Now, there are so many examples we could go down the list here. Turn over to Psalm 27,
if you would. So many things that people are afraid of. Here's another perfect example.
How about wives who are afraid to submit to their husband? Now, you say, well,
what does that have to do with fear? Because the Bible says, you know, wives, submit yourselves
unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. The Bible says that the wives are to be good and
obedient to their own husbands, that the name of God and His doctrine be not blasphemed.
The Bible says that they should love their husbands, love their children, to be discreet,
chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. I mean, there's so many
scriptures, even as Sarah also obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, whose daughters ye are,
as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement. A lot of scripture telling
wives to obey their husbands, telling wives to submit unto their husbands. Why do so many
women not obey their husband or not submit unto their husbands? Because they're afraid.
And here's what they're afraid. Oh, I'm afraid that if I let him lead, he'll do something
stupid because I'm smarter. I mean, you've heard women say this, right? Well, in my house,
I need to run things because my husband, you know, he's stupid with money, so I have
to handle it. I mean, there are women who think that. I need to run everything. Or,
well, if I let my husband run things, I mean, you know, he'd take us off the cliff, you
know, financially, or take us off the cliff spiritually or whatever. I mean, there are
a lot of women who feel that way. They're just afraid of, you know, my husband's inept.
He doesn't know what he's doing. So I need to, you know, I need to run things, you know,
because I'm afraid of him. Or how about this? They're afraid that if they submit to their
husband and humble themselves unto him, he's going to take advantage. You know, he's going
to take advantage of that. He's going to abuse. If I give him that authority, it's like, excuse
me, God gave him that authority. You know, but it's like, but women will say, well, if
I give him that power, you know, I mean, that right there shows where they're at mentally
and spiritually. If I gave him that power of being the boss, then I'm afraid he's going
to abuse it, you know, and he's not going to use it properly. But here's the key words,
I'm afraid. God told you to do it and you're afraid. Isn't this kind of repeating over
and over with almost every area of life? Soul winning, God told you to do it, you're afraid.
Tithing, God told you to do it, you're afraid. You know, preach the whole Bible, God told
you to do it, you're afraid to do it. Spank your kids, God told you to do it, you're afraid
to do it. Submit unto your husband, you're afraid to do it. It's not of the Lord. It's
of this world that wants to instill fear in us. And so women are afraid to obey their
husband. But in reality, what they need to do is step out in faith and say, hey, if the
Bible says that I'm supposed to submit unto my own husband as unto the Lord, and I know
that the path to God's blessing is through the door of obedience, that if I step out
in faith, I just believe. And you know, you just have to sit back and you know what, let
him screw things up a little bit. So what? God's going to bless you if you do. And you
know, maybe you'll find out your husband isn't as stupid as you think. And maybe you'll
find out that you know what, God is going to bless his decisions because he's the one
that God actually ordained as the main decision maker. And I'm not saying it's wrong for the
husband to delegate authority and delegate things to his wife. But you know what, the
wife needs to be firmly the head of the home and he needs to be the boss. That's what the
Bible teaches. A lot of people are just afraid of that. Or they're afraid of what other people
will think. Well, if I'm respectful to my husband in public, people are going to call
me a doormat. And they're going to be like, I don't know, you know, what's with her? She's
respectful to her husband. She called him sir. She was friendly and polite. Now here's
what's funny. I went out to a restaurant with my wife and we were sitting at the restaurant
and the waitress came over and was very friendly and attentive. And isn't that how waitresses
usually are? When you go to a restaurant, they come over and they smile and they fill
your drink. Hey, would you like anything else? And are you enjoying the meal? Everything
good? And hey, can I get anything else for you? And they're real nice and so forth. And
this woman was serving us in that way. And I was thinking to myself, you know what's
funny is that the world respects a woman who goes and puts on a uniform, puts on a name
tag and goes and serves strangers at a restaurant if she does a good job and is really friendly,
really humble, really good servant, really quick and bringing everything out and attentive.
You know what they'll say? That's a wonderful waitress. She's doing a good job. She's a
good waitress. And they'll respect that. That's great. She's doing a good job. Respect it.
But here's the thing. If a woman acted that same way toward her own husband and treated
that as her job and brought him dinner, he sat down and she brought him the food and
she poured his drink. Can I get you anything else? Smiling and friendly. They'd say, what
in the world is this, the 1950s and all the step word wives? You know, they would. Think
about that for a while. So why is it that the world has brainwashed us that serving
strangers is honorable and wonderful, but serving your husband will make fun of you
and say you're a doormat and you're, you know, you don't have any self-respect and you need
to show him and blah, blah, blah. You know what? We need to cut through this brainwashing
of the world and not be afraid of what people think of us and just run our home the way
God told us to run it and wives just need to step out in faith and say, you know what?
If God wants me to submit to my husband, I'm just going to submit unto him as unto the
Lord. You know, and if I don't feel that he deserves it, the Lord deserves it. He's the
one who's telling me to do it. Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. I'll
do it for the Lord. You know, and then you might find that your husband will love you
more and that you'll love your husband more because you're actually on God's program and
God's going to bless that. And the thing that you're afraid of, the scary, oh, the
Jews that have fallen to the Chaldeans are going to mock me, you know, probably won't
even happen. You know, your friends will probably respect you when they see you being a good
wife. And your husband's not going to abuse you or take advantage. He's probably going
to start treating you better. You know, when you start obeying, he'll probably start treating
you better.