Eph. 5:22-24

 22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

 Describe a Spirit Filled Wife.

 Eph. 5:22-24  What is the difference?  Why is it so hard?  What does she do?  Feeds on the Word of God  Neither Grieves nor Quenches the Holy Spirit  Has Faith, Hope, and Love  Knows and Yields to Biblical Authority

 Romans 8  By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

 Believers HAVE the Spirit of God.  Believers can be filled with the Spirit.  Spirit filled believers are different.  Believers Smell, Taste, even Look different.  In love, and in light, in wisdom, we are different.

 Add Rebellion  Add a lack of Trust in God’s goodness  Add, add, add  Not just Sin, but a sin nature as well.

 God knew the consequences of Sin  He outlined them in Genesis 3 when He told Adam and Eve the effect of the curse.

 Genesis 3:16 To the woman he said,  “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you

 Feeds on the Word of God  Neither Grieves nor Quenches the Holy Spirit  Has Faith, Hope, and Love  Knows and Yields to Biblical Authority

 Not only does she read and study the Bible, she FEEDS on it.  Memorization  Meditation  She is nourished spiritually by the Word of God

 A simple way to remember this.  I grieve the Spirit when I do things that I should not.  I quench the Spirit when I refuse to do what I should.

 Hope = a mindset on Heavenly things.  Faith = a dependence on God  Love = a life of giving to others

 This brings us back to our text for today.  Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.