God has always desired that women have a meek and quiet spirit.

God has always desired that they adorn the hidden person of the heart.

He is always desired that they are submissive to their own husbands.

This has always been the standard fight.

This isn't new.

This isn't some bias or chauvinism.

It's always been this way. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

It's no secret that good marriages and families don't just happen.

Certainly the wife bears some responsibility in that.

And when it comes to being a Christian wife, there are some specific attitudes God calls

women to adopt.

Of course, in a world where influential voices call those attitudes old-fashioned or inappropriate or even insulting,

today's Christian woman probably has never faced more resistance to being the kind of wife God wants her to be.

If you're feeling that pressure, today's broadcast is going to encourage you.

John MacArthur helps you separate truth from falsehood on this issue of wives and

submission.

It's part of his current study called the fulfilled family.

And now here's John.

It's our privilege to turn in the word of God to a great portion of scripture as a starting point

for our wife.

Ephesians chapter 5, verses 22 through 24.

And there the word of God says, wives be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord.

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