When a Man Listens to His Wife against the Word of God.
This statement has been misinterpreted and stripped of its true meaning until it can no longer reach into our marriages and bless us.
Some Bible versions and teachings have reduced it to a simple instruction for a man to study his wife—learn her likes, dislikes, emotions and way of thinking so he can know how to please her.
It sounds logical.
But I have a problem with that definition.
And if the meaning is simply about being intelligent enough to understand women, then the most intelligent men should have the strongest marriages. Yet intelligence alone does not preserve a marriage.
So I went back to Scripture.
And I began to see something concerning.
Adam
Adam had the Word of God.
He knew the command: do not eat.
Then Eve gave him the fruit, and he ate.
And when God confronted him, God said:
Adam's problem was not that he had a wife.
His problem was that he chose the voice of his wife over the Word of God.
Samson
Samson had something he was commanded to protect.
Delilah kept pressing him until he finally revealed the secret. He knew what he was supposed to protect, but eventually he surrendered it.
And after he surrendered the secret:
His life collapsed.
Abraham
God had given Abraham a promise.
He was supposed to wait.
Sarah offered another way.
Abraham followed the shortcut, and Ishmael was born.
The promise of God did not change—but Abraham allowed another voice to alter his obedience.
Job
Job believed what he knew about God.
Then catastrophe came.
His wife offered him an easier way:
Job refused.
He would not abandon what he knew about God simply because the person closest to him suggested it.
And God restored him.
Solomon
Solomon was extraordinarily wise.
Yet Scripture says his wives turned his heart toward other gods.
The wisest man could still fall when he stopped guarding his heart and allowed another voice to become greater than God's Word.
And the consequences reached the kingdom.
So What Is the Warning?
It is not that women are evil.
It is not that a man should stop loving his wife, listening to her or respecting her.
No.
A man should love his wife.
He should listen to her.
He should understand her.
He should honour her.
But there is an order in a Kingdom marriage.
There is no neutrality in that order.
If a man stops leading and starts following his wife against God, everything can go down with him.
And if a man stops listening to and obeying God, everything can go down with him too.
if he has stopped following God.
This is why the issue is much deeper than “knowing your wife.”
Know your wife—but know God more.
Listen to your wife—but never above God's Word.
Love your wife—but never above God.
Guard the Gate
Because the enemy does not always need to destroy a man by attacking him directly.
Sometimes he only needs to convince the man to abandon the Word of God and follow another voice.
And sometimes that voice can come from the person closest to him.
That is why a Kingdom man must guard the gate.
Kingdom Man
Because when the man loses his position before God, he does not fall alone.
Know your wife.
But know God more.
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