Whether you're in the government, seeing yourself as a citizen, on the job as an employee, in the home, as a marriage partner, the role is always the same.

You submit the God's ordained pattern for that social relationship and you live it out to the maximum to please

God and God will honor you as a testimony wherever you are. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

If you're a Christian and your spouse isn't, what's the most effective way to

evangelize him or her? What do you need to say and perhaps a more difficult question? What do you need to do?

John MacArthur answers those questions as he continues his current series titled

Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land.

He'll look at concepts that aren't very popular today, things like submission, meekness,

modesty, and he'll show you how those characteristics not only can bless

your marriage, but they can even draw your unbelieving spouse to Christ.

So follow along with John MacArthur as he begins today's lesson.

The lovely, gracious, gentle submission of a Christian woman to her unsaved husband is the strongest evangelistic tool she has.

It's not what she says. It is what she is.

The woman is to submit to her husband's leadership.

That is a God designed principle.

Wives submit to your husbands, Ephesians 522.

Wives submit to your husbands, in each case your own husband, Colosians 318. The same thing

comes from Paul in Titus to four and five. Young women are to be subject to their own husbands.

Again, that possessive pronoun is there every time such a statement is made.

The woman is to submit to the husband's leadership. This is

her greatest tool of evangelism. The virtue of her wifely character. The first duty of the wifely

character. The first duty of the wife then is

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