The Commandments of Jesus Christ to His Disciples About Marriage #15

The Commandments of Jesus Christ to His Disciples About Marriage #15. Blessings, this is Pastor Francisco Gómez from Jesus King of Kings Church, Ministry of Healing and Deliverance, greeting you. Today we continue our series called to be a disciple. We are on teaching number 15, and today's title is the commandments our […]

Blessings, this is Pastor Francisco Gómez from Jesus King of Kings Church, Ministry of Healing and Deliverance, greeting you. Today we continue our series called to be a disciple. We are on teaching number 15, and today's title is: the commandments our Lord Jesus Christ gave His disciples about marriage.

Today we'll be sharing about the different commandments the Lord has given on this subject. This is actually a somewhat controversial topic, because in the ugly times we live in there is a lot of confusion. We all know marriage is sacred, but the devil hates what is sacred, so in this time when evil is so great, he has a great deal of strategy — there is a lot to overcome in order to truly have marriages that are blessed, according to the word of God.

The truth is that right now the world — I would say the world is now designed, because this is the end time — the way the current system is designed, more than anything, is to oppose everything that is holy, everything that is good. The current system is totally perverted; I mean the system in general, and it is strategically designed to make true holiness almost impossible in nearly every area, including marriage. There are many things about this I'll share further on if possible, but unfortunately, because of the evil that exists, because of the devil's strategy, we have all sinned and opened the door to many unclean spirits — spiritual husband and spiritual wife type spirits — and those demons are designed to destroy the family, including, unfortunately, feminism. The feminist movement is totally diabolical; it opens the door to Jezebel. There are many other demons that also destroy marriage, and the point is that, generally speaking, marriages today are in total disorder — it's rare to find a true marriage where things are truly right.

I see many marriages where things appear to be fine, but do you know why they seem fine? Because the man is submitting to the woman. It's a marriage that spiritually is in absolute rebellion against God, but on the surface, because the man submits to the woman in everything she says, he doesn't know that behind it he's actually submitting to Jezebel. That's why many marriages are supposedly fine — what's 'supposedly fine' in quotation marks — because there is a submission there, but they are in spiritual disorder: the woman is the one who commands and decides everything and the man submits. That marriage is actually cursed, but in the eyes of the world it looks like everything is fine, because the man is pleasing the woman in everything, when in doing so both of them are actually rebelling against God. That's a subject for another time, but the point is we are dealing with very, very delicate matters, because marriage is before God. The man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife; when they join, if both decide to unite in marriage, they are already married — when they come together they are already married spiritually. I'll say more about this a little further on. For example, in Matthew 1:20 the word says: 'But while he thought on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.' Here Joseph, the husband of Mary, who conceived the Lord according to the flesh, is told that an angel appeared to him in a dream and said, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child she carries is of the Holy Spirit — in other words, Joseph took Mary as his wife. It wasn't that they went to court, no — and the Lord Jesus Christ was not born of fornication, nor did Mary fornicate; the Lord would not have come in the flesh through a woman who was a fornicator.

In practice, an angel of God — not a man — appeared to him and said, Joseph, do not be afraid to take her as your wife, because the child she is expecting is of the Holy Spirit. So Mary — well, they didn't go to court to be married. Nowadays people insist that if you don't go to court, you're not married — that's a lie compared to what God commands. But then, too — and we'll look at this further on in other scriptures — the word clearly says that what God has joined together, let no man separate. Yet if they go to court, they can go and separate and already be divorced. So the point is that even for marrying, a courthouse wedding goes against the word of God, but even a courthouse divorce also goes against the word of God, because the word says what God has joined, let no man separate — yet man says, yes, I can separate you, I can divorce you. So it works both ways: both at the moment of marrying and at the moment of dividing, of divorcing, doing it through the court goes against the word of God. And if we also consider that in this time we are practically already living in Sodom and Gomorrah, in almost the entire world, because men marry men, and women marry women — the Lord says He created man and woman, but now the court and the government say there is man, woman, and supposedly about four more genders that were never heard of in the history of the world, but which they have created in recent years — and the world and the court say that's fine, that the two can marry and supposedly love each other. But do you think that just because the court gives a man and another man a piece of paper saying they're married, they are married before God? No — that marriage is invalid, because marriage is before God, not before man, and that marriage clearly stands in complete contradiction to the word of God. The court gives a marriage certificate to a woman and another woman if they're going to marry — do you think that just because those women have a marriage certificate, they're married before God? No, marriage is before God, and that marriage is not in keeping with the word of God. On the contrary, the word says that the Lord gave them over to a debased mind, to do what is dishonorable against their own bodies. It is a dishonor before God, it is something shameful, something outside what is ordinary and natural — for a man to be with another man is something abominable, and it is equally abominable for a woman to be with another woman. But the world gives them a marriage certificate — that certificate means nothing before God; that certificate is as abominable as the marriage itself, and it is also abominable for whoever grants that marriage certificate to those two — they are all in sin, and it is a sin unto death. So true marriage is before God, and it isn't necessary to go to a courthouse to be married. Going to a courthouse, or having someone supposedly come to a church and have the church marry you — that doesn't make the marriage blessed either. On the contrary, so many people go and get married supposedly through the Catholic Church, and simply by doing that, that marriage is cursed. Marriage is before God. If you want blessing in a true marriage, it's simple: repent of your sins, let the man and the woman humble themselves before God and live a life according to His word. If both repent of sin and keep the word of God, then that marriage is blessed — and that marriage, even if they don't have a marriage certificate or haven't gone to any church or had any pastor marry them, is nonetheless blessed, if they fear God and keep His word. Matthew 5:31-32 — 'It was also said, whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce. But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery' — unless the man... This is important, very important, because if we look at it, the Lord gives us a little here, a little more there, another little piece there, throughout the scriptures, and to arrive at the correct context and the full revelation, what's necessary is to read every word — when we read all the words, when we read all the scriptures, then we can arrive at the true revelation. Generally speaking, clearly, as this true word says, if someone simply out of preference — or because 'this wife I have now is too ugly' or 'I found someone prettier and I'm going to divorce this one to marry the other' — that causes her to commit adultery, and it is sin. Generally speaking, with a few exceptions, if a person divorces their spouse, or if the spouse divorces them, it actually causes the spouse to commit adultery, and if they then unite with someone else, they also commit adultery.

But there is a lot of depth here — we are in the end time. The word also says elsewhere that whoever is not willing to lose his spouse, his father, his daughter — everything — for His sake, is not worthy of Him. But the Lord also says elsewhere that whoever loses his wife and everything for His sake will receive a hundred times more — He speaks of a reward. So on one hand the Lord says that whoever divorces his wife commits adultery, but then He says that whoever is not willing to lose her is not worthy of Him, and then He also says that whoever loses his wife for His sake will receive a hundred times more. Is there a contradiction in the word of God, or isn't there? Well, it happens that the Lord commands us, for example, to respect — to respect the king, right, as in the Bible, in the time of Daniel — we must respect the king, but the king commanded them to worship an image, and at that moment the men of God said, we would rather die than worship that image.

So the Lord commands the husband to do this for his wife, but what if the wife rebels? What if it happens like it does now, in this end time, more than ever before, where there is a feminist movement — Jezebel on her throne — that has unfortunately wrapped itself around the whole world, using many other tactics: trauma, yes, many men mistreating women, and many things like that. But the point is that the devil has created chaos, to the point that he clearly justifies it in people's hearts, so that a woman has to be the one who rules, and a woman can do more than a man, and many things like this. But it turns out that if a man — of course, since we were born into this final world, this end time, this end time full of so much evil — many marriages began when both people were still in the world, both deceived. Sometimes they were in church, but a church in apostasy, which is the same as being deceived in the world, or they began while both were completely deceived. And well, it happens that after a while they draw near to the Lord, and it turns out that this man becomes a disciple of Jesus Christ and is truly willing to die for Christ. If you become a disciple and it turns out you're married to one of these women who is heavily bound by feminism, which is Jezebel — a woman very strongly bound by the Jezebel spirit — there is no greater insult to a woman like that than for you to put anything else first, ahead of her, because to a woman who is deeply bound, she is the goddess; she has to be treated as though she comes before Jesus Christ, and if anyone dares to put Jesus Christ first, it's as though an atomic bomb fell on that household, and there are going to be a lot of explosions. Do you want to see an angry woman with a Jezebel personality, heavily bound by that demon of feminism? Put God first, as He commands in His word, and you'll see immediately — let's say that out of every million pastors, if they truly put God first and renounce their religions to follow the truth of the word of God, on that same day, or in less than a week, some 900,000-plus of those marriages will be headed for divorce, because most of those women who supposedly seem fine would not tolerate at all their husband becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. They're religious, and the wife is a 'pastora' doing things she shouldn't be doing, and the wife is the one who runs the household, the wife is the one who runs the church, the wife is the one who decides everything — that's why so many pastors' own marriages are supposedly the way they are, that's why there's total disorder, total disobedience to the word of God. But if they submit to the word of God, if they truly say no to vanity, no to vainglory — these people who are strongly bound by Jezebel cannot tolerate simplicity; they cannot tolerate someone who is truly focused on God. They focus on money, on material things. A woman heavily bound by Jezebel is like a fish out of water if her husband focuses on the things of God instead of money — they will not tolerate it, they will hate him the very next day and abandon him, because he's focused on the things of God. The point is that in cases like these, if we are called as disciples of Jesus Christ and it turns out we already have a marriage that started badly, because we met that person while still in the world, the word commands us not to be unequally yoked with an unbeliever, because what fellowship has light with darkness. But unfortunately, what do we do if we are already married? We weren't in an unequal yoke at that moment, because we were both in the world, both deceived — but it happens that later one of us turns to Christ, becomes His disciple, and the other doesn't. At that point there is now an unequal union, and especially if it's the man who has a calling to discipleship and truly says 'Lord, here I am,' and the man is willing to give up everything for Christ — that's a marriage that is going to have difficulties, unless, by the grace of God, the wife's heart is won for the Lord. Otherwise it's a marriage that ends in separation, fighting, a disaster, chaos. There will be a whole book and several teachings about Jezebel someday, because that demon carries a great deal of evil — it's one of the number-one spirits assigned to destroy not only marriages but also the Lord's church, just as the word of God warns; it killed many of the prophets of God and threatened to kill Elijah. It's one of the demons assigned specifically to try to destroy God's servants with the greatest ministries.

Matthew 19:36 — Then the Pharisees came to Him, testing Him and saying, 'Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?' He answered and said to them, 'Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? So then they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.'

Here it doesn't say you have to go to a courthouse, that you have to have a piece of paper, that if there's no computer to print that paper and no ink to sign that document, then you're not married. It says nothing of the sort. There are certain things that, if we want to do them with understanding — we want to celebrate, because there are finances to arrange, and the couple loves each other and wants to thank God because they're being united, they're going to be joined in marriage today, and they want to have a small celebration without sin, without all the things people do in the world — because some people put on worldly music and drink and do all the things people do out there, use drugs — that marriage is going to be cursed before it even begins. But if they want to have a holy celebration and share a little and give thanks to God because they're being joined in marriage, then there's nothing wrong with that. But these things aren't necessary to make a true marriage — that's optional, you can do it if you're able, if you want to, but it isn't necessary. Joseph and Mary, for example, didn't have a party; as far as we know, Abraham and Sarah didn't have a party either, and the same with many others in the Bible — we don't see that God's servants had parties. These things aren't necessary, they're optional; if you have the opportunity, you do certain things, but it isn't required.

1 Corinthians 7:10-16 — 'To the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: a wife is not to separate from her husband. But if she does separate, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. To the rest I say, not the Lord: if any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, he should not divorce her. And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, she should not divorce him, for the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. But if the unbelieving one separates, let them separate; a brother or sister is not bound in such cases.' Look, here the word says that if someone is joined to an unbelieving wife, or an unbelieving wife to an unbelieving husband, if they want to stay with you, if they consent to stay with you — assuming they are not interfering with your walk with God, this is very important — but the moment they vehemently oppose you serving the Lord, having a relationship with God, at that moment you are free from that marriage if you want to separate, because God comes first. It's better to go into the fiery furnace, like the God-fearing men did, than to stay with a man or a woman and then have our bodies burn in hell, because if the man or the woman vehemently opposes you becoming a disciple of God, then you have two options: you stay with the man, or you stay with the woman, but you will burn in hell. It's your decision — do you prefer the marriage, or do you prefer Christ? That's where the word is fulfilled that says whoever is not willing to leave everything for Him is not worthy of Him; that whoever wants to be His disciple must take up their cross to serve Him, and whoever loves father or mother more than Him... If your father or your mother says no, because I don't want you to be a disciple, you have to keep being Catholic, or you have to keep being Pentecostal, or you have to keep being such-and-such — but you already know there is a better and truer way, and if you're not willing to lose your father, your mother, your wife, your husband for Christ's sake, you cannot be His disciples. If you understand there's a command 'don't do this' or a command 'do this,' but if it stands opposed to our direct relationship with Christ, Jesus Christ comes before that command. There is a command, but there is a command above all commands, which is our relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ — our faithfulness to Him above all things, loving Him above all things. The word, as we read it, commands the man to love his wife as himself — correct, we have to love our spouse as ourselves. But the word commands that we love the Lord more than ourselves. So we love our spouse as ourselves, but we love Christ more than ourselves. If the spouse opposes our relationship with Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ comes first — we stay with Christ rather than with the spouse, because the unbelieving husband is sanctified through the wife, and the unbelieving wife through the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. But if the unbeliever separates, let them separate — the brother or sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? So here the word clearly commands that if you are already joined to an unbeliever, don't separate. But very importantly — if you are single, do not join yourself to an unbeliever; if you do, you have sinned. Now, if it turns out you were already joined before knowing the Lord, or you were joined while supposedly already in a church — I know of many cases where people were joined while supposedly already in a Christian church, but it was a church in apostasy, which, in short, even though they supposedly already knew about God, both of them were still unbelievers. It's like being joined in a Pharisaic church, in the church of the Pharisees and Sadducees — they're believers, yet they're unbelievers, because they don't truly know Him, they're not true disciples. When they arrive at a place where there are true disciples of Jesus Christ, where they see the doctrine of the disciples, it's like a new beginning, and then the unbelief of the husband or wife is exposed, and the battle begins. If it happens that they met in church or in the world, but the point is they were both deceived, then in that case, even if the wife is the one who repented first and became a disciple and the husband didn't, the word commands: don't separate. If it turns out neither of them was Catholic or belonged to anything, they were just in the world and joined together, and one of them — husband or wife — repented first, that spouse should not abandon the other. But — and this is very important — you do not abandon your spouse, and the husband should not abandon his wife, as long as they do not oppose your relationship with Christ. At that point there is a line, a line that cannot be crossed — and that line is anything that opposes our relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ first — Jesus Christ first for those of us who are His disciples, Jesus Christ first for those of us called to enter through the narrow gate that few enter, Jesus Christ first for those who will be called chosen and faithful. Because whoever does not put Jesus Christ before their spouse, before their sons and daughters, before their father and mother, and even before their own life, cannot be His disciple. Therefore, that person, even if they say 'Lord, I love you,' will not ultimately be pleasing to Him — He is not a man that He should lie, and His word clearly says that whoever is not willing to lose their own life is not worthy of Him; whoever loves their own life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for love of Him will find it. Can you understand this? Some of you agree with what I'm sharing — if you think otherwise, please leave your comment below the video. I want to hear whether you think we should love ourselves more than Christ, or love our husband or wife more than Christ, or love our sons or daughters more than Jesus Christ.

Matthew 10:11-12 — and He told them, whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if the wife divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. This is very important, because at that time people had practically adopted this attitude where sometimes a man would take a wife, and if for some reason the devil worked it out, even on the very day they married, while the woman was still a virgin, they would practically already want to divorce her the very next day — 'go away, I just didn't like being with you' — they'd just gotten married and the very next day they wanted to divorce the woman, basically just on a whim. Of course that is sin, that is evil — so many of the things they were doing were totally diabolical. We are not talking about divorcing a woman because she completely opposed receiving God, or a woman not divorcing a man because that man was totally possessed by the devil and hated even the name of Jesus Christ, or hated that the woman fasted and prayed, or because the woman didn't want to, I don't know, commit some sexual impurity, didn't want to dare do such-and-such. People have come to me and said, my husband is very angry because he wanted us watching pornography and wants me to perform oral sex and wants me to commit sodomy, and that's why he's so angry with me. We are not talking about divorcing a husband because the husband wanted to lead her into sin — if you divorce your husband because your husband wants you to grow, that's not sin, that's a blessing. If the husband divorces his wife because the wife also wants to do something sinful, and he doesn't agree and gets angry — well, you know Jesus Christ comes first: go sin on your own, but I'm not going to sin with you. It's the same for the wife: if the husband wants her to sin, no, go sin on your own, but I won't sin with you. The wife has to submit to her husband as to the Lord, the word of God says — but the Lord is never going to ask you to sin, and if the husband asks you to sin, at that moment you are not bound to obey him. At that moment, the instant the line is crossed where your spouse wants you to sin, Jesus Christ comes first, because the wages of sin is death — unless you want to die, don't follow your husband or your wife into it; if you want to live, in that moment you say, I'm very sorry, I do respect you and want to please you in everything, but what you are asking of me goes against the word of God, and unfortunately, right now, I cannot please you in this.

Matthew 19:28-29 — and Jesus said to him, 'Truly I say to you, in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for My name's sake will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life.' Look here — I want you to see a small contrast, and at the same time I hope I can bring clarity to your minds, because there is no contradiction in the word of God. Here the Lord is saying that whoever leaves father, mother, children, spouse, land, possessions, He will still reward them — He's speaking of an abundant, multiplied blessing for those who do these things. But this doesn't apply to every case. This scripture is primarily for those of us who have a calling, though at the same time it applies to everyone — I would say it's fulfilled more fully in those of us who have a calling, because, once again, sometimes a marriage seems supposedly fine, the family seems fine with mom and the kids, but the moment some of you decide to be a disciple of the Lord, you'll see another word fulfilled: that in one house there will be three against two and two against three in this end time, and a man's enemies will be those of his own household. This word applies to all of us — that for the Lord's sake, when we're in a religion, or when the family supposedly seems fine, but we decide to become disciples of Jesus Christ and we receive revelation about all the evil the devil has, about pagan days, that Christmas is of the devil, and we don't want to celebrate Christmas anymore, for example — at that moment the family turns against you. There are many spouses who have been in church, being pastors for 20, 30 years, but they are deceived, they are in apostasy. The moment the revelation comes that Santa — that Santa Claus is Satan — and that those who celebrate Christmas are worshiping Satan, at that moment, if the husband says, if the wife says, 'I'm not going to celebrate this anymore because honestly I didn't know Santa was Satan, I didn't know that lying old man dressed in red is the devil, I'm not going to celebrate that anymore' — at that moment the husband becomes furious and wants to divorce the wife, or the children act like, 'we're not celebrating Christmas? That's my favorite time of year!' and then the fighting starts. The point is that when we truly become disciples of the Lord, when we truly understand the truth, there is division in the family — there is division, unless by the grace of God the whole family turns to Christ. For those who do turn to the Lord, there will be great unity and brotherhood, and by God's mercy that will be the case for many of your families. But according to the word, for many of us it will not be that way, and there will be division — and whoever is not willing to lose everything for Christ is not worthy of Him. Being religious is not the same as being a disciple of the Lord. We disciples live according to the word of God; that's why we have abundant life, that's why God uses us to do the work He did, because we understand the word, we're willing to pay the price, we love Him more than our own life. Here the Lord, in another scripture, commands: love your wife; wife, love your husband and submit to him; don't get divorced, don't separate. Here it says whoever leaves will receive a hundred times more — but note, this word requires keeping all these commandments: don't separate, love your wife, love your husband, love your children, love your mother, honor your mother, honor your father — yes, but the moment that your father or mother, if it happens, if you follow the Lord, if you leave Catholicism, if you leave this religion — the Baptists, the Mormons, the Pentecostals, the Assemblies of God, the Jehovah's Witnesses — if you leave my religion you are no longer my child... Mother, I'm very sorry, but Jesus Christ comes first in that moment. Whoever does this will receive a hundred times more in this generation — for those who are willing to leave, to lose their family for Christ's sake, for this He will open this blessing, an abundant blessing, a hundred times more. If you lost your mother, you will practically receive a hundred mothers; you lost your father, you'll receive a hundred fathers; you lost your children because of Me, but you will practically receive a hundred more children; you had to leave your land because your family there rebelled and practically wanted to kill you because you became the Lord's — leave that behind, and you will receive a hundred times more land. The Lord speaks promises to those who are willing to lose, and what He himself commands is that we love and obey first — but if the people we love rebel against Him, and we leave that which we loved for His sake, we receive a blessing. Can you understand that? There's no contradiction — no contradiction, just like when the men in the book of Daniel disobeyed the king. It's practically the same thing, the same principle here but in a different context: they had to submit to the king because the word commands submit to your king and obey the king — not obeying authorities is rebellion — but it happened that the king wanted to lead them into sin, so they said, we would rather die than obey you in this. It's the same: we have to love our parents, we have to honor them, we have to love our children, we have to love our wife, our husband, and everyone — but the moment they rebel, or want to lead us into sin, or pull us away from God, Jesus Christ comes first. Can you understand me? There's no contradiction in the word of God, but God is a God of order, and He comes first above all things — He has to come before even ourselves, before our own interests. He has to come before us. Does anyone understand this, or is it too hard? Is it too hard to understand what I'm sharing?

Colossians 3:18-19 — 'Wives, submit to your husbands as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.' Here the word commands wives to submit to their husbands, and once again we see that wives ought to submit to their husbands, but in most marriages today that is not the case — and I'm talking about marriages of people who supposedly know the Lord, Christian marriages. In most of them it isn't like that; in most marriages the woman is the one in control, in most marriages the woman controls everything, from the finances to every area. In most marriages the woman is the one running the church, in most churches the woman is the one in charge; the man is supposedly the pastor, a title in name only, while it's the woman who stands to preach, the woman who ministers, the woman who tells the pastor himself, 'look at this, look at that.' The woman is the one they defer to, and most pastors say, 'no, we're not doing that,' because behind it is Jezebel, and she won't tolerate it. Many of these women look submissive and everything seems fine, but the moment the husband says, 'look, this isn't right,' suddenly there's a revolt in that household, and there's practically a fight over divorce — she threatens the husband, 'I'll leave you, I'll accuse you of something,' because there's evil there. Marriages right now are in a lot of disorder. Here the word doesn't just command us men not to be harsh with our wives — but why is that? Because women are a weaker vessel, a more fragile vessel, they are more sensitive. That's why the man is the head — the man has to be the head of the household, the man has to be the head in the church. If the Lord commands the man to be the head of the household, how much more should the man be the head of his church, because God is not a God of confusion but of peace. Because the woman is more fragile, that's why the serpent didn't go to the man in the garden — it went to the woman. Women are more emotional, more sensitive, more fragile; the devil didn't go to the man first to deceive him, he deceived the woman first. So the woman is the man's weakness — if we listen to our wife and do what she tells us, and the devil has already deceived her, then we fall through her; the same pattern is fulfilled again. This is what I've observed in this ministry, ministering to souls for more than seven years now — in so very many cases the enemy deceives the woman and manipulates the man through the woman, or the enemy has the woman tightly bound and, through the woman, the man is also enslaved, because out of fear of losing his wife the man submits to everything — but he's not really submitting to the woman when that happens, he's submitting to Satan through his wife, and everything falls into disorder. 1 Peter 3:7 — '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.' Here the word commands us men to give honor to the woman as a weaker vessel, because they are indeed a weaker vessel — we have to take care of them. It's we men who have to be fighting the devil on the front line — women are a suitable helper, but they're behind us; the arrows the devil sends have to reach us men first. If we can't withstand those arrows, they, being more fragile, will withstand them even less. We have to fight on the front line.

Ephesians 5:25-26 — 'Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her with the washing of water by the word.' Once again, another word commanding husbands to love and care for their wives. 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 — 'The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.' Here the word says they should not deprive one another — this happens today too, 'oh, I don't feel like it right now,' and couples constantly deprive each other because of the devil's manipulation. In the end, as I've already mentioned several times, marriages are in disorder, but it's because there is so much trauma, so many wounds, so much demonic control on both the man's and the woman's side — freedom is needed. Right now marriages are like the church at this moment: totally disordered, totally out of order, in reality doing badly — and that's the majority; only a few marriages are truly in order according to the word of God. And that order really can't come, because behind feminism, behind certain things we have all allowed, there are very strong demons of mind control; behind things that happened in childhood, traumas, wounds, there are very strong demons of mind control; behind things that happened on occasions that didn't even happen to you personally. For example, there are people I minister emotional healing to, and sometimes the man or the woman was raped, or mistreated, or abandoned, or extreme things happened — deaths, the death of parents — sometimes it didn't even happen to them, but it happened in past generations, and for some reason, even though the person themselves hasn't lived through that trauma, the demons attached to that family's trauma, wounds, and confusion, which cause a kind of madness, are affecting some people in the present even though they were never personally traumatized. But the point is that because of these wounds and traumas, which need to be healed — they are spiritual — there is a lot of disorder in marriages, in the church. That's why many men have no self-control, and many women don't have self-control either. That's why — even though the woman... because I see so many women who say, 'pastor, I do want to be obedient,' who used to be very much Jezebel, some of whom tell me they didn't know who Jezebel even was. But after hearing the teachings — 'wow, pastor, with everything you said, and in that prayer, pastor, you described exactly the life I had lived; and while I was listening to that prayer I began to receive a lot of deliverance; pastor, I didn't know I was Jezebelic.' Some have told me, 'pastor, you talk about how that demon makes you traumatize your children, and while I was listening to your prayer I realized, pastor, that's exactly what I was doing to my daughter; pastor, I repented, I asked my daughter's forgiveness, because I saw that through that prayer I realized how much harm I was doing to my son, to my daughter — but I didn't know that demon was in me.' So they do it ignorantly — those demons are strong, they manipulate, and they cause many things to happen so that there won't be true order in marriage and in the church. That emotional healing is necessary, the truth is needed, because the truth sets us free — but also receiving deliverance from someone the Lord is using in power, because so many women say, 'pastor, I don't want to fight with my husband, pastor, I feel a hatred for my husband that I can't stand, I can't even have him near me, I can't even talk to him, and I insult him so much, calling him useless, calling him stupid, saying he's good for nothing, and I don't even want to do that, pastor, because I already know I'm doing wrong, but I can't control myself.' They tell me they can't control themselves because there are demons inside manipulating them from within, and that anger comes out, and they even want to kill their husband — or the other way around, suddenly the husband wants to kill the wife. There are powers behind the mind; our struggle is not against flesh and blood. So, in order for there to be true order in marriage and in the church, it's necessary to receive healing of the soul, deliverance — that's why the Lord sends disciples like us, because the true gospel does not consist in words but in power. Because if a marriage, a church, wants to be organized and aligned with the Lord's statutes, but there's no freedom in the soul, they can't — it's that simple, they can't, it's slavery. We have to be freed from slavery in order to have the freedom to live in the abundance of the kingdom of heaven.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5 — the husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife no longer has authority over her own body, but her husband does; likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does. Do not deprive one another, except by mutual consent, and only for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. Here the word only says 'except for prayer' — I would add, except for fasting — but they should not deprive each other of intimacy. The devil takes advantage when couples deprive one another, using it to tempt them, and the word commands that they not deprive each other. If they're both married, they shouldn't deprive one another, and yet in many marriages they constantly deprive each other. Many people with trauma, especially women, but also men who have been traumatized, cannot be with their former spouses — they love them but cannot come near them in intimacy; emotional healing is needed. There's also a spirit called frigidity — many women carry that spirit of frigidity, especially if they were raped as children, and they simply cannot; it's as though they are dead in that area, they feel no attraction at all toward their husbands, it's as though they hate intimacy with their husband. That's because of wounds and trauma — if they are set free, if they are healed, they will have a natural life in that area.

1 Corinthians 11:3 — 'But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and man is the head of woman, and God is the head of Christ.' Christ is the head of every man, the word of God says, but man is the head of woman — it doesn't say here that Christ is the head of woman; He is the head of the man, and the man is the head of the woman. Therefore the woman has to be submitted in obedience — that is the word of God.

Ephesians 5:22-23 — 'Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.' Listen to what the word says: that the wife should submit to her husband as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife. Here again it mentions that the husband is the head, just as Christ is head of the church, which is His body, and He is its Savior. Here it commands wives to submit to their husbands as to the Lord. Many women say, 'I love you, Lord, but as for my husband, I don't submit to him at all.' When they say that, or even just think it in their heart, it's because there is bondage there, and it is evil, and it is rebellion. But I'm not judging — I've emphasized the importance of healing and deliverance, and I've shared a little about how many women become very aggressive and violent toward their husbands, and it's because of this Jezebel spirit. Generally speaking, that type of Jezebel — because there are many types of Jezebel — but the type that makes women despise their husbands, become aggressive, slanderous, quarrelsome, unable to tolerate them at all, often enters through trauma, whether ancestral trauma from things that happened in the family, or trauma you lived through yourselves. And because the woman is a more fragile vessel, sometimes the devil uses something simple — sometimes a loud noise that happened in the house — sometimes he uses that to traumatize a girl or boy. Any event that was a little intense, the enemy could have used to create certain wounds, and through those emotional wounds, that trauma, the enemy now controls your attitude, your behavior, your emotions, your conduct, your character, your desires. But there is freedom in the name of Jesus Christ — the truth will set you free. The good news is that the damage the devil did can be repaired, and you can be free if you seek God in the right place.

Matthew 5:27-30 — 'You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.' Here the word is strong — it speaks of hell, it speaks of condemnation, it speaks of the fire of torment. We must not sin, we must not commit adultery, we must not commit sin. It speaks of the right hand — many people use their hand, obviously we've all sinned many times in the past, before knowing the Lord, gratifying ourselves — to put it more plainly, touching ourselves — all of that is sin, it is sin and it is a sin unto death. Here it speaks of hell, here it speaks of the fact that even fornicating with the eyes and in the heart is sin. We want nothing to do with any of that — we have to resist every temptation the devil tries to use to make us sin, reject it and cast it out. This word 'cast it from you' means more than physically cutting off the hand — there are demons that, if a person has committed sexual sins by touching themselves, using their hands when they do it, that hand becomes contaminated, and there are many demons — it's not necessarily about physically cutting off the hand, but about that spirit, that demon that has the hand bound so the person can't stop touching themselves. That demon has to be cast out of the body; if they are set free from it, their hand will be free, and they will no longer have that impulse to touch themselves. Hebrews 13:4 — 'Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.' Here again it speaks of judgment for sexual sins. Whoever sins sexually is under judgment, unless they repent from the heart and turn away from it — because if they repent and keep sinning, they remain under judgment; but if they repent and turn away from evil, they find mercy. In the word we see how the woman caught in the act of adultery, under the Old Testament, an adulterous woman caught in the act had to be put to death, and the Pharisees already had stones ready to stone her to death. The Lord said, let him who is without sin cast the first stone — all the Pharisaic church pastors and those religious leaders were standing there, and not one of them had a stone, because their conscience accused them. Many people accuse others — it's you, it's you, it's you — but if they meditated a little, they would say, it's me, because I've done worse than this. She committed adultery, a very serious sin, a sin unto death — but we see that the Lord gave her the opportunity: if she repented, she would not die. Behind that adultery there are enslaving demons that bind a person to sexual sin — this is actually something present in parts of a church like this one, demons that keep persistently trying to get into our congregations. You realize that many people are like little puppets — really, the devil, at some point in the past, turned each one of us into a puppet, like we're a remote-controlled toy, and we have no self-control, and we practically can't do what we want, and instead we do the evil we don't want to do. That's why whoever the Lord sets free is truly free. So there is bondage in many people, and the Lord knows this — and if the Lord judged the whole world for that bondage, then the whole world would end up in hell, but in His mercy He gives us the opportunity to repent, and if we repent we can be freed from that bondage, and there's no need to relapse, no need to fall back into that sin. This woman was told, go and sin no more — go and sin no more, meaning, no one is judging you right now, but do not sin anymore.

1 Corinthians 7:1-5 — 'Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.' Here the word commands that it isn't bad for a man not to be with a woman, or a woman not to be with a man — more than anything, the point is that if someone is alone, they can focus more fully on the things of God, like a prophetess who devotes herself to God has fewer distractions. But at the same time, a marriage in order, a marriage according to the word of God, where the man is the head of the household and walks according to the word of God — not being head of the household in order to mistreat the woman, or to go out partying and carousing and doing all the sinful things (that's a marriage in disorder, that's chaos) — but a marriage where the man is head of the woman in order to do what the word commands, and a marriage where the woman is a suitable helper and submits to her husband, but in order to do what the word of God commands — that is a marriage in blessing, because then it's two people, both for everything, instead of just one carrying it all. When there is unity, the word says the virtuous woman is the crown of her husband. A virtuous woman — who can find her? A virtuous woman is a joy, an honor to her husband. But the contentious woman, the quarrelsome, the foolish woman tears down her own house — the word says she is like a constant dripping on a rainy day, unbearable, intolerable — it's a torment to have a contentious wife. A woman like that is truly a stumbling block for a man, and a man who runs the streets, worldly, a drunkard, a fornicator, is likewise a stumbling block for his wife. So in the end, what we want is happy marriages — that happiness and that peace the Lord promises, a peace that surpasses all understanding. That peace is difficult or impossible to have and to remain in a household unless both submit to the perfect will of God, walk according to the Lord's statutes, and live to please Christ rather than to please themselves. Because a man who pleases Christ will please his wife, because he will treat her as a weaker vessel and love her as himself, because he fears God. Likewise, if the woman fears God and submits to her husband as the word commands, she too will be a crown to her husband, she will be a suitable helper as God created her to be. That is a marriage in blessing, a marriage that is enjoyed, unlike, unfortunately, the chaos we see in almost every marriage throughout the world right now. The truth will set you free. I hope this teaching has been edifying for all of you. Until next time.

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