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April 14, 2020 8:00 am
God has an encouraging word for you and me today. The Bible-based preaching of Dr. Don Wilton and a message on submissiveness that I know that works against the grain. Sometimes doesn't the idea of being submissive to someone else. Something else that God's great calling on her life.
The enemy wants to make us think were in charge that we have control now more than ever I think we realize we don't have control. But God is in control and I pray that in this moment of your life in my life. If you need to lean on somebody you would choose someone who's following Christ.
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That's 866-899-WORD 9673 or meet us online@online.org. Now today's message be submissive with Dr. Don Wilton Bible Pete because I'm a Christian man in the Lord Jesus lives in my heart I'm a Christ follower, not what that means. It means that I accepted God's challenge, but I want God to challenge me because I accepted his challenge. What was his challenge. This is what Jesus said. Jesus said Don if you want to trust me, you want to be forgiven abuse and you want to have life you want to be set free. You want to have purpose you want to know what real joy and happiness is you want to know that when you die that you're going to go to heaven and live with the Lord Jesus forever. Yes I do. I said to the Lord said okay guess what you gotta do you go to deny yourself to take up the cross, by the way, the cross was not a very nice thing to take up the cross of Christ and then you go to follow me now to follow me, means that I'm going to get myself in line with Jesus.
I am a follower of Christ. We are a disciple making church.
We want you to follow Jesus, follower of Christ. Listen to what the Bible tells me and I'm going to read this passage to you and I'm actually going to discipline myself not to stop because I just want I want you to hear this. I'm going to be in first Peter chapter 2 and verse 13 starts out be subject that's the word be submissive, be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be the Emperor or the king, as supreme order gobblers as sent by him to punish those who do evil and praise those who do good for this is the will of God, that by doing good. You should put to silence the ignorance of foolish man live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God on everyone.
Love the brotherhood, fear God and honor the emperor servants be subject be submissive to your monsters. With all respect not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust, for this is a gracious thing when mindful of God, wanting Drew's sorrows while suffering unjustly for what credit is it if when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure. But if when you do good and suffer for it, you endure. This is a gracious thing in the site of God, for to this you have been cool because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow in his steps he committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth when he reviled he did not revile in return when he suffered, he did not straighten, but he continued entrusting him to the one who John judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness by his wounds you have been healed for you is straying like sheep but not have returned to the Shepherd and overseer of your souls. Likewise, wives be subject be submissive to your own husband, so that even if some of you do not obey the word that they may be one without a word by the conduct of their wives when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external the writing of a putting on gold and jewelry. All the clothing you wear your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of an shameful and quiet spirit, which is in God's sight. A very precious thing for this is how the holy woman who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by submitting to their own husbands, like Sarah, for example, who obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, you are her children, and if you do good and do not fit anything that is frightening. Likewise, husband, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they all joined is with you of the grace of life, and in order that your prayers may be unhindered. While there's a lot in that my God, give us an understanding, and right he's word upon our hearts. All right that we got a predicament I present your predicament.
God is telling us that if we want to live a life that is will pleasing to him. We need to live in a state of submission. My children along Roman adults and I love them all. But I do also remember when they were little squawking chickens and some of you remember that well because you have squawking chickens in your house as I speak.
How many times does not a child, especially a teenage not want to submit to what mother or father has to say and every time they don't submit they lose.
Just think about this for a minute, parents do no better not be in a perfect world, I didn't say parents a perfect and I didn't say parents don't make many many mistakes, but God is the God of order. I want you to really get a hold of this, he nodded. He created us off to he's order, but he designed us in line with his order. Satan is the sewer of discord and confusion. The single best way to destroy any world is to turn God's order upside down and destroy God's order. Now watch this God in first Peter uses three examples to get the point across to us he uses to examples and then he illustrates it with the food. So what does he tell us the first example about teens emperors governors, which of course back in Peter's day were pretty relevant, then he switches gears and he talks about slave Boston quite and abhorrent concept, and then he switches gears any pics on married men, thank you very much. Yet, we got three illustrations we brought things and they subjects we got slave monsters and their slaves and we got husbands and they wives data suggest to you that they are all two fundamental reasons why God uses kings slave monsters and married men to talk to us about this very important issue of spiritual submission, no matter how popular or unpopular it is to reasons.
Number one because of the position they occupy. They know a lot of kings left in the world, but they still all they emperors they all powerful people have a lot of authority their position that he talks about the abhorrence of slave monsters of course back in full. Peter's time that was very, very real, but he uses it he talks about he's current day and age, and he says I'm going to show you this issue about slaves in relation to those who have a position of dominance over the and then he talks about married men man have a position in the house. God's word says that the man is the head of the house.
God says that the married man in his position is that Hayden of his household. Dr. Don Wilton our teacher here on The Encouraging Word back in just a moment with the rest of today's message to know is your listening perhaps two things that raise the flag in the Bible itself is Encouraging Word call right now 866-899-WORD 866-899-9673. I jotted down and stored yourself as a parent would love to be available to encourage you, 866899967.
He was on the online.org EW online Margie now that message� So the first reason he's going to give us these three striations kings slave monsters in married name is because of a position but I think the second reason why he tells us that is because of the talks about me somewhat interesting to me that he doesn't mention Queens here.
He could've, he doesn't talk about slave mistresses here. He could've and he certainly doesn't single out wives in what he is trying to say concerning submission. So why does he pick on me. I believe because men have a far greater propensity for dominant cruelty than women do mean all boot differently to woman just in case anybody hasn't noticed it is an undeniable, indisputable fact which will explain to you why spousal abuse. For example, is a very, very real thing. I can guarantee you, you can go to the prisons of America today and by all the greater percentage of people incarcerated in America to dial all men.
That's why we have so many laws to protect the use of girls and of women that is why he tells us this man by virtue of the maleness off for more aggressive and have a far greater propensity to turn the innermost being into something very very ugly. The one who is a fall mole daily could vessel my giving you a pure statistic. Am I suggesting to you that there are not, sadly, some woman in the world who behave very badly most certainly am not saying that but I am going to tell you in a marriage relationship. Men, how are you treating your wife we man have the capability of being extremely unkind, extremely tough, extremely physical. I tell you what, there are many men today who should be serving life sentences for the manner with which they abuse that person called woman who is his wife that what is God trying to tell us your what what is all this about the way it's very interesting to know that the word weaker vessel does not mean an equal because women are coequal in every way according to God that we doesn't mean silent in capable and able to lead nothing to say. Stay home and wash the dishes. That's not what that word weaker means if you going to the Greek text, the word refers to a an extremely delicate experience. I love to drink hot tea as some of you probably know I can put Carol on the table if I'm going to prepare you a jolly good cup of tea. I can put a good old big old bug like old coffee mug goal. One of these big old mugs that we use, which are very nice and put and fix your cup of tea or I can get you some bone China, a proper teacup if I just give you a little tip when you drink hot tea drink it out of the right cup if you serve tea out of the wrong cup. It's going to be formal then if you use it out all of the right cup God is trying to present to us, something that is very unique because of the order of God. I'm going to take us on a quick journey.
Why does God tell us to submit in this passage 04 reasons. Number one because it's a come on. Look at verse 13 he said, be submissive, saw the any further questions why we told to submit because God tells us to be submissive to authorities, be submissive listening. America today. Folks, we are facing a crisis of submissiveness even in the secular world. Everything eventually gets turned on its head and the result is anarchy. When you end up with no order. In a society it.
First of all leads to chaos.
Chaos leads to anarchy.
Anarchy destroys you want to see examples of that.
There are hundreds of examples in hundreds of countries that have collapse, not from the outside in, but from the inside out with everybody becomes a law unto themselves. Chaos followed by anarchy. Everything implodes and folds down because we destroy order.
Why did why we to submit number one because it's a come on number two because it has a prime reason he tells us there in verse 13.
The reason is for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ do it because he says it. But secondly, submit to one another for the sake of the Lord Jesus, that God by spirits going to connect you to that today. Just do it because for the Lord's sake. This is what he requires of us. Number three because it speaks to a serious problem. What is the serious problem that the Bible is talking about your he tells us he says listen when the ignorance of foolish men begin to take root in the heart of any society you got a serious problem on your hands. There's a serious problem here we talking world of a male dominated society. A male dominated society can result in very very serious problems when that domination is kind and where that domination is designed to hurt.
Now watch where I'm going with this. Folks, when we follow the Lord Jesus. What Jesus requires of us is that every one of us behave and act in a manner that would exemplify follow would ambulate would be what Jesus did and so what Jesus is about to say to us wives, submit to your husbands.
Husbands, love your wives what Jesus is about to say in in this fairly good order between male and female. The design of God is that man married man to love his wife and his family and be kind and be generous and be soft and betaine had to be hiking to be inconclusive and to be communicating had to be involved and to be the servant of servants in his home. That's what God is saying why why why must we submit. I have a problem. I don't want to I problem why should I I got a problem because it threatens my understanding it's a come on, it's a prime reason speaks to a serious problem, but there's 1/4 reason why we are told to submit and it's simply this, because it produces God honoring results, and this is where I want to wrap this together.
One of the God honoring results. There are 12345 of them number one. It affirms God's will look at verse 15. He tells us very clearly that this is the will of God. There is nothing more beautiful than a marriage in which the man is the man and the woman is the woman and they live in close equal harmony. I'm telling you folks, when I married my wife Karen. I came out of an old boys family. All I knew about and I'm not exaggerating was boys stuff you know boys are made of puppy dogs and frogs and alligators and what ever it is you know girls are made of sugar and spice and all things are nice and you can cut that anywhere you like.
It's true. Listen when I had Rob and Greg. It was like having to pay gorillas in my house and then my Shelley and came it was like there is a God, off parole, so don't give me all this stuff about about girls are not girls and boys are not good. We've got something really to celebrate together. This is the will of God being God created my he created.
So what he admired and everything that he made was good and I married Karen 40 years ago man I was ignorant. I'm 10 you guys there was sometimes in the first few years about married life where I spoke to her I was going to spiritual battles. I was so full of myself thought is the king of my own car so my motorbikes and my this in my that my surfboards.
I treated her so so the handyman you know my wife did what Karen did.
She just love me back. That's what submission is that beautiful fragrance man that spirit of womanhood. This priceless face so that she is the white God made she just gave herself to me. She never stopped loving me. She never stopped praying for me and and through that true that God just just got it's like I have know why my eyes would just open. I'm still I just want to be with her and just love her and provide for her and protect her and honor her yes I am one of those men.
My kids wouldn't be where they were it not for her. She's the one I'm 10 you household the way I go my work, my ministry, my trait if it wasn't for her what you talking about.
Listen this issue.
What he's talking about here is very real. This is the will of God produces God honoring results it.
It affirms the will of God. It silences foolish man, I was a foolish man was the one who was down there and through the Franklin C female see me I needed to go.
That's what it means to submit one of God honoring results will of God silencing foolish minutes. The example of Jesus tells us right in verse 21 Jesus did this. Jesus let those people do what they need to do because he was submitting to the father and look at the result being set free because Jesus submitted my life is different.
I tell you, there are hundreds upon hundreds partly in this world whose husbands for no other reason. God dammit godly women broke into their lives.
Points unbelievers to Christ also guarantees unanswered. That's a clincher there in verse seven Bible tells us want me to tell you something man what I'm telling you behave like you're supposed to be high on single guys is nothing wonderful living in a beautiful relationship with you in your whatever it is you doing visiting friends. It's like the and she is she is tiny little creature that all those years ago. Just from and you are in every man on all those years ago. That little boy filled with testosterone from every male she's every bit female what you all is you are living in a soup missive relationship. According to the standards that God has set before you into submission ultimately submissive to God what a powerful message from Dr. Wilton. As we move on to wrap up today's Tuesday edition I pretty would be open to what God might not just about relationships again. Here's Dr. Donald are you raving to give your heart cries here that wanted to pray this prayer on love very very and I know that the loan Jesus died on the cross so that I might be forgiven today. I repeat myself. I confess my sin. I invite you in Jesus name I pray. If you pray that prayer that may be the first want to welcome you to the family of this is wonderful just given your heart to Jesus praying along with Dr. Wilton. Moments ago. Maybe we dedicated your life to Christ. Dr. Wilton has some wonderful resources absolutely free for you to help you begin your life. Follow. We also are committed to be alongside you to encourage you to help you find a local church in your area that will help not only strengthen you and feed you really would give me a place to roll up your sleeves and get service as an important part give me love to hear from you. 866-899-WORD is our phone number is 866899967 RG that Steve EW online.org is known for many things with his knowledge and times coming up next is tell you about a wonderful series of racial operation is rapidly coming to your heart doing Dr. Don Wilton have a picture by Dr. ministry resources between my encouraging encourage 999 urging where you were listeners ministering time, Times online 99199 Dr. Don Wilton here