Under Orders and On Assignment...

Family Series (Richardson Baptist: Message 5 of 7)

“Under Orders and On Assignment...” (Placing it All in the Hands of Jesus)

The fear of the Lord is the ABC's and the 123's of kingdom life. It is the basics to all life in God's kingdom.

What fundamental learning tools, like the very basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, are to the foundation of our education so is the fear of the Lord to wisdom and knowledge in the kingdom of God. [It's] an irreplaceable treasure that comes with learning the ropes of His language, His life, His lead and His love that always teaches us to give place, priority and purpose to the King and His righteousness.

Therefore, submission, as Ephesians 5 teaches us to be submissive to one another and let the wives be submissive to their on husbands, just as the church is subject to Christ, is more about being under ORDERS and on MISSION to the specific ASSIGNMENT we've been given.

Your marriage is more than a relationship... it's a vital part of your mission and He will use you to glorify Himself through it and display the love and beauty of His gospel in it.

"An excellent wife is the CROWN of her husband, but she who cause shame is like CANCER/rottenness in his bones" (Proverbs 12:4).

...a CROWN has a way of lifting, elevating and exalting but a CANCER weakens, diminishes, pushes down, demotes, belittles, lessens and disintegrates