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A young lady alleged to be the wife of a pastor has inspired me to establish this post in the Hope of bringing a sound awareness and fullness of intelligence to other members of the fairer sex who would also attempt to attest to such an honorable title, if indeed such is the case.

I trust that there are some pastor's wives whom are able to suffer the admonishing of a brother, should that brother be an elder, or should they suffer any absence of that leadership so ordained of a true pastor and husband in the Lord Jesus -- despite any obvious absence thereof. I would not suggest that such a wife as I might have referred to in this composition is the one who had inspired me to preach the truth. In all frankness, I confess that she is not, to my knowledge, that sort of person to whom I would make mention in the beginning of this paragraph.

That the Full Bible Truth concerning holy matrimony and godly living should make her nauseous is something that she might well discuss with her Lord (whoever her Lord may be). I dedicate this message board in memory of her soul, that it should be delivered from the bondage of false doctrine and that her eyes might be opened to the fullness of the truth and do so in the hope that she may indeed edify the proper role of a pastor's wife.

I am deeply saddened at the thought that her beloved husband, in a manner of speaking, is no longer with us, but for the present, I console myself in the equal knowledge that perhaps he never was. Of a truth it is said that many are called but few are chosen.

This board is for pastor's wives to reflect on and meditate in view of their own lives as they line up with the Living Word before the brothers and elders of true, Apostolic Oneness.

God bless you all

"By GOD'S express command from Mount Sinai, where the laws concerning moral good and evil, were eternally and unalterably fixed, no man could take a virgin and then abandon her. He shall surely endow her to be his wife. Exod. xxii. 16. And again Deut. xxii. 29. She shall be his wife; BECAUSE HE HAS HUMBLED HER, he may not put her away all his days.

Will any say �?"these laws are antiquated?" I answer, "they are as unchangeable as the God that made them." His law is His will, and therefore can no more change than Himself. The strength of ISRAEL is not a man that He should repent נחם change his mind, opinion, or purpose. 1 Sam. xv. 29. I am JEHOVA, I change not, is the character which he records of himself, Mal. iii.6.; and to shew that he hath stamped the same unchangeableness upon his laws, he says, Deut. iv. 2. Ye shall not ADD unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye DIMINISH ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your GOD. And again, Deut. xii. 32. What thing soever I command you, observe to do it, thou shalt not ADD thereto nor DIMMINISH from it." �?Martin Madan

PATRIARCHY vs. MATRIARCHY

Putting it into "modern" English would surely weaken the meaning of those statements plainly presented in the leader board and the following reply. Message #2 is irrefutable. It is God's own law that the author declares that society must adhere to and this law is not dead, as some would have us to believe, but the consequences of its abuse are manifest in society today.

It is not a ceremonial law that has waxed old from the using by any stretch of the imagination, but a law that has been swept under the carpet of New Age Ignorance established by worldly men in direct rebellion to God. Failure to adhere to this law empowers deliberate compromise with the enemies of God, that men and women might both avoid the full responsibilities of marriage that we clearly see today have all but completely destroyed North American society.

The only laws of God that no longer actively apply to us today are those ceremonial laws (touch not, taste not, handle not) contained in the ordinances of the Levitical priesthood, which was fulfilled by the perfect sacrifice of Christ. (Ephesians 2:15; Colossians 2:15 - 23; Hebrews 9)

I would go so far as to say that in principle, even these archaic laws are not abolished in the sense that even the divine ordinances of a changeless God have perished, but that the TYPE and SHADOW of these practices has passed on to reveal us an even more glorious and greater law of love, containing all those principles adhered to in the observance of those ceremonies which have waxed old and have no further function in the body of Christ. God is a spirit.

Although the Levitical priesthood has passed on, people today still marry as Jesus said they would. Our examples pertaining to godly and holy matrimony can only be established SOLA SCRIPTURA if we are to be sure that we are living according to the will of God and not according to the commandments and doctrines of men. Many "well meaning" churchgoers still adhere to Roman Catholic laws, which are not contained in the scripture. Mandatory monogamy is in fact, only one of those many laws that are not from ON HIGH.

The scriptures are our only sure source concerning those godly ordinances pertaining to marriage. These laws have not waxed away, they are not reduced to the Levitical laws of the priesthood, they are not dietary laws, and they are not antiquated if we would agree that modern laws generated by ungodly men, who dare to call themselves "ministers" do not replace the living laws of God.

Any church that fails to preach this doctrine falls short of the mark. Any church that fails to embrace this Old Testament law to keep it alive in spirit and in truth may as well furnish their congregation with New Testaments and ban all those Bibles that contain the Old Testament from the church. If they truly believe that all of God's Old Testament laws (including the Ten Commandments) are waxed old and no longer apply to our society today, then they ought to live by their anathema to refrain from their current hypocrisy of accusing and excusing one another like the gentiles that they are.

For those who disagree, take out the scissors and start cutting... there is no telling where those scissors might take you in the end. You may as well burn your Bible and be done with it.

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