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Theology Applied

QUESTIONS - Does a Husband Have Authority to Tell His Wife What Clothes to Wear?

Theology Applied

Right Response Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9801 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Where does a husband’s jurisdiction end? ​Is it permissible for a wife to disobey commands from a husband when they fall outside of his jurisdiction? Or should all “neutral” commands be obeyed?

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All right, Lauren Schmidt, where does a husband's jurisdiction end? Is it permissible for a wife

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to disobey commands from a husband when

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they fall outside of his jurisdiction, or should all neutral commands be obeyed? This is a great

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question. Let me look at just a couple verses. I'm going to be brief on this one, but it's important.

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It's really important. All right, this is Romans 13. Have you ever heard of

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that chapter of the Bible, Romans 13? Anybody preached on that in the last two years? So Romans 13,

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verse 1, what it says is let every person, make note of that, every person, be subject to the governing authorities, for

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there is no authority except from God and those that exist have been instituted by God.

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It's going to stop there. That's Romans 13, verse 1. Now look at Ephesians. Ephesians 5,

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verse 22, 23, and 24. Wives submit to your own husbands as to the

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Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,

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his body, and is himself its Savior. Now, as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

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What's the point that I'm drawing out? The correlation between these two texts. One is speaking about

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the submission of citizens to civil magistrates, civil authority, and the other is speaking of the

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