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On Protection In the Biblical Family Part 1
Why did God give His people the Ten Commandments, why did He give them the case laws, why did He formulate all these statutes for them? Western society experiences commandments as a restriction to individual freedom, but it fails to realize that the only freedom to be had is the choice between God's law and man's law (Deu 30). God wants His people to walk in His path and be a holy people so that it might be well with them (Deu 4:40). God loves His people so much that he wants only this for them (Deu 5:29), but He also knows that left to their own devices, people ruin themselves quickly (Exo 32), for the nature of men is wicked (Gen 6:5). So He gives them rules for a good life as a means of protecting them from their own nature, and from the evil world around them. Under His protection, God's people are free to live well, to fulfill the creation ordinance, and to be pure and holy in God's loving eyes.
What God does for His people is exactly what a husband and father should do for his family. As Christ is the head of man, man is the head of woman, and as man is the glory of God, woman is the glory of man (1 Cor 11:3, 7). The bible often spells out the wife's need to submit herself to her own husband in all things and without fear (1 Pe 3:1, 7; Eph 5:22-24; Col 5:20-21), usually stressing at the same time the husband's responsibility for his family (1 Pe 3:7; Eph 5:25-33; Col 3:9, for children Eph 6:4; Col 5:20-21). The attitude asked of the wife is the same that God asked of the people of Israel, the relationship between a husband and his wives the same as between Christ and the church (Eph 5:25). That means that a husband who loves his wife or wives and children will protect them from any potential harm, any potential defilement or uncleanliness, any potential idolatry, adultery, sorcery, in short, any fruit of the flesh that might harm his family.
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