The Unbelieving Spouse

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 The Unbelieving Spouse
Praise Jesus. It is a blessing to be in the will of God and to be in submission to Him. The way to walk and to stay on the straight and narrow path is to be connected to Jesus and to be humbled before Him every day. If we are not holding Jesus's hand no matter what we will be shaken, we will fall off the path. One of the easiest ways to fall off the path is by a friend or a family member, a fellow Christian who prophesies over you or who becomes a leader to you, a counselor a pastor. When you allow people close to you, they also can be used by Satan to get you off of the path. 
And many Christians have been mixed up with false religion, false believers, false brothers and sisters. And they have made people their teacher. They have sought to please people rather than God. And because they have itching ears and they don't care to engage their relationship with Jesus every day. They fall off that straight and narrow path. For some of them, it is their spouse, their children, their grandparents, their grandkids. We know what Jesus said how He came to be like a sword even dividing families. Jesus talked about how He came to turn people against each other. He talked even about a mother or a mother-in-law, your own brother, your own sister, your own dad or mother, all these people over Jesus will be turned against one another. Because when we choose to be on that straight and narrow path, the devil will use anyone to try to pull you off. He will try to use anyone to distract you and to pull you back down, so that ultimately you will not make it, but you will end in hell. There is one goal the devil house and that is to bring souls to hell. And as disciples, we also have a goal and that is to fish for men, to bring men into the kingdom of God. If we are with Jesus, we need to stay in the middle of the straight and narrow path. That way we can steer clear all of the agents of Satan, all those demonic lions that are prowling ready to devour any flesh that gets to the side of the road. If we stay in the middle and we hold Jesus's hand, He is the lamp to our feet and the light to our path. 

I had a few questions that I wanted to address this afternoon. And the first one is in regards to an unbelieving spouse. For example, if you are married and you are trying to follow Jesus but your husband doesn't or maybe he's religious. And you have seen the error in the way of dead religion, so what should you do as a wife? Should you follow your husband to church, or should you be rebellious and tell your husband I will not follow you? Because both of these appear wrong. So you find yourself in an area of compromise with God. The only solution for these sorts of problems is to go to Jesus and ask Him.  I don't have the answer. No pastor can give you the answer. But we know that Jesus is the Way. He is the Way out of death. He is the Way out of trouble. He is the Way out of the shackles of the world. And if we just go to Him and say, “Lord, I know that you're the answer. I know that you're the Way. And I'm not sure what to do in my circumstance. I have an unbelieving spouse. Help me to know what to do to be loyal to you. O, God, and also do the most loving thing to and for my spouse.” And if you pray with humility, God is ready to help any of us. He is ready to guide us to show us the way. He is not the God of condemnation. He is not the God to just cast His judgment on us when we don't know and we don't have wisdom. But when we seek the Lord in humility and seek first His kingdom, He always makes the way for us because He Himself is the Way.

A lot of people for these sorts of things, they go to counselors and they get themselves into more trouble. Because the counselor suggests something that is against God. Or even worse yet, they go to another person of the opposite sex, and they get counseling from the guy down the street. And when their husband is not present, the wife and some other guy are counseling each other. And that is a way for Satan to get in and cause adultery. Many people have fallen into adultery by counseling the opposite sex. We have to be very careful about going to other people for advice, especially with marital problems. That's where a lot of adultery happens, and really bad things happen. Because you start to allow another person into your private life. It would be better if you worked out your relationship with your spouse directly and with God directly rather than bringing other people, other men from the church into your life, bringing them into your home when your husband is gone. Those things will wreak havoc on your family. That stuff is disastrous, guys.  If you want to fix your marriage and be in right standing and right relationship with God, then you need to face Jesus Christ and...