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Lord, let us in our homes agree this blessed peace to gain. Unite our hearts in love to Thee, and love will reign. Good hymn, that. All right, thank you, Robin. Good hymn. Lord, this blessed peace, unite our hearts in love today. Love to reign. 1 Peter 3 now. 1 Peter 3. This, we're looking at the grace of God. And in this chapter, it's grace adorned. The grace of our God adorned, the gospel of God's grace adorned by wives and husbands and each other toward one another. This is not only glorifying to God, not only, that's what Peter says that this grace of God does, glorifies God before a godless world, but it also promotes peace, peace amongst ourselves, peace in our homes. And blessed are the peacemakers. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by them that make peace. He tells us to make peace, do whatever it takes. If possible, he said, live peaceably with all men, even people in the world. Try to live at peace. He said, make peace and ensue it. That is, go after it. Be a peacemaker. One time Paul said, provoke one another to love. We provoke one another enough to anger. James said, in many things we offend all. It's high time we start trying to provoke one another to love one another, to love us, be lovable, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, as James said. So it begins with the wise. It says, likewise. You don't begin with likewise. He was just talking to us servants, wasn't he, in verse 18 of chapter 2. Servants. Servants of God, that is. We're all servants of God. He says, be subject to your masters. Remember that? And then verse 1 here in our text is likewise, in the same way, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands. Subjects. Subordinates. In submission to. Look at the last verse of chapter 3. that all things are going to be made subject unto Christ. Look at chapter 5. This is a theme throughout this book. Chapter 5, verse 5. You younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, adorned with. Humility. For God resisted the proud. God hates pride. He said it's the principal thing he hates. He resisted the proud. You don't want God resisting you. You want God for you. So he says this. He giveth grace to humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. So he's talking about being in subjection and submission. This is so foreign to this generation. It's the opposite of what this generation is teaching. what they believe. People condone and even promote and, what's the word that I'm looking for, laud pride. Don't submit, don't be in subjection, but rather act up, rebel against the establishment, rebel against authority. Isn't that what our generation is teaching, isn't it? Attitude. That's been a thing that people take pride in and urge children to have, have an attitude. That's just another word for pride. This is the attitude that we're all to have, one of humility and being submission and subjection to all authority. We looked at that in Romans 13, didn't we? The powers that be are of God. And if you resist whatever authority it is, you're resisting God. And God resisted the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Well, he begins with the wives being in subjection to their husbands. Look, read on. Wives being in subjection to your own husbands. That if any obey not the word. He's talking about an unbelieving, unregenerate husband. Or this can be the other way around, can't it? A man married to an unbelieving woman. If so, then subjection that they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wise. No one is saved apart from hearing the gospel. The gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Well, how are they going to call on Him whom they've not believed? How shall they believe in Him whom they've not heard? How shall they hear without a preacher? How shall they preach except to be sent? Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. Nobody is saved apart from preaching the gospel. He's not saying that anybody's soul is one or they're saved by observing somebody's good works. You know that. We're not saved by our good works. We're not saved by anybody else's good works. We're saved by grace. He's not contradicting Scripture. What he's saying is, you win them over. Win them over by your chaste, look at verse 2, they behold your chaste conversation or life coupled with fear. They behold your subjection, your submission, your humility, your chaste, that's pure, that's sweet and kind and Christ-like. That's another word for Christ. Chaste even sounds like Christ. Christ-like attitude. Before we go any further, it's not possible for a regenerated, born again, new creature in Christ, a woman, for this to bother her. It's not possible. Every true daughter of Abraham, like he's going to talk about, daughter of Sarah, every true child of God is humble, is meek, wants to be in subjection, wants to be in submission. I know we all have this old man that rises up. Women have this feminist in them. It's there by nature in them. But now this new man, creating the image of Christ, like Christ, is meek and in subjection. Our Lord is the example, is He not? If anyone could have rebelled against authority, man's authority, if anyone had the right to rebel and say, this is all wrong, this is corrupt, It would have been the Lord Jesus Christ. But no, He's our example. He's our example. He's submitted. He lived by faith, teaching us that God reigns and rules even over the evil. He's made all things for Himself, even the evil, the wicked for the day of judgment. Christ is our example. So it tells us, and surely, well I know you all, I don't know, there's no woman in here that would recoil at this at all. There are very few women out there that would want to hear this. Obey. Are you kidding me? Submit? We still use that when we marry our sons and daughters. We use that term when you promise to obey your husband. That's completely taken out of modern marriages aren't it? Because marriages are not... We act according to God's Word, don't we? This is what we want. This is the way. This is what God tells us. It's not just good advice. He says this is the only way it is. This is the only way it is. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Submission and meekness and kindness will win over all but the hardest of hearts. It would take an absolute monster not to be won by and influenced by A kind, loving, gentle, submissive, humble woman. Or vice versa. Be an absolute monster. And if that be the case, leave. That's right. 1 Corinthians 7 tells us you can. So, but he says here, and I didn't mean to give him that, that's another subject. But he says, they may be won by your conversation. They behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Not fear of them, but not to fear men. A wife shouldn't fear her husband, but fear of God. Fear God, whose adorning, let it not be the outward adorning, of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold and putting on of apparel, let it be the hidden man of the heart, the inward adorning of the heart, that which is not corruptible like apparel, but the ornament of a meek and a quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great pride. Now, every single commentator I read on this, even the old Puritans, they all agreed. None of them said that this is forbidding women to wear gold. None of them said, kind of surprised me actually, I thought one of them would misinterpret this, because look at it, he says, let it not be the adorning of putting on of apparel. Let's see, is he condemning putting on of apparel? No, not at all. But what he's saying is the adorning that you need to wear, we're not talking about an outward adorning, trying to make yourself look beautiful outwardly, but inwardly. This is true beauty, he says. This is true beauty. Anyone can make themselves look beautiful, you know, paint yourself up, right? Anybody. And that's not, that's not the adornment he's talking about here. He's not forbidding that. He's talking about The adorning of a meek and a quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is great value and beautiful. Look at Psalm 45 with me. Psalm 45. This is the psalm of the king and his bride. I love this psalm. Oh, I love this psalm. Psalm 45. And this is the adorning. He says of our Lord, oh my, I'd like to read the whole thing, but he says, of Christ, thou art fairer than the children of men. Grace is poured into thy lips. All right, here's a good example. When our Lord became a man, what kind of body did He take? He made Himself. He made His body. Exactly like that. There was no form of compassion. No outward beauty. He chose that. He chose a body for himself that had no physical beauty whatsoever. But he was altogether lovely. No outward beauty. None. So what does that tell you about beauty? What's the old saying, skin deep? Oh now, so God says, God doesn't look on the outward candidate. And neither should we. Read on. He's a sparer. And he, oh my, I'd love to preach on all this. But it says down in verse 7, Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness. Therefore, thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and cashew. He wore a very common garment, a common robe, not a robe of gold or silk. But, oh my, His character, everything. These are types of his character. Myrrh and aloe and cashew out of the ivory palaces. They made thee glad. King's daughters, verse 9. King's daughters were among thy honorable women. Harken, verse 10, O daughter. Harken, consider and incline thine ear, forget thine own people. This is saying come to Christ and marry him. Your father's house, leave and come to your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. So shall the King greatly desire thy beauty. Now, did Christ marry a beautiful bride? Did He come for a beautiful bride? Huh? Oh, no. He came for an ugly bride. He came to marry an ugly bride that He might make her beautiful. Like in Ezekiel 16, a child in the field, He said, she was made beautiful through His coming. She was cast out in the field, the loathing of herself, and that's us, like Gomer. And look at verse 13. The king's daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is wrought gold. He wrought it. She'll be brought to the king in raiment of needlework." That's Christ's work, the robe of righteousness. That's the dress code of heaven in it. The white robes is the righteousness of saints. And Christ is the one who clothed her like Eve in the garden. Now go back to our text. So this adorning is to be the hidden man, not outward adorning, although he doesn't forbid that. Although in 1 Timothy 2 says adorning women should adorn themselves in modest apparel, shouldn't come to worship God to be seen, fashionistas, But a modest affair was shame-faced and sobriety, that which becometh women professing godliness." Good work, Adornis. And he goes on to say, "...let the woman learn in silence with all subjection." This is all through the Scripture, all through the Scripture. It's not to keep women oppressed, it's to keep peace. It's to keep peace in the home. It's to keep them from being a fight. Not good advice. It's the only way. Our Lord said, a soft answer turns away wrath. He said, when he was reviled, reviled not again. He said, turn the other cheek. That'll stop it. That'll stop it. So, a loud and proud woman. There's nothing more unbecoming of a believer, a daughter of Christ, of God. to be loud and proud and bossy. Let it be the hidden man, the meek, quiet spirit, and humility and subjection in the sight of God. Beautiful. Beautiful. Look at Titus 2. The whole second chapter of Titus is concerning this. Look at Titus. Look at verse 1 of chapter 1. He begins this epistle, this short epistle, by saying that I'm a servant of God, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect. That's the way Peter began it. Acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness. This is the truth that promotes and produces godliness. Look at chapter, well, verse 16 of chapter 1. It says, some profess they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient unto every good work, reprobate, void of judgment. But he says to Titus, young Titus, a preacher, you speak the things that become sound doctrine, the doctrine according to godliness, he said, Christ-like. The aged men, be sober, grave, temperate. Peter said the same thing, didn't he? Be sober. Sound in the faith. Charity and patience. Aged women, likewise. Be in behavior that becometh holy. Holy women. Do you dislike that word? Do you think you don't like that word? We've just read it three times now. What's wrong with it? It's wonderful. Holy women. That means godly women. That means consecrated women. That means women that know the Lord. not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they may teach young women by example and in word, teach them to be sober, not taken up with the things of this world, vanity of this world, but to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, what we just read, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. Are you reading it with me? Verse 6. Young men, likewise, exhort to be sober-minded. He doesn't leave anybody out. We're all in subjection. In all things, show in thyself a pattern of good works, doctrines showing uncorruptedness, gravity, sincerity, sound speech that cannot be condemned. That he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed. Having no evil thing to say of you. Exhort servants to be obedient of their own masters. Is this important? How much of Scripture is filled with that? This is glorifying the God. This is good for us. This promotes peace. Are you with me? Read on, verse 9. Exhort the servants to be obedient of their own masters. Please them well in all things. Not back talking, not answering again. Not purloring, stealing time or money. Showing all good fidelity or faithfulness, that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Four, here's what the grace of God. teaches. Here's the grace of God in truth Peter told us he's writing about. This is what true grace promotes. Look at verse 11. The grace of God that bringeth salvation at the pier to all men. The gospel of God's grace has gone out everywhere and it teaches us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly. righteously and godly in this present world, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar people. Remember that? A royal priesthood. Chosen generation. Peculiar people. Zealous of good work. Going about doing good like the Lord Jesus Christ. These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise you. The way he's preaching works. Yeah, I'm going to preach exactly what the Lord says. I don't care what anybody says. That's what Paul said to Titus. You preach this. That's what the Lord said. The Lord even said, if any man teaches contrary to this, he's least in the kingdom of heaven. So, it's for our good, for God's glory, for peace. All right, go back to 1 Peter 3. So he says in verse 5, after this manner, in the old time, the holy women, also, holy women. Peter talked about holy men in 2 Peter 1, didn't he, who wrote the Scripture. consecrated, sanctified, being set apart for God, dedicated, pious. Pious is a good word. Devout. I want to be devout. Holy women, it says, who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord. Remember that in Genesis 18, where the Lord came and said, Sarah's going to have a child. And she in her tent laughed. She said, shall I have pleasure? And my Lord hath pleasure. He's a hundred years old. She laughed. And the Lord said, why did Sarah laugh? Well, she quit laughing and rebuked her. But she called him Lord. Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord. whose daughters ye are, as long as you do well. She called him Lord. Now, he doesn't tell us. And I'm not telling you to call your husband that. And it says to the preacher of the gospel, the pastor, the overseer, the bishop, it says over in chapter 5, that feed the flock, taking the oversight thereof, not as being lords, over God's heritage. But example, the word Lord here is not one who reigns and rules like a sovereign. The word Lord is often used throughout Scripture for the word master, mister. This is where we got the word mister. You know where Mr. and Mrs. came from? Master and mistress of a house. The head of a house and his wife. Master and Mrs. We shorten it to Mr. and Mrs. We tell our young girls to call people Mr. and not Mrs. Yes, sir. It's just respect. And she called him that, Mr. Avery. But the point is that she She referenced him, yeah, that's what Paul wrote. She respected him in such a way. Now, was Abraham a sinner? Oh, my. A couple of times he denied he was afraid for his life. And he told Sarah, she was so beautiful, even in old age, that he acted a coward. He was afraid that the men would kill him and take his beautiful wife, Sarah. Twice, not once, but twice he told her, now you just tell them you're my sister. And it's true, he said, it's true, I'm not lying, it's true, because we were both born. Abraham, the father of the faithful, Does he deserve respect? Well, yes and no. He was faithful. And she obeyed. When God called Abraham to leave Ur of the Chaldees and leave and follow Him, Abraham left. He said, Sarah, we're leaving. Now, I don't know if Abraham was called in or saved them or not. We looked at that. I think she was dealt with in Genesis 18 later on. But he said, Wife, we're leaving. I'm going to follow God. Who? I'm going to follow Jehovah. She said, Okay. And she left. So, in that sense, she left. Obeyed him. Called him Lord. whose daughters are you, if you're a daughter of Abraham, as long as you do well. That is, it says that you have this meekness and quiet spirit. Trust in God. She trusted in God. And you, if you do well in that way. And not afraid with any amazement. That means don't be afraid of Him. Fear God. And don't be afraid for yourself. God's going to take care of you, no matter who you're married to. You know, why did he deal with the wives first? Why didn't he deal with the men? Men have the greater responsibility. Men, as a type of Christ, have the greater responsibility. Actually, the more difficult job than to love the woman as Christ loved the church. That's what they're told to do. They have a greater responsibility to provide for her, to care for her, to watch over her, to protect her, to lead and guide her, to be the spiritual leader of the home, and to dwell with them according to wisdom, and dwell with them according to knowledge, and, you know, do what's right. Oh, she's just a submitter. But why does he deal with the woman first? Because knowing human nature, knowing men, that they're sinners, that every man in his best state, and how difficult it must be, it is, to follow a sinful man. And knowing the oppression of women, this is a man's world, and the women are oppressed the world over, aren't they? Most women the world over are under oppression, terribly, treated terribly, aren't they? And so knowing that, he tells them, believe in women, even an unbelieving husband. This is the way. This is the way. And knowing that women are the deceived one, that's what he dealt with, Paul dealt with in two places. The woman being deceived was in the transgression. Women are, he's going to talk about the weaker vessel being Weaker, not all women, but most. Weaker emotionally and are easy prey. A good word, Scripture says, in fair speech is to deceive the hearts of the simple. No one is more deceived than a woman or a slick-talking man. It happens all the time. So that's why he talks to women first. So he says, be insubjectionate. Now, men, verse 7, likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge. Dwell with them according to knowledge. Dwell with them means just that. Dwell with them. They want and need you to be with them. That's why they married you. They want you, right? You don't want what He can provide. You're not even the protection and feeling of safety and all that. You want to be loved. No. You want Him to want you. and be with you. Dwell with them. Dwell with them. And dwelling with a woman and a man with a woman and a woman with a man means much more than being in the same house. You can live in the same house and not be dwelling together. Dwelling together means dwell together in love and unity and harmony and peace and kindness. Dwell together. be one in union, united in one mind, one spirit, one attitude, one accord. Dwell together. Dwell with them according to knowledge. Understanding them. Understanding their needs. Knowing their frame. Knowing what they need. He says here, giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel. into the weaker vessel. Dwell with your wife. Let me read from my pastor's commentary. He says, use wisdom. Your wife is not a slave, but a loving companion. She's not a subject to be ordered about by law, but a part of you to be led and provided for in love. One of the other men, John Brown, an old Scottish preacher, said, she's not a subject that you can dismiss at will and be done with her. And she's not a friend which you can dismiss lightly. She's your intimate companion to promote that. She has needs. A woman needs to dwell with a man, say. Right? know one another's needs. But the man has a greater responsibility in knowing her needs, knowing her frame as a weaker vessel. Now, you know that, as I said, some women are stronger both physically and mentally. But for the most part, women want a man to provide for and protect and nurture and lead. And in the garden, the Lord said to the woman and all women, that man shall have the rule over you. And it says, your desire shall be to him. It's a good thing to be a kept woman, isn't it? Aren't we all? I am. I'm Christ's bride, and that's exactly the way I want. I don't want to believe. So, it says here in verse 7, giving honor unto the wife. Honor to the wife. Oh, my. That she is created by God to bring joy and companionship and comfort to you. She is your wife. Is no one closer of more importance to the husband on this earth, of more importance, than she is? If she's a mother, she's the mother of his children. Oh, what a responsibility. What could carry more honor, respect, or recognition? What higher calling could a woman be called to? A faithful wife or mother. And he says, treat her with tenderness, gentleness, kindness. Treat her this way. That man who holds his wife in contempt, belittles her, no respect, no honor as beneath her, holds God in contempt. And God will deal with him. It goes on down to say, his eyes are over her. He's watching. And won't get away with it. So, likewise he husbands. We're vessels, we're heirs, verse 7, I love this, heirs together of the grace of life. Robert Layton, a bishop in Scotland said, This is what a sweet word, the grace of life, the gift of life. He's talking about eternal life, talking about two believers, two believers dwelling together in love. There's nothing more beautiful, nothing more wonderful than two believers, wonderful. He that obtaineth a wife, obtaineth favor of the Lord. It's a good thing, obtain favor of the Lord, the Proverbs said. And especially a believing wife or husband, oh my, what a blessing, what a blessing, what a gift. Now you're not only husband and wife, and by the way, that relationship ends with death. It ends. And they won't marry in a given marriage in glory. That ends, right? But if you're brother and sister, it won't end. Put your heirs together, brothers and sisters, of the grace of life, the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. So, he said to the woman, be wise, be in subjection, submission. Maybe the unbelieving husband will be won by your Christlike life and adorn yourselves with this meek and quiet spirit. And obey your husband. Be submissive to them. Don't be afraid of them. But do well. And let your prayers be not hindered. Let your prayers be not hindered. God's not hearing us when we're in a state of rebellion and a state of conflict and wrath and schisms and strife. And then we should pray. He's not hearing that. David said, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord doesn't hear me. In another place, in the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, he said, if your brother has something against you, you better go to him. Don't come in here and try to worship. He said, go home to him. This is what our Lord said. You go make up with that brother, or God's not going to listen to you. He's not going to listen to you. And you're not going to hear from him. Make up. This is what he did. And the whole motive behind all this is God, for Christ's sake, because Christ was beaten by his stripes, you're healed, because Christ did this for us. It shouldn't be difficult for us. Forgive someone. We know them. We know they're just like us. And if you don't forgive, our Lord said, you won't be forgiven. Now your prayers will be hindered. Finally, verse 8, be all of you of one mind, having compassion. I'm going to end right there. I'm going to pick that up next Wednesday night. All right, let's stand together. Our Father in Heaven, thank You so much for Your Word. Oh my, it's a light under our feet, a lamp under our feet, a light under our path, a way of righteousness. Set our feet, Lord, in paths of righteousness. For Thy name's sake, for Thy glory, for Thy honor, let's walk in love as Christ loved us. I mean, lights in a dark world. your people in the midst of a wicked and perverse and crooked generation. Oh, Lord, make us like Christ. Oh, may we be good examples. May we be good testimonies of Thy grace. Let us adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. Let us be like Him. Oh, Lord, may we be like the Lord Jesus Christ. Meek, lowly, loving, kind, gracious, merciful, forgiving, forbearing, long-suffering, gentle, tender, easy to be entreated, understanding, wise, considerate, pitiful, courteous, oh Lord, we come far short. Oh, create in us a clean heart, renew within us a right spirit. Send Thy Holy Spirit to give us the fruit of the Spirit for Thy glory, to the praise of the glory of Thy grace. Lord, You must give these things or we won't have them. So we call upon You. Forgive us. Forgive and give, we pray. In Christ's name, amen.
True Grace - Part 5
True Grace that adorns the doctrine of salvation by grace. Wives and husbands and their service, submission and subjection to one another.
Identifiant du sermon | 1226161719408 |
Durée | 39:52 |
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Catégorie | Service en milieu de semaine |
Texte biblique | 1 Pierre 3:1-7 |
Langue | anglais |
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