Genesis
26:6-7
"And
Isaac dwelt in Gerar: And the men of the place asked him of his wife;
and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife;
lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah;
because she was fair to look upon."
Instead
of saying, "This my wife and I’m ready to die for her",
he says, "She is my sister." In so many words Isaac is
saying, "You can have her", and according to custom they
do. They took her to the king because she was beautiful, stunning to say the least.
Genesis
26:8-9
"And
it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and behold,
Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. And Abimelech called Isaac,
and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou,
She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die
for her."
We
know that the Lord intervened again, before anything could happen,
and He spared both Abraham, and Isaac, and their wives.
Do
you see now how women can rest on the promises of God? That is, if you are
submissive to your husband as Sarah and Rebekah were, even though
your husband can make a stupid move, God by His intercessory power
can take care of the situation. So do not ever doubt that God can
overcome every bad situation, He is more than able.
As
we proceed, and by way of reminder we do not promote any
denomination. We maintain that this Bible is for everybody, as no
denomination has a corner on heaven or salvation. We a tempt to just
simply share the Word and we allow the chips fall where they may. Not
everyone likes where the chips falls, and sometimes we step on toes.
One lady, left me an e-mail, in which she said, "My toes
are bleeding." to that I answered, "Well come back again
and I will do it all over again. I can not back off from what the
Bible says, just to keep from hurting peoples feelings." I just
try to lay it out as plainly as possible, what the Bible and the Holy
Spirit leads me to say, and often what it does not say.
Before
we continue allow me to ask, have any of you ever thought about what
Jesus was saying when He said talking about Satan's (Belial's,
Beelzebub's and I might also add Molach's house), "a kingdom or house
divided can not stand" (Matthew 12:25, Mark 3:25, Luke 11:17 and
12:52)? This
is a two edged sword, in other words it has a double meaning. To put it in our days context, this is what we have in
denominationalism which is exactly what Satan has been working
overtime doing for the past ruffly 2000 years now. A kingdom or house
divided that is splintered into groups oppose God and greatly hinder
God's activities from every which way. This is why I cannot promote
any church or church group or denomination and because of what
2Corinthians 6:11 through 7:5 reveals when rightly divided,
understood.
We
had gone back and looked at how Abraham and Isaac, who were both
failures as husbands a couple of times, but God interceded, and took
care of their wives in spite of their failures. We maintain the same
thing is appropriate today. When we have a wife who submits to her
husband, he may not always be right, he may at times stumble, yet if
she plays her role as God intends her to do, He will make up the
differences. Always remember that Paul is talking about the
marriage relationship of believers. Now lord knows that ungodly men
cannot be given this kind of freedom and responsibility, because they
would abuse it. This we can see around the world by the miss treatment of children and woman in foreign countries under the banner of Religion and in some places Government controlled by Religion.
We
are not talking about those kind of men. But rather we are talking
about believing men who know the Lord. Who love and obey the Lord,
the Spirit who, as we have seen in these previous verses, knows what
it is to walk in the fullness of the Spirit. What it is to walk
in the life of rejoicing and happiness, knowing the Lord is the head
of the husband, as the husband, in turn is the head of the wife. So
always keep this in perspective. This has not given men a free reign
to just simply lord it over the women. No way! Nothing in Scripture
ever gives men that prerogative of privilege. But when it comes to
the final analysis of decision making, and especially when it comes
to disciplining the children, then the major responsibly falls on the
father, as we are going to see in our next chapter. We know this is
a far cry from today where most of the discipline is left to the
little mother or there is none at all. When I hear the way allot of
child speak to their parents these days it disguises me to no end,
for if I ever spoke in that fashion I would have found myself on the
ground or with a hot rear-end for sure. Or possibly with soap washing
the inside of my mouth.
Ephesians
5:23
"For
the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of
the church: and he is the savior of the body."
Now
always remember that the word "Church" does not mean that
building on the corner. You know the one with the phallic symbol called a prayer tower on its roof with a cross on its top or peck.
As we were thinking about these things,
we remembered when we put together our daughter and her husband now
sixteen years ago. She was from Florida and he was from here in
Tennessee, and her expression always was, "The Church house."
"We’re going to go to the Church house." Yeah, they had
searched around for the right church house and found one close to
where her now husband grow up. Well here in Tennessee, and for most
people today, that is almost an over used term. Oh we used to ride
herd on her for saying that, and would ask, where do you get that?
Well she would say, "that’s what it is!" But we
had though had used the term many times, we just called it the
Church or the little white Church. Back where I came from they were
on what seemed to be every street corner and across the street on the
opposite corner everyone's favorite watering whole, a bar or tavern.
But you know what? She was right, it is the Church house, that
building is not the Church.
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