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Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Ephesians 5:21, Philippians 2:5-8, Matthew 20:25-28, Acts 21
One Anothering
Submit to One Another
Ephesians 5:21, Philippians 2:5-8, Matthew 20:25-28, Acts 21
Battleships must learn to submit to lighthouses.
“People are not complex, they really just want to achieve their personal definition of peace and quiet and to have their own sweet way.”
In its most general use, submission means to yield to another’s admonition and advice.
This mutual submission, even by those who are in authority, is a distinctive concept made possible by Jesus Christ.
The apostle Paul, who recorded these observations about Christ, and who gave us the command to submit to one another, also put this command into
practice in his own life.
He willingly set aside being right and defending himself for a higher good.
And so first of all, we must understand that submission is not about being a doormat.
I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.