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The Zone of Vulnerability, Wednesday, February 23, 2022.

The next thing I would like to cover with you has to do with the broader issue of authority

hierarchy and submission and how these Christian concepts are in a death match with every

form of egalitarianism.

There are two things that we have to understand about how authority works in all of this.

The first is that in order to be healthy, a relationship between a man and a woman has

to be under authority.

And that authority must originate outside the world.

Another way of saying this is that in a godly marriage, there are three parties involved,

not two.

There's the man, obviously, and there's the woman, equally obviously, but underneath

over and surrounding them on all sides is the authority of the living god.

The living god is in the picture, and he is in the picture of necessity authoritatively.

There's a genuine three-way relationship, but that relationship involves the creator

and two creatures.

The creator created the man and his wife, male and female.

He created them in the image of God.

He created them, Genesis 1.27.

The authority that exists within the marriage, that of the husband, does not arise from him.

Rather, it is delegated to him by the creator of marriage, and God has given him very explicit

instructions on how that authority must be used and how it must not be abused.

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