An Exposition of Colossians 3:19

Grab your Bibles and turn with me to Colossians 3. We will make it through

one verse again today. I heard last week that it provided some

entertainment value for some of you that we are moving so slowly. Don’t get

too used to a verse per week. But these are important topics.

As we said last week instead of looking at an entire paragraph of

Scripture, which is our normal practice, we are doing here topical

expositions. So we are explaining one verse, one main truth, and examining

that topic in detail from multiple texts in their context.

Last week we examined the role of a wife and her biblical priority. We saw

that a wife worships Christ in her marriage through her joyful, willing

submission to her husband. A godly woman finds freedom and liberty in

trusting the Lord and not herself, being willing to let God bring about his

plan in her life through her husband. We discussed what submission is and

what it is not.

Heard comments from many non-wives in the body about how a message not

specifically addressing them was convicting. Joyful submission challenges

each of us. For husbands it raises the bar on our leadership to be godly.

I’m praising God at how his word works as we seek to strengthen and shore

up our body in the fundamentals of the Christian life as he is rooting out

wrong thinking and replacing it with truth and conviction.

Now this week we will see that a husband worships Christ in his biblical

leadership within the marriage relationship.

4-Part Overview of a Husband’s Leadership

1. The husband’s burden of biblical leadership

2. The husband’s blueprint for biblical leadership

3. The husband’s barriers to biblical leadership

4. The husband’s blessing through biblical leadership