Section 4
and say, "Lord, You did not grasp equality with God, and I do not grasp my headship. Neither do I insist on my position as a husband. By your gracious mercy, I lay aside my headship." Simply by doing this, he experiences the first step of God's constant salvation. Now he must go on to experience the rest by humbling himself, even unto death. Instead of feeling resentment toward his wife for having to lay aside his headship, he should humble himself before her. This is to ex perience the pattern of constant salvation from incarnation to the death of the cross. If the brother experiences this, God will come in to raise him and exalt him. Then the brother will also expe rience the standard of God's instant salvation. As a result, his wife may be humbled, troubled by the fact that she has been giving him a dif ficult time. Instead of reacting to her in a neg ative way, her husband emptied himself and humbled himself. Now she realizes that in his experience of Christ he is exalted and enthroned. He has experienced constant salvation with its pattern and standard.
In 2:5-16 we see how to work out our own salvation. We also see the source and the power for a constant salvation. As we consider the pat tern and the standard found here, we see that we