Sermon Tone Analysis

Christ is restoring what was lost in the fall by saving sinners and giving them the holy Spirit to walk in obedience to his will.

Review

-The Fall has had effects on the marriage relationship.

-Our passage is the fundamentals of a holy marriage, the way God has set up authority in the home.

-God has assigned wives to be submissive to their husbands, to yield under his leadership.

The Basis For This Submission

Headship defined

Head: authority, chief, master, lord.

So the husband is the Head, he is the one entrusted with authority in the home.

Headship means he is to be the provider, protector, and leader of the home.

When a woman marries, she voluntarily takes on herself the authority of her husband.

She aligns herself under his leadership.

She takes the role of number 2, the support role.

The Order of Creation

1 Cor.

11:1-

Our instructions are rooted in God’s order of creation.

The headship of husbands has been from creation.

This means that these apply at every time and in every culture.

They aren’t antiquated reliques of paul’s patriarchal time, they are God’s order of creation.

His Role and Responsibility is to lead sacrificially for the benefit of his family and the glory of God.

God specifically created him first to indicate this.

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The Husband has authority to lead the family in God’s paths and the wife’s role is to support her husband with nurture and care so he can carry out these duties.

Here we see that:

The creation of the woman:

-The Husband was inadequate alone?

For what?

To wash the laundry or clean the house?

To make babies?

No, to reflect the glory of God.

Man alone was an imperfect reflection of God’s glory.

-So God made woman and she was made specifically to be his helper.

To complement him!

-She was made from him, showing she was equal not lesser or of another kind, and she was made for him for the purpose of helping, surrendering, and complementing him!

We could say ladies you were CREATED TO COMPLEMENT!

So wives, you fulfill God’s intended design for you when you submit to your husband.

By doing so you make up what he lacks as God’s image bearer and together you better reflect God’s glory and show who he is.

This doesn’t mean that women are so impotent that they couldn’t make it without men, rather that either one on their own is insufficient to fulfill God’s purpose and reflect his image clearly, but together they make they can do this.

· Wife – gives to the husband supportive nurture and care so that he can carry out these duties.

The first woman was made specifically for the first man, a helper, to meet, respond to , surrender to, and complement him.

God made her from the man, out of his very bone, and then he brought her to the man.

When Adam named Eve, he accepted responsibility to “husband” her – to provide for her, to cherish her, to protect her.

These two people together represent the image of God – one of them in a special way the initiator, the other the responder.

Neither the one nor the other was adequate to bear the divine image.”

This forms the basis for roles in marriage.

This is God’s design!

Ladies, you are to find your joy and fulfillment in the completion of your husband , not being independent of him.

By submitting to your husband you form a mutual completeness.

As God’s image bearers they both lack something but when they come together and function in God’s designed roles they better reflect God’s Glory and show who he is.

The Roles In Marriage:

This doesn’t mean that women are so impotent that they couldn’t make it without men, rather that either one on their own is insufficient to fulfill God’s purpose and reflect his image clearly, but together they make they can do this.

Find your joy and fulfillment in the completion of your husband.

By submitting to your husband you form a mutual completeness.

“· Husband – has authority for the sacrificial responsibility of biblical headship.

Designed to lead the family in the paths of God.

· Wife – gives to the husband supportive nurture and care so that he can carry out these duties.

Proof Verses

1 Cor

Summary

His Role and Responsibility is to lead sacrificially for the benefit of his family and the glory of God.

God specifically created him first to indicate this.

The Husband has authority to lead the family in God’s paths and the wife’s role is to support her husband with nurture and care so he can carry out these duties.

Clarification

Ultimately God was showing us a picture of Christ in his Church.

God originally instituted marriage with this hidden purpose in mind, to display Christ’s love for his bride!

Every marriage, especially Christian marriage has the priviledge of being a divine play, an exercise where we get to portray the relationship of Christ and his Bride and to demonstrate their love relationship!

Ladies your assignment for #2 does not mean you are utterly useless and impotent.

You are not entirely weak, though you might have some weaknesses compared to men, for the most part many ladies have great inner strength and fortitude.

God invites you to use your gifts in service to him.

To demonstrate your love for him and obedience to him by your submission to your husband.

Every woman desires this!

She doesn’t want a man she can boss around, but one she can look up to, who she can respect, who she can follow.

Moreover, this is what wives really want.

We hear much to the contrary today, particularly from women’s liberation spokespersons, and we might therefore think that women want to dominate their husbands—and should, if they have the brains and will to do it.

But this is the devil’s lie.

No good woman (indeed, hardly any woman at all) wants a man she can boss around.

She wants a man she can look up to, whose judgment she can respect, and whose leadership she can respond to.

If she does not get this in her man, she feels cheated.

True, wives are sinners like their husbands.

Wives will press their husbands on the question of mastery.

They will fight for their own way.

But deep inside, what wives really want is a man who will rule them and their home—gently and with love, to be sure—but rule them nevertheless.

Boice, J. M. (1988).

Ephesians: an expositional commentary (p.

199).

Grand Rapids, MI: Ministry Resources Library.

The Wife’s Example

Christ: Jesus was not less than the father, but was co-equal to the father and yet he voluntarily submitted himself to his father’s will and aligned himself under his purposes.

Jesus is your example!

The Church: the church is not co-leader with Christ, or co-savior, or co-protector, or co-provider.

The Church does not share joint roles with Christ.

He is the head of his Church.

No the church enjoys some authority under his leadership but not along side of him.

Likewise, wives are to be under the authority of their husbands.

They are not merely partners working alongside each other, but they are working together with different roles and jobs.

The Extent of Her Submission

In Everything

The attitude of the heart, and the actions of the life.

Honor and reverence your husband.

Clarification: Submission does not mean a woman doesn’t drive a car, write a check, or only and always works in the home. .

It means that she never does any of these in a way that robs her husband of respect.