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Godly submission versus blind submission

 

Godly Submission versus Blind Submission

A clarification of meaning in "Confronting the Church of Jesus Christ in Tulsa, Oklahoma"

In this article cited, a question arose about the meaning of submission after Flip used a godly wife's submission to a wicked husband as a comparison of Pastor Mark Holick's godly submission to Rhema Ministerial Alliance International. Below is the question and Flip's response.

Flip,

In your April 4th article online, you said, "When a husband asks his wife to sell her body to prostitution to support his cocaine habit, she must submit."

Paul warned us to, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge." (Hebrews 13:4)

Peter said unsaved husbands may be won by their wives chaste (free from sexual impurity) behavior. (1Peter 3:1-2).

A wife who loves her husband would refuse to supply him with a drug that can destroy him spiritually and physically . She would place proper value on her own life as well as her husband's and not chance bringing AIDS or other diseases to the marriage bed.

Brenda

Flip's Response

Brenda,

Of course it would be wrong for a wife to sell herself into prostitution to support her husband's cocaine habit. That would not be true submission, that would be rebellion against our Lord's Commands. That would violate Scripture and only enable her husband to continue in his sinful behavior.

True love (agape) would love enough to confront the husband with his evil and rebellion toward God. By doing the right thing (not selling her body into prostitution) it may turn her husband toward God. He would see "... the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." 1 Peter 3:3. This spirit is intent on obeying God, not man. She must "not give way to fear." (1 Peter 3:6) and do the right thing.

This is what true submission is - entrusting one's self to God and doing the right thing, no matter the consequences. In this way (by not giving into her husband's sinful rebellion against God and marriage) she becomes a living parable (rebuke) to a husband who would ask his wife to do such a horrible thing.

Her gentle submission will not allow her to do what the wicked husband asks. It will cause her to follow hard after what the Lord requires. True submission enables her to obey God's commands inspite of wicked husband's demands. She, in essence, becomes a rebuke to her husband's rebellion by not giving into his sinful commands and in this way is in true submission to God Himself. "For this is how holy women on the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands." 1 Peter 3:5.

Flip