SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/10/2019
4:02 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “The
Matter of Submission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:22a
Message of the
verse: “Wives, be subject to your
own husbands.”
When we go back and look at how Eve was created we see
that God actually put Adam to sleep in order to operate on him as He took a rib
out of Adam to form Eve from. Adam then
testified that Eve was “Bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh” as seen In
Genesis 22:222-23. When man sinned and
God cursed man it did not change basic plan for mutuality in the marriage
relationship or not even for the functional authority of the husband over the
wife. We know that man was created first
and he was created generally to be physically, constitutionally, and
emotionally stronger than the woman whom Peter describes as the weaker vessel
in 1 Peter 3:7. Makes now different for
before and after the Fall and the consequent curse, man was called to be the
provider, protector, guide and the shepherd of the family, and the woman was
called to be supportive and submissive.
I realize that in our culture today that this goes against the grain
because of the sinful conditions that humans live in, but if this were followed
like God developed before the fall then the family would run more smoothly, and
that would make the nation and government run more smoothly.
MacArthur adds “Any society that has taken either the
obvious nature of women or the Word of God into consideration has fashioned its
best laws in line with His. Laws against
murder find their source in the Ten Commandments—just as do laws against
stealing, adultery, perjury, and so on.
The wife’s submission to her husband is a divine principle that has
reflected to some degree in the legal codes of most societies.
“For the past several hundred years’ western society has
been bombarded with the humanistic, egalitarian, sexless, classless philosophy
that was the dominant forde behind the French Revolution. The blurring and even total removal of human
distinctions continues to be masterminded by Satan so as to undermine
legitimate, God-ordained authority in every realm of human activity—in government,
the family, the school, and even in the church.
We find ourselves victimized by the godless, atheistic concepts of man’s
supreme independence from every external law and authority. The philosophy is self-destructive, because
no group of people can live in orderliness and productivity if each person is
bent on doing his own will.”
As MacArthur mentions the sad truth is that the church
has fallen prey to this humanistic philosophy and is even now willing to
recognize the ordination of homosexuals, women, and others whose God Word
specifically disqualifies from the leadership of the church. God hates all sin, however he has destroyed societies
because of homosexual sins. The letters
to the church leaders that are in the New Testament show that the Pastors,
Elders or Deacons are to be the husband of one wife and this rules out having a
woman who is in the role of one of these offices.
The verses that go along
with John Harvard’s quotation from yesterday are from Proverbs 2:1, 5-6 “If you
receive my words, and treasure my commands within you…Then you will understand
the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth
come knowledge and understanding.”
8/10/2019 4:52 PM
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