We obey Christ? True? In His Word, He commands wives to submit, to be fully subject, to their husbands in everything. Everything. All. Other than a rare demand to break the law or perverted sex, the wife is to then obey Christ in this, her #1 duty to Jesus her Lord. No excuses, for He will judge her at His judgment seat for every action and motive.
Cut it any way you like…parse the words until you’re blue in the face: obey Christ, submit to your husband. Obey your husband, submit to Christ. They are interchangeable words and doctrines. If she refuses and continues her rebellion, the wife blasphemes the Word of God (Titus 2). Pretty scary words, no? But for the few that surrender, the joy is waiting…the joy you always dreamed and prayed for to the God who designed you to submit to him and Him…in everything!
Elizabeth Rich Handford uses God’s Word to present the reason for a wife’s subjection to her husband. She shows how the husband and wife relationship is the foundation for a happy and godly home. And at the same time, she shows how a submissive wife is not an inferior partner.
This insightful resource helps detail the prime and little acknowledged fact that the wife, especially the Christian wife, is the main influence in a glorious and fruitful marriage. And isn’t that what all women want…the glorious marriage for her Lord? Of course, tragically we get the occasional physically and emotionally abusive husband.
But the reality remains that there’s just as many, if not more, woman who emotionally abuse their husbands by countless forms of disrespect both spiritually, emotionally, and sexually.
I distinctly remember in the 1980’s when as a pagan husband my grossly passive-aggressive first wife (a very lost adult child of an alcoholic) handed me a Gary Smalley book that boldly claimed that any continuing problem in a marriage is “always the husband’s fault.” What a lie, and burden that the average husband who wants a good marriage is unable to bear. The truth is exactly the opposite. The wife has a 400% greater influence than any man in all categories: spiritual, emotional, and sexual.
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From the book description:
Elizabeth Rich Handford uses God’s Word to present the reason for a wife’s subjection to her husband. She shows how the husband and wife relationship is the foundation for a happy and godly home. And at the same time, she shows how a submissive wife is not an inferior partner.
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Your friend and brother in fighting the good fight,
Marc
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Marc White, Director, Walk Worthy Ministries, www.WalkWorthy.org
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