Episode 561: Episode 561 - The Christlike Husband

Last week, We were talking about wives.

being submissive to their husbands.

And I don't know what the reaction was from that.

I don't know how people received that.

People haven't been sending me hate mail, so that's good.

But all that to say is, we looked at the role of the wife, and notice I said the role of the wife, not the value of the wife, the role of the wife in the marriage relationship.

Everywhere in society, we have roles, right? If you are the owner of a company, you have a role and you have certain things that you do that are distinct from the people that work for you or perhaps with you.

If you're an employee at a company, then you have a certain role to play.

You're not doing everybody else's role and you're certainly not doing the CEO's role.

You have a role to play.

And so God, when he created man and woman, he created them and gave them duties.

He gave them jobs.

And for a person not to fulfill their God-given role is for a person not to realize their maximum and greatest potential as a husband or as a wife.

If you cast off that role, if you refuse to accept that role, if you refuse to step into those shoes, then You're telling God His way isn't the best way.

His way isn't good enough.

That your way or my way is better than God's way.

So this is what we mean.

We talk about certain roles.

Now last week we talked about the woman and what submission means, what it doesn't mean, and then what it does mean.