Wives. Submit yourself to your husbands. I don't like that. Well, either there's something

wrong with the author of Scripture or what?

I say when you read through the Bible and you come upon a text that bothers you, you don't

have to just be paralyzed and stop there and stay there forever. You know, move on, but

mark it and I say if you find a passage you don't understand, put a red mark next to it.

And then later on, come back and focus on those red marks. Say, here's a portion of Scripture,

I don't understand. I'm going to devote special attention to trying to understand these

passages that are difficult. What a great way to learn. If you focus on the obstacles to

your progress and remove them one by one, you'll have this augmented understanding. But

even more importantly, are those texts that jar your emotions and you read that and you say,

I don't like what the Bible says here. Put a big mark next to that one. To those passages

in Scripture that offend you, that at first glance you disagree with. Now, those are the ones

you really need to put your focus and your attention upon if you want to grow rapidly because

one of two things will happen. You may discover that the reason why that text offended you or

annoyed your sensitivities is because you didn't understand it. And after you delve into it and examine

it, read the commentaries on it, come to a better insight of what it means. Now, your problem is

resolved and you can move on and in the meantime, you've gained new insight and new understanding.

But suppose you check all the commentaries and you're careful in your examination of the text

and you find out that you understand it exactly right and it still makes you mad.

And you don't like it. Wives submit yourself to your husbands. I don't like that. You say,

well, put three checks next to that because that means one of two things. Either there's

something wrong with the author of Scripture who wrote those words. There's something wrong with

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