Victor P Wierwille

Christian Family & Sex Victor P Wierwille

From the foreword: A Strong Foundation for the Christian Family by Dr. VP Wierwille: I teach our people to look to the Word of God for answers. If you look to people for answers you may be disappointed; that's why I want to look at God's Word concerning the Christian family. To have a successful Christian family life, you have to put God's Word on in your mind. Colossians 3 contains a tremendous passage on the renewed mind. We begin in Colossians 3:12: "Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness [humility], longsuffering." Husbands and wives and children are to exhibit these qualities to one another. Verse 13 says, "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another...." This is one thing each of us has to learn from the accuracy of God's Word: in the Christian family there has to be ready forgiveness. Among the husband, wife, and children there has to be forgiveness, because sometimes the husband is going to fall short, at other times the wife or the children are going to make mistakes. Therefore, there has to be great forbearance and great forgiveness in a Christian family. "Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye."Verse 14: "And above all these things put on charity [the love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation], which is the bond of perfectness." The love of God in the renewed mind in manifestation is the bond or cohesiveness which holds things together perfectly. Verses 15 and 16: "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." " Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly...." for each individual in that family, God must come first. If you're going to develop a Christian husband and wife relationship and have a Christian family, you have to keep the Word of God at the center of your family. Then you can make a true home. Verse 17: "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." In verse 15 it says to be thankful, and here it says that we should give thanks to God in everything we say and do. Thankfulness for all God has given you is a great key to successful family living. It says in verse 18, "Wives, submit [subject] yourselves [by proper arrangement and deliberate decision] unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord." Once we understand that God's way is the best way, we won't fight His doctrine. Here God tells us that wives should submit themselves to their own husbands-now this is no startling new revelation. He first unveiled this plan in the Garden of Eden when He made Eve as a companion for Adam.