Back When People Bought Tickets To Attend Church

Luke 14:21-23, “So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”

Dwight Lyman Moody (1837-1899) was known for his innovative methods of attracting children (e.g., free pony rides and candy) and adults to his Sunday school and church services, often using engaging activities and personal outreach.

Pastor Moody purchased seats in churches so that poor children could attend, as seats were sold like concert tickets at that time. Wow, can you imagine that? It's hard to just get people to come to church nowadays, but back then churches sold tickets! It is quite obvious how the television has woefully diminished church attendance. I wish the television has never been invented. Our world was much better off when life was simple and mundane, so that nearly everyone looked forward to going to church on Sundays. Tragically, the entertainment industry has led America to apostasy!

By purchasing church seat tickets, Pastor Moody aimed to include those who otherwise could not afford to go to church. What a faithful servant of our great Savior!

In 1900, church attendance in the United States was significant, with about 36% of the population attending services regularly.

In 2026, church attendance in the U.S. has stabilized after years of decline, with about 20% of adults attending weekly and around 41% attending at least once a month. SOURCE

Americans are leaving the churches by the droves! I think it was beautiful back when so many people in the United States wanted to attend church that they had to sell tickets.

God deliver us from today's shameful neo-evangelical churches, and corrupt neo-evangelical Bible colleges like Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary, Moody Bible Institute, Pensacola Christian College, Bob Jones University and Southern Theological Baptist Seminary, to name but just a few cesspools of spiritual sewage, rot and iniquity. Sadly, 99% of clergy today are only in the ministry for the INCOME, not the OUTCOME. I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com website ministry 24 years ago in April of 2002 for the OUTCOME, there has never been (nor ever will be) any INCOME. The LORD deserves our very best.

That all being said, I cannot blame people for not wanting to go to dead churches anymore. You'd be much better off just staying home and listening to fundamentalist Bible preaching on the internet, than to attend a rotten neo-evangelical cult like Family Baptist Church in Pensacola that preaches Satan's lies of Lordship Salvation [i.e., mixing service (works) with salvation (grace)], and Wrong Repentance (i.e., repenting of your sinful behavior) to be saved. Tragically, most Baptist pastors today are woefully unlearned concerning the inspired Holy Bible, corrupted clowns who arrogantly refuse to repent of their perverse thinking, fools.

One of the biggest mistakes you'll ever make is to trust and rely upon your pastor to keep you spiritual. If you're not careful, he'll lead you away from God and the truth, and ultimately take you to Hell with himself forever. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

What About Pastor Steven Anderson?

John 15:12, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

I love and respect Pastor Anderson tremendously. We don't agree on everything, just like you and I dear reader won't agree on everything. That is human. Brother Anderson has a right to believe and preach what he believes God wants him to say, and I respect that.

In 2025, the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, led 10,121 souls to Jesus Christ. Pastor Anderson personally led 182 people to Christ. I thank God for Brother Anderson and his soulwinning ministry. We are laborers together with God (1st Corinthians 3:7-9). Gotta love faithful soulwinners!

Pastor Anderson has stepped on my toes at times, and I his, and that is okay. We're both mature enough in the Lord to understand that no two fundamentalist Bible preachers agree on everything. Dr. Jack Hyles used to wisely say that there are more opinions per square foot at Hyles-Anderson College probably more than anywhere else in the world. That being said, we do agree on the two big "deal breakers" (as Pastor Anderson rightly calls them, which is: 1) The inspiration of the King James Bible; and 2) A free grace plan of salvation (aka, "easy believism"). All other doctrines are minor issues.

I agree with Pastor Anderson that those preachers (e.g., Peter S. Ruckman, William P. Grady, David A. Hoffman and Robert Breaker) who teach multiple plans of salvation are damnable heretics! Pastor Hoffman in his 'The Common Man's Reference Bible' for 1st Corinthians 15:1-4 literally teaches that there are SEVEN plans of salvation. That's crazy!

I also agree with Brother Anderson that most believers who ascribe to a pre-Trib Rapture haven't done their homework, they are merely following what their pastor told them. And likewise, the same problem holds true of the New IFB as well. Sadly, 95% of churchgoers merely believe what they hear and go along with whatever their leader says, which is why over 90% of all Baptist churches today have been woefully corrupted with the deadly false teachings of Misunderstood Repentance (i.e., turn from your sinning to be saved) and Lordship Salvation (i.e., mixing works with grace; combining service with salvation). These are both damnable false teachings, doctrines of devils.

As Bible preachers we are continually challenging our followers to do their own Bible study and homework, so they can KNOW for themselves why they believe what they believe. I can respect someone who ascribes to a pre-Wrath Rapture position, just so long as they can take an inspired Holy Bible and show me why they believe as they do, even though I am strongly pre-Trib in my faith.

I also fully agree with Pastor Anderson that Dispensational teaching is heresy (all of the nuts I mentioned earlier in the Ruckman camp are dispensationalist wackos). Simple Scripture passages such as Acts 10:43, Romans 3:19-23, 4:4-7 and Galatians 1:6-9 prove that NO ONE has ever been saved by works, which would have made salvation by debt that God owed (Romans 4:4); instead of by grace alone through faith alone. I detest manmade theology and manmade dispensationalism, which just confuse the Bible study rather than edify.

Pastor Jack Hyles exposes Dr. Peter Ruckman's heresy on multiple plans of salvation...

“And I'm sick up to there, with people talking about three or four plans of salvation. Now you hear me and hear me well. And if you don't believe this, and you teach in our schools, get out! John the Baptist preached the same Gospel that Paul preached. And people will get saved in the Millennium the same way they get saved tonight. Never has been but one plan of salvation. Never will be but one plan of salvation. Why don't you decide to put up all those books by a bunch of pinkos and read the Bible. And I'll fight you to the finish over that! I'll close the doors of Hyles-Anderson College before we'll preach that kind of garbage. We'll padlock the doors! I'm sick of it! I hate it! And beside that, don't like it. That college wasn't put out there to preach a bunch of hyper-dispensationalism!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “He Purposed In His Heart"

Here's a shocking heretical excerpt from Ruckman's sermon titled, "Repentance," in which you can hear him listing all the sins you must forsake to be saved. What an ignorant unlearned fool! Tragically, I am fully convinced that Peter Ruckman is burning in Hell forever.

Right doctrine matters!

I heard Pastor Anderson today in a sermon exposing "Hypostatic Union" and "Divine Simplicity," two complicated theological rabbit trails that lead nowhere—blatant hogwash, tomfoolery, balderdash, poppycock and ineffable nonsense. Just give me the old flat-black 66 — the inspired King James Bible. Thank you for reading my ministry blog. Jesus is precious!!!

Satan's Attack Against The Family In America

Psalms 1:1-2, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”

According to data from Domestic Shelters, well over one hundred million U.S. women go to shelters annually in the United States for assistance. The big problem is that in these carnal facilities women do not receive biblical counsel; but rather, they are often encouraged to divorce their husbands. Worse, many shelters work closely with scumbag attorneys to provide free pro bono divorce representation for women. Hell is full of such human trash! Matthew 19:6, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” God hates divorce! Jeremiah 3:20, “Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.”

I absolutely hate women's shelters. I hate them because they all too often provide an unfair escape for lazy, angry, mentally unstable, rebellious and irresponsible married women. A husband has every God-given right to verbally correct his wife when she fails to pull her weight in the marriage. I don't like the idea of a husband being a “boss,” but effectively that is what he is to her. Everyone has a higher authority to answer to! No one can escape accountability in life. What is a poor fella to do who has a lazy, dishonest and irresponsible wife?

What saith the inspired Scripture?

Proverbs 31:27-31, “She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.”

How about the husband who finds rotting food regularly in the refrigerator? I'm talking black moldy hotdogs months old, and rotten slimy vegetables with white mold on them. LAZY!

Unlike the godly classy woman in Proverbs 31 whose husband praises her, this lazy women's husband is discouraged, frustrated and sad knowing that his wife doesn't care. She's in her own little world. Her priorities are all backwards and wrong. He does what he can to help her, but she is too much to handle, one mess after another. Can you imagine living with someone like that? Many marriages have ended because of these so-called “irreconcilable differences.”

I guarantee you 100% of the time that when such a dysfunctional problematic wife meets with a psychiatrist, the doctor will NEVER tell her the truth that she is lazy, undisciplined and woefully lacks good character. Instead, the doctor ALWAYS prescribes psychotropic drugs!

“Everything eventually rises or falls to its character level.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “He Purposed In His Heart”

“What you are is more important than what you can do; for if you are what you ought to be, you'll do what you're supposed to do.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “He Purposed In His Heart”

When I go to any store, as a habit I always return my shopping cart to the corral where I found it. And I always grab any loose cart in the parking lot that someone else abandoned, and I return it to the store since I am going that way anyway. I do this simply because I care. That is a part of my Christian faith, thinking about OTHERS! To God be the glory (John 15:5).

Why is it that some people care about little things, the details; while others couldn't care less? Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is my favorite fundamentalist bible preacher, who made thousands of life-changing statements (truths) in his fiery sermons over 55 years of being a faithful pastor. For example: Dr. Hyles said, “The most important job is the one that doesn't get done.” That is profound and I use it all the time.

Dear reader, if you don't care I cannot help you. Without desire nothing else matters. If this is you, pray and ask God to give you a concerned heart. My best advice to someone who doesn't care is to at least start pretending that you care, and in time it will happen. What saith the Scripture? Luke 12:34, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If you invest your time, money, resources and prayers into something or someone, in time your heart will follow your investment (i.e., your treasure). I have spent the past 24 years since 2002 working diligently day and night on my website ministry for Jesus Christ. It has become a passion for me, what some might even call an “obsession.” I enjoy and love the work that I do. Even better, it is helping people prepare for eternity and I'm laying up treasures in Heaven. I give God alone all the praise, credit and glory for the results of my humble ministry labors (John 15:1-5). God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9).

Dear reader, I am not against women's shelters. I understand that there are some truly abusive husbands. But I am against spoiled brat wives running to those shelters just to escape a caring husband who puts his foot down and expects his wife to do her job. That is not an abusive husband. In such cases it is the wife who is being abusive, by her laziness and disobedience. If you don't think that a wife should obey her husband, you are going against the Scripture. Ephesians 5:22, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

Here is an excerpt from 'THE AGENDA' by Presbyterian Pastor Louis P. Sheldon (1934-2020), who was the founder and chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition...

Russian sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, who authored another classic work in this field, The American Sex Revolution, observed much the same thing. In his review of the breakdown of tradition that began in the late 1960s, Sorokin warned that America was in the process of committing "voluntary suicide" through unrestrained sexual indulgence. As individuals began engaging in premarital sex unrelated to marriage, Sorokin predicted with remarkable insight that the birth rate would decline and our nation would begin to be depopulated.

He also predicted the inevitable increase in divorce, desertion, and an epidemic of sexual promiscuity resulting in a rise in illegitimate births and abortions. As we now know, those predictions have all come true in the most heartbreaking ways, and society is paying a terrible price. Sorokin's exhaustive study of decadent cultures convinced him that a healthy society can only survive so long as strong families exist and sexual activities are restricted to marriage. 

Centuries of solid evidence make the point only too well: sexual promiscuity and a loss of respect for the sanctity of marriage lead inevitably to cultural decline and eventual collapse.
In his research project, Carl Wilson found that decadent cultures display seven distinct characteristics of social and moral change:

1. Men reject spiritual and moral development as the leaders of families.
2. Men begin to neglect their families in search of material gain.
3. Men begin to engage in adulterous relationships or in homosexual sex.
4. Women begin to devalue the role of motherhood and homemaker.
5. Husbands and wives begin to compete with each other, and families disintegrate.
6. Selfish individualism fragments society into warring factions.
7. Men and women lose their faith in God and reject all authority over their lives.

It is not surprising that in such a culture moral anarchy reigns supreme. The loss of religious faith means that virtues such as trust, honor, and respect must fail, and the customs of chastity and self denial no longer restrain society's worst impulses. Then, once families begin to collapse, the entire society follows. The point is very simple. George Santayana said it long ago: “Those who will not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

And, once cultural decline begins, it's almost impossible to turn things around. SOURCE

Dear reader, Satan's crowd has an agenda to destroy your family. I cannot warn wives enough to steer clear of those ungodly women's shelters, which are wicked havens for ungodly feminist ideologies, ungodly counsel and ungodly breeding grounds for divorce!

“I don't care how long I'm pastor of this church, as long as I stand behind this pulpit or roam this platform, I'll promise you one thing—the old man's going to be looking for gaps in the hedge. And every time I see one, I'm going to stand right there in the gap.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “There's A Snake In The Hedge”

There are no easy ways out in life! All decisions have potentially detrimental, negative, unpleasant, painful, regretful and dire consequences. I encourage you to live in the inspired King James Bible daily, and to listen to lots of fundamentalist Bible preaching. We all need hard Bible preaching to help us think and live right. This world is a mess today, because we are living in a generation that does not look up anymore. That is, they do not fear God. Psalms 36:1, “The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.”

With all the Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (DEI) wickedness and insanity (aka, the LGBTQ perversion which has swept across America), public nudity wherever there is water, an epidemic nationwide of substance abuse, corporate covetousness and greed, and the abortion industry still going over one million murders per year strong in the United States, why should God bless America?

God Doesn't Have Love; God Is Love

1st John 4:8, “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

1st John 4:16, “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”

I heard a great sermon today from 1982, preached at the First Baptist Church of Hammond by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), that will save your marriage, friendship or church if you'll heed Dr. Hyles' godly counsel. The sermon is titled...

On Trial Every Day
(a 1982 MP3 sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles)

Some people continually put God on trial every day for the circumstances in their life.

Dear reader, just decide once and for all that God is good. Psalms 145:9, “The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.”

Just decide once and for all time that God is faithful. 1st Corinthians 1:9, “God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Just decide once and for all that God is always right. Psalms 18:30, “As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.”

Just settle it once and for all that God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34, “Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”

Just settle it once and for all that God is righteous and merciful. Psalms 116:5, “Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.” You get the idea.

The phrase “God is” appears 90 times in the Old Testament, and 59 times in the New Testament. Ladies and gentleman, we serve a wonderful, fair, loving and kind God.

Let it never be heard from your lips that you hate anyone, for if you do, it will just prove that you never really loved that individual at all. It will reveal your shallowness and immaturity as God's child. Let the heathen talk that way!

God does not have love; God is love. The LORD is the very embodiment of love, because He is LOVE! Why don't you get off the judge's bunch tonight. Why don't you stop putting everybody in your life on trial for the way that they treat you. ...

Matthew 7:1-3, “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”

If I am your friend, there is nothing that you can do to jeopardize that. When my wife cruelly divorced me in 2006, she said that she didn't love me anymore. That means she never did love me at all. Such hateful words never came out of my mouth toward my wife. Once you love somebody, it is for life, if it is true love. I am not talking about falling in love (aka, “puppy love”). I am talking about God's unconditional love for every living creature, the same love which nailed Christ to a cross 2,000 years ago for our sins.

I cringe when I hear preachers spewing hatred for sinners. The true test of a Christian's love is not whether you love Jesus, it is whether you love Judas. I decided a very long time ago that I am going to love every human being on earth, regardless of how good or rotten they become. I hate sin. The Bible commands every saint of God to hate evil, as the LORD hates evil (Psalms 97:10). You cannot be right with God if you don't hate evil. Evil is planned sin. Abortion is evil. Sneaking around on your husband is evil. Feminism is evil. Anarchy is evil.

Dear friend, we should never accept the sin with the sinner, nor reject the sinner with the sin. God sent His only begotten Son into the world to die on a criminal's cross for our sins (John 3:16). Let it never be said that God hates anybody, not even the vilest sinner. Truly, the LORD hates all sin, for which He chose to sacrifice His life in death on Calvary's cross, but God does not hate anyone. God hates sinners in the sense that they are defiant against His Word, but He doesn't hate the individual. I learned a very long time ago from Pastor Jack Hyles to view difficult people as being broken, not bad.

Dear reader, let us love one another. There is so much hatred in the world. I watched a few music documentaries over the past couple weeks. I love the music of the 1970's. I enjoy some of the song by the ban, Bread. I was surprised how much the band's members hated each other's guts with a passion. They'd perform without talking to each other, and then go to their separate hotels after the concert, full of pride and resentment. The same can be said of The Beatles, The Eagles, Megadeth, Boston, Hall & Oates and countless other bitter rivals who sued each other in court over money and control over their music. It is so sad.

John 15:12, “This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

Italicized Words In The King James Bible Are Inspired

Deuteronomy 8:3, “And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.”

If you have a more expensive quality King James Bible, then you'll find thousands of words in italics. Italicized words in the King James Bible indicate words that were added by the translators to help clarify the meaning, as these words were not present in the original manuscripts. This practice helps make the text more readable while informing readers that these additions are not part of the original text. And yet, we find evidence in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4 which PROVES that italicized words are still inspired by God.

Notice in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4 that the word “word” is NOT italicized. Yet, Jesus added the word “word” and we know that ALL SCRIPTURE is inspired by God (2nd Timothy 3:16). So added words in a translation, if they are true to the Scripture, are also inspired. That is, all Scripture is “given by inspiration of God” (those 5 words are translated from one word in Greek: theopneustos), which means GOD + BREATH (breathed out from God - John 6:63); they are HIS WORDS...

Matthew 4:4, “But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”

Luke 4:4, “And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”

Whereas the term “word” is in italics (denoting it was added by the translators) in Deuteronomy 8:3 for clarity, from which Scripture passage Jesus was quoting in Matthew 4:4 and Luke 4:4, the LORD added the word, but it is not italicized.

Here's why the term “word” wasn't included in Deuteronomy 8:3. The Hebrew term “kol kol” (English: every) can mean “anything that God says,” so it was not necessary to include the term “word.” Kol kol has the same meaning as “every word.” That is, man shall not live by food alone, but by anything that God says. This has led to different translations, with some versions adding “word” for clarity based on interpretations from the Septuagint and New Testament references.

Another example is the word “whale” in Matthew 12:24, which does not appear in the Old Testament book of Jonah (Jonah 1:17; 2:1,10). The Apostle Matthew added the word “whale” (we know because it is not italicized, meaning that the King James translators did not add it). In Jonah the Bible simply calls the creature a “great fish,” not a whale; but Matthew wrote that it was indeed a whale (Greek: ketos). So we see that added words can be inspired as well.

If A Pastor Hearken To Lies, All Of His Church Members Are Wicked

Proverbs 29:12, “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”

If a church pastor is preaching lies, his congregation that follow him as also corrupt.

A sore evil that I have seen in my lifetime is carnal church congregations who give unquestioning loyalty and support for their corrupt pastor. One such church is Gamily Baptist Church in Pensacola, whose wicked pastors (a father and son team) both preach the damnable heresy that to get to Heaven you must “repent of your sins.” Dear reader, you cannot show me anywhere from an inspired King James Bible where it teaches to “repent of your sins” to be saved. The pastors of Family Baptist Church are theological LIARS!

Sadly, the same thing is true of Smyrna Baptist Church, Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, Fairfield Drive Baptist Church, Bible Baptist Church and nearly every other church (cult) in the city of Pensacola. The leaders of Bible Baptist Church are greedy and hateful. Their wicked bookstore threatened to sue me a couple years ago for freely sharing .pdf files of Dr. Peter S. Ruckman's books on the King James Bible. This is the hateful greedy type of authoritarian CULT leadership that drives people away from such ungodly churches. They're in the ministry for the INCOME instead of the OUTCOME (Romans 16:17-18).

Worse, Bible Baptist Church still wickedly teaches Dr. Ruckman's perverse idea of seven different gospels in the Bible. Dispensationalism will rot your brain! Ruckman's nutty dispensationalist followers (e.g., William P. Grady, David Hofmann, Robert Breaker, to name but a few religious quacks) are FALSE PROPHETS! There is no biblical basis for dispensational teaching; it is manmade traditions.

All of these wicked neo-evangelical pastors today who preach Lordship Salvation, and the ungodly foolish church members who follow them, are pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Proverbs 29:12, “If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.”

If You Are A Christian Wife, Your Husband Is Your Ministry

Genesis 2:18, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

God's will for nearly every woman is to get married, bear children, guide the house and not cause trouble. 1st Timothy 5:14-15, “I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan.” All of these foolish career women today are turned aside after Satan. Many career women are having fewer children due to factors like prioritizing education and work, financial concerns, and the challenges of balancing career progression with motherhood. It is wickedness!

Career Women Are The Most Miserable Group

This ungodly feminist trend reflects a broader societal shift in the U.S. Europe and Australia where women are increasingly delaying family formation or choosing to remain childless. In fact, according to Psychology Today the most miserable group in America are middle-aged career women. In its Office Pulse survey, Captivate Network, a media solutions company, says it uncovered “profiles of the happiest and unhappiest workers.” Here is the profile of the unhappiest person:

• Female
• 42 years old
• Unmarried (and no children)
• Household income under $100,000
• In a professional position (doctor, lawyer, et cetera)

Those ungodly career woman have all turned aside after Satan, and they are suffering for it. All of Satan's apples have worms. Genesis 2:18, “And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”

Your Ministry Is Being A “Help Meet” To Your Man

Dear reader, God created a woman to serve as a “HELP MEET” to her own lawfully wedded husband. The Hebrew word for “help” is ezer which means “to aid, to give help or assistance; be of service.” God didn't make you dear lady you to raise children, although that is part of your job as a mother. God didn't create you to go to the shopping mall with your friends on weekends, but that is okay if your husband approves. God didn't create you to pursue your own selfish (or unselfish) ambitions, hobbies and interests; but again these things are okay with your husband's permission.

You Do Need Your Husband's Permission

Dear woman, perhaps you defiantly say, “I don't need my husband's permission!” If that is you, then you are not right with God. You have a wicked unbiblical mindset toward your marriage and your husband. Ephesians 5:22, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.” God expects every wife to submit (obey) her husband as if he were Jesus Christ Himself. How many American women follow this biblical teaching? Not many I can tell you. If you have regard for God's Word, then you DO need your husband's permission to make any decision that will affect the marriage, finances, children or your home. Like it or not, God has ordained that the man of the home be in charge!

And if you are now thinking, “Well what about my husband?” If that is you, shame on you ma'am for looking for excuses, like did Eve in the Garden of Eden, to justify your rebellious spirit. When it comes to authority in the marriage and home, it is not a 50/50 arrangement. Your husband is 100% in charge, and if you have a problem with that, you shouldn't have been married. And it matters not whether you agreed to obey your husband in the marriage vows or not, God commands every wife to obey her own husband as unto the LORD.

Rebellion Is No Different Than Witchcraft

Dear reader, ladies, your husband is your only ministry. One day your children will grow up and move out, but will you still have your husband? Of all your daily duties, cares, obligations and responsibilities, being of service to your man is your primary job. God hates stubbornness and rebellion. HE HATES IT! 1st Samuel 15:23, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.” Are you on par with a witch ladies? Whether you worship Satan, or mouth off to your husband in defiance against his will, there is no difference in God's sight! You might as well bow down and worship Baal when you sass your man, showing him disrespect and contempt. God hates wifely rebellion!

Nowhere does the inspired Scripture say for a wife to obey a good husband, it says to submit to your husband as unto the LORD. Nowhere does the inspired Scripture say for a wife to obey a faithful husband, it says to submit to your husband as unto the LORD. Nowhere does the inspired Scripture say for a wife to obey a fair husband, it says to submit to your husband as unto the LORD. Nowhere does the inspired Scripture say for a wife to obey a godly husband, it says to submit to your husband as unto the LORD.

Does Your Husband Curse The Day He Married You?

Proverbs 12:4, “A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.” Do you adversely affect your husband's wellbeing due to your bad attitude and rebellion? Are you the rot in his bones? Proverbs 31:28, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.” Does your husband call you “blessed” ma'am with words of praise, or does he say “God damn my wife!” for the chaos and grief you cause him? What kind of wife are you? God is watching.

What will your husband say about you when you are judged by God in eternity? Hebrews 13:17, “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.” Someday God is going to ask your husband what he thinks about your behavior as a wife. What will your husband tell God? Woe unto the ungodly rebellious wife! Woe unto you woman, whosever you may be, if you make your husband's life miserable! You will someday reap with regret what you are now sowing.

Are You A Help Meet Or A Hindrance?

While your husband was faithfully working day and night on his ministry for Christ, where were you? Were you faithfully by his side helping him, as his soulmate; or were you continually running to women's shelters to escape your duties, responsibility and life's challenges? Were you cooking him a decent meal every day, or were you surfing social media on your stupid phone half the day? Did you bother to do his dirty laundry without being asked, or did it pile up? Did you show the slightest interest in his ministry work, or selfishly do your own thing?

And what about the refrigerator? Does your husband become frustrated that purchased food sat so long in the refrigerator that it rotted and now needs to be thrown away, because you were too lazy as a wife to be diligent? Does your husband have to scold you for leaving your shoes and clothes on the dining room floor? I know I'm talking to some lazy wives. Hey, if the shoe fits, wear it! You need to hear what I am saying.

God gave your husband an important ministry as his life's work, and the LORD made you to assist him any way possible to make his life easier, less stressful, happier and productive for the Lord Jesus Christ. That is your primary purpose for existence as a woman! When you cause your husband grief by your shameful rebellious behavior, big sassy mouth, angry mood swings, psychotic episodes, blaming him for your failures, and causing him problems, you have now become a hindrance to his ministry. You are effectively his worst enemy, keeping him for serving God. And you listen to me you spoiled little brat, God will deal with you harshly!

Go Hates Divorce

Women file for divorce in America three times more often than men do. The reason why is simply because they can. No-Fault Divorce began in atheist communist Soviet Union in 1918. It spread to other nations and came to the United States in 1969 in California. Today all 50 states in the U.S. allow some form of no-fault divorce, although the specifics vary by state. Some states are considered "true" no-fault states, such as Florida, meaning that neither party needs to prove wrongdoing to obtain a divorce; they simply need to state that the marriage is irretrievably broken. This approach simplifies the divorce process and avoids assigning blame. The truth is BOTH the husband and wife are to blame!

I heard my favorite preacher Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) say that in over 50 years of ministry as a pastor, that he has never once recommend for anyone to get a divorce; but he also said that he has jumped up and down a few times with rejoicing when there was a divorce. Some people are just Losers! Some women are serpent seeds. Some women don't deserve a good husband, and vise versa. A marriage is two people never giving up one each other. A marriage is two people making a life for each other.

King Solomon said that “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom” (Proverbs 13:10). Jesus said in Matthew 19:8b, “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.” God hates divorce! 

That being said, although I would never recommend a divorce either, I will never condemn anyone who files for divorce from a spouse who is impossible to coexist with. It is easy to judge from a distance! Dear reader, you nor I can fairly condemn anyone who seeks a divorce when we simply do not know what they are dealing with and suffering through. There are things worse than death and divorce! I'd 10,000 times rather see a man divorce his wife than to spend the rest of his life in prison for murder.

Please do not misunderstand what I am saying, I do NOT approve of divorce, ever, but sometimes I think it is a blessing when it happens. Some couples are like gas and fire. God knows your heart dear friend, whether you are looking for a way to blame your spouse to quit your marriage, or if you sincerely want to make it work out (Hebrews 4:13).

I worked with a black man years ago in Chicago, who told me that he was mowing the grass on a hot summer day. He kindly asked his wife for a glass of water and she snapped back, “Get it yourself!” Woe unto that rebellious wife! God hates rebellion. My co-worker told me that his wife would deliberately provoke him to anger with her sassy big mouth and sharp words, hoping that he would snap and physically assault her, so that she could file for divorce and automatically win custody of the kids, alimony (“all the money” as Robin Williams called it), et cetera. You cannot hide your true intentions from God. Proverbs 24:12, “If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?” Judgment Day is coming for every human being (Hebrews 9:27; Romans 14:10-12). The $64,000 question is do you fear God?

Here is a helpful sermon excerpt from my ministry friend Pastor Steven Anderson's sermon 'Jeremiah 3.' In this excerpt he explains that Jesus' teachings on marriage and divorce caused His disciples to choke on His words. That is, they had a difficult time processing what He was saying. Still today 2,000 years later people choke on this hotly debated topic of marriage, divorce and remarriage. Jesus concluded by saying in Matthew 19:11b, “All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.”

I will close by reiterating the main truth I am trying to convey to Christian women in this blog, which is that your whole purpose for existence, for which God made you, is to please God by helping your husband as he serves God in his ministry. Thank you for showing grace by hearing me out in this unpopular subject. To God alone by all the credit, praise and glory.

Proverbs 31:28, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”