Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now, and you're listening to the Flying Free

podcast, a support resource for women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden

emotional and spiritual abuse.

Welcome to episode 66 of the Flying Free Podcast. Today we're answering the question,

what does the Bible mean when it tells Christian wives to submit to their husbands.

Was this kind of submission only for that culture?

I don't want to get into all the Greek and Hebrew and blah blah blah.

There's a ton of books and blog articles out there that do all of that.

I just want to make this really simple and common sense straight from the Bible.

We're going to look at what God teaches us in the whole of scripture rather than pulling out a single verse and making an entire theology around that verse.

So, first let's look at what the Bible says about submission.

In Ephesians 5, 15 to 33,

it talks about the difference between a foolish person

and a believer who wants to walk with God and make the best use of his or her time on this earth.

Then it says that people like this are to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. So who is supposed to submit?

Believers. And why? Because when we do this with one another, it shows we reverence our Savior who died for us.

And we want to follow in his footsteps, right?

This humble submission to one another is one of the ways we love each other well and show the world who Jesus is.

Efesions calls this submission wise and the will of the Lord. The opposite of this is called

foolish and not understanding what the will of the Lord is. In Ephesion 6, 1 through 9, Paul tells children to obey or submit to their parents

in the Lord. In other words, children were always to obey, but now as believers, they are to do their obeying

in the Lord.

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