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Gospel of Jesus Christ and it's our

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have something new we're going to add to

it which I'll tell you about at the end

so stick around

but today's question is pretty

interesting are House Husbands biblical

this is actually prompted by an article

I read in the Wall Street Journal this

week which was focusing on a trend on

Wall Street and in other corporate parts

of corporate America where the wife in a

particular family is the primary bread

winner she makes significantly more than

her husband and her career prospects are

brighter than her husbands so as a

result they make a family decision that

he will stay home he's a stay-at-home

dad or a house husband and actually this

is a growing Trend over the last 50

years the number of women making at

least as much as their husband if not

more has tripled that's right tripled

now 45% of married women make what their

husband makes or even make more which

means it's becoming more economically

feasible for women to work and for the

husband to stay at home this is also in

the particular National Consciousness

because one of the people running for

president vice president Kamala Harris

her husband is actually a stay-at-home

husband Doug imhoff who was a an

entertainment attorney but years ago

shelved his career to be a house husband

and support vice president Harris as she

rose up the political ranks so this is

something that isn't just happening in

more and more families it's something on

the national political stage and the

question I want to EXP expl is is this

idea biblical in other words could a

Christian family consider this and is

this a helpful or harmful idea for our

culture well my answer might surprise

you I think that it is unquestionably

true that this is an okay thing for

Christian families to do and an

acceptable Trend within our culture and

I want to take just a minute or two to

lay out my argument first we have to be

really careful that we don't label

things as sin that God has not

specifically labeled as sin because we

believe in grace and in Freedom the

burden of proof should always be on

proving something is sin not that it

isn't that that's legalism and so if we

ask the question has the Bible

specifically said that a husband has to

work outside of the home uh the best

you're going to come up with is a

passage in 1 Timothy 5:8 where Paul will

say that a man should provide for his

own family but the context of that

passage is important uh 1 Timothy

Chapter 5 is about how to care for

widows and specifically Paul is telling

Timothy that the church should only bear

the burden for widows who don't have a

family that the church as an institution

should care for widows whose own

families either are dead or cannot

provide for them but if a widow is in a

family then it calls to the family Paul

says to care for them so the context of

1 Timothy 5 is not that a man should go

to work and put food on the table the

context is that if a man has a widow in

his family he should make sure she is

cared for but actually the idea of work

is interesting because in Genesis 2 God

makes Adam and Eve and he tells them to

be fruitful and multiply to have

dominion over the Earth to cultivate the

garden and keep it they're both going to

work work is is part of what it means to

be human but of course that doesn't mean

work outside the home in the early

stages of when the Bible was written

work meant working at home because home

was a farm or it was taking care of the

sheep and everybody worked Mom Dad kids

everybody participated in the economy of

the family this is why proverbs 31 which

is the depiction of a Godly woman will

actually have her selling Goods at the

market probably Goods that came from the

family business business or the Family

Farm my wife is a stay-at-home mom and

I'm going to guess you're not going to

tell me that she doesn't work she works

and her work is valuable the work of

raising children is Godly work it's

inspiring work it's important work we're

also not going to say that what it means

to be head of the home which the Bible

unquestionably calls a man to be means

to make more money than your wife for

example if a if a husband was a school

teacher let's say and the wife was a

corporate litigator and maybe made four

times more than him is he lazy or not

the head of his home simply because he's

given his life to educating children of

course not being the head of your home

doesn't mean making the most money it

doesn't mean working outside of the home

and it doesn't mean doing things that

aren't domestic it's not as though the

man becomes a better leader when his

wife asks him to do the dishes and he

says no no that's beneath me it's not

beneath him in fact in Ephesians 5

husbands are told to love their wives in

this way that they lay down their lives

for him their leadership is itself an

act of service so could a man say my

wife is incredibly bright incredibly

successful and her career provides for

us very well so I will lead by filling

in the things she can't do I will

disciple the children I will make sure

that they're clothed and fed and bathed

and educated absolutely that's perfectly

okay listen we have to be really clear

on what the Bible does tell us and what

Christian culture has attached to what

the Bible tells us and if we hold on too

tightly to the latter we're just like

the Pharisees that Jesus routinely says

in the gospels it's not God's law people

are breaking it's yours so if you want

to be a stay-at-home M dad be one to the

glory of God lead your family by serving

at home all right that's the end of that

episode but real quick here's what we're

doing for the 100th episode we're

actually opening an email address wakeup

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