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I Want To Be Like Sarah - 1 Peter 3:1-9
1) The document discusses how wives should emulate Sarah by submitting to their husbands. It provides examples of how Sarah submitted to Abraham and calls wives to have a gentle spirit rather than focusing on outward beauty. 2) It encourages wives to submit for the purpose of potentially winning over disobedient husbands through godly living. It also calls husbands to treat wives with consideration and honor. 3) The document concludes by saying Christians should emulate Christ's humility and that being like Sarah means being like Christ.
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- 4. What was Sarahlike? Was she a good mother? Was she a good wife? What made her pleasing to God?
- 5. II Peter 3:1-13 1In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct. 3 Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes – 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.
- 6. 5 For inthe same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You become her children when you do what is good and have no fear in doing so.
- 7. How to belike Sarah 1 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands. 1 Pet. 2:13–14 13 Be subject to every human institution for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as supreme 14 or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good. 1 Peter 2:18–19 (NET) 18 Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse. 19 For this finds God’s favor, if because of conscience toward God someone endures hardships in suffering unjustly. Not to men in general but to your husband
- 8. Why be likeSarah and submit to your husband? Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, 2 when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
- 9. Sarah’s internal beautyexceeded her external beauty 3 Let your beauty not be external – the braiding of hair and wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes – 4 but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. Valuable, costly, expensive
- 10. Sarah submitted toher husband 5 For in the same way the holy women who hoped in God long ago adorned themselves by being subject to their husbands, 6 like Sarah who obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. Sarah submitted: • When she left Ur with him for Canaan • When she told Pharaoh and Abimelech that she was Abraham’s sister. • When she left Pharaoh and Abimelech and went back to Abraham. • When she administrated the household while her husband was out fighting battles. • When she wanted a child through Hagar.Gen. 18:12 (NASB95) Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure, my lord (Heb. Adon-) being old also?”
- 11. Husbands should havethe same humility. 7 Husbands, in the same way, treat your wives with consideration as the weaker partners and show them honor as fellow heirs of the grace of life. In this way nothing will hinder your prayers. 1 Peter 2:17 (NET) Honor all people, love the family of believers, fear God, honor the king.
- 12. Servants, Wives, Husbands- Christians 8 Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, affectionate, compassionate, and humble. 9 Do not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless others because you were called to inherit a blessing.
- 13. To Be LikeSarah is to be like Christ
- 14. Philippians 2:5–11 (NET) •5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had, 6 who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature. 8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death – even death on a cross! 9 As a result God exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth – 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.