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1st Peter chapter 3 verse 7

Likewise, husbands

live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman

as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life so that your prayers may not be

hindered. Now there's so much we could talk about with this verse. It's a part of a wider context talking about wives and husbands and God's giving, loving,

headship to husbands in a home and so when the Bible talks there about

weaker vessel that's not saying in any way the Bible does not teach in any way that women are inferior to men, women and men

both equally made in the image of God, equally valuable and with different roles in marriage.

That's what the Bible's talking about here.

We could spend a lot of time there but the focus I want us to pray through today is at the

very end of 1st Peter 3 7 when this exhortation to husbands is basically saying to love your wives well, care for your wives

well, serve and honor your wife, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

In other words, the Bible is teaching, like point blank right here, that if husbands do not treat their wives in a

God honoring, God, glorifying, selflessly loving, caring way, then God will not heed their prayers.

So I hear that as a husband.

I hope for everybody who's listening to this who is a husband or potentially a future husband that you will realize,

that I will realize that we will realize that God hearing and heeding our prayers is directly related to the way we love and serve

and care for our wives.

And then on a broader level to realize,

and so we could go different places in scripture,

but just to see how our relationships with others affect our relationship with God.

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