Love ❤️ thy Neighbor: Divine Limits to the Wife’s Submission
By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba
Ephesians 5:22-23
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
BEING THE HEAD OF THE WIFE IS NOT AN ARBITRARY RIGHT BUT A RESPONSIBILITY TO LOVINGLY ❤️ TAKE CARE OF HER
Colossians 3:19
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.”
1 Timothy 5:8
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
THE WIFE’S SUBMISSION IS NOT AN OPEN CHECK‼️ THERE ARE DIVINE LIMITS TO THE WIFE’S SUBMISSION, WHEN YOUR HUSBAND ASKS YOU TO DO THINGS CONTRARY TO THE WORD OF GOD HE HAS CROSSED THE LINE OF HIS DIVINELY DELEGATED AUTHORITY‼️
Colossians 3:18
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
There is One who stands higher than the husband to the wife; it is her Redeemer, and her submission to her husband is to be rendered as God has directed—“as it is fit in the Lord.” – {Adventist Home p.116.1}
When husbands require the complete subjection of their wives, declaring that women have no voice or will in the family, but must render entire submission, they place their wives in a position contrary to the Scripture. In interpreting the Scripture in this way, they do violence to the design of the marriage institution. – {Adventist Home p.116.2}
NO POWER ON EARTH SHOULD SEPARATE A SPOUSE FROM HIS OR HER ALLEGIANCE TO GOD‼️
Ephesians 5:1-2
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Acts 4:18-19
And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Matthew 10:37
“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.”
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 5:7-8
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
