Colossians 3 vs 18 - chpt 4 vs 6 - Corps Night - part 2
Colossians 3:18-4:6 OK. Colossians chapter three, verse 18. Colossians 3:18: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands [not to your neighbours' husbands], as it is fit in the Lord. First of all, these verses, from verse 18 down through chapter four verse one, are really a practical explanation of verse 17. Where it said: Colossians 3:17: And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ], giving thanks to God and the Father by him. Whatever we do in word or deed, we do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's one lord. One head of the Body and that's Jesus Christ. And we give thanks to Jesus Christ. NO. Give thanks to whom? God, the Father through him, through Jesus Christ. Now, to do everything in word and deed, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, ye wives submit, or be in subjection to your own husband. Now, just like we had in Ephesians...if you've listened to that section of Ephesians, it's a tremendous section that shows that this husband/wife relationship, as well as the children, the servants, the masters all lines up with the greatness of the one Body, the Church. See the husband and wife relationship, it says in chapter five, is a great mystery, but I speak concerning what? Christ and the Church. That's the greatest Mystery. The greatest of all. But there is a comparison, an analogy between the two. The husband and wife relationship draws a beautiful comparison for the Church, the one Body with Christ as the head. And ye wives, it says, you are to be in subjection to your own husbands as it is fit "in the Lord". The word "Lord" is "Christ" in Aramaic, because he is the head of that Body. And even if you left it as lord, it would still be, the Lord Jesus Christ, because that's where we left off in verse 17. And we called this section, "Laboring for the practice of the Mystery". Now that word "fit", means "right or necessary", that which is fitting or becoming, your duty so to speak. It's the opposite of a
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that make him look silly. So it is with the husband and wife relationship. Leaders are to be sweet with your people, not bitter, not those things that I've shared with you that bitterness represents. But be sweet with your people. If you're a Twig Coordinator, Branch Coordinator, Limb Coordinator, whatever your responsibility, be sweet with your people. You're the head in that relationship. Then the people in your fellowship, they shouldn't make you look foolish with foolish talking and jesting. See how the relationship works? Beautiful analogy! And husbands, be sweet on your wives. And wives don't make your husbands look foolish. So we translated 18 and 19. 102 Teachings on The Book of Colossians Colossians 3:18, 19: (Literal) Wives, subject yourselves to your husbands as this is right and necessary in Christ. Husbands, love your wives and be not bitter against them. And that's the way