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Chloe Cummings D.B.S.
abuse, fornication, etc. There needs to be true repentance
followed by putting off sinful choices and putting on biblical
truths. These biblical choices will prevent her from falling into a
repeated cycle of abuse.
One of the most insightful portion of Scripture that
describes the abusive husband (or intimate partner), and also
tells why women get trapped in relationship with such men, is
found in 2 Tim.3:1-7. It says, “But know this, that in the last days
perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves,
lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors,
headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from
such people turn away! For of this sort [of men] are those who
creep into households and make captives of gullible women
loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always
learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth”
(NKJV). This type of man, as described above, “creeps” (I find it
interesting that this word is culturally relevant today) into a
household. He charms. He cajoles. He makes promises. He
rescues, and does other things to meet that woman’s need which
she seeks to fulfill outside of Jesus.
One reason she falls for this type of man is that she is “led
away by various lusts” (vs.6) which may be manifest in such
things as looking to men to meet her emotional, financial,
provisional, and other security needs, rather than looking to God.
Jesus told the woman caught in adultery to sin no more, and it is
one of the responsibilities of the Church, as it ministers to the
abused Christian woman, to help her come to an understanding
of her own weaknesses, which made her vulnerable to the abuse
in the first place. It is also the Church’s responsibility to lead
women who are “always learning” to the Truth so that the cycle
of abuse/sin can stop. Some places where women look for truth
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