Together for over 46 years.
Married over 42 years.
Alpha Dog that only worships the throne of life where God resides in honor, truth, and light.
Understand you are the Alpha (Beginning) and Omega (End) of everything in this world.
Women must be treated as Goddesses; part of your body under Christ. Wives have equality in all love (heart) based, mind based compromises, as Soul mates.
Suggesting a life long 1st date respect and honor approach; follow the commitments made in your marriage vows. Husbands and wives be true to God first; be true to yourself in your actions under God's rules; be true to your family; be true to God's moral values. Men remember that most woman, wives, and mothers... have an internalized caring heart, mind, and soul. Try thinking about things by standing in those shoes. Wives men can be Alpha Dogs that are not patient, loving, kind like you are.
There are no kings or queens in a compromising relationship; walk away when things get out of hand, reflect, talk about each others feelings openly, and leave each day with the idea of being in bed together in the stacked spoon position (be open and not closed in feeling your closeness).
Touching and sex: at the least is appropriate treatment of each other physically (caressing, kissing, skin and back rubs... the goal is to have soul based commitment to each other understanding it is not about your needs but your soul mates needs. Doing this will take you joy-filled in peace and contentment.
Do all things in God's grace, love, mercy (forgiveness and forgetfulness).
[ More on Love and Hatred ] For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another.
1 Peter 3:1-7
Questions - Hear or Read both epistles of Peter each week.
In like manner, you married women, be
submissive to your own husbands [subordinate yourselves as being secondary to
and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to them], so that even if any do
not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over not by discussion but by the
[godly] lives of their wives,
When they observe the pure and modest
way in which you conduct yourselves, together with your] reverence [for your
husband; you are to feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer
to, revere him—to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize, and, in the human sense, to
adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy
your husband].
Let not yours be the [merely] external
adorning with [elaborate] interweaving and knotting of the hair, the wearing of
jewelry, or changes of clothes;
But let it be the inward adorning and
beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm
of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is
very precious in the sight of God.
For it was thus that the pious women
of old who hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were
submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them as themselves
secondary and dependent upon them].
It was thus that Sarah obeyed Abraham
[following his guidance and acknowledging his headship over her by] calling him
lord (master, leader, authority). And you are now her true daughters if you do
right and let nothing terrify you [not giving way to hysterical fears or
letting anxieties unnerve you].
In the same way you married men should
live considerately with [your wives], with an intelligent recognition [of the
marriage relation], honoring the woman as [physically] the weaker, but
[realizing that you] are joint heirs of the grace (God’s unmerited favor) of
life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered and cut off. [Otherwise
you cannot pray effectively.]
1. Compare verses 1-2 with Ephesians 5:21-28 and list your
observations
on subject\submit.
Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Wives, be subject (be submissive and adapt
yourselves) to your own husbands as [a service] to the Lord.
For the
husband is head of the wife as Christ is the Head of the church, Himself the
Savior of [His] body.
As the
church is subject to Christ, so let wives also be subject in everything to
their husbands.
Husbands,
love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
So that He
might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,
That He
might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or
wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].
Even so husbands should love their wives as [being
in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves
himself.
In like
manner, you married women, be submissive to your own husbands [subordinate
yourselves as being secondary to and dependent on them, and adapt yourselves to
them], so that even if any do not obey the Word [of God], they may be won over
not by discussion but by
the [godly] lives of their wives,
When they
observe the pure and modest way in which you conduct yourselves, together with
your] reverence [for your husband; you are to feel for him all that reverence
includes: to respect, defer to, revere him—to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize,
and, in the human sense, to adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted
to, deeply love, and enjoy your husband].
3. Verses 3-6 are often used to prohibit females from using
make-up or wearing fancy clothes. What do these verses teach about these issues in
context?
Let not
yours be the [merely] external adorning with [elaborate] interweaving and
knotting of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or changes of clothes;
But let it
be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the
incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not
anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.
For it was thus that the pious women of old who
hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify themselves and were
submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them as themselves
secondary and dependent upon them].
4. What point is Peter making in verses 5-6 with Sarah and Abraham?
For it was
thus that the pious women of old who hoped in God were [accustomed] to beautify
themselves and were submissive to their husbands [adapting themselves to them
as themselves secondary and dependent upon them].
It was thus
that Sarah obeyed Abraham
[following his guidance and acknowledging his headship over her by] calling him
lord (master, leader, authority). And you are now her true daughters if
you do right and let nothing terrify you [not giving way to hysterical fears or
letting anxieties unnerve you].
5. What is Peter teaching in verse 7 when he discusses the
woman as a weaker vessel? Why would this be a controversial teaching today?
In the same way you married men should live
considerately with [your wives], with an intelligent recognition [of the
marriage relation], honoring the woman as [physically] the weaker, but
[realizing that you] are joint heirs of the grace (God’s unmerited favor) of
life, in order that your prayers may not be hindered
and cut off. [Otherwise you cannot pray effectively.]
6. Why does the Holy Spirit include in verse 7 "they are heirs with you of the grace of life?"
You do right and let nothing terrify you [not
giving way to hysterical fears or letting anxieties unnerve you].
7. How can our relationship with our spouses hinder our prayer life?
together with your] reverence [for your husband;
you are to feel for him all that reverence includes: to respect, defer to,
revere him—to honor, esteem, appreciate, prize, and, in the human sense, to
adore him, that is, to admire, praise, be devoted to, deeply love, and enjoy
your husband].
8. What title would you put over this passage?
Husband & Wife equality under the Lord.
