Sermon text: 1 Peter 3:1-7
Preacher: Irving Steggles
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Sermon outline:
- The wife does and does not honour
- She does not honour her husband in peudo-submission
- Submitting to her husband while disobeying Christ
- Leaving all to her husband
- Living in craven fear of her husband
- She does honour her husband in biblical submission
- The inner adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit (v. 4)
- Obedience to, and honour of her husband (v. 6)
- Holiness before God (v. 5)
- She does not honour her husband in peudo-submission
- The husband does and does not honour
- He does not honour his wife in pseudo-leadership
- Harsh, stern, brutal, insensitive, authoritarian leadership (v. 7)
- Democratic leaderhip which is done on consent or vote
- Weak leadership
- He does honour his wife in Christ-centered biblical shepherding and oversight
- Leadership based on knowledge of God and his wife (v. 7)
- Honouring his wife by affirming, dignifying and prizing his wife and her femininity (v. 7)
- Rooted in prayer which they are to do regularly and privately together. Marriage must be founded on prayer (v.7)
- He does not honour his wife in pseudo-leadership