Husband Directive 7: Marriage ~ Physically

"In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man who loves his wife actually shows love for himself. No one hates his own body but feeds and cares for it, just as Christ cares for the church… So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself." (Eph. 5:28-29, 33)

There Are Two Areas of Physical Needs

How to always have a wife want to be sexually responsive to her husband...

Reason 5 of 10 ~ Why Romans 13 Is Biblical Government

Romans 13: God's Civil Authorities Always Praise Those Who Do Right!

How to identify God's legitimate civil authorities per the New Testament?

Reason 6 of 10 ~ Why Romans 13 Is Biblical Government

Romans 13: God's Legitimate Authorities Do Good "Continually"!

The government depicted by the Apostle Paul in Romans 13 - “continually” will do good to the righteous and execute the wicked...

“Listen to the Lord, you leaders of ‘Sodom.’ Listen to the Law of our God, people of ‘Gomorrah’… To the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no light of dawn!” (Isa. 1:10, 8:20)

Unity 5: Christian Unity By Only 7 Doctrines!

"I beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit… For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all." (Eph. 4:1-6)

What really are the necessary 7 doctrines that a Christian must believe to be UNITED with them?

Unity 4. All Christian Disputes

“If any of you has a dispute with another believer, do you dare to take it before the ungodly for judgment instead of before the Lord’s people? Or do you not know that the Lord’s people will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Therefore, if you have disputes about such matters, do you ask for a ruling from those whose way of life is scorned in the church? I say this to shame you. Is it possible that there is nobody among you wise enough to judge a dispute between believers?”

2Cor. 6:1-5

Wife Directive 6 ~ What's Fitting

“Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord.” (Col. 3:18)

How to do that?

What about our culture?

Husband Directive 6 ~ Marriage Glory

"He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault." Eph. 5:27

How to help have your wife become more and more glorious to the Lord and yourself.

Romans 13: God's Authorities Terrify The Wicked

Reason 4 of 10 ~ Why Romans 13 Is Biblical Government

God Authorities Are Identified as Terrors To The Wicked

Not only does the Apostle Paul identify the rulers he’s writing about in Romans 13 as authorities rather than powers (as the difference described in previous articles), but also as servants of God he distinguishes them as terrors to the wicked (Rom. 13:3-4).

“For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do evil… if you do evil, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for no reason. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wicked.”

Reason 3 ~ Why Romans 13 Is Biblical Government!

Romans 13: God's Servant Authorities

The God-Ordained Authorities Are Identified as Servants of God

The civil rulers in Romans 13 are identified three times as “servants of God”, two times in verse 4 and once in verse 6. The Greek word identifying God’s civil servants is “diakonos”. The same Greek word is used to identify God’s church servants, called “deacons”. A consistent translation could read for God’s civil servants - God’s civil deacons.

Unity 3 ~ What If I Fail?

“What if I go and try to be reconciled with another believer and I fail?” I have only one question - “Were you truly humble before them?”

If so, it would be sin if a believer is unwilling to be reconciled with another believer. It is a serious matter to Jesus if any of His Family are unwilling to be united. All sin is bad but “division” is one of he worst sins for God’s spiritual Family. “Perfect unity” is the only thing Jesus prayed for in John 17 for future believers, for us, just before He went to the cross.

There are two places in the gospels where Jesus instructs all of us how to have and keep “perfect unity”...