02 September 2018
Two-Minute Features | 09 September 2018

We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 4 (TMF:970)

Friday, September 07, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 4 (TMF:970) - Daniel Litton
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       Now what are some other ways the husband shows love for his wife? One thing that comes to mind right away is the fact that what a husband says to his wife is very important. He needs to be kind toward her, and not harsh, negative, or critical towards her. He should treat her in a way that is fair, and listen to what she needs and what she wants. Listening is really important, and a lot of husbands don't listen to their wives. Often, they don't even let them finish a sentence, and this can be shameful when it becomes a reoccurring problem. The husband needs to listen to his wife, and listen whole heartedly. If your used to interrupting your wife, thinking you know the better thing to say, you're going to have to learn to listen and not just be thinking in your mind what you're going to say next. Forget what you have, in your mind, to say and listen to her. Remember that your wife has physical needs also, as touch is really important to a woman. Husbands need to show affection for their wives. If you are not use to doing that, you need to make a change.

We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 3 (TMF:969)

Thursday, September 06, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 3 (TMF:969) - Daniel Litton
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       He wants to see her perfected in spiritual maturity, so that she is pleasing and perfect before the Lord. He wants to see her strong in her knowledge of the Word of God. Really, the husband is to love his wife more than himself. And the husband through loving his wife shows that he indeed loves himself. For if he doesn’t love his wife, he really doesn’t love himself, and really cannot truly love anyone in the case. Just as a Christian man does not neglect himself—he doesn’t neglect his physical needs or his spiritual needs—so he should do the same for his wife. Husband and wife should spend time studying the Word together, praying together so that they can grow closer to each other and grow closer to the Lord at the same time. The two have become one flesh the Bible tells us. And while we really don’t know all that entails, for the Apostle Paul said he didn’t even know, for he called it a mystery, the reality is that the two are spiritually one. That is why sex between a man and a woman is sacred, and is not something that is to be shared with anybody. And so, the summarize, each husband should show love for his wife as he indeed loves himself (see Ephesians 5:25-33, ESV).

We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 2 (TMF:968)

Wednesday, September 05, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 2 (TMF:968) - Daniel Litton
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       The husband is indeed the leader of the wife and children according to God’s Word. Some reasons for this are provided by the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy. He said one reason is that Adam was created by God first before Eve. That is the order that God chose to create humans. A second reason is that Eve sinned first before Adam. Nevertheless, the woman does gain an advantage over the man, for she is the one who gives birth to new persons brought into this world, children. Someone might question whether this is really an advantage, but I think it really is. She has the privilege and honor of motherhood, so much as God blesses her and gives her a child or children. This is something a man cannot experience in the same way. It is a deeper experience for the woman. Now, husbands are to show love for their wives. In fact, husbands are to show so much love for their wives that they are willing to give themselves up for them. Now, this doesn’t mean the wife always gets her way—far from that as we just discussed with the wife submitting to her husband. It means that the husband values the quality of his wife’s life over the quality of his own life.

We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 1 (TMF:967)

Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Love Our Spouses in the Lord, Part 1 (TMF:967) - Daniel Litton
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       We also love our spouses in the Lord, the person whom God has blessed us with in our lives, if we are married. For wives first, probably the chief way they show their love toward their husbands is by submitting to them in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Paul said that “as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands” (Ephesians 5:23, ESV). So, she lets her husband have ultimate say in the things in life that really matter. She provides her insight, her side to something of course, but she does not force her way on her husband. She let’s him have the final decision. By doing this, the wife shows respect for her husband. And, she does not punish her husband in open or secret ways when she does not get her way. She is not argumentative with him, or holding things against him. She does not insist on her own way only. The husband is indeed the leader of the wife and children according to God’s Word. Some reasons for this are provided by the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy.

We Guide Unbelievers Toward Jesus (TMF:966)

Monday, September 03, 2018
Peace to Live By: We Guide Unbelievers Toward Jesus (TMF:966) - Daniel Litton
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       It is good for us to help unbelievers by guiding them toward Jesus. When people ask us for advice in this or that situation or about what the Bible says, we are to lead them in the right direction. We are to let our lights shine before others, and by this they will see our good works, and this causes them to look toward God. If we aren’t shining our lights in the first place, but have put our lamps underneath something, unbelievers wont even know we are followers of Christ and therefore we cannot help them (see Matthew 5:14-16, ESV). They will not seek us out. We each work our own careers, and most of us with unbelievers, and we do this gladly. So, we are to live lives before them in a way that is different, a way that is special, one that will make us stick out against others. This shows a good model of Jesus. We should not have double-sided lives, or be two-faced, but have lives that are lived through the same attitude of love when we are at church and when we are at our workplace. Some folks just want to think about God on Sunday mornings, and then go throughout the rest of the week with no influence from Him. But this is not how a true, born-again Christian lives.