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Love Your Wife
Jan. 5, 2021
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The bottom line is the husband needs to repent. He needs to repent and carry out his God-given duty. I mean, he's a husband regardless. He's the head regardless because God made it that way. The husband is the head of the wife and he has a awesome, even a scary responsibility in being able to shepherd and guide and even protect and provide for his wife, treating her as Christ would treat the church.

He has to also give sacrifice and that's usually what the neglect is. I'm not sacrificially giving myself to my wife. In other words, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to do. And so that's the struggle. So we have to get that issue and we have to repent.

If there's no repentance, there will not be any change. And if there's no change, you

Clarence Simmons explains in this video that husbands need to repent if they have not carried out their responsibility for protecting, providing for, and loving their wives. They should not be neglecting their wife. And yet, if there is no repentance, there is no change. Take a hard, long look at your marriage and ask yourself how you can bless your wife and strengthen your marriage.

1 Peter 3:7 (NKJV) - "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered."

Speaker

Clarence Simmons labors at Chapel Library Publishers (a ministry of Mt. Zion Bible Church), which sends Christ-centered literature worldwide without charge. He serves as an elder in the church, preaches to a group of men in the local rescue mission, and encourages young people in a local Safe House to seek the God of the Bible. Passionate about the gospel of Jesus Christ, his goal in life is to live the truths of that gospel before his family and his community. He is husband to Candace and a father of seven children.

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