Obeying Christ Above All Else

I have met some women over the years that justify their sin against God because their husbands wanted it. They used the excuse of obeying their husband in order to excuse themselves from their own responsibility of choosing sin.

When we meet someone like this we can rightly judge that the woman who makes this excuse is treating her husband as an idol, he is her god above Christ.

When our husbands want us to sin to validate their own sin, then we are to decline to obey that and go with God.

Acts 5:7-9 in the case of Annanias and Saphira, the wife conspired with her husband to deceive. She was also punished for going along with his sin. They were both killed by God.

"7 And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.
8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
9 Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out."

We are to obey God whether or not our husbands choose to do so. We will stand before God alone one day to account for ourselves. God will not be asking if we did it because our sinful husband told us to do it. We make our own choice to obey Christ, no matter what anyone else wants.

Acts 5:29
"29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."

I do believe there are woman who would rather be controlled by someone else so they don't have to think or respond, they can always use others as an excuse for their own sinful choices. Those who would rather be controlled by man than allow the Holy Spirit to control them, have a weak and beggarly faith. They cannot stand alone with Christ, they must have others to blame, others to excuse them and others who validate their lack of commitment to Christ.

There is salvation in Christ alone, no other human being should be doing our thinking for us. It is sin to allow others to manipulate our thoughts, commitments and decisions toward God.

Acts 4:12
"And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."

1 Peter 2:24
"and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed."

When we choose to work with our husband as he leads, it is our commitment toward Christ that motivates us, not a human rule we think we have to follow. When we have to say no to sin, then we must be strong in Christ above any other human pressure.

There are many women who do not have godly husbands, to obey their husbands in their sin is to deny, mock and demean Christ. If someone has an unsaved husband, he may be won to Christ by observing our commitment to Christ no matter what. Our behavior has more weight than our words.

Words have little value when they are not backed up by our behavior. Our behavior cannot be godly when or if we obey the sin of our husband.

1 Peter 3:1-2 "1 Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives 2 when they see your pure and reverent demeanor.…"

Bottom line: We obey the authorities over us when they obey Christ, when they do not, we refuse to accommodate their sin. So the conclusion of the matter is to obey Christ all the time no matter what the pressure of the culture or the devil to disobey Him. The only way we will be able to do this is if we are walking daily with our Lord, He is pre-eminent over everyone and every thing all the time.