The Forbidden Word (Submit)

Introduction
• A few months ago I got an interesting text from Steve Walker. He said, “Hey, we’re going to be going through Ephesians, and we want to know if you’ll be up to preach.”

• So I was like, “Yeah!” Texted him back. Absolutely.
o I love Ephesians. I’ve been to Ephesus a couple times, maybe I’ll be able to talk about some of the harbor there and the multinational city and the impact that had on the believers there.
o Riot in the theater in Acts 19 and tie that into the book. The goddess Artemis.
o Or maybe I’ll get to say something about Apollos. I did a really cool study once on Apollos and Alexandria. Favorite.
 Acts 18 mentions that he was a Jew who grew up in Egypt and went to Ephesus to preach the gospel.
 It’s really cool since that’s where the Jewish philosopher Philo grew up. He was into rhetoric and there were a number of erudite schools in Alexandria.
 Apollos may have learned some of his rhetoric from Philo and taken it to Ephesus.
 Maybe I’ll get to talk about that a bit!
o Or maybe I can talk about Jews and Gentiles. Ephesians is all about unity between the two. My wife is Jewish, I’m not. I lived and taught in Israel for years…maybe I’ll get to talk about that.

• I got all excited, went home, turned to my passage in Eph 5:22 to see what I get to preach on. And these are the words I read: “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.”
o OK, there goes Apollos, the theater, Jews/Gentile…“Wait that’s the passage you give me?”
o It’s not exactly my first choice. 😊
o Well at least I know Paul talks quite at length about how husbands are to love their wives…so I kept reading Eph 5:23–24.
o At this point I look back at my text and I see that this is all I’m supposed to preach on.
o Turns out I don’t even get to talk about the men!

• It might not have happened exactly like that, but I think you get the point. If I were a guest preacher, this would probably not be the first passage I’d turn to and give a message one. It’s a bit controversial!

• In fact, I did a little thought experiment after I read through today’s passage. I asked myself: “If I was selected to appear on ABC’s “The View” to talk about this passage, what would my reception be like?”
o How do you think these women would respond to Paul’s command for wives to be submissive to their own husbands in everything?
o Do you think you think you would see heads bobbing up and down, and the women on the show saying, “Yes, we totally agree. Paul got that right. One problem that we have today is that women just aren’t submissive to their husbands!”
o I mean I haven’t asked them, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what I’d encounter.

• I think that this is a good illustration of the fact that our society, does not like to hear this topic. What makes it hard, is there has been abuse throughout history. We don’t condone that or indorse it in any way, but we also can’t ignore God’s commands because of past sin.

• So I kind of have to thread the needle on a fairly controversial topic. I was praying that God would give me the right, even tone of voice, as I talk about a topic that in today’s culture just doesn’t fly.

• The main idea of what I’m going to say is actually really easy to comprehend, but it’s a topic that our society doesn’t like to hear. So that’s why I titled it: “The Forbidden Word (Submit).”

• But here’s my main point: submitting to your husband is an act of submission to God.
o I’m going to unpack that.
o Guys don’t get a free pass, even in this message. Men have a responsibility.

• So let’s roll up our sleeves and have a look at what the verses are actually saying.

A. What Are the Verses Actually Saying?
• We’ve been calling our series on Ephesians “The Master’s Plan”.
• You can see this fairly complicated chart:
• Two main parts to Ephesians: (1) Beliefs, and (2) Behavior:
o Beliefs: chapters 1–3 focuses on what God did for us through Jesus: “You were dead in your sins...but you were made alive” (2:1,4)
o Behavior: chapters 4–6 talk about how to live as believers: “Walk in a manner worth of the calling to which you were called” (4:1)
• Only two commands in chapters 1–3, over 60 in chapters 4–6.

• In this next section Paul talks about three sets of relationships: wife/husband, children/parents, and slaves/masters.
o Martin Luther called these instructions “the household code”, or “rules for the household.”
o These commands occur in 4 other places in the NT (chart).
• So Paul and Peter both address these in the NT. Our passage unique because Paul spends a lot of time on the men, more than anywhere else by far.
o 41 Greek words for the women
o 115 Greek words for the men.
• So if you feel like the men are getting a free pass––they don’t. Come back next week for your whoopin’.

1) VOLUNTARY SUBMISSION: “WIVES SUBMIT TO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS AS TO THE LORD”
• The verb upotasso basically means “to be subject, subordinate.”
• Occurs quite a number of times in the NT.
o 1 Cor 15:27 all things are subjected to God
o Rom 13:1 we are to be subject to the governing authorities.
o 1 Peter 5:5 we are to be subject to our elders
• Put in simple language, Paul is saying that wives need to obey and listen to their husbands.

• The interesting thing about this verb is that it occurs in a form (present middle) that indicates the submission is not a forced submission.
o So if you had a dictator, you submit to his rule, but it’s a forced submission.
o He raises his hand and says, “Lean back!” and you lean back.
 Are you “submitting” in that instance?
 In one sense yes, but it’s not voluntary.

o Here it is. Look at Eph 5:24 says “As the church submits to Christ, so wives should submit in everything to their husbands.”
 We don’t begrudgingly obey Jesus. If we do that, then we’ve missed it. You could probably spit off ten verses that say that external “works” are not enough. It’s the heart that counts.
• Go to church because you have to.
• Give because you have to.
• Patient because you have to.
• …you’ve missed it.
 We submit to Christ with JOY!

• Wives, that should be how you submit to your husbands––voluntarily, with joy.

• Now submitting to your husband doesn’t mean that you don’t have a voice.
o New Car. Let’s say you really want a new car. Work hard, you want it. You can talk to your husband. If you talk and your husband says, “We’re almost there, trying to pay off debt. Not right now.” Loggerheads: someone has to make a decision. Paul would say you have to listen to your husband.

o Job. The opposite could happen. Let’s say you’ve been working at a job and it’s just been killing you. You come home exhausted, can’t fulfill your role in the family. Want to get a new job. Husband: we’re saving for a car, don’t quit now. You can explain––look, I’m seriously drained. Husband loves his wife, might realize the loving thing is to put the saving on pause and for your sake, you go get another job.

• The point is, do you recognize that God has appointed the husband to be the leader, or are you continually fighting for that position and going off to do as you please?

• Does “as to the Lord” mean that the wife submits to her husband to the same degree as she does to Jesus?
o No.
o The NT never calls for submission to another human being to the same degree as to the Lord.
 Everything that Jesus says is perfect and holy.
 He’s God in the flesh and sinless.
o You’ve probably realized by now that your husband is not.

• What Paul is talking about here are the roles of marriage in a normal household.
o And in that context, the idea is that when the wife submits to her husband, she is actually submitting to the Lord.
o “In submitting to my husband, I’m submitting to the Lord.”
o Because you love the Lord, you submit to your husband. Submitting to the Lord and submitting to your husband are inseparable.

• Time out: abuse? Husband making you do something illegal? Sinful? Say something! Call the police? Do so. Talk to the elders? Do so. If you want to do it confidentially, please email me, any of the elders, anybody up here. We love women, we value women, and we do not condone abuse in any way. Paul is not saying you submit if you are in an abusive relationship. So if that is the situation you are in right now, please tell someone.

• Women are mentioned the Greek and Roman literature as well in Paul’s day.
o In Greek literature the woman is said to be inferior in all things (Arius Didymus 149.7).
o That’s also what Josephus says: “The woman, says the Law, is in all things inferior to the man. Let her accordingly be submissive…that she may be directed” (Contra Apion 2.201)
o Other literature in Paul’s day says that slaves have no thinking capacity and are stupid
• That’s not what the Bible says. Having been married 20 years (this year), I certainly know that there are lot of things that my wife is better than me at.
• The NT does not criticize or demean those who are being submissive. In the NT it’s a voluntary submission, out of love.

Objection: What if the shoe were on the other foot?
• Objection: yeah, easy for Paul to say that––he’s a man in a patriarchal society!

• So when I went back and reviewed the events surrounding the book of Ephesians I found something that I though was kind of interesting.

• Paul is writing to the believers in Ephesus (cf. 1:1), even though many scholars today don’t believe this.
o Here’s where Ephesus is.
o Paul spent three years here on his third missionary journey: Acts 20:31
 Rents a lecture hall (Tyrannus) there and reasons boldly and daily with the Ephesian Jews and Greeks
 Thers’s a riot there eventually. Everybody gathers into the theater and for two hours call out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”. Paul wants to go in, but they tell him not to since they’ll lynch him if he does.
 Paul continues on to Macedonia, then down to Corinth, then retraces his steps through Greece toward Jerusalem.

 On his way back to Jerusalem, and he has one final meeting with the elders of Ephesus at Miletus (Acts 20:17).
• The elders come to him, Paul gives a pretty long speech to the Ephesian elders.
• And then the very last words he says to the elders in Ephesus is, “It is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35). He’s quoting what Jesus had said.

o When I re-read that account, I thought that was interesting because Paul really lived that out.
 Remember Paul was trained by the best rabbis of the day (Gamaliel).
 He was “advancing in Judaism beyond his contemporaries” (Gal 1:14).
 But rather than take on a life of prestige as a member of the Sanhedrin, he submitted to Jesus’s call to preach the gospel to the Gentiles and ultimately gave his life for him.

o Paul lived a life of submission to Christ. He’s not giving instruction for wives to be submissive to their husbands from the position of a privileged man who is demanding that women be subservient.

o The last thing he tells the Ephesian elders is, “It’s better to give than to receive.” He truly believed that. Remember he’s writing from prison in Rome.
o I think if we all remembered Jesus’s words that it’s “better to give than to receive,” it’d make it much easier for us to obey him. That’s what submission is: give of yourself for others.

2) TO YOUR HUSBANDS
• Important to note that Paul is talking about husbands and wives in these verses. He’s not saying women are to submit to all men.

• I think this is where abuse has come in.
o Men have historically taken advantage of women. They’re stronger than women, so they have felt like they can control them.
o Women have been oppressed, denied education, not allowed to vote, not allowed to leave the home, and forced into servitude. That’s all wrong. The Bible doesn’t support that.
o That’s what makes this message hard. There certainly has been abuse in the past, but an incorrect treatment of women can’t trump what the scriptures say about the role of men and women in a marriage.

• Not:
o Not to a boyfriend. If you’re thinking of getting married, “Can I submit to this guy?”
o Not to all men in the church.
o We do submit to our elders, our parents, the Christ.
o Not: I’m not married, so I don’t submit to anyone.
o What’s your attitude? Is it one of general submission or total autonomy?

• Paul says in Eph 5:23 that the husband is the head of his wife.
o There’s been a bit of debate as to what that means. It seems that it means “preeminence” or “prominence.” The same word is used in Eph 1:22 where Paul says Christ is the head of the church.
o He’s the leader. He’s the one who ultimately is responsible for making the decisions.

• In Paul’s day, usually a father had power over his son until the father died, or voluntarily gave up that power. This was called pater potestas. If he still had power over his son when that son married, the father also had authority over his daughter in law. This was called sine manus, which continued as long as he lived.
o So when Paul says that the wife is to submit to her husband as the head of the family, he’s confronting the Roman family structure of that day.
o The husband, not he father, is the head of the family, and he has authority over his wife (Hoener, p. 741).

• Paul says this elsewhere: 1 Cor 11:3

• This doesn’t mean that there is any qualitative difference between husbands and wives.
o Paul says in Gal 3:28 that there is no slave/free, Jew/Gentile, Male/Female…all are one).
o All are equal before God. But this does not exclude lines of authority.
o There is no difference in worth, but in the family there must be leadership, and that responsibility is given to the husband and father.

• Trinity. A great example of this is God himself. God is three in one.
o All three persons are qualitatively equal, but the Son is subordinated to the Father (1 Cor 15:28), the HS to the Father, and the HS to the Son.
o Subordination does not imply a qualitative difference.

• Football. Let me give you another example you might be able to relate to a little easier: who are the top 5 greatest 4th quarter quarterbacks of all times?
o Depends on how you calculate the stats.
o Top 5 I found were: #5 John Elway, #4 Tom Brady, #3 Peyton Manning, #2 Dan Marino, and #1…the legend…Joe Montana
o Doesn’t matter how good a QB you are, you can’t do it on your own. You need every single person on the team. Each can be fired, each can get hurt, each has a role to play.
o A good QB is one who says, “We’re down by 15 with 5 minutes on the clock, but we’re gonna win. Jerry Rice, you’re gonna run down the side, cut in, and when you look up I’m going to put the ball right in your hands and you’re gonna run it into the endzone.”
o A QB like that…people want to follow him. He’s the head of the team, but in a sense nobody really thinks about it. They want to follow him. He’s out in the trenches leading, he’s got a plan, he’s got the entire team’s best interest in mind, and everybody’s pumped about following him.

• In our society today, when people hear: “the husband is the head,” they head “dictator.” But that’s not all what the Bible implies. Just come back next week and you’ll see Paul is really going to lay into the husbands.
o In fact in this section 41 Greek words are aimed at the wives and 116 words are directed to the husbands.
o Paul definitely will have a lot to say to the husbands. We’re supposed to love our wives as Christ loves the Church. That’s to the point of death.

3) IN EVERYTHING
• Eph 5:24

• Honestly, when I first read this, it was kind of hard to get my head around.
• My first thought was, are there exceptions?
o Obviously not submit to husband in something that is contrary to commands of God. One needs to obey God more than humans (Acts 5:29).
 Sinful
 Abuse – if they are abused; call for help. Don’t hide. Talk to someone!!

• But outside of sin or abuse, we can’t minimize what Paul is saying. The Church submits to Christ in everything. This is the analogy he gives to wives.

• I like how one commentator put it: “In everything obviously can’t mean blind obedience when it means contradicting God’s commands.” On the other hand, it’s inappropriate to compile a list of exemptions and thereby prove that “in everything” actually means “not in everything.”

• Submit “in everything” means “in every area of life”. Not:
o I’ll listen to my husband when it comes to finances, vacations, …when it comes to my career – ain’t nobody telling me what I can and can’t do.
o Friends – I’m with the kids all the time, I want to have friends over, but my husband doesn’t. Well he can just go to his room and shut the door. Friends are my time.
• All things. Get ready: here is the hard part:
o No indication that a wife’s submission to her husband is based on the degree to which her husband demonstrates his love.
 The more he shows love, the more you can submit
 Doesn’t seem to be the case.
 1 Peter 3:1 – wives be subject so that you can win over your husbands.

 Analogy:
• 1 Peter 2:13 – be subject to every human institution. The point is not that you need to be subject only if the human institution is kind and loving.
• Rom 13:1 – your to be subject to the governing authorities. Nero is the emperor at the time. He certainly wasn’t loving.

o Is that any different from anything else in the Bible? Christian behavior is never dependent on how the other side reacts.
 Love your neighbor as yourself…so long as your neighbor is loving.
 Honor your father and mother (10 commands)…so long as your father and mother give you want and behave how you want them to behave.
 Don’t bear false witness against your neighbor…unless your neighbor does that to you, then you can lie about your neighbor too.
 Don’t covet your neighbor’s house/wife…unless of course your neighbor’s a spoiled brat, absolute jerk and doesn’t deserve what he just inherited and didn’t work for. If that’s the case, then it’s OK to covet.
 Paul doesn’t give a pass to the husbands either: love your wives…only if your wife is loving back.
• Women can be hard to love sometimes too!

o God’s expectations of how we are to live don’t get watered down if the other side isn’t living up to his expectations.
 In fact the opposite seems to be true.
 In the world you respond in kind. Somebody’s a jerk to you, you can be a jerk back. He deserves it.
 In Jesus’s kingdom: if someone hits you on the cheek, you turn the other cheek (Matt 5:38–42).

o And I wrote down in my notes here “YIKES”….that’s not easy!

• Not easy: society doesn’t like this, and there is abuse in the church and in the world!

• So because it is controversial, some think it’s outdated, oppressive, etc., what some people do is water down the passage. They make it a bit more 2023 friendly. Here are four ways that I found.
B. How to Water Down the Passage
1. THE OLD CLASSIC: IT’S AN ADDITION! (NOT ORIGINALLY PART OF THE BIBLE)
• This is similar to early 1900s German higher critical approach to the Bible.
• Today, this is a feminist point of view and it goes something like this:
o In the first three chapters the author (certainly not Paul) has been advocated equality between Jew and Gentile.
o The book is all about unity.
 Think of Eph 2:11–13 “Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh…were separated from Christ…having no hope and without God. But now in Christ Jesus you who were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”
 Christ reconciled Jew and Gentile into one body and abolished the hostility (Eph 2:16).
o So since the book is about unity, Eph 5:22–6:9 is an addition by a later writer since it suggests a hierarchy. It’s out of character with the rest of the book.

• I won’t spend any time on that. There’s no evidence that this wasn’t part of the book originally, and hierarchy doesn’t deny equality to begin with.

2. NEWER VERSION: THE SAD SOCIAL REALITY OF PAUL’S DAY.
• The more common way of diluting the passage is to argue that this actually is not a timeless command. Paul is just addressing the sad social reality of the day, and therefore gives sort of a temporary fix for a bad situation.

• This is the more common way of making the Bible a bit more modern. I see this all the time.
o So for example, when the NT condemns homosexuality as sin (e.g., Rom 1; 1 Tim 1:8–11; 1 Cor 6:9–10; etc.), people argue––unbiblically I think––that it’s not condemning the act, but the harsh social reality of the day.
o In Paul’s day, homosexual acts were connected to idol worship, or they were unloving relationships.
o It’s those social realities that the Bible condemns, not the act itself.

• So the argument here would go something like this:
o The headship of the man and the submission of the woman is, sadly, how society functioned in the NT world.
o Paul is not giving a timeless theological command. He’s simply trying to teach Christians how to live at peace with one another in the fallen 1st century world.
o So, Paul is saying:
 Do it for peace right now. Submit to your husbands now in this broken first century world, but that’s not the way God intended it to be.
 And then commentators can say, “Look, we live in an emancipated society today, so women don’t actually need to submit to their husbands anymore. It’s not a theological command.”
 We don’t have slaves today, and we don’t have submissive wives today.

• The problem with this view, is that Paul actually is giving a theological instruction.
o Paul says wives are supposed to submit to their husbands, and husbands are supposed to love their wives.
o There are two sides to what Paul is saying. You can’t have one without the other.

o If God’s design never really was that wives aren’t supposed to submit to their husbands, then God’s design never really was that husbands should love their wives.

3. MUTUAL SUBMISSION
• The third way to make the passage say something else, is to argue that it’s actually just speaking about mutual submission to one another.
o Eph 5:21 says we are all to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
 This is mutual submission, so this is true for the rest of the passage.
 So, according to this view, husbands and wives are to mutually submit to one another. The man doesn’t actually have any sort of authority in the family.

o But Paul it talking lines of authority in this passage. If you go with the mutual submission view, then that would have to carry down to the other relationships Paul mentions. There’s no indication that:
 Christ submits to the church
 Parents submit to their children
 Masters submit to slaves

o Analogy: we all are commanded to love one another, but within the household, husbands are commanded to love their wives in a special more particular way.
 I don’t love everybody in the same way that I love my wife.
 In other words, I don’t water down the command to love my wife based on the fact that Eph 5:2 says we should all walk in love, or Jesus says in John 13:34 to love one another.
4. SEMANTICS
• If all else fails: just go the semantic route.
o One author: Kroeger: “Submit” doesn’t mean submit.
 Best way to do this is to quote some Greek.
 Say something like: “the Greek word is hupotasso and has many meanings, and in this context it actually means “to attach one thing to another, or to identify one person or thing with another.”
• The wife leaves her family to attach herself to her husband.
• So really, Paul’s saying that she’s just identifying herself with him.
 And then you point to a text nobody’s ever heard of like Polybius (3.36.6–7; 38.4; 18.15.4) and another text or two in the NT for good measure.
o None of those texts support such an interpretation though, and if you look at 1 Peter 3:1–2, the point is that the quiet submission of the woman is what wins over the man. Submission, Peter says, can be an act of evangelism.
 “1Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2when they see your respectful and pure conduct” (1 Peter 3:1–2).

• Truth is, you can’t water it down, the passage actually says: “wives submit to your husbands in everything.”

• It’s not the slip of the pen either. Paul was nodding off…
o “Wives be submissive to your husbands” occurs 4 times in the NT.
o Eph 5:22–24; Col 3:18; 1 Peter 3:1–2; Titus 2:3–5

• So you can’t water the passage down, and it’s not the slip of the pen. Paul really is saying: submitting to your husband is an act of submission to God.

C. Why Is This So Hard?
PRIDE
• Let me just get a quick show of hands from the men here. How many of you would say you like it when someone does this to you [finger]. It’s not easy when people tell you what to do.

• Submitting is hard for all of us, but is something that all of us are called to do at one level or another. None of us actually get a free pass of total independence. But we want it.

• In Gen 3:4–5 the serpent tells Eve: you won’t die if you eat of the fruit from the garden. Instead, God knows that when you eat the fruit you will be like God, knowing good and evil.
o Oh wow, we can be like God?
o Yeah, who’s God anyway to tell us what we can and can’t do?
o So Adam and Eve eat the fruit. They wanted their independence. They know better than God.

o And then interestingly, part of the curse is that there is going to have a hard time with the order God put in place: “To the woman he said, ‘I will multiply your pain in childbearing…your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you’” (Gen 3:16).
o The woman was created to be the man’s helpmate (Gen 2:18, 23–24). Man and woman were meant to compliment each other.
o In the fall, though, that order is disrupted and the woman desires a different role.

• In short, pride and sin make it hard for women––and men––to be submissive. And this goes way back in time. It’s not a new struggle.

• So be aware of that: our pride is just going to naturally tell us that we don’t want to be submissive––both men and women. It’s going to be a fight.
• Our society doesn’t help in the least either.
CULTURE
• Our culture is so against anyone telling us anything. Examples:
o If a girl says she’s a boy, it’s engrained in us to say, “Who am I to say that she’s not a boy?”
o A boy wants to marry a boy: who am I to say he can’t?
o A man wants to divorce his wife: how can I say it’s wrong?
o How can anybody tell me what to do with my body? If I want to kill my baby, that’s my choice.

• Our society trumpets total emancipation…not in a good way. It trumpets emancipation from morals, biology, advice, family…and ultimately God.
o Society says: we’re way beyond all that.
o I’m my own person, totally independent. Who are you tell me anything?

• One of the difficulties about this message, is at the back of our minds we all know women have been oppressed in history. And women have gained a lot of rights and freedoms through the feminist movement.

• Broadly speaking, there’ve been about 4 waves:
o 1848–1920: women’s suffrage. Decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women.
o 1920–1980s: the fight to end sex discrimination and traditional gender roles in society.
 Really the rise of feminism.
 Equal pay, reproductive freedom, Roe v. Wade, etc.
 Women don’t need to be at home with the kids
o 1990s–?: sexual harassment in the workplace.
o Today: holding powerful men accountable for actions. #MeToo movement, embraced the concept of intersectionality, and is trying to get society to embrace women regardless of sexuality, race, class, or gender.

• What makes this a difficult topic is that as believers we actually agree and identify with some of these goals. Of course women should be able to vote, not be victims of abuse, and have equal rights, equal pay.

• But as believers, we can’t just buy into the feminist movement hook line and sinker. You have to eat the meat and spit out the fat.

• Women are not exactly the same as men. Men are not exactly the same as women. The two are complimentary.
o In Jesus’s kingdom there are different roles that God has ordained.
o The Bible says women need to submit to their husbands, and husbands need to love their wives sacrificially.
• But you’re not going to hear that in today’s society.
HUSBANDS ARE LOSERS
• Another difficulty is that a lot of time we men are losers. We don’t make it easy for our wives to be submissive.
• We’re not the Joe Montanas with the plan, the tactic, the energy, the fervor, and the vision to lead our families. We many times are faithfully submitting to Christ. We don’t have our wives best interest in mind. We don’t love them as Christ loves the church.

• That’s wrong!

• So husbands, if that’s you––you need to repent. As you’ll see next week, you have just as high a bar to achieve in the following verses. We are called to love our wives as Christ loves the church.

• So while these three things make submitting difficult, neither pride/sin, culture, nor your imperfect husband are excuses to ignore God’s command to submit to your husband.

THE SECRET SAUCE
• So how do we do it? How do wives submit to their husbands, and all of us submit to Christ?

• The secret sauce is actually in Eph 5:18. You need to be filled with the Holy Spirit (v. 18). You actually do need God’s help. Paul says that when you’re filled with the HS four things happen:
o You address one another in hymns (5:19) – so you interact properly with one another
o You sing to the Lord (5:20) – you’re thankful to God
o You give thanks (5:20) – you’re appreciative
o You submit to one another (5:21)

• God’s Holy Spirit is the secret sauce to living out your faith in humble submission!