Mystery of Submitting and Confusion in Man-Made Religion Eph Ch 5 with David Kenebrew Th.D.

2024 May 5th Streaming

There has been much consternation over the idea of submission. This is especially true when it comes to the content of this text.

21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.  22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.  24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in everything.

WOW! There are a lot of trigger words, combustible statements, and elephants in those verses.  It appears in verse 21 that Paul drops the words “submitting yourselves” out of nowhere and as a command or mandate.  But is this a mandate?  Before we discuss this further let’s look at the other elephant in verse 22, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” 

Next, Paul sets off a firestorm of controversy in the flesh of man-made religion when he writes this.

Eph 5:22-24 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in everything.

There are husbands and wives today, maybe this morning, who are at odds with these three verses.  So, as we start you need to remember that everything in the Bible is Spiritual.  Meaning, that the things we read were Spiritually inspired and subject to the same Spirit to reveal their meanings to every reader. So, let’s talk about it…