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Site-keepers note: This week we commence our meditations on a most important theme – The Christian Home! May the Spirit of God open your eyes unto the issues that shall be raised in the course of the 19 weeks we will be spending on this theme. The first message in that series is brought to you this week and it is titled – Why Study the Christian Home? May God by the breathe of His Spirit upon His Word cause you to humble your heart under His mighty hand that He may lift your marriages up into the course He had set for it in Jesus Name. Amen.
God bless you.
Today as a general introduction; if there is no reason to talk or to teach and study on the Christian home there would not have been any basis for us to dedicate all these weeks ahead that we shall be studying together to focus on the Christian home. We realize that the Christian home is such a very crucial aspect of our lives - there is nothing that you can do for God when your family is in shambles! Taking that thought through you find out that when a family is broken down, a society will be broken down. I do hope you recognize that the family is the basic unit of the church, it is also the basic unit of every nation. When our families and our homes are not in order, you can be sure that it will be carried over and express itself as problems to be confronted in the larger society. You must realize for instance that every armed robber that you meet on the road came from some family - he didnt fall down from the tree but rather was born by somebody! It will shock you to note that some of the many harlots working our streets right now were married before. What has happened that someone will pack up her family and take to prostitution? These are some of the issues we shall be dealing with in the weeks ahead.
There are so many people today who are staying under the same roof with their husband but as mere tenants, the only thing that is keeping them together and why they are not separated is social pressure - it is because they have gone too far to face the shame of becoming a divorcee. We want to trust God that the Christian family can be better than that - we can have a deep satisfaction in our homes IF we will study the Word of God carefully and we will understand the Manufacturers design over this important matter.
Today we will discuss why we must undertake this study - and please listen to me - I believe that if you understand the need to study the Christian home you will be better served as this would prepare your mind on why you must also seat down and take all notes and be ready to act on the truth that God is about to reveal to us.
May God grant you understanding as we go ahead in Jesus Name.
I want us to look at one scripture in the book of Proverbs Chapter Thirty as an introduction to why we must study the issues of the Christian home. We read verses Twenty One to Twenty Three (KJV)
Pro 30:21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
Pro 30:22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Pro 30:23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up - a slave when he becomes king and a food when he is filled with food an unloved woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she succeeds her mistress. (Revised Standard Version)
Looking at this particular scripture, the Bible says there are three things that make the earth to tremble; when these three things happen the earth begins to shake and becomes disquieted and under four it cannot stand no matter how you try - the earth cannot handle it! What are these four things that the Bible speaks of with such magnitude?: i.) When a slave becomes a king, when an idiot becomes a ruler, when someone that doesnt know what to do becomes a leader, you find chaos everywhere because he does not know what to do: he is a slave and he is only excited about what he can eat. I dont want to talk about that because I am not dealing with the political issues of our land in this study: policy makers and politics is not my concern right now as my concern is to deal directly with the issues of the Christian home! So whatever you understand by this first issue the Bible raises please go ahead with it and think it through.
The Bible says the second thing that confuses the earth and makes it not to stand is when a fool has enough thing to eat: a fool when he is filled with food and according to the King James Version of the Bible, when a fool is filled with meat. A fool when he has plenty of food and when he has plenty of money to play around with causes confusion everywhere! That is the second thing that the Bible says when it happens the earth is disquieted. When a fool cannot be called to order because he has everything he needs! He can take a wrong decision and you cannot reorder him. Though you be a wise man but dont have money and food: since you dont have the resources what can you talk? There are so many, so many wise men in our land today who are just neglected, they are thrown away because they dont have the wherewithal by which they can make their wisdom relevant to what is going on in the society.
But you see all of this is still not the focus for our study right now.
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