Marriage

I was changing channels, when I ran into Pastor Joel on the Tube. After Pastor Joel, there was Ed Young on Channel 55 in Houston. He was speaking about marriage. He said a 19 year old girl wrote to Ann Landers saying she never wanted to get married ever. The girl was cynical about marriage. Yeah, sounds familiar to me.

He asks us, when we think of marriage, do we think of cynicism or celebration.

He says the job description of the wife is found in the Bible. Ephesians 5:22-24 says:

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

The pastor advises men that if they are right and their wives are wrong, there's a problem. The pastor advises men that if they are wrong and their wives are right, then the men are learning. There pastor says there is no place for physical abuse or emotional abuse in a marriage.

He also points the wives to 1 Peter 3:1-2:

Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do
not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of
their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.

The pastor says if the husband is not doing the right thing, that the wife should get out of the way. The wife needs to have faith that God will fix the husband as long as she gets out of the way. The husband needs to live a sacrificial life. The pastor says if wives act in biblical submission, then God will bless thm and their husbands will protect them as God intended.

Hmm... Well, I'm not married, so I don't have to worry about any of this.