The State of Our Unions

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The State of Our Unions
Whats So Scary About Submission?
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Introduction

• Marriage is often a tug-of-war
• This loving relationship turns into a struggle
  for power and control
• The loser ends up in the mud
• Many dislike the word SUBMISSION
• The word is difficult, disliked, and divisive
• The submission of our text is MUTUAL
• SUBMIT I limit what I might do naturally in
  order to benefit another.

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What is Submission?

• What does submission look like?
• The husband makes all the important decisions
  financial, family, discipline.
• The husband and wife should discuss and work
  together husband has final say.
• The husband is president wife is vice-president
• The husband controls the TV remote

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• You apply to yourself
• Do not try to apply to others
• Wives Dont tell your husband to step up or you
  will take charge
• Husbands Dont tell your wife that she has to
  obey your orders.

1. Personal

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• Submission only makes sense in our relationship
  to Christ
• Ephesians 521 - submitting to one another in the
  fear of God.
• Ephesians 524 - Therefore, just as the church is
  subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their
  own husbands in everything.

1. Personal
2. Spiritual

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• Ephesians 521 - submitting to one another in the
  fear of God.
• NOT all give or all take
• People with power must submit to those with less
  power
• Genesis 2112b - Whatever Sarah has said to you,
  listen to her voice for in Isaac your seed shall
  be called.

1. Personal
2. Spiritual
3. Mutual

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• Many think this is a terrible teaching of God
• Womens lib movement says, You dont have to
  submit to anyone.
• People with less power have input, ideas,
  suggestions
• People with more power must listen, consider,
  submit

1. Personal
2. Spiritual
3. Mutual
4. Beneficial

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• Some think this means a woman must stay in an
  abusive relationship
• Ill stay and submit to his beatings, even if it
  kills me.
• Submission does not mean that you stop thinking
• You dont give up your brain to submit

1. Personal
2. Spiritual
3. Mutual
4. Beneficial
5. Practical

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• Today
• Emphasis is on personal freedom
• My needs are first
• We dont yield the right of way to anyone
• Submission is against the grain
• Submission demands that we consider other people
  first

1. Personal
2. Spiritual
3. Mutual
4. Beneficial
5. Practical
6. Counter-cultural

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6 Secrets to Submission
Submission is

• The Quest Study Bible A submissive spirit runs
  counter to societys values and it always has.
  However, it remains Gods standard for all
  believers male and female for all time.

1. Personal
2. Spiritual
3. Mutual
4. Beneficial
5. Practical
6. Counter-cultural

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We all must submit

• Show me a man who lays down his life for his
  wife, and Ill show you a wife who has no problem
  with submission.
• We must submit
• Church to elders, deacons
• Society to law, leaders
• Life To God, Christ, the Bible

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Are you in submission?

• Have you obeyed the gospel?
• Believed in Jesus?
• Repent of your sins?
• Baptized for the remission of sins?
• Are you living in submission to Christ?
• Morally
• Marriage
• Spiritually