Participants: Shelley Quinn (Host), Tom Shepherd
Series Code: HPOV
Program Code: HPOV000029A
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00:16 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn and this is Dr. Tom Sheperd
00:19 who is a Professor of New Testament interpretation 00:23 at Andrews University Seminary 00:24 and also the Head of the Doctoral Programs 00:28 for the Ph. D. and Theology, excuse me, 00:31 in Religion and a Ph. D. in Religion 00:34 and we're just so thrilled 00:37 to welcome you to Heaven's Point of View. 00:39 This is kind of an exciting topic 00:41 and our topic is... our series is on Love, 00:46 Marriage, Sex and Divorce, 00:47 now, he teaches this class at Seminary 00:50 and it's interesting, 00:51 they wouldn't let him use the word, "sex" 00:53 in his class description 00:55 but we decided to leave that in because 00:58 truly what the Bible has to say about that 01:02 and we are talking about it, 01:03 is that it is something holy and sanctified by God, 01:07 so we don't think it's a bad word 01:09 and today, though, we are continuing our study 01:12 that we started last time, 01:14 we were speaking of Ephesians chapter 5 01:17 and on through verse 21 through Ephesians 6 verse 9, 01:22 which was Paul's instructions on submission 01:25 and we're going to continue that today. 01:29 Last time, Tom, we were talking about mutual submission... 01:33 this idea and... 01:36 let's kind of pick up where we left off. 01:39 Okay, so what we said last time 01:42 as we were noting that Paul makes a statement in verse 21, 01:47 in Ephesians 5 verse 21, he says, 01:49 "Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ," 01:51 we've described in previous programs 01:54 how this is actually the concluding remark that he makes 01:57 in terms of how it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit, 02:01 all the way through there, 02:04 he is describing that you're addressing each other in Psalms 02:08 in spiritual songs, singing, making melody, 02:11 giving thanks... this is all an expression 02:13 of being filled with God's Spirit 02:15 and then he says, "Submitting to one another" 02:18 so this concept becomes his thesis statement 02:21 for the whole discussion of the home... 02:24 description of the home... 02:25 and we said that, verse 21 and verse 22 are... 02:28 are actually linked together 02:29 because, verse 22 in Greek doesn't have its own verb. 02:33 So, it would read, in the Greek, verse 21, 02:37 "Submitting to one another in the fear of God... " 02:40 in reverence of Christ, in verse 22, 02:43 "wives as to your own husbands as to the Lord," 02:47 so, it doesn't actually say, "wives submit" 02:51 because it is referring... 02:53 or it is... links to the previous Scripture 02:57 so "submitting" is inferred. 02:59 That's right, it's implied from verse 21 and that's how you know 03:05 that it connects in here, so this is the thesis statement, 03:08 we indicated that this thesis has to apply to everybody 03:11 in the Christian home, 03:13 otherwise it's not a thesis statement, 03:15 and he has these pairs of people we've noticed, 03:19 wives and husbands, children and parents, 03:23 slaves and masters, 03:25 three groupings within the Greco-Roman home 03:28 and he always speaks to the one who is submitting 03:34 or the one who has less authority 03:36 to the one... then he speaks secondly to the group 03:40 that has more authority 03:43 more power or that has that role in the Greco-Roman household. 03:46 So, he's speaking to wives first into submitting 03:50 and then husbands' instructions, what they are to do, 03:53 then to the children to submit to parents 03:56 and parents... how they are to interact with children 03:59 to the slaves and then to the masters 04:02 and how they are to be kind to the slaves. 04:04 Yeah, which is kind of interesting because 04:06 in the power structure of the Greco-Roman world, 04:09 you would think you would talk to the father first, 04:11 Right... Right... 04:13 and you would talk to the parents first, 04:15 and you would talk to the masters first, 04:18 but Paul flips it, he turns it around 04:20 which may be one of the indications that 04:23 he's flipping or changing or modifying the power structures 04:28 that were typical of the Greco-Roman world 04:30 in the Greco-Roman world the father was... he was in charge, 04:35 the term was "Pater familias" and he really had quite a lot of 04:40 almost absolute power in the Greco-Roman household 04:44 and Paul changes that 04:46 and limits that power 04:48 that's this idea of submitting to one another 04:53 in the fear of Christ so there's much more to say 04:58 about this before we conclude but we come then to 05:02 understand a little bit more 05:06 about how Paul works with this whole idea of submission. 05:12 And he puts limits on submission does he not? 05:16 He does, he puts limits, 05:18 yeah, people really get upset about this when it says, 05:23 "Wives submit to your husbands" 05:24 because of the concept of "submission" that they have, 05:28 that submission means... 05:30 it must mean that you're inferior, 05:32 it must mean that you... 05:34 you don't have a personal relationship with God, 05:37 and you're going through your husband 05:38 or you're going through your parents or something like that, 05:41 or that you are simply a doormat 05:43 and they can do whatever they want 05:46 they have total control 05:47 and if you have that kind of concept of submission, 05:51 it's not hard to see that it's repulsive... 05:54 Shelley: Good word. 05:56 Yeah, and reprehensive, it's just not something that 06:00 makes a person want to desire that at all, 06:03 if you had that kind of idea, you would say, 06:06 "Why would I want to get married?" 06:08 "Why would I want to stay in a household like that?" 06:11 It would be like the old days of the Indians 06:14 where the Squaw had to walk behind the Buck, 06:19 and I've actually met people in some interesting 06:25 denominational churches that... where they believe 06:30 that the wife should walk behind the husband 06:32 to show submission, so, 06:33 this isn't what Paul's talking about. 06:35 No, so really, we want to take a look at different Bible verses 06:38 that help us to understand this idea of submission 06:41 and what it means and what it doesn't mean, 06:43 so the first one that I want to turn to 06:45 is in the book of Luke, chapter 2, 06:48 Luke chapter 2 verses 48 to 51 06:51 now, I love the book of Luke, it's just beautiful 06:56 the way it describes the birth of John the Baptist 06:59 and the birth of Jesus and everybody is singing 07:03 and everybody is talking, 07:04 they're being filled with God's Spirit, 07:06 it's just wonderful, 07:07 now, Jesus is in Nazareth with His parents 07:10 and every year His parents go to Jerusalem 07:13 for the Passover, and when He is 12 years old... 07:18 now, 12 year's old becomes an important time in Jewish life, 07:21 they have this thing they call the Bar Mitzvah 07:24 and it's... when a person... 07:26 the "Bar" is the Aramaic word for son 07:29 and so, Bar Mitzvah... he becomes the "son of the law " 07:35 I've been in Jerusalem and seen the 07:38 the great joy they have... 07:41 when they're going to do this Bar Mitzvah and they come... 07:44 people are... they have all this... 07:46 there's always music and there's... kind of dancing 07:49 and clapping and singing and always... there's this canopy, 07:51 and there's this young fellow and he's all dressed... 07:54 wearing the proper prayer shawl and everything 07:56 and they're bringing the Torah that he's going to read 07:59 when he goes to the... 08:01 there to the Western Wall to pray, 08:04 and he's come of age, so to speak, so... 08:08 And there's such a joy... 08:10 we've seen many when we've been to Jerusalem 08:12 it is a joyful... it's a joyful occasion 08:14 Yeah, there's joy in a relationship... 08:16 this is really celebrating what God has done 08:18 so, Jesus is 12 years old and He goes to Jerusalem 08:22 He's probably, maybe, 08:24 I don't know what they had back in the day exactly but 08:26 it's interesting, He's 12 years old when He goes, 08:29 and as you know how the story goes, 08:30 they go to the feast, 08:32 there are thousands and thousands of people in Jerusalem 08:36 and they go in groups, they come back home in groups, 08:40 Shelley: Kind of a traveling caravans... 08:41 Caravans, that's right, right, and they would be 08:43 singing, and just having a wonderful time, 08:46 this is like a wonderful vacation with your friends, 08:48 you know, and so they would come to Jerusalem, 08:50 and they spent these days in Jerusalem 08:52 and then they returned, so, Mary and Joseph 08:56 were so used to Jesus always being there, 08:59 always taking care, you know, 09:02 always... he was such a responsible young man, 09:05 that they didn't worry, 09:06 and they get a day out from Jerusalem... 09:09 Shelley: Thinking he's in the caravan... 09:12 And He's not there and they can't find Him anywhere 09:15 you read that beautiful book, "The Desire of Ages" 09:19 and Ellen White talks about how they were afraid... 09:23 that it was like when He was a baby 09:26 and Herod tried to kill Him, 09:27 and they started to reproach themselves 09:30 that they had not kept careful watch for Him, 09:32 they went back to Jerusalem, it took three days, 09:34 finally... and up in the Temple, 09:37 they finally end up there and here's Jesus 09:41 and He's sitting at the feet of these religious leaders, 09:45 the Rabbis and He's asking them questions and 09:49 they're asking Him questions 09:50 and He's giving answers to their questions 09:53 and there's a back and forth and everybody is like... amazed... 09:56 at what this young man is saying, 10:00 so this is where we pick up the story 10:03 and it's in Luke chapter 2 verses 48... 10:05 and we'll read through verse 52. 10:08 All right, Luke chapter 2 verse 48, 10:11 "So when they saw Him," 10:13 and the "they" is his mother and father, 10:16 "when they saw Him, they were amazed, 10:18 and His mother said to Him, 10:20 'Son, why have You done this to us? 10:23 Look, Your father and I have sought You anxiously. ' 10:27 And He... Jesus... said to them, 'Why did you seek me? 10:31 Did you not know that I must be about My Father's business?' 10:35 But they did not understand the statement 10:38 which He spoke to them. Then He went down with them 10:41 and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, 10:45 but His mother kept all these things in her heart. 10:48 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature 10:52 and in favor with God and man. " 10:55 Okay, now this is an interesting conclusion to this story, 10:59 His parents see Him, they're astonished 11:02 and then His mother reprimands Him, 11:04 She says, "Why have you treated us like this? 11:07 We have been looking everywhere for you, 11:10 we've been distressed, 11:12 we were worried about you" 11:15 and His response is, "Why were you looking for me? 11:18 Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" 11:22 Now, I want you to think for a minute, Shelley, 11:25 what would most mothers say 11:27 if their children answered that way? 11:29 What would their next words be? 11:32 I'm not even going to say what my mother would have said, 11:35 parents would think that you're being disrespectful 11:43 by saying something like this "and you mind me 11:46 and you get over here and come-with-me-now" type thing... 11:49 So they would... they might pull him by the ear 11:50 and they might say, 11:52 "You just wait until we get home," you know. 11:53 Shelly: wait till I tell your father. 11:55 Yeah, this is like being very cheeky, very disrespectful 11:59 as you said, okay, 12:00 now, Luke, recognized that this saying... 12:06 coming from the story of Jesus and... assuming... 12:09 this is his first recognition that He is the Son of God, 12:12 that you have expressed, you know, by Him, 12:16 and Luke presents that, that's important, 12:19 His Father's House, God is... this is God's house 12:22 and He is God's Son, so He's in the right place, 12:25 right, but Luke realizes that any reader... reading this 12:29 would say, "Poooof, why that... 12:31 disrespectful young man, how could He do that?" 12:34 So Luke, careful writer that he is, he says, 12:37 "And they did not understand the saying 12:38 that He had spoken to them and He went down with them 12:41 and came to Nazareth and was submissive" 12:45 our subject... "He was submissive to them" 12:49 it's the same word as was used in Ephesians 5 12:53 all right, the same word, now here's the question, 12:56 was Jesus inferior to His parents? 12:59 Absolutely not, He was the Son of God. 13:01 He was the Son of God, He was superior, if anything, 13:04 and yet He submits to His parents, 13:07 you see, submission does not mean inferiority, 13:11 it doesn't mean it, it doesn't imply it, 13:15 too many people take it that way that means that... 13:17 "No, Jesus Himself submitted to His parents" 13:20 but He was in no way inferior to them. 13:23 And this is... 13:24 even with the Master-Slave idea 13:27 and now-a-days, I guess, you would compare that to... 13:30 if you're working in the Corporate world, 13:32 or if you're working in a ministry, 13:34 it doesn't mean that an employee or staff member 13:37 is superior to... or inferior to the President, 13:40 it is that the President of that Corporation 13:44 has a certain responsibility, if you will, 13:47 and... either to stockholders or in ministry to God, 13:51 so it's something that you subject yourself to 13:56 the purposes of the Corporation, 14:00 see... all of us... all of us in life, 14:02 it doesn't matter who we are, we have to submit to somebody, 14:05 we have some relationship where somebody is over us. 14:08 Shelley: To our Government? 14:10 Yes, to our Government, to our Leaders, 14:11 to any kind of individuals 14:15 so, submission does not imply inferiority. 14:19 Now, the second one is 14:20 "Submission does not deny personal relationship with God" 14:24 and then we just go back to Ephesians 5. 14:27 Okay and in verse 22, it says, 14:31 "Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. " 14:35 Now, the question here is, who is talking here, 14:40 who is writing this? Shelley: Paul... 14:42 Paul... and to whom is he writing? 14:44 He's writing to the Ephesians, the Church of Ephesus. 14:48 The Church of Ephesus, and in particular, 14:49 who is he writing to in this verse? 14:51 Shelley: Wives... 14:52 Wives, yeah, so Paul recognizes that they are related to God, 14:58 that they have a relationship themselves with God, 15:02 he doesn't just speak to the husbands and say, 15:04 "Now tell your wives what to do," 15:05 he speaks to the wives themselves as moral agents, 15:10 he doesn't tell the husbands to subjugate their wives, 15:14 he tells the wives to voluntarily themselves choose 15:19 to submit to their husbands 15:21 so he recognizes that these wives 15:23 have a moral relationship, 15:25 they are moral entities that deserve respect themselves 15:29 and deserve to be appealed to, 15:31 right, so, submission does not mean inferiority, 15:35 submission does not deny personal relationship to God, 15:40 he tells the wives, actually, 15:41 that they are to relate to their husbands, 15:43 they are to submit to their husbands as to the Lord 15:46 so, the wives have a personal relationship with God themselves 15:49 the third is a very interesting idea and that is 15:52 that the submission does not imply or mean 15:56 a doormat mentality, you know, 15:59 "I'm a doormat, you can do with me whatever you want" 16:02 kind of a thing, 16:03 now, several texts that we could look at in relationship to this 16:08 our time is quickly fleeting away, 16:11 so, I want to turn over to 16:14 Matthew chapter 5 verse 38 and 39, 16:17 Mathew 5:38 and 39. 16:21 Shelley: Matthew chapter 5... Tom: Verse 38 and 39... 16:24 In the Sermon on the Mount, 16:26 Jesus is talking to all disciples, 16:28 Matthew 5 verse 38, "You have heard it said, 16:32 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ' 16:35 But I tell you not to resist an evil person. 16:38 but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, 16:41 turn the other to him also. " 16:44 Now somebody will say, 16:45 "Now, wait a minute Dr. Sheperd, wait a minute, 16:47 that sure sounds like a doormat to me. 16:49 You know, they strike you on one cheek 16:51 just turn to them, 16:52 let them hit the other cheek as well, 16:54 isn't that a doormat?" 16:55 Well, let's look at another text because it's very interesting 16:59 to see where this might lead you, 17:01 turn over to the book of Acts, 17:03 Acts chapter 16, beautiful story, Acts chapter 16 17:10 it's the story of Paul at Philippi 17:14 and when he goes to Philippi, 17:18 he ends up getting thrown in jail 17:22 you know, they freed this young lady 17:26 of a demon and then her controllers 17:30 got them thrown in jail, 17:32 they get beaten and they get thrown in jail 17:36 and they are singing at midnight even though... 17:38 This is going to be Paul turning the other cheek, 17:41 let's listen... 17:43 They're singing at midnight 17:44 and suddenly there's this great earthquake, right? 17:48 And all the doors fling open and the jailer sees this 17:52 and he thinks that all of the prisoners have escaped 17:55 he know that means he will be put to death 17:58 because he didn't keep them, 17:59 he pulls out his sword and he's about to kill himself, 18:02 might as well die by his own hand 18:04 than be tortured or killed by somebody else, 18:08 Paul says, "Wait, stop, we're all here," 18:11 now that's a surprise in itself, 18:13 none of the other prisoners ran away, 18:16 why not? Well, probably because of the 18:18 influence of Paul and Silas and their singing, 18:20 there was something about this that just kept everybody there 18:23 and the jailer, you know, he has his famous line, 18:27 and he brings them out and he says, 18:29 "What must I do to be saved?" Shelly: Amen. 18:31 And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, 18:33 you and your household, and you will be saved" 18:35 so he takes them home, he washes their wounds 18:38 he and his family hear instruction, 18:40 they're all baptized that night, it's a wonderful story 18:43 that seems like a wonderful place to end the story 18:47 but we read verse 37, well it started on verse 35, 18:51 okay, Acts 16, and start in verse 35 18:57 and read through verse 40. 18:59 All right, so we're going to see how well Paul is... 19:03 how well he does at turning the other cheek, 19:05 Verse 35, "And when it was day, 19:07 the magistrates sent the officers, 19:10 saying, 'Let those men go. ' So the keeper of the prison 19:13 reported these words to Paul, saying, 19:16 'The magistrates have sent to let you go. 19:19 Now therefore depart, and go in peace. ' 19:22 But Paul said to them, 'They have beaten us openly, 19:26 uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. 19:31 And now do they put us out secretly? 19:34 No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out. 19:38 And the officers told these words to the magistrates, 19:42 and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans. 19:46 Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, 19:49 and asked them to depart from the city. 19:51 So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia: 19:56 and when they had seen the brethren, 19:58 they encouraged them and departed. " 20:00 Well, this is in the Bible too, you know, 20:03 Jesus said to turn the other cheek. 20:05 Is Paul turning the other cheek here? 20:08 I'm going to wait for you to answer that question 20:11 you're setting me up. 20:12 It doesn't quite sound like it, you know, 20:15 he's pretty... he stands up for his rights, 20:19 he said... and he makes this contrast 20:22 between the public and the private, he said, 20:25 "They beat us publicly, 20:27 we were uncondemned Roman citizens 20:30 and now, they want to send us away... secretly... " 20:35 He says, "We're not going to do that, 20:37 they can come here and escort us out of the prison" 20:40 but when the magistrates heard that these were Romans, 20:44 I tell you what... they were really worried 20:46 because you weren't supposed to do those things 20:49 and they had just listened to these other men 20:51 and had not stood up the way they should have 20:54 as good judges so they come and say, 20:55 "We're very sorry, please come out... " you know, 20:58 now, what do we gather from this? 21:01 There are limits... there are limits 21:03 to turning the other cheek, there are limits, 21:06 where the honor of the gospel is at stake, 21:08 where the honor of the gospel... that's what happened here... 21:12 this isn't just about Paul personally, 21:15 this is about the respect for the gospel, 21:17 the gospel message... and so Paul says, 21:20 "No, the gospel is honorable and it deserves honor," 21:24 so, where the honor of the gospel is at stake, 21:27 that's where the turning of the cheek stops, 21:30 you don't do it just to prevent... 21:32 just for your own protection, 21:34 but you do it for the good of the... 21:36 for the protection of the gospel. 21:38 And this is important to hear what you're saying 21:41 as far as... that... 21:43 being submissive does not mean that you're inferior, 21:46 being submissive does not mean that you don't... 21:49 that a wife doesn't have a personal relationship 21:52 with the Lord because she's being submissive to her husband, 21:55 but most importantly, that she is not a doormat 21:57 because, there are, unfortunately, 22:01 many instances of abuse in the home 22:05 and some women think that... 22:08 they're supposed to take it and... 22:10 in fact, my own sister, her first husband, 22:12 was very abusive, 22:14 he put her in the hospital three different times, 22:17 and she developed that "battered wife syndrome" 22:20 and thought it was her own fault and it's not, 22:22 and even the church recognizes abuse as a reason for divorce. 22:27 Yeah, yeah, and it was... there are limits to authority 22:32 and you're not supposed to use your authority 22:35 to abuse or use other people, 22:37 you're supposed use it to bless people. 22:39 Even when Paul was out of prison, 22:41 I believe it was Paul or was it Peter 22:44 when he said that, they were trying to tell... 22:45 it was Peter... when they said... 22:47 "Don't go and preach again in His name," 22:48 and he said, "To whom do we owe 22:51 our allegiance, 22:52 are we supposed to obey you or obey God?" 22:54 We must obey God rather than men. 22:56 We must obey God rather than man, so... 22:59 God doesn't call for affirmation of abuse, 23:02 abuse is wrong, it always has been, 23:04 it always will be, and so, there are those kinds of limits, 23:09 and this illustrates the story of Paul, 23:11 this funny story about him in Philippi, 23:14 illustrates that idea that for the sake of the gospel, 23:17 there's a place where you say, "No, we don't submit to that. " 23:20 Yes, so now, we've covered a lot 23:24 but let's focus in on Ephesians 5:22, 23:27 "Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord," 23:31 what is Paul teaching here? 23:32 Okay, the first thing we know is there's not this verb... 23:36 it's borrowed from verse 21 23:38 and it's usually inserted there in English, which is fine, 23:42 in English, it's fine translation, 23:43 but it means that the two are interconnected 23:46 the focus of the wife's submission, 23:48 according to Paul here is to her own husband, 23:51 he's not talking about outside the home, 23:53 he's not talking about, "to another person," 23:55 this is instruction about home life 23:58 not about life outside the home. 24:00 There are sometimes people who will say, 24:02 "Well, women shouldn't be outside the home," 24:06 but frankly, I've found that women in service, 24:09 we have women who work in the ministry, 24:12 our new Associate Dean is a woman, 24:14 and she is good, she works very well 24:17 in positions with... when we have committees, 24:21 she makes wonderful suggestions, she helps to solve problems, 24:24 I personally have no problem with women in ministry, 24:28 women in leadership, this is not in the home setting, 24:32 this is outside the home setting, 24:33 it's not to suggest that in the home, 24:36 they are now suddenly... this little tiny person, 24:39 or something like that, 24:41 there's respect back and forth within the home, 24:44 but her submission is to her own husband 24:48 not to somebody else, 24:49 then the manner of this submission, 24:52 that Paul describes here, is, "as to the Lord," 24:55 so the relationship to Christ, as we already have said, 24:58 is the paradigm 25:00 by which everything is measured in the home, 25:02 the paradigm by which everything is measured 25:05 and I have this wonderful little plaque 25:07 at the door of our house that says, 25:09 "Christ is the Head of this House. 25:11 He's the silent listener to every conversation 25:16 and He's at every meal, Christ is the Head of the home" 25:19 and that's really... 25:20 it helps you to keep things set in the right direction 25:24 so you stop thinking... it's some kind of human head 25:28 but that Christ is in charge of the home. 25:30 Then the center of power actually, has shifted... 25:34 it has shifted from the husband to God, to the Lord, 25:37 Paul is addressing the wives as moral agents, 25:40 they have an individual relationship with Christ 25:42 and they have an individual relationship with God, 25:45 and secondly, to their husbands. 25:48 So this is different than the Greco-Roman world 25:50 where the wife was actually supposed to worship 25:53 the gods of her husband, 25:54 just think, if you had a Christian wife, 25:57 no... she can't submit to the husband's gods, 25:59 so her submission to her husband is not total, it is different. 26:05 In the Greco-Roman world women were seen as inferior, 26:08 they were to be ruled by their husbands, 26:10 but Paul breaks out of this 26:13 by addressing the wives themselves as moral agents, 26:16 so the lesson here, that we come down to is that 26:19 submission to the Lord teaches how to submit to your husband, 26:23 it also teaches you the extent of human submission. 26:28 There is a limit to it it's... as to the Lord, so... 26:33 And you know, to point this... 26:35 just to point this out quickly, God is not a controlling God 26:39 when He asks us to submit, it is a willing surrender 26:44 because of His loving kindness, and so, this is something that 26:48 a husband should understand is that... 26:50 he cannot be a controlling husband but rather, 26:53 he needs to... out of his love, by his demonstration 26:56 of loving kindness will his wife to submission. 27:00 You see, everyone is made in the image of God 27:03 and because they have that image of God, 27:07 that image of God calls for respect. 27:10 Shelley: We are co-heirs. Tom: Yeah, co-heirs. 27:12 And so Paul will say these kinds of words 27:15 to describe this kind of concept of... 27:17 that we all have a relationship to God, 27:19 we are co-heirs with Christ, everybody has the image of God, 27:22 so everybody deserves respect, 27:25 you cannot disrespect them 27:27 and still follow what God is trying to teach us to do. 27:30 And it's really a beautiful thing and as I've said, 27:33 when it is done properly, 27:34 a wife will be happy to submit to her husband 27:37 if he is allowing Christ to be the Head of the home 27:40 and he is... as Christ has their eternal benefit in mind, 27:44 and if the husband has the wife's benefit in mind, 27:47 it makes it easy to submit to him. 27:50 Again Tom, thank you... 27:51 this time... just continues to fly from us, 27:54 we're so glad that you're tuning in 27:56 and we're hoping that this is something 27:58 God is really speaking to you 28:00 through these teachings 28:01 and now, our prayer is that God will multiply His mercy, 28:05 His love and His grace to you. 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