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Voddie Baucham - Not of This World Session 3_ God's Design for Men and Women · Voddie Baucham Sermons

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  Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles with you, open them to
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  Speaker 1: the book of Ephesians. The book of Ephesians. And let's
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  Speaker 1: look there. Just, and while you're looking there, there are
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things I wanted to alert you to.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you have asked me about some of the
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  Speaker 1: things we talked about in the last session. And I
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  Speaker 1: just want to alert you to a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: that we have out there. You may be familiar with
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  Speaker 1: fault lines. Thank you for being familiar with fault lines.
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  Speaker 1: It was interesting. I've lived almost the last decade outside
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  Speaker 1: of the country, but the Lord just allowed me to
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  Speaker 1: still be involved with what was going on. And it
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  Speaker 1: was great to be able to just get all in
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff and be able to fly across
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  Speaker 1: the water. It was wonderful. And so Fault Lines, the
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  Speaker 1: social justice movement, and evangelicalism's looming catastrophe, and this sort
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  Speaker 1: of gets into a lot of the ideologies behind what
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  Speaker 1: we were dealing with. And then the latest one, this
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  Speaker 1: one is, Fault Lines was hard to get into stores.
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  Speaker 1: This one was almost impossible at times to get into stores.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why. The title is It's Not Like
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  Speaker 1: Being Black. How sexual activists hijack the civil rights movement.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea why they don't want that on
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  Speaker 1: the shelves. But in this, I get way into a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the stuff that we talked about earlier and
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  Speaker 1: some of the leaders, some of the thought leaders that
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  Speaker 1: have sort of gotten us where we are on human sexuality,
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  Speaker 1: Alfred Kinsey, John Money, some of these folks who were
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  Speaker 1: about as wicked and pernicious as they come. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you're interested in that, we've got those out there
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  Speaker 1: that can be helpful resources for you. So on that,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted us to look at in my last two
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  Speaker 1: sessions two issues that are very much related to all
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  Speaker 1: of this. There's a war being waged And it started,
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  Speaker 1: it seems, with a war on human sexuality, right? The
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  Speaker 1: whole homosexual movement before that, the feminist movement, both of
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  Speaker 1: them sort of conspiring against marriage as we know it.
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  Speaker 1: And then we went from arguing about and undermining our
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  Speaker 1: sexuality to undermining our very humanity right? What is a man?
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  Speaker 1: What is a woman? It may just seem like there
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  Speaker 1: are people who have some deviant desires and practices and
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  Speaker 1: they want to pursue those things. But when I look
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  Speaker 1: at Ephesians chapter 5, I see that what we're dealing
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  Speaker 1: with is an all-out assault on the God of the
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  Speaker 1: Bible and an all-out assault on the message of the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to just sort of lay that out
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  Speaker 1: for you by looking at some familiar texts, but in
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  Speaker 1: a broader context. So the book of Ephesians is divided
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  Speaker 1: right in half, right? First three chapters, last three chapters.
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  Speaker 1: Paul lets us know that there's this division. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to the end of chapter three, if you go
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  Speaker 1: to Ephesians 3, for example, Ephesians 3.20. Turn there. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to see this. When you spend any time
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  Speaker 1: in church, this is going to sound familiar to you.
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  Speaker 1: Not the verse necessarily, but what the verse is doing,
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  Speaker 1: what the verses are doing. Now to him who is
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  Speaker 1: able to do far more abundantly than we ask or think,
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  Speaker 1: according to the power at work within us, to him
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  Speaker 1: be glory in the church and and in Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. Now, what was that?
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  Speaker 1: That was a doxology. That was a doxology, right? Kind
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  Speaker 1: of we're at the end of a service, maybe something
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  Speaker 1: more formal, but that was a doxology, a doxology and
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  Speaker 1: an amen. That means I just finished something. Amen? Then
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  Speaker 1: chapter 4, verse 1, he starts with, I therefore, which means,
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  Speaker 1: just started something. Well, what did he finish in chapter 3,
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  Speaker 1: and then what did he start in chapter 4? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the first half of the book of Ephesians, the first
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  Speaker 1: three chapters are orthodoxy or right believing. The last three
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  Speaker 1: chapters are orthopraxy or right behaving, okay? The first three chapters,
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  Speaker 1: they give us a picture of who we are and
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  Speaker 1: what we have, As a result of what God has
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  Speaker 1: accomplished on our behalf through the person and work of Christ, right?
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  Speaker 1: Christ died for you. Christ redeemed you. And because Christ
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  Speaker 1: died for you and because Christ redeemed you, these are
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  Speaker 1: the things that are true about you. That's the first
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  Speaker 1: three chapters of the book of Ephesians. A bunch of indicatives, right?
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  Speaker 1: Indicatives and imperatives, right? For you grammar nerds out there, right?
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  Speaker 1: Indicatives tell you what something is, right? An indicative, this
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  Speaker 1: is a book, right? I'm just indicating what it is.
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  Speaker 1: An imperative, pick up the book. Tells you something to do.
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  Speaker 1: First half of Ephesians, there's just indicatives. First half of Ephesians,
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  Speaker 1: you're not being told to do anything. You're being told
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  Speaker 1: what to believe about yourself. because of what Christ has
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  Speaker 1: accomplished on your behalf. You're being told who you are
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  Speaker 1: and what you have, right? The imperatives come in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, and the imperatives are not divorced from the indicatives.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, in the second half, you have imperatives and
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  Speaker 1: indicatives together, right? So if the first half is all indicatives,
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  Speaker 1: And the second half is indicatives and imperatives, which is
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  Speaker 1: more important. The indicatives, right? Because you get them on
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  Speaker 1: both sides. And it's very important for us to understand
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  Speaker 1: that what we're called to do and how we're called
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  Speaker 1: to live is inexorably linked to who we are and
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  Speaker 1: what we have because of Christ's person and work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the letter, at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the second half, the practical half, the half that says,
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  Speaker 1: in light of who you are, this is how you live,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of it, we get the household codes.
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  Speaker 1: And the household codes start there in Ephesians chapter 5.
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  Speaker 1: And these household codes are there at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the practical half because there is nothing more practical than
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  Speaker 1: in the Christian life than how you live in your household.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing more practical than that. That's where you are
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  Speaker 1: who you are, right? You can fool people at church.
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  Speaker 1: Can't say amen, you ought to say ouch, right? You
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  Speaker 1: can fool people at church. And people, we do, we
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  Speaker 1: get fooled at church. And it just, there's always this
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  Speaker 1: massive letdown at church. For example, when people get divorced,
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  Speaker 1: when people get divorced, when their marriage is on the rocks, again,
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  Speaker 1: been in pastoral ministry. One of the great disappointments of
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  Speaker 1: pastoral ministry is that by the time a couple is
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  Speaker 1: coming to you with severe marital problems, it's been going
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  Speaker 1: on and they've been lying about it for years. For years.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Fine. Blessed and highly favored. It's all good.
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  Speaker 1: Until one day, pastor, it's a problem. That's okay. That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: We got this early. No, no, sorry. Not early. It's
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  Speaker 1: been a problem for a long time. It's over. We're done.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, we've been lying for years. But guess
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  Speaker 1: where they haven't been lying? At home. Amen, somebody. They
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  Speaker 1: haven't been lying at home. Their kids know. Guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: their kids know. Anybody who's been watching them live out
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  Speaker 1: and walk out their lives in that most practical place
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  Speaker 1: knows what's been going on because that's where the real is. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing more significant than that. Even when, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the pastoral epistles, when we're told to evaluate men
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  Speaker 1: for eldership, where are we told to look? We're not told, hey,
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  Speaker 1: go on their job. See how they do their job.
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  Speaker 1: See how they are at work. No. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: husband is he? What kind of father is he? Evaluate
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  Speaker 1: him there because in his home, That's where he is,
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  Speaker 1: who he really is. Amen? On resumes, you know, your
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  Speaker 1: first reference ought to be your spouse. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: people really want to know, that ought to be the
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  Speaker 1: first reference. Who you married to, right? I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to know who you work for because they might lie
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  Speaker 1: just to get rid of you and make you our problem, right?
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  Speaker 1: And so... When it all comes down, it's how do
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  Speaker 1: we live in our homes? So it's important for that reason.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also important because when you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis chapter 1, in the great creation chapter, God
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  Speaker 1: makes man in his image and in his likeness, right?
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  Speaker 1: And male and female. So our maleness and our femaleness
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  Speaker 1: and the interaction between our maleness and our femaleness is
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  Speaker 1: part and parcel of the way God reveals to us
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  Speaker 1: who he is. And in Ephesians chapter five, we're being
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  Speaker 1: told that. And all the great battles of the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of generations boil down to this. And they start with,
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  Speaker 1: they start with feminism. You start with feminism. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: go to another passage of Scripture. I want to show
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  Speaker 1: you this. Go to Romans. Just so you can see
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Beginning of verse 18. Romans 1.
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  Speaker 1: Romans 1. Romans 1, 18. For the wrath of God
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  Speaker 1: is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
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  Speaker 1: men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what
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  Speaker 1: can be known about God is plain to them, because
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  Speaker 1: he has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes,
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  Speaker 1: namely his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly
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  Speaker 1: perceived ever since the creation of the world in the
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  Speaker 1: things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
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  Speaker 1: For although they knew God, they did not honor him
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  Speaker 1: as God or give thanks to him. But they became
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  Speaker 1: futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
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  Speaker 1: Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the
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  Speaker 1: glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man
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  Speaker 1: and birds and animals and creeping things. There's the start
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  Speaker 1: of it. First of all, first, there is no God.
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  Speaker 1: We don't recognize God as creator. And because we don't
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  Speaker 1: recognize God as creator, we do not recognize God's created order.
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  Speaker 1: We don't recognize God's created order in terms of men
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  Speaker 1: and women and We don't recognize his created order in
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  Speaker 1: terms of marriage. We don't recognize his created order, sexuality,
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  Speaker 1: or anything else. We do not recognize God. Therefore, God
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  Speaker 1: gave them up in the lust of their hearts to impurity,
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  Speaker 1: to dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged
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  Speaker 1: the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and
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  Speaker 1: served the creature rather than the creator who was blessed forevermore. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not homosexuality. That's the sexual revolution. The sexual revolution
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  Speaker 1: precedes the homosexual devolution. First, it's sex without God's restraints.
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  Speaker 1: That's where we start first. First, it's the revolution of
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  Speaker 1: birth control so that we can separate sex from childbirth,
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  Speaker 1: which means we can separate sex from marriage. And it
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  Speaker 1: becomes a free-for-all. It becomes a free-for-all. And in that free-for-all,
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  Speaker 1: what we end up doing is severing an essential part
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  Speaker 1: of the relationship between men and women. and replacing it
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  Speaker 1: with a flimsy substitute. Verse 26, for this reason God
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  Speaker 1: gave them up to dishonorable passions, for their women exchanged
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  Speaker 1: natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. And
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  Speaker 1: the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and
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  Speaker 1: were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless
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  Speaker 1: acts with men and receiving in themselves adultery. the due
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  Speaker 1: penalty of their error. That's the next phase, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Phase one, there is no God. We break off our bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Phase two, there's the sexual revolution. We don't recognize marriage
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  Speaker 1: or the constraints around the sexual relationship. We break down
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  Speaker 1: the male-female relationship as it's intended to be. Phase three,
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  Speaker 1: now there are dishonorable passions. We break down the whole
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  Speaker 1: male-female construct. And now the final phase. And since they
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  Speaker 1: did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them
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  Speaker 1: up to a debased mind to do what ought not
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  Speaker 1: to be done. That one, just take it as far
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  Speaker 1: as you can, as far as the devious human mind
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  Speaker 1: can go, and we haven't seen the end of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad. It's bad. It's gotten so bad that even pagans...
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  Speaker 1: are standing up at school board meetings saying, enough already.
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  Speaker 1: Even pagans, right? But look at what we have here.
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  Speaker 1: They're filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
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  Speaker 1: They're full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They're gossips, slanderers,
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  Speaker 1: haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil. And
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  Speaker 1: then look at this, disobedient to parents. Notice this, we're
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  Speaker 1: further down the list, by the way. Foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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  Speaker 1: Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice
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  Speaker 1: such things deserve to die, they not only do them,
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  Speaker 1: but give approval to those who practice them. Do you
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  Speaker 1: see the procession there? So, That's what I mean when
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  Speaker 1: I say, when I look here at the household codes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing number one, all the battles that we have
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  Speaker 1: been fighting in our culture over the last several decades,
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  Speaker 1: but also from a biblical theological perspective, I'm seeing this
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  Speaker 1: decline and I'm seeing it in its order because you
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  Speaker 1: have the husband wife relationship there. And then right after it,
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  Speaker 1: In chapter 6, you have the parent-child relationship. And all
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  Speaker 1: of this, all of this sliding away. And I say
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  Speaker 1: beginning with the severing of the right relationship between men
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  Speaker 1: and women. And that severing begins with this radical feminist ideology.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Ephesians 5.22. Look at Ephesians 5.22. In the
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  Speaker 1: last message, we looked at those five words that we
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  Speaker 1: find difficult to embrace and absorb. In this one, we
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  Speaker 1: look at six. Wives, submit to your own husbands. It's
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  Speaker 1: so difficult for us to absorb. And just like with
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  Speaker 1: do not love the world, we want to somehow soften
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  Speaker 1: the blow. We want to somehow say that that's not us.
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  Speaker 1: That can't be right here. Our culture has put us
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  Speaker 1: in a position where we also want to say this, this, this,
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  Speaker 1: this cannot be right, right? Wives submit to your own
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  Speaker 1: husbands as to the Lord. This cannot be right. We
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  Speaker 1: have to get out from under it. There's a tension
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  Speaker 1: here that we don't like. And what we've tried to
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  Speaker 1: do is we've tried to get out of it by,
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  Speaker 1: by backing up and making some technical arguments that just,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, They make people feel better for a while
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  Speaker 1: until they're examined. And we say things like, well, there
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  Speaker 1: in verse 22, verse 22 is actually borrowing its verb
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  Speaker 1: from verse 21. If you look in the original Greek text,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just wives to your own husbands. The verb there,
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  Speaker 1: you go back to verse 21. And when you go
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  Speaker 1: back to verse 21, you see something interesting. In verse 21,
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  Speaker 1: it says, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, you get this inventive concept called
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  Speaker 1: mutual submission. And all of a sudden, the tension is
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  Speaker 1: released and we don't hate it as much. And the
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  Speaker 1: world around us that hates God doesn't hate it as much.
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  Speaker 1: The world around us that talks about the evil of
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  Speaker 1: the patriarchy, not patriarchy, The patriarchy. It's a thing, man.
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  Speaker 1: The patriarchy. And there you people are with the patriarchy
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  Speaker 1: oppressing women. And there you are with your religion that
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  Speaker 1: is oppressing women. And so evangelical feminists have gone back
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  Speaker 1: to verse 21 and they say, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute now. The Bible actually calls for mutual submission
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  Speaker 1: between husbands and wives. So you feminists are still welcome. Come.
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  Speaker 1: Your ideology is welcome here. I say, not so fast.
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  Speaker 1: That's not right. And it's not right for a number
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  Speaker 1: of reasons, right? Let me give you a few of them.
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  Speaker 1: Reason number one, the verb that's used there doesn't work
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  Speaker 1: for mutual submissions. The verb that's used there is actually
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  Speaker 1: a military term. The word for submission there is a
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  Speaker 1: military term, upotasa, right? It's used in the military. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many of you are here and
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  Speaker 1: have been in the military, but you don't even have
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  Speaker 1: to have been in the military to know this. In
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  Speaker 1: the military, submission works in only one direction, up the
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  Speaker 1: chain of command, not down. Amen, somebody. You submit to
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  Speaker 1: the higher rank. There is no mutual submission in the military.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where this term comes from. Okay? So there's
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  Speaker 1: your first problem. There's another problem here, though. The other
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  Speaker 1: problem is that we have the household codes in other places, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like Galatians, Peter. And in the other places where you
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  Speaker 1: have wives called to submit to their husbands, you have
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  Speaker 1: nothing like verse 21. Nowhere else do you have this,
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  Speaker 1: you know, this submitting to one another verse. But neither
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  Speaker 1: of those is the greatest problem. The greatest problem is
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  Speaker 1: a contextual problem. When we look at it, submitting to
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  Speaker 1: one another out of reverence for Christ is submitting to
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  Speaker 1: one another. And verse 21 is the end of a paragraph.
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  Speaker 1: It's the continuation of a thought. Now, I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what language you grew up reading. I don't care if
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  Speaker 1: you read from left to right or from right to
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  Speaker 1: left or from top to bottom. What you didn't do
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  Speaker 1: is you didn't read from bottom to the top. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't go from the end of a paragraph to the beginning. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: Unless there's some language out there that I've never heard
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  Speaker 1: of before, you don't read that way. You read from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the thought to the end of the thought. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when you do that, something very interesting happens with verse 21.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 21, at the end of a paragraph. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: we've only had chapters and verses for a few hundred years.
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  Speaker 1: There are no chapters and verses in the original Greek
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  Speaker 1: Hebrew text, right? But you do have some paragraph breaks.
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  Speaker 1: And this paragraph begins at verse 15. An amazing thing
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  Speaker 1: happens when you back up to verse 15. There's a
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  Speaker 1: pattern that develops. Here it is. You have three contrasts, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Three contrasts. On the third contrast, you get three commands.
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  Speaker 1: The three commands grow out of the third contrast, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And then on the third command, you get three contexts
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  Speaker 1: that grow out of the third command, right? If you
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  Speaker 1: haven't followed all that, that's okay. We're about to walk
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  Speaker 1: through it. First, we're going to see three contrasts. Look
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  Speaker 1: at verse 15. Look carefully then how you walk, not
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  Speaker 1: as unwise but as wise. There's a contrast, not this
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  Speaker 1: but that. You with me? Okay. Not as unwise but wise.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse 16, making the best use of the
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  Speaker 1: time because the days are evil. Look at verse 17. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: do not be foolish, but understand what the will of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is. There's a second contrast, right? Not unwise,
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  Speaker 1: but wise. Not foolish, but understanding what the will of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is. Look at verse 18. And do not
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  Speaker 1: be drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be
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  Speaker 1: filled with the Spirit. Okay? Nothing fancy here. There's three contrasts, right?
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  Speaker 1: Not this, but that. Not this, but that. Not this,
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  Speaker 1: but that. Then the pattern breaks. Now, verse 19, we
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  Speaker 1: get three commands, and the three commands are all related
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  Speaker 1: to the third contrast. Verse 19. So how do we
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the Spirit? Number one, addressing one another
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  Speaker 1: with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord with all your heart. That sounds like worship, right?
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  Speaker 1: Be filled with the Spirit. Be worshipful. Can you imagine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a friend of yours who says, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: Spirit-filled Christian, and you say, that's awesome, let's go to worship. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't do the worship thing. Wait, what? You're filled
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  Speaker 1: with the Spirit, but you don't do the worship thing?
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  Speaker 1: That dog won't hunt, right? And how about the next one?
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  Speaker 1: Verse 20, giving thanks always and for everything to God
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  Speaker 1: the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So worshipful, secondly, prayerful. Be filled with the Spirit, first
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  Speaker 1: by being worshipful, secondly, by being prayerful, right? Now, verse 21,
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  Speaker 1: submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. Be
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  Speaker 1: filled with the Spirit by being worshipful, by being prayerful,
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  Speaker 1: and by submitting to the authority that God puts in
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  Speaker 1: your life. There's the third command, right? The third command
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  Speaker 1: comes on the third contrast. But on the third command,
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  Speaker 1: you get three contexts. And the three contexts are related
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  Speaker 1: to the third command. Watch. So submitting to one another
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  Speaker 1: out of reverence for Christ. Context number one. Verse 22, wives,
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  Speaker 1: submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. Context
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  Speaker 1: number two, chapter six, verse one, children, obey your parents
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  Speaker 1: in the Lord for this is right. Context number three,
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, verse five, slaves, obey your earthly masters with
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  Speaker 1: fear and trembling, with a sincere heart as you would Christ.
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  Speaker 1: So verse 21 is not the umbrella for 522. It's
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  Speaker 1: the umbrella for 522 all the way through 6-9. It
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  Speaker 1: does not teach mutual submission between husbands and wives. It
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  Speaker 1: is not there to make the feminists comfortable. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: teaches patriarchy. The Bible teaches male headship. From the beginning
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  Speaker 1: to the end. Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. I don't
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  Speaker 1: write the mail. I just deliver it. But we have
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  Speaker 1: this negative picture. It's an incredibly negative picture of what
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  Speaker 1: patriarchy is, right? So here's what I want to do. Again,
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  Speaker 1: let's just go right at it. So just leave off
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, 22 to 24, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do something that you wouldn't normally do, right? We're going
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  Speaker 1: to skip over this. We're going to come back to it,
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  Speaker 1: and you'll understand why in a moment. Because this makes
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  Speaker 1: us uncomfortable. But I want you to see how sinister
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  Speaker 1: the worldview is that has made us uncomfortable with the
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  Speaker 1: concept of patriarchy, with the biblical idea of male headship.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse 25. Here's the headship. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you're here and you're single... I've had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of single young ladies identify themselves. If you're here, you're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: a single young lady, that's what you're looking for right here.
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  Speaker 1: Not right here. Right here. This ain't what you want, right?
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  Speaker 1: But this is right here, okay? That's what you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for right here, all right? Husbands... Love your wives as Christ.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, we're talking about that evil patriarchy stuff, right?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to unfold for you the evil patriarchy
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  Speaker 1: that everybody's so afraid of, that everybody's so uncomfortable with,
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  Speaker 1: that everybody thinks is horrible for women and has been
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  Speaker 1: horrible for women. You want to know how ironic it is?
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  Speaker 1: Here's how ironic it is. The safest, freest, most protected
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  Speaker 1: and cherished women in the world exist in the places
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  Speaker 1: where the Protestant Reformation has flourished the most and where
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  Speaker 1: this biblical idea of patriarchy is the norm. Find me
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  Speaker 1: another place. Find me another worldview. Find me another religion.
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  Speaker 1: that has practically had better outcomes for women than this one.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't exist. Where do you want to go? You
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  Speaker 1: want to go to the Muslim world? You want to
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  Speaker 1: be a wife in the Hindu or the Buddhist world?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. How about atheism? How's atheism been
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  Speaker 1: for women? I don't think so. It's ironic. I say
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  Speaker 1: the same thing about black people, by the way. Black
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  Speaker 1: people complaining about America. Black people in America are the wealthiest,
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  Speaker 1: most prosperous, safest. There's no place on planet Earth where
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  Speaker 1: you'd rather be a black person. It's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 1: People complaining about how black people are treated in America,
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  Speaker 1: but black America is not trying to leave, and black
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  Speaker 1: people everywhere else in the world trying to line up
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  Speaker 1: to get in here. Somebody's not telling the truth. That
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  Speaker 1: was extra. Okay, so look at verse 25. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the evil, wicked patriarchy, right? Here's the evil, wicked patriarchy. Husbands. Husbands.
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  Speaker 1: Love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave
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  Speaker 1: himself up for her. How wicked. How oppressive. Like what
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  Speaker 1: woman would ever want a man who loves her so
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  Speaker 1: much that the picture of his love for her is
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  Speaker 1: best depicted in the son of God who wraps himself
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  Speaker 1: in flesh, takes on her sin and is nailed to
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  Speaker 1: the cross to deliver her from it. Husbands, love your
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  Speaker 1: wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up
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  Speaker 1: for her. that he might sanctify her, that he might
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  Speaker 1: set her apart, having cleansed her by the washing of
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  Speaker 1: water with the word, bathing her in the word. Single ladies,
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  Speaker 1: if you find a man who is not qualified to
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  Speaker 1: wash you in the word, keep looking. So that he
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  Speaker 1: might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot
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  Speaker 1: or wrinkle or any such thing that she might be
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  Speaker 1: holy and without blemish. Single ladies, if you find a
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  Speaker 1: man who wants to defile you as opposed to making
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  Speaker 1: you honorable, keep looking. Because you haven't found a godly
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  Speaker 1: biblical man. A godly biblical man wants to wash you
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  Speaker 1: with the water of the word, is qualified to wash
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  Speaker 1: you with the water of the word, and his desire
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  Speaker 1: is to set you apart. His desire is your holiness.
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  Speaker 1: I say it to myself this way. Men, think about
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  Speaker 1: it like this. This ought to be the view of
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  Speaker 1: the patriarch. My goal and my desire is that she
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  Speaker 1: would be more like Christ than as a result of
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  Speaker 1: marrying me than she would have been had she not. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this awful patriarchy. Verse 28, in the same way, husbands
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  Speaker 1: should love their wives as their own bodies. He who
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  Speaker 1: loves his wife loves himself for no one ever hated
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  Speaker 1: his own flesh. but nourishes and cherishes it just as
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  Speaker 1: Christ does the church because we are members of his body. Again,
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  Speaker 1: here's the phrase. Here's the phrase for this one. She's
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  Speaker 1: not just mine, she's me. She's not just mine, she's me.
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  Speaker 1: I remember vividly mine and Bridget's first meeting. First big,
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  Speaker 1: big argument. We've been married 35 years in a row.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember we got married the summer between my
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  Speaker 1: sophomore and junior year in college. I turned 20 in March.
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  Speaker 1: We got married in June. And we had this argument.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just, I don't even remember what
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  Speaker 1: it was about. but I remember us going as far
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  Speaker 1: away as you could get from one another in this
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  Speaker 1: tiny little apartment that we were living in, you know,
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  Speaker 1: off-campus housing. I remember that and both of us being devastated,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely devastated. Why? Why were both of us absolutely devastated?
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  Speaker 1: Because when we got married, last two generations, both sides
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  Speaker 1: of our families, our parents and all their siblings, right,
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  Speaker 1: us and all of our siblings, even all of like
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  Speaker 1: the whole first cousins and everything else, last two generations,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of our families, we had seen 25 marriages
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  Speaker 1: and 22 divorces. So we didn't have a picture in
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  Speaker 1: mind of people reconciling. We had a picture in mind
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  Speaker 1: of people having a blowout, And walking away. And here
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  Speaker 1: we were in our first year of marriage. Our first
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  Speaker 1: months of marriage. And we're like, man, we just already
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  Speaker 1: messed it up. And I remember us walking through that.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember a godly man who just gave me
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  Speaker 1: that phrase that I held on to. Because this may
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  Speaker 1: surprise you. But I'm a bit of a debater. I
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  Speaker 1: was on the debate team. All my life, all I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to be was a lawyer. I was, I really, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when the Lord called me to preach, I was studying,
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  Speaker 1: you know, pre-law, international business. I wanted to be an
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  Speaker 1: international lawyer. I wanted to practice international law. Well, I
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to practice international law. I wanted to be the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful black man in the world. I'm just telling
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  Speaker 1: you where my head was, folks. And that's what I
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  Speaker 1: would have told you at that time, too. And so
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  Speaker 1: I would get into arguments with my wife, and I
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  Speaker 1: would do what a debater does. And I remember a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things from that conversation with this gentleman, right?
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  Speaker 1: One thing I'll never forget is he said to me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you're in an argument with your wife,
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  Speaker 1: even if you win, you lose. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I resemble that remark. And the other thing that I
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  Speaker 1: remember holding on to was that phrase, right? She's not
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  Speaker 1: just mine, she's me. And he illustrated that. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you would no more want to defeat your wife than
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  Speaker 1: you would want your right arm to defeat your left.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to defeat your wife, you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: her as other. She's not other. She's not just yours,
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  Speaker 1: she's you. You're in a one flesh union with her.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 31, therefore, a man shall leave his father and
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  Speaker 1: mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
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  Speaker 1: shall become one flesh. She's not just mine, she's me.
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  Speaker 1: Have y'all sniffed out the wicked woman-hating patriarchy yet? Have
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  Speaker 1: you seen the oppression yet? Have you seen the evil
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  Speaker 1: wickedness that wants to dominate and use and abuse women
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  Speaker 1: yet have you seen it yet because it's not there
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it's not there This mystery is profound, and I'm saying
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  Speaker 1: that it refers to Christ and the church. That's why
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  Speaker 1: this is so wicked. The feminist war against patriarchy is
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  Speaker 1: actually a war against this picture of Christ and his
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  Speaker 1: relationship with his bride, the church. Christ and his loving
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  Speaker 1: headship over his bride, the church. When we run away
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  Speaker 1: from patriarchy, we're running away from biblical truth. And we're
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  Speaker 1: not just running away from biblical truth. We're running away
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  Speaker 1: from glorious biblical truth that paints a glorious picture of
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  Speaker 1: the relationship between Christ and his bride whom he redeems
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  Speaker 1: with his own blood. Sir, don't you dare run away
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  Speaker 1: from or apologize for your biblical headship. It is not
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  Speaker 1: evil toward women. There is nothing evil. In this world,
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  Speaker 1: there's been more of a blessing to women than biblical Christianity.
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  Speaker 1: History proves that. Now, look at verse 22. Wives, submit
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  Speaker 1: to your own husbands as to the Lord. I love this. Wives,
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  Speaker 1: submit to your own husband. It doesn't say women submit
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  Speaker 1: to men. It says, wives, submit to your own husbands
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  Speaker 1: as to the Lord. Amen? Wives, submit to your own husbands.
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  Speaker 1: Notice it says, as to the Lord. Verse 32 says,
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  Speaker 1: this mystery is profound. I'm saying that it refers to
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  Speaker 1: Christ and the church, right? Husbands, all of your wives,
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  Speaker 1: as Christ loved the church. Verse 28, in the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 29, just as Christ loved the church. And then
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  Speaker 1: in verse 22, wives submit to your own husbands as
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. This is about submission to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with value and everything to
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  Speaker 1: do with order. Women don't submit. Wives don't submit to
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  Speaker 1: their husbands because their husbands are more valuable. This is
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  Speaker 1: about order. Anything with two heads is a monster. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Either kill it, or if you can catch it, put
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  Speaker 1: it in behind glass and make people pay to come
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  Speaker 1: see it, right? But it's... That's why in Romans chapter 5,
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  Speaker 1: when Paul is talking about the fall, And sin entering
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  Speaker 1: into the world. He doesn't say through one couple sin
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  Speaker 1: entered the world. He says through one man. Even though
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  Speaker 1: Eve ate first before Adam. He says through one man. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Male headship. The woman was made after the man. Male headship.
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  Speaker 1: The woman was made for the man. Male headship. The
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  Speaker 1: woman was made from the man. Male headship. The woman
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  Speaker 1: was brought to the man. Male headship. The woman was
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  Speaker 1: named by the man. Twice. Male headship. Before the fall.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's the other thing that the evangelical feminists want
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  Speaker 1: to argue, right? Yes, yes, there was male headship, but
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  Speaker 1: that was before the fall. When the curse comes to Eve,
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  Speaker 1: your desire will be for your husband, but he will
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  Speaker 1: rule over you. That was the result of the fall,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: but that has been reversed. That has been reversed. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have that male headship stuff anymore because that has
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  Speaker 1: been reversed. Problem number one, male headship existed before the fall. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Problem number two, that whole argument that that curse has
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  Speaker 1: been reversed, they just really hope you don't read it
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  Speaker 1: carefully because part of that curse is you should have
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  Speaker 1: pain and childbearing. Now, if that curse has been reversed,
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  Speaker 1: we should be able to go to the maternity ward
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  Speaker 1: and tell who's really saved. This is not about value.
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  Speaker 1: It's about order. Let's go back to that military example again, right?
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  Speaker 1: You have an enlisted man. You have a sergeant, right?
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  Speaker 1: Chief petty officer, wherever you want to go on the water,
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  Speaker 1: on the land, whatever, right? Whichever branch you want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. But you have an enlisted man who's been
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  Speaker 1: there for 15, 20 years, right? And then you have
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  Speaker 1: a young officer, a lieutenant who's been there 15, 20 months.
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  Speaker 1: Who's more valuable? Easy answer. The enlisted man who's been
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  Speaker 1: there 15, 20 years is far more valuable than that
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  Speaker 1: officer who's been there 15, 20 months. All day, every day,
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  Speaker 1: twice on Sunday. But when the officer gives an order,
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  Speaker 1: what does the enlisted man do? salute and execute. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he does. Why? Because it's not about value. It's
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  Speaker 1: about order. It's about the chain of command. And the
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  Speaker 1: day he starts to defy the chain of command because
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  Speaker 1: of what he perceives as value is the day that
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  Speaker 1: the whole chain of command breaks down. That's why whenever
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  Speaker 1: a woman comes to me complaining about her children not
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  Speaker 1: obeying her, I always ask her how she's doing with
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  Speaker 1: her submission to her husband. well no I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: my children no I know you are I am too
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  Speaker 1: I am too what's happening in the chain of command
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  Speaker 1: because do you think that you can openly defy and
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  Speaker 1: violate chain of command and it not have ripple effects
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  Speaker 1: throughout the entire organization It will. This is not about value.
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  Speaker 1: It's about order. This is about wives and their own husbands.
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  Speaker 1: And when I cannot, I can never talk about this
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  Speaker 1: without addressing the elephant in the room. And the elephant
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  Speaker 1: in the room is, well, what about the woman before
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  Speaker 1: she's my wife, right? What about the woman before she's
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  Speaker 1: my wife? What about before she's your wife? She didn't
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  Speaker 1: see that switch of you. You're not her husband. You're
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  Speaker 1: not her husband. She doesn't submit to you. You're not
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  Speaker 1: her husband. Well, how am I going to know if
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  Speaker 1: she's going to be submissive? 6.1, children, obey your parents
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord, for this is right. Is she submissive
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  Speaker 1: to her father? Well, no, but her father, he's not
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  Speaker 1: a great guy. He's not a godly guy. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a guy. Okay, fine. But she's been commanded to submit
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  Speaker 1: to him. She doesn't submit to him because she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think that he qualifies. He gave her life, and she
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  Speaker 1: doesn't submit to him. You think she's going to submit
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  Speaker 1: to you, what, because you're cute? This is when it's
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  Speaker 1: important to go back to 21. Submitting to one another
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  Speaker 1: out of reverence for Christ. No wife submits to her
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  Speaker 1: husband because he's worthy, because there's no husband worthy. who's
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  Speaker 1: worthy of his wife's submission. Children don't obey their parents
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  Speaker 1: because their parents are worthy. There's never been a parent
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  Speaker 1: who's been worthy of that obedience. We do this out
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  Speaker 1: of reverence for Christ because of the beautiful picture that's
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  Speaker 1: being painted For the husband is the head of the wife,
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  Speaker 1: even as Christ is the head of the church. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, what's another word for male headship? Patriarchy. Because
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  Speaker 1: some of y'all don't like it. Some of y'all don't
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  Speaker 1: like that I use that word. I don't use that
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  Speaker 1: word because, you know, that's the word that they, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We use complementarianism because, you know, when you use patriarchy,
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  Speaker 1: you give them a stick to hit you with. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not scared of sticks. Especially biblical ones. Another word for
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: male headship is patriarchy. The world is wrong railing against patriarchy.
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  Speaker 1: They're wrong. And we see that right here in the text.
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  Speaker 1: The husband is the head of the wife, even as
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  Speaker 1: Christ is the head of the church, his body, and
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  Speaker 1: is himself its savior. Now as the church submits to Christ,
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  Speaker 1: so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
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  Speaker 1: Wives should submit everything to their husbands. This is a
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  Speaker 1: general statement about submission. This should be the air we breathe.
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  Speaker 1: This should be the order in our relationship. Now, here's
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  Speaker 1: what this doesn't mean. And the question always comes like this, right?
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Women always ask the question because it's this last one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: submit in everything? In everything? And then I get a
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  Speaker 1: question like this. What if he asked me to go
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  Speaker 1: buy a gun? No, to steal a gun and then
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  Speaker 1: go to the bank, kill everybody in the bank and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: steal the money and then steal a car and make
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: a run for the border and shoot all the cops
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  Speaker 1: in my way. It's always got to be like that extreme, right?
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: What she's asking about is do I have to submit,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: you know, to this little thing in the home, right?
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: But the question comes, do I have to, you know, like,
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  Speaker 1: steal nuclear weapons and blow the, if he says, because
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: what they want to hear is, no, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So then they can go back home
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  Speaker 1: to this small disagreement they're having with their husband and say,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Foti said, I don't have to submit. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: principle when it comes to submission. By the way, everyone
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  Speaker 1: has to submit. We submit to our parents in the
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  Speaker 1: home to our husband as we're wives. We submit to
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  Speaker 1: the leadership in our church, to our elders, right? Hebrews 13, 17.
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  Speaker 1: We submit to governing authorities. When the flashing lights come on,
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  Speaker 1: you pull over. Amen. We submit. We submit. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: always amazes me. It always amazes me. I've had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of conversations with women who say that they have
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  Speaker 1: this problem with submission. And as gently as I can,
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  Speaker 1: I say to them, you are a liar. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have a problem with submission. You don't. When those lights
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  Speaker 1: flash behind you, what do you do? You pull over.
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  Speaker 1: You got no problem with submission. When you're on the
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  Speaker 1: job and your boss tells you to do something, what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? You do it. You've got no problem
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  Speaker 1: with submission. You have a problem with submitting to your husband,
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  Speaker 1: which according to this text means you have a worship disorder.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's about your reverence for Christ. And here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: When you had that problem submitting to your husband, you
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  Speaker 1: are exposing the true and the real. You submit to
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  Speaker 1: your boss because you want your paycheck. You submit to
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  Speaker 1: the cop because you don't want to get shot. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not in your heart. You require external force. And
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  Speaker 1: a home is where you really are who you are.
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  Speaker 1: It's a worship disorder. Now back to the question. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have to steal a gun, rob a bank, kill
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the bank, steal a car, go find nuclear weapons,
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  Speaker 1: and then blow up an entire city? Here's the principle.
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  Speaker 1: No one can command what God forbids or forbid what
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  Speaker 1: God commands. And that's for everyone who's called to submit.
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  Speaker 1: No one can command what God forbids or forbid what
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  Speaker 1: God commands. That's the general principle. And that applies here
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  Speaker 1: as well. But just know that thing in us that
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  Speaker 1: just grates at those six words, that thing in us
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  Speaker 1: has been placed in us by a culture that is
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  Speaker 1: in rebellion against a good God and his good order.
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  Speaker 1: And when you look at the beautiful, glorious picture that's
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  Speaker 1: painted here in this text, you see that. You see
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  Speaker 1: it clearly. Recognize the game that's being played. but also
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  Speaker 1: recognize the tremendous opportunity that we have to be representatives
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  Speaker 1: of a better way. But the beautiful, glorious picture of
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  Speaker 1: a God who saves his people and who created man
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  Speaker 1: in his image, male and female, and gives them marriage
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  Speaker 1: and Imperfect, though it always is, as a living, breathing,
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  Speaker 1: glorious reminder of how he redeems his people from their
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  Speaker 1: sin and for his namesake.