Gather Grow and Go with North Park Baptist Church. A member of the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches

In Ephesians 5, as the Bible tells us to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ, wives are told to submit themselves to their husbands, "as to the Lord." In today's message, Pastor John shows how for both husbands and wives, our own hopes, dreams and desires can become expectations that we demand from our spouse. But our Biblical pattern is to think of our spouse's needs above our own. As we consider the wife's call to Biblical submission, we are reminded that Christ humbled himself and became obedient, even to the point of dying on the cross (Philippians 2:5-8).

In Ephesians 5, as the Bible tells us to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ, husbands are told to love their wives, "just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." In this message on the husband's call to loving leadership, Pastor Phil studies what men are called to do: to love their wives, serve their wives, to lead, and not to hate. Pastor Phil encourages us that in order to have a great marriage, it doesn't start with God changing your spouse, it starts with God changing you.

Today we address 7 questions

00:45 1. How do you know when to apply culture as a reason to approve or disagree with the statement and when do you say it is not a culture implied statement? Is there criteria that you use to agree with some things and disagree with others?

15:53 2. Can women share (not preach) in the service?

18:02 3. Do you feel like women are suppressing some of their skills because they feel like the church would disapprove?

18:35 4. If men are supposed to lead then why did Adam eat the fruit that Eve gave him? Wasn’t that Eve leading that situation?

19:02 5. Can you go further into what it means that Eve was deceived , while Adam knew better and willfully sinned. What’s the difference?

20:12 6. Is there a list of roles women are excluded from at North Park? Like Pastor and Elder, but also Deacon and Teacher of adults or Usher, can they serve or lead in missions without a man or husband? I’d be nice to know.

21:07 7. So the one role Phil said is reserved for women is childbirth and the Timothy passage says women will be saved through childbirth what about women who can’t or don’t have children?

22:28 Phil also addresses what kind of questions he will probably skip in future sessions.

In the creation account and the story of the fall in Genesis 2 and 3, we see indications of God's design for men and women, and how we can fail to live according to that design. As we study the story of Adam and Eve, we are reminded that salvation for mankind has come through Jesus Christ.

This podcast will answer a few questions from the sermon on 1/18/26 including a question about predestination.

The John passage that was referenced but not quoted was John 6:44 - “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them"

In the first sermon in our series on the role of men and women in the church, Pastor Phil studies the account of the creation of man and woman in Genesis 1. All persons are created in the image of God, and are equal in value.

Pastor Phil gives a brief summary of the 4 main views about men and women in the church.

In his first recorded letter to Timothy, Paul urges Timothy, "first of all," that prayers would be made for all people. In today's message, Larry High studies the importance of prayer, the necessity of praying for all people--including being mindful to pray for the salvation of our nation's leaders--and how prayer should be our response to God's will.

In the book of Joshua, we read how two spies were sent into Jericho, and when men of the city came to find them, they were hidden by a prostitute named Rahab, and then given help in their escape. This account shows us Rahab's faith in the power of God, and it also shows us God's love for Rahab, whose household is saved when God delivers Jericho into the hands of the Israelites.

In today's message, as we finish our study of the women found in the genealogy of Jesus, Pastor Phil teaches that God can use anyone regardless of their background, their status, or their past; that God sees us; and that we can trust God.