The Christian Husband as Head Part 1

Part of a sermon by John Piper on Ephesians 5:21-33

What is the husband's role as head? What is the foundation of this headship?

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• headship
• marriage
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[ramaraksha01]

@ChloeTurmoil the good cop, bad cop routine. Instead of talking to me maybe u should talk to ur fellow christians like this quietbuck guy or maybe to the pope who says God cannot be a woman.

But u make a good point - these images & words used are not to be taken literally. Makes u think who are the real idolators. We are as much praying to an idol as the jews are praying to a wall & the muslims are praying to a curtain & christians are praying to a book

[ChloeTurmoil]

@ramaraksha01 Interesting points :) but Not true anymore. Much of mainline Christianity will affirm that assinging God a male gender is about how the bible could describe God to the people in a way they could understand. There are many images God's femminine qualities in the Bible. God is infitately more femminine than the most feminine woman, and infinately more masculine than the most masculine guy. Gender is an earthly thing. God is a spiritual being with no gender.

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[QuietBuck]

@ramaraksha01: As a minister I am glad you are not part of my congregation as then I am not responsible for your utter lukewarmness. And being an ex-atheist then witnessing some 17 items, you are on the wrong planet speaking to me.

Revelation 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

[ramaraksha01]

@QuietBuck It is a depiction to make us think, it's not reality. Please get a cure for your brainwashing. It's just a book written by men living 2,000 years ago - they wrote fairy stories, they are not real.

[QuietBuck]

@ramaraksha01: Half man and half woman is not of man and wife, but is Satan himself. Please study for he is a mix of both sexes, look at the image of baphomet. Male groin w/ female chest.

[ramaraksha01]

Hinduism is the only major faith to give equality to women - Just like the male Trinity there is the Female Trinity - Saraswati, Laxmi & Durga. No other religion says God is Woman. Every Hindu is familiar with the famous Ardhanariswara (Half Male-Half Female) form of God Siva - emphasizing that Husband & Wife are equal partners. It is ironic that newer religions have demoted women to a second-class status.

[lastblast7]

If one cannot "go back" because their original spouse has now entered into a sinful relationship, the one who has repented "remains unmarried", serving the Lord, being a parent to their children, then most importantly: PRAYS for their wayward spouse to ALSO repent and return to the Lord and to the covenant they made for life. Only when more and more people do this will the tide turn regarding marrying divorced persons or getting "remarried" while one has a living spouse. Blessings

[M400fan]

In most cases, they will have gone with the first wife. What if SHE went off with another man and her husband is left heartbroken? What if he therefore CANNOT go back to his original wife and children because there is a new husband and stepfather? But I agree with you that one can still truly be a father even when divorced - but the constant presence and power to influence daily will have gone and that is a great tragedy, especially if the first wife has apostasised and married an unbeliever.

[M400fan]

That's just the verse I was thinking of! I agree with much of what you say, but - on the assumption that the original wife had not been unfaithful and it was some flippant reason the man had for leaving her, isn't the LORD protecting HER from being defiled?