Ephesians 5:22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

The duties of Christian wives being in their nature difficult, the apostle enforces them by the example, Of the holy women of old, who trusted in God,"You can pretend nothing of excuse from the weakness of your sex, but what they might. They lived in old time, and had less knowledge to inform them and fewer examples to encourage them; yet in all ages they practised this duty; they were holy women, and therefore their example is obligatory; they trusted in God, and yet did not neglect their duty to man: the duties imposed upon you, of a quiet spirit and of subjection to your own husbands.

Submission is a very important issue in relation to marriage. Even before sin entered the world, there was still the principle of headship (1 Timothy 2:13). Adam was created first, and Eve was created to be a "helper" for Adam (Genesis 2:18-20). At the When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered the world, and then authority was needed. Therefore, God established the authority needed to enforce the laws of the land and also to provide us with the protection we need. First, we need to submit to God, which is the only way we can truly obey Him (James 1:21; 4:7). In 1 Corinthians 11:2-3, we find that the husband is to submit to Christ as Christ did to God. Then the verse says that the wife should follow his example and submit to her husband.

Submission is a natural response to loving leadership. When a husband loves his wife as Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25-33), then submission is a natural response from a wife to her husband. The Greek word translated “submit,” hupotasso, is the continuing form of the verb. This means that submitting to God, the government, or a husband is not a one-time act. It is a continual attitude,

Ephesians 5:24 says, “Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.” This verse is saying that the wife is to submit to her husband in everything that is right and lawful. Therefore, the wife is under no obligation to disobey the law or God in the name of submission.

A wife should submit to her husband, not because women are inferior, but because that is how God designed the marital relationship to function. Submission is not a wife’s being a “doormat” for her husband. Rather, with the help of the Holy Spirit, a wife submits to her husband, and a husband sacrificially loves his wife.
GB

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Amen my brother, this is the word, one thing I have found out is that a lot of men want to stand on the scripture of wives submitting, but they are not truly submitted themselves to God, this is the requirement. Man must take on the responsiblity of loving his wife as Christ so love the church, In my experience some men that say they are save, santified and filled with the Holy Ghost are living a lie. Men Have got to come up in their walk with Christ. Let's be real. You see more women in church than you see men, you see more women active in church than you see men. Their are a few of us that are seeking deep relationship with God and are truful about our focus to serve God in order to be a blessing to our wife and family, to seek the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich and addeth know sorrow, their are some of us out here who are striving to walk with God as Abraham, Isaiah, Elijah and many other mighty men of God. I have found out a lot of men do not want to die to self. when we die to self and allow God to lead us and Guide us, our women will have submitt to the word of God. They will be happy too. What am I saying. The women will be glad to submitt when the man is lining up with God and walking in God's annointing. Men it is about being who God called us to be, the head and not the tail. Men must learn to be true to God and God will let the woman be true to man. So let's be real to self , sencere to self and to God. It is time for the men to raise up and take their rightful place. Sir i love your articlle.
Seeing more women in church is the very point we need to make...they are not submitting to God...
the fact that there are more women in church, and in the pulpit is the very problem...
you made a statement the women will be glad to submit IF.. that destroys the whole statement...there is no IF... women are commanded to submit to God,by God not on conditions of what the man is doing...have you not read where God says women submit even to the unsaved man?

Now, back to the women in the churches...have you noticed to more we slip away from the truth of the bible..the more we see corruption in the churches? the more women we see out of their God given role as wife and not head...the more we see the church has fallen away from the tuth...the bible says the churches have become a cage of unclean birds...meaning un-believers...part of this evidence is who's leading the churches now...

Whenever the spirit of God vacates a place..Satan is sure to occupy...

Revelation 18:2
With a mighty voice he shouted: "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great! She has become a home for demons and a haunt for every evil spirit, a haunt for every unclean and detestable bird.

she has become, as was not always...this speaks of the local churches that were ordained to preach God's word..they have indeed fallen from the truth of God's word...and this is why we see the overtake of women in the pulpits and congregations all over the world...Her fall is first declared by the angel, and then the greatness of it is shown here, by the events when he says it shall be the seat and habitation of devils, of wild beasts, and of cursed souls, as in Isa 13:21...

Isaiah 14
12How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,

you who once laid low the nations!
13You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to heaven;

I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,

2 Thessalonians 2:4
He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

Isaiah 14:14 'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

The verses above speaks of the churches of today...they have fallen from the truth and become a cage of unsaved...they have rebeled against God in their arogance and pride...I remember when I was child I woud watch the women in the churches...as they moved closer and closer to the pulpit...sitting in the first few rows...then gradually inching their way to the pulpit to sit behind the pastor...as a lion stalking its prey...

no we look and there is the abomination..Satan rulling in the churches...utilizing these women to do so...
there are some women who fear God and love the LORD..and these godly women would never dare to disobey God in such a way as to usurp authority over the man...in the congregations...

Romans 1:25
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen.

Don't forget that Eve was the one who was deceived; not Adam. We read in 1st Timothy 2:11-14, "Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression." The Bible gives 2 reasons why women are not to preach, teach or lead men. The fact that God created Adam first is significant. The woman was created FOR the man. Like it or not, no woman will be happy until she is serving a man, i.e., her husband. Thus, men cannot lead if women are getting in the way. The modern idea of a husband and wife both working jobs, and hiring a stranger to raise their kids is insanity. 1st Timothy 5:14 stresses the importance of women being at home. A woman's place is in the home.

Feminism has been one of the most successful social movements in our nation.
Although there have been some legitimate goals, one of the results of this movement is to influence our culture to ignore the fact that there is a difference in the roles of men and women.

The Word of God proclaims, “A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent” (1 Timothy 2:11-12). In the church, God assigns different roles to men and women. This is a result of the way mankind was created and the way in which sin entered the world (1 Timothy 2:13-14). God, through the apostle Paul, restricts women from serving in roles of teaching and/or having spiritual authority over men. This precludes women from serving as pastors, which definitely includes preaching to, teaching, and having spiritual authority over men.

GB
To hear the true word of God on marriage visit (www.apostolichop.org).

MAY GOD BLESS YOU
You believe one has to be baptised to become saved?
Not at all. I believe that one must not necessarily be baptised before he/ she can be saved. True salvation is by receiving Christ and doing what is expected of you as a christian.
This is true..baptism cannot save the soul,neither than accepting Jesus or making a confession,we are born again when we have been chosen from before the foundation or the world by God for salvation...it has absolutely nothing to do with any work we do..
GB
I like this article it helped me alot. God Bless You!

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