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Covenant Life Church
Gaithersburg, Maryland

Introduction

Last month, the Washington Post Magazine featured a cover story by Ellen McCarthy called "Marriage: What Every Couple Should Know." The article is about the growing "marriage education movement." More and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy more people-in government, in churches, in the military-are realizing that married couples need training on how to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be married. So the military is offering weekend courses for couples; classes and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy seminars are being offered in community centers and churches; and dozens of books are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy being written.

"At the core," the writer states, "it's a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy movement that would ask of every divorcee: What if the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy truth was that you didn't marry the wrong person? What if you just didn't know how to be married?"

It goes on to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy share the results of a decade long study that showed that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy

[A]ll couples-those who purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy are happily married into their rocking chair years and those who purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy divorce before they hit their fifth anniversary-disagree more or less the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy same amount. [The study] found that [all couples] argue about the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy same subjects-money, kids, time, and sex chief among them-and that for purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the average couple, 69 percent of those disagreements will be irreconcilable. A morning bird and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy a night owl won't ever fully eliminate their differences; nor will a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy spendthrift and a penny pincher. What distinguished satisfied couples from purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the miserable ones, [they] found, was how creatively and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy constructively they managed those differences.... If every couple has about the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy same number of disagreements, people who leave marriage because of irreconcilable differences are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy likely to find themselves arguing just as much in their next marriage.... What [these researchers] were finding undermined the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy basic principle driving romantic relationships in America: "That it's about finding the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy right person. That if you find your soulmate, everything will be purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy fine.... [T]hat's the big myth."

There's a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy lot of common sense wisdom there. The myth of the perfect spouse is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy one that can influence many of us. As Christians we can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy even put our own spiritual spin on it and think, "It would be purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy easier to obey what God tells me to do as a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy wife, if I just had a different husband." Or "I could cherish and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be understanding if I were married to a more cherishable and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understandable woman."

We don't need to wait for a study to know that this is wrong. God's Word to husbands and wives in 1 Peter 3 isn't qualified. It doesn't say, "If your husband deserves it, be submissive." It doesn't say, "If your wife gives you respect, then you honor her."

God tells us to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy obey his instruction for marriage and fulfill our role not because of what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy our spouse deserves but because of our allegiance to Jesus Christ. The unique roles and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy responsibilities of a wife and husband in a Christian marriage are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to be fulfilled "for the Lord's sake."

Christians have purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy a greater motivation in marriage than merely surviving or avoiding divorce-our motivation and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy goal for what we do is to please and honor our Lord.

1 Peter 3:1-7 teaches foundational truths about God's plan for purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy marriage. We learn from verse 7 that husbands and wives are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy equal before God as recipients of his grace. "They are heirs with you [or joint heirs] of the grace of life." This was a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy radical teaching in the first century and still is in many parts of the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy world today where women are treated as inferior. God says they are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy equal in their experience of his grace.

And yet this purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy passage also makes clear that within marriage husbands and wives have purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy different roles. The instruction to each is different. Wives are instructed to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be submissive to their husbands. Men are called to be understanding and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to honor, but they're not told to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy submit to their wives. In marriage husbands have a unique role of leadership which wives are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy called to support.

Sadly, the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy biblical teaching of roles within marriage is badly misunderstood, misrepresented, and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy just plain despised by many people in our culture today. But although authority can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be misused, it is not a bad thing. It's God's idea. And we are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy all called to be subject to others in various contexts. Authority and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy submission are a part of God's good plan for rightly ordering his creation.

My previous message from 1 Pet 3:1-6 was titled "A Word to Wives."1 I planned to focus today's message on 1 Pet 3:7 and title it "A Word to Husbands." But as I studied the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy passage I realized that to most helpfully address husbands, we need to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy revisit briefly the instruction given to wives. So I guess it purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy should be titled "A Word to Husbands (And a Few More for Wives)."

Instruction to Wives (1 Peter 3:1-6)

I want to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy start by looking more closely at what we learn from these verses about what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy "being submissive" involves. Verses 1-6 tell us at least 7 things.

(1) To Your Own Husband

Women are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy not told to submit to all men. They are only called to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy submit to their own husband. So this isn't a statement of male superiority. It's God's direction on the ordering of a marriage. It's also a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy reminder to single ladies to be very careful when choosing a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husband. After you marry this man, God's Word directs you to be submissive. Don't marry a man whose leadership you can't follow.

(2) Winsome Conduct

It seems Peter's main concern here is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy that non-Christian husbands would be won to Christ by their wife's conduct. What this tells us is that being submissive isn't something degrading or inhuman. It's winsome and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy beautiful and its ultimate aim is to draw attention to God. It is, as 1 Pet 2:13 says, "for the Lord's sake."

(3) Respectful Conduct

Verse 2 describes being submissive as "respectful conduct." It's possible to obey someone while despising them. That's not what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy God is calling wives to. They are to esteem and show regard and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy appreciation for the God-given role of leadership their husband has.

(4) Pure Conduct

The word pure used in verse 2 means embodying Christian virtue. It tells us something about the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy motivation and intent of being submissive. It is not manipulative or purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy conniving. It is pure and genuine in its motivation.

(5) Overflow of Heart

Verses 3-4 address the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy fact that being submissive is a matter of the heart. Wives are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy instructed to give more attention to their inner person than their outward beauty. This is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy so important because it tells us that the submissiveness God is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy calling for is not merely a list of rules, it's not outward compliance-it's a disposition of the heart. It's an attitude.

(6) Gentle and Quiet Spirit

Verse 4 tells us that a "gentle and quiet spirit" is very precious in God's sight. This description fills out what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy a submissive heart looks like in practice. Commentator Peter Davids writes, "Gentle in the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy Greek world was an amiable friendliness that contrasted with roughness, bad temper or purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy brusqueness. In biblical perspective the term indicates a person who purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy does not attack back, for he or she waits on God to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy judge in the end; knowing God is just, the person can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy suffer evil without bitterness and vengeance (Num. 12:3; Matt. 5:5; 11:29)." Davids writes that the term "quiet" conveys a "sense of being calm, peaceful, and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy tranquil as opposed to restless, rebellious, disturbed, or insubordinate."2

(7) Based on Hope in God

Verse 5 says, "This is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy their husbands." Again, the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy motivation and ultimate grounds for this conduct is not the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy worthiness of your husband or your own personality or your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy culture's ideal of femininity. It is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy an expression of hoping in and trusting in God. A godly woman submits to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy her husband because God has told her to do it, because she knows God is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy judge, and because God will reward her.

What husbands and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy wives need to remember when we consider this description of being submissive is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy that only the gospel of Jesus Christ can create both the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy desire and will for a woman to do this. And we should also note that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy being submissive isn't something that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy can be reduced to a list of rules or prescribed behavior. It is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy primarily a disposition of the heart that is expressed in words, in tone of voice, in conduct. So you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy can't just put submission on like a uniform-it's something that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy has to grow out of a heart living for the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy glory of Christ.

I think Wayne Grudem does a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy good job of summing all this up with this definition: "Submission is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy an inner quality of gentleness that affirms the leadership of the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husband." That's a great definition. It's an inner quality. It's an attitude of gentleness that's not grasping, fighting, and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy demanding. And it affirms the leadership of the husband.

The reason that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy last phrase is so important is because biblical submission in marriage is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy not unqualified obedience. It was Peter who said in Acts 5:29, "We must obey God rather than men." In other words if your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husband or any other human authority tells you to do something that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy would mean disobeying God's Word, you shouldn't do it.

What that tells us is that being submissive doesn't mean you're a robot who blindly follows every command. You're called to think, to evaluate. It doesn't mean that when you disagree with your husband you shouldn't speak up and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy share your opinion. Loving your husband and being his helper necessarily involves seeking to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be a wise counselor and in some cases even confronting him and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy disagreeing with him. The point is that in all the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy ways that you can you should seek to affirm and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy declare your support for your husband's leadership.

To affirm your husband's leadership is saying with your words and your behavior, "I support you. I believe you're called by God to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy play this role. I am committed to making your plan a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy success. I've got your back. I'm here to be your helper."

Ladies, I don't know if you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy realize what a powerful thing this is. You will never nag your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husband into godliness. You will never criticize your husband into being an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy amazing leader. You will never nit-pick your man into being the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy man you want him to be.

But your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy faith and encouragement and support will transform him. Nothing stirs a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy man's heart to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy aspire to be a godly husband like the affirmation of his wife. Nothing.

Have you ever led someone else? A person? A group of people at work or in a small group? Leadership can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be a lonely task. Lead any group of people and you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy become instantly aware of the pressure, the self-doubt, the fact that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy nobody listens, everybody has opinions and most people are more aware of your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy mistakes than what you get right.

And it's only after you've led others that you appreciate a good follower. And when you're leading there's nothing more powerful than having someone say to you, "I believe you're the right person for the job. I'm supporting you. I'm here to help you succeed as a leader."

Wives, God is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy saying in this passage, be that kind of follower. Affirm his role. Support his leadership. Try to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy make leading a joy for him. Stand by him even when purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy he makes mistakes. Do all you can to make his plan work. Don't sabotage his plan to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy prove your idea was better. Be a good follower and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy you will be amazed how God will bless you. God will use your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy gentle and quiet spirit to shape something in your husband that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy will amaze you and glorify God.

Instruction to Husbands (1 Peter 3:7)

God tells wives what kind of followers they're to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy be. Then, in verse 7, he tells husbands what kind of leaders they're to be. He tells them to do two things.

(1) Live With Her in an Understanding Way

It's probably worth pointing out that it does not say, "Husbands, understand your wife." That will never happen. And it shouldn't be your goal. This isn't describing a destination; it's calling husbands to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy an ongoing pattern. In an ongoing way we are to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy seek to understand and better know our wives. The text can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy also be translated "live considerately" or "according to knowledge."

Your position of authority is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy not a license to insensitivity. Your first task as a leader is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to understand the woman God has entrusted to your leadership. This involves listening to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy her. This involves asking questions. This involves studying your wife. And this purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy touches every aspect of your life together-from money and child-raising to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the bedroom. Do you listen and really hear her perspective? Can you, without sarcasm, repeat back to her what she's saying and feeling?

Our tendency as men is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to think that good leadership is bold, decisive, and doesn't ask questions. We think it's about giving answers.

My friend Caleb works as a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy salesman. We were talking about this verse recently, and he told me that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy it reminded him of training he had received in sales. They had purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy taught him a phrase to remember when he visited customers. "Don't show up and throw up." The idea is don't sit down with a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy customer and instantly begin to talk and throw up all the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy facts and reasons why your product is best and why they need it. Instead, listen. Ask questions. Learn what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the customer's needs are.

Caleb said he realized that too often he made the "show up and throw up" mistake with his wife. When she had purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy a problem or a question he went instantly to solving her problem, finding a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy solution, telling her what to do. But that didn't serve her. He wasn't seeking to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understand. He was just trying to fix things and move on. He needed to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy listen. He needed to ask questions. He needed to live with his wife in an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understanding way.

I was greatly convicted by Caleb's testimony. Too often, my desire to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy fix problems is really an expression of selfishness. Let me share a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy few examples of what we need to work to understand about our wives.

The unique aspects of who she is as a person (her strengths, weaknesses, goals, fears, interests)

• Her daily schedule
• Her daily burdens and cares
• How and when she likes to communicate
• What words and actions express love to her
• What pleases her in the marriage bed
• How your personal strengths and weaknesses affect her
• How your decisions affect her

This is an incomplete list. I'd encourage you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to add to it yourself. Better yet, ask your wife to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy list the things she'd like you to understand about her.

Husbands, what purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy is keeping you from living with your wife in an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understanding way? Is it pride? Is it laziness? It is a wrong definition of leadership? Is it the assumption that you already understand her completely? Repent of whatever it is that is keeping you from obeying God's Word.

(2) Show Her Honor

Verse 7 says husbands are to "show honor to the woman as the weaker vessel." The word "vessel" is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy used in Scripture to describe a person as a creature. Men and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy women are both "vessels" created by God. And generally speaking women are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy often not as physically strong as men. This isn't a statement of male superiority; it's an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy acknowledgement that generally speaking women are more easily exploited by men. What God is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy saying here is a radical reverse of the way our world works. He says to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husbands, "Don't use your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy physical strength as justification to mistreat your wife-instead, show her honor."

Some commentators believe that the phrase "weaker vessel" is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy referring not only to physical strength, but to the fact that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy in God's plan for marriage a wife is called to be "weaker"-that is, submitted to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy her husband. Either way, the point is the same. A husband is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy not to use his position of authority to mistreat or purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy manipulate his wife. His role of authority is to be purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy spent honoring his wife.

What does it mean to honor? It means to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy consider someone significant. It means to esteem them and appreciate them.

Husbands, if you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy think your role as leader means you can belittle your wife privately or purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy publicly, you're wrong. And you're disobeying God. God's word calls you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to honor your wife in your words, in your praise of her, in your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy encouragement. You should have an inclination to bless her with gifts. To lavish her with praise. To express your purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy gratefulness and appreciation.

Ask your wife, "Do you feel honored by the way I treat you? Do I honor you before others through my words and actions? Do I honor you in front of our kids?"

Now I realize that some husbands might be wondering, "What do I do if my wife isn't submissive?" The temptation for purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husbands is to use power, authority, and even physical strength to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy enforce submission. But nowhere in Scripture are husbands told to force their wives to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy obey. Men, never use your wife's lack of submission as an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy excuse for anger, violence, or abuse. The only thing you can purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy do in this situation is to gently appeal to your wife from purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the authority of God's Word. And regardless of your wife's actions, you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy are called to live with her in an understanding way and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to show her honor.

Peter points husbands to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy the example of the Savior in 1 Pet 2:22-24. Through the purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy cross of Christ we are dead to the sinful patterns of abuse and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy coercion. We are called to live to righteousness. And we are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy called to suffer like Jesus. If your wife doesn't submit to you, entrust yourself to God. Don't revile in return. When you suffer, don't threaten in return. Trust God and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy fulfill your calling as a godly husband no matter what.

Peter closes with two compelling reasons why husbands should live in an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understanding way and honor their wives. The first is that husbands and purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy wives are equal recipients of the grace of eternal life. The day of Christ's return is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy to inform our behavior as husbands: we must never treat our wives as inferior or purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy as our servants. They are joint heirs of God's grace. Any authority that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy we have as husbands has been delegated to us by Jesus Christ. And in heaven, when purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy marriage is no more, that authority will cease.

The second reason is "so that your prayers aren't hindered." This is purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy a sobering statement. Men, read this and let the full implications sink in. How you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy treat your wife effects your relationship and communication with God. If you purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy abuse the authority that God has delegated and entrusted to purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy you, then your fellowship with God will be hindered. God isn't listening to you if you're not listening to your wife.

I close with a poem by Lena Lathrop called "A Woman's Question" that purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy gives a challenging reminder of the high calling of a purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy husband:

"A Woman's Question" by Lena Lathrop

Do you know you have asked for the costliest
 thing
Ever made by the Hand above?
A woman's heart, and a woman's life -
And a woman's wonderful love.

Do you know you have asked for this priceless
 thing
As a child might ask for a toy?
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy.

You have written my lesson of duty out,
Manlike, you have questioned me.
Now stand at the bars of my woman's soul
Until I shall question thee.

You require your mutton shall always be hot,
Your socks and your shirt be whole;
I require your heart be true as God's stars
And as pure as His heaven your soul.

You require a cook for your mutton and beef,
I require a far greater thing;
A seamstress you're wanting for socks and shirts -
I look for a man and a king.

A king for the beautiful realm called Home,
And a man that His Maker, God,
Shall look upon as He did on the first
And say: "It is very good."

I am fair and young, but the rose may fade
From this soft young cheek one day;
Will you love me then ‘mid the falling leaves,
As you did ‘mong the blossoms of May?

Is your heart an ocean so strong and true,
I may launch my all on its tide?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell
On the day she is made a bride.

I require all things that are grand and true,
All things that a man should be;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
To be all you demand of me.

If you cannot be this, a laundress and cook
You can hire and little to pay;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to be won that way.

A woman's heart and a woman's love are purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy precious things. They are precious in the sight of God. Men, let us never treat them lightly. Let's live with our precious wives in an purchase Buspar without prescription from us pharmacy understanding way and honor them as God would have us.

Endnotes

¹This previous sermon, "A Word to Wives: 1 Peter 3:1-6," appeared in the Fall 2010 issue of JBMW.

²Peter H. Davids, The First Epistle of Peter (New International Commentary on the New Testament; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990), 119.

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