"Ignorance is no excuse."

Betty Sue, was a middle-aged woman, with graying hair and a wrinkled brow. She had raised her children and now she wanted to enjoy the freedom of exploring the world around her. And she wanted to live the rest of her life in quite solitude. But she had a husband that wanted her to wait on him hand and foot. Every time she sat down and tried to rest her husband was yelling for her to get something for him. If it wasn't a glass of water it was a sandwich. She never had a minutes peace.

Her husbands' name was George, and he was a tall, burly man with gray sideburns and jet-black hair. He stood out in a crowd. He was handsome in a sort of way but when you got to know him he was not very good-looking at all. He worked in the factory as an overseer and took his job very seriously. He had to make sure that every thing went like clockwork, and he takes his job at home the same way. If anything went wrong he would let you know about it, at the job and at home.

He took her to the store to buy the food, then told her how much to buy, and what to buy. He would write out the menus for the week. And she better not stray from his orders.

Betty Sue has been married to this man for thirty years, and when she felt like she wanted to increase her education, her husband told her she didn't need it because all she needed to know was how to take care of him. After all that's what God wanted, for the woman to follow the man and do what he told her to do. It's in the bible he would tell her, so you know you have to do it if you want to go to heaven when you die. He would read to her the part of the Bible that told it so.

He wouldn't let her go anywhere without him, and made her walk two steps behind him. He said that it all started the day when Eve gave the apple to Adam. And ever since then the woman must do whatever the man said. That, he is the boss and she had better not forget it.

She raised her children under his rules, and they all left home soon as they were of age. And they went out into the world, she hears from them every now and then. One of her daughters tells her, that she needs to have a life of her own and learn to make her own choices.

But Betty Sue would not hear her, and says your father is my master and I must do as he says in order to reach heaven. Soon her daughter gave up and went back home. But Betty Sue had started to think about what she had said to her. She was tired and it didn't look like her husband was going to let up. In fact the older he got the more he demanded of her. And once he told her that if she didn't do as he said he would have no choice but to put her away like Moses said and get another wife whom would do as she was told. Again he used the Bible to make his point.

Now she was more afraid of what would happen to her if she didn't listen to her husband. She had no idea that she was really a prisoner in her own home.

Then one day when he was at work a group of people knocked on the door. And when she answered the door they asked her if she wanted to know what the Lord had for her in heaven. If she wanted to let Jesus Christ into her life and go to heaven with him?

Now she was totally confused, Who was this Jesus Christ? And what did he have to do with heaven? It was God and Moses who let you go to heaven if you did exactly what you were told to do by your husband. And when she told this to the people who stopped by, they were shocked to say the least.

After about thirty minutes they had decided that she had been sheltered from the truth for so long she was in desperate need of schooling about the Lord. So they set up a schedule for them to come by and teach her the story of Jesus. But for today they told her to act as if nothing was different and to wait for them to return to her the next day.

Her husband came home from work and noticed that she was very quite. She usually has to talk to him, because there was nobody else to talk to. But today it was different. She walked around the house like she was in a trance. And nothing her husband said to her got through. She was thinking about this Jesus, Who was he? and Why did she have to get to know him. She though, maybe she should ask her husband and see what he had to say about him. So she did. "George who was Jesus?"

What! said George, Who told you about him? You have been doing something without my permission, haven't you?

No, George I haven't. cried Betty Sue.

Then, where did you hear about Jesus?

She couldn't tell him about the people that came over that morning, so she lied to him. And told him that she saw something on the TV and wondered what it meant.

He told her, "You can't believe anything you hear on the TV, and beside why did you have it on? You know that is my TV and it is for me to watch not you? Don't touch it again, do you hear me, he yelled at her. He took her by the arm and shook her so hard that her head hurt and somewhere deep down inside she knew that was wrong. He had never touched her like that before. What was she going to do now?

She couldn't wait for the next day to come. That's when she was going to learn about Jesus.

You see, She got married at the age of twelve and she never did go to church. And her father thought that since this man who wanted to marry her would teach her about the Lord, because his father was a preacher and, he would take over there. But it wasn't like that. When she married, her husband took her away, and never let her see her family again, and his father was the same way with his mother so as far as they were concerned there wasn't anything wrong.

The night dragged by like a slow drip from the faucet, She thought that the morning would never come. When the morning did come her husband decided that today he was going to call in sick for work and stay home. How was she going to be able to talk to the people when they got there to tell her about Jesus? But then she found out that the reason he wanted to stay home was because he had plans to go fishing with a buddy. He wanted her to tell anyone that might call he was in bed and couldn't come to the phone. She was never so glad to lie in her whole life.

By the time he had left for his fishing date she had cleaned the house and put on a nice dress, and she really did turn in the TV to watch it while she waited. She did see an infomercial about a book she could call to get for herself, about the life of Jesus, so now she really did see it on TV. Maybe there really was a Jesus if he had a commercial on the TV.

Soon the doorbell rang and they were there. She opened the door and let them in. After about fifteen minutes when they were still talking about why she didn't know about Jesus, the door burst open and there stood her husband.

He ranted and he raved about how he thought she was having an affair, but with two men! He couldn't believe it!

It took all three of them to calm him down and got him to tell them about the Bible as he knew it. At first he said that a mans castle is his home and that nobody should come in without the man there to let them. And they asked him why was that? And started telling them about all the Bible lessons he got from his father when he was a small boy. About the sins of the woman and how she had to pay for it by serving the man forever. The people got out their Bible and asked him to show them the passages that told him these things. He took the Bible and held it for a few moments and then laid it down and said in a very loud voice, If you have read the bible then you know where it is; I don't have to show you.

One of the people got it then, the man can't read. So he asked him, George, can you read?

At first George said of course I can, If I couldn't then how could I hold my Job?

But the man knew the answer. You get someone else to do the reading don't you?

George knew then he was caught, because the man was right, he didn't know how to read at all. Everything he knew about the Bible was what he remembered his father saying to him. And he thought that his father was right. But he did hear one time about Jesus and his father said that it wasn't Jesus who wrote the laws for the people, it was Moses and God.

George started to listen to the people then tell them both about Jesus and the things that Jesus had done for everyone. George listened intently and soon he was crying. His father had been wrong all this time and had hid the truth from him and the rest of the family. George gave his heart to Jesus that night and his and Betty Sue's life was changed forever. George had a lot to make up for in the way he treated his wife and his children.

First he wanted to learn to read the Bible for himself and really be able to tell what God has in store for us. He wanted to call his father and tell him the good news, but when he tried to tell him the things he was learning, he learned the truth behind his fathers word, he was a mad man and that was the real reason he was put into that home many years ago.

George's family had learned the truth at the time his father broke down and it was then that George broke ties from his sisters and his mother he thought they hate his father, he didn't know then that his father had misguided them all this time. And that he was cruel to his family in a way that God certainly would make him pay. So George got down on his knees and begged for God to forgive him and to lead him into the light and show him the path to walk on.

Betty Sue had newfound freedom and the workers under George were happier and the entire family was blessed from that day on. Jesus had saved another man and his family from eternal damnation. Will you let Jesus do it for you? Now? before it is too late?_