There are hundreds of battles right out there in the world that are being waged right now

in the field of conflicting ideas regarding husbands and wives and homes.

There are myriads of views and philosophies

that are bombarding us in the media.

And they all are struggling to capture our attention.

They all are struggling to gain our allegiance.

And I believe that in a time like this, that we are to go to the most assuring place,

we are to go to the source of comfort for answers.

That is the infallible, inspired, inherent word of God.

Now, I'm fully aware that there are some, perhaps many,

in the mainline churches today who would see the biblical view of marriage, the biblical view of the role of a husband to her wife and a wife to her husband, to be outmoded,

to be obsolete, to be old-fashioned, to be offensive, to be in opposition

to progress and cultural consensus. Every word I mentioned come from somewhere. I did not make it

up. Yet in my estimation, our biggest problems begin when we depart from the revealed mind of God in the words of the scripture.

Our troubles begin when we depart from the revealed mind of God as we have it in His Word.

And the sooner we understand and obey what God has to say to us, even in this conflicting society,

if we understand and obey the role of the husband and wife in the word of God, the greater I believe our peace will be, the greater our harmony will be.

So I begin where the scripture begins.

But before I do this, I want to say two things by way of explanation.

I'm going to single out the men today, and I'm going to speak about the role of the husband.

Women go to seminars, read books. Did you know that 85% of all the Christian books

are bought by women? This is absolute statistics. Men don't read books, don't buy them.

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