God

God God has a perfect plan for marriage.

So why is our culture, and even the church, so confused about this God-ordained relationship?

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg considers the root cause behind the confusion, and he

explores the Apostle Peter's instructions concerning the privileges and obligations facing Christian

husbands.

I invite you to take your Bibles and we'll turn together to 1 Peter chapter 3.

And as we continue our studies in this most practical of letters, giving instruction for scattered

believers in Peter's Day and for the generations that would follow, including our own,

we've come to the seventh verse of the third chapter, which reads as follows.

Husbands, in the same way, be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the

weaker partner, and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. That's the focus of our

study now, and before we come to it, let us bow before God and seek his help in prayer.

Our God and Father, we magnify you for the word that you have given us. We thank you this morning for the scriptures,

which are able to make us wise unto salvation, which contain all that we need for correction

and for reproof, for training in righteousness. We thank you that you are teaching us what it

means as a church family to become a people of the book,

that we might be those who bow underneath its instruction and delight to fulfill the obligations with which it confronts us.

And so we pray for your help, both to speak and to listen, that we might be different as a result of these moments spent now, gathered under the tutelage of the Holy Spirit by the Word of Christ. For it's in the lovely name of Jesus, we ask it. Amen. Well, last Sunday morning, we dealt with God's instruction as it comes to us by the

spirit through Peter for being a wife as per God's pattern. And this morning in the seventh verse,

now we come to the instruction concerning what it means to be a Christian husband.

And as you've been reading this, as I'm sure you have, you will doubtless have been struck

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