{"id":301333,"date":"2007-03-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/when-the-one-you-love-doesnt-believe-part-2\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:00:00","slug":"when-the-one-you-love-doesnt-believe-part-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/when-the-one-you-love-doesnt-believe-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When the One You Love Doesn&#8217;t Believe, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you and your mate on different pages spiritually?  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one text that gives us some direction on this and how we ought to live, and it says, \"Wives, in the same way,\" you see, \"be submissive to your husband.\"\u00a0 You ought to know what it says in the same there \u2013 \"Wives, in the same way,\" is referring in the context back to Jesus.\u00a0 And so it is a call to enter some suffering, because Jesus is the example of how you ought to live.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, March 27th.\u00a0 Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 God wants to give strength and grace to the individual who is married to an unbeliever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.\u00a0 We have already heard this week, Part 1 of a message from Pastor Kent Hughes, a message that speaks to those people who go to church by themselves every Sunday, although when they come home, they share their table and their living room and even their bed with a spouse who does not share their spiritual convictions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yeah, you're talking about those who are married and find themselves in a relationship in that marriage with their spouse not being a believer in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 And yesterday on the broadcast we heard Kent Hughes share, really, a biblical description of what someone is like who has not experienced the new birth, who isn't a believer, and it helps us, I think, Bob, to better understand and live compassionately with someone who doesn't share our biblical values, who doesn't share our faith if we understand, you know, they can't see.\u00a0 They don't have ears to hear.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And Kent Hughes did a wonderful job at the \"Building Strong Families in Your Church\" conference in Dallas, Texas, where we had, well, several hundred folks join us for three days of great Bible teaching and attempting to create resources for churches and for pastors to be able to minister to the needs around marriages and families today.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Kent is the senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton.\u00a0 He has authored numerous books.\u00a0 He and his wife, Barbara, have four children and 14 grandchildren and, Bob, you can just hear it within his voice, there is a compassion and a tenderness there.\u00a0 Well, Kent understands the needs of someone who is in an unequally yoked situation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0This is Part 2 of the message that Kent delivered at the \"Building Strong Families in Your Church\" conference on being married to an unbeliever.\u00a0 Let's listen together to Kent Hughes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tKent:\u00a0I remember the story of George Mueller.\u00a0 Just before he died, he had been praying for two men for 50 years, and they hadn't come to Christ, and as he was dying someone questioned him about that.\u00a0 He said, you know, his prayers, his prayers hadn't been answered.\u00a0 He was noted as a great man of prayer.\u00a0 And Mueller said, \"Do you think that God would have had me pray for them for 50 years and not answer my prayer?\"\u00a0 And he died.\u00a0 The next two years both those men came to Christ after his death.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And I think there's a sense in which when God lays something on your heart, and He calls you to pray and leads you to prayer, very often it's because He's going to have that prayer fulfilled.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so I think that there are a couple of things here.\u00a0 I think that this matter of persistence in prayer and persistence through difficulties and hard times and expectancy.\u00a0 See, it's fascinating, in Luke, the 18th chapter, the parable of persistent widow.\u00a0 The whole point of that parable is that she goes to this unbelieving, terrible judge, and she bugs him until he answers.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then it says we ought to persist in prayer, but the reason we ought to persist in prayer is not that God is like this grudging judge, it's because God's just the opposite.\u00a0 He is our Father.\u00a0 That's why we ought to persist in prayer.\u00a0 And so prayer is the first thing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0The second other element after prayer is your example, your live-in testimony, the way believers live with unbelieving spouses is huge on the landscape.\u00a0 I want to say that if you're married to a nonbeliever or if someone that comes to Christ is married to a nonbeliever, that there is substantial hope because, very often, that spouse comes to believe.\u00a0 Not all the time.\u00a0 I want to be very careful to qualify what I'm saying about that but \"very often.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, the Scriptures offer substantial reason to say this, and I'd like you to turn to 1 Corinthians, the seventh chapter.\u00a0 This is kind of a pillar text in what we're talking about.\u00a0 1 Corinthians, chapter 7, and I want you to notice a couple of things.\u00a0 First of all, just as you start out where it says, \"To the rest I say this \u2013 I, not the Lord,\" do you see that?\u00a0 That doesn't mean that I'm saying this, but God doesn't say this.\u00a0 He's not saying, \"I'm saying this but this isn't God's Word.\"\u00a0 What he is saying is that \"What I am saying,\" Paul says, \"is not diminical.\"\u00a0 That means it didn't fall off of the lips of Jesus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0He's not saying it's not The Word.\u00a0 He says that \"I can't find a place where the Lord says this, but I'm saying this,\" just as he speaks all of 1 Corinthians as the Word of God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0\"So the rest, I say, I, not the Lord.\u00a0 If a brother has a wife who is not a believer, and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.\u00a0 And if a woman has a husband who is not a believer, and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.\"\u00a0 So you see this says that it's not an option for you to think about because, all of a sudden, you're married to a nonbeliever.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Then it says, it talks about the possibility of sanctification or salvation.\u00a0 \"For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband.\u00a0 Otherwise, your children would be unclean but, as it is, they are holy.\"\u00a0 And what he's saying is that the believing spouse can have a sanctifying effect on the unbelieving one; that is, by leading them to faith in Christ and then to holiness and the children.\u00a0 That oftentimes happens within a relationship.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so it says, \"You ought not to leave.\"\u00a0 Now, it does say in the next paragraph, \"But if the unbeliever leaves, let him do so.\"\u00a0 A believing man or woman is not bound in such circumstances.\u00a0 God has called us to peace.\u00a0 Rather, it says that being blood over the ground, if they're going to do it, let them do it.\u00a0 But then it says, \"How do you not know, wife, whether you will save your husband, or how do you not know, husband, whether you will save your wife?\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In other words, by being a peaceful, kind person in this \u2013 with this impossible spouse.\u00a0 So that you have a possibility of sanctification, first of all, by living with an unbeliever \u2013 if they don't want to leave, you're not free to leave.\u00a0 If they will not put up with it, then it says that you're free.\u00a0 But in both it's for the possibility of salvation and sanctification.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So that's why I say that there is, then, great hope.\u00a0 If you come to Christ, and your spouse is an unbeliever, there is great hope there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, the Scriptures offer some advice about living, and I'd like you to turn to the other pillar text here, and that's 1 Peter 3, verses 1 and 2.\u00a0 And then we'll look at 3 to 6.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, what I want you to know \u2013 first of all, this is directed toward the feminine spousal unit here \u2013 and I think in principle, there are principles that you can take across in the way you live with one another, but this is the one text that gives us some direction on this and how we ought to live.\u00a0 And it says, \"Wives, in the same way,\" you see, \"be submissive to your husband.\u00a0 You ought to know what it says \"in the same way\" there.\u00a0 \"Wives, in the same way,\" is referring in the context back to Jesus.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And so it is a call to enter some suffering because Jesus is the example of how you ought to live, and it says, \"Wives, in the same way, be submissive to your husbands so that if any of them do not believe the Word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives when they see their purity and reverence of your lives.\"\u00a0 So it talks about how to live, doesn't it? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then he says, he's really talking about the Roman fashions of the day, that you don't want to be caught up in that elite Roman coiffures and so on that are on the coins.\u00a0 \"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes.\u00a0 Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.\"\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in the Lord used to make themselves beautiful.\u00a0 They were submissive to their own husbands like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham, and called him \"Master.\"\u00a0 \"You are her daughters,\" it says you are Sarah's daughters.\u00a0 \"If you do what is right and do not give way to fear.\u00a0 Don't fear\" \u2013 a very interesting statement, not to fear or give into fear in doing this.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, the third factor, I mentioned that there's prayer, there's how you live according to the Scriptures that I gave, and then the other is The Gospel.\u00a0 Let me quote Romans 1:16-17 again \u2013 \"For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, whereas the power of God and to salvation to everyone who believes.\u00a0 To the Jew first and also the Greek for, in it, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith.\"\u00a0 You've got to know the Gospel.\u00a0 And so a believing spouse, early on, needs to be able to articulate the Gospel.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I'm not talking about a rabbit track of Scriptures about just how to get saved, but the Gospel; that it is the Good News, according to 1 Corinthians 15, verses 2 and 3, that \"Christ died according to the Scriptures; that He was resurrected on the third day according to the Scriptures; that He is the Messiah of the whole Old Testament; that He fulfills all of Scripture.\u00a0 And to understand that, the substitutionary atonement of Christ and to understand what He does, it's important that these new Christians that we're talking about understand the Gospel and be able to explain the Gospel.\u00a0 And it's important that these unbelievers, then, hear the Word either through their spouse or for preaching faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God, Romans 10, or they hear it, I think, most ideal thing is Bible study.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then some just practical do's and don't's that are involved in this \u2013 I would say, again, pray but if you're an unbelieving spouse make sure you don't parade your prayers.\u00a0 It's not something you do at grace where you piously pray for your spouse in front of your children or for Daddy; that you don't talk freely about your spouse and that you enlist the prayers of trusted friends.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I would say this \u2013 I would say even over the protestations of an unbelieving spouse, that it's very, very important to attend church and be with the body of Christ.\u00a0 Now, that doesn't mean be at church every time the doors open but understand that you need the fellowship of the body of Christ, Hebrews 10:25, that you need to be encouraged by that.\u00a0 You cannot forsake [indiscernible] together, that the children of unbelieving spouses need to be in a place where they are getting Bible school; where they are getting youth groups or whatever their ages are.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And that to do your best, and I put these things down, and I put a column with women and men.\u00a0 Women \u2013 domestically, housekeeping and meals; Men \u2013 domestically, maintenance and the bills and so on.\u00a0 Both of you in your fathering and mothering need to turn it up a notch.\u00a0 There needs to be kindnesses on both of you; true friendship on both of you.\u00a0 You need to seek your spouse's happiness, your unsaved spouse's happiness.\u00a0 There needs to be romance, there needs to be intimacy, and all of these things living out the fruits of the spirit.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to tell you a little personal story.\u00a0 This is about my wife's mother.\u00a0 My mother-in-law.\u00a0 She's 82 years old, and we adore Lula Triggs.\u00a0 But let me tell you a little something about Lula and the grace that she's brought, because she's lived out these Scriptures. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Lula Barnes was born in 1918 and grew up in California.\u00a0 She was converted as a teenager, but life wasn't easy for Lula.\u00a0 She was the first of eight children, and when he mother became ill, she dropped out of high school and went to work to help.\u00a0 And so she worked as a maid for a wealthy Pasadena family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0At age 17 she met and married Wilfred Triggs, age 26, a Nebraska farmer who came to California on the top of a freight car.\u00a0 They honeymooned in Santa Barbara, and when they were honeymooning, someone stole their suitcase and every possession in the world, and so they decided they would stay in Santa Barbara, and they lived in Santa Barbara for the next 14 years where he worked in lumber yards and did gardening, and she began to raise children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And my wife, who is number four of six, was born in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 Now, Wilfred \"Shorty\" Triggs, was an uneducated, hardworking laborer with a drinking problem, and she found that out as a teenage bride soon.\u00a0 He was full of personality, he was funny, he was outrageous.\u00a0 He drank at night and on the weekends.\u00a0 It didn't interfere with his work, but when he was drunk, he wasn't funny.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And Lula did extra jobs to keep the family afloat.\u00a0 Shortly after child five came, he broke his ankle in the lumber yard where he worked \u2013 this is pre- those big insurance days \u2013 had five screws put in his ankle and Lula, mother of six, drove an ice cream truck to keep things together.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0She rarely went to church, and we have talked to her about that, and it seems that it's because he didn't want her to because he was irrationally jealous of her wherever she went \u2013 to the market or anywhere, but she made all of her children go.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When my wife was 12, her father, Wilfred, severed his hand in a lumber yard saw, had it sewn back on, and it never worked the rest of his life except as a good perch for a cigarette, that's all.\u00a0 He became humiliated, he was at the bottom, the only job that he could get was washing dishes \u2013 and so he began to drink \u2013 big time.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Now, here is the Lula factor \u2013 she went to work at Long Beach City College where she cleaned the locker rooms until retirement, and she lovingly cared for him to the end, while she worked at the college, and toward the end he confessed his love for Christ and his belief and with tears running down his face.\u00a0 You know what?\u00a0 Today, he's in heaven.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0Well, again, today we've been listening to a message from Kent Hughes on being married to an unbeliever, and it may be the most challenging assignment anyone can face on earth, and yet perseverance is rewarded by God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDennis:\u00a0Yes, and the other thing I would underscore is a heart of compassion and grace toward that spouse who isn't a believer yet.\u00a0 Keep on praying, keep on asking God to implant within your heart His concern, His love, because, frankly, Bob, I think what the Scripture teaches here is that the believing spouse is the arms of love expressing God's heart for that person who is not a believer.\u00a0 And you may be, if you're in that situation, you may be the closest thing that they ever get to seeing who God is in that marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBob:\u00a0I think there are a lot of people who may feel isolated or alone or feel like they're the only one in this kind of a situation especially if they're very active in their church and with their Christian friends.\u00a0 They may just feel like everybody is married to a Christian spouse, and I'm the only one who is not.\u00a0 And that can be a lonely place.\u00a0 I think it helps to know that you're not alone, that there are other men, other women, who are experiencing the same challenge that you're experiencing. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've interviewed Nancy Kennedy, who wrote the book, \"When He Doesn't Believe,\" and in that book she talked about her own situation, being married to an unbelieving husband.\u00a0 Lee and Leslie Strobel wrote a book called \"Surviving a Spiritual Mismatch in Marriage.\"\u00a0 Leslie came to faith before her husband did, and it was a crisis in their marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've got copies of both of their books in our FamilyLife Resource Center, and I think, again, it helps to know you're not alone, there are other people who have been in this situation or who are in this situation, even today.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And then I'd also encourage listeners, if there's any way to get to one of our Weekend to Remember conferences.\u00a0 This is a good, healthy, safe environment where a wife or a husband who is not a Christian can clearly hear about marriage from a biblical standpoint, can hear the message of the Gospel, and can hear it in a way that is relaxed, a way that I think they're comfortable hearing it, even if the message itself is not comfortable for them.\u00a0 I think they'll feel comfortable hearing it at the Weekend to Remember.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've just had a lot of couples come over the years where a husband or a wife has trusted Christ.\u00a0 In fact, this past year about 4 percent of the people who came to a Weekend to Remember conference indicated that they trusted Christ for the first time at one of our conferences.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0And we have information about our conferences and about resources that are available from us here at FamilyLife on our Internet site, FamilyLife.com.\u00a0 Go to the Web and type in \"FamilyLife.com.\"\u00a0 You'll see a red button in the center of the screen when the page loads, and it says \"Go\" on it.\u00a0 You click that button, it will take you right to a portion of the site where there's information about books and CDs and other resources that I've mentioned here.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0There is also information about upcoming Weekend to Remember conferences being held in cities all across the country.\u00a0 You can get more information there, or if you have questions and it's easier to call, our toll-free number is 1-800-358-6329, which is also 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So, either way, on the Web at FamilyLife.com, or by calling 1-800-FLTODAY, let us get more information to you about these resources, and help you however we can in this situation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0We've had a number of our listeners this month who have called us or gone online, Dennis, to let us know that they are going to join us in a special project that we're doing during the month of \u2013 actually, during the month of April, but they're signing up to help us with it now.\u00a0 We created a tool a number of years ago called Resurrection Eggs, where the Easter story can be easily told to children or to adults, for that matter, using a dozen plastic Easter eggs with symbols that represent different aspects of what happened during the week before Christ's resurrection.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0This year we'd like to get a set of these Resurrection Eggs into the hands of as many people as possible who need to hear the Gospel.\u00a0 So we made arrangements with our friends at Here's Life Inner City.\u00a0 They have arranged to give away a set of Resurrection Eggs to a family in the inner city as a way to introduce them to the Gospel, and we're partnering with Here's Life Inner City to make that possible.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0When you make a donation to the ministry of FamilyLife during the month of March, you make it possible for us to get these Resurrection Eggs into the inner city.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0In addition, when you make a donation, we're going to send you a set of Resurrection Eggs, and we'd like to ask you to share them with a friend or a neighbor, a loved one, a co-worker, a relative, someone who needs to hear the message of the Gospel this year at Easter, especially if they have young children.\u00a0 This is a great way to give them an Easter gift that may introduce them to the reality of the Gospel and may open the door for you to be able to have ongoing spiritual dialog with that person.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0So if you can help us be a part of this project this year, here is what we'd ask you to \u2013 either call us or go online and make a donation of any amount.\u00a0 If you're donating online, when you come to the keycode box, type the word \"eggs\" in the box so that we know that you want to participate in this with us.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Or, if you're calling, just mention that you want to take part in the Resurrection Eggs initiative this year, and we'll make arrangements to get a set of eggs sent on your behalf into the inner city and a set sent out to you for distribution along with our thanks for your support of this ministry and for your participation in this project.\u00a0 We appreciate it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0Well, tomorrow we are going to interact with some of our listeners.\u00a0 You're going to hear some phone calls from folks who are married to an unbeliever, and we'll hear about some of the challenges they're facing, and we'll see if we can provide some help and some hope.\u00a0 I hope you can be with us for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0I want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, and our entire broadcast production team.\u00a0 On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We'll see you next time for another edition of FamilyLife Today. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u00a0FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for 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