Wednesday | 24 June 2026
A wife who is receiving Christ as her Head and Lord will receive her husband as her head, ‘calling him lord’. This is the very point that the apostle Peter made when he wrote, ‘For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God [the Father] also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good [meaning, are established in sonship] and are not afraid with any terror’. 1Pe 3:5‑6.
We see that a woman’s reception and expression of faith is contingent upon her participation in the order of headship. The way that she relates with her husband will demonstrate her submission to the lordship and kingship of Christ. A woman who stumbles at the call to proceed from her husband as the community of the word is stumbling at Christ. 1Pe 2:8. She is unable to be ‘built on Him’ and dishonours His headship in the church and in their house.
Likewise, a man who is submitted to the lordship and kingship of Christ, his Head, will present himself as a slave of righteousness in the fellowship of his brethren, having become obedient from the heart to the form of doctrine to which he has been delivered. Rom 6:17‑18. In this fellowship, he receives grace to dwell with understanding – i.e. in a culture of offering – with his wife, giving honour to her as ‘the vessel’ of multiplication whom the Father has made her to be. This reorientation is necessary so that a man’s fellowship in the intercession and travail of Yahweh is not hindered. 1Pe 3:7. However, if the man continues to look into the face of his wife, he will stumble at Christ. Bereft of faith, his confession will be, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come [to properly participate in the fellowship of the agape meal].’ Luk 14:20.
Further Study:
1 Peter 3
References:
1Pe 3:5-7
For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror. Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honour to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
1Pe 2:8
And ‘a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence’. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.
Rom 6:17-18
But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
Luk 14:20
Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’