Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5. I believe we can see by now,
going through Ephesians, how important it is going verse by
verse. You know, we don't get one-sided. We don't get stuck in one position
or in one place, but we have to move along and we get to see
not only the doctrines of grace, but the application of grace
in our lives as we live it out on this earth. You know, Paul,
in the beginning of this epistle, spoke of the doctrines of grace,
how God saved us, how he chose us and blessed us in Christ with
all the blessings that we need in heavenly places. He gave them
to us in Christ before the foundation of the world and how we are redeemed
by the blood of Christ and we have forgiveness of sins through
the blood of Christ and we're sealed with the Holy Spirit.
And then he tells us how that we were by nature children of
wrath, even as others, we were just like everyone else. But
by God's grace, he has saved us. He loved us and he saved
us. And we are a new creation in
Jesus Christ. We are his workmanship. And then
he moves on to tell them and us about our walk. He says to walk worthy of your
calling. You are a new person. You're sons of God, you're sons
and daughters of God. You're not what you used to be. But you're new, you're a new
creation, you're God's children. You're God's children. I'm looking,
I preach to God's children every week. What a responsibility. You know, when our boys were
young, babies, we didn't just leave them with anybody. We didn't
just go catch somebody walking down the street. Will you take
care of my kids for a while while we run out? You didn't do that,
did you? I mean, if you ask someone to
take care of your children, you knew someone that would take
care of your children just like you would. And it's a responsibility
to stand here and take care of God's children, to feed the sheep. Peter, feed my sheep, feed my
lambs, he said. And so that's a responsibility
of handling the word of God and not taking the edge off any of
it. You know, I looked at this subject and I titled this subject
here, The Christian Home. Paul dealt with our walk in public.
He dealt with our conversation, the company we keep. He's dealt
with all this, the doctrines, everything. Now he's going to
deal with the home, the believer's home. Paul's not writing to the
world. If I read, wife, submit yourselves
unto your own husband as unto the Lord. If I read that on The
View, what do you think the reaction would be? They'd burn this book. And not just them, but the whole
world. The world would burn this book. Paul's writing to the Christians.
He's writing to those who've been born of God. And this is
the letter from our Father to us. This is a Christian home. And when it works like this,
when it works in the order that God gave it, it's beautiful. And it works. And it glorified
Jesus Christ. And it's a happy home. You want
a happy home? Really, do you want a happy home?
Here it is. Now, this morning, I'm just going
to deal with this first three verses. Wife, submit yourselves
to your own husbands and the husbands ahead of the wife. And
as the church is subject to Christ, I'm going to deal with those
three verses. If you'll notice, Paul only mentions the wife here
in three verses. You know the next nine verses
is given to the husband, loving his wife? He's instructed to
love his wife and to love her as Christ loved the church. We'll get to that. Week after
next, Lord willing, I won't be here next week, Ben's gonna preach
at my place, pray for him, pray the Lord bless him, give him
the message, this is not easy. This is a difficult, this is
difficult. But you don't wanna, let me say
this, you don't wanna miss this. the whole picture, okay? You
don't want to miss the whole picture. If you just get this
one section and you don't get the rest of it, it's like what
goes on in chapter six, children are by your parents in the Lord,
servants are by your masters, masters, you've got a master
in heaven, you take care of them like you'd be taking care of,
see it deals with all of this. It's powerful, it's very powerful. So let's look at this. First
of all, God has established the order of authority. That's the
first thing we recognize. God has established this order.
This is not from Paul. This is not from a man's point
of view. This is God's. This is of God. And listen, it starts with the
Lord Jesus Christ. It starts with the Lord Jesus
Christ, who is head over all. Has not Paul already set that
forth? He's already set that forth in
this Scripture. He's the head of the body. He's
the head. He's the Lord. He's Lord over
all. And then he says the husbands,
as the head of the home, and wives to be in subjection to
their husband as the church is subject to Christ. Children are
to be in subjection to their parents. servants to their masters,
and all are to be in subjection to civil government." He teaches
this throughout all the epistles. Good government, good government.
And when this order is followed by God's children, there's happiness.
There's real happiness in the home as well as in your life
in general. There's real happiness when we
follow God's order, when we follow it. Now, we know that all of
us are in subjection to someone. Well, aren't we? Either willingly
or unwillingly, we are in subjection. There's no such thing as 50-50
partnership. I know we like to think that,
and that sounds good. Someone's always going to rise
up and be the leader. You who teach, you who teach,
in your classroom, in your classroom, is there not a student that rises
up and leads that class? I learned this in running the
business. When I was having some problems out in the shop, I learned
to find out who the leader in that shop was and deal with him.
And I would have control of that shop. It took me a while to learn
that lesson. But find out who the leader of the group is, and
then deal with the leader of that group, and you can deal
with the whole group. Because there's no such thing
as 50-50. I had a lady tell me this one time that in their marriage
they were 50-50 partners. Well, I know the lady. There
is not 50-50 partners. She runs that thing. I'm telling
you the truth. She runs that house. And she
had the nerve to say we're 50-50 partners. He didn't say that.
He didn't open his mouth. There's no such thing. And the
reason why is the order in which God has established. It's even
in the animal world. Right now, right now, deer season,
those bucks are out there fighting each other. And the dominant
buck is going to win, and he's going to control that whole herd. He's going to control. It's in
the animal world. It's in the animal world. You take a wolf
pack. There's an alpha male and there's
also an alpha female. It's the way God has ordered
things. And to go against that is to go against God. My first thought was like, this
can be a difficult subject. Then I realized, no, wait a minute.
You're not preaching to the world this morning, you're preaching
to God's children. It's not a difficult subject
when you're preaching to believers. Now, if this was a house full
of unbelievers, I'd have a difficult situation on my hands, but I
don't, and I'm not preaching to unbelievers, I'm preaching
to believers. Now, in chapter 5 and 6, we are
given the order of subjection, first to Christ, And then the
man is subject to Christ, and then woman to man, and then children
to parents, and then servants to masters, and then all to the
civil government, is the way it goes. And I know this is a
very offensive message to many, to rebels. It's not to you who
believe, but to rebels. To submit is against man's nature. It's against our nature to submit,
really. Before God saved us, it's against
our nature to submit. The first thing we had to do
when God saved us is submit to Jesus Christ, didn't it? It's
not accept Him as your personal Savior, it's submit to Him. Bow
down to Him. That's the first thing that happens
in salvation. We bow to Jesus Christ. Satan fell by not wanting
to submit to God's authority. He wanted to be God. And that
same spirit is in every one of us at birth. It's there. That's
why your children rebel against you. It's there. That's why I
rebelled against my parents. It's that spirit of rebellion,
not wanting to submit to my parents. And every now and then it raises
its ugly head in believers. This is something that worked
on throughout life. And I've learned this, relationships
in the marriage, it's a lifelong working on. You work on it the
rest of your life. And every now and then, that
ugly, ugly, ugly old man raises his head in rebellion. And the
Lord has to chasten us for it, chasten us. But I want to look
at this from the word of God and submit ourselves to God's
word. You know, when I started doing
this, I thought I'm going to stick with God's word. Anybody
argues with me over this, they're going to argue with God's word.
They're not going to argue with me. Now this mission spoken of
here is not a forced submission. I know men who have used this
like a club, but if God ever saves them, they'll stop that.
You'll stop that, you will not use the Word of God as a club.
I'll tell you what, here's what you'll learn, that love, that
the love that Christ is speaking of here with the husband, that
will bring submission. It's not hard to submit to someone
you love. It is hard to submit to a rebel.
But it's not hard. Now this word submit means to
give over or yield to the power or authority of another. Well,
naturally, that's not in us to do that because that's why we
rebel against God. But not so for the believer.
God has given us a spirit of humility, a spirit of obedience,
a spirit of submission. Now, I want you to listen to
these scriptures. I'm just going to read these scriptures to you.
Ephesians 5.21, which I already read in 22, submitting yourselves
one to another in the fear of God. 5.22 here in Ephesians, Wives, submit
yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord, as obedience
to the Lord Jesus Christ. It's submission to Christ. Colossians
3.18, Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husband as is fit.
It's just right in the Lord. Hebrews 13.17, Obey them that
have the rule over you, and submit yourselves, for they watch for
your souls. This has to do with submitting to the pastor. as
they that must give account. I have to give account for you.
You know that? I've got to give account for
you. That they may do it with joy, that I may give account
for you with joy and not with grief, for that's unprofitable
for you. James 4.7, Submit yourselves
therefore to God, resist the devil and he'll flee from you,
but submit yourselves to God. 1 Peter 2.13, Submit yourselves
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake. whether it be
as to the king, as supreme, and then it goes on with the rest
of those verses. In 1 Peter 3.1, Likewise ye wives, be a subjection
unto your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they
also may without the word be won by the conversation of the
wives. In 1 Corinthians 11.3, But I
would have you know that the head of every man is Christ.
I have a head that I am obedient to, that's Jesus Christ. If that
is properly done, I won't be a monster to my wife. If you
see a man that's a monster to his wife, that man hates God. That man's never been born of
God. He's mean. Mean people go to hell. But I'd have you know that the
head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is
the man and the head of Christ. Christ has a head as a man. He has a head. God. God. Now, in doing this, in submitting,
we are submitting ourselves to the authority of Jesus Christ,
who is the Sovereign King of Heaven and Earth. He sets the
rules in His Kingdom. He sets the rules in my house.
You know that? I don't set the rules, He does.
My house is to be governed by His rules, not mine. He sets
the rules. We are to submit, there it says
in verse 21, to each other, wives to husbands, children to parents,
servants to masters, members to the church or to the pastor,
and all the civil government, we are to submit. Now let's get
to the home. Let's get into this. Wives, submit
yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord, as obedient
daughters unto Christ. Now let's go back to the beginning.
I want to go back to the beginning and look at some things that
we know, that we are taught in the Word of God. 1 Timothy 2.13,
For Adam was first formed, then Eve. If we're going to get this
right, and we're going to keep it in its proper place, we have
to go back to the very beginning of creation. Adam was first formed,
then Eve. God made Adam, that's in Genesis
2.7 and verses 15-25, that's where that's at. God made Adam
first. Adam named all the animals, they
all came before him. And there was not a helpmate,
it says, found for Adam. When he named all the animals
and it was over with, there was not a helpmate found for him.
And God said, it's not good that the man should dwell alone. And
what he's saying here, there's none like him. I need to make
one for him. And he didn't make it out of
an animal. And he didn't make his helpmate out of the dust
of the ground. He didn't do that either. He
didn't make her out of the dust of the ground for him to walk
on. He made her out of him. What is that a picture of? That's
a picture of the church coming out of Christ. The bride of Christ
is being made out of Christ. She is of the same nature He
is. So God put Adam in a deep sleep. What did God put Christ to at
Calvary? To death. This represents death. He put him in a deep sleep and
he took a rib from his side. He stuck that spear under his
rib and out came blood and water. But he took a rib from his side
and he made, listen, God made a woman. And He brought the woman
to Adam. He didn't bring Adam to the woman.
He brought the woman to Adam. And Adam, you know, Adam named
her. Adam called her woman because she's made out of man. She came
out of a man. The first woman came out of a
man. Now, the rest of men came out of a woman. But that one
came out of a man, just as the church comes out of Christ. Listen
to 1 Corinthians 11, 8 and 9. For the man is not for the woman,
but the woman for the man. Neither was the man created for
the woman, but the woman for the man. She was created as a
helpmate. Another word for that is counterpart.
She's the counterpart. They say dog is a man's best
friend. No, no, no, his wife is. A counterpart, a helpmate, not
a slave, not a servant, but someone to help, to help. Not to fight with, It's not someone
to fight. God didn't create her so we have
someone to fight with. But someone to sit down with,
talk with, communicate with, help with the family because
God created the family unit. This is why Satan is so against
the family unit. This is why there's so much trouble
between the male and female. as Satan tried to destroy it,
as Bruce brought it out, that family unit. God made Adam king
over creation, and Eve was his queen. Now listen, lest a man think
he's superior, so superior, Paul also wrote this in 1 Corinthians
11, 11, and 12, but nevertheless, neither is the man without the
woman. And the woman's not without the man in the Lord. In Christ
we're one. Does He not say two shall become
one flesh? I'm telling you the truth here. The reason there
are so many divorces is because two never became one. They never
became one flesh. They did not melt into each other. They didn't do it. And that causes
division. Now after God did this, He made
Eve, He brought her to Adam, she's a helpmate to Him, then
the fall happened. The fall happened. And notice
what God said to Eve in Genesis 3.16, Until the woman, God said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow
thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy
husband, and he shall rule over thee. Now why did God say, Thy
desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee?
Why did God say that? I've given some thought to this.
I've given some real prayerful thought to this. Here's why the
Lord said this. Before the fall, they had no
trouble with the role God put them in, did they? Eve didn't
say, No, I'm not doing that. No, you do the dishes. I ain't
doing it. They didn't say that. Before the fall, they had no
trouble with the roll God put them in, but now they are fallen. And sin has entered in. And God's
order is going to be challenged by Eve. It's going to be challenged. And all her daughters. It's going
to be challenged. It was not a problem for her
to be a helpmate before the fall, but now, now it's a problem. Am I right, ladies? I'm telling
you that, submission is not easy. It's not easy. Here's one of
the reasons why we're both fallen. There's sin in both of us. We're
both sinful creatures. It was not a problem. Listen,
it was not a problem for her to be a helpmate to Adam, and
it was not a problem for Adam to love her. But after the fall,
Adam said, the woman you gave me, she's the problem. See how sin? That's us by sin. Something else about the woman
here from the Scriptures. In 1 Peter 3.7, Likewise, you
husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, love them, dwell
with them, take care of them, giving honor to the wife unto
the weaker vessel. That is so offensive in our day.
That's so offensive, being called the weaker vessel. And as being
heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not
hindered. Don't be fussing and fighting
with each other and don't expect God to answer your prayer because
it ain't going to happen until you get that straightened up.
That's like when the Lord said, when you bring your gift to the
altar, you got a problem with your brother, leave your gift
and go settle that problem with your brother because God's not
going to accept that gift until you get that issue settled and
God's not going to hear our prayers if we got an issue going on.
He's not gonna do it. Not with two people who claim
to be believers. Now, if you're married to a non-believer,
that's a different story. Now listen, Paul called him the
weaker vessel. And in this sense, weaker physically,
I know we don't like, I know the world doesn't want to deal
with that or they don't want to acknowledge that. I don't
know if you've noticed the movies that come out by Hollywood now.
These women are butt kickers. We watched one the other night.
Man, it was, this woman was going up against a Navy SEAL. He was
co-op Navy SEAL and she kicked his rear end. I told Vicki, I
said, that's the image they want from Hollywood. I said, but here's
the truth of it. Here's the truth of it. They're
weaker physically and emotionally. Now listen to me. I have been
at work, and I've worked with women in the workplace. And I've
had the boss to come down on us, come down on people. Every time, almost invariably,
the woman has gone off and cried. The man is worn off, kicked the
door open. He's mad. I mean, he's mad, and he wants
to fight, and he just, ugh! But the woman has gone off and
cried. That's just so. That's just so, almost every
time. When it comes to domestic violence, who gets beat up? 99.9% of the time, the woman. The woman. But I tell you this, the women
are the most caring. They'll listen to you. I mean,
that's like virgin territory for a man to have to listen.
I told Vicki last night, I said, that's weird for a man to have
to listen. But a woman will listen. She'll listen. And she's caring. And she's sympathetic to the
children. Look over here in verse 4 of
chapter 6. You fathers, provoke not your
children to wrath. He didn't say you fathers and
mothers, because you fathers are more apt to provoke your
children to wrath. You're more apt to overdo it. You are, than the mother is.
She's more caring. But here, listen, God has established
the order of the home for His glory and for the well-being
and happiness of the family. When things work as God made
them to be, there's happiness. There's genuine happiness. Look
over in 1 Timothy. Over in 1 Timothy. Chapter 5. Yes, chapter 5. Look at verse 11. Look in verse
10. He's talking here about the widow,
you know, he was talking about the widow, but he says here that
she had been the wife of one man, well reported of for good
works. If she had brought up children,
if she had lodged strangers, if she had washed the saints'
feet, if she had relieved the afflicted, if she had diligently
followed every good work, you know, she's a godly woman. But
the younger widows refused. Jump down to verse 14. Here's
what I want to get to. This other part is a little more
about something else. He said, I will therefore that
the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, You
know that, I believe this, a woman has far more to do with the happiness
of that house than a man does. I believe that. Guide the house. Give none occasion
to the adversary to speak reproachfully. You know, when Satan went in
the garden and Adam fell, who did he go after? He didn't go
after Adam. He went after Eve to get to Adam. This happened in my home growing
up. This happened every time. Mom,
would you ask Dad? I couldn't, we never went to
dad, never went to dad. Dad couldn't do this, dad couldn't
do that. Mom, when you go to ask dad, mom, my mother always
went to dad for us. Satan went to Eve to get to Adam. He knew what he was doing. Now, this submission is not a
pretended submission. It is a willing, loving submission. It's not hard, as I said, to
submit to someone you love. It's a willing submission. It's
not a forced submission. But I'll tell you what happens,
though. It does, I think and believe,
become easier as we grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ.
It does come easier as we grow in grace and knowledge of Him
because we want to be submissive to Him. Lord, Thy will be done. And then you tell your husband
to go jump off a cliff? Well, that ain't working. That's
not His will. He's just given us His will.
It's a loving submission. It's a loving submission. It
is submission to Jesus Christ as unto the Lord. Not to submit
is rebellion against the Lord, isn't it? It's rebellion against
Christ. You know, I've told Vicki this
more than once. I said, consider Christ your first husband first
before me. If you really do that, there's
a lot of things that get settled, but you don't even have to bring
up. If you just take it to the Lord and leave it there. When a wife is in subjection
to her husband, she's in reality in subjection to Christ. And
I believe this is where true Christianity comes out at. This
is where it shines. This is where it's either real
or it's not real. It's right here. Your love and
obedience to Jesus Christ in all things. Now let me say this. I'm going
to try to wind this down. The wife is not to submit in
everything. Now let me explain. In that day,
you've got to remember who Paul is preaching to, in that day
there were wives who were saved and their husbands were not.
And there was a question as to whether they should stay with
their lost husband or not, unequally yoked. And Paul tells them, he
tells them in other epistles, you stay with your husband. You
stay with him. And those husbands, listen, their
husbands were still in idolatry. They were still in paganism.
They were still in immorality. They had such immoral lives.
They weren't like the Jews brought up under the law. They had no
law. They were basically a law to themselves. The wife was to
submit to her husband in the Lord in things that were right. Right. Not in things wrong. She
was not to go to idol worship with him. She's not to participate
in that no more or in any immoral acts. The same for children. Look over there in verse 1 in
chapter 6. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. In the Lord. If your parents
ask you, or some parents, and they do, there's some parents
out there, there's some terrible parents out there. If a parent asks a child to steal
or to do something like that, they are not to obey him. They
are not to obey them in any immoral act, in any illegal act, they
are not to obey. You don't obey those who have
authority over you, who's getting you to do something that's illegal. In the Lord, as unto the Lord,
that's the key. And the reason for this submission
is this, for the husband is the head of the wife. God established
this order in the Garden of Eden. Even as Christ is head of the
church and he's the Savior, protector of the body. You know, the husband
is the protector of his wife. He's the protector of the home,
isn't he? He's the protector of the home. The other night, it was about
morning, man, we heard this loud noise. I mean, it was a loud
noise in the house. Vicki said, somebody's in the
house. I didn't say, well, go see. I didn't ask her to go see. I
jumped out of the bed. I'll tell you what I did. And
I hesitate to say that I grabbed a pistol, but I did. I grabbed
that 9mm out of my desk drawer and jumped out the front door
of the bedroom and went down the hallway. You know, I just
tried to get down there as fast as I could because I thought
somebody was in the house. And then I took a flashlight
and I went from room to room, went through all the closets,
looked under the beds. I looked at everything. She had
one of these stickers in the shower that had a brush that
I used to wash my back. It fell off in the shower, but
it made a noise. It sounded like somebody broke
in the house. It was that loud because it echoed in that shower.
I didn't ask her to jump out of the bed and go see. I jumped
out of the bed. And I was, I mean, I was, I came
back and I'm in my, I had so much adrenaline flowing, it felt
like my head was going to explode. They are the protector of the
body. The wife. The wife. The husband is the
provider of the home. He's the provider. He's the protector. You're going to say, that's old
time religion. Call it what you want. It's Bible religion. It's
Bible. He's to take care of that home.
I don't care if he has to work 16 hours a day. If that's what
it takes, take care of it. You work till you're crawling.
That's what I say to the husbands. I don't care if you're crawling,
you take care of that home. Did our Lord not do that? Having
loved His own, He loved them to the end. Did He not die? I
mean, He gave His life for us. Husbands, give your life to taking
care of your wife. I'm getting into next week's
lesson, but you know, John Newton, his wife died, and he never got
over that. John Newton loved her so much,
he never got over that. And someone said to his friend,
Roland Hill, I believe it was, and I'll tell you this again
in a couple weeks. But someone said to his friend,
Roland Hill, John loved his wife too much. And Roland Hill said,
what? What? Love his wife as Christ loved
the church. You can't love her too much.
You just don't love her more. But you can't love her too much. You give yourself to her comfort,
her emotional needs, her protection. She don't... I'm getting into
the next week. I'm giving you a little taste,
maybe you want to come back and listen to the rest of it. Yeah,
I want to hear about that husband. But you protect him. He's the
Savior of the body. You see, this has to do with
Christ and His church, His wife. Can you imagine the church arguing
with Christ? Can you imagine the church saying,
No! No, I don't want to do that. That's what he's talking about.
Can you imagine a church going her own way? I'll tell you what. Now, Vicki
said this to me once. Probably don't remember it. She
said, I don't know what woman wouldn't want to be taken care
of. Why they wouldn't want to be taken care of. And, you know,
loved and taken care of and looked after. She said, I don't know
why anybody wouldn't want that. And remember this, listen, in
the Old Testament, the Lamb had to be without blemish and without
spot. Why? Because it represented the
Lord Jesus Christ. The marriage is the one type
that's still with us. It's the one type that's not
been done away with. It's the one type that represents our Lord and His bride, His wife. Now the world can do whatever
it takes to keep killing each other. I ain't talking to the
world. You know, the Lord said, Moses gave you the Bill of Divorcement,
and he did that to keep them from killing each other. But
he said, from the beginning, it wasn't so. God didn't give
it to you. He said, but Moses gave it to you to keep you from
killing each other. And the world has to do whatever
it takes, but in the home of the believer, this is it. This
is how happiness, this is how there's real joy and happiness
in the home. And if someone doesn't like this,
they say, that's just not for me. And I know this sounds hard. I know this is going to sound
hard. Don't call yourself a believer. Just be who you are. Just be
who you are. Don't call yourself a believer.
Just be who you are. And if someone doesn't, they
say, well, I don't like that. I don't like that. Don't get
married. There you go. That'll fix it.
Don't get married. All right, I'm gonna close. And this being so, listen, this
being so, therefore, as the church is subject to Christ, the example,
he's holding forth Christ, marriage is a type of Christ in the church.
As a subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own
husband." Their own. Nobody else. No other man. You're
not subject to any other man. Any other man come here and tell
you what to do, you can tell them whatever you want to tell
them. But you're subject to your husband. Your own. Their own
husband. In everything. Not just the things
that really don't matter. That's really not subjection,
is it? That's really not subjection. Subjection is when you really
want to do something else, and you say, all right, I think it's
the best. I'll tell you what I did. I bent
in subjection to my pastor. And this is going out. Back whenever we was going to
call a pastor, Henry had his mind set on somebody. And us
elders most, we didn't want him. I wrote Henry a letter. I wrote
him a letter, and I gave him the reasons I didn't think this
man was the man. And then I went and sat down and talked to Henry. And in that letter, I said, I
don't, you know, I'm not going to say what I said in it, but
in that letter, at the end of it, I said, but you have been
my pastor all these years, and I'm going to follow what you
say. And I know this, whatever it is, it'll be the Lord's will,
even if it turns out to be a disaster. And it did. It did and it didn't. The Lord's will was done. It
was done. If we truly have a Christian
marriage, in a Christian home, where Christ is the center of
the home, this will be followed, not perfectly, not perfectly.
I'm not saying we don't have disagreements, I'm not saying
that at all. But there will be happiness.
And this applies to the children, chapter 6, 1, servants, verse
5, verse 9, masters, and masters have their master in heaven,
and we all obey civil governments. This is God's order. This is
God's order. Now, the next time, Lord willing,
week after next, no Bible class next week, but week after next,
I'm going to deal with husbands, Love your wife. See, I got nine
verses on the husbands. I only had three on the wives. Wives, you think, well, we have
the difficult part. Not if you understand what he's
saying. All right.