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Greg Laurie - How To Get A New Husband

May 27, 2025 | S25:E126

Greg Laurie - How To Get A New Husband
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Get A New Husband | May 27, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: see, when a husband feels disrespected,
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  • He has a natural tendency to react in ways that seem unloving
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  • To his wife, but when a wife feels unloved,
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  • She has a natural tendency to react in ways
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  • That seem disrespectful to her husband.
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  • Here's what i'm saying.
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  • Don't wait until you feel it, just start doing it.
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  • Show a little respect.
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  • ♪ this is the day ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: 1 peter chapter 3.
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  • How do you get a new husband?
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  • I don't mean leaving him.
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  • I don't mean trading him in for the new model.
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  • I'm talking about what you can do as a woman
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  • To help your guy become a new man.
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  • It's so great when time has passed and you're able to look
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  • Back at all those memories together.
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  • Cathy and i like to reflect back in our marriage and all
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  • The adventures we've had over the decades, and sometimes
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  • We'll be out having a meal and someone might say,
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  • "well, how long have you two been married?"
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  • And we tell them, they--their jaw drops to the ground.
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  • "fifty years? what?"
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  • You know, they can't believe it.
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  • It seems to be such an unusual thing,
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  • But it doesn't have to be.
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  • It's rare to see a long-term marriage in good condition
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  • Because a woman marries a man expecting
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  • He will change but he doesn't, a man marries a woman
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  • Expecting she will never change, but she does.
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  • So a word to singles out there, girls.
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  • You see some guy, you say, "now, this guy, he's a mess,
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  • He's trouble, but i'm going to fix him."
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  • Newsflash, no, you aren't.
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  • In fact, he might even get worse.
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  • So if you can't love him as he is, maybe
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  • You may want to go a different direction.
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  • Some women work so hard to make good
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  • Husbands they never manage to be good wives.
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  • Let's see what the bible has to say to the
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  • Woman about being the best wife you can be.
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  • 1 peter chapter 3.
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  • I'm reading verses 1 to 4 from the new living translation.
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  • "wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, even those
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  • Who refuse to accept the good news.
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  • Your godly lives will speak to them better than any words.
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  • They'll be won over by watching your pure, godly behavior.
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  • Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on
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  • Fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes.
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  • You should be known for the beauty that comes from within,
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  • The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,
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  • Which is so precious to god."
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  • So what do we learn here about how to get a new husband?
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  • Number one, if you're taking notes,
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  • Be the best version of you that you can be.
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  • Be the best version of you that you can be.
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  • This means you want to be a balanced woman.
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  • You want to be a godly woman.
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  • Every lady should read and carefully study
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  • Proverbs 31, for there we find what is described
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  • In the bible as a virtuous woman.
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  • Now, we sometimes think that the word virtue is
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  • A feminine term only applying to women, but actually
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  • It's used of men and women in the bible.
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  • It speaks of purity, strength, force, and value.
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  • When we read about this woman of virtue
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  • In proverbs 31, this is a hard-working woman.
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  • She's a businesswoman.
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  • She's a homemaker.
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  • She's a great wife.
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  • She's a mother.
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  • She's a beauty inside and out.
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  • And, you know, the focus of the culture today is almost
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  • Exclusively on your appearance, isn't it?
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  • You know, just to get women's magazines--
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  • I subscribe to all of them, and--i don't.
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  • But if you just look at the headlines on vogue
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  • Or cosmopolitan or whatever, you just go, "wow."
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  • They seem to only be focused on
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  • The outward, never on the inward.
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  • It's like, "here, find out your horoscope,"
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  • Or for--you know, whatever it might be.
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  • I just thought, "what if vogue--"
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  • I came across this issue of vogue.
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  • Look at this.
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  • Look at it. read the things.
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  • What if vogue came out with an issue,
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  • "queen esther and doing what's right.
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  • The value of virtue, how the daily study of scripture
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  • Can help you grow spiritually in your journey.
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  • Twenty scriptures on how to have a better
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  • Marriage and be faithful to your spouse."
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  • Can you imagine an issue of vogue looking like that?
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  • You say, "greg, where did you get that?"
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  • We made it up in the art department
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  • Because it doesn't exist.
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  • Because you'll never find a vogue that looks like this
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  • Unless we have a spiritual awakening, and maybe you will.
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  • But i may imagine that for a moment.
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  • Imagine a woman's magazine or, for that matter, a man's
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  • Magazine underscoring and supporting biblical
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  • Values instead of undermining them.
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  • Well, that's the focus of the culture, so much emphasis on how
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  • You look, and that's been amplified a
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  • Thousand times more by social media.
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  • "you know, i want to look this way."
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  • You know, plastic surgery is bigger than it's ever been.
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  • Sixteen billion dollars is spent on plastic surgery every year.
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  • That's in newport beach alone.
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  • It's even more in beverly hills.
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  • Now when you mention getting botox, no one even raises an
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  • Eyebrow, right?
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  • Because their eyebrows are already raised.
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  • "did you get botox?" "no."
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  • "furrow your brow right now." "i am."
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  • Yeah.
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  • Heard about a plastic surgery addict
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  • Support group that meets weekly.
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  • There's a lot of new faces in the group every week.
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  • Now, i know all the cosmetic surgery people are hating me.
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  • They're like, "i hate you."
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  • But here's the thing.
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  • I'm not making light of it.
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  • Hey, you want to get plastic surgery, get it.
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  • You know, botox, have at it, whatever.
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  • That's not my point.
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  • What i'm saying is the bible is not saying neglect the outward,
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  • It's saying primarily focus on the inward.
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  • Look at verse 3 of 1 peter 3.
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  • "don't let your adornment be merely outward."
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  • The word adornment is from the greek word cosmos.
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  • Guess what word we get from that.
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  • Cosmetic, of course.
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  • So here's what he's saying.
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  • Don't major on externals while ignoring the inside.
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  • When he says putting on fine apparel, it means the frequent
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  • Changing of clothes with a purpose of impressing people.
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  • There's nothing wrong with
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  • Having beautiful clothes, ladies.
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  • There's nothing wrong with being an attractive woman, but don't
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  • Be so obsessed with that you neglect the inward altogether.
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  • That is the focus.
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  • "well, should a christian woman wear makeup?"
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  • Hey, if a house needs painting, paint it.
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  • That's not the issue.
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  • The issue is preoccupation.
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  • See, if i'm preoccupied as a woman, and for that matter a
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  • Man, with my appearance and i completely neglect the internal
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  • And the spiritual, my life is out of balance.
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  • 1 timothy 4:8 says, "physical training is of some value,
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  • But godliness has value for all things holding promise
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  • For this life and the life to come."
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  • So--but it does say physical training has some value, right?
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  • 'cause someone might be really out
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  • Of shape and they've obviously taken no care
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  • On their appearance, and you say, "hey, man.
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  • You want to step up your game a little bit?"
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  • "hey, man, physical appearance is of little value."
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  • Yeah, well, whatever, it has some,
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  • And you could use a lot of it.
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  • So maybe you swung too far the other way.
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  • Listen, in the name of spirituality, which isn't
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  • Spirituality at all, "well, i'm not into those things."
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  • Well, maybe you need to be into them a little more.
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  • Take a little better care of your physical
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  • Body and of the way that you look, but however
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  • You can go too far the other way.
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  • So it's finding the balance.
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  • Not every girl is a beauty queen.
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  • Not every man is a male model as i am.
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  • No, i'm not.
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  • I didn't even need to say, "no, i'm not."
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  • Why did i even say that? no, i'm not.
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  • "yeah, we knew, greg. we knew.
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  • We got that that was a joke.
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  • That's why we laugh.
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  • Get a grip."
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  • But here's what it's saying to girls.
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  • Develop your mind and your heart as well as your appearance.
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  • A godly woman is known for wisdom as well as beauty.
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  • Proverbs 31 says, "when she speaks her words are wise, and
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  • She gives instructions with kindness.
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  • Charm is deceptive, beauty does not last, but a woman that fears
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  • The lord will be greatly praised."
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  • Again, 1 peter 3, the beauty that comes from within.
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  • So just be the best you that you can be.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: you know, if you want to be a happy person,
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  • It's going to require that you stop doing
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  • Some things and start doing other things.
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  • Someone tells us about the happy man or the blessed man.
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  • It says he doesn't walk in the counsel of the ungodly, or stand
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  • In the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of the scornful.
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  • That's what he doesn't do, but what he does do is he meditates
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  • In the word of god day and night.
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  • Here's the promise.
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  • If you do this, you'll be like a tree
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  • Planted by the rivers of water.
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  • You'll bring forth fruit in your season.
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  • Whatever you do will prosper.
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  • Stop some things. start other things.
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  • As one person put it, an old preacher from the 1700s,
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  • It's the expulsive power of a new affection,
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  • The expulsive power of a new affection.
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  • When you love jesus with all of your heart, you will in turn
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  • Not want to do those things that will keep you from him.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: number two. this is the big one, girls.
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  • Respect your man.
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  • 1 peter 3 again, "wives, be submissive to your own husbands;
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  • And even if some do not obey the word, without
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  • A word they may be won," underline that.
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  • "without a word they may be won by the conduct
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  • Of their wives when they observe your chaste
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  • And respectful conduct accompanied by fear."
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  • R-e-s-p-e-c-t, that is what he needs from thee.
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  • Now, we all know that song "respect"
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  • Popularized by aretha franklin.
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  • She didn't write it, by the way.
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  • Might surprise you to know the song was written by a guy.
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  • His name was otis redding.
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  • He's also known for a song,
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  • "sitting by the dock of the bay."
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  • So think of this.
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  • This song originally was written by a man from a male
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  • Perspective, and in the original version
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  • Of the song the lyrics are, "hey, little girl.
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  • You're so sweeter than honey,
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  • And i want to give you all my money."
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  • Good start.
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  • But then he says, "but i want you to give
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  • It, give it, give it when i come home.
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  • Respect when i want it. respect when i need it.
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  • Respect got to have it. sock it to me.
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  • Sock it to me. sock it to me.
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  • Sock it to me." right?
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  • That's it. here's what he's saying, girl.
  • 00:12:18.804 --> 00:12:22.007
  • "give me some respect when i come home."
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  • He was onto something.
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  • This is what the bible says. listen.
  • 00:12:27.079 --> 00:12:28.914
  • "wives, to win your husbands means you need to respect them."
  • 00:12:28.914 --> 00:12:32.785
  • Ephesians 5:33 says, "nevertheless, at every one
  • 00:12:32.785 --> 00:12:36.222
  • Of you in particular love his wife as himself,
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  • And let the wife see that she respects her husband."
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  • I want you to think about this for a moment.
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  • The bible specifically says to husbands, love your wives,
  • 00:12:44.363 --> 00:12:49.735
  • And it specifically says to women respect, your husband.
  • 00:12:49.735 --> 00:12:53.639
  • That does not mean that wives don't need respect nor does it
  • 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:58.177
  • Mean that husbands don't need love, but what it does mean
  • 00:12:58.177 --> 00:13:02.715
  • Is specific instructions are given to men and women.
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  • So why don't you quit focusing on what he's supposed to do,
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  • Girls, and focus on what you're supposed to do, and, guys,
  • 00:13:10.289 --> 00:13:13.959
  • Quit focusing on what she's supposed to do
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  • And you make sure you're doing your part.
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  • Respect your husband.
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  • Dr. emerson eggerichs writes in his excellent
  • 00:13:22.535 --> 00:13:26.539
  • Book, "love and respect," these words.
  • 00:13:26.539 --> 00:13:28.674
  • Quote, "when a husband feels disrespected,
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  • It's especially hard to love his wife.
  • 00:13:32.344 --> 00:13:34.914
  • When a wife feels unloved, it's especially
  • 00:13:34.914 --> 00:13:37.616
  • Hard to respect her husband," end quote.
  • 00:13:37.616 --> 00:13:40.519
  • That's really true.
  • 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:42.021
  • See, when a husband feels disrespected, he has a natural
  • 00:13:42.021 --> 00:13:45.291
  • Tendency to react in ways that seem unloving to his wife,
  • 00:13:45.291 --> 00:13:49.929
  • But when a wife feels unloved, she has a natural tendency
  • 00:13:49.929 --> 00:13:54.233
  • To react in ways that seem disrespectful to her husband.
  • 00:13:54.233 --> 00:13:59.071
  • Here's what i'm saying.
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  • Don't wait until you feel it, just start doing it.
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  • Show a little respect.
  • 00:14:04.376 --> 00:14:06.178
  • Listen, girls.
  • 00:14:06.178 --> 00:14:08.280
  • Guys aren't that complex.
  • 00:14:08.280 --> 00:14:10.115
  • We really aren't.
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  • Just a little respect.
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  • You say, "i respect you."
  • 00:14:14.119 --> 00:14:15.621
  • Well, thank you.
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  • "i'll give you all my money.
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  • Honey, what can i do for you?"
  • 00:14:22.061 --> 00:14:26.365
  • Yes, clear biblical principle.
  • 00:14:26.365 --> 00:14:30.202
  • So number one, let your beauty be inward,
  • 00:14:30.202 --> 00:14:33.772
  • But don't forget the outward.
  • 00:14:33.772 --> 00:14:35.107
  • Number two, respect and honor your husband.
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  • Number three, focus on actions over words
  • 00:14:37.076 --> 00:14:40.179
  • To influence your husband.
  • 00:14:40.179 --> 00:14:42.281
  • Focus on actions over words to influence your husband.
  • 00:14:42.281 --> 00:14:46.252
  • 1 peter 3:1, "likewise, wives be submissive to your husbands."
  • 00:14:46.252 --> 00:14:49.788
  • And by the way, this is speaking of a non-believing husband.
  • 00:14:49.788 --> 00:14:52.958
  • "that even if some do not obey the word, they without a word
  • 00:14:52.958 --> 00:14:56.595
  • Will be won by the conduct of their wives."
  • 00:14:56.595 --> 00:14:59.865
  • So maybe i'm talking to a lady here
  • 00:14:59.865 --> 00:15:02.234
  • That's married to a non-believing man.
  • 00:15:02.234 --> 00:15:04.870
  • I don't know how you got yourself into that situation.
  • 00:15:04.870 --> 00:15:08.140
  • Maybe when you married, neither one of you were believers, and
  • 00:15:08.140 --> 00:15:10.676
  • Then you became a christian, but he didn't,
  • 00:15:10.676 --> 00:15:14.213
  • And you want him to come to the lord.
  • 00:15:14.213 --> 00:15:15.648
  • You're thinking, "how can i convert my husband?
  • 00:15:15.648 --> 00:15:17.516
  • I know, i'll preach a sermon to him every single day."
  • 00:15:17.516 --> 00:15:21.787
  • That's not what the bible tells you to do.
  • 00:15:21.787 --> 00:15:24.023
  • Or you might say, "well, i'm going to dump him because the
  • 00:15:24.023 --> 00:15:27.026
  • Lord spoke to me the other day and said, 'oh, my daughter, dump
  • 00:15:27.026 --> 00:15:31.130
  • Your dog husband and marry that sensitive christian man you met
  • 00:15:31.130 --> 00:15:35.668
  • At church,'" no, god didn't say that.
  • 00:15:35.668 --> 00:15:38.804
  • Here's what god said, 1 peter 3.
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  • If you're with a non-believing man, you can
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  • Win him over by the way that you live.
  • 00:15:42.675 --> 00:15:46.412
  • Less criticism, more encouragement.
  • 00:15:46.412 --> 00:15:49.748
  • Less preaching, more praise.
  • 00:15:49.748 --> 00:15:52.718
  • Less talk, more walk.
  • 00:15:52.718 --> 00:15:55.487
  • Less sermons, more sandwiches.
  • 00:15:55.487 --> 00:16:01.160
  • I told you guys are not that complex.
  • 00:16:01.160 --> 00:16:04.363
  • You know, it's been said the way
  • 00:16:04.363 --> 00:16:05.698
  • To a man's heart is through his stomach.
  • 00:16:05.698 --> 00:16:07.933
  • Now, that's--you know, it can be overly simplistic, but you make
  • 00:16:07.933 --> 00:16:10.936
  • Him a great meal, you tell him you love and respect him.
  • 00:16:10.936 --> 00:16:14.707
  • Girl, listen, that will go a long ways
  • 00:16:14.707 --> 00:16:17.543
  • Further than you may think.
  • 00:16:17.543 --> 00:16:19.478
  • "oh, no, i'll preach to him.
  • 00:16:19.478 --> 00:16:21.580
  • I will nag him in to the kingdom of god."
  • 00:16:21.580 --> 00:16:25.684
  • No, you will not.
  • 00:16:25.684 --> 00:16:27.519
  • You'll drive him away.
  • 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:29.355
  • That's what you'll do. this is what peter is saying.
  • 00:16:29.355 --> 00:16:32.124
  • A translation of what he says here, one is--translation is
  • 00:16:32.124 --> 00:16:36.428
  • The silent preaching of a lovely wife.
  • 00:16:36.428 --> 00:16:39.832
  • Peter's saying the key to reach a man is not through words
  • 00:16:39.832 --> 00:16:43.168
  • But deeds, not telling him but showing him
  • 00:16:43.168 --> 00:16:47.406
  • Because actions speak louder than words.
  • 00:16:47.406 --> 00:16:51.210
  • You live the godly life, and the lord will do the changing.
  • 00:16:51.210 --> 00:16:54.246
  • And i know christian wives who have been married
  • 00:16:54.246 --> 00:16:56.849
  • To non-believing guys, and they've applied this principle,
  • 00:16:56.849 --> 00:17:00.386
  • And it doesn't happen necessarily overnight.
  • 00:17:00.386 --> 00:17:02.354
  • In some cases it took a decade, maybe two decades and then one
  • 00:17:02.354 --> 00:17:05.657
  • Day, boom, the guy comes around, and now they have a wonderful,
  • 00:17:05.657 --> 00:17:09.094
  • Happy marriage, and they're so glad.
  • 00:17:09.094 --> 00:17:11.630
  • They live by what the scripture said.
  • 00:17:11.630 --> 00:17:14.299
  • Do it without a word.
  • 00:17:14.299 --> 00:17:16.668
  • I don't think i'm overstating it when i say
  • 00:17:16.668 --> 00:17:19.204
  • In general women are more verbal than men.
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  • Would we agree on that?
  • 00:17:21.940 --> 00:17:23.942
  • I--studies have been done.
  • 00:17:23.942 --> 00:17:25.677
  • I don't know how they do it, but they said an average woman
  • 00:17:25.677 --> 00:17:28.680
  • Speaks 20,000 words a day, a man about 7,000.
  • 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:35.087
  • That's not quite as many.
  • 00:17:35.087 --> 00:17:36.722
  • So women are more verbal in general, and a woman in general
  • 00:17:36.722 --> 00:17:42.828
  • Is more of a persuader through what she says.
  • 00:17:42.828 --> 00:17:48.434
  • Given over to god, this can be a powerful tool.
  • 00:17:48.434 --> 00:17:50.936
  • Think of queen esther persuading the king
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  • To spare the lives of her people, the jews.
  • 00:17:55.607 --> 00:17:58.410
  • That's feminine persuasion at its best.
  • 00:17:58.410 --> 00:18:02.114
  • Think of eve with adam at the garden
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  • Encouraging him to eat the forbidden fruit.
  • 00:18:03.982 --> 00:18:06.985
  • That's feminine persuasion at its worst.
  • 00:18:06.985 --> 00:18:10.389
  • Listen, ladies, say what you have to say.
  • 00:18:10.389 --> 00:18:13.692
  • Men, listen to what they say.
  • 00:18:13.692 --> 00:18:17.029
  • Proverbs 31:30 says, "when she speaks her words are wise,
  • 00:18:17.029 --> 00:18:20.532
  • And she gives instructions with kindness."
  • 00:18:20.532 --> 00:18:23.502
  • But now, ladies, avoid the temptation to nag.
  • 00:18:23.502 --> 00:18:26.438
  • It doesn't help.
  • 00:18:26.438 --> 00:18:28.574
  • It actually can make things worse.
  • 00:18:28.574 --> 00:18:30.676
  • Proverbs 20--19:13 says, "a nagging wife
  • 00:18:30.676 --> 00:18:33.545
  • Is like a constant dripping."
  • 00:18:33.545 --> 00:18:37.616
  • You ever have a faucet that drips in the night, and you get
  • 00:18:37.616 --> 00:18:41.220
  • Out of bed, "where--i got to turn that thing off," right?
  • 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:44.256
  • That's what nagging is like.
  • 00:18:44.256 --> 00:18:46.458
  • Scolding, complaining that will drive him away.
  • 00:18:46.458 --> 00:18:50.295
  • Proverbs 21:19 says, "better to dwell on a housetop than with a
  • 00:18:50.295 --> 00:18:54.233
  • Brawling, quarreling, disagreeing, scolding woman."
  • 00:18:54.233 --> 00:18:58.303
  • This has been said, and i like it.
  • 00:18:58.303 --> 00:18:59.838
  • The wife who henpecks her husband is likely
  • 00:18:59.838 --> 00:19:02.341
  • To find him listening to some other chick.
  • 00:19:02.341 --> 00:19:06.812
  • Come on, that's good.
  • 00:19:06.812 --> 00:19:08.881
  • The wife who hen--see, get it?
  • 00:19:08.881 --> 00:19:10.749
  • Henpeck, chick, little play-on words, the birds--
  • 00:19:10.749 --> 00:19:13.819
  • If she henpecks her husband, she'll
  • 00:19:13.819 --> 00:19:15.687
  • Find him listening to another chick.
  • 00:19:15.687 --> 00:19:17.556
  • Whatever, you're hard to please, aren't you?
  • 00:19:17.556 --> 00:19:20.959
  • They liked it better in riverside.
  • 00:19:20.959 --> 00:19:22.427
  • I don't know what your problem is.
  • 00:19:22.427 --> 00:19:24.630
  • Maybe it's the botox. i'm kidding.
  • 00:19:24.630 --> 00:19:28.800
  • Now i've turned everyone against me, but i can't
  • 00:19:28.800 --> 00:19:32.004
  • Tell because your eyebrows are lifted.
  • 00:19:32.004 --> 00:19:35.040
  • You look happy, so i think i'm okay.
  • 00:19:35.040 --> 00:19:36.942
  • I don't know.
  • 00:19:36.942 --> 00:19:40.279
  • Here's point number four. submit.
  • 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:43.081
  • This is all you're going to remember,
  • 00:19:43.081 --> 00:19:44.416
  • Are all these stupid jokes.
  • 00:19:44.416 --> 00:19:47.819
  • Submit to the leadership of your husband.
  • 00:19:47.819 --> 00:19:50.055
  • Now, this is where a lot of girls choke.
  • 00:19:50.055 --> 00:19:52.491
  • Submit to the leadership of your husband.
  • 00:19:52.491 --> 00:19:55.027
  • 1 peter 3. this is king james.
  • 00:19:55.027 --> 00:19:57.663
  • "likewise, wives, be submissive to your own husbands; that even
  • 00:19:57.663 --> 00:20:01.133
  • If some do not obey the word, they without a word will be won
  • 00:20:01.133 --> 00:20:04.770
  • By the conduct of their wives, whether they observe your chaste
  • 00:20:04.770 --> 00:20:07.806
  • And respectful conduct, accompanied by fear."
  • 00:20:07.806 --> 00:20:12.177
  • Some women bristle at this
  • 00:20:12.177 --> 00:20:14.179
  • Because they don't understand it.
  • 00:20:14.179 --> 00:20:16.748
  • They see it as sort of--well, really
  • 00:20:16.748 --> 00:20:19.251
  • Paul's sort of a chauvinist, okay?
  • 00:20:19.251 --> 00:20:22.588
  • Misogynistic.
  • 00:20:22.588 --> 00:20:24.356
  • And you're like, "i'm better than women,
  • 00:20:24.356 --> 00:20:25.724
  • And we're over women."
  • 00:20:25.724 --> 00:20:27.059
  • No, you're--you got it all wrong, okay?
  • 00:20:27.059 --> 00:20:29.628
  • If you knew anything about the culture paul
  • 00:20:29.628 --> 00:20:31.396
  • Was writing to, you would realize it's the opposite.
  • 00:20:31.396 --> 00:20:34.733
  • The bible and christianity elevated the woman.
  • 00:20:34.733 --> 00:20:39.104
  • Back in this culture, romans treated wives like objects.
  • 00:20:39.104 --> 00:20:43.141
  • You could discard them at will, divorce them for no real reason.
  • 00:20:43.141 --> 00:20:47.279
  • Even in some aspects of the jewish culture,
  • 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:49.915
  • A woman could be divorced for any reason, okay?
  • 00:20:49.915 --> 00:20:53.719
  • So when paul says to men, "love your wife as christ
  • 00:20:53.719 --> 00:20:57.889
  • Loves the church," that's a game changer.
  • 00:20:57.889 --> 00:21:01.426
  • "put her needs above your needs, love her as jesus loves
  • 00:21:01.426 --> 00:21:04.796
  • The church, sacrifice for her, serve her."
  • 00:21:04.796 --> 00:21:08.200
  • Whoa.
  • 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:09.534
  • "wives, be submissive to your husbands."
  • 00:21:09.534 --> 00:21:12.204
  • Hold on.
  • 00:21:12.204 --> 00:21:13.538
  • Before he says wives should submit to their husbands
  • 00:21:13.538 --> 00:21:16.642
  • And husbands should love their wives, ephesians 5 says be
  • 00:21:16.642 --> 00:21:19.911
  • Submissive one to another in the reverence of god.
  • 00:21:19.911 --> 00:21:23.415
  • So we just start off there.
  • 00:21:23.415 --> 00:21:24.750
  • "i'm going to put your needs above my needs."
  • 00:21:24.750 --> 00:21:27.152
  • Again, back to selflessness instead of selfishness.
  • 00:21:27.152 --> 00:21:31.923
  • Listen, as far as a man and a woman go, they stand on equal
  • 00:21:31.923 --> 00:21:35.861
  • Ground before god because of the death of jesus on the cross.
  • 00:21:35.861 --> 00:21:40.299
  • Men are not better than women.
  • 00:21:40.299 --> 00:21:42.934
  • Women are not better than men.
  • 00:21:42.934 --> 00:21:45.170
  • We're not better than each other, but we're very different
  • 00:21:45.170 --> 00:21:47.806
  • From each other and galatians 3:28 says, "there's neither jew
  • 00:21:47.806 --> 00:21:52.344
  • Nor greek, slave nor free, male nor female.
  • 00:21:52.344 --> 00:21:55.447
  • We're all one in christ." but then i would point this out.
  • 00:21:55.447 --> 00:21:59.017
  • Though there is no difference between men and women in
  • 00:21:59.017 --> 00:22:02.854
  • The nature of their salvation or standing before god, the husband
  • 00:22:02.854 --> 00:22:07.092
  • Has the god-given responsibility to provide for, protect,
  • 00:22:07.092 --> 00:22:11.363
  • And lead just as the lord does the church and
  • 00:22:11.363 --> 00:22:15.233
  • The wife is to submit graciously to the servant
  • 00:22:15.233 --> 00:22:18.370
  • Leadership that the husband provides.
  • 00:22:18.370 --> 00:22:21.273
  • Just as the church submits willingly
  • 00:22:21.273 --> 00:22:24.076
  • To jesus, the wife does the same.
  • 00:22:24.076 --> 00:22:26.912
  • Now, what about if the husband asks the wife
  • 00:22:26.912 --> 00:22:31.450
  • To do something she doesn't want to do?
  • 00:22:31.450 --> 00:22:33.051
  • Well, let's try to figure out what that might be.
  • 00:22:33.051 --> 00:22:36.855
  • If it's maybe to make you a meal you don't want
  • 00:22:36.855 --> 00:22:38.623
  • To make or do something-- that's one thing.
  • 00:22:38.623 --> 00:22:40.826
  • But if it's unbiblical, or illegal, or immoral,
  • 00:22:40.826 --> 00:22:44.229
  • Certainly you're not required to submit to that.
  • 00:22:44.229 --> 00:22:47.999
  • Actually, colossians 3:18 says, "wives, be subject
  • 00:22:47.999 --> 00:22:50.836
  • To your husbands as it is fit in the lord."
  • 00:22:50.836 --> 00:22:55.006
  • So if the husband were to ask you to do something that's not
  • 00:22:55.006 --> 00:22:58.477
  • Fit in the lord, you're not required to submit to that.
  • 00:22:58.477 --> 00:23:03.014
  • For instance, we're told to submit to
  • 00:23:03.014 --> 00:23:05.650
  • The ordinance of man for the lord's sake and to the king
  • 00:23:05.650 --> 00:23:08.954
  • And to governors and those who are in authority.
  • 00:23:08.954 --> 00:23:11.623
  • So we submit to the government.
  • 00:23:11.623 --> 00:23:13.291
  • By that i mean if the officer pulls up behind us
  • 00:23:13.291 --> 00:23:17.028
  • And turns on the lights, we pull over.
  • 00:23:17.028 --> 00:23:19.164
  • We comply.
  • 00:23:19.164 --> 00:23:20.532
  • If it comes time to pay our taxes, though they're too high,
  • 00:23:20.532 --> 00:23:25.537
  • And so much of our money is wasted, we pay our taxes.
  • 00:23:25.537 --> 00:23:28.673
  • And by the way, if you don't like it, register and vote.
  • 00:23:28.673 --> 00:23:32.144
  • This is a big problem we have today.
  • 00:23:32.144 --> 00:23:34.846
  • We need to get out there and vote.
  • 00:23:34.846 --> 00:23:38.717
  • There's a lot of things i don't like about our government
  • 00:23:38.717 --> 00:23:41.019
  • Right now, a lot of things i don't like about
  • 00:23:41.019 --> 00:23:43.622
  • What's happening in the state of california, a lot
  • 00:23:43.622 --> 00:23:46.158
  • Of things i have very strong opinions on.
  • 00:23:46.158 --> 00:23:48.927
  • So the place where i can express that is at the ballot box.
  • 00:23:48.927 --> 00:23:52.431
  • But listen to this.
  • 00:23:52.431 --> 00:23:54.032
  • If the government suddenly passes a law that says
  • 00:23:54.032 --> 00:23:56.635
  • You can no longer pray, do i obey that law?
  • 00:23:56.635 --> 00:24:00.906
  • The answer is no.
  • 00:24:00.906 --> 00:24:02.240
  • If the government says you can no longer preach
  • 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:04.309
  • The gospel, do i obey that law?
  • 00:24:04.309 --> 00:24:07.412
  • No, i'm going to do what god tells me to do.
  • 00:24:07.412 --> 00:24:12.250
  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart
  • 00:24:16.154 --> 00:24:19.424
  • And you have seen your need for jesus christ.
  • 00:24:19.424 --> 00:24:22.761
  • Jesus christ is the son of god
  • 00:24:22.761 --> 00:24:25.931
  • Who came from heaven to this earth.
  • 00:24:25.931 --> 00:24:28.099
  • He was born in a manger.
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  • He died in a cross.
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  • He rose again from the dead. why?
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  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
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  • I don't want to be a religious person.
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  • I don't think you want to be one either.
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  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
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  • Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
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  • And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his voice
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  • And open the door he will come in.
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  • Question, have you asked jesus christ
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  • To come and live inside of you?
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  • You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
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  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
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  • Of the night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way if christ has come
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  • To live inside of you, you will know, and if you don't
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  • Know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say, "jesus,
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  • I want this relationship with you.
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  • I want you to forgive me of my sin.
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  • I want to go to heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
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  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me?
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  • You could pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness
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  • Of your heart, but this is a prayer where you're asking jesus
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  • Christ to be your savior and lord.
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  • Pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior who died on the cross
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  • For my sin and rose again from the dead.
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer
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  • And answering this prayer.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you, and i would love
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  • To send to you at no charge the "new believer's bible."
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  • It's a very friendly translation of the new testament you'll find
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  • Very understandable and it's filled with hundreds of notes
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  • That i wrote that will encourage you in this commitment you've
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  • Just made to follow jesus, and let me be the first to say
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  • To you congratulations and welcome to the family of god.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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  • Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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  • Unexpected message.
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  • And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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  • Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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  • Together we've been able to minister to so many
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  • People devastated by the fires in lahaina
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  • On the island of maui.
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  • And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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  • Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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  • So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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  • Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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  • Great commission.
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  • Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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  • Thank you and god bless you.
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