* Before you read about wives submitting to husbands you have to know Paul’s presuppositions.

* Here are three:

* 1) Mutual submission is the foundation (Ephesians 5:21).

* Both husband and wife yield themselves to God and each other.

* 1 Corinthians 7:4 - this is a picture of mutual submission.

* 2) Men and women are equal (Galatians 3:28).

* Before Christ women and children were second class to men.

* Christ’s teaching changed that.

* 3) The man has the greater responsibility (Ephesians 5:25).

* If his wife is to submit he must first be willing to sacrifice.

* Sacrificing himself for his wife, as Christ did the church, will draw her to submit.

* It’s the same way we submit to Christ - if He didn’t sacrifice for us we wouldn’t submit to Him.