Marriage Problem #2: Wife Leading Husband? Part 1 (TMF:939)

Thursday, July 26, 2018
Peace to Live By: Marriage Problem #2: Wife Leading Husband? Part 1 (TMF:939) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, number two in looking at marriage problems: The wife trying to lead her husband. Ephesians 5:22-24: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands” (ESV). See also Titus 2:4. We just talked about how Christ is the head of the church, and how that too makes him the head of a marriage. Paul points out here in these verses that as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in every area. This is the design and order that God has setup for marriage, at least in today’s day and age, for the husband to be head of the wife. Paul gave a reason for this to Timothy. He said, “For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control” (1 Timothy 2:13-15 ESV).