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Ephesians 5:22,24 -Spirit Filled Wives- Pastor Rick Beaudry 2026-04-26
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Ephesians chapter five verses 22 through 24. Would you please stand with me as we read God's holy word together? Five twenty two through 24. Wives, submit yourselves under your own husbands as under the Lord. Brutal. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body. Therefore, as the church is subject under Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Father, thank you for your holy word. And Lord, this morning, we just thank you, Lord, for the family. We thank you for the various roles of husband and wife, and there's no confusion. The devil seeks to confuse these roles and what it means to be a son or a daughter, a husband, a wife, what it means to be a family. And Lord, we thank you that we're not confused. It's just so clear. And we just pray evermore that you would, as we feel so incredibly inadequate to fulfill our responsibilities in in these roles, in these calling that you placed upon each of us, Lord, we we wanna emphasize again, Lord, acknowledge, Lord, to be being filled with your Holy Spirit. Lord, the how is with your help. And so, Lord, we pray evermore that you would strengthen our families, that we'd not succumb to the ways of the world, not succumb to the ways of psychology and self help and all these all the weirdness, Lord. But, Lord, that we'd be biblical, that we do things according to your will and expect and receive your help and to be moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas and sons and daughters, and and just thank you so much. Thank you thank you for the intimacy that we enjoy, that pictures that symbolizes the intimacy of being the bride of Christ and being in the family of God. So blessed now we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Would you please be seated? As we walk with the Lord in the power of the Holy Spirit, we're able to submit one to another in the fear of God. So there's a general submission before we get to this section. The general submission is only possible because of the work of God's spirit in our lives. So we discover a desire to esteem others better than ourselves. We become fixated upon serving one another. Our example is Jesus. We remember Jesus submitting himself unto his father. He said, I do always those things that please the father. We recall his submission, to the disciples in John 13 and washing their feet. Can you imagine that? You walk into the room, you're dirty, your feet are dirty, and all of them are fighting over who's gonna be the greatest, who's gonna be in charge, the power struggle in our homes, the power struggle, you know, throughout our lives. And here Jesus is, the son of God, stoops down to the role of a slave, of a servant, and he takes a basin of water, and he begins to wash his disciples' feet to show them true greatness. And next week, guys, when we study the role of the husbands, we're gonna be reminded of what it means to love our wives as Christ, you know, loved his church and gave himself for her. Jesus said, happy are you if you do this. And so Paul now transitions. He was building the application of being filled with the spirit from verse 18, introducing the general topic of mutual submission in verse 21, and a specific area of submission in verses 22 through chapter six verse nine. So wives are to submit to husbands, husbands to Christ, children to parents, and servants to masters. So submission is the relinquishing of our rights. We talk about entitlement rights. I have a right. I have a right. It's the relinquishing of our rights, the humble recognition of God ordained authority delegated to human beings. So spirit filled wives are able to submit to their husbands because of three reasons. And we qualify this. Spirit filled wives, none of us can do this in the natural or someone lording over us by force or cruelty or any of that. There's a willing mutual submission in each of us, as we as we lay our lives down one for another. And so spirit filled wives are able to submit to their husbands because of number one, her reverence for her Lord. Verse 22. Says, wives, submit yourselves under your own husbands as unto the Lord. So where does it stem from? Where does it emanate? How's it how's it come forth from her heart and her life? It it's in her relationship with the Lord. It's out of respect and reverence for her Lord. She is to humble herself to surrender to relinquished control to her husband. And I can hear the wives going, serious? Give up control? Are you kidding me? My career? The checkbook? The bedroom? My brain? Not gonna happen. He's just a child. He's a bed wetter. He's selfish. He's stupid. He's unreliable. He's like my dad that abandoned mom and I. How can I possibly trust him? How do I know he's gonna take care of me? If I quit my career and I make four times the money he does, I'm twice as smart as he is. If I lay down my life and dedicate myself to being a mom, and giving him that son he wants, he's still imagining himself as a quarterback playing football, you know. And he wants to live through the kids, and he wants me to quit my job, or in some cases, he wants me to keep my job and deny me being home with the kids. Because he wants more money and a bigger house, because it's great for his ego, so either way it goes, what do you do? Cathy told me, Rick, two kids. Two kids, Rick. I've reached my limit. That's it. I have two daughters. And I said, okay, hon. Alright. And I thought, well, maybe we'll make a mistake somewhere along the line, and she'll just get pregnant by accident. Well, she didn't. And I got grand boys. I got grandkids. I got grandsons. That's the word I was looking for. But basically, just trusting the Lord and and recognizing I'll talk more about this next week, but that I don't need to impose my will upon her. That there's a mutual submission in getting to know each other. And when she tells me she's reached her limit, then I'm out of respect for her, out of love for her, I don't want a force. And no matter how much I want a son, you know, and I began to look at it as, you know, I love Jessica and Brittany so much. If a boy came along, a son came along, would that change my love for them? Would would I love the son more than the girls, you know? And and so I I just submitted to God's will in that way. And so so to the wives, they've gotta be able to reverence, you know, the Lord. They've gotta trust in the Lord enough that the Lord will, you know, work in and through their husband. And so, you know, no, I don't want you to I don't want you to have that career, and we've seen this happen over and over again, where then the wife is not in the workforce, the feminism is is gaining steam, and more and more ladies are going into the workplace, and as I said, making two, three times the money of their husbands in many cases, not that they can't. Not that they can't start their own business and run, but they choose maybe to be a mother. Or they choose to do both, super moms. They have a career and they're still a mother. They still help with the kids and and raise the kids and and take them to soccer and all that, and they're just very busy super moms and all. And they're capable, they're able to do all that. But how do you come to a an agreement on these things? How do you know what to do? And and the the sad part of this word trust is in order for a woman to lay down her life, so to speak, and it's the men that are supposed to lay down their life for the, you know, for their wives, but women too, this submission, it's a relinquishing of her rights. Well, what happens when she's helped her husband get through college and helped him get his degree? And they spend all these lean, difficult years and and, you know, budgeting and all that stuff. And then she's raising the kids and all, and she's losing ground in the workplace, let's say. And then he cheats on her with a secretary. He begins to be unfaithful in his in his marriage and wants a new young thing after he's after he's got, you know, a great career and all. And now he's thinking, you know, I need to trade her in and get a new young thing. Well, how does she go back into the workplace then? Kathy's mom had to go work at a bank after twenty five years of marriage. Start from the bottom. Of course, she go through the divorce, and you get some of the assets and all, but you don't have the expense account, and you don't have the upper part of it, and she wasn't greedy enough to take half of his retirement and all, and which he should have, which they're afraid of. But he went for that new young thing, and during that twenty five years of marriage, he was very unfaithful to her, always cheating on her on business trips. And she hung in there for the sake of the children, family, hoping someday he'd come back around. And then he gets the the gumption, the craziness to say to his new wife to say stuff like, well, you know, the reason he divorced your mom is because she was so cold. She didn't have passion. Well, how passionate can a woman be if she knows her husband's cheating on her on business trips? And the mom is loving on these kids wanting to keep the fights and all the stuff away from the kids. So if this mom looks back on her life, did she make a mistake of laying down her life, of being in submission to the husband, of taking that role as a wife? And that's what happened in the sixties with the sexual revolution. The women and the men in the fifties, the families were much stronger. And prayer and the bible taken out of school in '61 and '63, and the so called sexual revolution that hits, people are losing their minds. Divorce rates increase, and promiscuity increasing, and and homes, the families, Christian homes and families in jeopardy. So what do you do? How do you fix this? What what's what's what is is God's biblical model the problem? No. The model's not the problem. It's we're not spirit filled. It's we're not walking in fellowship with the Lord. And so a woman that's come out of this situation, Kathy's mom and dad divorced, and my mom and dad my mom married seven times. How are we gonna make this work? What what what how do we do this, Lord? And Kathy and I come into being Christians at 20 years old and not raised in a Christian home, and all we knew is how not to do it. And we're asking the Lord for the help, you know. And Kathy's working at the phone company, making good money and all, and and we decided to try and by faith to live off of one income, and get pregnant, and have no insurance. And you know, everybody does that. Everybody starts from the bottom with nothing. But it's all a walk of faith, isn't it? It's just a walk of faith we trust in the Lord, and it's a reverence that the woman has as your walk and relationship with Jesus increases and gets stronger. It's not really your husband you're trusting in, it's Jesus you're trusting in. So you look beyond him. You look beyond the husband, and unto him, capital h I m, you look unto Jesus, it says, notice it says here, as unto the Lord, which means you're gonna respect your husband, Jesus. And so turn to first Peter chapter three. First Peter chapter three. Colossians, Paul has some things to say about marriage in Colossians. Colossians chapter three verses 18 through eighteen and nineteen. But in first Peter three, I wanna I want you to look at chapter two first off, and I want you to come back over here to verse 21. We gotta get the context. I want you to pay close attention to chapter three verse one, the word like wise. A grammatical connecting word. Okay? But we have to build the context. For even here unto where ye called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example that you should follow his steps. Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth, who when he was reviled, reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself. Notice, he committed himself to him that judges righteously. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the on the tree, that we being dead to sin should live under righteousness by whose stripes you are healed. For ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned under the shepherd and bishop of your souls. And then Peter says, likewise. Now, he also uses the word likewise for the, husbands, in verse seven. But likewise, it's connecting to what you just learned, which was the illustration of the submission of Jesus. And how he all this injustice, all this bad stuff that happened to him, he didn't threaten, he didn't go, you know, angry at everybody. Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. But it was out of his reverence for his father. It was a submission that he was in unto his father. He says, likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands. That if any obey not, so you have a husband that's unruly. You have a husband that's not walking close to the Lord, and he's obeying not. How are you gonna win him? And a lot of you ladies, the way you win him is you put notes in their sandwiches. Right? Put tracks and food and get him to come to church with and that's a good start. That's a good way. Sow the word into him. Sow the word. Do as best you can. That if any obey not the word, they also may be out of the word, be won by the behavior of the wife. So this godly behavior of the wife shames the husband, brings him to a place where, you know, I've got the most godly wife, and she makes me jealous. She's in love with Jesus, I'm jealous. While they behold your chaste conversation or your behavior coupled with fear, the fear of the Lord. Whose adorning, let it not be the outward adorning of the plating of hair and the wearing of gold and the putting on of apparel. A girl can never have enough bling. Right? But let it be the hidden man of the heart. So the outward's okay, but really girls focus on the inward. The inward adorning. But let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time, the whole so here's an example of Abraham. Of old time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection under their own husbands. Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement. And so, I know a lot of ladies here working on that. Kathy's still working on that. She hasn't called me Lord yet. But, we're we're in progress. Right? I mean, someday she's gonna call me Lord. I'm just waiting for that day. Presently, I'm Balaam's donkey, but but, you know, I'm trying. I'm trying to get the Lord to change my heart, to make me more beautiful from within, and a person that she can trust and and say, Lord Brick, oh, wouldn't that be amazing? That'd be so funny if I ever heard her say that. But the likewise. So even even if you have a husband that's not necessarily the most godly guy, the most greatest leader or whatever, allow your relationship, allow your reverence to be as unto the Lord. So it comes down to faith. It comes down to trust. You're trusting in Jesus in the same way he's been working in your heart, that he's going to work in your husband's heart. You're gonna win him over because as we study this this passage, the greatest need the husband has that God made him with is to feel respected. To at least feel like he's leading, that somebody out there believes in him, that he's capable of leading the home, you know? And he gets beat down at work, he gets beat down everywhere he goes, And when he comes home, he wants to at least feel like this is how God made him. That you're looking to him for leadership. That you're looking to him to answer the door when the wolf comes to the door to protect him, provide for that he's gonna protect you and provide for you and all. And the woman, her greatest need, and we'll see this next week, her greatest need that God created her with is to be loved supremely. And so husbands, next week, we're gonna emphasize that you love your wife supremely, laying down your life for her. As you lay your life down for her, she's going to find it easier to reverence you, to respect you, to treat you with respect. But if she's insecure because your eyes are wandering, and you're a guy that makes her very, very unsecure, the way you talk and the way you act and the whole thing, then she's going to try and guard and and practice risk management. You know? She's gonna have some money stocked away, hidden. You know, she's she's not gonna relinquish control of the checkbook. You're gonna have double, you know, different checkbooks and stuff, and she's gonna start to, prepare in the event of you divorce her. She's gonna be ready for it. And she might hang in there for the sake of the kids, but don't think that that just because it says, wives, submit yourselves onto your own husbands, that she's actually gonna give into that. And there's this battle that goes on for control. Back and forth, back and forth, the arguing and the fighting and and who's gonna be in charge and that whole sort of thing. And so in the NIV verse two of first Peter chapter three, it says, when they husbands see the purity and the reverence of your lives, like Sarah, Sarah being an example of that. And the husbands see that purity, and she's treated as a princess, princess Sarah. And so, spirit filled wives are to submit to their husbands because of number one, her reverence for her Lord, for Jesus. You're doing it on behalf of Jesus. You see that? And as you submit to the Lord, the Lord's gonna work in your husband's heart. The Lord's gonna give you enough faith. I mean, Kathy, I mean, look at the things that I've asked Kathy to do over our marriage. Hey, honey, we're gonna go plant the church up in Washington. We're what? Honey, I'm gonna quit my business, and we're gonna we're gonna go into the ministry. What? Do you know do you know how risky that is? You know how crazy that is? Taking your bride away from her mom? Taking taking the grandkids away from mom? Taking away from my family? All of us, we're gonna leave? What? Are you crazy? What kind of salary did you get? Oh, there's no salary. Rick, we only have a thousand dollars. How are we gonna do this? We're gonna trust the Lord. And all the way, it's been trusting the Lord. And she might question at first, but I learned when I was gonna start a bible study at home back in California, she goes, Rick, you know what happens to us when you do this? Anytime you move in a direction of serving the Lord, we went to school once before when I was 25, went up to Twin Peaks, and my business fell apart while I was up there. And so I had to quit school and get back to work, and and then God blessed our business, and then it just wouldn't go away. It was just gnawing at me. And so I thought, well, I'll go to school again, but this time, I'll run the business while I'm in school. So I went to the school of ministry. Then in the school of ministry, you know, they want you to practically apply yourself, so you serve at the church and you also teach. And so I well, I'll teach a home bible study. And I'd been in home bible studies, and I said, well, let's let's do a home bible study on on Friday nights and at our house, and Kathy says, Ricky, know what happens to us when you do that? I don't wanna do that. We'd just gotten over the previous craziness and bought a house finally, and things like that. And and so husbands, you can't force. You can't rule with cruelty. You can't try to be the dominator. So you have to go to prayer and wait. And you wait for the Lord to move and work on her heart. You can't go unless the can two walk together except they'd be agreed? You have to be like minded. I can't I can't force anything upon Cathy. Nothing. I'll I'll never force her anything. We gotta be willing. We we gotta be there's a mutual submission. And so I waited, and the Lord moved and worked in her heart. That's one of the ways I know I'm in God's will. And she said, Rick, I'm ready. Let's do this. And then our business eroded after over the course of two years. And I said, honey, do you want me to quit again? And get back on the tool, get back to working, get build the business back up? And she goes, Rick, we've come too far to quit now. Let's keep going. Well, that's all I need to hear. She's willing to let go of everything. She's willing to let go of anything that we could trust in and be stable and and, you know, for our kids and all. And so, it's a huge step of faith, and it continues to be a step of faith. I marvel, marvel at this woman's submission under the Lord and under me. Absolutely amazing. Any other woman would have left me a long time ago. But the key here is, she's in submission to Jesus. Her walking relationship with the Lord, she gets confirmation every day that we're in God's will. Regardless of the outward circumstances or how it might look or how many people leave the church or, you know, what kind of upheaval there might be. She knows us. She knows us. She knows that we are in God's will and that we obeyed the Lord by trusting him. There was a time we were on the 5 Freeway, and we're driving up here, and Cathy described she and I were praying. We had a sense that the Lord was belly laughing. Picture God belly laughing. He was so delighted. He was so pleased that we were willing to trust him. That the picture that he gave is that he was rejoicing with joy, that we would trust him. And that's what it is for a wife, is that she's trusting in Jesus. And even if your husband isn't all that just yet, as we saw as Paul as Peter said, win him over with your chaste behavior, your godliness. Win him over with your walking relationship with the Lord. It's your reverence under the Lord, your respect and love for Jesus that's gonna win him over. And I know a lot of you ladies, your your husbands, you're trying to win them. You're trying to convince them that that Christianity is real, that Jesus is real, and that prophecy is real, that Jesus is coming again. And your husband may be struggling. He's having a difficult time, and you want him to be the head of the home. You want him to lead spiritually, as well as the other ways. And he's not quite ready yet, but you're wanting him to feel like he's leading. So you ladies are wise, you ask him questions. Hey, honey, what do you think this means? I've been reading this in the Bible. What do you think it means, honey? And he may not know at first, but he's gonna go read, and he's gonna he's gonna try and come up with an answer for you if he's smart. Right? He's gonna try and take that mantle, that role of being the spiritual leader in the home. But if you're trying to dominate him spiritually, and you're only really using them or relying upon them for the checkbook or the home or the material things. But maybe you're stifling his growth spiritually. Maybe you wanna kinda beat the hook a bit and help him. Help him reach that goal. I'm thankful that when Kathy and I were dating and we broke up and I got saved, I I wanted her so bad to get saved and and wanted her so bad, but the Lord kept her away for nine months. And I was a Christian for nine months before her, and and I got to grow in the things of the Lord because none of us knew anything before that. And I reached a place where I had to give up on her, and I had to make sure I I I began to discover that my first love needed to be Jesus. And once my first love was established, in that I knew that I could I could cope, that I could live without Kathy, but then he gave her back. But he gave her back at a time where I could give her a bible, and I could begin to disciple her. That I could have that mantle, that that role of spiritual leader within the home. That that's a blessing. But some of you ladies, were raised in Christian homes and you married an unbeliever. You're unequally yoked with an unbeliever. You jumped the gun, didn't you? And you thought you could change them. And now there's this power struggle within the home. And the guys love a woman that'll submit. The guys love a woman who's virtuous and doesn't have a big man count. They love those kind of women. And you bring them to church, and many a guys come to come to Jesus because he's invited to church by very godly beautiful women. And then he comes along later and comes to know the Lord. But you ladies, you you you shouldn't jump the gun. You gotta wait. You got you gotta make sure that the foundation's whole. You gotta you gotta say, no. We can't get married yet until I know that you're a Christian. That's the only way I know that is I got a green light. Because God forbids for me to be married, to be an equally yoked with an unbeliever. And I gotta know it's genuine. I gotta have a honeymoon period where I can see the fruit of your profession of faith, that you really do believe in Jesus, because I don't want the switcheroo. I don't wanna be tricked. Because this is a lifelong commitment. I'm in it for the long haul. So spirit filled wives are able to submit to their husbands because of her reverence for her Lord. Secondly, her relationship with her Lord. Verse 23. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body. So Jesus saved the woman. Jesus saved the woman from the abusive, cruel, tyrannical rule of men. Before Jesus came along, women were radically mistreated. Look at Iran today. Look at Saudi Arabia today. Look at around the world today where there is no Christianity, how women are treated. The Jew would wake up in the morning in the Jewish culture, and he would pray that he was thankful that he wasn't a Gentile, that he wasn't a dog, and he wasn't a woman. You remember in John eight, the woman caught in the very act of adultery? The law says Jesus that she should be crucified. Where was the guy? They didn't grab the guy. Guys get preferential treatment. Boy, they had the woman there. Where are thine accusers? Nowhere, Lord. Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more. Jesus elevated the women. Jesus protected the women. The women thronged toward him. He treated them. He elevated them like Sarah the princess. He didn't denigrate him. You look at Mary Magdalene, seven demons delivered from her. Man, she's got the death grip on Jesus. She's never seen a man so love her. You look in Luke seven at the home of Simon the Pharisee, and there's a woman there of ill repute that's according to Simon. And, man, she's she's weeping, and she's washing the feet of Jesus with her with her tears, and she's drying his feet with her hair, and she's anointing with oil, expensive oil and all. And Simon is thinking in his head that Jesus isn't the holy guy I thought him what he was because if he was, he certainly wouldn't be around a woman like this. And then Jesus, hearing Simon thinking, devil can't do that. They need cameras. They need the tech system. They need you to spout off what you're thinking. They're they're posturing themselves that they have predictive programming to to see whether you're gonna commit a crime beforehand. And boy, they'll do it, the AI, but but they're wrong. 100% accuracy with the Lord. He can hear. He knows all things. He's omniscient. And he can hear Simon, the wheels turning. And and Jesus asked Simon, Simon, there's a guy that owed a, you know, a million dollars and somebody that owed, you know, $50, and they're both forgiven. Which one do you think is gonna love the most? Well, the one that's forgiven the most. That's this woman there. She's been forgiven so much, and she loves so much. The Lord forgiven her, you know. And he began to shame Simon in his self righteousness and all, but these women would flock to Jesus. You look at Islam today, the clothes that they have to wear, their faces covered, the habib, and you're not even allowed to drive and things like that. A lot of in a lot of cultures, the women aren't even allowed to be educated. The men wanna dominate. You know, if if she gets smart, you know, she's gonna leave me. She's gonna gain control and all. We don't want her to take control. Historically, men have abused the delegated authority from God that God has given them. The headship designed of of God is for the protection of society, not the cruel domination of the weak. And so as the Jewish women had no rights, she was reduced to that of a possession. She was a thing, not a person. She was easily divorced, just give her a writing of divorcement. She was maligned, as I said in prayer. Thank God I'm not a woman, you know. And then the Greek culture. The Greek culture the Romans subdued the Greeks, but the Greek culture subdued the Romans. So the Greek language and culture dominated in that particular time. So Greek women, they were for childbearing. So you marry a woman, and this woman that you're married to was to give you children. But if you were seeking pleasure, you would seek pleasure with mistresses and other women or men or whatever, however they roll. And Jesus elevated the role of a woman. Jesus elevates the women in society. He became her savior. She discovered value in that Jesus died for her. Her relationship with him allows her to trust that her husband will fulfill his role, Loving her as Christ loved the church, giving himself to her savior, deliverer, protector, and head of the home. Why headship? Why headship? Because of a curse. Because of the curse in the garden when when Eve was beguiled by the serpent. She was deceived by the serpent and she partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam was not deceived. He transgressed. He stepped over the line. Well, where was Adam? Why wasn't he being ahead of covering to Eve? Why was she alone there with the serpent? He wasn't protecting his wife. He wasn't protecting Eve. And so she incorporated a curse in Genesis three sixteen. The Lord says, unto the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. So then sorrow shalt thou bring forth children. So part of the reminder of the curse is the pain of childbearing. I watched Kathy go through like twenty three, twenty four hours of of labor with Jessica, our firstborn. And we were we went to the Lamaze class in those days and tried to I tried to help. I'm I'm no help. And we did it in a hospital. Wayne and Brittany, they do them at home. It's amazing. Just amazing. They do them like in a pool, you know? I don't even think they use a pool now. I think I think Wayne's just there to catch them as they pop out, you know? And true. He had to catch them before they hit the ground. They boom, they pop out. And first one Britney had I can't go personal. I'll get in trouble. But anyway, Kathy, back to Kathy. She she was so delirious from so much pain that finally, you know, she was gonna do it. No no meds. Finally, she wanted whatever pains give me some give me some medicine. Give me some medicine. You know? And finally, relaxed enough to have have Jessica. And so you see that pain, and I didn't feel a thing, you know, but it was it was it was brutal and just absolutely brutal. So a reminder, and I know a lot of the girls do c section, and the c section takes a much longer time to recover with all your stomach muscles, you know, things and things cut and all that. So there's either way you go, there's pain involved from the curse that God gave. So that's part of the curse, is the pain of childbearing. So in sorrow, thou shalt bring forth children. And then notice it says in Genesis three sixteen, here's the real difficulty, the curse. And thy desire shall be to thy husband. And so you think of that, well, it makes it easier. She's gonna love her husband. Right? She's gonna she's gonna have this desire for her husband. No. That isn't what that means in the Hebrew. Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. So part of the curse is the curse is you're gonna try and seek headship over your husband. Your desire to your husband is you're gonna try and rule. That's part of the curse. Within you, there's a curse that you want to dominate your husband. You want to take control of the home. You want to usurp the headship within that home. That's part of the struggle that you as women are going to struggle with, and it's gonna take how? How are you gonna do this? It's gonna take the holy spirit. It's gonna take the be Kathy says to me, why are we using verse 18 again for the think on these? Well, we're gonna use it next week too. Because none of us can do any of this without be being filled with the holy spirit. We need the help of the holy spirit in our relationship with Jesus to be able to lay our lives down and allow these roles that God's given for each of us to live according to these roles. And so it's gotta be a spiritual work. And so your your desire shall be under your husband, and he shall rule over thee. And when we hear that rule, it's it's we don't want anybody ruling over us, you know? We wanna be free. And so this curse that's there, this cursed aspect of headship, you know, what's up with that? And I was watching last night, I refreshed my memory, I watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and and in that movie, it's hilarious, in that movie, there's this Greek family, and the father, the patriarch, he's the head of that home. And everybody knows that the sons and daughters, everything. You need permission for everything because he's the head of that home. You know? And and so this daughter of theirs, she's into her thirties, and she went through the frumpy stage, and and the dad kept saying, you're getting old. You're getting old, you know. It was brutal. Some of the things they said, it's so funny. But anyway, she wanted to get married, just it wasn't time. It wasn't it wasn't happening and all. And and then she asked her dad if she could go to computer school. And she thought if she can go to back to school and learn computers and all that that she could help down at the travel agency of her aunt and all that. And and but she need to get permission. A 30 year old girl need to get permission. And and the dad was like, no. No. No. And the mom began to step in and and began to work the husband in private, began to work him as you women know you can. He may be the head. And finally, she said to her daughter, honey, he might be the head, but you're the neck, and you can turn his head any way you want. So the secret ladies is making him think he's in charge. There was another place in the in the movie where she then, after computer school, wanted to leave the restaurant and go and and, like I said, serve at this travel agency with the computers and all. And she got permission from her aunt and all, and so the aunt and the mom and and the young gal are there talking about, how are we gonna get dad to relinquish control? How are we gonna get him to let me, you know, leave the restaurant serving him, you know, serving there to to go do this? And they said, we need to phrase it in such a way, we need to say it in such a way that it's his idea. So you ladies, you know, they just made him think it was his idea, his ego was inflated, and finally, he's the one that comes to the conclusion, Talia can she can do it, you know? And they're looking at all that. But just hilarious. And so I I understand this. I understand this principle. I understand that, you know, that we may think we're in charge, but there's a mutual submission. There's a mutual submission in the marriage. And I when I early on when I got married, I tried to do it, you know, more in the in the natural. I tried to do it more in the out of my insecurity to make her know, make her understand that I'm in charge, you know. And it didn't work. Didn't work. She didn't feel loved. And as I'm older now, forty five years of marriage, it's not worth fighting over. I just do what I'm told, you know? No. I'm just kidding. I say I'm sorry. I take the wrong. It's just it's just not worth it. I mean, there's such little things, you know. Who cares? I mean, if this woman's gonna follow me to the end of the world, you know, to do what we've been doing, trying to plant a church and all that, Man, I owe her everything. I just owe her everything. And my ego, my whatever's you know, I'm I don't wanna use that word, older, but, you know, I don't know what I'm grown up. I'm more grown up now. More mature. Yes. And I and I don't I don't need to be so insecure. I I don't want her in any way shape or form to feel like she has to do something. She can wake up in the morning anytime she wants. She can go to bed anytime she wants. A lot of men micromanage their wives. She can be in the checkbook. She can just communication. I need communication, you know. That's all I ask, communication. Let's talk. Let's be on the same page, you know? And each and every husband and wife need to figure out how it works for them, but for Kathy and I, it's it's amazing. Husbands, take knowledge of your wives next week. It's amazing the person she's become. Just from the freedom of in her relationship with Jesus, being able to develop and grow and become who God's made her, not made in my image. And so, yeah, the men may be the head, but the wife's the neck. And she can turn it whatever's ever which way she wants. This word desire means to compel, impel, to urge her, to seek control over, to dominate her husband, the power struggle. So the woman, where did she come from? God said to Adam, it's not good that man be alone. We need to come up with a suitable helpmate for for Adam, who was made from the dust of the ground, and God breathed life into Adam. And so, all the animals were brought before Adam. And Adam named each one, kinda intimating that there might be a helpmate in there in the animal kingdom. Some of you guys, have you settled for a beast? A real baboon of a wife? A monster? They're out there. Same with men. But none of them are a suitable helpmate. So God caused Adam to go under the anesthesiologist and put him to sleep. Yesterday, I got to walk around with Ruthie around the yard, and I had her sitting there, and she went into the dentist last week, they put her to sleep. And they put in these new caps, and they pulled a couple teeth while she was asleep. And she says, yeah, papa. I went to sleep, and when I woke up, my teeth were gone. And I said, honey, that's why when I sleep next to grandma, I sleep with one eye open. Because you never know. And she's just like looking at me, you know. But Adam, the Lord, he didn't take from her foot, from Adam's foot to form Eve. He took from Adam's side, from the rib, a picture of Eve equal. Right? Not to be dominated and walked upon. You're gonna you're gonna crush your wife's spirit. You're gonna crush her. I love that Kathy's sassy and ready to fight, you know? Yesterday, she says, you're irritating me, and I got away from her. I got out of there. I'm not stupid. I was asking too many questions. She's got the house, and I got the little sugar shack, you know? And that's why some of you have different bedrooms, you know? You can't stand the snoring now, you know? So anyway, I I I know the signals. I know the stuff going on that's happening, and I'm not as stupid as I used to be. And so God brought forth Eve from the side of Adam that she'd be a compliment, that she'd be complimentary, that she'd walk beside him, the two coming together as one. You become best friends. Kathy's my best friend, you know? And she'd mentioned and I heard Rob and Vicky say this this morning. Vicky's going to the East Coast by herself. And, you know, Kathy and I, in talking about this, she goes, I I I don't know if I could go without you. I I don't know that I want to. You know? And Rob and Vicky were talking that same language this morning, you know? And smooching, oh, you'll be fine. You know? All that. Right? But you're so used to being together and doing everything together. And some wives and husbands, they have it worked out to where they're fine going and doing different things, you know, without each other all the time. I like to go to the gym. Kathy doesn't like the gym. Early on when we were married, I used to go surfing and go to the gym, and Saturday, I'd work all week, and then Saturday morning, I'd grab my board and go out the door, and I'd see that look. She's pregnant just sitting there. Oh, man. I did it a few times, and then I realized, oh, Saturdays are for being with her, because I've been working all week. She misses me, you know? That's a good thing. If I was really smart, I would have taken her to the beach with me. That would have been really smart. That would have been rock star. But I wasn't that smart. And so, you learn to sit on the couch. I used to not be able to sit. And you just hang out. You get the dad body before long, and you can't surf anymore. You're too fat, you know. And you give your board and your wet suit and everything away, and oh, well, play the violin for me. Even the other day, this headship thing, to let you know how this works, I've been married forty five years, and we got a new, fifth wheel to live in, and it's got a brand new bathroom and everything. And and I went in there and do my business, and I I didn't clean up after myself. And I went over to the sugar shack or went to the gym or whatever, and I get a text, and and this whole thing about husbands being the head and the wife the neck and that whole battle or whatever. And I get this text from her that if ever I leave the bathroom that messy, that she will take my toothbrush and clean the toilet, and put my toothbrush back in the in the cabinet, and I won't know that it ever happened. And I took that serious. Real serious. I've been a really good boy. I've been I've been really clean, let me tell you. Some of you may be under that pressure to just put the toilet seat down. I don't know. But these girls, I mean, you would think that that throne is, I'm the king of the castle, and that's my throne, you know? But here I am cleaning my own throne, you know, I gotta clean my own throne. And so, you you know, you're like, I'm the king of this castle. Well, there's a queen that lives there too. And and so, take knowledge of your wives, you know. Be considerate, guys. And this this, again, this whole notion of you being in charge, being in control, the ladies have ways. They have ways. They they have ways of influence. And and so I'm not gonna test her. I'm just not gonna put God to the test on that one. Let me tell you. I I love to brush my teeth. I love I do it several times a day, and I don't want that in the back of my mind. I I want I better buy a bunch of new toothbrushes and have a new toothbrush every time, because I can't trust her, you know? Better to just comply and submit to the Lord. Maybe the Lord's telling me, Rick, that was that was inconsiderate. Inconsiderate, Rick. The mutual submission. First Corinthians eleven three, I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ is God. So fulfillment, as each of us submits to Jesus, our husband, our savior. There's a chain of command, and it's for the betterment. It's for safety. It's protection. It's to prevent chaos. There has to be leadership. And the greatest among us would be the servant of all. The laying our life down for our wives. That that headship comes at a price. It's death. That's what I mean, guys. That headship, you're gonna have to get rid of that surfboard. You're gonna have to give up your stuff. She's not gonna be secured till she understands that you're willing to lay it all down. And then you know what? You get it all back. You get it all back later as you grow and mature in the relationship. Spirit filled wives are able to submit to their husbands because of her reverence for her Lord. Secondly, her relationship with her Lord. And thirdly, her responsibility before her Lord. Verse 24. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. These are the verses men have memorized. They don't know any other part of the bible except wives submit to your husbands in everything. Right? That's it. They know that even worldly guys know that one. Right? Or the other one is judge not lest ye be judged. Everybody knows that one. Right? Taken out of context. Lot to glean here. Lot to learn here. Therefore, as the church is subject under Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. So wives, do your part. You do the submitting. So what comes first? The chicken or the egg? If she finds it easy to submit to a loving guy that'll lay his life down, is he does he have to lay his life down for her first before she'll reverence him? Before she'll respect him? What if he doesn't re what what if what if she doesn't he doesn't love her in that way? What if he's not laying his life down? What if he's incredibly psychopathic, terrorist, selfish? You married a narcissist, ladies, and he's gaslighting you and all. How are you going to submit to him? He's crazy, man. How are you gonna make this marriage last? How's it gonna happen? Well, first of all, he needs to be born again. You're married to an unbeliever. Because there's no Christian man that can be that way. That's number one. Get him saved. Once he's saved, let the Holy Spirit work in his heart. Let him come to the place of submission unto Jesus. And the Lord has a way of humbling him. The Lord has a way of of dealing with him. We we know of a guy that that left his wife after thirty, forty years of marriage, Kathy's neighborhood, and he went off with his young thing, and then he had a heart attack. And guess who cared for him and nurtured him back to health when he came to that place of repentance through the heart attack? His wife. She took him back. But God had a way of humble him, didn't he? God had a way of bringing him to the end. And you know that young beautiful thing, she doesn't wanna be a caretaker. She doesn't wanna deal with a guy that's sick. She wants him to divorce and get half of it. You know? That's what she's after. She's not there to nurture and care, but the guys are so stupid. The wife of your youth that's been there through thick and thin. But we as Christians, we don't do that. We don't do that, do we? That doesn't happen in Christian marriages. No. That couldn't happen. We're not like the world. So the wives, do your part. You say, you know what? This marriage isn't working. The psychiatrists aren't fixing it for us. There's no pills. Bend all the therapy, bend all the marriage camps, all that kind of stuff. It's just it's just not working. What's going on? Well, you're butting heads. There's a power struggle going on. It's the curse. Both of you wanna be in control. So which one's going to submit first? So maybe the wife has to start filling the refrigerator with his favorite foods. Maybe she needs to do the things that exhibit submission unto him. She's gotta be the bigger person. He's too small. He's too little. He's too prideful for him to initiate. I encourage you guys, you be the initiators. But right now, I'm talking to the wives. Wives, try it out. See if in your submission unto him, and you're telling him how smart he is, how strong he is, what a great protector he is, and oh, man, you you got the greatest ideas, you know? I'm so glad I married you. Where would I be without you? See what happens. See if he'll see if he'll love you like Christ loved the church now. See if he'll respond, or you can keep that power struggle going on. Kids watching it, everybody watching it. Or husband, you. You be the one that initiates. You love her like Christ loved the church. You give up your boat. You give up your stuff. You lay down your life for her and the kids. You make time and see if then she follows your leadership. That's what it means to submit to follow your leadership the way you're leading. You initiate. You say, hey, we're going to church this Sunday. We're going to bible study. If she doesn't see that you have a tight walk and relationship with the Lord, how can she trust you? If you're just going through the motions in your walk and relationship with Lord, how can she trust you? Kathy one time said to me, I hope I'm still that man. She said, Rick, I know that you're not gonna cheat on me. That was her biggest fear, is I would cheat on her. I'd be unfaithful. She goes, I know you're not gonna do that, Rick. And I said, why? Because before we were married, I used to cheat on her. And she says, because you're in love with Jesus. And I know now that you wouldn't do that to him. And I don't know how I've lasted forty five years except that the holy spirit's changing me on the inside. We're tempted, they're out there, the devil with the blue dress on, But the Lord keeps a hedge of protection. The Lord helps us. So we like Joseph, we don't wanna hurt the Lord's heart. I don't wanna be like David. I don't wanna destroy my family. I wanna be able to look in my wife's eyes, the wife of my youth that I met when I was 17 in high school. I wanna finish well. I don't wanna drink the the poison Samson drank or that David drank. I I have examples in the bible of guys who who blew it. I don't wanna be like that. Lord, transform and change me. Make me new. And my love for Kathy, the love that the Lord puts in my heart for her, and the love in my time of devotion, and my walking relationship with the Lord keeps me safe. Because any of us, any guy in here, any girl in here, woman in here, can be tricked, can be duped. All it takes is a season of backsliding, a season of discontent, a season when you didn't get what you wanted from the Lord. And now you're being lied to, and you're angry at the Lord. And you're cutting off the flow of the Holy Spirit in your life. You've quenched the Holy Spirit. You're capable of acting in the flesh at any point in time in your marriage. That's why you have to nurture the life of the spirit. Be being filled with the holy spirit. Continually, in God's word and prayer and prioritize, and you prioritize the spiritual. The spiritual in your home and your family is first, not last. Not what's left over, or you're gonna have a leftover marriage. God wants our best. So do our part. Only God can get your husband to love you the way he's supposed to. You be responsible for your role. Each of us needs to do only what we can do. I can't make another person do what I want them to do. And I I don't know if I said this this morning, maybe I said it to Kathy, but I'm I'm repeating this phrase. Think I said it to Rob and the guys in the morning. I like not being in control. I like it. I don't have the responsibility of all these people and employees and loans and and family members even. I'm not in control of Jessica and Brittany. I'm not in control of the grandkids. I'm not in control of this church. It's simple. It's his church. He's in control. I don't wanna carry that burden, that load. I pray for my daughter. So forty four years old, my daughter's gonna be this summer. She makes her own decisions. There was a time where I tried to influence her. I had to talk to her. Tried to get her to do the right thing. Had these long talks. She's an adult. I'm not in control. Kathy's an adult. Brittany's an adult. I'm not in charge of any of you. I'm not lording over you. You're free. My responsibility, my role is to feed you God's word and to love on you. And then it's in your court, then it's your decision. So if I can't get you guys to do, how how why would I try and get my wife to do what I want her to do? You know? She's gotta want to. Your husband, he's he's gotta wanna love you. And God only God can put that in our hearts. It's gotta be a spiritual love, an agape love as we'll see next week, guys. You do your role, ladies. Can two walk together except they'd be agreed? Sometimes, our spouse decides to leave. It's their decision. We're not in control. We can't keep them to or we can't force them to stay. Did you do something wrong? No. You fulfilled your role. You were a submissive wife, a godly wife. You never cheated on him. You did everything God asked of you, and he decides to leave. There's no formula. There's no guarantee. Any of us can wake up one day and be an idiot. And you're looking in in in like like, how is this happening? There's things in my life that are the same way. I don't know. I can't explain it. It just happened. It was a demonic storm. I don't understand my oldest daughter. I don't understand it all. How could that possibly happen? How could she be taken captive by the wicked one as a prisoner of war? All these years, it doesn't make sense. Kathy's the best mom. And with her, I'm a better husband and father. This is a this was a good family. It was way different than the family I grew up in or Kathy grew up in. At least she had a chance to be a Christian. What happened? I I can't explain that. I can only do my part as a husband and a father. Regrets? Lots of regrets. Lots of things I if I could've, but a lot of this is inexplicable. You can't explain the way people act or react or the decisions they make. It's their decision. Doesn't mean I don't pray for them. No. I pray. I ask God to intervene. It's a God thing. God, I need you. I can't I can't influence this person any further. So what's it forced me to do? To die? Marriage is death. Marriage is death. God puts two opposites together, and both of us have to die that Christ live through us. You're dying every day. You're denying yourself, taking your cross up, and following Jesus, and you're experiencing fulfillment. You're experiencing the resurrection power, the life of the spirit as you do. A life of selfishness is so unfulfilling. But a life of giving, a life of brokenness, a life of holding each other's hands and going through the cancer and going through the heartache of a prodigal and going through the reversals, there's such a deep intimacy that develops in your walking relationship with Jesus. And that's what your marriage the intention of your marriage is, is that people would see Jesus. That you're the bride of Christ. And marriage depicts his relationship with you as he wants intimacy. He wants the oneness with you and I as Christians. The world can't experience this. The world can't go to this depth of intimacy. People in the world can be married fifty years, but they don't know the intimacy you and I know, with the triangle of you and I and then Jesus at the top. If there's a problem in the marriage, it's a vertical problem. It's this way. It's not this way, husband and wife. It's this way. There's a problem this way in my or her relationship with the Lord. So seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous, and all these other things be added unto you. The problem's here in my walk with the Lord. Not there. God didn't make a mistake in that woman he gave me. She doesn't have to be like my mom or dad or no comparison. She's unique. There's only one her. And you get to have a period of time to try and discover who she is, because you'll never have it all down. There's always little nuances and different things about her, the way God made the woman, and that's what keeps it so intriguing, so exciting. So wives, be responsible for your role. And notice it says, in everything, subject under Christ so that the wives be to their own husbands. In everything, in everything, pastor Rick, let's qualify this because the knuckleheads out there will lie to you. In everything, which means that consistent with God's word. If your husband's asking you to do something contrary to God's word, you obey God rather than man. If the government's demanding or asking you to do something contrary to God's word, you obey God. Remember headship? It's God at the top. You're able to submit to your husband as you see him in submission to God. If he's not in submission to God, you don't have to be in submission to him. You're gonna obey God. God's the head of the home, and that's why the wife need not fear because Jesus is the head of that home. And if my husband isn't in submission to Jesus, then I don't need to be in submission to my husband. Obey God rather than men. Do everything God's way. If your husband is not submission to God's way, you obey God. In the finances, in the bedroom, with the children, you're not gonna stand by and allow your husband to abuse and do things wrong financially or in the bedroom, the things he's asking to do in the bedroom or even with your children. You're not gonna stand for it. It has to be biblical. Don't need to fear things that are biblical. Don't need to fear, but your husband needs to be respecting you. He needs to be in mutual submission to you. The husband can't use force or cruelty with you. Demand of you. Things you're uncomfortable with. The type of person you are. Well, the other people do this. Well, we're not other people. That's not how God made me. I'm very uncomfortable. How is love doing you know, forcing somebody to do something they're uncomfortable? God's not asking you to submit to an abusive, tyrannical, perverted, porn addicted pretender. You work with them. You talk with them. You try to get them to be reconciled to God, to quit playing the fool like David did. David, you're the man. You don't give up on them immediately or her. But if they persist in playing this role and being the narcissist or whatever it may be, this pretender, you remind them, that's what divorce is for. Or, that's what murder's for. We can poison your food, buddy. Marriage is not a prison. It's not a prison. It's not something you need to endure. He's so abusive. But it is a death sentence. It may not be a prison, but it's a death sentence. We're both dying. We're dying to self. We're dying to our old carnal fleshly ways, our selfish ways. You can be a single person, and you can do everything, whatever you want. You're free. You get married? Everything changes. Everything changes. You're you're not a free agent anymore. You're gonna discover death, death to self. And it's a good thing. Yeah. I used to go fishing every weekend. Yeah. I hunt whenever I want. Not anymore. Not unless you got a wife that likes to hunt and fish with you. She likes to go to the spa and get a massage. I hate people touching me like that. You learn to die. If if if Kathy if we're going somewhere, you know, and they wanna go through all the shops, or nowadays, they have this thing they call, we're gonna go thrift storein'. Oh my lord. Oh my lord. That's like when I first got married, they wanted to go to the mall. Oh, painful. Even grocery shopping was painful for me. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. And a lot of you men do the shopping now. You love your wife so much, you go do the shopping, And you come home and fix the food. And you change the diapers, and you help wash the dishes. You're amazing men in my day. We went out and worked real hard, and we came home. We expected a meal. Maybe one or two diapers changed, you know. I'd go out and fix the cars and the grass and all the outside stuff. And a lot of you guys have wives that are out there cutting the grass nowadays and chopping wood. Whole mixture of stuff going on, but everyone has to figure out what works for them. There's no right or wrong in those gray kind of areas, you know, the different roles. There's a mutual submission. It's fun to discover that. It's amazing to me. But it's death to self. As John the Baptist said, he must increase and we must decrease. Jesus must increase. And the greatest way that he has for you and I to grow in that way is to be married. Because when I'm single, I can be as selfish as I want. And I can just use people and no connection, no responsibility. I can do whatever I want. And boy, you get married. That's why it's so good to watch your young people get married at a young age. They mature. First thing you know, they got a baby. They gotta quit drugging, man. They can't be doing drugs anymore. They got a baby. They they gotta watch their alcohol intake now. But, man, when they were partying, you couldn't get them to stop nothing. They're just, woo hoo. And now something about having a baby. All of a sudden, both of them are sober, and they're taking it serious, and they're like the superstar parents. That's how a lot of us were. When we're before we're married, before we're having kids and stuff, we're going crazy. And then you get married, all of a sudden it's serious. Hey, I wanna be better parents than my parents. And it hurts. It hurts when you hear your kids cutting you down, and cutting mom down, and cutting dad down, and finding all the fault while they were growing up. It's like, what planet are you on? And then they start having their kids. And then their kids start coming in and saying stuff to them. It's like, you know, you're like going now you know. Now you know what it's like. Kathy and I nowadays, when we see shows or whatever with these unruly teenagers, so incredibly rude and bombastic. And during COVID, I had them I had these young people tell me I I wasn't allowed to go into places because I didn't have a mask on. It was typically these young girls, and they'd look at these older male, white male dudes, and all of a sudden, they were empowered to tell them no. And I look at a lot of these kids are like that. They're they're just like waiting to take control. They don't have respect, we'll talk about kids and their role in a little while, I mean, few weeks, but it's just fascinating to me. So Kathy and I, it's like, we'll both we'll both joke to each other. I wish we never had kids. Because they can sure hurt you. There's tremendous joy that comes from your children, and there can be tremendous hurt too. Families. Our submission is to him, to Jesus out of reverence to him as our lord. Because of our relationship to him as our savior. And because of our responsibility to be his faithful bride, the bride of Christ. Spirit filled wives, be being filled with the spirit. God's power over the curse. We live under a curse, husband and wives. The curse of sin. How are we gonna overcome our old, ademic, selfish nature? The curse. Only by the spirit. Only by the power of the holy spirit. And that honeymoon experience that I had with her, that honeymoon experience I had as a young Christian couple, that isn't gonna work today. Forty five years later, I need to be Greek tense. I need to be being filled with the Holy Spirit. When do I have trouble? When I'm in the flesh because I'm under a curse. I'm not basically a good guy. I'm not basically a loving, good guy that every woman would wanna marry. And I can hear you ladies praying for Kathy. I can hear it all the time. That poor girl, that poor girl, who could marry that guy? But it's only by the power of the Holy Spirit that she's able to be married to me. And it's only by the power of the Holy Spirit that I'm able to love her the way God's commanded me to love her. Because I'm a selfish puke by nature. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the way out. We thank you for the way out as your son, Jesus. That Lord, as we die to self, and as we allow him to live in and through us, Lord, that you bless our lives, you bless our marriages. There's love in our families. There's love in the house. There's peace. I don't have the screaming that my mom used to do, Lord. Cathy's not a screamer. She's not a rager. She's a homemaker, a great homemaker. Loving home, a loving wife, and I thank you for her. A virtuous woman. Her price far above rupees. Thank you, Lord. Lord, I pray that evermore, you would help me and you'd help the men here to love our wives like Christ loved the church. We thank you for them. And Lord, we thank you for those who are single also, those who have chose a life of being single, Lord, that we pray that you bless them and that you be that that friend. That friend that that they can know and and love as I know you are, Lord. So bless, we pray. Pour out your holy spirit. Help us to get this right, Lord. Help us to love because, Lord, we know without love, we're nothing. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
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Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service
Listen to Rick Beaudry, Pastor of Calvary Chapel Bremerton, teach the Word of God cover to cover, chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. Be edified and built up in your faith with solid Bible teaching. New episodes on Mondays in the Pacific Standard Timezone.
