{"id":36655,"date":"2022-09-13T13:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-titus-25-the-bible-teaches-that-wives-should-obey-their-husbands-but-how-or-why-should-a-woman-obey-when-her-husband-is-not-acting-like-a-good-christian-spouse-and-father\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:05:03","slug":"in-titus-25-the-bible-teaches-that-wives-should-obey-their-husbands-but-how-or-why-should-a-woman-obey-when-her-husband-is-not-acting-like-a-good-christian-spouse-and-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/in-titus-25-the-bible-teaches-that-wives-should-obey-their-husbands-but-how-or-why-should-a-woman-obey-when-her-husband-is-not-acting-like-a-good-christian-spouse-and-father\/","title":{"rendered":"In Titus 2:5, the Bible teaches that wives should obey their husbands. But how or why should a woman obey when her husband is not acting like a good Christian spouse and father?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Peter 3:1-2 (NASB), “In the same way, you wives, be submissive<\/strong> to your own husbands so that even if any of them<\/em> are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior<\/strong>.” Submissive is Strong’s Greek word #5293 and it means, “to subordinate; reflexively, to obey.”  Does this mean women are to be like children obeying their husbands? No. Consider Ephesians 5:15-21, “See then that you (Christian men and women<\/em>) walk circumspectly…giving thanks always…submitting to one another<\/strong> in the fear of God.” Paul is telling all believers to be respectful and honor each other<\/strong>. The Greek word for obey in Titus 2:5 is this same word.<\/p>\n

We are all to graciously serve each other, both husbands and wives.<\/strong> We copy Jesus’ example in Matthew 20:28 (NASB), “the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve (Greek means to serve like a servant<\/em>).”  Romans 7:6 (NASB), “we serve <\/strong>(as a servant<\/em>) in newness of the Spirit<\/strong>…” Jesus served even though others treated Him poorly. We are all to serve even when others do not respond <\/strong>with appropriate behavior.<\/p>\n

It’s very tough when a wife doesn’t feel the husband is acting in a godly manner. However, many times when women act consistently respectful of their husbands, husbands start to act wiser and more loving.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there are some fine Christian books on marriage. Many offer solid, scriptural advice as to how to build a stronger marriage. If a marriage relationship feels very unhappy and stressful, Christian counseling is a good option.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Peter 3:1-2 (NASB), “In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior.” Submissive is Strong’s Greek word #5293 … Continue reading “In Titus 2:5, the Bible teaches that wives should obey their husbands. But how or why should a woman obey when her husband is not acting like a good Christian spouse and father?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}