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PRESENTS:
KEYS TO A SUCESSFUL MARRIAGE LIFE
BIBLE CLASS LESSONS
BY:

LEADER OLUMBA OLUMBA OBU

THE SUPERNATURAL TEACHER, AND
SOLE SPIRITUAL HEAD OF THE UNIVERSE
BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR
 BIBLE WITNESS
REVELATION 10:7-11

7 but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then is finished
they mystery of God, according to the good tidings which he declared to his servants the
prophets.
8 And the voice which I heard from heaven, [I heard it] again speaking with me, and saying, Go,
take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the
earth.
9 And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the little book. And
he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy
mouth it shall be sweet as honey.
10 And I took the little book out of the angel`s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth
sweet as honey: and when I had eaten it, my belly was made bitter.
11 And they say unto me, Thou must prophesy again over many peoples and nations and tongues
and kings.
KEY TO A SUCCESSFUL MARRIAGE LIFE

1ST LESSON EPHESIANS 5:25

"Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church, and
gave himself for it."

2ND LESSON COLOSSIANS 3:18

"Wives, submit yourselves unto you own husband as it is fit in the

Lord."

GOLDEN TEXT: 1ST PETER 3:8

"Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love

as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous."

MARRIAGE is a holy institution headed by Christ. It entails a lot of

sacrifice in love on the part of the couples. The husband should love
his wife as Christ loves his church. And what Christ is to his Church so
must a husband be to his wife, a Pastor and a Comforter.

Love is the Bridegroom's commandment. It is not the deed of man, but

of God that, a man should love his wife. Christ as the shepherd of the
church, loves and protects her. He takes care to ensure that no sheep
goes astray. The husband has the same duty towards his wife.

To marry is not a difficult question. But can you be the keeper and
lover of your wife? This means laying down your life for your wife. If
the marriage home is not in peace, the husband is answerable. He is
not a good Pastor.

If the wife goes astray, and is perished, God will demand her soul from
her husband.
God does not know the woman, but he places everything under the
care of the man. And God uses the responsibility of caring for the wife
to test the man to see whether he will love his wife as Christ loves him
(the husband).

If a husband wants to apply God's example of love to wedlock, they

should first of all ask themselves whether they have received his
instructions. Christ is telling all husbands to take good care of their
wives and children, and to keep them as a good Pastor does to his
flock guiding his life that the sheep may live. He has warned us, that if
a man does not love his wife, his prayers will not be heard by God.

But, how many husbands today are ready to learn of Christ? For our
sake, Christ suffered to the end; so that for our wives, we may
likewise suffer as good Shepherds.

What day has Christ scourged you? What day has he cursed or
pronounced woe unto you? What day has he refused to give you food?
Or said unto you: "From today, I don't want you again, go away to your
mother." What day has Christ told you: "This house is mine, I do not
want you." Has he ever told you not to touch anything because you
have brought nothing into this world? No never Christ is Bridegroom
without blemish.

But contrary to Christ's expectations and instructions, husbands today

are selfish and cause division in the home. They maintain strictly
exclusive ownership over this or that thing in the house, whereas,
husband and wife should have the same right over everything in the
house.

They should share the same trunk box, spoon, plate and cup. There
should be no harm in the husband using the wife's wrappers, and vice-
versa—they should have everything in common.

Yet, instead of heeding Christ's instructions, some husbands treat

their yes spitefully, disgracing them whenever and wherever they like.
They boast that, they can marry as many women as they like, and in
their foolishness, forget that any Pastor who cannot take care of a
single sheep, cannot in anyway be safely trusted with two; let alone
more.

THE CONSEQUENCES:

Look around the world today and see how men suffer the
consequences of the ill-treatment they give their wives. Though their
negligence, they wreck the marriage home. Tribulations, litigation,
fear, illness and wrath are among the things any husband, who does
not love his wife, is most liable to suffer.

DANGER OF POLYGAMY:

Since it is so difficult to successfully be the husband of one wife,

polygamy is a real danger we should dread. The man who ill-treats his
wife with the hope that he can marry another tomorrow, should note
the danger to which he has exposed himself.

This gospel has peace to offer to those who do it, and war to wage
against all those who do not do it.

1ST LESSON EPHESIANS 5:25

"Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the Church, and
gave himself for it."

Some people claim that they are behaving as Europeans, first, by living
a happy married life. This is not true. The only fact is that, Europeans
first embraced Christianity and have successfully applied the principle
of love in marriage life. So the man who behaves well in marriage life,
is not doing as Europeans, but is doing the word of God as Christ is
doing in showing perfect love towards his Church.

PRECIOUS:
Of all things in the world, what is most precious to a man is his wife.
She is lifetime cross that the man has to carry till death separates
them. All truth, humility, longsuffering and patience should be
employed in the love for his wife. She is the only person with whom
you are one flesh in this world. Something you do to your wife is
something you do to yourself.

NOT MONEY:

Money does not show love in marriage. First ask yourself whether you
will be able to carry your wife's cross during sickness, tribulation want
and misfortune. You are her father in tribulation. You are also her
mother. You are her brother, sister, and husband. You are her all in all.
You cannot think of her clothes, health and food without thinking of
how you can supply them.

DISAPPOINTMENT:

But disappointment comes when the man who is supposed to be

provident in love, comfort and Godliness chooses to deprive his wife of
all these rights, simply because he prefers wine, hotel and outside
women to his wife.

He leaves his wife too worried to be comfortable. The bad husband

causes his wife to wander and go lost like a sheep without a
Shepherd.

PUNISHMENT:

And what punishment awaits such husbands. Their punishment should

be heavy, for there is no reason why the love of a husband should be
turned from his wife to cinema, bar and outside women. If we care to
examine, why should we do things while our wives are refused
scratchy crumbs? Why should we give them stone for bread?

Why then should our wives knock and we refuse to open and admit
them into out bowels of love. Why should we be stone-hearted against
the weaker vessel of the Lord.

Why should we desert them in their Poverty. Why should we be bad

Shepherds and anti-Christs.
CHRIST SURRENDERED HIS WEALTH:

Christ saw how poor we were and so, came and surrendered all his
property and heavenly glory, and suffered that we might be filled.

He saw how weak we were and so, surrendered all his strength also
that we might be strengthened. But if we fail to follow this example in
loving our wives, our punishment is indeed great. We are created in
the image of God and Christ. If we do not love our wives, we are no
more in the image of Christ, and God is no more in us.
WIFE FINDS GOD IN HER HUSBAND:

All the above mentioned Godly qualities, which Christ shows towards
us and His Church, are expected to be seen by the wife in her
husband. She finds God in her husband. But supposing the husband
does not care to seek, find and abide in God and his Christ, how can
the wife see God in him?

How can marriage be successful without the head—Christ? Any

husband who hasn't had Christ, is useless; and a house where the man
is useless is good for nothing.

RUINED:

Before now, you were saying: "someone has spoiled my house." But
now, you have seen that by telling lies to your wife, causing division in
anything with her, and by not loving her as you should, you are the sole
cause of unhappiness in your home. Accept Christ as the head of your
house, otherwise you are ruined already.

JUDGMENT:

If you do not love your wife, you cannot do the work of God and God
cannot give you God fearing children.

You cannot have any good thing in life. Because you cast your wife
out, you have cast out Christ and all good things. If you desert her, and
sleep in some corner in the town you have deserted Christ.

You have exposed her to the danger of death. You have crucified
Christ a second time. You are a murderer. Cain was asked by God:
"Man, where is thy Brother?" On the judgement day the husband will
be asked: "Man, where is thy wife?" How will you be saved if you are a
bad husband.
YOU NEED CHRIST:

To be a good husband or good Shepherd, you need no money, drink or

medicine as you need Christ. You should use Christ's instructions to
keep your family away from sin, or else, their sins will be counted
against you.

Christ is calling upon all husbands to come and learn of Him, how to
care for the flock and lay down their lives for them; how to love them
and have peace and life eternal. Christ is calling all men. To start
rolling on Jesus' feet and receiving instructions from him is to start
being good enough husband.

The husband's love for his wife must be reciprocated. Therefore, it is

not only the husband who needs Christ, but the wife also should be a
good Christian. She should take Christ's instructions.
2ND LESSON COLOSSIANS 3:18

"Wives, submit yourselves unto you own husband as it is fit in the

Lord."

Dear Brethren, have you seen another problem, wives? And you wives
who have quarreled with your husband before coming to Church today,
had you not told him when you parted in discord, that you had better
part with the foolish man; but you will never part with your God? And
are you sure that you have not parted with you God already?

Does a wife who does not submit to her husband remain with God any
longer? It does not matter whether you are a millionaire while your
husband is a pauper, you must submit to him. And of course, through
you, your husband should rise and be the same millionaire that you
are. He should be what you are and more. He should always be your
husband, and you his wife submitting to him in all respects.

NO SECRET:

Why then should a woman take her money to a nearby relation to keep
for her. Why should that distant brother be the keeper of her box, while
her husband is ignorant of the whole affair? Who authorizes the woman
to claim that she bought this pot or that knife for her husband or that
she brought these things from her parent's house.

In fact, the wife has nothing of her own. All she has belongs to the
husband also. From the day your husband takes you away from your
parents, with all your knowledge, beauty from head to toe, with all
your vices and virtue, you belong to him all in all.

It becomes your bounding duty to take his instructions. If you cling to

your old habits without allowing them to be modified or eradicated by
him you are exposed to danger.

Any woman who considers it difficult to regard her husband as her

own father had better stayed back a spinster for, she cannot be a
house wife. But today, who among black and white women will not
throw back five for one word of rebuke from the husband?

How many women abide by the advice of their husbands? How many
regard their husbands as their Lords. Apart from Christ the wife has no
other King than her husband. The parents are not as important to the
woman as her husband.

RESPECT:

Any woman whether black or white who respects her husband

respects Christ; and any woman who submits to her husband submits
to Christ. Why then, should women who are married wear their
marriage rings to go and mess up with other men? I wonder why such
women should be called human beings any longer. All your body
belongs to your husband exclusively.

Even you have no right to converse with another man on the road
without the permission of your husband. You have no power of your
own. You have no right to wear anything you like, or to appear any how
or in any fashion your husband does not approve of.

HUSBAND'S PERMISSION:
You are not permitted to plan or think differently from your husband. It
is a sin for you to give anybody a penny without the permission of your
husband.

You are not permitted to argue with him. As the heaven is high above
the earth, so is the man's wisdom above that of the woman.

Some women assume too much for the fact that some of them are
Queens or Ministers or Prime Ministers. All these are meant to be
controlled by men, their position notwithstanding. Education has
nothing to do in marriage. Money does not give a woman a mandate to
be above her husband. Nothing does.

There are some women who think that once they have used their
beauty to entrap a man into marriage, they are free afterwards to
behave as they like, hoping to use their beauty as an irresistible
influence. But I tell you such women had better gone to hell with their
beauty.

It were better that they are called "beauty-dung," submitting it under

the husband's feet for the sake of happy marriage than to face the
consequences of the misuse of their beauty in marriage. For they are
bound to suffer in the end.

There is another set of women who want to live a free life, and hope to
succeed more by having men they simply call "husband." They
therefore use their money to engage poor, simple men whom they
hope to control with the influence of money favor. This is a grievous
sin for any woman to commit. It does not show the wife's submission
to the husband and is not conducive to love and happy marriage.

DIVORCE:

There are others who think that they can desert their husbands at any
time they like, and take up new husbands. Some divorce their
husbands and go to stay where they call "convenient homes." And you
foolish woman where do you want to go. Where your husband stays is
your town and your home.

It is your heaven. From the day your parents surrendered you to a man
in marriage, your parents and relations have no right over you; but your
husband has every right over you.
GIVE HIM FOOD:

Women should know that God uses their husbands to test whether
they can serve Him: give him food and cloth; because something done
by the husband to the wife is something done to Christ. You should be
like a loving child to your husband.

A Woman's Business Is Husband's

Nothing else should concern wife than her husband. A woman has no
other business than her husband. To be a judge is nothing to her. To be
a queen is nothing to her. The glory of a woman is her husband. He is
her sole business.

If your husband is not asleep, you should not sleep. It is your duty to
watch with him. When necessary you should watch over him. When
your husband is ill, you are ill with him. His health is your health. And
as the Church submits unto Christ, so all women are supposed to
submit to their husbands. Any woman who refuses to do this has direct
punishment from God.

GOLDEN TEXT: 1ST PETER 3:8

"Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love

as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous."

The love we have for our wives should be full of humility and sympathy
and peace. These qualities should mark our conversations and actions
towards them. Your joy and sorrows should be shared in the Spirit of
love and oneness.

Your parents in-law are your parents also. A husband should not do
anything without seeking the mutual consent of his wife. Christ cannot
dwell where there is a division. But where both couples are united and
surrender themselves to the will of God, Christ is their bridegroom and
is ready to provide their temporal and Spiritual needs. And they are
merely brother and sister. That is why we say that in the strict sense
of the word no man should be called a husband. Christ alone is a
husband, while husband and wife are Brother and Sister.

HAPPY HOME:

Therefore there must be Christ in every happy home. There must be

singleness of mind, compassion, love and pity between husband and
wife. Any person who cannot take care of his house cannot take care
of the house of God. Whoever prays for a successful marriage life,
happy home, children of promise, should take this gospel as the only
condition.

Those who have ears to hear let them hear, may the Lord bless the
preaching of his holy word. A—men.
THANK YOU HOLY FATHER