The Christian way of life is not a smorgasbord.
Okay, you don't just take the parts of the Christian life that you like
and then reject the parts you don't like. It's a package deal.
You got to take the whole thing, the good and the quote unquote evil, the good and the bad
and the ugly. You got to take it all, friend, because God's word and the Christian way of
life is not a smorgasbord where you pick what you like and you leave behind what you don't like.
Ephesians 5 22 says this, wives submit yourselves under your own husbands as under the Lord for the
husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the savior
of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own
husbands in everything. Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave
himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he
might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing
but that it should be holy and without blemish so up men to love their wives as their own bodies.
He that loveth his wife loveth himself for no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourishes and
cherishes it even as the Lord the church. Jump down to verse 33. Nevertheless let every one of
you in particular so love his wife even as himself and see that the wife see that she
reverence her husband. Now think about this from the world's perspective right
women who are exposed to a Christian way of life or they see what it's like to be a Christian wife
or have a Christian marriage I think there are some good things about the Christian way of life
that even an unsaved person would look at and say I like that that's good I like that you know
for example how about having a husband that's faithful to you I'll bet you even worldly women
out there they want a husband that's faithful to them they don't want their husband whoring around
they don't want their husband committing adultery they don't want their husband here today and gone
tomorrow they want their husband faithful to them true or false they don't want their husband
committing adultery you know what they want a husband that loves them husbands love your wives
boy they like that how about a husband that provides for you even an unsaved person out in
the world even a person who has no interest in Christianity boy if they saw that hey a husband
who pays the bills uh I mean there's even hip-hop songs about that amen so basically you know a
husband that pays the bills great a husband that loves you great a husband that doesn't commit
adultery wonderful how about a good father to the children an involved father a good father
how about a husband who wants to have children at all you know some women are out there they
want to have children their husband's like no more we'll just have one we'll just have two
how about a husband that wants to have more so those are the good things quote unquote because
I'm speaking from a worldly perspective here those are the good things about being a Christian
wife okay now from the world's perspective I'm speaking now the evil things right the bad things
about being a Christian wife you have to obey your husband you have to dress modestly you have
to have a lot of children you have to homeschool you know you don't get to have the career that
you wanted or whatever you know this is what the world would look at the Christian way of life
they'll look at the Christian godly wife and they'll say oh man isn't that terrible
that she has to obey her husband dress modestly she can't have a career she's home with the kids
she's cooking and cleaning and taking care of the house but let me tell you something it's a
package deal so well here's what we have today we have a bunch of Christian women that are like
Job's wife where they want to receive the good things from the hand of the Lord but not the evil
things so basically they say oh yeah I want my husband to be faithful oh yeah I don't want my
husband to commit adultery oh I want a husband who pays the bills I want a husband who loves me
even as he loves his own body I want a husband who nourishes and cherishes me and provides for me
but I don't want to obey him I don't want to dress modestly I want to do what I want I'm going to do
whatever I want I want to submit to him so you see what they're trying to do they're trying to
have their cake and eat it too they want to take all the good things from the Lord and then all
the quote-unquote good things from this world and try to have the best of both worlds here
instead of saying okay whatever the Lord says I'll take all of it the stuff I like and the stuff
I don't like the positive and the negative the easy and the difficult whatever the Lord has
I'll take it