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I know: I was speaking to all of
the visiting ministers the other
day, just a few days ago; and I
was mentioning how the wife
of one of our Evangelist rank
ministers, one of our oldest
ministers in the Church ... I
mean not in physical age but in
years of service and leading the
Church; and, of course, both of
them gradu-
ated from
Ambassador
College, he
and his wife,
years and
years ago. I
think their
children are
aged to be in
College now,
maybe are. I
forget how
many of our
former
students
now have
children in Ambassador
College. But I remember I
asked her one time -- I said,
"Did you ever try to be the boss
in your home and wear the
pants?" She looked kind of
funny. She began to grin a
little bit; and she said, "Well,
yes, once." I said, "Oh, once;
and did you find who the boss
was?" She said, "You're telling
me, I sure did!"
Well, I've had two wives (and
the first one was my wife until
death, as she should have
been), either one of whom
perfectly capable of being the
boss, but neither one has been;
and I think that's the way it
should be. But a husband not
only should rule his wife; he
should rule her in LOVE, and
in patience, and in kindness,
and in absolute consideration
for her in every possible way.
It's like when we were in
conference this week. My wife
called me on the telephone,
and they told me later that she
called, and I called her back.
And she said,
"Well, I called
you; but I didn't
want to interrupt
you in confer-
ence." I said,
"Well, my wife
always gets in to
me no matter
where I am." She
said, "I knew
that; but I didn't
want to interrupt
just the same."
Well, my wife has
always had a
privilege that other women
don't have some ways. I've
wanted to treat a wife with
love, with kindness, with
consideration, and with honor,
and to give them every honor
like that; and I think every
husband should do that.
But the husband still is "the
head of the wife;" and, if he
can't be the head of the wife,
there's something wrong with
him somewhere. He should be
able to BE the head of the wife;
but he should be in all love,
and patience, and kindness,
and goodness in every way.
ALL HAVE SINNED
Now,
"He sat down on the
right hand of the Majesty
on high."
Oh, yes, so I was
saying: Why did God then wait
4,000 years for the second
Adam? (And even after the
second Adam came and
purged our sins.) Now the first
Adam, as I say, he had sinned;
and Satan was still there, and
the world sort of overlooked
Satan, and so their children
began to sin.
None of the sins of Abel were
recorded; but we know he did
sin, because they are specifi-
cally not recorded, but in
general they are because
another Scripture says
"All
have sinned"
and that
includes Abel.
Cain sinned. He was a mur-
derer and killed his brother;
then he lied to God about it.
He got punished too, didn't
he? But God's punishment is
corrective, and intended to
correct us and can help us. His
punishment is in love, and not
in hatred or vengeance and
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