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LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 38
Ephesians 5:7-33
After seeing how Paul tells us how to walk the Christian walk, and so forth in those verses up in 10, 11, and 12, then he comes to verse 18.
Ephesians 5:18
"And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess; (don’t respond to the spirits of alcohol to mind bend your thinking) but be filled with the (Holy) Spirit:"
Now then, when we’re filled with the Holy Spirit as you look at verse 19, it’s going to have an effect on our whole life style. It’s going to be a life of speaking of songs and hymns, and spiritual songs. The difference is we have the Lord to take us through those times. I’ve had people ask, "Are we still supposed to pray in Jesus name?" Absolutely. He is still interceding for us at the Father’s right hand, and so we pray to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The marriage relationship, isn’t that amazing? No, the Christian community is not setting anything back, but rather we’re exemplifying what the Scriptures says about the husband and wife relationship.
I’ve said it over and over, don’t ever accuse Paul of being anti-feminist. Well praise the Lord that her eyes were opened. Here the apostle simply goes back to format that God intended. Ephesians 5:21
"Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God."
A verse just comes to mind in the Book of Psalms. Even though it’s Old Testament, and David speaking it, yet God hasn’t changed.
Psalms 37:5
Psalms 37:7a
"Rest in the LORD,..."
Once you’ve committed something to God, we can rest. Now completing verse 7.
Psalms 37:7a
"Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him:..."
We commit our marriage unto the hands of the Lord, and as the husband and wife in union commit that marriage to the Lord, then it follows that we’re going to follow God’s format. And God’s format was established back in the Garden of Eden. Ephesians 5;22
"Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, (not as some slave master, but like a husband) as unto the Lord."
Now verse 23. Why should the wife submit to the husband? Because of God’s decree.
Ephesians 5:23
"For the husband is the head of the wife, (and again look at the analogy) even as Christ is the head of the church: (the Body of Christ) and he is the saviour of the body."
So what’s the admonition to you and I as husbands, men? We’ve got to be willing to die for our wives, and I think I could die for Iris, unless something drastically would happen I think I would die for her, because that’s what the Scripture demands. Isn’t that right? Do you know what God has promised by our going back to the Old Testament? Here in chapter 12, we’re dealing with Abram and Sarai before God gave them the name Abraham and Sarah. Abram has just been given the Abrahamic Covenant, so he’s on right standing with God, he’s a believer, he’s a man of faith, and no doubt Sarai is as well, because of what Peter says about these people. That happens every time to a new believer, God will test them. Abraham has just now begun his walk on covenant ground and there’s famine in the land of promise.
The world. Genesis 12:10-12
11.. And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, (he’s on the border) that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: (now this is a believing husband speaking to a believing wife) 12. Sarai, obediently let them take her, and sure enough old Abram was right as they took her into the king’s harem. Even though Abram pulled a dumb stunt, God still overruled on behalf of Sarai. "God is going to intervene in such a way that the end result for both husband and wife will still be for our good."
Genesis 2-1-2
2. And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah."
Genesis 20:3
"But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife."
Abimelech woke up and brought Sarah quickly back to Abraham. Then there’s one more occasion this happens, and we find Isaac pulls the same stunt with his beautiful wife Rebekah in chapter 26 of Genesis. Genesis 26:6-7
Genesis 26:8-9
9. And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? Well we know that the Lord intervened again, before anything happened, and spared both Abraham, and Isaac, and their wives.
Do you see now how women can rest on the promises of God that if you are submissive to your husband as Sarah and Rebekah were, even though your husband can make a stupid move, God by His intercessory power can take care of the situation. So don’t ever doubt that God can overcome every bad situation.

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