Some people just can't stand to be told the truth.
A woman wrote me this week, upset over my article
A Woman's Role In Marriage.
She just couldn't stand to hear the truth that a wife is to be subject unto
her husband in EVERY THING. In the article, I quote Pastor Curtis Hutson
(former pastor and editor of the Sword of the Lord) as saying...
The Holy Spirit says, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ. so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
She says, "In every thing?"
"Yes, every thing."
I made a mistake as a young pastor that I corrected later. I told a lady, when her husband told her not to go to church, "You just tell him you are going to church anyway. You are going to live for God." I gave her unscriptural advice. You are to be to your husband what the church is to Christ--submissive, obedient.
It is like buttoning up a shirt--if you get one button right, you get the rest right. If you get your role right and keep it right, no matter how much pressure comes--and you can believe there is going to be pressure--it will work out right. A preacher once said, "Do good and it will be good."
I couldn't agree more with Dr. Hutson, and thank God for his candor in these powerful and necessary words. Well, the woman was upset over the Biblical teaching that wives are to obey their husband in EVERY THING! ... "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing" (Ephesians 5:24). She argued that a wife doesn't have to obey her husband if he's wrong. In fact, she is wrong. We're talking about obedience here. Some people beat around the bush and allege that being "subject" or being "submissive" is not the same as being "obedient"; HOWEVER, the Bible eliminates all such speculation by associating a wife's obedience with that of the Church obeying Jesus Christ. It would be absurd for anyone to say that the church should be subject to Christ, and submit to Christ, but does not have to necessarily obey Christ. I know a pastor, who's name you'd almost certainly know if I mentioned him, who teaches this exact heresy (i.e., that wives are to submit to their husbands, but not obey). Oh really? Evidently he's never read 1st Peter 3:6... "Even as Sara OBEYED Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement."
The Bible commands wives to OBEY their own husband (1st Peter 3:1-5). To teach anything else is rebellion against the Scriptures. Dr. Curtis Hutson is 100% correct. Ephesians 5:24 plainly states that a wife is to be subject (Greek, hupotasso, meaning, TO OBEY, to put in subjection under) to her own husband, just as she would to Jesus Christ. Feminism has corrupted America's wives, which is why women file for divorce TWICE as much as men. It is evil. Every wife who divorces her husband is saying to God... "I refuse to obey my husband and I don't care, and because I am a self-righteous hypocrite, I am focusing on all his faults and divorcing him." But you ask ... as all excuse makers do ... what about ______? What about it? There were NO disclaimers in your wedding vows. You promised... "for better for worse, 'til death do is part."
Godless heathens always try to justify their sins. Just as those who file for divorce, murderous abortionists are always trying to justify murdering children with claims of rape, incest, and abuse...or of back-alley abortions. The truth is that there's NOT ONE recorded incident of a mother terminating her pregnancy with a coat hanger. This was lying propaganda intended to sway public opinion in the 1970's, as is much of the lies we hear today from the newsmedia. The number of pregnancies due to rapes and incest is not even .01% of the 48,000,000 babies murdered in the U.S.! So the abortionists are a bunch of liars who greatly exaggerate and distort the facts in order to murder children! Think about it... you know as well as I do that of the 48,000,000 babies murdered by abortion in the U.S.--47,900,000 of them were conceived through consensual fornication.
Using the same twisted and dishonest mentality as the abortionists, feminists today demonize husbands, distort statistics, spew hypocritical claims of domestic violence and abuse, and brainwash wives into filing for divorce. We are bombarded with domestic abuse advertisements everywhere we turn; but you'll NEVER hear one single mention of the wife's role in a marriage. It's utterly hypocritical. Feminists won't dare talk about the wife who doesn't want to cook, clean, be a mother, or fulfil her wifely obligations. The truth about America's skyrocketing divorce rate is that 90% of all divorces are NOT caused by domestic abuse; but rather, by rebellious wives with bad attitudes. Now I'm not defending any husbands who file for divorce, shame on them; however, many American women today have spoiled brat attitudes that are driving their husbands away. When God created Eve, He gave her to Adam, and her sole purpose for existence was to serve and to help her husband (Genesis 2:18). Now how does that compare to the attitudes and goals of most wives today? Carefully notice that God did NOT create Eve to do anything for God!!! Rather, Eve's sole purpose in creation was to help her husband. Extremely FEW wives today are willing to accept their Biblical role in marriage. It is the hardness of women's hearts today that is causing so much divorce (Matthew 19:8).
Get mad at me if you want, I'm going to speak
the truth of God's Word. So you're really angry at God. Women
are to remain quiet in church (1st Corinthians 14:34), women are not allowed
to teach or lead men (1st Timothy 2:12), women are forbidden from wearing
pants or miniskirts (1st Timothy 2:9), women are to bare children and guide
the home (1st Timothy 5:14), and women are to obey their husband in EVERY
THING (Ephesians 5:24).
They Just Can't Stand the Truth!
I receive hundreds of letters from people who are trying to find a way around the plain teachings of the Scriptures. Ephesians 5:24 speaks for Itself. Most churches today don't even have the truth, let alone speak the truth. The Word of God is Truth (John 17:17). Jesus Christ is Truth (John 14:6). The Holy Spirit is Truth (1st John 5:6). God must be worshipped in spirit and Truth (John 4:24). 2nd Thessalonians 2:10 tells us that the masses of this world will be deceived by the Antichrist because they don't love the Truth. The Truth is important my friend.
"Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement." -1st Peter 3:6
