and studying the subject of suffering in our most recent lessons. And here's some things that just to sum it all up, what I've gotten out of that is that just some of the thoughts are that life isn't what we would call fair, but it certainly is good because all things work together for our good if we love God, if we're called according to his purpose. So we know that it's good, but certainly not fair. And we're told in chapter two how we're supposed to responds to these unfair circumstances and when we're treated wrongly. And it's it's not about our rights. It's not about us. Ultimately, it's about God and his glory. So we may not experience what we'd like to think of as justice in this lifetime, but we're called to a ministry of suffering for righteousness sake. In the name of Jesus. So with that in mind, it reminds me of the song, this world is not our home. We're just passing through. Our treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. So it's a lot easier to handle. It's a lot easier to go through this life and the injustices that occur, knowing that I'm not here and I'm not really supposed to be thinking of this world as my home. I'm not supposed to be too comfortable here. One day, I'll make it to my ultimate home. I think of a bumper sticker that a good friend of mine and many of yours, Kenny Newhouse, had on his car. He had a nice car, but he had a sticker on it that said, Don't let the car fool you. My treasure is laid up in heaven. So that's the way we need to be thinking about things in this life. Think of the last verse here, it says, You were a sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls." So, we have a shepherd that helps us along the way. Now, if you look at the first word in chapter 3, it says, likewise. So, let's start there and turn to 1 Peter chapter 3. We're going to read verses 1 through 6. It says, likewise, ye wives be in subjection to your own husbands, that if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear, whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of the plating of the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart in which is and that which is not correctable, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well and are not afraid with any amazement." That being our text, and as I alluded to, we were told in the previous chapter, let's just read through the introduction that you have. It says, the importance of submission to authority to the effectiveness of our witness and to our winning our spiritual warfare has been discussed in chapter two relative to the submission due to political rulers and masters or employers. The present lesson deals with the importance of submission relative to the husband-wife relationship. So, that first word, likewise, in the same manner, is if a king or an employer, if you're a slave, a master tells you to do something, is requiring things of you that just, you know, it's not right, it's not fair, you're going to have to suffer in this situation, and we discuss those things in that same manner wives are supposed to be in subjection. Likewise, you wives be in subjection to your own husbands. And more specifically, this passage is dealing not with just that in general, that's a given, but we're dealing with wives whose husbands are not part of the family of God. And Certainly, in that situation, it lends itself more to being treated unfairly, unjustly, or having to suffer for the cause of Christ. But how are you supposed to do it? Is the wife supposed to just quote Scripture to her husband nonstop, nag him about this, somebody that has not accepted the authority of the Word of God in their life, and somebody who's not Obeyed the gospel of Christ. No, we're told how that's supposed to happen. But let's first look at the mission of a submissive wife. And. Letter A under this first point is it's a personal mission that's in view here. So let's let's just look up a couple passages real quick. Let's look at Colossians 318 just to see some more scripture on this subject. Colossians 3.18. Since wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as it is fit in the Lord. And I'm just going to tell you, I know from working in the business world that this is not a politically correct thing to teach. It's not accepted by most of the world. And that's just the way it is. However, I believe the Bible, and I'm going to read the Word, and that's what I'm going to stand behind. That's the way I'm going to live. This is the way it's supposed to be. This is the way God wants it. And, you know, the lost world out there may not understand it. They may not think it's fair, but that's the way God's plan is for His family, for families to be modeled. Sister Betty? was in the business world. I would read my Bible every day at lunch, and I don't know, somehow this came up in the discussion about being, you know, submissive to your husband. And my boss happened to be prominent at that time. And I said, you know, I believe that my husband should be the head of the house. And I think that I should be in commission to him. And he looked at me and said, Sammy, you don't really believe that, do you? And I said, yes, I do believe that. But that's how even men in this world, you know, they don't believe that. That's true. But that's what the Bible says, right? So that's that's what we got to go with. And look at Ephesians chapter five. And let's look at verse twenty one. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 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. And we're not going to get into today how a husband is supposed to treat his wife. That's not what our lesson's on. I'm sure our pastor will cover that in great detail next week or in the coming weeks. But that's what the Bible says. If we turn back to 1 Peter chapter 3, likewise you wives be in subjection to your own husbands. Here's the personal part that needs to be brought out is that these wives are supposed to be in submission to their own husbands and not just, you know, I've been around some people that seem to take this out of context and think that men are just superior to women and that's not the case at all. There's no greater value for a man than there is a woman, but this is the model that God's put in place for the family. Wives need to be in subjection to their own husbands, and they don't need to feel like they need to be in subjection to every man just because of the fact that they're a woman. The problem, letter B, it's a problematic mission that's in view here. Here's the thing, if it was really easy to do this, God probably wouldn't have spent so much time on it in his word. And if it was really easy, like they say, if it was easy, everybody would be doing it, but it's not. And that's why people aren't doing it. But the problem here is in the second part of this verse that says that if any obey not the word, We're dealing here with husbands who are exceptionally hard cases. They don't want to accept the authority of the Word of God in their life. They don't care what the Bible says, and they don't care what the Bible says about how they're supposed to be treating their wives. They don't care what the Bible says about how they're supposed to be raising their family, how they're supposed to be loving God, how they're supposed to be serving God. None of that applies to them because they've rejected it. As you can imagine, put these, especially here, and the people that Peter was directly writing to, it could put them in some difficult situations, to say the least. However, they're still supposed to be in subjection to these men, and he's going to teach us how to do that in a minute. So, when I was thinking about this type of person, I was trying to think of some examples in the Bible, and the first example that I came across was in 1st Samuel chapter 25. This is just the first person that came to mind. Can anyone think of somebody that would have been a husband in the Bible that did not accept the Word of God? Melissa? Yeah, that's where we're turning to. Abigail and Nabal. Yeah. Anyone else? Brother Jones? Yeah. Timothy's father was not was not a man. And there's a good example there of how. How a Christian wife ought to behave herself and Timothy's mother, how she raised her son. For the protocol, can you read for Samuel twenty five verse three, four. Yeah. Now, the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. And he was a woman of good understanding and of a beautiful countenance. But the man was churlish and evil in his doings, and he was of the house of Caleb. Okay, so here's Nabal, who is evil and churlish in his doings. And churlish isn't a word that we often use, but it means he was difficult, maybe dishonest, very hard in his dealings with people. And not only that, he was evil. So there was a there was a certain amount of wickedness in his life. And then I thought about, you know, what happened to him. He didn't obey the word of God. What happened to him? He he was. The Bible says his heart became a stone, and I think it was 10 days later, the Lord killed him. If you read through the end of first Samuel, chapter 25. And I think. If you look at First Peter chapter four seventeen. First Peter four seventeen says, For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. And if it first begin at us, what shall the end of them that obey not the gospel? What shall the envy of them that obey not the gospel? I think, you know, their end is going to be the same and they will add that they obey not the gospel. So with that in mind, Let's think of thinking of this mission. It's a personal mission. It's a problematic mission. These people are hard cases, but it's also a plain mission. And what's the mission is very clear. Verse one of chapter three, that they also may be that they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives. The goal is that these Hard cases, these individuals that are just not accepting the Word of God, they're rejecting the Word of God, may be hostile towards it. Likewise, the people that we've learned about before, the kings, the masters, are hostile towards the Word and towards God's people. That this man may be converted. and change. That's the goal. It's a plain mission that's in view. And when we think of the word one, it's more of acquiring possession of this individual. This individual that's bound in chains of sin. He's in darkness. He's blind. And we want him to be one to Christ. We want Christ to acquire possession of his soul so that his life will be changed. It'll be different. It won't be what it once was, but he'll be a spirit filled husband leading his family in truth and teaching them the truth of God. So that's the goal. There's a note that Pastor put. He said, these wives have no doubt given the word of the gospel to their husbands. They may have been nagging them, but they're exhorted to win their husbands to the Lord by holy living. So, that's the tactic. If we look at verse 1 and verse 2, the end of verse 1 says that they may be won by the conversation of the wives while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. So, the goal is winning these people to Christ, winning the husband to Christ. And the tactic, how are you going to do that? It's not by quoting the Romans' road to them every day. It's by living a life that's holy and pleasing and acceptable to God. It's being in subjection with this chaste conversation, this decent conversation and a life that's decent, free from obscenity and coupled with fear. As we look at verse two, it says, while they behold your chaste conversation, there's another point here. And feel free to interrupt me anytime with comments that you have. I'm sure the rest of the class would benefit from it as well. But if we look at this where it says, while they behold your chaste conversation, these husbands are watching their wives. And the lost world is watching any Christian that's going to have a testimony for God, that is going to lift up their voice and be a witness. And certainly, in a marriage relationship, the husband's going to know that his wife is a professing Christian, right? She's going to speak to him about it. But he's going to watch, especially somebody that would be churlish and evil in their doings. They're going to watch. As I was studying for this lesson, I read several stories of women who had just horrible husbands, but they were watching their character. And in some cases, we'll talk about this later, but in one individual case, this husband was a very violent man, but he never laid a hand on his wife. Well, I shouldn't say never for a long time until after their child was born. He was watching how she would never respond to him and never return his evil with evil. She always returned it with good. And this was back in the 19th century. And through the work of the Salvation Army, actually, this man actually ended up repenting and giving his life to God. And it made a huge difference in his life. And he served as part of that ministry. So, lost people are watching us, these lost husbands, watching their wives. Number two, the wives are exhorted to see to it that their husbands were able to see two things in their life. So, the first thing is virtue. Their chaste conversation. There's that virtuous life that they're supposed to be living. And then also, the veneration for God that they have. It's coupled with fear. Does anyone have any thoughts on what that means, this chase, this descent, this pure life coupled with fear? What's the fear talking about there? Anybody have any thoughts on that that you want to share? No? Okay. Brother Randy. The man would look at the wife and the way she's living, that there's something, there's a power that allows him to turn his evil with good. And so I think there's a sense that in his heart of hearts, he knows there's an impending doom awaiting him, that he's not in a life like his wife is. That's a good point. I hadn't thought about it like that. That just that he would be fearful of the doom that's ahead of him and seen. Yeah. That's good. Sister Betty. It does. That's a. Yep, that's a good point. Brother Pelicone, would you look up Ephesians 5, 33? I'm going to assign some verses and then we'll take your comments, so don't forget, Sister Joni. Sister Pelicone, would you look up Revelation 14, 7? And Katie, Psalm 31, 19? I'm going to skip Sister Joni because she has a comment that I don't want her to forget. So, Brother Jerry, would you look up Ecclesiastes 8.12? And Sister Chris, Luke 1.50? Brother BJ, Psalm 103.17? Psalm 103.17? And Rebecca, would you look up Psalm 34.7? Alright. So, Ephesians 5.33, could you go ahead and read that for us, Brother Pelicone? Okay, so that's a part of it, Sister Betty. What Brother Pelicone just said, quoted in the last part of that verse, is that the wife see that she reverence her husband and treat him reverently with great respect. I think that's a part of it. Anyone else have any comments? Sister Joni, you had a comment. Well, my comment was based upon verse 2 of my Bible, which referenced back to chapter 2, verse 12, having a conversation promised among the Gentiles that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may buy your good works, which they shall behold, glorified God, in the day of visitation. So even, I've known several people that are in relationships where the wife is saved and the husband is not. And I think it's so important for them to stay strong in the Lord, to put their eyes on God, so that their actions can proclaim the glory of God. And that can be very difficult to do on a 24-7 basis. And you're in that situation with your spouse, right? 24-7 almost, you know, always there. And that's that key word, that first word, likewise. So in the same manner that we're dealing with suffering and injustice and, you know, with this lost world, that it's the same goal, right? The same goal for all of it. So whether it's a government official or You know, some just anyone in authority. The goal and how we deal with them needs to be that we're trying to win them to the Lord. We're trying to win them to Christ and they're going to see it by our good works. The goal is that they'll glorify God with us. All right. Revelation fourteen seven. For the hour of judgment has come, and worship Him that made heaven and earth and the sea OK, so it's talking about this angel that's coming forth with the gospel and he says the fear God. Why? Because the hour of his judgment has come. So let's just think about this for a few minutes or chase conversation. We all try to live a life that we see is as good or chased or a decent life. But the Bible says it needs to be coupled with fear. And I think that certainly a part of it is reverencing the spouse. But I can't get away from the fact that we need to have a fear of God. And I'll just tell you, and I've been in Sunday school classes and different situations and people say, well, fear of God, that's just a reverential respect that you need to have for God. And I'll just tell you, I fear God. I'm afraid of what's going to happen to me if I sin because I've experienced some of the chastisement of God in my life. And I'll just tell you, I don't want any more of it. I'm scared to have it. And so that's a part of it for the Randy. Yeah, I just it's it's different than the respect that you have for somebody in a high office. So that's a part of it. And I'm thinking of different reasons that you need to have fear, especially in this type of situation. What is the fear of God going to do for you in this situation where a spouse is trying to be in subjection, a lost wife or a saved wife is trying to be in subjection to a lost husband. And if you use your imagination just a little bit, you can think Maybe of what some of the difficulties she might have would be. So with that being said, how is the fear of God going to help this lost spouse or the saved wife? I'm sorry, the saved wife. Psalm 31 19. Katie. OK, the goodness of God is laid up for the person that's going to fear God. So, I think this is an important part of this. If we'll have a fear of God, what's the benefit? There's going to be goodness in store for us. Even in the midst of this suffering, we have something to look forward to, knowing that it's all going to work for our good. And that's a promise in the Bible there. Ecclesiastes 8.12. So a sinner do evil and utter tithes, and his days be prolonged. Yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which feared before him." Alright, it's the same concept there. This saved Christian wife will have a fear of God, be in subjection to her husband, living a pure life, coupled with this fear of God, that it's going to be well for her. And then Luke one fifty. And his mercy is on him that fear him from generation to generation. OK. If you need mercy and I'd raise both my hands and certainly I'm thinking that a saved wife and subjection to a lost husband, there's going to be times when she's going to need some mercy. Right. And that is the promise here is that provided. If they fear God. Psalm one oh three verse seventeen. OK. That is an interesting passage there and I want to study that out more. But we know that his mercy from that passage is mercy and beyond them that fear him. And I also think it's interesting and maybe a bit of encouragement for somebody in the situation. They're going to submit to the word of God and by doing so be in subjection to their husband that God's righteousness is going to be on their children's children. Can you read that last part one more time. OK, unto his children, their children's children. So for the kids and the grandkids, they'll be coming along. There's. I just I want, like I said, I want to study that out some more, but I think it's encouraging to know that that God's righteousness is going to be upon them. How's that going to be? Well, the righteousness that we obtain through Christ, our positional sanctification. And what I'm getting at is, I think those kids and the grandkids are going to end up being saved. BJ? Because of the obedience of their parents. All right. So, anyway, that I just need to keep that in mind that that's certainly a big part of this. And I think it's kind of easy to overlook is so much of this passage in First Peter is related to the chase conversation. But we can't overlook the fact that it has to be coupled with fear. So let's talk about that. The manner of a submissive wife. And let's look at verse three. It says, Who's adorning? Let it not be that outward adorning. of plating the hair, of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart, that which is not corruptible." So, the first thing I want to bring out is that she has a winsomeness, a way about her that God can use to win her husband. It's maybe charming, engaging, sweet and agreeable, attractive, pleasing, likable, appealing, all these words that we use to describe this, the hidden man of the heart, the chaste conversation. But there's a parallel companion passage that I think is certainly worth us looking at in 1 Timothy chapter 2. So if you turn to 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 9, First Timothy chapter two will read the verse twelve nine through twelve and like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly array, but which become a woman professing godliness with good works. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection, but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. And then, if you read on, there's some more information as to why that is. And this is an interesting study in the Bible. But I want to bring out that the emphasis here really is on the inward man of the heart. It's not on the outward. But this outward is being used to illustrate how, you know, you don't want to You don't want to put forth the world in an attempt to bring somebody to Christ. To bring somebody alive and to for someone who's dead and sinned to be made alive in Christ. The emphasis in this passage is not on the dress, the outer appearance, but on the inward spirit of the woman. Nevertheless, the outward appearance, attention given to it, can if it is worldly, militate against how God wants to be used. how God wants to use believers to win the lost. And there's an insert here that the pastor included in this lesson. And I'm going to go ahead and read it. I have no idea who wrote this, but I didn't see it in any of the commentaries as I was studying. But I'm going to go ahead and read it because it's here. He didn't tell me to read it. It's in the note he gave me. So it says, Why is this worldly artificiality forbidden? It is forbidden because the Holy Spirit does not use the styles of the world in winning a lost soul to the Lord as he seeks to work through the believer. It is forbidden because such an elaborate and worldly display gratifies what the Apostle John calls the lust of the eyes. When a Christian woman's appearance appeals to and gratifies the totally depraved nature of the unsaved person whom she is seeking to win to the Lord, she is feeding that person's appetite for sin instead of appealing to that person's conscience. She's confront confronting that person with the world, not with the Savior. Such an artificial display also destroys the personal testimony of the sole winner. We may be fundamental in our doctrine and yet defeat the power of the word we give. Defeat the power of the word we give out by the modernism of our appearance is forbidden because God seeks to glorify himself in the personality and life of the Christian. He made men in his own image. That image is the ideal medium through which he can reveal himself. But if that image is marred and distorted by artificiality, it becomes an imperfect medium. And the beauty of the Lord Jesus is hidden beneath a veneer of worldliness. And that's what we want to avoid. We want to avoid the beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ himself to be hidden beneath our veneer of worldliness and style. I think You know some. There are some Christians that some believers in different denominations. Who take this verse and say who's adoring might not be that outward adorning plating of the hair and wearing of gold or putting on of apparel. And they they apply that to not wearing makeup or not taking care of their personal appearance. I find it interesting they all put on apparel which is good. But Brother Randy. an older gentleman that I know whose, it's his humility that just sets him apart in the people that I know. I don't know, he's a very nice Christian. And he always, when he's speaking of someone, begins by telling you something really good about that person. And I joke with him, I said, you know, I feel dirty around you. And he laughs and he's, you know what, for the life of it, he doesn't even know what you're talking about. But like you said, being followers of me, even as I also am of Christ, but he doesn't, he is so humble that he doesn't even understand that he comes off that way. And those are the people, because outwardly, he kind of looks like, he, he, That's great. That's a good illustration of someone. And when we think about this passage here, If you're concerned about the way you look, and certainly applying this in the context of a saved wife with a lost husband, it's okay to make sure your appearance is acceptable. But the thing that they need to be equally concerned with, if not more, and I would say more concerned with, is Are they trying to win this person the way that God says that they're to try to win them? And that's with a meek and a quiet spirit. Sister Betty? I'm just going to say, have you ever met a person who just first met them and thought they were very holy and that after you got to know them and know their character and so on, they became a very good person? I think so, but I'm not going to name any names. But yeah. You want to name names? No. That's a good point. Anyone else have a comment? Anything you want to bring out at this point? No? All right. Godly women who want to win their husbands Christ know that the time and effort spent on adorning themselves with grooming golden garments can be better spent on other types types of adorning adorning other areas of their lives Let's see Renee did you bring your Bible to class? Would you look up Matthew 6 19 and Sister Donna Would you look up 1 Timothy 2.2? Dana, would you look up 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 11 and 12? So, when we think about these things that are mentioned as far as the outward adorning, there's some scriptures that will help us keep it all in perspective. So, go ahead, Renee, and read that verse. All right, so we look at verse four, it says, but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible. Right, so if we're laying up for ourselves these treasures in heaven, and I think part of that is this living a chaste life, a life that is, you know, the decent, free from obscenity, We're laying up for ourselves treasures in heaven and our focus needs to be on that. There's nothing can corrupt that. The Bible says here it's not corruptible. But all this other stuff that people put so much time and energy into, it's all corruptible. It's all going to be corrupted. It's going to be destroyed. Sister Chris? All right. So there's the things that the that this Christian wife is going to avoid. And then there's the things that they're going to sensuate. Let's read first Timothy two to. OK, so that's this quietness and quiet and make sure it's something that we all really can take application to. Right. We should all want to aspire to this and not just the spouse of an unsaved husband. But that's that's a nice thing to aspire to a quiet and a peaceable life. First Thessalonians 4 11 and 12. Another good passage of Scripture there. Galatians in Galatians chapter 5 where it lists the fruit of the Spirit. Meekness is part of the fruit of the Spirit. So, this woman that's going to be in subjection to her husband, she's going to adorn herself with this meek and quiet spirit. She's going to be aided in that and the Spirit of God is actually going to produce that in her as she's striving to apply these truths in our life. So, at the end of verse four, it says that this meek and quiet spirit is in the sight of God of great price. So, it certainly is something to be aspired to. They'll want and they'll desire God's approval in their lives, and the way to do that is is by trying to win their husband through this chase conversation, this decent walk. So, the models for a submissive wife. Let's take a look at that in verse 5. It says, for after this manner in the old time, the holy women also, who trust in God, adorn themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands. So, there's a model here. You read this note the pastor put in and his noses. There's a very much disregarded truth here. Younger women are commanded in the scripture to seek counsel mentoring example from older godly women. These can be found in almost any church and the younger women are to seek out these older women is unscriptural and unwise for young women in a church to seek counsel from women in their own age group. Truly spiritual young women who are submitted themselves to the teaching of Scripture would refrain from giving counsel to other young women and would refer any who come to them to the pastor's wife or other older godly women in the church. It's never in the best interest of anyone to blatantly violate plain commands in the Word of God. It is detrimental to all concerns and has an especially negative effect on any church where this happens. It is to follow after the ways and reap the consequences of Rehoboam in 1 Kings chapter 12, who disdained and rejected the counsel of his elders and sought and followed instead the counsel of those his own age who were of the same mindset as himself and would tell him what he wanted to hear. And I've seen this from time to time as growing up in church where it seems like some people have an idea of a position they want to take. And so, they go seek out people that maybe are not as well-versed in the scripture as they are to take that position with instead of really seeking out the truth and going to people who have maybe been in the ministry longer, people who have studied the word longer than they have, people who have lived a faithful life. And they go to the weaker Christian. I always find that interesting. I always think, well, if they want to take the position that it's OK for Christians to drink alcohol, why don't they talk to the pastor about that? But they don't. They go to other people that aren't as equipped in the scripture and try to take their counsel from them. And what it shows is they're really not interested in taking counsel. I think that they just want company in the rebellion to the Word of God. Just what I think about it. Titus chapter two. Let's let's turn there real quick. Titus chapter two verses three through five says the aged women also likewise that they be in behaviors become a holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers and good thing of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children. to be discreet. Chase keepers at home. Good obedient to their own husbands. There's that phrase again. It keeps coming up that the Word of God be not blasphemed. So there's. In this passage here in First Peter chapter three, there's people that are. We're given this example of people from the past. Holy women have gone on before us. That. trusted God and adorned themselves with meekness and quietness in subject or in subjection unto their own husbands. So they're mentioned. Does anyone have anyone that comes to mind in the Bible that maybe was a holy woman that was in subjection to her own husband besides Sarah? Sarah is mentioned here, which is interesting too because a lot of times when you think of Sarah, you think about how she laughed at, you know, when when she was told that she was going to have a baby in her old age. The Bible has a lot of good things to say about her here. Hannah? She was in subjection to her own husband. Yeah, I think the Bible teaches that. Brother Morton? Naomi. She was in subjection to her husband, right? Very good. Anyone else. I think of the Shunammite woman in Second Kings. The Bible says she was a great woman. And when the prophet of God, he was Elijah, was traveling through, she said, I perceive he's a man of God. But she went to her husband and said, let's build him a room. The Bible says that very clear, clearly that she consulted her husband about this and just go out and do it. So, there's a few examples there that we've just thought of and then the Bible tells us about Sarah. So, let's read verse five. For after this manner in old time, the holy woman, I'm sorry, verse six, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters you are, as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement. So, where Sarah is concerned, and can I get someone to look up, Brother Rob, would you look up Hebrews 11, verse 11? As far as Sarah is concerned, God is using her here as an example of someone who is really in subjection to her husband, and think about that. When was she in subjection? Even when Abraham was not necessarily following God's will, God's perfect will for his life, and going down into Egypt and telling his wife to lie, she was in subjection to him. She did what she was told to do in that case. And in other passages in the Bible, when Abraham was visited by the Lord, Abraham said, walked in the tent, he was in a hurry and said, I'll paraphrase, get some food ready quickly. We have visitors. And she just jumped on and she did it. She didn't fuss with them about it. So in obeying commands, God said in Genesis 18, 19, he said, I know, Abraham, that he will command his house. So in order, you know, you can a husband can make commands, but it's it's only it's only good if they're followed. Right. So, God knew that Abraham had a house that he could command, and he would command, and they accepted his command. Brother Randy? Right. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true, she was certainly in cahoots with him. I think her heart was evil in that scenario as well. Yeah, she certainly was. Yeah, there's a... and here's what I'd say, if a wife is told to do something that's clearly against scripture, that's where they need to really seek out the Spirit of God for direction. You know, there may be times, you know, the Bible says, forsake not the assembling of yourselves together. Well, if a husband is commanding his wife not to attend church, she'd better have God's leadership about what she's going to do in that situation. Is it a one time deal? Was it a you're never going to go again? And, you know, She really needs to have the Spirit of God leading her in the best way to handle that. I mean, if you look here, it says she needs to be in subjection to her own husband, so she needs to be very careful in not doing that. Brother Pelicone, do you have any thoughts on that? It can be a tricky situation. Yeah, it can be difficult. Hebrews 11.11, and then we'll close. I think there's some encouragement here for the faults that Sarah had. Her faults are overlooked when God's looking at her virtues in the New Testament. She's mentioned right there. in the Hall of Faith with Abraham for his faith. And then Sarah is mentioned and given an example of her great faith. And then here in our text today, she's given as an example of someone who is in subjection to her own husband, had a meek and a quiet spirit. Does anyone else have any thoughts? Anything you want to share with the class? Brother Henderson, would you dismiss us in prayer this morning?