Good morning and welcome in everybody. Today, we are going to take a look at a passage of scripture, but before we do that, I wanted to tell you a little story.
I can remember having a conversation with a young man about the position that he had with his company. I asked him if he enjoyed what he did and if he was planning to stay. He told me that there were many aspects of his job that he really did enjoy, but a lot of the time it came with many stressful situations, especially when dealing with employees and other coworkers. He felt that it really wasn’t everything that he thought it was going to be, when he first got started in the business. When I asked him if he ever considered switching jobs, he told me that leaving his current position would probably be the most stupid thing that he could ever do in his life. He had already put in over ten years, and was building not only his career, but his future retirement package. He said that the most foolish thing that he could ever imagine doing would be to quit his job and start a brand new one somewhere else.
This reminds me of the Christian Life.
This is the normal sentiment of many working men out in the world, because rather than switching jobs, they will hold fast to the one that they have. But a foolish wife can turn from a homemaker to a homewrecker in the flip of a switch, when she finally decides to abandon the will of God and ventures back into the world once again. The repercussions for what she does will be far worse than switching jobs in the world, because she is abandoning the job that was given to her by God, and throwing her faith right into the dumpster. A woman who has been baptized into the faith who commits these types of deeds defiles herself in the sight of our precious Lord Jesus. At that point she makes herself unfit for the kingdom of God, because she has abandoned the job that God called her to, and rather than abiding as a faithful homemaker, she takes upon herself the new job of a homewrecker instead.
2 Peter 2:20-22 (KJB) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Many people don’t consider marriage a job, but that is a great part of what it is for the Christian wife. She has chosen to become a servant of her husband, laboring for him as a homemaker and guide over his home and children. Just like an assistant manager at a job somewhere, she has become second in command, and seeks to obey him in everything. To be successful at any type of job you will have to be ready to go the distance, taking the good with the bad and never allowing the idea of a career change to enter your mind. Her duties in Christ Jesus are to be a homemaker, and she must never walk off on her duties.
Titus 2:5 (KJB) To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Men of God are a laborer for the Lord but a wife is a laborer for her husband. She is a help meet, something that she was created for since the very beginning. When a woman decides to get married, she is entering into a lifelong career, agreeing to remain by her husband’s side until death separates them. It is a permanent union, one that is not to be put asunder, by either party. To have a successful marriage in the eyes of Christ is to be merciful with each other, because there will be not only good times but there will also be rough times that you will have to get through together. There is no justification in the New Testament for a wife leaving her husband’s side, much less divorcing him. When she gets married she is entering into a commitment to her spouse to abide by his side no matter what happens during their lives. Even in the church, sins might be committed occasionally, but this can also happen during a marriage. But when a wife decides to dissolve or break up her marriage, she is plucking down the household of her husband, something that she has been a part of building with their own hands.
Proverbs 14:1 (KJB) Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
When a woman is baptized into the Christian Life and even has Holy Communion, she is not to depart her husband as commanded by Christ Jesus in the New Testament. If she violates this command she must remain unmarried so that she can repent and reconcile with her husband once again in the future.
1 Corinthians 7:10-11 (KJB) And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
The Christian woman already has an employer, her husband, and she is not supposed to go traipsing out into the world and start looking for another job. It doesn’t matter if her husband is a believer or an unbeliever, she must be in perfect subjection to his will. She must treat him in the exact same manner as she would the Lord Jesus Christ, which is why departing a marriage is so wicked. She must serve him faithfully as her lord, remembering that this is the same way that Sarah treated Abraham.
1 Peter 3:1-6 (KJB) Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.
1 Timothy 5:14 (KJB) I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
Like spending twenty years building a business only to see it brought to ruin, some foolish wives are going to do the exact same thing. They will walk away from the job that God has called them to, and wander back into the world looking for a new job instead. This is not only foolish, it is stupidity, because she doesn’t even consider what she is doing to the lives of her husband and her own children. In the process she is tearing down the one thing in life that God expected her to complete, the building of the home of her husband. But this will be the shameful fate of any woman, who decides to switch jobs, from,…..
………Homemaker to Homewrecker
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