A Word to Men Who Demean Their Wives

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

God calls husbands to provide and protect, not demean and belittle. Husbands must lead, but always with gentleness and grace, especially in the home.

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0:00.0	Well, this is an important and too common theme in our inbox, a question over, men belittling
0:10.9	women as inferior, perhaps in the name of complementarity even.
0:16.5	I see this too often in the inbox and emails from wives, and we haven't covered this yet
0:21.2	head on.
0:22.2	I wish we didn't have to, but we do.
0:24.1	Dear Pastor John, my husband and I have been married for nearly 30 years.
0:27.8	These grown convinced that there is something wrong with me.
0:31.0	I'm a Christian and have been since I was 10 years old.
0:34.2	He is also convinced that God sees me as subservient to him and in every way.
0:39.2	Tonight I ask him if he believes women are subservient to men in creation and he answered
0:43.4	without hesitation.
0:45.1	Yes.
0:46.3	He has always treated me like he is superior to me in every way.
0:50.7	The way he treats me is very hurtful and I don't think I can continue to go on with
0:54.5	his angry, aggressive spirit.
0:56.9	And he gets angry with me about anything.
0:58.9	He locks me out of the bedroom and out of the house.
1:01.6	I literally want to run away.
1:04.1	I despise this life.
1:06.0	Please help encourage wives who are treated like this, who are treated as inferior.
1:12.6	Perhaps it will be of some help.
1:14.6	I hope so.
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