646 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 3 Part 2 Book 54 - Practical Godly Living - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 54 Practical Godly Living - Part 2 I Peter 2:15 - 3:22 We’re beginning today in chapter 3 verse 1. I Peter 3:1a "Likewise, ye wives,…" So these verses are first and foremost for women who are burdened with unsaved husbands. I Peter 3:1a "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands;..." I Peter 3:1b "…wives be in subjection to your own husbands; (and especially) that, if any obey not the word, (for salvation) they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;" Now that’s the whole concept here in these verses - that if a saved woman has an unsaved husband, she’s never going to win him by preaching at him or by trying to drag him to church every time she goes. But, rather, through her Christian testimony that she can just live godly. I Peter 3:2 "While they behold your chaste conversation (righteous, Christian living) coupled with fear." Well, the same way with the wife’s respect for her husband. Okay, now verse 2 again and verse 3. I Peter 3:2-3 I think it is perfectly appropriate for a wife to be appealing to her husband; not to anybody else, but certainly to her husband. I Peter 3:4a I Peter 3:4b Now you see, that’s why I will always admonish women or, if it’s the other way around, a husband with an unsaved wife. All right, now verse 5. I Peter 3:5 Even in this manner) in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:" We don’t see much about the faith of the women in the Old Testament economy. I Peter 3:5a "For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, …" So these "holy women." It scares a lot of people to be called holy. To be holy doesn’t mean that you are so God-minded that you are of no earthly good. All right, so don’t let the word ‘holy’ scare you. I Peter 3:5a "For after this manner in the old time, the holy women also,…" Paul was strictly inspired of the Spirit, every word he wrote - it all was according to God’s provident design. I Timothy 2:12. God never intended for women to be in authority over the men. Now here’s the reason in verse 13. Not because Paul had a thing against women, not because I, or anybody else, would have a thing against women, but it’s God’s design. The reason Paul says what he says in verse 12 is: I Timothy 2:13 Never forget that. I Peter 3:6a "Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord:…" I Peter 3:6b "…whose daughters (remember he’s still addressing the women) ye are, as along as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement." All right now verse 7, he’s going to come right back and hit the men between the eyes with the same concept. I Peter 3:7a "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, (God’s knowledge) giving honor unto the wife,…" I Peter 3:7b Now speaking of heirs, this is a good time to look at joint-heirs and heirs. Peter doesn’t speak of this relationship with Christ as Paul does. "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, (that is those of us who are believers) that we are (not hope to be, not may be, but are) the children of God: (we’re the born-ones of God by virtue of the work of the Holy Spirit) 17. And if children, then heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ;…" Romans 8:18 I Peter 3:7a "Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life:…" A father and a mother who love the Lord, and kids who love the Lord; that’s almost Heaven on earth, see? I Peter 3:7b Just because the man was saved, does that mean that automatically his wife and kids are going to be saved? If you’ve got a saved husband, the chances of him winning the wife and his children are pretty good. But if you’ve got a saved husband and a saved wife, the chances of winning their kids are very good. Married and they’ve got kids with no spiritual concern whatsoever. Okay, now back again to I Peter chapter 3 verse 8. I Peter 3:8a Now Peter is talking to the whole congregation again, the men and the women and the younger people. I Peter 3:8-9 The husband was screaming at the wife, and the wife was screaming back at the husband. Well is that a happy home? If everything is as it should be (because Peter is saying that if we have this kind of behavior between the wife and the husband and between believers and other believers), then he will love life. I Peter 3:10a life,…" I Peter 3:10b I Peter 3:10c I Peter 3:11-12a Never forget it. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible