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1 Peter 3:7 - Husbands Must Honor the Weaker Vessel · The Bible Explained with Jenn Kokal

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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Well, howdy and good morning, all of you
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Speaker 1: faithful listeners. Thank you for being here on the Bible
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Speaker 1: Explained podcast and for sharing a delicious cup of coffee
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Speaker 1: with me or cup of tea as we discuss the
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Speaker 1: next portion of 1 Peter 3. So we're going to
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Speaker 1: see about the husbands today. How does a husband submit
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Speaker 1: to God? in his marriage relationship. Now I'll just tell
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Speaker 1: you guys straight out, it's not the same as the woman's.
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Speaker 1: The woman's role in all of this is submission, but
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Speaker 1: the man's role is understanding and honoring. So we will
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Speaker 1: get into this first topic, but before we do that,
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Speaker 1: please listen to one of my sponsors. All right, so
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Speaker 1: this is the longest passage I think I've ever read
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Speaker 1: in scripture before. It is one verse. That was a joke.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think I've ever talked about just
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Speaker 1: one verse. Usually with a short portion, it's like three
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Speaker 1: or four, maybe two or three verses. But no, we
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Speaker 1: are talking about one verse today. So grab your Bible
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Speaker 1: out of the version that you prefer and turn to
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Speaker 1: 1 Peter 3, 7. I'll be reading this verse from
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Speaker 1: the W.E.B. You husbands, in the same way, live with
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Speaker 1: your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman
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Speaker 1: as to the weaker vessel, as also being joint heirs
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Speaker 1: of the grace of life. that your prayers may not
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Speaker 1: be hindered. In the past few days on the podcast,
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Speaker 1: we've been talking about Peter's call to submission, how all
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Speaker 1: Christians must submit to Christ. And we actually do this
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Speaker 1: by submitting to other people, by being kind and compassionate
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Speaker 1: and understanding in whatever area of life we find ourselves in.
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Speaker 1: So Peter already mentioned three categories of things. The first
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Speaker 1: one in 1 Peter 2 says, was submission to government authorities.
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Speaker 1: And we talked about how we can do that while
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Speaker 1: not compromising on our faith. How do you submit to
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Speaker 1: an evil government or a government that we really hate
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Speaker 1: or that's doing bad things while still maintaining our faith
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Speaker 1: in Christ? So that was, I think, two weeks ago
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Speaker 1: that we talked about that. Then we talked about how
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Speaker 1: servants should submit to their masters. Now, of course, nowadays,
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Speaker 1: we don't really have slavery the same way that it
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Speaker 1: existed in the days of Peter, thankfully, because in the
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Speaker 1: days of Peter, 50% of the populace was a slave
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Speaker 1: of some sort. So these slaves, if they were Christian,
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Speaker 1: needed to learn how to submit to their earthly masters,
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Speaker 1: while again, not compromising their faith in Christ. And then
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Speaker 1: the last category that Peter talks about is the marriage
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Speaker 1: relationship how we are to submit to God by submitting
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Speaker 1: to our spouse. And we talked first about wives, that
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Speaker 1: wives can submit to God by submitting to their own husbands, actually,
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Speaker 1: because if any of them don't obey the word, they
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Speaker 1: may be won over by the behavior of their wives
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Speaker 1: without a word. So wives essentially can play a part
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Speaker 1: in their husband's salvation. But even if a Christian wife
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Speaker 1: is married to a Christian husband, there still should be
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Speaker 1: submission in that relationship. because that is how things have
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Speaker 1: been ordained here on earth. But we'll get more to
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Speaker 1: that point in a moment, starting in 1 Peter 3,
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Speaker 1: verse 7. It says, you husbands in the same way.
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Speaker 1: So we've seen that phrase a couple times now. Actually,
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Speaker 1: in verse 1, before Peter starts talking to the wives,
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Speaker 1: he says, in the same way, wives. So what is
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Speaker 1: this same way? Well, again, it's all the talk of
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Speaker 1: submission to God in our relationships that we have with
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Speaker 1: other people. How can we submit to God in every
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Speaker 1: aspect of our lives? So for husbands in the marriage relationship,
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Speaker 1: here's how they submit to God. By living with your
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Speaker 1: wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman as
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Speaker 1: to the weaker vessel, as being joint heirs of the
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Speaker 1: grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Speaker 1: And that is the only thing that Peter says to
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Speaker 1: the husbands. There's only one verse for the husbands here.
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Speaker 1: But there is so much information in this verse as
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Speaker 1: to what husbands should do and how they should treat
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Speaker 1: their wives in a godly sort of way. It says
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Speaker 1: first to live with your wives according to knowledge. Depending
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Speaker 1: on the version you read, it might say something like
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Speaker 1: live with your wives in an understanding way. I think
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Speaker 1: that's actually the NLT version. I kind of wish that
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Speaker 1: I would have brought my husband on for this podcast episode,
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Speaker 1: but I didn't. So I apologize to you men ahead
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Speaker 1: of time if I am making assumptions that may not
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Speaker 1: be correct about your guys's nature. But I'm going to
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Speaker 1: do the best I can as a wife of 11
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Speaker 1: and a half years. But sometimes when I talk to
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Speaker 1: my husband about an issue, he just doesn't seem to
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Speaker 1: understand or get it. because he thinks about it in
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Speaker 1: a very different way. And, you know, I've even heard
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Speaker 1: men say things like that they just don't understand their wives,
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Speaker 1: you know, something that seemed right the first day is
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Speaker 1: wrong the second day. And, you know, they just seem
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Speaker 1: to change their minds so often. And women are so
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Speaker 1: complicated and very, very hard to understand. This could cause
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Speaker 1: a lot of men to pull back from his marriage,
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Speaker 1: maybe go to work more often so that he doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be home as often. Maybe stop asking questions,
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Speaker 1: stop trying to pursue a relationship with his wife. If
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Speaker 1: he has a tendency toward lust, he might go out
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Speaker 1: and try to find somebody that he thinks will fulfill
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Speaker 1: his needs better. And these are all things that Peter
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Speaker 1: is encouraging these men just not to do. To instead
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Speaker 1: pursue a relationship with the wife in knowledge and in understanding.
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Speaker 1: And you might be like, well, Jen, that seems so
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Speaker 1: unfair because when I get home at night, My life
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Speaker 1: is miserable. You know, my wife is naggy and she's
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Speaker 1: complaining all the time. And it just feels like a
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Speaker 1: dark cloud is over my house. And I want to
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Speaker 1: retreat somewhere else. I get that. And I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to downplay any of that. But remember what Peter is
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Speaker 1: talking about with all of this. In each of these situations,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to submission to the government, submission to
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Speaker 1: an earthly master who may be cruel, submission in the
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Speaker 1: marriage relationship to somebody who could be very difficult, In
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Speaker 1: all three of these situations, he is telling us that
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Speaker 1: sometimes it is better to put the spiritual well-being of
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Speaker 1: another person ahead of our personal comfort. So if we
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Speaker 1: love Jesus and we love our spouses, even though they
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Speaker 1: are difficult and condescending and hard to be around, we
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Speaker 1: can still show them the love of Jesus, even though
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Speaker 1: it is difficult and painful. I can tell you that
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Speaker 1: the times when my husband and I have fought in
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Speaker 1: the past, those are some of the darkest, most depressing
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Speaker 1: times of my life. Even with all of the health
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Speaker 1: concerns I've had over the years, I would honestly rather
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Speaker 1: have health concerns than fight with my husband. That is
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Speaker 1: how much I hate being in conflict with my spouse.
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Speaker 1: And I know that many of you listening to this
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Speaker 1: can feel and understand that exact same thing. You hate
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Speaker 1: the conflict. You hate when your spouse is disrespectful to
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Speaker 1: you or doesn't treat you with kindness or puts hers
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Speaker 1: or his needs above yours. These things are so hard
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Speaker 1: to handle. And yet Peter is actually encouraging us for
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Speaker 1: the sake of the gospel message to show love to
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Speaker 1: our spouses who are being very difficult. And in the
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Speaker 1: case of husbands right here, That means to live with
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Speaker 1: your wives according to knowledge, to live with them in
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Speaker 1: an understanding way, not to pull away from them or
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Speaker 1: try to find somebody better or just say, I'm the
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Speaker 1: man of the house and I can do what I want. No,
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Speaker 1: to treat your wives, even if they're difficult, with respect.
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Speaker 1: And for both cases, you know, I don't believe that
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Speaker 1: Peter is saying if somebody is beating the tar out
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Speaker 1: of you, that you need to stay in that relationship
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Speaker 1: and continue on with the abuse and You know, never
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Speaker 1: protect yourself or your children. And by the way, both
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Speaker 1: women and men can be caught up in physically abusive relationships. Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: But I don't think that's what Peter is saying here.
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Speaker 1: I do think you should protect yourself if you're in
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Speaker 1: a physically abusive relationship. And if your spouse sleeps with
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Speaker 1: another person, then those are the grounds in scripture in
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Speaker 1: which you can get divorced in the eyes of God.
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Speaker 1: I think what he's saying is if you live with
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Speaker 1: somebody who is difficult, who is not a Christian, who
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Speaker 1: does not live the way that they should be living
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Speaker 1: and maybe is insulting or condescending or mistreats you in
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Speaker 1: some way, is there a chance that you could be
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Speaker 1: a light to that person? Because you obviously loved that
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Speaker 1: person when you married them, right? So If you love
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Speaker 1: that person and you also love Jesus, then you're going
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Speaker 1: to want your spouse to experience the love of Jesus also,
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Speaker 1: especially if they do not. Now, hopefully both spouses are
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Speaker 1: Christians and a lot of these issues will go away
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Speaker 1: because if the husband is doing what scripture tells him
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Speaker 1: to do by loving his wife and living with her
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Speaker 1: in an understanding way and giving honor to her and
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Speaker 1: all these things, and the wife is showing respect to
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Speaker 1: her husband and letting him be the head and not
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Speaker 1: talking down to him and doing what scripture tells her
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Speaker 1: to do, then that makes for an excellent marriage relationship.
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Speaker 1: But unfortunately, because of the fallen sin nature, that is
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Speaker 1: just not how things are. You know, because if you
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Speaker 1: go back to the story in Genesis chapter 3, when
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Speaker 1: the man and the woman fell, their marriage relationship was
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Speaker 1: immediately affected. because the husband blames his wife for the
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Speaker 1: sins that he committed. And then as part of the curse,
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Speaker 1: God told the man and the woman that there's going
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Speaker 1: to be just this fighting among them basically for until
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Speaker 1: the time that Jesus comes back again, which we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that in just a little bit here. But going
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Speaker 1: back to this verse, the first thing that husbands do
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Speaker 1: weaker vessel. So you're actually supposed to honor the woman
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Speaker 1: as you would something that is very precious to you.
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Speaker 1: For example, you know, my dog Bandit, he is very old.
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Speaker 1: I have had him since high school. I love that
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Speaker 1: dog so much. Like he is my most prized possession.
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Speaker 1: And yet because of his age, he can barely walk.
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Speaker 1: He has a limp, He is a very weak dog.
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Speaker 1: And yet I love that dog so much. I am
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Speaker 1: going to be literally devastated when that dog dies. He
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Speaker 1: is a weak little thing that I hold with a
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Speaker 1: lot of honor. So just because something is weak does
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Speaker 1: not mean it has lesser value. In fact, the opposite
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Speaker 1: is often true. Something that we have that's weak is
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Speaker 1: often given a lot more value because of its weak nature.
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Speaker 1: For example, um, on my piano right now, I have
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of little Dutch ornaments. You know, they're
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Speaker 1: made of ceramic and they have that really pretty blue
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Speaker 1: paint on them. And I have this like tile that
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Speaker 1: I actually purchased in Amsterdam that is like an original
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Speaker 1: Delft tile. And I love this thing. It's a prized
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Speaker 1: possession that I have. And I display it proudly on
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Speaker 1: my piano and I dust it off every, I don't know,
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Speaker 1: two months or so. And I far less than I should. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, it sits there and I get joy from
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Speaker 1: it just looking at it. But when I purchased that tile,
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Speaker 1: I remember taking so much care to wrap it so
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Speaker 1: that it would not break on the trip back home
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Speaker 1: because I didn't have any like bubble wrap or packing
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Speaker 1: paper or anything like that. So I had to like
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Speaker 1: wrap a whole bunch of t-shirts around it to keep
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Speaker 1: it nice and safe. That is how the men should
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Speaker 1: be treating their wives. as something that is worthy of
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Speaker 1: honor because they are the weaker vessel. Not being upset
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Speaker 1: over the fact that their wives are weaker. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, for any of you women that are upset
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Speaker 1: with what I'm saying here, you shouldn't be because go
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Speaker 1: try arm wrestling your husband. Chances are you are not
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Speaker 1: going to win unless your husband is like very, very
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Speaker 1: sick or something. The vast majority of women are physically
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Speaker 1: weaker than men, just across the board. No matter what
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Speaker 1: anybody tells you, I'm sorry, you are physically weaker than men,
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Speaker 1: even if you don't want to be. But that is
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Speaker 1: how God created us to be. We are physically weaker,
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Speaker 1: and that's not something to dishonor or look at as
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Speaker 1: lesser than. It's actually something to honor, Peter says right here.
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Speaker 1: And unfortunately, men throughout the ages have not honored that
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Speaker 1: about women. They've looked down on women because they are
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Speaker 1: the weaker vessel. So Peter tells them, men, stop looking
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Speaker 1: down on your wives because they are not as physically
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Speaker 1: strong as you are. And by the way, Peter is
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Speaker 1: not saying that women have a physically weaker mind, that
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Speaker 1: they're physically weaker morally or spiritually or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: He's saying that they have a weaker vessel. Consistently throughout scripture,
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Speaker 1: the word vessel is used to describe our bodies. For example,
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Speaker 1: in 2 Timothy 2, 20 and 21, it says, Now
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Speaker 1: in a large house, there are not only vessels of
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Speaker 1: gold and of silver, but also of wood and clay.
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Speaker 1: Some are for honor and some for dishonor. If anyone
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Speaker 1: therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel
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Speaker 1: for honor, sanctified and suitable for the master's use, prepared
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Speaker 1: for every good work. And then in 2 Corinthians 4,
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Speaker 1: 6 and 7, it says, seeing it is God who says,
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Speaker 1: Light will shine out of the darkness... who is shown
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Speaker 1: in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge
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Speaker 1: of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 1: we have this treasure in clay vessels, in other words,
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Speaker 1: in our own bodies, that the exceeding greatness of the
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Speaker 1: power may be of God and not from ourselves. So
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Speaker 1: these bodies that we have, according to Peter and Paul,
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Speaker 1: are called vessels. So women have a weaker vessel, not
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Speaker 1: mind or intellect or anything like that. So the men
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Speaker 1: need to respect and honor the woman as the weaker vessel,
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Speaker 1: because here's what it says. Also being joint heirs of
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Speaker 1: the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
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Speaker 1: So this is one of the reasons why the men
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Speaker 1: need to be respectful of their wives. Because firstly, they
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Speaker 1: are joint heirs of the grace of life. And secondly,
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Speaker 1: because your prayers will not be hindered. This takes me
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Speaker 1: to Galatians chapter two, 26 through 29. It says for
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Speaker 1: you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Speaker 1: For as many of you as were baptized into Christ
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Speaker 1: have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek.
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Speaker 1: There is neither slave nor free man. There is neither
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Speaker 1: male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Speaker 1: If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring and
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Speaker 1: heirs according to promise. So every single Christian, has the
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Speaker 1: exact same inheritance in the eyes of God. So if
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Speaker 1: a husband is married to a Christian wife, then that
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Speaker 1: means that they are co-heirs of the blessings that God
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Speaker 1: is going to give them. They own it together. So
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Speaker 1: the men are not above the women. And likewise, the
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Speaker 1: women are not above the men. Everybody is equal in
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Speaker 1: the eyes of God. So this brings us to an
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Speaker 1: interesting point, which is that This order is not going
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Speaker 1: to exist when Jesus comes again. The order of the
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Speaker 1: man being the head of the household. That is just
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Speaker 1: a temporary thing because of the sin nature. Let's go
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Speaker 1: over to Genesis 3 and read verses 11 through 16.
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Speaker 1: This is right after the woman took of the fruit
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Speaker 1: and then the man took of the fruit. So they
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Speaker 1: God said,' Who told you that you were naked?' Have
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Speaker 1: you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not
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Speaker 1: to eat from? The man said, The woman whom you
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Speaker 1: gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit
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Speaker 1: from the tree and I ate it. Yahweh God said
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Speaker 1: to the woman, What have you done? The woman said,
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Speaker 1: to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are
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Speaker 1: cursed above all livestock and above every animal of the field.
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Speaker 1: You shall go on your belly and you shall eat
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Speaker 1: dust all the days of your life. I will put
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Speaker 1: hostility between you and the woman and and between your
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Speaker 1: offspring and her offspring, and he will bruise your head
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Speaker 1: and you will bruise his heel. To the woman he said,
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Speaker 1: I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will
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Speaker 1: bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband,
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Speaker 1: and he will rule over you. To Adam he said,
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Speaker 1: Because you have listened to your wife's voice and have
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Speaker 1: eaten from the tree which I commanded you, saying you
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Speaker 1: shall not eat of it, the ground is cursed for
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Speaker 1: your sake. You will eat from it with much labor
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Speaker 1: all the days of your life. It will yield thorns
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Speaker 1: of the field. You will eat bread by the sweat
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Speaker 1: of your face until you return to the ground. For
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Speaker 1: and you shall return to dust. So that is the
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Speaker 1: curse of the sin nature. And you can tell that
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Speaker 1: this curse was already in play before God even told
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Speaker 1: it to the man and the woman, because like it says,
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Speaker 1: the man immediately blamed his wife for the sin that
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Speaker 1: he committed. So already there was hostility in the marriage relationship,
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Speaker 1: but it was not like that before the curse. That
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Speaker 1: was a result of sin. And thankfully now when Jesus
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Speaker 1: comes back again, that curse is going to be lifted
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Speaker 1: completely and there will be complete unity among the sexes.
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Speaker 1: So that is the first reason why a husband must
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Speaker 1: treat his wife with honor and in an understanding way.
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Speaker 1: because he understands that his position in the marriage relationship
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Speaker 1: is only temporary. It's only for the here and now.
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Speaker 1: And his wife has innate value. And this is something
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Speaker 1: that the men in Peter's day just wouldn't have understood, right?
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Speaker 1: Because they were the patriarchs of their family. In fact,
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Speaker 1: I mentioned on Thursday that that even the way Peter
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Speaker 1: ordered this letter by addressing the women first, that was
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Speaker 1: super counter-cultural because nobody ever addressed the women. They only
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Speaker 1: would address the men, knowing that the men were the
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Speaker 1: heads of the households. And that is true. The men are,
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Speaker 1: according to scripture and according to all of history, the
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Speaker 1: heads of the household, again, because of the sin nature.
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Speaker 1: So Peter here is trying to form a stronger bond
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Speaker 1: in a marriage relationship that is broken because of sin.
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Speaker 1: And every single one of our marriage relationships is in
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Speaker 1: fact broken in some way, because again, we are all
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Speaker 1: fallen individuals. Sometimes I treat my husband like crap. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: my husband comes home grouchy and he doesn't treat me
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Speaker 1: with respect. These are things that are going to happen
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Speaker 1: in a marriage relationship, regardless of who you marry. But
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Speaker 1: someday it will not be like that. And that is
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Speaker 1: something we can look forward to, that we will be
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Speaker 1: in complete unity with Jesus and also with the men
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Speaker 1: and women in our lives. And lastly, Peter says right
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Speaker 1: here to treat your wife with honor so that your
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Speaker 1: own prayers may not be hindered. So actually the men
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Speaker 1: can potentially damage their relationship. with God if they do
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Speaker 1: not treat their wives with any kind of respect or honor.
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Speaker 1: Because again, God does not play favorites. He does not
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Speaker 1: look at the wife in her vulnerable position, in her
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Speaker 1: weaker vessel, as something that should be mistreated. He looks
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Speaker 1: at her as his own creation, as a child of God.
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Speaker 1: So of course, if a husband is mistreating his wife,
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Speaker 1: then that's going to affect his own prayer life and
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Speaker 1: his own relationship with God. The same way that any
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Speaker 1: of us treating another person with contempt or unforgiveness or
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Speaker 1: unkindness would damage our relationships with God. But the men
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Speaker 1: of Peter's time didn't really understand that. They thought that
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Speaker 1: they truly had complete authority to do whatever they wanted
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Speaker 1: to do. They could divorce their wives at a whim.
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Speaker 1: They could marry another. They could look down at their
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Speaker 1: wives because their wives are not as strong as they are.
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Speaker 1: They could really treat their wives however they wanted in
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Speaker 1: their own minds. So Peter is telling them something that
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Speaker 1: many of them may have not considered before, that how
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Speaker 1: they treat their wife may impact their own relationship with
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Speaker 1: God in some way. I'm not saying that men who
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Speaker 1: mistreat their wives are automatically going to hell. I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying that at all. But it does damage part of
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Speaker 1: the relationship, specifically the part that includes prayer. So husbands,
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Speaker 1: if you want a good relationship with God, maybe there's
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Speaker 1: something that you've been praying for that God just does
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Speaker 1: not seem to be answering. Maybe there's something that you
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Speaker 1: want in life that you just don't seem to be getting,
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Speaker 1: no matter how many prayers you're praying to God. That
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Speaker 1: might be a sign for you to... analyze your own
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Speaker 1: marriage relationship. How am I treating my wife? Am I
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Speaker 1: treating her the way that Jesus would treat a woman?
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Speaker 1: Or am I treating her with disrespect? Depending on how
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Speaker 1: your prayer life is with God, it might be a
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Speaker 1: really good gauge for seeing how your relationship is with
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Speaker 1: your own wives. Well, faithful listeners, I hope that you
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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed today's episode. And I hope that you were
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Speaker 1: convicted by it or learned something from it both the
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Speaker 1: men and the women. You know, the one thing that
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Speaker 1: I don't want either men or women to do is
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Speaker 1: to take the episodes that I do about marriage and
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Speaker 1: be like, ha, see, told you, and like share it
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Speaker 1: to your husband and be like, look, you're not being
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Speaker 1: kind enough. So yeah, ladies, don't do that. And if
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Speaker 1: you feel the urge to do that, go back to
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Speaker 1: Thursday's episode and listen to it again. I know it
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Speaker 1: could be tempting. All right, faithful listeners, before I close
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Speaker 1: I told you guys there is a lot to that verse.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I think there's just as much to that
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Speaker 1: verse as there was to the six verses where Peter
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Speaker 1: was discussing the women on Thursday. So he has a
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Speaker 1: lot to say about the marriage relationship and how we
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Speaker 1: can make it better under Christ by submitting to Christ
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Speaker 1: and showing respect to the spouse that God gave us.
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Speaker 1: So faithful listeners, I hope that all of you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: another episode from Esther. We are flying through Esther. We're
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Speaker 1: going to be done, I think, next week with the
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Speaker 1: book of Esther. So yeah, then we'll be moving into
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Speaker 1: the book of Job, which I am very excited about.
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Speaker 1: That's going to be a fun, fun book and a
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Speaker 1: depressing book, but we're going to talk about what Job
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Speaker 1: is really about. So that'll be coming up in about
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Speaker 1: two weeks on the Bible Explained podcast. So faithful listeners,
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