children is
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your discipline designed to bring them to the cross or
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merely to? Outward obedience with your servants the good, Verse
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nine masters do the same, to them stop, your threatening
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Knowing that he who is both their master and yours
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is in heaven and that there is no partiality. With
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him are you conducting yourself as a Follower Of jesus
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christ And bringing god's word to bear in all the
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relationships within the context and confines of, your home that
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the result might be that your discipleship would bear fruit
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in the lives of everyone Over whom god has given.
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You charge and how different is this? From? Me man,
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you woman, me speak? You do this is the picture
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of biblical leadership in the context and confines of. The
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home this is what it means for a man to
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lead in. His household there's a final, piece here and
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the final piece here goes back to what we spoke
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about on. Last, night remember this is all About, what
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christ his body and, its unity the Glory of christ
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manifested in, his body, the church and in. Its unity
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that's what we see in the indicative half Of the Book,
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of ephesians those first. Three chapters now we get to
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the imperative half Of the Book, of ephesians these last.
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Three chapters and remember. These imperatives we have the ability
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to accomplish these imperatives because Of what christ has done.
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In us we've seen that in the first, three chapters
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and we are motivated to accomplish These imperative why because
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of our desire as Followers of christ To see his
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glory manifested and magnified in those Places where he has given.
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Us dominion so what's? Your desire what's my desire when
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it comes to my wife and my headship being exercised
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there here it is my relationship with my wife is,
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a living breathing illustration of the Relationship Between jesus christ And.
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HIS church i desire to exercise biblical christ honoring headship
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in my marriage because it is a Picture, of christ
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and for me not to exercise that kind of headship
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in my marriage is a blasphemous act Against my Lord
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and Savior, And Master. Jesus christ my desire for my
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wife to submit to me is not just SO that
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i can, feel powerful but my desire is centered around
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the fact that she has called to submit to me As,
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to christ that her submission to me is actually an
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act of Worship. Toward christ so a wife who is
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not submissive to her husband has a. Worship disorder first,
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and foremost my headship with my wife centers around my
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desire for her to be sanctified and built up as
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a Member of. Christ's body but not only is she
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a Member of, Christ's body she's a member of my
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body in this mysterious one. FLESH union i don't know
45:42
who first said it, to ME but i keep it in.
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My mind she's not, just mine. She's me she's not.
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Just mine. She's me is bone of my bone and
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flesh of. My flesh so my desire is to see
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her built up because she's a member of the Body,
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of CHRIST and i desire his body to be built
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up and for him to fill. ALL things a desire
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for our unity has to do with the fact that
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she's a member of my body. As well we are.
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One flesh she's not, just mine. She's, me also this
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picture that we paint of the Relationship between christ And
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his church has an impact first and foremost on, our
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children who see this on a, daily basis but secondly on,
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our servants who also see this on a. Daily basis
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so there is this picture of the truth Of the
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gospel that we proclaim that is being lived out in
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the context of this. Marriage relationship it does not replace.
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The gospel it is not, the gospel but it reinforces
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the message of. The gospel that changes, My focus that changes.
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My everything when a man comes to me, And says,
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I'M finished i can't do. It anymore. I'm leaving where, you?
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Going sir you can't? Do, THAT yes. I, can't no.
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You can't you're her head head can't leave. The body
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you don't want to running? Around HEADLESS why i don't understand.
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All that i'm. Just, leaving no you can't leave where.
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You're going go love. Your wife you're commanded to love.
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Your wife husbands love. Your Wives just christ Love. The
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church my desire for my children is what that my
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children would come To. Know christ fathers do not provoke
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the children, of anger but bring them up in the
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discipline and instruction Of. The lord what is my desire with?
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My children that they would make me proud and become
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doctors and lawyers and quarterbacks. And whatever my desire for
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my children is that they Walk. With god my desire
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first and foremost is that they would. Be saved my
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desire is that they Would, know christ and that desire
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must lead all. Other desires everything else must take a
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back seat. To that why first half of The, book
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christ his body and the. UNITY thereof i want my
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children to be part of the Body. OF christ i
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want my children to. BE redeemed I want christ to
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be glorified as my children come to Faith. IN him
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i Want the father to be glorified As the son
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give my Children to him as a gift that is
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then reciprocated Because the father first entrusted them. To HIM
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and i know that this happens through the proclamation Of.
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The GOSPEL so i Preached the gospel to my children
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again and again. And again and my desire for their
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obedience to my headship has to do with Them, knowing
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christ not with. IMPRESSING you i want. THEIR hearts i
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want Them. Saved god mather also made an Argument that
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i've just never been able to get. Away from, he
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says as you look at, your children remember that that
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sin nature from which they need to be delivered was
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Inherited from adam. Through you you gave it. To them
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rid them of it if. You can they suffer on
50:00
the curse directly. Through you do everything that you can
50:06
to deliver them. From, that oh how many parents have
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fallen on their Face before god praying that their child
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would get into the, right school but have not spent
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one Hour begging god that their child might get. INTO
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heaven i want my children saved first, and foremost and
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so my headship and my leadership and my home as
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it relates to, my children must center around this desire
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above and before, all else that they Might know christ
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in the pardon of. Their sins this is. Real headship
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why is? This important why is it important that we
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know the opposition that is. Out there why is it
51:02
important that we fight for. This ground here's why it's
51:05
important that we fight for. This ground first, And foremost
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it's important that we fight for this ground because people
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are not just arguing, against us they're Arguing. AGAINST god
51:17
i don't write, THE mail i just. Deliver it and
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it is important that we refute those who contradict Sound
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doctrine titus. One nine that is my job to refute
51:31
those who contradict. Sound doctrine here's the second reason that this.
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Is important if the picture of male headship in the
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home is an illustration of the Relationship between christ and,
51:42
his church then anything that would mar that image is
51:49
actually working to profane the Truth. About christ we can't
51:56
have that here's the. Other problem god has designed marriage
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to function in a way that brings glory to his
52:09
name and that fulfills, his design and that design centers around.
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Male headship if we undermine this, fundamental truth we begin
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to Undo all so what do. We see we see
52:27
marriages that are shipwrecked because of a failure to understand.
52:32
This issue we see wives that wrestle with and run
52:36
away from submission to, their husbands listening to and sounding
52:40
more like. The feminists we see men who have no
52:46
idea whatsoever what real, headship is which results in either
52:50
passivity in men where they completely fade to, the background
52:55
or hyper masculinity in men where they turn, into rambo
53:04
neither of which. Is acceptable the idea is for biblical.
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MALE headship a man who understands, his role doesn't back
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down from, his role doesn't apologize for, his role and
53:23
is terrified because he understands the magnitude of. His responsibility that's.
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The picture now you go and. Do likewise, Let's, pray
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father thank you that you have not left us to
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wander aimlessly in, the dark but has spoken clearly to
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the most pertinent issues in our lives and to our
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deepest needs grant that we might hear and heed your
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Truth for, christ's sake for, his glory for. His. Honor
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amen