Bible sermon- Wives submit to your husbands

Bible sermon- Wives submit to your husbands

Posted on April 20, 2010 Updated on April 20, 2010

By Pastor Adeboye

Memorise: “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor listeth” (Jas 3:4 )

Read: Ephesians 5:22-24

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22).

The Bible gives the blueprint for success in marriage. If you want Heaven in your home, follow the marriage manual – the Bible. It is not enough to identify your God-given partner, even though this is very important. If you know God’s will in marriage but fail to adhere to His instructions, your marriage cannot be as pleasurable as God planned it to be. Wives are commanded to submit to their husbands.

Whether he is younger, less educated, shorter, smaller, or poorer is immaterial. James 3:4 says, “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, withersoever the governor listeth”. The wife may be the large ship and the husband the tiny helm, yet to arrive at God’s destination for the family, she must submit to his authority.

The woman may have the greatest and most laudable ideas concerning the home and running the family, yet God expects her to put them at the feet of her husband. If your family must arrive at God’s pre-planned destination, you have to submit to your husband.

Another reason a woman must submit – voluntarily subordinate herself to her husband is because he is her cover. A wife that refuses to submit to her husband comes outside the cover God has placed over the individual and opens herself to enemy fire.

Similarly, a woman must submit under her husband because God never designed her to be the head of the man. In any home where the woman is the head and the man is the one receiving orders, there will be trouble.

The Lord Jesus Christ cannot be the head of that home. Submission to one’s husband is in obedience to God’s Word and therefore an act of faith. In what area should a woman submit? Verse 24 says in every thing. No exceptions! Some women submit in some mild areas but when it comes to an issue she has vested interest, she will not submit.

Some sisters find it hard to submit in the area of finances, but the scriptures says your submission must be total before Heaven will count you obedient. To what extent is your submission to your husband? Ask God for grace to submit to your husband.

A woman who submits to her husband lives out the Heavenly mould. A woman who refuses to do this lives out a hellish mould.