Sweet Submission

Sweet Submssion

 Ephesians 5: ²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

 ²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

 ²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless

Why the picture of the bloodied up ufc fighter winning by submission?

I thought it was an awesome illustration.

Just like we should submit to the bloodied up savior. 

So today I'm blogging about submission.

This is one of my favorite portions of scripture.

I mean as I always say, guys, remember this for when you meet a sweet young lady of God;

my saying goes: If she ain't down with Ephesians 5:22, don't make her your boo... :D

Anyway, all joking aside, and yes I'm just ribbing and poking fun.

That's why I made sure I put the rest of the scripture down there.

Paul commands husbands to love their wife as He loved the church.

If a man loves Jesus, he should have no problem loving His wife.

If a woman loves the Lord, she should have no problem submitting to her husband.

The church is the bride of Christ.

God intended for brides to be women. (take that, neil patrick harris)

Now the church's husband Jesus Christ, had no problem loving us.

He loved us before we even knew him.

He suffered an agonizing execution to take away our sins.

Yet when God the husband of the church, wants the church to follow His lead, we get an attitude with Him. 

We make excuses.

We just plain out rebel.

Now Paul mentioned husbands loving wives, because if a man loves His wife the way he should; she should gladly submit to him and follow His lead, do what He says, listen to His voice, let Him handle it.

She trusts Him, she knows He will never lead her astray.

He loves her too much.

Submission or lack thereof to God isn't just a flesh problem, it's a heart issue.

If we REALLY BELIEVED He loved us,

If we really believed He cared, if we really trusted Him, if we want to be the spotless blameless bride, we would submit.

If He wants you to serve Him, if He wants you to speak to that person in the grocery store, if He wants you to preach, if He doesn't want you to preach, if He wants you to follow His word, listen to your authorities, follow His rules, do what He says, you should just do it.

Because just like the wife knows the Husband loves her and would never lead her astray, the church should know that Christ wouldn't.

Submission to God is an act of faith.

The picture up there portrays a scene, where the weaker fighter can't take the pressure anymore.

Where the one who is all bloodied up, is gonna let the weaker fighter go through that pain, until he taps out, until he learns submission. 

Maybe your emotional pain is God having your heart in an arm bar. 

Just tap out to Jesus.

Say yes to His will and His way. 

Feel the release, the freedom of sweet submission.

Eden Experience... today's world

Eden Experience... today's world

Genesis 2:⁵ Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth^[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,⁶ but streams^[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. ⁷Then the LORD God formed a man^[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. chapter 3:⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”

So even heathens know this story. God creates man, Adam and Eve, (not Adam and Steve); mankind disobeys God; our sin separates us from Him.
Here's what most of us probably don't know.

We can go back to Eden.

Because you see, what made Eden wonderful,

wasn't the fruit there. 

It wasn't the rivers, or the animals or the scenery.

It was the fact that it was the place where God and man would have fellowship.

They would walk together in the cool of the day.

God is our father.

He created us for no other purpose, than He had fatherly love to give.

We were created so we could cry out, abba, father.

We messed it up.

We ran away from home.

We got ourselves kicked out of eden.

 Isiah tells us sin separates us from God.

But God came down to earth to become sin, and make sin die on a cross. 

To restore our relationship with Him.

To redeem us.

Mission; accomplished.

Praise break!

So how do we get back there?

Simple, get filled with the Holy Ghost.

You see we live in a world, where the Spirit of God is no longer restricted to a veil in the temple.

We can have church anywhere, because the blood of Jesus tore the veil.

Then the Holy Ghost fell.

We just have to learn, especially in our culture, to entertain His presence.

My friend Geral blogged recently about what is man that thou art mindful of Him. (read it here http://beyondbelief-inmyhead.blogspot.com/2011/01/in-air-but-under-my-feet.html ).

How wonderful is it that the president's won't ever know our name, but God of all the universe can visit our house!

Try to get some Eden time in. It will change your life.

Shut off the tv. Turn off the computer! Put the cell phone down! Jesus died, just to bring us Back 2 Eden!!!