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What makes a woman beautiful?
Being mother’s day this will be the topic of our messages this morning and this afternoon.
This question has very different answers when you compare our current culture and its answer with the Word of God and God’s answer.
The criteria for what genuine beauty have been so skewed that I believe it has caused many a Christian lady to get caught up in seeking after wordly beauty to the determent of seeking after Biblical, Christlike beauty.
It is not hard to decipher what our world thinks is beautiful.
Turn on your TV for 5 seconds, scroll through your Facebook page, read your Twitter feed or see what kind of pictures people post on Instagram and the world’s definition of beauty will scream at you.
For the Christian we need to be careful that we do not get confused as to what real beauty looks like.
God makes it very plain to us in His Word what He values and what He views as real genuine beauty.
And so, it is important to ask the question, “What does God find beautiful in a woman?”
The answer to the question is not just relevant to mothers.
The answer to this question is impactful to young men still seeking the woman God would have them marry, it is impactful to young ladies in seeking to become beautiful according to God’s standards, it is impactful to parents of young ladies in their ability to help them grow in Christlike beauty, it is impactful to parents of young men in training them what to see as beautiful, it is impactful to those off us who have been around this earth for a significant length of time and our external beauty has faded away.
In short, this message is relevant for everyone of us.
And so we ask the question, what are the biblical standards of beauty for a woman?
or what does God understand as beautiful in a woman?, or what does Biblical beauty look like?
I. Biblical beauty is found in conduct that models the graciousness of God
Notice the word “conversation” this word means: conduct expressed according to certain principles- way of life, conduct, behavior
This same word is used two times in these verses.
God places the emphasis on the wives conversation or her conduct, and it is her conduct, her good and godly conduct, that God finds beautiful.
A. The Context
Notice the first word in Chapter 3- likewise- or in the same manner.
In the same manner as what exactly?
I believe Peter’s though process started all the way back in Chapter 2:9 with the thought of proclaiming the excellencies of God- this is the big picture idea.
How do we do this?
Wives, in you marriage relationships, how do you proclaim the excellencies of God?
Broadly, Peter gives the answer in Chapter 2:11-12.
Having you conversation or your conduct (same word) hon est- interestingly this word “honest” is the Greek word for “beautiful.”
Live morally beautiful lives among the Gentiles, Peter says so that in the day of visitation God might be glorified.
Specifically, Peter then tells us how to do this in regards to believers and human government (v.
13), in regards to slaves and masters (v.
18), and now in regards to wives and husbands (3:1-6).
This entire section is about faithfully enduring unjust treatment.
This is best seen in the example of servants and their masters.
Lit- This is grace!
When a believer endures unjust suffering in a godly manner, they are literally putting on display the very grace of God.
It is a gracious thing.
And the ultimate example of these powerful displays of grace is the Lord Jesus Himself.
This example that we are to follow is an example of the manner in which Jesus endured suffering, not the extent to which Jesus endured suffering.
In other words, I don’t think that God is calling all believers to suffer and die on a cross for the sins of the whole world, rather we are to go through unjust suffering in the same manner that Christ did.
How did Christ endure unjust suffering?
When He was reviled (when he was abused), He did not revile in return (He did not lash out and seek to abuse those who abused Him).
When He suffered, He did not threatened in return.
But entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.
Then Peter says, LIKEWISE, Wives, be subject to your own husbands.
B. The Command
Be in subjection- to cause to be in a submissive relationship, to subject, to subordinate.
This idea of submission is repeated all throughout this paragraph.
We are to submit to human government, servants are to submit to their masters, even Christ submitted Himself to the Father.
And not wives are to submit to their husbands.
Remember this is in the context of suffering unjustly.
So wives, even when you husband does not deserve it, still submit to him.
What this does not mean: This does not mean that God wants the wife to stay in an abusive relationship.
God is not saying let yourselves be abused and don’t ever do anything about it.
Rather, when God allows unjust suffering to occur go through the suffering in a godly manner.
When your husband does not love you like he should, and respect you like he should, and talk to you like he should.
Still submit and obey as much as is possible.
I think the qualification that it is better to obey God rather than men is appropriate here.
Submit to Him as much as is possible, and even more importantly do so with a beautiful conduct.
Don’t repay His evil with evil of your own.
Instead display the beautiful conduct of the grace of God.
Because that is exact what it is.
Sometimes, you might hear a wife say, “My husband doesn’t deserve my submission.”
And to that I would say, “Exactly right!”
God is calling on the wives to submit anyways.
This is an act of grace.
You are giving your husbands something they do not deserve.
Why? Because, ultimately your submission is to God Himself.
And it is beautiful in the eyes of God when you model or put on display an act of grace for your husband.
C. The Concern
Ὁμοίως ⸀αἱ γυναῖκες,* ὑποτασσόμεναι τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν,*
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands,
ἵνα ⸂καὶ εἴ τινες⸃ ἀπειθοῦσιν τῷ λόγῳ,
in order that even if some do not obey the word,
διὰ τῆς τῶν γυναικῶν* ἀναστροφῆς
because of the conduct of the wives,
ἄνευ λόγου κερδηθήσονται*
they will be won without a word.
2 ⸀ἐποπτεύσαντες τὴν ἐν φόβῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν.*
When they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Here is God’s concern.
Why should you submit to your husbands, even if they don’t deserve it?
Why should you model the powerful grace of God in front of them?
“That” So that, or in order that (For this purpose)
Even if some of these men do not obey the word (unsaved or backslidden)
Because of the conversation or the conduct of the wives (beautiful conduct/gracious conduct), these men might be won without a word.
While they behold / or When they behold your chaste conversation couple with fear.
Chaste- pure or holy
Fear- godly fear / respect / reverence
So when these men see a reverence for God and a purity in your conduct.
When, wives you model for them the very grace of God by submitting to them (even though they do not deserve it), there is a beauty in this kind of conduct of such they will win them back to the Lord without a word.
That kind of gracious conduct, in the eyes of God, is beautiful.
Wives, how are you doing in the area of submission to your husbands?
Have you bought into the lie of our culture that it is weak and degrading for a woman to submit?
And while I recognize that we as men do not deserve your submission, will you submit for the Lord’s sake?
Will you model the graciousness of God in your marriage and live out the true beauty of a respectful and a pure conduct?
Young men, this is the kind of woman you ought to be praying and looking for!
Young women, this is the kind of lady you should be seeking to be become.
Those of you who’s external beauty is fading away, realize that this kind of genuine beauty is something that you can continually grow in.
What does biblical beauty look like?
II.
Biblical beauty is found in change that molds a woman’s heart into a Christlike heart
A. The Contrast
3 ὧν ἔστω οὐχ ὁ (κόσμος,*) ἔξωθεν
Do not let your adorning (that which makes you beautiful) be external-
⸀ἐμπλοκῆς °τριχῶν
The braiding of hair
καὶ περιθέσεως χρυσίων
and the putting on of gold jewelry
ἢ ἐνδύσεως ἱματίων
or the clothing that you wear-
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