If you are wise as a serpent you will not allow your wife to make you disobey God.
You will make her obey God. You will notice that when the serpent came into the garden to tempt them, he did not talk to the man at all. He only spoke to the woman. The devil knew that he could get to the man through the woman. Because the bible teaches husbands to love their wives, it is difficult for Christian husbands to be hard on their wives. Many Christian husbands end up disobeying God because they do not want to be hard on the wives they are supposed to subdue. Eve put pressure on her husband and made him disobey God. All the disasters of this world came into being because of this singular marital mistake. Are you making the same mistake today? Are you being soft when you are supposed to be hard? Look at the problems we have in our world today. It all came from a husband who was soft when he should have been hard.
… she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 3:1-7
6.If you are wise as a serpent you will rebuke your wife and put her in place when you have to.
You must subdue your wife with the strength that it requires. You must subdue the manipulative tendencies that rise within your spouse. David the king rebuked Michal and put her in place when she came huffing and puffing at the king for letting his clothes slip off whilst he was dancing. Many wives’ unruly speeches and behaviour go unchecked.
Even pastors, seeking to remain in the good books of church members, do not rebuke these rebellious wives when they have to.
This results in the multiplication of rebelliousness in the women within the church. David had no difficulty in putting Michal in her place.
Another reason why unruly woman are left unchecked is because people cannot imagine that ugly behaviour can come from such beautiful women. Many beautiful women are actually ugly on the inside. All their softness and beauty is just a façade! Watch how David did it! That’s the way to do it. Learn from king David. He was a man after God’s own heart! Perhaps it was the way he handled his wife Michal that made him a man after God’s own heart. It was Abraham’s ability to control his household that made God choose him. It is your ability to lead your household that qualifies you to be a bishop.
Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
2 Samuel 6:16-22
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