Mariti e mogli: uniti alla croce. Un primo approccio allo studio della Scuola del Sabato numero 10 – III trimestre 2023 Risorse collegate: Approfondimento: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwHi-3Oggv1dN62yZJr_MoJ6csRYnFQjp Materiale da scaricare: https://sdsministeripersonali.chiesaavventista.it/archivi/risorse-2023/terzo-trimestre-2023/#01 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZimiAuHTQFw
Sunday: Counsel to Christian Wives
Paul begins with a hinge passage, Ephesians 5:21, connecting Ephesians 5:1-20 and Ephesians 5:22-33, in which he advocates for church members to submit to each other (compare Mark 10:42-45; Romans 12:10; Philippians 2:3-4). Believers are to do so “out of reverence for Christ” (Ephesians 5:21, ESV), the first of several times Paul will identify the relationship with Christ as the most important and defining one for believers.
What does Paul mean by exhorting church members to submit to each other? How are we to understand this idea? Ephesians 5:21.
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Paul also invites Christian wives to submit to “your own husbands, as to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22, ESV), clarifying that he is discussing the submission of wives to their respective husbands (see also 1 Peter 3:1, 1 Peter 3:5). When Paul says wives are to do so “as to the Lord,” does he mean a wife is to submit to her husband as though he were Christ; or, instead, does He mean that Christ is the truest and highest focus of her submission?
In view of Ephesians 6:7, where slaves are asked to serve “as to the Lord, and not to men” (NKJV), and Colossians 3:18, where wives are asked to submit to their husbands “as is fitting in the Lord” (NKJV), the latter view is to be preferred. Wives are themselves believers who must ultimately honor Christ over their husbands.
In both Colossians and Ephesians, Christ — and only Christ — is identified as the Head of the church, which is His body (Ephesians 1:22, Ephesians 5:23, Colossians 1:18): “Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body” (Ephesians 5:23, NKJV). By analogy, the husband is “the head of the wife” (Ephesians 5:23), with the church’s faithfulness to Christ serving as a model for the wife’s loyalty to her husband. The passage presumes a loving, caring marriage, and not a dysfunctional one. This verse should not be interpreted to allow any form of domestic abuse.
| In light of what we have just read, why is this following counsel so important to remember? If the husband “is a coarse, rough, boisterous, egotistical, harsh, and overbearing man, let him never utter the word that the husband is the head of the wife, and that she must submit to him in everything; for he is not the Lord, he is not the husband in the true significance of the term.” — Ellen G. White, The Adventist Home, p. 117. |
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Come seguire Gesù in tempi difficili. SdS 10
Mogli e mariti: uniti alla croce Approfondimento della lezione della Scuola del Sabato numero 10 – III trimestre 2023 con Mariarosa Cavalieri, Tamara Pispisa, Richar Ehoussou. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZorn5JfEK4
God First Your Daily Prayer Meeting – August 26, 2023
Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-e2JrwqUg
Beams of Heaven – Rebecca Johnson
Beams of heaven as I go,
through this wilderness below,
guide my feet in peaceful ways,
Turn my midnight into days.
When in the darkness I would grope,
faith always sees a star of hope,
and soon from all life's grief and danger
I shall be free someday. Refrain:
I do not know how long 'twill be.
Nor what the future holds for me,
But this I know: if Jesus leads me.
I shall get home someday. Oftentimes my sky is clear,
joy abounds without a tear;
Though a day so bright begun,
Clouds may hide tomorrow's sun.
There'll be a day that's always bright,
a day that never yields to night,
and in its light the streets of glory
I shall behold someday. (Refrain) Harder yet maybe the fight;
right may often yield to might;
wickedness a while may reign;
Satan's cause may seem to gain.
But there is a God that rules above,
with hand of power and heart of love;
If I am right, He'll fight my battle,
I shall have peace someday (Refrain) Burdens now may crush me down,
disappointments all around;
Troubles speak in mournful sigh,
sorrow through a tear-stained eye,
There is a world where pleasure reigns,
no mourning soul shall roam its plains,
and to that land of peace and glory
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