If you are married, Nancy DeMas Walgamuth reminds you that your husband's sin doesn't give you a free pass to sin.

You don't have to let a harsh, badly behaved man turn you into a harsh, badly behaved woman.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for January 20th, 2020.

Nancy here at Revive Our Hearts, we get letters all the time from women in really difficult

marriages.

They say, my husband is harsh, or maybe they say he's unreasonable, or even controlled by addiction,

and they ask the question, what should I do?

And, of course, that's not an easy answer, and there's no one-size-fits-all

because every situation is different. But I think it's so important to turn our attention to the

word and to get our wisdom and our counsel from the scripture. And in the Old Testament, we find

a not well-known woman named Abigail who was in a situation,

not unlike that, which many women faced today.

In fact, Nancy, today we're going to begin a series where you taught on this woman, Abigail.

Her story is found in 1 Samuel 25, and you called this series How to Live with the Fools in Your Life.

Let's listen.

Abigail has become one of my favorite Old Testament characters.

She is an extraordinary woman, and there's a lot we can learn from

her life, but not only from her life, but also from the two men who are the other main

characters in this story. Now at any given time in your life, you may relate to any one of

these three characters. So we're not just going to study Abigail. We want to look

at the other two men who were involved in her life. And as we do this character study, we want to

see what God has to teach us for our lives. Now let's start with verse one, which is the setting for this

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