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bringing you life-changing, critical-questions-answering book excerpts, we
bring you the #StoriesByHagin series – a series of value-packed stories told by
Papa Hagin. Kenneth E. Hagin was a loving husband, father, pastor and prophet.
But, beyond all these, he was also (as you may have realized) a ‘Consummate
Storyteller’. This is Story 1 in this series. Please, enjoy:
Now on another occasion, I remember a minister
whom I invited to come and preach in my church. We
really didn’t need a meeting, but we were just trying
to help him. He got to the point where he didn’t have
any place to preach. He had two small children, just
about the same age as our children. And so, I gave
him a meeting to help him. We took up more money
for him than anyone else I ever had preach at the
church. We also bought him and his wife some
clothes while they were there.
We began to discuss this very subject of
submission, because I’d been around him before. And
I saw how he treated his wife and two little children.
He treated his wife badly. She had no say-so. She
had to do exactly what he told her to do. He used
Ephesians 5:22, “Wives, submit yourselves unto
your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”
But he took
the scripture out of context. He forgot about the next
verse, which reminds husbands to love their wives as
Christ loved the Church.
I talked to the poor fellow about his family. I told
him that he needed to change the way he treated his
wife and two children. I said, “You’re going to lose
your children. They’re going to grow up not knowing
a thing in the world about love. They are going to
think that God is like you.”
He was able to preach well, even though his life
wasn’t right with God. And we had a good meeting—
one of the best meetings we ever had. More people
were saved and baptized with the Holy Ghost than in
any other meeting.
Later on, he took a church, and I held a meeting for
him. I stayed in the parsonage with him and his
family. I talked to him again. I remember we
discussed Scripture together. And he was the kind of
fellow who thought he was always right and
everyone else was wrong. If you didn’t agree with
him, he would put you down.
Well, he didn’t know the Word of God as well as I
did, so I won every argument. He would quote one
scripture, and I would quote two. Finally, he would
run out of scriptures, and I would still be quoting them.
Eventually, he said, “Well, I could be wrong. I
don’t think I am, but I could be.”
We were eating at the table discussing these things,
when he got a phone call. As a pastor, he needed to
visit someone. So after he left, his wife and motherin-
law said, “That’s the first time we’ve ever heard
him even insinuate that there’s a possibility that he
could be wrong.”
Well, I saw a momentary change in him, but he
went right back to that same dogmatic, dictatorial
attitude—always saying that he was right. You could
even see it in his preaching. He thought that he was
right, and everyone else was wrong.
His two children ended up just as I said they
would. I told him exactly what would happen if he
continued to treat them badly. I didn’t have a
revelation. I just knew what the Word of God says.
There is a law of sowing and reaping that carries
over into every part of a person’s life.
We sometimes emphasize sowing and reaping in
connection with financial giving. Well, that’s true,
because Jesus said, “Give, and it shall be given unto
you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over, shall men give
into
your bosom. For with the same measure that
ye
mete withal it shall be measured to you
again”
(Luke 6:38). But, you see, the law of sowing and
reaping is true in every other area of life as well.
When his last child graduated from high school,
both of them said, “We’ve had enough of this.
Goodbye. We’re gone!” And they left. His wife then
said, “I’ve put up with this all these years. The
children are grown now. Goodbye. I’m gone.”
As far as I know, this man died around the age of
forty. He was found dead in bed, alone. He brought it
on himself. And to my knowledge, neither one of his
children or his wife were serving God when I last
heard of them; they hadn’t been to church in years.
They thought that God was like him. The children
grew up with that idea, with that father image. They
associated God the Father with their earthly father.
But, thank God, He is not like that!
This is culled from the book, ‘MARRIAGE,
DIVORCE & REMARRIAGE’ By
Kenneth E. Hagin. Go grab a copy. And, feel free to drop your comments below. Find
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