God is not calling women to be slavish in the way they relate to their husbands.

Martin Luther once said of his beloved Catherine von Borough, he called Katie or sometimes

Mrs. Dr. Luther. He observed on one occasion, he said,

if God wanted me to be married to a meek woman,

he'd have to carve one out of stone.

What he was saying was that Katie was beautiful inside, and she had a great spirit, but

she wasn't a doormat for anybody, for Martin Luther, or anyone else that came into the house.

God is not calling women to be doormats, to be slavish in the way they relate to their husbands

any more than God will ever tolerate a man exercising a tyranny over his wife.

Again, one of the great calamities of our day is the epidemic of wife abuse.

And I'm going to say this to every man in this room.

There are lots of sins that I can understand, but I cannot for the life of me. Understand how any man could ever hit a woman.

Never let it be said of you that you would ever let your anger in a domestic dispute move

you to such an action as to actually hit your wife.

That's absolutely unconscionable.

And I've had women come to me battered and say, what should I do?

And I said, let me tell you what to do.

Don't wait another hour.

Call the police and put him in jail.

Because that's where he belongs.

Not free to beat up on women or on children.

You've been listening to Ultimately with R.C. Sprole.

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