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 Today I'm going to preach on the role of a woman.

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 The role of a woman.

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 So this is the second of two sermons in a series on gender roles.

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 If you missed the one for the men, men, you can listen to that one online.

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 I did that one two weeks ago on the role of a man.

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 So today it's going to be the role of a woman, but men, do not check out.

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 It's good for the men to hear about the role of a woman,

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 especially if you're married,

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 because you're supposed to live with your wife in an understanding way, right?

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 So hopefully this will help you understand,

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 because I have an extensive understanding of women.

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 Jeannie, that's just a smile or laugh at that.

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 You're supposed to say, yeah, of course, of course, of course.

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 No, but the good thing about the Word of God is that it teaches us these things.

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 And so there's basic truths that we can all learn from.

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 So I'll talk to you basically about what a woman is and how to act like one.

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 So I'm going to go over seven different things just to give you by way of intro here.

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 A woman is beautifully confident.

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 A woman is the glory and helper of man.

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 A woman is a lover of children.

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 A woman is a wise teacher.

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 A woman is a worker.

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 A woman is a domestic executive.

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 And a woman is a submitted follower.

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 Okay?

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 And all of these are not just by command, but by creation.

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 Not just by demand, but by design.

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 That's an important point there.

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 Okay?

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 So we believe that men and women are equal in value, but different in roles everywhere.

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 Because their roles are hardwired into creation and nature.

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 If gender roles are rooted in creation and the very nature of men and women, then they apply everywhere, and it makes no sense to limit them just to church and home.

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 Zachary Garris said the attempt to limit gender roles to the home and church is dualistic, and that it pits the religious against the secular.

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 But God designed men to be men in all of life.

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 And he has designed women to be women in all of life.

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 In the home, church, and society.

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 Women do not get to act like men just because they have stepped outside of the home into broader society.

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 A woman takes her womanly nature with her wherever she goes.

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 And a man takes his manly nature with him wherever he goes.

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 Okay?

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 So let's jump in.

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 A woman is, number one, beautifully confident.

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 Beautifully confident.

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 A woman is called to be beautifully confident, strong, and secure with a quiet spirit.

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 Alright?

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 We'll start with the first.

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 This is the fruit of her whole.

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 1 Peter 3, 3-6 says,

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 Do not let your adorning be external, the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry or the clothing you wear.

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 But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,

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 which in God's sight is very precious.

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 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves.

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 The new living says, made themselves beautiful, which is the definition of adornment.

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 This is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by submitting to their own husbands,

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 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord.

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 And you are her children if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

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 So there's so much great stuff in this verse when it comes to womanhood.

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 Alright?

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 Not the least being when it says, which in God's sight is very precious.

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 To know that as a woman you can possess something that is very precious in God's sight.

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 I would think for any woman that would be a highlight for you to say, wow, what a statement.

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 What a statement that God would say that when there's an imperishable beauty,

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 a beauty that does not fade, of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

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 And so he's talking about not letting your adorning be external.

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 Okay?

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 There is an outward or external adorning or beautification, and then there's an internal one.

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 Some legalists would take this and say, with this verse, you can't do your hair, you can't wear jewelry.

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 But if they neglect to do the last one, that would be that you also couldn't wear clothes.

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 So clearly that's not what they're saying here.

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 Because you can't just pick and choose a couple of them and then pick the last one and say, but you have to wear clothes.

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 He's not talking here about some kind of legalistic rule structure here.

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 He's talking about where your adornment comes from.

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 He's saying you can do these things, but don't let those things be the source of your beauty.

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 Don't let the braiding of your hair or the wearing of gold jewelry or the clothes you wear,

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 don't let those things be the source of your adornment, of the way you are made beautiful.

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 But it should be the imperishable beauty.

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 See, those things will fade.

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 Those things fade.

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 Those are perishable.

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 There's an imperishable beauty, a beauty that doesn't fade, that comes from the inside.

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 It's a gentle and quiet spirit.

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 Gentle in that it doesn't have to make its own way because it's trusting that God is for them.

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 Okay?

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 And quiet in that it doesn't have to fight for itself because knowing that God is for each and every woman.

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 And so when you know that, it causes you and gives you a freedom to be gentle and quiet,

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 which in God's side is very precious.

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 And this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves.

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 This is how people used to make themselves beautiful.

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 This is the ancient way.

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 This is the ancient path.

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 By submitting their own husbands to Sarah B. Abraham, calling him Lord,

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 and your children if you do good.

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 And do not fear anything that is frightening.

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 A lot of women know that it is frightening oftentimes to submit to a man because he's not God.

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 He's not perfect.

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 He makes mistakes.

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 And so we're not saying that a woman needs to be unafraid because it's not actually frightening.

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 It's saying, hey, there are legitimate things that are scary.

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 It's scary oftentimes to follow a man.

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 But you don't have to fear that which is frightening because your hope is in God,

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 not in that particular man.

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 And when your hope is in God and you have protection and safety and security in him,

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 it frees you to lose having to find it in a man, in your circumstances.

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 And that makes you beautiful.

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 And if you ask any man, there's something about a woman could walk in a room,

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 a man could see that woman from a distance, say, wow, that's a really attractive woman.

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 And then when they get close, if that woman is insecure,

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 immediately it's like a certain level of the beauty fades.

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 And in the same way, maybe a woman walks in a room and the man doesn't notice her,

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 but then all of a sudden he starts talking to her,

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 realizes she's very secure, very confident.

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 And there's something about her that starts to sparkle or something that just is magnified.

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 There's a glory about it.

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 It's a beauty that comes from not being afraid.

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 It's a beauty that comes from putting your hope in the Lord.

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 It's an adornment.

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 Okay.

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 First Timothy 2, 9 to 15 says,

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 Women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel,

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 with modesty and self-control,

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 not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

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 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness,

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 with good works.

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 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

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 So again, it's speaking of not having to draw attention

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 and get my security from outward.

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 When the security is inward, it emanates a beauty outward.

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 Do you see that?

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 Internal beauty versus external beauty.

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 These are important things.

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 And we're a culture that's obsessed with feminine appearance.

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 Okay.

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 But feminine adorning is rooted in feminine constitution.

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 It's rooted in what makes up a woman.

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 And I want you ladies to just know,

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 don't for a second,

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 let feminism objectify or commodify your body.

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 Not in real life, not on Instagram,

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 Be Real or any other social platform.

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 I don't know if you realize this,

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 but these social networks are commodifying you.

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 They're commodifying the woman's body.

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 Commercials are commodifying the woman's body.

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 They are making money by pictures of you.

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 This is,

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 this is what's happening.

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 And you can't let your worth,

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 your sense of security be defined by the eyeballs and the likes that you get when other people are looking at you.

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 You get that from the Lord.

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 That's where that comes from.

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 And it's not empowering to use your body in that way.

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 That's not being more feminine or being more a woman.

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 That's a distortion,

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 a perversion of where your true beauty comes from.

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 Don't for one second,

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 let feminism objectify or commodify your body.

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 That is not the way God has created you.

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 You've been adorned.

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 You're supposed to adorn yourself without,

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 so you're supposed to adorn yourself with not being fearful.

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 There's nothing more beautiful than a woman who's unafraid.

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 This is Mary,

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 right?

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 When Mary's told that she's going to have the Messiah,

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 that was basically a death sentence.

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 You could be stoned for that.

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 And what does she say?

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 Let it be to me.

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 According to your word,

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 behold,

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 I am a servant of the Lord.

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 This is a woman who doesn't get into that,

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 which is frightening.

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 In Luke 1 45,

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 it says,

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 Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.

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 She's clothed with a quiet spirit,

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 right?

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 It actually says in Proverbs 9 13,

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 that the woman folly is loud.

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 She is seductive and knows nothing.

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 There's a,

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 there's a certain quietness about a woman who's secure and trust in her Lord.

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 And there's a loudness that is unbecoming of a respectable woman.

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 A woman,

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 the woman folly is loud.

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 She clothes herself with modesty and self-control.

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 Proverbs 11 22 says like a gold ring and a pig snout is a woman who shows no discretion.

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 She clothes herself with strength.

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 Proverbs 31 17 says she dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

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 Women are beautifully confident,

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 beautifully strong.

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 There's a masculine strength and there's a feminine strength.

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 There's a feminine strength of constitution that says,

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 I will not be afraid of what is to come.

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 And I am trusting in my God.

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 My hope,

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 my strong,

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 my strength and hope gives me strength anywhere else.

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 Proverbs 31 25 says strength and dignity are her clothing.

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 And she laughs at the time to come.

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 There is an,

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 there is an unbelieving laugh that Sarah had when she heard that she was going to have a baby at a hundred years old.

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 And then there's a laugh that laughs at the days to come saying,

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 my God is for me.

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 I am a strong woman.

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 I can handle things.

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 I can handle tough times because I know my God is with me.

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 Women are meant to be beautifully strong,

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 clothed with dignity.

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 First Timothy 3 11 talks about either,

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 depending how you read it,

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 either the wives of a deacon or women deacons,

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 that their wives likewise must be dignified,

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 not slanders with sober minded,

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 faithful in all things.

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 Definition of dignified is worthy of honor or respect.

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 Does older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior,

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 not slanders or slaves to much wine.

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 Women should be clothed with good works and submission.

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 We'll look at those a little bit later here.

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 Women want to know that they're beautiful.

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 When you think of kids,

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 girls say,

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 daddy,

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 look,

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 boys say,

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 daddy,

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 watch.

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 Girls say,

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 look at who I am.

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 And a boy says,

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 look at what I do.

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 This is part of what's wired into them.

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 Okay.

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 Men do are defining themselves what they do.

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 Women are defining themselves by how they look a lot of times.

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 A woman who's not beautifully confident is usually a woman who's not been fought for by men.

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 This makes a woman prone to fear,

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 control,

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 manipulation,

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 comparison,

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 and envy.

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 I think there's a great verse for this in Psalm 131, 1 to 3.

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 Oh Lord,

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 my heart is not lifted up.

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 My eyes are not raised too high.

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 I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me,

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 but I have calmed and quieted my soul.

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 Like a weaned child with its mother,

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 like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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 Oh Israel,

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 hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.

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 She's beautifully confident.

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 This is the fruit of her hope.

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 And this is why true femininity resides fully and most manifestly in the gospel.

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 When you are able to trust and hope in the Lord,

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 it says,

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 holy women who put their hope in God,

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 holy women who trusted God.

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 Ladies,

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 are you beautifully confident?

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 Are you beautifully confident?

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 Number two,

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 a woman is the glory and helper of man.

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 Okay,

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 a woman is called to be the glory and helper of man,

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 the fruit of her stewardship.

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 Genesis 2,

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 starting verse 18,

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 says,

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 the Lord God said,

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 it's not good that the man should be alone.

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 I will make him a helper fit for him.

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 Verse 21,

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 so the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man,

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 and while he slept,

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 took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

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 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man,

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 he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

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 So,

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 she was made from the man,

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 for the man.

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 This is described in 1 Corinthians 11,

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 79.

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 A man is the image and glory of God,

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 but woman is the glory of man.

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 Why?

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 Verse 8,

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 for man was not made from woman,

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 but woman from man.

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 Neither was man created for woman,

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 but woman for man.

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 Woman was created for man.

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 That flies in the face of feminist society,

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 but it's the truth.

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 It's the truth from creation.

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 And it speaks to a woman's role.

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 Nevertheless,

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 1 Corinthians 11,

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 11 says,

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 in the Lord,

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 woman is not independent of man,

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 nor man of woman.

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 Okay,

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 you can't take some chauvinistic view then and says,

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 okay,

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 we don't need women because it just only exists for man to whatever degree he wants,

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 but it says that they're not independent of another.

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 And you can't take a feminist view that says,

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 hey,

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 I don't need men.

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 Men are optional.

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 Men are important.

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 It says,

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 woman is not independent of man.

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 The feminist movement is built on the premise that woman is independent of man.

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 And the Bible shouts from the rooftops,

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 woman is not independent of man.

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 Woman was created for man to be his helper.

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 Great quote here by Elizabeth Elliot.

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 She says,

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 femininity receives.

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 It says,

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 may it be to me as you have said,

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 like Luke 1 38.

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 It takes what God gives a special place,

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 a special honor,

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 a special function and glory different from that of masculinity meant to be a help.

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 In other words,

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 it is for us women to receive the given as Mary did,

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 not to insist on the not given as Eve did.

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 A woman is the glory of man as a distinguished quality or asset that makes things better.

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 She helps by glorifying what is given to her.

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 She makes things glorious.

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 That's what women do.

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 Jim Gaffigan,

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 you might be one,

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 I'm quoting Jim Gaffigan right after Elizabeth Elliot.

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 Jim Gaffigan says,

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 women are amazing.

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 A woman can grow a baby inside their body,

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 and then somehow a woman can deliver the baby through their body.

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 And then by some miracle,

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 a woman can feed a baby with her body.

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 And then when you think of the male contribution to life,

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 it's kind of embarrassing.

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 But I think it's a great example of how male contributes,

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 not a whole lot in this instance.

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 And look at what a woman does.

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 She glorifies it.

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 She makes it better.

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 She takes the body that God has given,

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 and she produces this baby.

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 She feeds this baby.

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 She nurtures this baby.

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 It's an amazing miracle.

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 But this is what a woman does.

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 She glorifies what's given to her.

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 Proverbs 31, 10 to 12 says,

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 an excellent wife who can find,

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 she is far more precious than jewels.

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 The heart of her husband trusts in her,

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 and he will have no lack of gain.

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 She does him good and not harm all the days of her life.

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 So she's looking to do her husband good.

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 Proverbs 12, 4 says,

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 an excellent wife is the crown of her husband.

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 It's another way of saying the glory, right?

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 The crown of her husband.

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 She who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

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 Proverbs 31, 23 says,

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 her husband, this is the Proverbs 31 woman,

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 her husband is known in the gates

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 when he sits among the elders of the land.

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 Well, what is that husband known for?

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 You look later on in verse 31,

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 it says, let her works praise her in the gates.

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 So the husband is known in the gates.

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 Why?

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 What's being praised in the gates?

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 The woman's works.

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 She's known,

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 and he's known in the gates because of this woman,

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 this helper,

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 this one who's glorified.

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 You might say,

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 helper just seems like such a lesser thing.

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 If you ever think that,

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 I just want you to ask,

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 is the Holy Spirit any less God?

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 What is his title?

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 The helper.

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 Okay?

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 That's a distortion to think that way.

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 Being a helper doesn't make you any less of value.

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 That comes from defining yourself by what you do.

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 And we don't do that.

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 That's what the world does.

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 A wife should take what a husband gives and glorify it.

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 So wives,

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 taking things off your husband's plate

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 is a good thing to do.

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 You say, hey, how can I help him?

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 How can I help him do more?

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 How can I help him

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 just crush it in what he's called to?

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 So I'm going to look to try and take things off of his plate.

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 I am going to,

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 I'm not just going to wait for him to come home

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 and have him do everything.

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 I'm going to look and say,

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 how can I help him

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 and help make him be able to run faster and better?

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 And by the way,

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 this is not just for married people,

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 the concept of being a helper.

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 Single ladies.

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 Mark 15, 40 to 41,

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 there was also a woman looking on from a distance.

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 Among them were Mary Magdalene

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 and Mary the mother of James,

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 the younger and of Josie's,

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 and Salome.

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 When he was in Galilee,

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 they followed him and ministered to him.

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 And there were also many other women

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 who came up with him to Jerusalem.

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 Jesus had women who followed him

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 and then ministered to him.

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 Luke 8, 1 to 3 says,

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 the 12 were with him

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 and also some women

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 who provided for them out of their means.

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 Romans 16, 1 to 2 says,

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 I commend you our sister Phoebe,

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 a servant of the church at Century.

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 She has been a patron of many

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 and of myself as well.

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 There you have single women

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 helping, providing funds for,

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 ministering to.

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 This is important roles here.

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 Philippians 4, 2 to 3 says,

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 I entreat Judea,

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 I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

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 Yes, I ask you also, true companion,

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 help these women

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 who have labored side by side

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 with me in the gospel,

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 together with Clement

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 and the rest of my fellow workers

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 whose names are in the book of life.

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 Paul did amazing things for the gospel.

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 Paul did amazing things

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 through the establishing of churches.

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 And he had women

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 who labored side by side with him,

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 helping him.

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 Helping him.

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 Isn't that an awesome thing to think of?

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 Ladies, are you the glory

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 and helper of men?

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 Number three,

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 woman is a lover of children.

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 Lover of children.

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 Called to love, bear,

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 and nurture children.

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 She's called to be a mother.

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 Definitely, there's a natural mother

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 if possible,

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 but for sure,

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 even if not a natural mother,

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 a spiritual mother,

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 a motherly heart,

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 a heart to mother,

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 the fruit of her womb.

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 Creation teaches this even.

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 If you look at a woman's body,

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 a woman has ovaries,

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 a uterus,

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 and lactating mammary glands.

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 Okay?

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 No man has that.

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 So men and women,

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 they're the same.

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 Are you kidding me?

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 Are you kidding me?

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 There's no way.

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 God created distinction

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 with a purpose.

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 Women have a totally different body

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 and it speaks to their role.

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 To say that a woman has no role

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 with children is absurdity

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 when you just look at

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 how God created a woman's body

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 different from a man.

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 Titus 2 verse 4 says,

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 Train the young women

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 to love their husbands

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 and children.

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 Train them to love children.

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 1 Timothy 5, 9-10

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 and verse 14 says,

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 Let a widow be enrolled.

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 Tell me what.

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 Who are the widows

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 who should be taken care of?

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 Let her be enrolled

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 if she has brought up children.

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 I would have younger widows marry,

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 bear children.

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 You see this?

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 This pushing towards women

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 to bear children,

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 to bring up children.

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 1 Timothy 2, 14-15

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 says,

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 Adam was not deceived,

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 but the woman was deceived

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 and became a transgressor.

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 Yet,

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 she will be saved

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 through childbearing

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 if they continue in faith

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 and love and holiness

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 with self-control.

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 Saved through childbearing.

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 Is that like,

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 saved like,

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 you know,

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 gospel saved?

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 No,

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 because that would mean

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 you could only be saved

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 if you had a kid.

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 That's obviously not

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 what this is talking about.

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 What kind of saved

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 is being talked about here?

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 There are multiple forms

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 of the word salvation.

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 This word here

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 is talking about

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 being saved from deception.

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 If you look at the context

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 of the rest of that book

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 and how saved is being used,

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 it's talking about

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 being saved from deception.

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 A woman is saved

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 from the deception

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 that Eve fell into

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 when she stays

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 in her God-given role

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 to love children.

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 One of the reasons

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 that Eve sinned

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 is because she got

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 outside of her role

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 and decided to be

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 the leader

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 instead of the follower.

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 She decided to

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 usurp her husband's role

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 and one of those

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 damning verses

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 is that her husband

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 was with her.

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 One of the things

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 to save a woman

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 from deception

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 is that she functions

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 in her God-given role.

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 One of those

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 is childbearing,

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 raising children,

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 loving children.

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 Romans 16, 13 says,

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 this is Paul

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 at the end of his

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 amazing letter to Romans,

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 he closes it by saying,

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 Greek Rufus,

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 chosen in the Lord,

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 also his mother,

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 who has been a mother

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 to me as well.

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 What is the reward

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 of the spiritual mother

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 of Paul?

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 Have you ever

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 thought about that?

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 That Paul had someone

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 who was like a mother

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 to him.

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 What role did that

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 play in his life?

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 How important was that?

00:21:25.980 --> 00:21:26.620
 Enough where he

00:21:26.620 --> 00:21:27.779
 called her out here

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 and said,

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 Rufus and her mother,

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 and his mother,

00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:32.920
 who has been a mother

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 to me as well.

00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:35.340
 What a role

00:21:35.340 --> 00:21:36.539
 that we could be mothers

00:21:36.539 --> 00:21:37.480
 to people who aren't,

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 that a woman could be

00:21:38.700 --> 00:21:39.420
 a mother to someone

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 who's not their

00:21:40.600 --> 00:21:41.920
 actual blood son,

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 but a powerful role.

00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:44.960
 Powerful role.

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 What did Jesus curse

00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:47.840
 after the fall?

00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:48.480
 What he cursed

00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:49.400
 speaks to the role.

00:21:49.740 --> 00:21:50.940
 He cursed a man's work,

00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:52.500
 which speaks to the fact

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:53.400
 that he was called

00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:55.700
 to be a worker,

00:21:55.940 --> 00:21:56.180
 right?

00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:57.279
 And what did he curse

00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:57.660
 on the woman?

00:21:57.779 --> 00:21:58.920
 He cursed her childbearing.

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 I will surely multiply

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 your pain and childbearing

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 and pain you shall bring

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 for our children.

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 He cursed that particular thing

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 because that's her role.

00:22:06.700 --> 00:22:07.420
 Psalm 127,

00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:08.100
 verse 3,

00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:08.900
 in the NASB,

00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:09.180
 says,

00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:09.539
 Behold,

00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:10.620
 children are a gift

00:22:10.620 --> 00:22:11.140
 of the Lord.

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 The fruit of the womb

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 is a reward.

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 Do you see children

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 as a blessing?

00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:16.640
 Ladies,

00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:17.279
 are you a lover

00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:17.860
 of children?

00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:19.360
 Proverbs 30,

00:22:19.460 --> 00:22:20.259
 15 to 16,

00:22:20.360 --> 00:22:20.500
 says,

00:22:20.580 --> 00:22:21.220
 The barren womb

00:22:21.220 --> 00:22:22.220
 is never satisfied.

00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:24.420
 Why is the barren womb

00:22:24.420 --> 00:22:25.220
 never satisfied?

00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:26.799
 Because women naturally

00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:27.680
 long for children.

00:22:28.340 --> 00:22:29.620
 It's their natural disposition.

00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:30.700
 There's something

00:22:30.700 --> 00:22:31.980
 very broken in a woman

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 when she doesn't like children

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 or she doesn't want children.

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 It's a very broken woman

00:22:37.259 --> 00:22:38.119
 who doesn't want them.

00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:39.319
 Ladies,

00:22:39.420 --> 00:22:40.200
 are you a lover

00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:40.779
 of children?

00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:41.819
 You're a lover

00:22:41.819 --> 00:22:42.279
 of children.

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 Number four,

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 a woman is a wise teacher.

00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:46.460
 A woman is called

00:22:46.460 --> 00:22:47.539
 to be a wise teacher

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 and trainer.

00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:49.400
 This is the fruit

00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:50.019
 of her lips.

00:22:50.980 --> 00:22:51.480
 Proverbs 8,

00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:51.759
 9,

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 both speak of wisdom

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 and folly

00:22:54.339 --> 00:22:55.599
 as women.

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 They're personified

00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.420
 as ladies.

00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:58.559
 Lady wisdom,

00:22:58.900 --> 00:22:59.579
 lady folly.

00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:00.339
 Okay?

00:23:00.819 --> 00:23:01.779
 The fact that wisdom

00:23:01.779 --> 00:23:03.119
 is personified

00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:03.799
 as a lady

00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:05.480
 should speak to us

00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:07.039
 that a woman

00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:08.559
 should be a good picture

00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:09.899
 of what it is

00:23:09.899 --> 00:23:10.619
 to be wise.

00:23:11.639 --> 00:23:12.720
 And if she doesn't do that,

00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:13.319
 she could fall

00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:14.159
 into the other picture

00:23:14.159 --> 00:23:16.099
 would be the lady folly.

00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:17.779
 But I think it's,

00:23:17.859 --> 00:23:19.460
 God has called women

00:23:19.460 --> 00:23:20.359
 to speak

00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:21.599
 with wisdom.

00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:22.799
 10,

00:23:22.859 --> 00:23:23.059
 2,

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 3 to 5

00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:23.859
 says,

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 Older women,

00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:25.579
 they are to teach

00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:26.240
 what is good

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 and so train

00:23:27.519 --> 00:23:28.359
 the young women

00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:29.440
 to love their husbands

00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:29.920
 and children,

00:23:30.019 --> 00:23:30.899
 to be self-controlled,

00:23:31.079 --> 00:23:31.339
 pure,

00:23:31.460 --> 00:23:32.240
 working at home,

00:23:32.740 --> 00:23:33.480
 kind and submissive

00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:34.139
 to their own husbands

00:23:34.139 --> 00:23:35.019
 that the word of God

00:23:35.019 --> 00:23:35.899
 may not be reviled.

00:23:35.900 --> 00:23:38.240
 Proverbs 1,

00:23:38.340 --> 00:23:38.960
 verse 8

00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:39.860
 and 6,

00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:40.300
 verse 20

00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:40.640
 says,

00:23:40.740 --> 00:23:41.540
 Forsake not

00:23:41.540 --> 00:23:43.240
 your mother's teaching.

00:23:44.160 --> 00:23:45.160
 Mothers are to teach

00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:46.100
 their children.

00:23:46.820 --> 00:23:47.480
 Proverbs 31,

00:23:47.640 --> 00:23:47.940
 1,

00:23:48.380 --> 00:23:50.320
 the words of King Lemuel,

00:23:50.420 --> 00:23:51.560
 so this is a king speaking,

00:23:52.140 --> 00:23:52.680
 and he says

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:53.440
 it's an oracle

00:23:53.440 --> 00:23:54.259
 that who taught him?

00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:55.400
 That his mother taught him.

00:23:56.840 --> 00:23:57.780
 Think of the thought

00:23:57.780 --> 00:23:58.340
 of a mother

00:23:58.340 --> 00:23:59.580
 teaching things

00:23:59.580 --> 00:24:00.300
 that would be useful

00:24:00.300 --> 00:24:00.920
 for a king.

00:24:03.140 --> 00:24:03.900
 Proverbs 31,

00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:04.759
 26 says,

00:24:04.759 --> 00:24:06.000
 she opens her mouth

00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:06.619
 with wisdom

00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:07.779
 and the teaching

00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:08.519
 of kindness

00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:09.500
 is on her tongue.

00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:11.039
 What a great verse,

00:24:11.140 --> 00:24:11.299
 right?

00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:13.079
 Acts 18,

00:24:13.160 --> 00:24:14.379
 24 to 26,

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:15.559
 we have the picture

00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:16.140
 of Priscilla,

00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:17.000
 okay?

00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:18.700
 A Jew named Apollos,

00:24:18.859 --> 00:24:19.900
 a native of Alexandria,

00:24:20.059 --> 00:24:20.740
 came to Ephesus.

00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:21.680
 I think there's good reason

00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:22.680
 to believe he was an apostle.

00:24:24.180 --> 00:24:25.420
 So here you have Apollos,

00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:25.980
 an apostle,

00:24:26.539 --> 00:24:27.379
 came to Ephesus,

00:24:27.819 --> 00:24:28.480
 and this guy's

00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:29.279
 an eloquent man.

00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:30.700
 He's competent

00:24:30.700 --> 00:24:31.259
 in scriptures.

00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:32.700
 He had been instructed

00:24:32.700 --> 00:24:34.700
 in the way of the Lord,

00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:37.200
 and being fervent

00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:37.640
 in spirit,

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:38.420
 he spoke and taught

00:24:38.420 --> 00:24:39.500
 accurately the things

00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:40.379
 concerning Jesus,

00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.460
 though he knew

00:24:41.460 --> 00:24:42.779
 only the baptism of John.

00:24:42.859 --> 00:24:43.460
 So he's got a lot

00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:44.079
 of things right,

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.579
 but he's missing

00:24:45.579 --> 00:24:46.099
 some things.

00:24:46.180 --> 00:24:46.500
 He's missing

00:24:46.500 --> 00:24:47.400
 some information here.

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.220
 In other words,

00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:49.339
 he needs to be taught.

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.259
 Okay?

00:24:50.259 --> 00:24:52.440
 He began to speak

00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:53.359
 boldly in the synagogue,

00:24:53.619 --> 00:24:54.339
 but when Priscilla

00:24:54.339 --> 00:24:55.319
 and Aquila heard him,

00:24:55.779 --> 00:24:56.759
 they took him aside

00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:57.640
 and explained to him

00:24:57.640 --> 00:24:58.220
 the way of God

00:24:58.220 --> 00:24:58.819
 more accurately.

00:24:59.379 --> 00:25:00.480
 Now, it doesn't just say

00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:01.619
 Aquila spoke to him.

00:25:01.659 --> 00:25:03.099
 It said Priscilla and Aquila.

00:25:03.579 --> 00:25:04.419
 There was a way

00:25:04.419 --> 00:25:05.960
 that they both taught

00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:07.179
 as a married couple.

00:25:07.659 --> 00:25:08.079
 There was a way

00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:09.379
 that it wasn't just the man,

00:25:09.439 --> 00:25:10.539
 but the woman taught as well.

00:25:10.639 --> 00:25:11.619
 There's an appropriate way

00:25:11.619 --> 00:25:12.139
 for a woman

00:25:12.139 --> 00:25:13.399
 to be able to teach a man

00:25:13.399 --> 00:25:15.359
 in the context of reverence,

00:25:15.639 --> 00:25:16.659
 in the context of marriage

00:25:16.659 --> 00:25:17.200
 like this,

00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:18.220
 in the context,

00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:19.220
 even outside of marriage,

00:25:19.299 --> 00:25:19.720
 there's a way

00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:20.179
 that a woman

00:25:20.179 --> 00:25:21.119
 can bring instruction

00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:22.579
 in a godly way

00:25:22.579 --> 00:25:24.119
 where she's not taking authority

00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:24.899
 over the man.

00:25:25.399 --> 00:25:25.519
 Okay?

00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:26.939
 Women should be

00:25:26.939 --> 00:25:27.659
 full of wisdom.

00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:28.579
 They should be educated.

00:25:28.579 --> 00:25:29.039
 They should be

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.379
 theologically astute.

00:25:31.179 --> 00:25:32.480
 They should be skillful.

00:25:32.579 --> 00:25:33.460
 They should have skills.

00:25:33.579 --> 00:25:33.879
 They should know

00:25:33.879 --> 00:25:34.740
 how to do things.

00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:35.319
 They should know

00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:36.220
 how to get things done.

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.079
 They should know

00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:37.939
 the Word of God.

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:40.000
 John Piper says,

00:25:40.139 --> 00:25:40.819
 Wimpy theology

00:25:40.819 --> 00:25:41.899
 makes wimpy women.

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:43.579
 Wimpy theology

00:25:43.579 --> 00:25:44.359
 simply does not

00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:45.259
 give a woman a God

00:25:45.259 --> 00:25:46.000
 that is big enough,

00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:46.740
 strong enough,

00:25:46.919 --> 00:25:47.559
 wise enough,

00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:48.419
 and good enough

00:25:48.419 --> 00:25:49.419
 to handle

00:25:49.419 --> 00:25:50.539
 the realities of life

00:25:50.539 --> 00:25:51.699
 in a way that magnifies

00:25:51.699 --> 00:25:53.220
 the infinite worth

00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:53.699
 of Jesus.

00:25:54.599 --> 00:25:54.919
 Ladies,

00:25:55.019 --> 00:25:55.439
 do you have

00:25:55.439 --> 00:25:56.679
 wimpy theology?

00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:57.820
 Do you have

00:25:57.820 --> 00:25:58.240
 strong,

00:25:58.360 --> 00:25:59.180
 robust theology?

00:25:59.279 --> 00:25:59.940
 Are you a student

00:25:59.940 --> 00:26:00.440
 of the Word?

00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:00.940
 Are you someone

00:26:00.940 --> 00:26:02.120
 who studies God

00:26:02.120 --> 00:26:03.440
 and seeks out God?

00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:04.740
 Are you a woman

00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:06.299
 who knows how to do things?

00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:07.180
 You know how to get

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:07.779
 things done.

00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:10.039
 You're not just

00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:11.180
 farming it out

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:11.720
 to other people,

00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:12.259
 hurrying it out

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:12.680
 to people.

00:26:13.340 --> 00:26:14.240
 You are someone

00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:15.019
 who knows things

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:16.200
 so that other women

00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:16.720
 can come to you

00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:16.940
 and say,

00:26:17.060 --> 00:26:17.920
 How do I do this?

00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:19.039
 And you have answers.

00:26:19.340 --> 00:26:19.920
 You have wisdom.

00:26:20.400 --> 00:26:21.340
 Wisdom's on your tongue.

00:26:21.679 --> 00:26:22.699
 You're able to instruct.

00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:23.599
 You're able to tell

00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:24.000
 other people,

00:26:24.099 --> 00:26:24.240
 Hey,

00:26:24.439 --> 00:26:25.559
 this is how you do this

00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:26.019
 with kids.

00:26:26.099 --> 00:26:27.139
 This is how you make this.

00:26:27.199 --> 00:26:28.779
 This is how this works.

00:26:29.299 --> 00:26:29.579
 This is,

00:26:29.679 --> 00:26:30.519
 and you can teach.

00:26:31.159 --> 00:26:32.359
 You can teach and train.

00:26:33.500 --> 00:26:34.099
 Some of you would say,

00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:35.220
 I'm not there.

00:26:35.579 --> 00:26:36.679
 I wasn't parented well.

00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:38.240
 I wasn't taught myself

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:39.740
 or I was taught poorly.

00:26:40.419 --> 00:26:40.619
 Okay?

00:26:40.959 --> 00:26:41.939
 If that's the case,

00:26:42.459 --> 00:26:42.859
 what are you going

00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:43.480
 to do about it?

00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:44.740
 It doesn't have

00:26:44.740 --> 00:26:45.480
 to stay that way.

00:26:46.220 --> 00:26:47.199
 Seek out godly women

00:26:47.199 --> 00:26:48.019
 who can teach you,

00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:48.939
 who can train you.

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:50.959
 Seek out the Word of God.

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:52.400
 Seek out the myriad

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:53.079
 of resources

00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:53.799
 that are available now

00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:54.740
 more than ever before

00:26:54.740 --> 00:26:57.460
 to grow in theological astuteness.

00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:59.000
 There's more available

00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:59.759
 than ever before.

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:00.720
 There's no excuse

00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.740
 for women not being

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:02.640
 theologically astute.

00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:04.140
 There's so much resources.

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:05.579
 And if you're married,

00:27:05.680 --> 00:27:06.319
 go to your husband.

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:07.160
 Say,

00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:07.740
 Teach me.

00:27:08.340 --> 00:27:08.759
 Teach me.

00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:09.759
 You're my spiritual leader.

00:27:10.500 --> 00:27:11.539
 I want to learn from you.

00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:12.140
 I want to become

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:13.180
 a woman who knows.

00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:14.360
 And you can,

00:27:14.500 --> 00:27:15.620
 and there's so many other ways

00:27:15.620 --> 00:27:16.299
 to learn how to do

00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:17.340
 so many other things

00:27:17.340 --> 00:27:18.940
 and be a Renaissance woman

00:27:18.940 --> 00:27:20.079
 who knows how to do things.

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.400
 Ladies,

00:27:21.819 --> 00:27:23.240
 are you a wise teacher

00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:24.240
 and a trainer?

00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:26.819
 You train other young ladies.

00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:29.319
 Number five.

00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:31.720
 A woman is a worker.

00:27:32.340 --> 00:27:33.120
 A woman is a worker.

00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:33.920
 A woman is called

00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:34.779
 to be a hard worker.

00:27:35.140 --> 00:27:36.380
 It's the fruit of her hands.

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:37.100
 Okay?

00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:38.120
 1 Timothy 2,

00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.319
 9-10

00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:39.940
 says,

00:27:40.180 --> 00:27:41.240
 Women should adorn themselves

00:27:41.240 --> 00:27:42.039
 with what is proper

00:27:42.039 --> 00:27:42.519
 for women

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:43.519
 who profess godliness

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.819
 with good works.

00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:46.680
 There's multiple verses

00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:47.640
 that talk about this.

00:27:48.039 --> 00:27:48.620
 1 Timothy 5,

00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:49.140
 9-10

00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:49.380
 says,

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:51.060
 Let a widow be enrolled.

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:51.420
 Again,

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:53.500
 the role for widowhood.

00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:54.220
 Who are the ones

00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:54.820
 who are going to be supported

00:27:54.820 --> 00:27:55.420
 by the church?

00:27:56.040 --> 00:27:56.960
 Let a widow be enrolled,

00:27:57.320 --> 00:27:58.220
 having a reputation

00:27:58.220 --> 00:27:59.960
 for good works

00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:01.540
 and has devoted herself

00:28:01.540 --> 00:28:02.460
 to every good work.

00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:03.920
 Godly women

00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:04.560
 should be known

00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:06.520
 for doing work,

00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:07.340
 doing hard work,

00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:08.200
 doing good work,

00:28:08.280 --> 00:28:09.440
 doing good works.

00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.780
 And Titus 2,

00:28:11.840 --> 00:28:12.300
 3-5

00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:12.520
 says,

00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:13.140
 Older women

00:28:13.140 --> 00:28:14.320
 working at home.

00:28:14.780 --> 00:28:15.340
 There should be

00:28:15.340 --> 00:28:15.900
 a direction

00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:16.680
 of that work

00:28:16.680 --> 00:28:17.440
 that is aimed

00:28:17.440 --> 00:28:18.200
 towards the home.

00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:20.160
 The Proverbs 31 woman

00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:20.960
 is the quintessential

00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:21.900
 example of this.

00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:22.660
 Right?

00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:23.000
 It says,

00:28:23.100 --> 00:28:24.360
 She seeks wool and flax

00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:25.220
 and works

00:28:25.220 --> 00:28:26.500
 with willing hands.

00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:27.740
 She's like the ships

00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:28.259
 of the merchant.

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:29.580
 She brings her food

00:28:29.580 --> 00:28:30.279
 from afar.

00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:31.580
 She rises

00:28:31.580 --> 00:28:32.700
 while it is yet night

00:28:32.700 --> 00:28:33.560
 and provides food

00:28:33.560 --> 00:28:34.460
 for her household

00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:35.340
 and portions

00:28:35.340 --> 00:28:36.180
 for her maidens.

00:28:36.539 --> 00:28:38.220
 So she's getting up

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:39.000
 even in the night

00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:39.840
 to do things.

00:28:40.200 --> 00:28:41.240
 She's such a hard worker

00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:42.019
 that she's limiting

00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:42.560
 her sleep

00:28:42.560 --> 00:28:43.400
 for these things.

00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:44.880
 to provide food

00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:45.600
 for her household.

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:46.820
 Verse 16,

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:48.259
 She considers a field

00:28:48.259 --> 00:28:49.019
 and buys it.

00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:50.400
 With the fruit of her hands

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:51.440
 she plants a vineyard.

00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.140
 She's even doing business.

00:28:54.560 --> 00:28:55.759
 She's buying fields.

00:28:56.080 --> 00:28:57.340
 She's planting vineyards.

00:28:57.920 --> 00:28:59.019
 This is a serious woman here.

00:28:59.100 --> 00:28:59.920
 She's a hard worker.

00:29:00.820 --> 00:29:01.840
 She dresses herself

00:29:01.840 --> 00:29:02.480
 with strength

00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.080
 and makes her arms strong.

00:29:04.820 --> 00:29:05.620
 She perceives

00:29:05.620 --> 00:29:06.259
 that her merchandise

00:29:06.259 --> 00:29:07.100
 is profitable.

00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:08.220
 Her lamp

00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:09.080
 does not go out

00:29:09.080 --> 00:29:09.500
 at night.

00:29:09.880 --> 00:29:10.980
 She's working day and night.

00:29:11.380 --> 00:29:12.240
 She's working hard.

00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:13.340
 She's selling things.

00:29:13.339 --> 00:29:13.699
 She's saying,

00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:14.439
 I have goods

00:29:14.439 --> 00:29:15.119
 that are profitable.

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:17.720
 I'm able to help my home

00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:18.720
 by selling the goods

00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:19.379
 that I'm producing.

00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.799
 She puts her hands

00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:21.519
 to the distaff

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:22.879
 and her hands hold the spindle.

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:24.079
 She opens her hand

00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:24.579
 to the poor

00:29:24.579 --> 00:29:25.159
 and reaches out

00:29:25.159 --> 00:29:26.099
 her hands to the needy.

00:29:26.379 --> 00:29:26.879
 So she's not even

00:29:26.879 --> 00:29:27.819
 just taking care of her home.

00:29:27.899 --> 00:29:28.819
 She's taking care of the poor.

00:29:28.939 --> 00:29:29.939
 She's taking care of the needy.

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:31.879
 She's producing so much

00:29:31.879 --> 00:29:33.599
 that she has extra

00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:35.319
 to be able to help other people.

00:29:35.779 --> 00:29:36.720
 She's not just consumed

00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:37.299
 with herself.

00:29:37.679 --> 00:29:38.559
 She's not just consumed

00:29:38.559 --> 00:29:39.359
 with her own family.

00:29:39.819 --> 00:29:41.199
 She is so productive,

00:29:41.939 --> 00:29:42.819
 such a hard worker

00:29:42.819 --> 00:29:43.480
 that she is able

00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:44.460
 to bless other people.

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:46.279
 She is not afraid

00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:47.579
 of snow for her household,

00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:49.279
 for all her household

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.679
 are clothed in scarlet.

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.659
 She has that beautiful confidence,

00:29:52.859 --> 00:29:53.059
 right?

00:29:53.419 --> 00:29:54.480
 She's not fearing

00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:56.279
 snow.

00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:58.099
 She makes bed coverings

00:29:58.099 --> 00:29:58.639
 for herself.

00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.299
 Her clothing

00:29:59.299 --> 00:30:00.539
 is fine linen and purple.

00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:01.519
 Her husband

00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:03.000
 is known in the gates

00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:03.539
 when he sits

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.139
 among the elders

00:30:04.139 --> 00:30:04.700
 of the land.

00:30:04.700 --> 00:30:05.500
 Well, of course

00:30:05.500 --> 00:30:06.859
 the husband's known.

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.099
 Look at what she's doing.

00:30:09.099 --> 00:30:10.119
 This woman

00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.000
 is a significant,

00:30:12.179 --> 00:30:13.199
 substantial woman.

00:30:13.699 --> 00:30:14.819
 She's a hardworking woman.

00:30:14.899 --> 00:30:15.659
 Of course the man

00:30:15.659 --> 00:30:16.659
 is known in the gates,

00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:17.079
 right?

00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:18.399
 Her husband is known

00:30:18.399 --> 00:30:18.799
 in the gates

00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:19.259
 when he sits

00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:19.859
 among the elders

00:30:19.859 --> 00:30:20.339
 of the land.

00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:21.859
 And she makes linen garments

00:30:21.859 --> 00:30:22.619
 and sells them.

00:30:22.719 --> 00:30:23.659
 She delivers sashes

00:30:23.659 --> 00:30:24.339
 to the merchant.

00:30:24.919 --> 00:30:25.259
 She looks,

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:27.119
 this is my favorite

00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:27.980
 of the verses in here.

00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:28.839
 Verse 27

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:30.559
 in Proverbs 31.

00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:31.919
 This is such a great verse.

00:30:32.299 --> 00:30:33.480
 She looks well

00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:34.399
 to the ways

00:30:34.399 --> 00:30:35.379
 of her household

00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:36.560
 and does not eat

00:30:36.560 --> 00:30:37.340
 the bread of idleness.

00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:38.820
 What a verse, huh?

00:30:39.100 --> 00:30:39.920
 She looks well.

00:30:40.060 --> 00:30:40.300
 Ladies,

00:30:40.380 --> 00:30:41.480
 do you look well

00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:42.860
 to the ways

00:30:42.860 --> 00:30:43.980
 of your household?

00:30:44.760 --> 00:30:45.660
 What other people say,

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:46.580
 what your husbands say,

00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:47.540
 what other ladies

00:30:47.540 --> 00:30:48.100
 look to you and say,

00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.240
 I want to look

00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:49.680
 to the ways

00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:50.400
 of my house

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.360
 the way that woman does.

00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:53.680
 She looks well

00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:54.520
 to the ways

00:30:54.520 --> 00:30:55.620
 of her household

00:30:55.620 --> 00:30:56.680
 and she does not

00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:57.400
 eat the bread

00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:58.060
 of idleness.

00:30:58.180 --> 00:30:58.880
 She's not lazy.

00:30:59.560 --> 00:31:00.280
 She's not lazy.

00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:01.720
 Verse 31.

00:31:02.040 --> 00:31:02.300
 Give her

00:31:02.300 --> 00:31:03.440
 of the fruit

00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:04.040
 of her hands

00:31:04.040 --> 00:31:05.100
 and let her works

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:06.219
 praise are in the gates.

00:31:06.659 --> 00:31:07.179
 And they do.

00:31:07.699 --> 00:31:08.099
 They do.

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:09.619
 This is an esteemed woman.

00:31:09.740 --> 00:31:10.199
 This is a woman

00:31:10.199 --> 00:31:11.799
 who is worthy of praise.

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:12.679
 Okay?

00:31:12.959 --> 00:31:13.799
 She's not lazy.

00:31:14.179 --> 00:31:15.219
 She's busy with work.

00:31:16.179 --> 00:31:17.159
 She makes plans

00:31:17.159 --> 00:31:18.139
 and then she executes

00:31:18.139 --> 00:31:18.740
 those plans.

00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:19.899
 And her work

00:31:19.899 --> 00:31:20.980
 enhances her care

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:21.859
 for her household.

00:31:22.179 --> 00:31:23.000
 It doesn't take away

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:23.939
 or distract from it.

00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:24.899
 People like to ask

00:31:24.899 --> 00:31:25.319
 the question,

00:31:25.419 --> 00:31:25.839
 are you saying

00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:26.779
 that women can't work

00:31:26.779 --> 00:31:27.579
 outside of the home?

00:31:27.819 --> 00:31:28.519
 I'm not saying

00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:29.259
 that women can't work

00:31:29.259 --> 00:31:29.899
 outside of the home.

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.919
 I'm saying a woman

00:31:30.919 --> 00:31:31.659
 is not limited

00:31:31.659 --> 00:31:32.559
 in any way

00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:33.459
 that she works.

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:36.299
 Except in this,

00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:37.440
 that her work

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:38.180
 needs to be directed

00:31:38.180 --> 00:31:39.039
 towards the home.

00:31:39.340 --> 00:31:39.880
 And if her work

00:31:39.880 --> 00:31:40.740
 ever distracts

00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:41.279
 from the home,

00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:42.180
 it's a work

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:43.059
 that is unbecoming

00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:43.500
 of her.

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:44.860
 That work

00:31:44.860 --> 00:31:45.279
 is supposed

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:46.160
 to enhance

00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:47.360
 her home life.

00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:48.360
 She looks well

00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:48.860
 to the ways

00:31:48.860 --> 00:31:49.299
 of her home.

00:31:49.600 --> 00:31:50.200
 So sometimes

00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:50.840
 that takes her

00:31:50.840 --> 00:31:51.620
 outside of the home

00:31:51.620 --> 00:31:52.259
 for the home.

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.220
 Okay?

00:31:53.299 --> 00:31:53.840
 Sometimes even

00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:54.539
 to help her husband

00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:55.440
 she's doing that.

00:31:55.860 --> 00:31:57.079
 But never to supplant

00:31:57.079 --> 00:31:57.600
 her home.

00:31:57.920 --> 00:31:58.720
 Never to replace

00:31:58.720 --> 00:31:59.220
 her home.

00:31:59.539 --> 00:32:00.440
 And never to distract

00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:01.019
 from her home.

00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:01.980
 That is not

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:02.940
 godly femininity.

00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:05.359
 Zachary Garris

00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:05.579
 says,

00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:06.460
 Feminism is the

00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:07.180
 twisted idea

00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:07.639
 that a woman

00:32:07.639 --> 00:32:08.119
 is free

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:08.660
 when serving

00:32:08.660 --> 00:32:09.259
 an employer

00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:10.359
 but is slave

00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:10.839
 when serving

00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:11.420
 her family.

00:32:11.859 --> 00:32:12.480
 And this has all

00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:13.240
 been to a woman's

00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:13.539
 detriment.

00:32:14.639 --> 00:32:15.680
 It's just not true.

00:32:16.819 --> 00:32:17.220
 You might say,

00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:18.079
 Well, I wasn't

00:32:18.079 --> 00:32:18.759
 parented this way.

00:32:18.779 --> 00:32:19.339
 I wasn't taught

00:32:19.339 --> 00:32:19.920
 how to work.

00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:21.279
 I don't know

00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:21.920
 how to work.

00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:23.019
 Then learn.

00:32:23.740 --> 00:32:24.039
 Learn.

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:25.039
 Find a hardworking

00:32:25.039 --> 00:32:26.259
 woman and go

00:32:26.259 --> 00:32:27.000
 and help her.

00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:28.759
 Learn from her.

00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:30.259
 Work with her.

00:32:30.859 --> 00:32:31.960
 Ask her questions.

00:32:32.339 --> 00:32:32.960
 Be trained.

00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:37.700
 But don't make

00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:38.160
 excuses.

00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:39.180
 Don't make

00:32:39.180 --> 00:32:39.700
 excuses.

00:32:40.339 --> 00:32:40.660
 A woman,

00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:41.960
 a godly woman,

00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.420
 a hardworking woman,

00:32:42.460 --> 00:32:42.920
 she doesn't make

00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:43.460
 excuses.

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:45.059
 Even if she's

00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:45.680
 not skilled

00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:46.460
 or she doesn't

00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:46.660
 say,

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:47.299
 I'm not skilled

00:32:47.299 --> 00:32:48.259
 enough or I

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:49.180
 have low capacity.

00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:50.259
 I wasn't brought

00:32:50.259 --> 00:32:51.039
 up that way.

00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:51.980
 I'm pregnant.

00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.019
 I have little kids.

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:53.579
 Those aren't

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:54.079
 excuses.

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:55.240
 Those are challenges.

00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:56.640
 Those are obstacles.

00:32:57.140 --> 00:32:57.839
 Those are obstacles

00:32:57.839 --> 00:32:58.720
 that a strong woman

00:32:58.720 --> 00:32:59.859
 can come over.

00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:01.000
 She's not a

00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:01.579
 comer under.

00:33:01.699 --> 00:33:02.019
 She's an

00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:02.599
 overcomer.

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:04.319
 She overcomes

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:05.259
 not having skills.

00:33:05.399 --> 00:33:05.939
 She overcomes

00:33:05.939 --> 00:33:06.699
 low capacity,

00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:07.759
 not being brought

00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:08.299
 up that way.

00:33:08.419 --> 00:33:08.899
 Pregnancy,

00:33:09.000 --> 00:33:09.519
 little kids,

00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.199
 being tired,

00:33:10.699 --> 00:33:11.500
 or being single,

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.619
 not being married,

00:33:13.019 --> 00:33:13.919
 not having certain

00:33:13.919 --> 00:33:14.779
 giftings,

00:33:14.939 --> 00:33:15.519
 or not having a

00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:16.319
 certain personality.

00:33:16.459 --> 00:33:17.039
 She overcomes

00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:17.799
 her hormones.

00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:18.819
 Her hormones are

00:33:18.819 --> 00:33:19.799
 never an excuse.

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:20.879
 Are her hormones

00:33:20.879 --> 00:33:21.479
 a difficulty?

00:33:21.639 --> 00:33:21.959
 Yes.

00:33:22.419 --> 00:33:22.899
 And ladies,

00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:24.000
 if you would want

00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:24.740
 to argue with me

00:33:24.740 --> 00:33:25.219
 on this,

00:33:25.679 --> 00:33:26.439
 careful what game

00:33:26.439 --> 00:33:27.059
 you want to play.

00:33:27.059 --> 00:33:27.980
 Because then a man

00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:28.679
 can just say,

00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:29.279
 well,

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.619
 my hormones,

00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:31.500
 I'm really,

00:33:32.019 --> 00:33:33.019
 have a propensity

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:33.599
 to lust,

00:33:33.679 --> 00:33:34.319
 and I just can't

00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:34.879
 control it.

00:33:35.339 --> 00:33:36.099
 You can't use

00:33:36.099 --> 00:33:36.879
 an excuse for either.

00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:37.399
 A man doesn't

00:33:37.399 --> 00:33:38.339
 have any excuse

00:33:38.339 --> 00:33:39.659
 to be given to lust

00:33:39.659 --> 00:33:40.339
 and come underneath

00:33:40.339 --> 00:33:41.379
 lust,

00:33:41.460 --> 00:33:42.220
 and a woman has no

00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:42.980
 excuse to come under

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:43.819
 her hormones either.

00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.200
 Neither of us,

00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:45.899
 men or women,

00:33:46.779 --> 00:33:47.539
 are underneath

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:48.099
 our hormones.

00:33:48.639 --> 00:33:49.319
 God has given us

00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:51.339
 power to have

00:33:51.339 --> 00:33:51.919
 self-control,

00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:52.700
 and a woman should be

00:33:52.700 --> 00:33:53.759
 adorned with

00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:54.299
 self-control.

00:33:55.120 --> 00:33:55.779
 She'll be adorned

00:33:55.779 --> 00:33:56.220
 with self-control

00:33:56.220 --> 00:33:58.319
 as well in her hormones.

00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:01.120
 I mean,

00:34:01.220 --> 00:34:01.900
 I shouldn't compare

00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:02.440
 you there and say,

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:02.559
 well,

00:34:02.600 --> 00:34:03.580
 I'm not like so-and-so.

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:04.740
 Don't let the differences

00:34:04.740 --> 00:34:05.740
 between you and other

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:06.400
 people make you

00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:07.039
 disobedient.

00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:08.139
 Okay?

00:34:08.179 --> 00:34:09.119
 That's not a license

00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:10.119
 to be disobedient.

00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:11.559
 Another good test

00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:12.519
 is to say it out loud

00:34:12.519 --> 00:34:13.460
 to your great-grandmother

00:34:13.460 --> 00:34:13.900
 test.

00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:14.480
 Okay?

00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.260
 Say your excuse

00:34:16.260 --> 00:34:17.099
 out loud to your

00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:18.440
 real or figurative

00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:19.220
 great-grandmother

00:34:19.220 --> 00:34:20.199
 and see how much

00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:20.860
 sense it makes.

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:22.199
 Okay?

00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:22.639
 Okay?

00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:23.859
 If you say that

00:34:23.859 --> 00:34:24.299
 and you think,

00:34:24.419 --> 00:34:24.779
 oh boy,

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:27.679
 then maybe we need

00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:28.460
 to change some things.

00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:28.939
 And that's a good

00:34:28.939 --> 00:34:29.439
 perspective.

00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:29.980
 You might say,

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:30.079
 well,

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:30.480
 that's kind of

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.019
 a funny thing.

00:34:31.059 --> 00:34:31.399
 But no,

00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:32.659
 that's a real thing

00:34:32.659 --> 00:34:33.839
 because we've forgotten

00:34:33.839 --> 00:34:34.719
 the ancient paths

00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:35.319
 and we've moved

00:34:35.319 --> 00:34:36.239
 the ancient boundaries.

00:34:36.859 --> 00:34:37.559
 And Jesus said

00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:38.460
 it wasn't that way

00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:39.079
 from the beginning

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:40.019
 when he was rebuking

00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:40.839
 the people in his day

00:34:40.839 --> 00:34:41.639
 and we're far beyond

00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:42.159
 that day.

00:34:42.939 --> 00:34:43.859
 And so say it out loud

00:34:43.859 --> 00:34:44.779
 to your great-grandmother

00:34:44.779 --> 00:34:46.299
 test is a good test

00:34:46.299 --> 00:34:46.779
 to say

00:34:46.779 --> 00:34:48.019
 because we've lost

00:34:48.019 --> 00:34:48.639
 some things.

00:34:49.219 --> 00:34:49.719
 And there's things

00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:50.279
 that have been lost

00:34:50.279 --> 00:34:51.079
 that need to be recovered.

00:34:51.439 --> 00:34:52.139
 There's no better place

00:34:52.139 --> 00:34:53.579
 for them to be recovered

00:34:53.579 --> 00:34:55.019
 than among godly women

00:34:55.019 --> 00:34:55.659
 in the church.

00:34:58.799 --> 00:34:59.159
 Ladies,

00:34:59.259 --> 00:35:00.039
 are you a hard worker?

00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:01.379
 Are you a hard worker?

00:35:02.579 --> 00:35:03.299
 Number six,

00:35:04.299 --> 00:35:05.559
 a woman is a domestic

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:06.559
 executive.

00:35:07.299 --> 00:35:08.299
 Domestic executive.

00:35:08.699 --> 00:35:09.239
 A woman is called

00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:10.199
 to be a domestic executive,

00:35:10.299 --> 00:35:11.359
 a household manager,

00:35:11.960 --> 00:35:12.879
 the fruit of her home.

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:14.240
 Genesis 1,

00:35:14.300 --> 00:35:15.380
 26 to 28,

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:16.360
 the dominion mandate,

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:16.680
 right?

00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:17.700
 Is that just for men?

00:35:18.599 --> 00:35:18.920
 No,

00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:20.039
 it's not just for men.

00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:20.900
 God said,

00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:21.660
 let us make man

00:35:21.660 --> 00:35:22.320
 in our image

00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:23.539
 after our likeness

00:35:23.539 --> 00:35:25.260
 and let them,

00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.240
 them,

00:35:26.539 --> 00:35:27.200
 have dominion

00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:28.519
 over the fish of the seed,

00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:29.519
 over the birds of the heavens,

00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.240
 over the livestock,

00:35:30.740 --> 00:35:31.760
 and over all the earth

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:33.700
 and over every creeping thing

00:35:33.700 --> 00:35:34.880
 that creeps on the earth.

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:36.880
 Eve had authority

00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:37.960
 over creeping things,

00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:38.740
 including creeping,

00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:39.640
 talking snakes

00:35:39.640 --> 00:35:41.119
 who are trying to overthrow

00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:41.839
 God's government.

00:35:42.739 --> 00:35:43.619
 But she didn't use

00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:44.119
 that authority

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.139
 and neither did her husband.

00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.259
 So God created man

00:35:47.259 --> 00:35:47.960
 in his own image

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:48.739
 and the image of God

00:35:48.739 --> 00:35:49.299
 he created him.

00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:51.400
 Male and female

00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.159
 he created them

00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:53.500
 and God blessed them

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:54.799
 and God said to them,

00:35:55.279 --> 00:35:56.400
 be fruitful and multiply

00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:57.199
 and fill the earth

00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:57.859
 and subdue it

00:35:57.859 --> 00:35:59.579
 and have dominion

00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:01.239
 over the fish of the sea

00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:02.239
 and over the birds of the heavens

00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:03.259
 and over every living thing

00:36:03.259 --> 00:36:03.960
 that moves on the earth.

00:36:04.219 --> 00:36:05.000
 Both men and women

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:05.880
 were given dominion.

00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:06.420
 Women,

00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:07.380
 are you fulfilling

00:36:07.380 --> 00:36:08.480
 your dominion mandate?

00:36:09.279 --> 00:36:09.920
 To subdue,

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:10.659
 to rule,

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:12.259
 over

00:36:12.259 --> 00:36:14.599
 these things in the earth.

00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:15.659
 Women,

00:36:15.779 --> 00:36:16.739
 rule your household

00:36:16.739 --> 00:36:17.739
 and make it fruitful.

00:36:18.219 --> 00:36:18.679
 In other words,

00:36:18.759 --> 00:36:19.379
 be domestic.

00:36:20.399 --> 00:36:21.099
 Be domestic.

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:22.960
 Be unapologetically domestic.

00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:24.579
 One of the reasons

00:36:24.579 --> 00:36:25.659
 that a woman is domestic

00:36:25.659 --> 00:36:26.339
 is that a woman

00:36:26.339 --> 00:36:27.559
 is a home.

00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:29.960
 She was created

00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:30.940
 to house babies

00:36:30.940 --> 00:36:31.839
 in her body.

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:33.179
 That's why the whole

00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:33.940
 my body,

00:36:34.019 --> 00:36:34.480
 my choice

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:35.699
 is a goofy statement.

00:36:36.279 --> 00:36:37.259
 It's not your body.

00:36:37.359 --> 00:36:38.519
 It's someone else's body

00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.839
 living inside your home.

00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:41.559
 And the safest place

00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:42.120
 for a baby

00:36:42.120 --> 00:36:43.000
 should be the womb

00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:43.519
 of a mother.

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.740
 And there's a certain

00:36:45.740 --> 00:36:46.519
 motherly,

00:36:47.160 --> 00:36:48.420
 hospitable aspect

00:36:48.420 --> 00:36:49.680
 that says,

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:49.960
 hey,

00:36:50.059 --> 00:36:51.420
 I will make this place

00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:52.079
 a safe place

00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:52.600
 for my child.

00:36:53.680 --> 00:36:54.079
 A woman,

00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:55.120
 not only is she

00:36:55.120 --> 00:36:56.019
 supposed to be domestic

00:36:56.019 --> 00:36:57.559
 and driven towards her home

00:36:57.559 --> 00:36:58.760
 and to manage her home,

00:36:58.840 --> 00:36:59.500
 she is a home.

00:37:00.059 --> 00:37:01.280
 She's a home for babies.

00:37:02.100 --> 00:37:03.040
 Psalm 139.13

00:37:03.040 --> 00:37:03.300
 says,

00:37:03.380 --> 00:37:03.780
 you formed

00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:05.580
 my inward parts.

00:37:05.680 --> 00:37:06.640
 You knitted me together

00:37:06.640 --> 00:37:08.660
 in my mother's womb.

00:37:10.180 --> 00:37:11.340
 Titus 2.3-5

00:37:11.340 --> 00:37:11.560
 says,

00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:12.160
 older women

00:37:12.160 --> 00:37:13.320
 train the young women

00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:14.140
 to love their husbands

00:37:14.140 --> 00:37:14.600
 and children,

00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:15.460
 to be self-controlled,

00:37:15.600 --> 00:37:15.780
 pure,

00:37:16.120 --> 00:37:17.640
 working at home.

00:37:18.360 --> 00:37:19.720
 Working at home.

00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.620
 That's what it says.

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.560
 1 Timothy 5.11-14

00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:25.059
 Younger widows

00:37:25.059 --> 00:37:26.179
 learn to be idlers,

00:37:26.759 --> 00:37:27.779
 going about

00:37:27.779 --> 00:37:28.799
 from house to house

00:37:28.799 --> 00:37:29.820
 and not only idlers

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:30.779
 but also gossips

00:37:30.779 --> 00:37:31.599
 and busybodies

00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:33.179
 saying what they should not.

00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:34.940
 So one of the problems

00:37:34.940 --> 00:37:36.579
 with these younger widows

00:37:36.579 --> 00:37:37.860
 is that instead of

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:40.340
 managing their own household,

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:40.940
 they're going from

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:41.539
 house to house.

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:42.219
 They're not bound

00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:42.779
 to their house

00:37:42.779 --> 00:37:43.759
 in a way that is godly

00:37:43.759 --> 00:37:44.199
 and right.

00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:45.019
 They're going from

00:37:45.019 --> 00:37:45.599
 house to house

00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:46.219
 and it's getting them

00:37:46.219 --> 00:37:46.599
 in trouble.

00:37:47.380 --> 00:37:48.679
 So what is the result?

00:37:48.840 --> 00:37:50.059
 What is the antidote?

00:37:50.139 --> 00:37:51.619
 What is the solution

00:37:51.619 --> 00:37:52.679
 to this in verse 14

00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:53.460
 in 1 Timothy 5?

00:37:53.460 --> 00:37:53.720
 He says,

00:37:53.820 --> 00:37:54.820
 I would have younger widows

00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:55.460
 marry,

00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.159
 bear children

00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:57.940
 and manage their households.

00:37:58.280 --> 00:37:59.000
 They're not going about

00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:59.679
 from house to house.

00:37:59.780 --> 00:38:00.159
 They're managing

00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:00.960
 their own households

00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:02.440
 and they give the adversary

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.679
 no occasion for slander.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:05.619
 It was said of

00:38:05.619 --> 00:38:06.740
 the adulterous woman

00:38:06.740 --> 00:38:07.880
 in Proverbs 7.11.

00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:08.659
 This is interesting.

00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:10.480
 The adulterous woman says

00:38:10.480 --> 00:38:13.720
 her feet do not stay at home.

00:38:14.659 --> 00:38:16.119
 Her feet do not stay at home.

00:38:17.099 --> 00:38:18.420
 That's what it said

00:38:18.420 --> 00:38:19.380
 of the adulterous woman.

00:38:20.059 --> 00:38:20.199
 Okay?

00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:21.460
 There's a,

00:38:21.720 --> 00:38:21.800
 again,

00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:22.840
 a saving you

00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:23.580
 from deception

00:38:23.580 --> 00:38:24.420
 and sin

00:38:24.420 --> 00:38:25.640
 when a woman

00:38:25.640 --> 00:38:28.260
 is unapologetically domestic.

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:30.140
 Galatians 4.15 says,

00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:30.820
 Give my greetings

00:38:30.820 --> 00:38:31.440
 to Nympha

00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:32.380
 and the church

00:38:32.380 --> 00:38:33.039
 and her house.

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:34.860
 Nympha used her house

00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:36.300
 for the church to meet.

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:37.539
 What a great use

00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:38.039
 of a home.

00:38:39.100 --> 00:38:40.180
 Proverbs 31.15.

00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:42.120
 The Proverbs 31 woman again

00:38:42.120 --> 00:38:42.380
 says,

00:38:42.380 --> 00:38:43.840
 She rises while it is yet night

00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:46.720
 and provides food for her household

00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:48.420
 and portions for her maiden.

00:38:49.059 --> 00:38:49.300
 It says,

00:38:49.340 --> 00:38:50.300
 She's not afraid of snow

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:52.099
 for her household.

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:54.300
 For all her household

00:38:54.300 --> 00:38:55.920
 are clothed in scarlet.

00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:58.300
 And then Proverbs 31.27,

00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:00.220
 what we read before,

00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:01.700
 She looks well to the ways

00:39:01.700 --> 00:39:02.840
 of her household.

00:39:03.700 --> 00:39:03.920
 Okay?

00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:05.760
 She's a domestic executive.

00:39:06.539 --> 00:39:07.480
 Proverbs 9.1 says,

00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:09.960
 Wisdom has built her house.

00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:11.699
 She has hewn her seven pillars.

00:39:12.220 --> 00:39:14.000
 How does a woman build her house?

00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:15.460
 How does she make her home?

00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:16.599
 She does it with wisdom.

00:39:17.139 --> 00:39:18.000
 She's a wise teacher

00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:19.519
 who builds her house with wisdom.

00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:20.059
 It takes,

00:39:20.340 --> 00:39:21.380
 there's a feminine wisdom

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:22.519
 that is required

00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:23.840
 and that is given to a woman

00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:24.860
 to build a house

00:39:24.860 --> 00:39:25.619
 in a unique way

00:39:25.619 --> 00:39:26.599
 that a man doesn't have.

00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:27.960
 A man is called

00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:28.500
 to build his home

00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:29.159
 in a different way.

00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:30.760
 There's a feminine aspect

00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:32.099
 of home making,

00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:33.179
 right?

00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:34.720
 That is wise

00:39:34.720 --> 00:39:35.619
 and comes from God.

00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:37.220
 Wisdom has built her house.

00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:38.820
 It says in Proverbs 14.1,

00:39:38.820 --> 00:39:40.200
 The wisest of women

00:39:40.200 --> 00:39:41.580
 builds her house,

00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:43.519
 but folly with her own hands

00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.240
 tears it down.

00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:45.220
 Okay?

00:39:45.539 --> 00:39:46.680
 So the wisest of women

00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:47.600
 builds her house.

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:48.820
 The wisdom of a woman

00:39:48.820 --> 00:39:49.440
 should be driven

00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:50.400
 to build a home,

00:39:50.539 --> 00:39:51.320
 to make a home.

00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:53.360
 Proverbs 24.3 says,

00:39:53.500 --> 00:39:54.640
 By wisdom a house is built

00:39:54.640 --> 00:39:55.580
 and by understanding

00:39:55.580 --> 00:39:56.660
 it is established.

00:39:57.940 --> 00:39:59.000
 In the book of Ruth,

00:39:59.080 --> 00:39:59.840
 verse 4.11,

00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:00.240
 it says,

00:40:00.600 --> 00:40:01.100
 All the people

00:40:01.100 --> 00:40:01.820
 who were at the gate

00:40:01.820 --> 00:40:02.600
 and the elders said,

00:40:02.660 --> 00:40:03.260
 We are witnesses.

00:40:03.960 --> 00:40:05.059
 May the Lord make the woman

00:40:05.059 --> 00:40:06.420
 who is coming into your house

00:40:06.420 --> 00:40:07.820
 like Rachel and Leah

00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:08.960
 who together

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.519
 built up the house

00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:12.200
 of Israel.

00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:13.480
 It was known

00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:14.380
 of these women of old,

00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:15.700
 these esteemed women,

00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:16.820
 that the blessing

00:40:16.820 --> 00:40:17.539
 that was given

00:40:17.539 --> 00:40:18.740
 to Ruth

00:40:18.740 --> 00:40:19.900
 was that you would be

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:20.780
 like the women of old.

00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:21.920
 And what did the women

00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:22.400
 of old do

00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:23.300
 and what are we blessing

00:40:23.300 --> 00:40:24.260
 you to do as well?

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:25.320
 We're blessing you

00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:26.079
 to be one

00:40:26.079 --> 00:40:27.680
 who builds up her house.

00:40:28.460 --> 00:40:29.880
 Who builds up her house.

00:40:30.619 --> 00:40:30.820
 Okay?

00:40:31.460 --> 00:40:33.720
 A woman is given a house

00:40:33.720 --> 00:40:35.120
 and she glorifies it.

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:36.760
 She makes a house a home.

00:40:37.100 --> 00:40:37.940
 She's a homemaker.

00:40:38.740 --> 00:40:39.500
 Let's make homemaking

00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:40.140
 great again.

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:40.519
 Right?

00:40:41.080 --> 00:40:41.580
 It's like,

00:40:41.740 --> 00:40:42.940
 I've heard women

00:40:42.940 --> 00:40:44.700
 who are sheepish

00:40:44.700 --> 00:40:46.200
 when they say

00:40:46.200 --> 00:40:47.000
 that they're a homemaker

00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:48.440
 or they'll put the word

00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:49.519
 just in front of it.

00:40:49.680 --> 00:40:50.539
 Don't do that.

00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:52.260
 Say I'm just a homemaker.

00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:53.460
 Do you understand

00:40:53.460 --> 00:40:54.019
 the importance

00:40:54.019 --> 00:40:54.920
 of being a homemaker?

00:40:55.019 --> 00:40:55.760
 This is a godly,

00:40:55.900 --> 00:40:56.300
 noble,

00:40:56.740 --> 00:40:58.300
 dignified occupation.

00:40:59.100 --> 00:40:59.380
 Okay?

00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:00.900
 We should make

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:01.539
 this great again

00:41:01.539 --> 00:41:02.700
 because it is a great thing.

00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:03.619
 It's an important thing.

00:41:03.700 --> 00:41:04.400
 It's a godly thing.

00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:05.300
 It's a feminine thing.

00:41:05.900 --> 00:41:06.619
 A woman is given a house

00:41:06.619 --> 00:41:07.380
 and she glorifies it.

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:08.720
 She makes a house a home.

00:41:09.099 --> 00:41:10.579
 A woman takes a disorderly home

00:41:10.579 --> 00:41:11.760
 and brings it into order.

00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:13.619
 She's a household executive.

00:41:14.619 --> 00:41:16.059
 A woman rules her household.

00:41:16.220 --> 00:41:16.880
 She's decisive.

00:41:17.099 --> 00:41:18.059
 She's an authoritative

00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:19.160
 home manager.

00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:20.420
 Not taking authority

00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:21.000
 over men

00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:22.660
 but taking decisive authority

00:41:22.660 --> 00:41:23.740
 over her household,

00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:24.980
 both her home

00:41:24.980 --> 00:41:25.579
 and her children

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:26.900
 if she has them.

00:41:27.680 --> 00:41:28.420
 If she's single,

00:41:28.420 --> 00:41:29.760
 she helps other women

00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:30.820
 rule their households,

00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:32.119
 not taking authority

00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:32.780
 over children

00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:33.380
 where authority

00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:34.139
 has not been given.

00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:35.400
 If she's single

00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:36.380
 and lives with other women,

00:41:36.659 --> 00:41:38.420
 she rules and subdues

00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:39.000
 her household

00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:39.720
 with those women.

00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:40.860
 If she's single

00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:42.039
 and owns her own house,

00:41:42.680 --> 00:41:43.659
 she makes it a home.

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:45.159
 She rules and subdues it.

00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:46.420
 If she's married,

00:41:46.539 --> 00:41:47.280
 she takes the house

00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.260
 her husband has rented

00:41:48.260 --> 00:41:48.760
 or bought

00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:49.980
 and makes it a home.

00:41:50.099 --> 00:41:51.720
 She rules her household.

00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:53.220
 Women should be

00:41:53.220 --> 00:41:55.099
 unapologetically domestic

00:41:55.099 --> 00:41:56.099
 in their focus

00:41:56.099 --> 00:41:56.780
 and their aim.

00:41:56.780 --> 00:41:58.660
 unapologetically.

00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:00.280
 C.S. Lewis said,

00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:00.840
 the homemaker

00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:02.019
 has the ultimate career.

00:42:02.580 --> 00:42:03.360
 All their careers

00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:04.920
 exist for one purpose only

00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:06.380
 and that is to support

00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:07.920
 the ultimate career.

00:42:10.080 --> 00:42:10.780
 You might say,

00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:12.220
 well, I have bad parenting.

00:42:12.740 --> 00:42:14.140
 I came from a broken family.

00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:15.019
 I don't know how

00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:15.940
 to be a household executive.

00:42:16.040 --> 00:42:16.440
 I don't know how

00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:17.040
 to manage a house.

00:42:17.120 --> 00:42:17.460
 I don't know how

00:42:17.460 --> 00:42:18.040
 to rule a house.

00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:20.120
 Have someone teach you.

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:21.040
 Find someone you know

00:42:21.040 --> 00:42:21.740
 who does manage

00:42:21.740 --> 00:42:22.560
 your household well.

00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:24.600
 Ask how you can serve her.

00:42:24.599 --> 00:42:25.639
 Come and help her

00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:26.420
 in her household.

00:42:26.779 --> 00:42:27.799
 See how she does things.

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:29.119
 See how she manages.

00:42:29.339 --> 00:42:30.219
 See the tricks

00:42:30.219 --> 00:42:31.400
 and the traits of speed.

00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:32.079
 The things that you

00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:33.480
 wouldn't notice maybe.

00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:34.759
 Why did you do that?

00:42:35.139 --> 00:42:37.480
 Why don't you do this?

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:39.259
 What did you do that for?

00:42:39.619 --> 00:42:40.599
 Ask good questions.

00:42:41.099 --> 00:42:41.460
 Learn.

00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:41.920
 Grow.

00:42:43.819 --> 00:42:44.199
 Ladies,

00:42:44.279 --> 00:42:45.059
 are you a domestic

00:42:45.059 --> 00:42:46.099
 executive?

00:42:46.099 --> 00:42:48.539
 You don't have to wait

00:42:48.539 --> 00:42:49.159
 until you're older too

00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:49.759
 if you're younger.

00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:51.139
 Start at a young age.

00:42:51.259 --> 00:42:51.759
 And parents,

00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:53.420
 start your young girls,

00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:53.880
 daughters,

00:42:54.279 --> 00:42:55.079
 at a young age.

00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:55.779
 Don't wait.

00:42:56.420 --> 00:42:57.239
 Teach them how to

00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:58.319
 manage a home

00:42:58.319 --> 00:42:59.239
 so when they get

00:42:59.239 --> 00:42:59.619
 to be older

00:42:59.619 --> 00:43:00.259
 that they could

00:43:00.259 --> 00:43:01.139
 totally run a home.

00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:02.960
 That is a godly gift

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:03.579
 that you can give

00:43:03.579 --> 00:43:04.219
 to your daughters.

00:43:05.659 --> 00:43:06.079
 Number seven,

00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:07.099
 a woman is a

00:43:07.099 --> 00:43:07.880
 submitted follower.

00:43:08.739 --> 00:43:09.400
 A woman is called

00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:10.239
 to be a respectful

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:11.199
 submitted follower,

00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:12.339
 the fruit of her submission.

00:43:13.279 --> 00:43:14.360
 Genesis 3.13

00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:15.120
 says,

00:43:15.200 --> 00:43:15.780
 The Lord God said

00:43:15.780 --> 00:43:16.160
 to the woman,

00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:16.740
 What is this

00:43:16.740 --> 00:43:17.480
 that you have done?

00:43:17.740 --> 00:43:18.400
 The woman said,

00:43:18.860 --> 00:43:19.900
 And the woman said,

00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:21.500
 The serpent deceived me

00:43:21.500 --> 00:43:22.079
 and I ate.

00:43:22.900 --> 00:43:24.079
 2 Corinthians 11.3

00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:24.380
 says,

00:43:24.460 --> 00:43:25.940
 The serpent deceived Eve

00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:26.920
 by his cunning.

00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:30.039
 1 Timothy 2.11-15

00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:30.820
 says,

00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:32.059
 Let a woman learn quietly

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:33.519
 with all submissiveness.

00:43:34.220 --> 00:43:34.539
 Then it says,

00:43:34.620 --> 00:43:35.500
 I do not permit a woman

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:36.700
 to teach or to exercise

00:43:36.700 --> 00:43:37.860
 authority over a man.

00:43:38.140 --> 00:43:38.500
 Rather,

00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:40.099
 she is to remain quiet.

00:43:40.860 --> 00:43:41.300
 You might say,

00:43:41.380 --> 00:43:42.019
 Well, why?

00:43:42.200 --> 00:43:43.039
 Well, it was because

00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:44.059
 of in Ephesus

00:43:44.059 --> 00:43:45.099
 there was this goddess

00:43:45.099 --> 00:43:45.599
 there,

00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:46.360
 or it was because

00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:47.420
 of the culture there.

00:43:47.759 --> 00:43:48.219
 It's different

00:43:48.219 --> 00:43:49.299
 than the culture now.

00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:50.320
 But listen,

00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:51.519
 you don't have to insert

00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:52.619
 a reason into the text

00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:53.119
 when a reason

00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:54.219
 is already in the text.

00:43:54.759 --> 00:43:55.840
 We don't need to

00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:57.420
 pontificate

00:43:57.420 --> 00:43:58.980
 or come up

00:43:58.980 --> 00:43:59.579
 with these reasons

00:43:59.579 --> 00:44:00.759
 when there's a clear reason

00:44:00.759 --> 00:44:01.500
 that's already given.

00:44:02.299 --> 00:44:02.539
 He says,

00:44:02.619 --> 00:44:03.480
 I do not permit

00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:04.299
 to let a woman

00:44:04.299 --> 00:44:04.960
 learn quietly

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:05.860
 with all submissiveness.

00:44:06.139 --> 00:44:06.900
 I do not permit a woman

00:44:06.900 --> 00:44:07.900
 to teach or to exercise

00:44:07.900 --> 00:44:09.179
 authority over a man.

00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:10.019
 Rather,

00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:11.320
 she is to remain quiet.

00:44:11.719 --> 00:44:12.599
 And then it gives the reason.

00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:13.799
 This is really important.

00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:15.519
 If you take this verse

00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:16.139
 out of context

00:44:16.139 --> 00:44:17.279
 and say it's cultural,

00:44:18.219 --> 00:44:18.539
 well,

00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:19.880
 you're misusing the scriptures.

00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:20.460
 You've got to look

00:44:20.460 --> 00:44:21.039
 at what it says.

00:44:21.539 --> 00:44:23.340
 For Adam was formed

00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:23.900
 first,

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:24.699
 then Eve.

00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:26.679
 And Adam was not deceived,

00:44:27.079 --> 00:44:27.599
 but the woman

00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:28.440
 was deceived

00:44:28.440 --> 00:44:29.960
 and became a transgression.

00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:31.400
 Yet she will be saved

00:44:31.400 --> 00:44:32.159
 through childbearing

00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:33.139
 that they continue

00:44:33.139 --> 00:44:33.940
 in faith and love

00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:34.400
 and holiness

00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:35.239
 with self-control.

00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:37.259
 So he makes

00:44:37.259 --> 00:44:38.019
 this distinction

00:44:38.019 --> 00:44:38.820
 between the role

00:44:38.820 --> 00:44:39.559
 of a man and a woman

00:44:39.559 --> 00:44:41.099
 based on creation,

00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:42.579
 based on created order,

00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:43.500
 who was created first,

00:44:43.500 --> 00:44:44.460
 based on what happened

00:44:44.460 --> 00:44:45.019
 in the garden.

00:44:45.579 --> 00:44:46.320
 That's the basis.

00:44:46.860 --> 00:44:47.519
 It has nothing to do

00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.480
 with what was going on

00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:48.880
 in Ephesus.

00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:49.579
 It has nothing to do

00:44:49.579 --> 00:44:50.400
 with some imagined

00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:51.719
 conjecture that you're

00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:52.619
 putting into the text.

00:44:52.780 --> 00:44:53.420
 It's not there.

00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:54.159
 Just take the text

00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:54.780
 for what it says.

00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:55.679
 It gives us the reason.

00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:57.659
 A woman was created

00:44:57.659 --> 00:44:58.199
 to follow.

00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:59.399
 And in the absence

00:44:59.399 --> 00:45:00.259
 of male leadership,

00:45:00.500 --> 00:45:01.679
 she's still going to follow

00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:02.699
 because that's what

00:45:02.699 --> 00:45:03.819
 she was created for.

00:45:04.319 --> 00:45:05.339
 So she's susceptible

00:45:05.339 --> 00:45:07.039
 to following the wrong entity.

00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:08.000
 And in this case,

00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:09.179
 she ended up following

00:45:09.179 --> 00:45:09.659
 the devil.

00:45:10.659 --> 00:45:11.619
 She was supposed

00:45:11.619 --> 00:45:12.199
 to be leading,

00:45:12.399 --> 00:45:13.239
 but because the man

00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.960
 abdicated his role,

00:45:16.219 --> 00:45:17.259
 she still kept following.

00:45:17.359 --> 00:45:18.099
 But instead of following

00:45:18.099 --> 00:45:18.539
 her husband,

00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:19.619
 she followed the devil

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:21.440
 into this coup

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:22.039
 that was happening

00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:22.559
 in the garden.

00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:23.539
 All right?

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.019
 This is why a woman

00:45:26.019 --> 00:45:27.599
 should look to the leadership

00:45:27.599 --> 00:45:28.239
 of her husband

00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:29.579
 if she's married.

00:45:29.759 --> 00:45:30.480
 And if she's single,

00:45:30.699 --> 00:45:32.900
 she should be in submission

00:45:32.900 --> 00:45:33.679
 to other men,

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:34.440
 not the same way

00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:34.960
 as a husband.

00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:35.659
 That's weird.

00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:36.320
 Okay?

00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:39.039
 But looking to have men

00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.559
 speaking into her life.

00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:41.460
 All right?

00:45:42.139 --> 00:45:43.440
 And a woman should be

00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:44.219
 doing the things

00:45:44.219 --> 00:45:44.860
 that are the role

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:45.320
 of a woman

00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:46.279
 so as to save her

00:45:46.279 --> 00:45:47.259
 from further deception

00:45:47.259 --> 00:45:48.360
 where she would end up

00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:49.440
 following the wrong entity,

00:45:49.579 --> 00:45:50.039
 in this case,

00:45:50.099 --> 00:45:50.480
 the devil.

00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.800
 One of the results

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.260
 of the curse

00:45:53.260 --> 00:45:54.460
 in Genesis 3.16

00:45:54.460 --> 00:45:55.559
 said to the woman,

00:45:55.659 --> 00:45:56.500
 Your desire shall be

00:45:56.500 --> 00:45:57.119
 for your husband

00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:58.440
 and he shall rule over you.

00:45:58.800 --> 00:45:59.559
 That word desire

00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:00.420
 is the same one

00:46:00.420 --> 00:46:01.400
 that's in the next chapter

00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:02.619
 in Genesis 4.7

00:46:02.619 --> 00:46:04.420
 when it said to Cain,

00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:06.480
 Hey, sin is crouching

00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.059
 at your door

00:46:07.059 --> 00:46:07.920
 and its desire

00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:08.940
 is to have you.

00:46:09.559 --> 00:46:09.740
 Okay?

00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:11.219
 It's the same word.

00:46:11.579 --> 00:46:12.039
 So essentially,

00:46:12.179 --> 00:46:13.059
 this curse that was on there

00:46:13.059 --> 00:46:13.860
 is that there's this

00:46:13.860 --> 00:46:16.079
 desire inside of a woman

00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:17.159
 to control her husband,

00:46:17.460 --> 00:46:18.619
 to take leadership,

00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:19.860
 to be afraid

00:46:19.860 --> 00:46:21.599
 that she is not

00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:22.380
 being fought for,

00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:23.019
 cared for,

00:46:23.099 --> 00:46:23.660
 and loved

00:46:23.660 --> 00:46:24.820
 and so she has to

00:46:24.820 --> 00:46:25.320
 take matters

00:46:25.320 --> 00:46:26.340
 into her own hands

00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:27.280
 instead of putting

00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:27.980
 her hope in God

00:46:27.980 --> 00:46:28.700
 like the holy woman

00:46:28.700 --> 00:46:29.500
 of the past did.

00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:31.300
 That's the propensity.

00:46:32.039 --> 00:46:32.760
 You have to watch out

00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:33.180
 for that.

00:46:34.300 --> 00:46:36.260
 1 Corinthians 14.33-35

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:36.800
 says this,

00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:37.480
 In all the churches

00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:38.160
 of the saints,

00:46:38.680 --> 00:46:39.280
 women should keep

00:46:39.280 --> 00:46:40.160
 silent in the churches

00:46:40.160 --> 00:46:40.820
 for they are not

00:46:40.820 --> 00:46:41.640
 permitted to speak

00:46:41.640 --> 00:46:42.960
 but should be in submission

00:46:42.960 --> 00:46:43.960
 as the law says.

00:46:44.460 --> 00:46:44.920
 If there is anything

00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:45.720
 they desire to learn

00:46:45.720 --> 00:46:46.240
 that the master

00:46:46.240 --> 00:46:47.099
 or husband is at home

00:46:47.099 --> 00:46:48.679
 but it's shameful

00:46:48.679 --> 00:46:49.119
 for a woman

00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:49.880
 to speak in church.

00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:51.000
 This is in the context

00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.139
 of weighing prophecies.

00:46:52.699 --> 00:46:53.500
 And they were talking

00:46:53.500 --> 00:46:54.199
 about how they should

00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:54.940
 weigh the prophecies

00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:55.940
 and say in these cases,

00:46:56.539 --> 00:46:57.460
 I think what it's pointing to

00:46:57.460 --> 00:46:58.860
 is let the men

00:46:58.860 --> 00:46:59.920
 decide these things

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:00.239
 and the women

00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:00.860
 should be quiet

00:47:00.860 --> 00:47:01.940
 in these particular areas.

00:47:02.279 --> 00:47:03.239
 Women can prophesy

00:47:03.239 --> 00:47:04.019
 and should prophesy.

00:47:04.139 --> 00:47:04.960
 They are prophesying.

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:05.619
 Right?

00:47:06.179 --> 00:47:07.199
 But in this case

00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:07.839
 of judging them,

00:47:07.900 --> 00:47:08.659
 they should be silent

00:47:08.659 --> 00:47:09.279
 and they should be

00:47:09.279 --> 00:47:09.799
 in submission.

00:47:11.179 --> 00:47:12.500
 Ephesians 5 says,

00:47:12.619 --> 00:47:12.880
 Wives,

00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:14.099
 submit to your own husbands

00:47:14.099 --> 00:47:15.159
 as to the Lord.

00:47:15.839 --> 00:47:16.659
 As to the Lord.

00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:17.519
 For the husband

00:47:17.519 --> 00:47:18.359
 is the head of the wife

00:47:18.359 --> 00:47:19.039
 even as Christ

00:47:19.039 --> 00:47:19.940
 is the head of the church,

00:47:20.019 --> 00:47:20.399
 his body

00:47:20.399 --> 00:47:21.079
 and is himself

00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:21.599
 its Savior.

00:47:22.339 --> 00:47:22.920
 Now as the church

00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:23.659
 submits to Christ,

00:47:23.759 --> 00:47:24.859
 also wives should submit

00:47:24.859 --> 00:47:25.579
 in everything

00:47:25.579 --> 00:47:26.379
 to their husbands.

00:47:26.819 --> 00:47:27.659
 Let the wife see

00:47:27.659 --> 00:47:28.500
 that she respects

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:29.239
 her husband.

00:47:30.460 --> 00:47:31.259
 She's supposed to

00:47:31.259 --> 00:47:32.279
 respect her husband.

00:47:32.399 --> 00:47:32.759
 She's supposed to

00:47:32.759 --> 00:47:33.559
 submit to her husband.

00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:34.659
 Colossians 3 says,

00:47:35.059 --> 00:47:35.239
 Wives,

00:47:35.339 --> 00:47:36.159
 submit to your husbands

00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:37.299
 as it's fitting in the Lord.

00:47:37.980 --> 00:47:39.259
 1 Peter 3 says,

00:47:39.359 --> 00:47:39.599
 Wives,

00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:40.379
 be subject

00:47:40.379 --> 00:47:41.639
 to your own husbands

00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:42.279
 so that even if

00:47:42.279 --> 00:47:43.319
 some do not obey the word,

00:47:43.659 --> 00:47:44.379
 they may be won

00:47:44.379 --> 00:47:45.139
 without a word

00:47:45.139 --> 00:47:46.079
 by the conduct

00:47:46.079 --> 00:47:46.880
 of their wives

00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:48.019
 when they see

00:47:48.019 --> 00:47:49.119
 your respectful

00:47:49.119 --> 00:47:50.340
 and pure conduct.

00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:52.119
 This is how the holy women

00:47:52.119 --> 00:47:52.719
 who hoped in God

00:47:52.719 --> 00:47:53.619
 used to adorn themselves

00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:54.239
 by submitting

00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:55.559
 to their own husbands.

00:47:55.639 --> 00:47:56.500
 It says in verse 5,

00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:57.980
 Sarah obeyed Abraham

00:47:57.980 --> 00:47:58.840
 calling the Lord

00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:00.300
 and you are our children

00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:00.920
 if you do good

00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:01.700
 and do not fear anything

00:48:01.700 --> 00:48:02.260
 that is frightening.

00:48:03.200 --> 00:48:04.180
 A lot of women will say,

00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:05.120
 you say,

00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.340
 do you expect

00:48:07.340 --> 00:48:08.640
 or think that you should

00:48:08.640 --> 00:48:10.039
 have unconditional love,

00:48:10.100 --> 00:48:11.180
 especially from a spouse?

00:48:11.940 --> 00:48:13.100
 And most women would say,

00:48:13.260 --> 00:48:14.120
 yes, absolutely.

00:48:14.980 --> 00:48:15.820
 You flip that over

00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:16.180
 and say,

00:48:16.260 --> 00:48:16.920
 do you believe you should

00:48:16.920 --> 00:48:18.019
 give unconditional respect

00:48:18.019 --> 00:48:18.640
 to your husband?

00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:19.380
 Oh no.

00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:21.019
 Only if he's respectable.

00:48:22.600 --> 00:48:22.880
 It's not,

00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:24.220
 you can't handle it both ways.

00:48:24.819 --> 00:48:24.980
 Okay?

00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:26.599
 A woman is supposed

00:48:26.599 --> 00:48:27.419
 to give unconditional

00:48:27.419 --> 00:48:28.519
 respect to her husband

00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:29.719
 and a man should give

00:48:29.719 --> 00:48:30.819
 unconditional love

00:48:30.819 --> 00:48:31.959
 to the wife.

00:48:32.319 --> 00:48:32.539
 Again,

00:48:32.579 --> 00:48:33.699
 this is Ephesians 5.

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:35.299
 To Romans 21,

00:48:35.379 --> 00:48:36.059
 verse 19,

00:48:36.619 --> 00:48:37.400
 it's better to live

00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:38.460
 in a desert land

00:48:38.460 --> 00:48:39.659
 than with a quarrelsome

00:48:39.659 --> 00:48:40.799
 and fretful woman.

00:48:41.539 --> 00:48:41.739
 Okay?

00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:43.659
 This is an unsubmissive woman.

00:48:43.739 --> 00:48:44.079
 This is a woman

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.679
 who's afraid.

00:48:45.219 --> 00:48:46.400
 Notice he puts the two together,

00:48:46.539 --> 00:48:47.779
 quarrelsome and fretful.

00:48:48.480 --> 00:48:49.739
 Fretfulness and fear

00:48:49.739 --> 00:48:51.139
 leads to quarrelsomeness.

00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:53.259
 Fretfulness and a lack

00:48:53.259 --> 00:48:54.079
 of trust or hope

00:48:54.079 --> 00:48:54.579
 in the Lord

00:48:54.579 --> 00:48:55.960
 leads to arguing

00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:57.179
 and trying to get

00:48:57.179 --> 00:48:57.759
 your own way.

00:48:58.079 --> 00:48:58.779
 A woman who fights

00:48:58.779 --> 00:48:59.920
 is fighting for herself.

00:49:00.299 --> 00:49:02.219
 That's a blinking red

00:49:02.219 --> 00:49:03.239
 dash light to say,

00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:03.599
 hey,

00:49:03.599 --> 00:49:05.400
 this woman

00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:07.039
 is not feeling fought for.

00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:08.599
 You could fight with her,

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:09.739
 but that's not the problem.

00:49:10.099 --> 00:49:10.779
 Fight for her,

00:49:10.860 --> 00:49:11.480
 not with her.

00:49:12.299 --> 00:49:12.440
 Okay?

00:49:14.779 --> 00:49:15.960
 Titus 2, verse 5,

00:49:16.339 --> 00:49:17.380
 talks about being submissive

00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:18.119
 to their own husbands

00:49:18.119 --> 00:49:19.259
 that the word of God

00:49:19.259 --> 00:49:20.179
 may not be reviled.

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.159
 The late John MacArthur

00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:22.440
 said,

00:49:22.500 --> 00:49:23.460
 no matter what their station

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:23.839
 in life,

00:49:23.940 --> 00:49:24.699
 Christian men and women

00:49:24.699 --> 00:49:25.440
 who are not what

00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.360
 they ought to be

00:49:26.360 --> 00:49:30.339
 will give people reason

00:49:30.339 --> 00:49:31.679
 to blaspheme God's word.

00:49:32.099 --> 00:49:33.059
 The world doesn't judge us

00:49:33.059 --> 00:49:33.679
 by our theology,

00:49:33.779 --> 00:49:34.279
 it judges us

00:49:34.279 --> 00:49:34.980
 by our behavior.

00:49:35.420 --> 00:49:36.519
 The validity of Scripture

00:49:36.519 --> 00:49:37.480
 in the world's view

00:49:37.480 --> 00:49:38.460
 is determined

00:49:38.460 --> 00:49:39.639
 by how it affects us.

00:49:40.019 --> 00:49:40.860
 If unbelievers see

00:49:40.860 --> 00:49:41.340
 that our lives

00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:42.400
 are truly transformed,

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:43.639
 separate and distinct

00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:44.139
 from the world,

00:49:44.219 --> 00:49:44.860
 they might conclude

00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:45.320
 that Scripture

00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:45.920
 is true,

00:49:46.420 --> 00:49:46.799
 powerful,

00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:47.699
 and life-changing.

00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:50.940
 1 Corinthians 11, 3 says,

00:49:51.019 --> 00:49:51.820
 I want you to understand

00:49:51.820 --> 00:49:52.279
 that the head

00:49:52.279 --> 00:49:53.279
 of every man is Christ,

00:49:53.420 --> 00:49:54.059
 the head of a wife

00:49:54.059 --> 00:49:54.679
 is her husband,

00:49:55.159 --> 00:49:56.000
 and the head of Christ

00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:56.559
 is God.

00:49:57.219 --> 00:49:58.019
 And wives should avoid

00:49:58.019 --> 00:49:58.900
 both ditches.

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:00.079
 The ditch of being

00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:00.799
 unsubmissive,

00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:01.720
 but also the ditch

00:50:01.720 --> 00:50:02.660
 of saying,

00:50:02.780 --> 00:50:03.660
 I can't do anything

00:50:03.660 --> 00:50:04.880
 unless my husband says.

00:50:05.180 --> 00:50:06.700
 Like, I have no volition

00:50:06.700 --> 00:50:08.260
 or agency on my own.

00:50:08.560 --> 00:50:09.140
 I have to run

00:50:09.140 --> 00:50:10.019
 every single thing

00:50:10.019 --> 00:50:10.680
 through my husband.

00:50:11.740 --> 00:50:12.820
 That's just as ridiculous

00:50:12.820 --> 00:50:14.019
 as being unsubmissive.

00:50:14.660 --> 00:50:15.500
 And a husband should be able

00:50:15.500 --> 00:50:16.600
 to believe in the wife

00:50:16.600 --> 00:50:17.240
 enough to be able

00:50:17.240 --> 00:50:18.400
 to give her her own agency

00:50:18.400 --> 00:50:19.080
 and not have to run

00:50:19.080 --> 00:50:20.180
 every single thing

00:50:20.180 --> 00:50:20.740
 through him.

00:50:21.420 --> 00:50:22.480
 And for single women

00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.019
 as well,

00:50:23.500 --> 00:50:24.320
 Matthew 27,

00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:25.760
 there are also many women

00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:26.200
 that are looking

00:50:26.200 --> 00:50:26.800
 from a distance

00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:27.940
 who had followed Jesus

00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:28.640
 from Galilee

00:50:28.640 --> 00:50:29.560
 and ministering to him.

00:50:30.180 --> 00:50:31.100
 Mark 15 says

00:50:31.100 --> 00:50:31.940
 when he was in Galilee,

00:50:32.380 --> 00:50:33.120
 there's women,

00:50:33.240 --> 00:50:33.860
 Mary Magdalene

00:50:33.860 --> 00:50:34.760
 married the mother of James,

00:50:34.940 --> 00:50:35.820
 they followed him

00:50:35.820 --> 00:50:36.880
 and ministered to him.

00:50:37.740 --> 00:50:38.320
 Okay, so there's

00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:39.039
 a submission

00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:40.060
 that is required

00:50:40.060 --> 00:50:41.160
 not just of married women,

00:50:41.660 --> 00:50:42.360
 but all women.

00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:43.680
 A woman is strong,

00:50:43.780 --> 00:50:45.120
 but she's not strong

00:50:45.120 --> 00:50:46.200
 to the point of independence.

00:50:47.500 --> 00:50:48.300
 Feminine strength

00:50:48.300 --> 00:50:49.720
 does not avoid submission.

00:50:50.580 --> 00:50:50.880
 Ladies,

00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:51.980
 are you a submitted follower?

00:50:53.580 --> 00:50:54.500
 In conclusion,

00:50:54.500 --> 00:50:56.099
 saying that a woman

00:50:56.099 --> 00:50:57.139
 can do whatever a man

00:50:57.139 --> 00:50:58.079
 can do is degrading

00:50:58.079 --> 00:50:58.719
 a woman because

00:50:58.719 --> 00:50:59.820
 it sets manhood

00:50:59.820 --> 00:51:01.139
 as the goal for women,

00:51:01.619 --> 00:51:03.139
 which is a gross distortion.

00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:04.860
 It's a gross distortion,

00:51:05.219 --> 00:51:05.940
 and we will not

00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:06.619
 give in to that.

00:51:07.059 --> 00:51:07.820
 We believe men and women

00:51:07.820 --> 00:51:08.639
 are created differently

00:51:08.639 --> 00:51:09.300
 by God,

00:51:09.340 --> 00:51:10.280
 and they have different roles.

00:51:10.820 --> 00:51:11.599
 God created women

00:51:11.599 --> 00:51:12.719
 for distinct purpose

00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:13.639
 and roles,

00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:15.219
 and ladies,

00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:16.360
 you should embrace

00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:17.460
 the distinctly feminine.

00:51:18.099 --> 00:51:18.320
 Amen?

00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:19.639
 Amen.

00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:19.820
 Amen.