Christ is King – God’s Design for the Woman in the Family // Jason King // October 29, 2023

Faith

Christ is King

God’s Design for the Woman in the Family

Genesis 2:18,21-24 (ESV)
“The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’”

“So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,

’This at last is bone of my bones

and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,

because she was taken out of Man.’

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”

Ephesians 5:22-24,33 (ESV)
“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”

“let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

1. A godly wife is a help to their husband.

Proverbs 14:1 (NIV)
“The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.”

2. Godly wives respect their husbands.

3. Godly wives are to be oriented towards their homes.

Proverbs 31:15-16 (ESV)

“She rises while it is yet night

and provides food for her household
and portions for her maidens.

She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.”

Titus 2:3-5 (ESV)
“Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.”

Proverbs 31:27 (ESV)

“She looks well to the ways of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.”

4. Godly wives are discerning.

5. Godly wives are resilient.

Joshua 1:5 (NIV)

“…As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

2 Timothy 2:13 (NIV)

“if we are faithless,

he remains faithful,

for he cannot disown himself.”

6. Godly wives are generous.

Romans 8:32 (ESV)

“He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?”

7. Godly wives need strengthening and healing.

1 Peter 5:7 (ESV)

“Cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.”