Fundamental Duty of Wives to Husbands

1 Pe. 3:1a 1 Peter

Pastor Albert N. Martin expounds 1 Peter 3:1-6, focusing on the divine directive for Christian wives to be in subjection to their own husbands. He grounds this command in the larger biblical doctrines of creation, fall, and redemption, emphasizing that a wife's submission in no way diminishes her inherent dignity or redemptive standing. Martin stresses that this submission must flow from grace-produced motives and power, challenging wives to honestly assess their hearts and actions regarding their husband's headship, and calling husbands to lead in a way that facilitates their wives' submission.

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The Cultural Climate and the Radical Nature of Wifely Submission

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Society Promoting Drunkenness

In this part of the sermon: Using an analogy of a society promoting drunkenness, Martin highlights how radical and counter-cultural the command for wifely submission is in a society (and even parts of the…

Martin creates a hypothetical society where drunkenness is universally promoted and defended, even in churches and academic journals. He uses this to illustrate how radical and counter-cultural it would be for a convert in such a society to embrace the biblical condemnation of drunkenness, drawing a parallel to the current cultural rejection of biblical gender roles.

Try to imagine a society where drunkenness was an accepted personal and social norm. The society has become so besotten in not only its practice of drunkenness, but in its defense and propagation of the desirability of drunkenness that if you turn on the television to popular talk shows, what do you have? You can count, no matter what channel you turn, somebody's there, either a psychologist or a sociologist or a medical person promoting the benefits and desirability of drunkenness. You pick up Ladies' Home Journal.

28:08 - 28:52 Read in full sermon

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Evangelical Feminism Book

The point: Make it evident that you have, from the depths of your being, out of love for Christ and in the strength of Christ, repudiated everything that would undermine your loving embrace of your God-given role.

Martin mentions holding a 566-page book that responds to 'evangelical feminism,' highlighting that even within professing Christianity, there are those who would call his sermon's teaching 'heresy,' underscoring the challenging climate for biblical truth.

Popular talk shows, learned journals. You think I'm kidding within the church. I have in my hands a book I'm plowing through, not from cover to cover, but selective chapters, 566 pages. Small print out to the margins.

31:56 - 32:16 Read in full sermon

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