Fundamental Duties of Wives, Part 1

In this part of the sermon: Martin acknowledges the contemporary opposition to biblical submission, likening his task to clearing rubble from bombed buildings and building protective walls around the…

Martin uses the analogy of clearing rubble from bombed buildings in Yugoslavia and then building protective walls around a new edifice to describe his task of addressing modern objections to biblical submission before expounding the passage.

And to do something that I would liken to two analogies. I would like us in the ministry of the word this morning. To clear away the rubble and the rubbish. And to build some protective walls around this passage.

12:45 - 13:01 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin acknowledges the contemporary opposition to biblical submission, likening his task to clearing rubble from bombed buildings and building protective walls around the…

The 'bombs and missiles of feminist teaching, domestic disruption, social manipulation' are a metaphor for the cultural forces that have obscured the biblical understanding of submission, creating 'rubble and rubbish' in people's minds.

They must clear away the rubble and the rubbish. Well the bombs and missiles of feminist teaching. Domestic disruption. Social manipulation.

13:52 - 14:04 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin acknowledges the contemporary opposition to biblical submission, likening his task to clearing rubble from bombed buildings and building protective walls around the…

The analogy of building protective walls around a worthwhile edifice in a threatening community is used to explain the need to safeguard the biblical teaching on submission from misinterpretation and cultural pressure.

Unless we take some time to bring in the bulldozer of God's word. To clear away the rubbish and the rubble. And then the second analogy. What I trust to accomplish this morning in our study of the word.

14:27 - 14:43 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first proposition asserts that the wife's submission does not compromise her inherent, equally shared, created dignity. Martin refutes the false assumption that submission…

Martin describes Adam's experience of naming all the animals and finding no suitable helper, highlighting his unique solitude before Eve's creation and the profound significance of her arrival.

I've read it many times. I've read it out loud. How did Adam actually say this? Imagine.

27:34 - 27:42 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The first proposition asserts that the wife's submission does not compromise her inherent, equally shared, created dignity. Martin refutes the false assumption that submission…

Martin cites God likening Himself to a nursing mother (Isaiah 49:15) to illustrate that certain dimensions of God's attributes, like tender love and compassion, are more beautifully expressed in women.

In the woman. God likens himself. To a nursing mother. And says can a nursing mother.

31:33 - 31:42 Read in full sermon

The point: Don't believe the devil's lie that the only way to attain your true dignity is to throw off any notion of submission. That is not your dignity, it is your shame.

Eve's error in talking to the devil instead of her husband about the tree is used as an example of the shame and misery that comes from rejecting God's order and seeking dignity outside of it.

It is your shame. And your misery. Your mother Eve, she shouldn't have been talking to the devil. If she had any questions about the tree and what to do with it, she should have been talking to her head, her husband.

34:45 - 34:59 Read in full sermon