Godly Relationships

Godly Living

Review {EX-CLUDE} UNIQUE

Slide Exclusives 1 {EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN TRAITS]

If you have been transformed you will desire God’s word

Slide Exclusives 2 [EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN BENEFITS] GIFTS...

If you have been transformed you have been gifted everything needed to live a Godly life on earth

We are FULLY equipped if we are exclusively called!

Slide Exclusives 3 [EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN CALLING] PURPOSE

We individually live above all circumstances of this world

We aren’t owned by a fallen world

Slide Exclusives 4 [EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP]

Submit to all Civil Authorities of this world [Good or Bad]

Mention of SUFFERING

We Respect the God given office [Pray for the person]

We hate SIN and Love the sinner [pray for the person]

Slide Exclusives 5 [EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN WORKPLACE]

Thank God it’s Monday!!...

Only section discussing SUFFERING Christ

Do you bring Jesus to work?

IT IS NOT SOMEBODY ELSE!

Slide Exclusives 6 [EXCLUSIVE CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIPS]

Personal Relationships

Slide 1 Peter 3:1-7 “In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live when they observe your pure, reverent lives. Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments or fine clothes. Instead, it should consist of what is inside the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes. For in the past, the holy women who put their hope in God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands, just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming. Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.”

Pray

Effective Witnesses in a Foreign World [Darkness]

Four Areas of God-Ordained Social Interaction

Societal [i.e. Civil Authorities, Government, Police, etc…] 1 Peter 2:13-17.

Workplace 1 Peter 2:18-25. [Ministry]

NOTE: Only one where Christ was example of suffering unjustly!

Family 1 Peter 3:1-7. [Smallest unit of social Structure] {Most Important}

Church 1 Peter 3:8-9.

Today Family Unit [Smallest]

PERSPECTIVE

PETER - Six verses to the wives…One verse to the man???????

PAUL - Nine verses to men…Three verses to wives??????? [Eph 5:22-33]

Peter [1st century Jew] women were considered inferior to men

Wife believes first - Husband embarrassed

Perspective of defiant wife???

Application - Has your belief in Christ been portrayed by traditionalists as DOGMATIC, NARROW MINDED, DISRUPTIVE, SELFISH, etc

Slide 1 Peter 3:1-2 “In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live when they observe your pure, reverent lives.”

In the same way -

1 Peter 2:13 “Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the Emperor as the supreme authority”

1 Peter 2:18 “Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.”

Submission without hesitation, irregardless of anyone else...

submit yourselves to your own husbands - Singular Wives Submission to Singular Husbands!

Wives - Submit to Civil Authorities [Good/Bad]

Wives - Submit to Employers [Good/Bad]

Wives - Submit to Husbands [Good/Bad]

Application - God’s most relational creation [Women] will live by faith [i.e. eternal matters] or by sight [i.e. temporal matters]…{??GARDEN??}

they may be won over without a message - Witness best without words

Godly behaviors open hearts to God’s gospel

People are always watching...

Slide 1 Peter 3:3 “Your beauty should not consist of outward things like elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold ornaments or fine clothes.”

beauty should not consist of outward things - Physical [Temporal] vs Spiritual [Eternal]

Should Not is a Command!

Not prohibition on styling hair, wearing jewelry or lovely clothing...

Some bibles add the comment “merely” [Italics]

Prohibition about DISPLAYING or PARADING temporal things over Spiritual Things!

Landmark Church was about the best suits and dresses…EASTER

EASTER Fashion Show…

The have nots were disappointed in their commonality

The affluent were joylessly jockeying for social status in a fashion contest

God was absent from the day He was scheduled to be praised!

Slave to Self = Outward Things - Self Master

Slave to God = Inward Things???? {Explained Next Verse} - God Master

Application - Attending church for outward things or inward things?

Slide 1 Peter 3:4 “Instead, it should consist of what is inside the heart with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very valuable in God’s eyes.”

it should consist of - This is added - italics! [Not wrong Just reads easier]

Example: 1 Peter 3:4 (KJV 1900) 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.

Rewritten 1 Peter 3:4a .[Spiritual Imperative Implied]

Today we Sell Holy Spirit short in religious activities!

i.e. Sarai helping God by offering her Egyptian Slave Hagar [e.g . Son Ishmael]

imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit -

Paul wrote about an orderly church to a young preacher...

1 Timothy 2:9–10 (NASB95) Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

Church is a showcase of changed lives not commercial merchandise!

Imperishable quality?? - e.g. Our Incorruptible Eternal Inheritance 1 Peter 1:4 “and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.”

Its our SOUL...

gentle - praus

3rd Beatitude

Matthew 5:5 (KJV 1900) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth....

Display the temporal or eternal?

and quiet - ἡσύχιος hesychios

pertaining to a quiet, well ordered, peaceful existence or attitude—‘quiet, peaceful [Undisturbed from Without]

1 Timothy 2:1–2 (NET) First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people, even for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

e.g. Quiet/Peaceful LIFE…Outer Person...

Quiet Spirit …Inner Eternal Person

which is very valuable in God’s eyes. -

God SUPPLIED IT!

Now let’s find an example...

Slide 1 Peter 3:5 “For in the past, the holy women who put their hope in God also beautified themselves in this way, submitting to their own husbands,”

Contrasts

Ruth finding her kinsman redeemer in Boaz…showing Loyalty & Love

General Description in Proverbs 31:10-31.

Hannah the mother of Samuel and a portrait of GRACE

Mary good wife to Joseph & Blessed among Women

BAD - Jezebel undermining and manipulating Ahab the king!

ONE really bad apple!

Godly married women all have this in common..,put their hope in God …AND... beautified themselves …BY...submitting to their own husbands

God will give AN example...

Slide 1 Peter 3:6 “just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You have become her children when you do what is good and are not frightened by anything alarming.”

Sarai offered the Egyptian Slave to Abraham [Ishmael]

Sarah obeyed Abraham even when he made mistakes

i.e Abraham lied to Abimelech about Sarah not being his wife

not frightened by anything alarming. -

Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world

2 Timothy 1:7 (YLT)

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

1 John 4:18 (YLT)

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

God is in control…

Now for the men

Slide 1 Peter 3:7 “Husbands, in the same way, live with your wives with an understanding of their weaker nature yet showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.”

in the same way - Duty of Submission…in Service to the wife…[Sacrificial]

1 Peter 2:13 “Submit to every human authority because of the Lord, whether to the Emperor as the supreme authority”

1 Peter 2:18 “Household slaves, submit with all fear to your masters, not only to the good and gentle but also to the cruel.”

1 Peter 3:1 “In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live”

Three areas of responsibility for the man…[Consideration] [Chivalry] [Companionship]

with an understanding…way…nature- Consideration

Understanding = Sensitive [Considerate] to wife’s feelings and needs

Ephesians 5:25–28 (ESV) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Husbands are responsible for the nourishment of wives physically, emotionally, & spiritually

Nowhere does it say for men to figure women out!

of their weaker nature - Chivalry

Submission has already proven not to mean inferior…[Devils Twist]

Weaker does not mean inferior! Intellectually or Emotionally [Devils Twist]

Weaker here refers generally to physical strength biologically…

Genetically males have much more muscle mass than women

Irregardless of their faith!

Chivalry

Men are to open doors [Women Could]

Men are to dig the ditch, build the house, carry the load [Women Could]

Men are the Sacrificial Providers and PROTECTORS of their wives

showing them honor as coheirs of the grace of life - so that your prayers will not be hindered - Companionship

Sharing in the grace of life...

Not eternal life [equal] - Daily life relationship, friendship, partnership, companionship...

Grace...

Unmerited favor…God graced everyone with what man graces woman...

Husbands give unmerited Loving Consideration, Chivalry, and Companionship to their wives...

so that your prayers will not be hindered - Divine threat!

Any man not taking this seriously will not be herd by God!

Naomi come play...

All Stand...

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