Wed. Bible Studies: What My Children Must Know (Week 10)

YOU MUST FIND THE RIGHT MATE.

The biggest decision anyone ever makes is the decision to trust Christ as their Saviour.  That will make sure we go to Heaven and that we miss hell.

The second biggest decision anyone ever makes is who they marry.  That can determine whether someone will have heaven on the earth and miss hell on earth.

It cannot be exaggerated too much, a good marriage is one of the most important things you can ever have.  It all starts out with who you marry.

1.)    Living in a bad, little place is better than living with a bad woman.

Prov 21:9  It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Prov 25:24  It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

2.)    It is better to live in the wilderness than with a bad woman.

Prov 21:19  It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Son, there is not much worse than a brawling woman.

Son, a big, rich, wonderful house is not good enough to make up for what you will get in a brawling woman.   BRAWL'ING, n.  The act of quarreling.

I love strong willed women.  They don’t bother me.  I know I am stronger, and most of the time with strong willed women, they are very capable, and just need a strong leader so they can follow.  Many woman have to lead, because they husband won’t.

A strong willed woman is totally different than a brawling woman.

3.)    When you find a wife, you find a good thing.

Prov 18:22  Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

God said whoso findeth a wife.  That is “a” singular.  That doesn’t man many wives, or just any wife.  I believe that means “a” wife, and the wife, the one that God picked out for you.

4.)    If you get a prudent wife, you have gotten her from the Lord.

Prov 19:14  House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

When you get a wife that is prudent, a wife that is wise all the time, in all thing, you have a  great wife, and she is from the Lord.

5.)    Don’t get a wife that will be a nag, (drip, drip, drip)

Prov 19:13  A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip…….that sound can be very annoying, and doesn’t ever fix anything.

Ladies, the drip, drip, or nag, nag is annoying, and doesn’t work.

6.) Only God can find you a virtuous woman.  You better wait on God.

Prov 31:10  Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

7.) The virtuous woman will be trusted by her husband and will do him good all the time.

11  The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.  12  She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

Let’s do all we can to help our kids pick the right mate.