Thank you. The word submission has a negative connotation these days, but on Truth for Life today, we'll find out how proper, loving, biblical leadership can inspire joyful, dignified, God-glorifying submission.

Alistur Begg is teaching from 1st Peter chapter 3, but he begins today with a reference

back to chapter 1.

Peter has been explaining this whole wonder of salvation, and he comes to application in the 13th verse,

and he says, now, therefore, in light of these doctrinal indicatives, here are some of the moral ethical imperatives.

Now you should live in a certain way. Prepare your minds for action, be self-controlled, set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. Now notice verse 14, as obedient children do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. Okay? So as non-Christians, we lived in ignorance. We were not simply

ignorant of the way of salvation, but we were ignorant of the purposes of God for the way that life

should be lived. Now all that has changed. So the Christian husband discovers that salvation

for him must impact his marital relationship with his wife. He no longer lives in ignorance.

He is now to live according to knowledge.

Well, what kind of knowledge?

Well, certainly these things.

That husbands are to live with their wives in the knowledge, first of all,

of the wonderful provision that God has made for us in marriage.

That redeemed now, we don't see marriage as just another piece of paper from the courthouse on the corner. We understand that according to knowledge, it is God's purpose

from the beginning of creation that it is not good for man to dwell alone and that God in his wisdom

has created this wonderful provision. The Christian

husband thinks about that. He also comes in the knowledge of the clear parameters that God

has set for marriage to be lived the way God intended it to be. So the Christian husband is different

from his non-Christian golfing buddies. He doesn't

laugh at the same jokes. He doesn't read the same literature. Why? Because he is committed to dwelling

with that woman, catanosin, according to the knowledge, that he cannot step out with the parameters that God has created

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