{"id":13919,"date":"2016-08-18T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/17-never-publicly-expose-or-ridicule-your-mate\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:49","slug":"17-never-publicly-expose-or-ridicule-your-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/17-never-publicly-expose-or-ridicule-your-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"17 NEVER PUBLICLY EXPOSE OR RIDICULE YOUR MATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>M<\/b>y wife and I were having dinner with another couple when the husband told an embarrassing story about his wife. Everyone blushed but him. Another time, we were visiting a congregation and listening to the pastor tell story after story about his wife and children. His humor made his wife look silly and ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Few things can rip a marriage apart with more devastation than public ridicule. Making fun of your spouse or demeaning him reveals your lack of esteem and honor. Take these steps to avoid exposing and demeaning your spouse in public:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Never tell jokes with your spouse as the punch line.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Get permission from your spouse to tell any personal stories.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Decide always to honor and praise your mate in public.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Make remarks about your mate that show how you cherish and care for him or her.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Refuse to listen to others who degrade their mates.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Refuse to tell off-color or ethnically disparaging jokes about anyone, including your mate.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Treat your mate in public the way you want to be treated.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Try this: Ask your spouse to tell you honestly what you do or say in public that embarrasses him. Then stop doing or saying that.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>A wholesome tongue is a tree of life.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Prov. 15:4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were having dinner with another couple when the husband told an embarrassing story about his wife. Everyone blushed but him. Another time, we were visiting a congregation and listening to the pastor tell story after story about his wife and children. His humor made his wife look silly and ridiculous. Few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/17-never-publicly-expose-or-ridicule-your-mate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;17 NEVER PUBLICLY EXPOSE OR RIDICULE YOUR MATE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}