Submit in the Fear of the Lord
Scripture: Ephesians 5:21Devotional Series: Husbands
Teaching: Husbands pt. 2 (WED 2024-08-07) by Pastor Star R Scott
As we’re praying and overseeing our homes and praying for our children and praying for our wives, just pretend like your wife is an app and go over there and click on it and get some information; amen? You should even put one in your app thing with her face on there just as a reminder. If we are, in fact, one, and the mandate is that we love each other, why is it that we keep looking for ways to be away from each other? “Well, that’s my hobby.” Get another hobby: loving your wife; amen? Training your children up.
The responsibility of your children being matured, nurtured in the admonition of the Lord does not belong to your wife, it belongs to you. You, husbands. So, as we’re looking at these things, now, functionally, we realize that a lot of it will be delegated to our wives. These things are delegated to our wives, and once you have been a delegator stop being—make the decision that you will not be a micromanager. We’ll go on in Titus a little bit later, especially when we start talking about the wives and talk about the wives’ job of ruling their homes. That is a powerful word in the Greek, that word “rule.” The wives ruling their own homes. The responsibility, the authority, the strength of that role, is amazing. And because of that being chosen by the Holy Ghost, it’s basically saying what I just said: this is her domain, don’t go in there and try to micromanage that thing. The wife’s cleaning the house or decorating or whatever it is, and we want to come in there and try to say, “Well, I want this, and I want that, and I like that.” Listen, if it doesn’t totally offend you, make you want to throw up, then let your wife have her way; amen? You’re sleeping most of the time on the couch anyway, so it shouldn’t bother you. But we’re responsible to oversee these areas in our families, in our children.
We see over in this fifth chapter of Ephesians where we’re admonished to submit ourselves one to another in the fear of God. Now, see, marriages within the church, and we all as families, and when you combine certain families together as they did in the Old Testament, you have clans, multiple families, a clan. There was always a respect and honor given to the elder, but each family is its own entity. You left your mother and father and made your own family. So, we relate, we communicate, we give honor, but whoever that clan leader might be, or however it’s functioning, there is not a specific authority given to micromanage those homes. It’s wisdom, it’s experience that’s available and should be drawn on; amen? But not forced upon. So, that way we can coexist. Now, how do we do that? How do we pull that off? Well, he just told us in this verse, “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord,” (Ephesians 5:21). Amen? So, much of what we’re doing in church helps strengthen the local family unit, because if we can submit to those that are not part of our family, why shouldn’t we, then, be able to submit to those we are one with, that we have birthed, that has our blood; amen?
The responsibility of your children being matured, nurtured in the admonition of the Lord does not belong to your wife, it belongs to you. You, husbands. So, as we’re looking at these things, now, functionally, we realize that a lot of it will be delegated to our wives. These things are delegated to our wives, and once you have been a delegator stop being—make the decision that you will not be a micromanager. We’ll go on in Titus a little bit later, especially when we start talking about the wives and talk about the wives’ job of ruling their homes. That is a powerful word in the Greek, that word “rule.” The wives ruling their own homes. The responsibility, the authority, the strength of that role, is amazing. And because of that being chosen by the Holy Ghost, it’s basically saying what I just said: this is her domain, don’t go in there and try to micromanage that thing. The wife’s cleaning the house or decorating or whatever it is, and we want to come in there and try to say, “Well, I want this, and I want that, and I like that.” Listen, if it doesn’t totally offend you, make you want to throw up, then let your wife have her way; amen? You’re sleeping most of the time on the couch anyway, so it shouldn’t bother you. But we’re responsible to oversee these areas in our families, in our children.
We see over in this fifth chapter of Ephesians where we’re admonished to submit ourselves one to another in the fear of God. Now, see, marriages within the church, and we all as families, and when you combine certain families together as they did in the Old Testament, you have clans, multiple families, a clan. There was always a respect and honor given to the elder, but each family is its own entity. You left your mother and father and made your own family. So, we relate, we communicate, we give honor, but whoever that clan leader might be, or however it’s functioning, there is not a specific authority given to micromanage those homes. It’s wisdom, it’s experience that’s available and should be drawn on; amen? But not forced upon. So, that way we can coexist. Now, how do we do that? How do we pull that off? Well, he just told us in this verse, “Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of the Lord,” (Ephesians 5:21). Amen? So, much of what we’re doing in church helps strengthen the local family unit, because if we can submit to those that are not part of our family, why shouldn’t we, then, be able to submit to those we are one with, that we have birthed, that has our blood; amen?