A f a t h e r w a s showing his young son a picture of his wife taken before they were married some 15 years previously. The little twelve year old studied it carefully and then answered, ‘'Mom sure looked prettier before she came to work for us, didn’t she?” The years have a way of taking their toll on us. It may seem that the tiresome habits and routines of life have dulled the home associations and even the domestic tranquility. There is a way, however, for a woman to get a new husband. There are far too many self-appoint ed and self-styled experts in the field of marital counseling. A woman wrote us not too long ago that she was get ting . advice from her milkman. It seems she felt he was particularly adept at handing out information on family relations since he had already been married four times. It seems absurd and yet it is true. The only sure basis must be the Word of God, the Bible. In I Peter 3:1-7 a very significant study is given. The women to whom Peter directly wrote probably had. been saved after marriage. The Bible clearly teaches that believers are not to marry unbe lievers. “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with un righteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (II Corin thians 6 :14 ). It was that great war rior of the faith, Dr. Harry Ironside, who once said, “If a child of God mar ries a child of the devil, then the child of God will doubtless have trouble with his father-in-law.” The Bible does not promise that if a believer marries
an unbeliever he or she will win that mate to Christ. Actual case histories reveal that the percentages are over whelmingly against it. The first verse of I Peter 3 states, “Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may with out the word be won by the conversa tion of the wives.” This statement, “likewise,” signifies that in the same maimer as slaves and servants-are in subjection to their masters, so Chris tian wives are to be in subordination to their husbands. Church history again reveals that it was the belief among some of these women that since they had found Christ after marriage, and since their spouses did not seem interested in the things of God, they were then to leave them; to dissolve the marriage. The Bible, however, is very clear and explicit on this sub ject. Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul wrote, “The woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him” (I Cor. 7:13). Hence, the message title, “How to Get a New Husband.”' Notice, however, that it is not “How to Get a D ifferent Husband,” or “How to Get Another Husband,” but rather one who has been wonderfully transformed by the miracle-working power of God’s grace. For if any man (husband) be in Christ he is a new creature (husband), old things are passed away behold all things are become new.” The idea of subjection is not a popu lar topic. Only when Christianity en ters a land is a woman given her right ful place. In lands where the Bible is 30
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