California. After the meetings were over, the pastor asked me to shake hands with the folks. Many were very gracious and came up to say good bye. In the crowd was a little 105-pound woman who looked at me with fire in her eyes. She said, “Well, I enjoyed what you said except that part on submission, and I’ve got a message for you. Just remember, you are a man.” I looked her in the face and said, “Madam, I didn’t conceive that idea. It came right out of the Bible.” “Yes,” she said, “and both Peter and Paul were men.” Then I looked at her and said, “Well, Ma dam, what gender is God?” Then she puffed off. I am sorry for that poor soul. She is rebelling against the known will of God. Unless she con fesses and gets that thing right with God, she will be a miserable person. Miserable people make miserable wives, and miserable wives make miserable mothers. CHAPTER TEN The third key to a happy mar riage is love. Three times in the Word of God we are told, “Husbands, love your wives.” This is not an ad monition, but an absolute command. “Husbands, love your wives.” Do you know what love is? Most people don’t. Most people really don’t com prehend the meaning of love. Let me read to you God’s description found in I Corinthians 13:4-8 from Living Letters: “Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not de mand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do wrong. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices when ever truth wins out. If you love some one, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You’ll always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.”
have all kinds of psychoneuroses in young people and children today. They lack a sense of security be cause they had no real father image. I remember a young woman who came in for counseling, who had a tremendous hostility problem. When we got down to the heart of it, it was against her mother. She had a very strong choleric-prone mother. The girl despised her mother because of the way she treated her father all through the years. She had loved her father and hated the way he let his wife push him around. May I say that you can push your husband around, you can dominate him, but you can’t make him happy while you do it! You won’t be preparing your young people for the right kind of Christian life. In fact, do you know LOST Lost interest, oh Lord can it be? Lost interest in souls who are call ing for Thee? Lost interest? Oh, where would I be, Yes, hopeless, had someone lost interest in me? Open my eyes, Lord, help me to see Lost interest in souls means lost interest in Thee. that you can’t be a spiritual woman and dominate your husband? The Bibles make it very clear that the wife’s position is to be in subjection to her own husband. Let me read to you a couple of passages. The Bible says, “Wives, submit yourselves un to 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 hus bands in every thing.” Sometimes I meet women who say, “Well, I can be subject to my husband in most things.” But the Bible says, “in everything.” Some years ago I held a week of meetings in a church in Northern 14
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