WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.980 Okay, so we're going to continue where we left off last week, 00:00:05.100 --> 00:00:10.200 talking about the dominion mandate from Genesis chapter 1. 00:00:11.019 --> 00:00:14.919 And last week, we talked about the masculine aspect of that, 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.359 the mandate for men. 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:21.800 And then this week, we're going to talk about the feminine dominion mandate. 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:24.120 Okay, so I'm going to pray, and we're going to jump in. 00:00:24.699 --> 00:00:25.800 Father, thank you for your word. 00:00:26.339 --> 00:00:28.620 Thank you, Lord, for the authority of your word. 00:00:28.620 --> 00:00:32.719 Thank you for the life-giving nature of your word. 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.280 I pray that we would rejoice over your word, delight in your word, 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:39.079 and submit to your word. 00:00:39.480 --> 00:00:41.039 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:42.420 --> 00:00:45.000 Okay, so the feminine dominion mandate. 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:47.880 Okay, Genesis 1, I'm going to read it again this week. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:49.760 Genesis 1, 26 to 28. 00:00:50.460 --> 00:00:54.659 Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness, 00:00:54.659 --> 00:00:58.759 and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 00:00:58.959 --> 00:01:02.479 over the birds of the heavens, over the livestock, and over all the earth, 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.560 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 00:01:07.819 --> 00:01:09.379 I just don't know if he just loves that phrase. 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:11.640 Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. 00:01:12.459 --> 00:01:14.599 So God created man in his own image. 00:01:14.759 --> 00:01:16.420 In the image of God, he created him. 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:19.519 Male and female, he created them. 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:21.099 And God blessed them. 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:24.039 God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, 00:01:24.459 --> 00:01:26.640 and fill the earth, and subdue it, 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:28.799 and have dominion over the fish of the sea, 00:01:28.859 --> 00:01:29.959 and over the birds of the heavens, 00:01:30.420 --> 00:01:32.359 and over every living thing that moves on the earth. 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:40.939 Sometimes we can tend to think of the dominion mandate only for men. 00:01:41.459 --> 00:01:43.939 But if you look here, he's not just speaking to men. 00:01:43.939 --> 00:01:48.759 He's saying that he created man in his own image. 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.140 In the image of God, he created a male and female. 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:52.620 He created them. 00:01:52.679 --> 00:01:56.599 And then God blessed them, male and female, 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.039 and said to them, be fruitful, multiply, 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:02.840 fill the earth, so do it, and have dominion. 00:02:03.780 --> 00:02:10.280 So because of the differing roles between a man and a woman, 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:11.819 men and women both equal in value, 00:02:11.819 --> 00:02:13.079 but differing in roles, 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:18.900 and we are firm believers that your value does not come from your role, 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:22.880 which is much contrary to society's view of value. 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:26.740 Value, in the world's eyes, always comes from what you do. 00:02:27.340 --> 00:02:30.120 And so if you don't do what someone else does, you lose value. 00:02:30.460 --> 00:02:32.760 If you don't get to do what somebody else does, 00:02:33.140 --> 00:02:35.280 you will never have as much value as they do. 00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:36.660 But that's a worldly concept. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:37.500 Okay? 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:43.319 Even the Trinity itself, although equal in their godness, 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:44.300 they have different roles. 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:45.180 Okay? 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.560 And so clearly, you can have these different roles 00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:53.580 and still hold the equality between them. 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.680 So you have male and female. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:05.719 And the question today is, what is the feminine feminine mandate? 00:03:05.819 --> 00:03:08.700 What is the feminine role in this mandate? 00:03:09.040 --> 00:03:09.180 Okay? 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.560 And with that, you know, sometimes you think, well, yeah, 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:17.200 because what about the woman being the weaker vessel? 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:18.859 1 Peter 3.7 says, 00:03:19.359 --> 00:03:31.339 Weaker vessel. 00:03:31.659 --> 00:03:36.519 So how does that work as a woman functioning in a dominion mandate 00:03:36.519 --> 00:03:38.319 when she is a weaker vessel? 00:03:38.959 --> 00:03:40.439 Well, I think a great way to look at this, 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:41.959 a great picture of this would be pregnancy. 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:42.280 Okay? 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:48.520 I think of probably the most pronounced point of feminine weakness 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:50.740 is when a woman is pregnant. 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:51.659 Right? 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.520 Because she's more vulnerable than ever before. 00:03:53.620 --> 00:03:57.379 She's literally, you know, encased in her body 00:03:57.379 --> 00:04:00.280 is this very fragile human being. 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.840 And so, you know, she feels very vulnerable in that moment. 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:06.379 And she has to protect this baby. 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.020 And she can't do what she would have normally done 00:04:09.020 --> 00:04:10.100 before she was pregnant. 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:13.799 And she's in a very vulnerable, weak state at that point. 00:04:14.419 --> 00:04:16.360 She's protecting that little child 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:18.040 and is not able to lift what she could. 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:19.560 She's not able to work and do... 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:21.139 There's all these restrictions put on her. 00:04:21.379 --> 00:04:21.600 Why? 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.540 Because she can care for that baby. 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.259 And so in many ways, she is extremely weak in that. 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:38.379 But she also then births a baby and then nurses a baby. 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:39.420 So that is... 00:04:39.420 --> 00:04:43.240 You see the other side of it where such power that comes from that. 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:49.159 And I think that's a great example of, yes, even though a woman is weaker, 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.600 she still is able to rule and subdue in such a way 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:01.360 where she's able to bring forth life in a way that's amazing, 00:05:01.579 --> 00:05:03.060 in a way that is extremely powerful. 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:06.199 I mean, there are a few things more powerful than childbirth. 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:10.519 I mean, anyone who's witnessed childbirth, many have cried. 00:05:10.780 --> 00:05:12.620 Even people who don't normally cry, cry. 00:05:13.060 --> 00:05:13.259 Why? 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:15.500 Because there's just such a powerful experience. 00:05:16.420 --> 00:05:21.500 And this is a perfect example how a weaker vessel can still be fruitful 00:05:21.500 --> 00:05:28.420 and have power in the way they rule in the sense that they are able to give birth to a baby. 00:05:28.420 --> 00:05:34.420 And there's often in birth, too, a lot of times my wife has been at a lot of births. 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:37.620 One of the things she'll come up with often is a woman saying, 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.220 I can't do this, like in the middle of childbirth, right? 00:05:40.300 --> 00:05:41.340 I can't do this. 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:42.340 I can't do this. 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.360 And, you know, one of the roles of a doula is to say, 00:05:47.180 --> 00:05:49.000 oh, you have a midwife here as well, right? 00:05:49.100 --> 00:05:51.020 So I'm sure you've heard that many times. 00:05:51.340 --> 00:05:52.319 I can't do this. 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:53.340 I can't do this. 00:05:53.339 --> 00:05:58.179 But a woman is able to subdue those thoughts of unbelief and then give birth. 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:00.579 Oh, we have all kinds of people here. 00:06:02.419 --> 00:06:03.839 And she's able to give birth. 00:06:04.139 --> 00:06:08.259 And that's an awesome picture, I think, of the weak vessel still being able to overcome 00:06:08.259 --> 00:06:12.459 the weakness of the moment and do an extremely powerful thing. 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:17.459 Well, what about when it comes to rule and we're talking about women, 00:06:17.559 --> 00:06:19.620 what about 1 Timothy 2, 11 to 15? 00:06:19.620 --> 00:06:20.979 It says, 00:06:20.980 --> 00:06:47.560 So you say, you know, we're talking about the dominion mandate for women. 00:06:47.560 --> 00:06:50.819 And yet here you have this restriction where Paul says, 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:54.800 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man. 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:56.459 Rather, she is to remain quiet. 00:06:56.899 --> 00:06:59.860 So when we talk about this, there is a specific, 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.519 just because she's not the teacher of authority over a man, okay, 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:07.240 that's not where she is supposed to rule. 00:07:07.459 --> 00:07:09.740 That doesn't negate that she's still supposed to rule. 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.740 That's an important point, okay? 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.300 The fact that she's not supposed to rule over men 00:07:14.300 --> 00:07:17.500 doesn't mean she's not supposed to rule at all, okay? 00:07:17.780 --> 00:07:21.259 And sometimes that's the conclusion that people come to, 00:07:21.339 --> 00:07:22.439 and that's an incorrect conclusion. 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:24.699 She still has the dominion mandate. 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:26.680 She just has to do it in the proper way. 00:07:27.300 --> 00:07:29.980 And there is that restriction that she shouldn't rule over men, 00:07:30.019 --> 00:07:31.759 but there are many things that she is to rule over. 00:07:32.100 --> 00:07:33.620 So let's look at them, okay? 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.259 I want to look at six domains, kind of like we did with men. 00:07:36.259 --> 00:07:43.560 Let's look at how women can exercise this subduing, ruling, and being fruitful 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:47.699 in these different domains of their life, different areas of rule, 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.959 these different gardens of their life where they can subdue, rule, and be fruitful. 00:07:52.159 --> 00:07:54.219 First one would be personal life, okay? 00:07:54.599 --> 00:08:00.159 As women, ladies, are you subduing things in your personal life, 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:03.740 ruling them, and being fruitful in them, okay? 00:08:04.140 --> 00:08:09.060 A great example would be fear or anxiety. 00:08:09.580 --> 00:08:14.940 As women, are you subduing any fear or anxiety in your life? 00:08:15.340 --> 00:08:16.940 Are you ruling over it? 00:08:16.939 --> 00:08:25.899 And then being fruitful to actually cultivate an atmosphere in your life and around you of faith. 00:08:26.379 --> 00:08:33.759 And that would go as far as to say there's a feminine faith that overcomes fear that looks like laughing, okay? 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:35.620 But there's two sides of this. 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:39.379 The bad side of laughing is a cynical laugh. 00:08:39.740 --> 00:08:42.960 This is the laugh of Sarah, of Abraham, right? 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:49.100 The healthy laugh is the Proverbs 31 laugh that laughs at the days to come, okay? 00:08:49.480 --> 00:08:50.480 Let's look at this. 00:08:50.940 --> 00:08:52.700 1 Peter 3, 3-6 says, 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:54.500 Do not let your adorning be external, 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:58.180 the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry or the clothing you wear. 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:01.280 But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart 00:09:01.280 --> 00:09:03.900 with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:05.980 which in God's sight is very precious. 00:09:06.840 --> 00:09:11.759 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:16.600 by submitting to their own husbands as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord. 00:09:16.779 --> 00:09:20.580 And you are her children if what? 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:24.919 If you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:29.460 If you do not fear anything that is frightening, you are her children, okay? 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:35.740 There's a fear, especially because women are weaker in authority. 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:40.740 There is a fear being weaker in authority that comes along with that. 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:43.139 Because when you're in authority, you have more control. 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:45.440 When you're weaker in authority, you have less control, 00:09:45.659 --> 00:09:49.100 which brings a propensity to fear and anxiety. 00:09:49.419 --> 00:09:51.720 But a woman can overcome that. 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:53.720 A woman can overcome that, right? 00:09:54.220 --> 00:09:55.259 By hoping in God. 00:09:55.539 --> 00:09:56.840 Not by hoping in your husband. 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:58.759 Not by hoping in your circumstances. 00:09:59.419 --> 00:10:02.700 Not by hoping in a position or whatever other circumstance. 00:10:02.700 --> 00:10:08.140 No, by hoping in God is the way that you cannot fear anything that is frightening 00:10:08.140 --> 00:10:11.000 because you're hoping in God, okay? 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:14.940 And by the way, he doesn't say that there's not legitimate things that are frightening. 00:10:15.259 --> 00:10:19.200 I love that it says that it doesn't just say, do not fear anything. 00:10:19.320 --> 00:10:21.340 It says, don't fear anything that is frightening. 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:24.500 As if to say, hey, some things are frightening, okay? 00:10:24.520 --> 00:10:26.600 It's okay to say this is scary. 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:30.620 But you don't have to fear it because your hope is in God, okay? 00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:33.139 1 Peter 4.19 goes on. 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.620 He says, therefore, let those who suffer according to God's will 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:40.639 entrust their souls to a faithful creator while doing good, okay? 00:10:41.019 --> 00:10:43.899 We're entrusting ourselves to God, hoping in God. 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:46.100 Women, are you subduing your fears? 00:10:46.500 --> 00:10:47.920 Are you subduing your anxieties? 00:10:48.740 --> 00:10:51.820 Are you able, when that temptation to speak out fear comes, 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:55.700 you're able to have a gentle and quiet spirit that trusts in the Lord, okay? 00:10:55.700 --> 00:10:59.259 Basically, one that has calmed and quieted your soul. 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:01.300 Like Psalm 131. 00:11:02.020 --> 00:11:03.400 Oh Lord, my heart is not lifted up. 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:05.400 My eyes are not raised too high. 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:09.360 I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 00:11:09.980 --> 00:11:12.759 But I have calmed and quieted my soul. 00:11:13.660 --> 00:11:17.580 Like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:21.580 Oh Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.180 It's literally the same language as in 1 Peter 3. 00:11:24.180 --> 00:11:24.900 Do you notice that? 00:11:25.700 --> 00:11:29.460 It's talking about gentle and quiet, calmed and quieted my soul. 00:11:29.820 --> 00:11:33.740 It's talking about not thinking of things too great and marvelous, not being afraid. 00:11:34.220 --> 00:11:34.920 Because why? 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.060 Oh Israel, hope in the Lord, okay? 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:43.920 And there is a taking on of this dominion mandate in women when they say, 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:45.660 I'm calming and quiet in my soul. 00:11:45.759 --> 00:11:48.740 Yes, there are things too great and wonderful to me, and they're scary. 00:11:48.740 --> 00:11:51.879 But like a weaned child is my soul within me. 00:11:52.220 --> 00:11:54.539 I will hope in the Lord, okay? 00:11:56.180 --> 00:11:57.919 You have the two kinds of laughs. 00:11:58.159 --> 00:12:04.500 The cynical laugh of Sarah in Genesis 18, when God says, you're going to have a child in your old age. 00:12:04.500 --> 00:12:06.600 And Sarah laughs. 00:12:07.259 --> 00:12:17.220 And the angel of the Lord says to her, the Lord says to Abraham, why did Sarah laugh and say, shall I indeed bear a child now that I'm old? 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:19.220 Is anything too hard for the Lord? 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:24.419 At this appointed time, I will return to you about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son. 00:12:24.419 --> 00:12:27.959 But Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. 00:12:28.419 --> 00:12:30.279 He said, no, but you did laugh. 00:12:30.779 --> 00:12:33.599 I always kind of get uncomfortable when I read that verse. 00:12:33.699 --> 00:12:35.360 I was like, don't say that. 00:12:35.500 --> 00:12:36.799 Don't say you didn't laugh. 00:12:37.199 --> 00:12:38.939 Do you realize who you're talking to here? 00:12:39.439 --> 00:12:40.259 Like, don't say that. 00:12:40.339 --> 00:12:41.459 Just, he knows, okay? 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:42.279 He knows. 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:44.799 It's like, no, but you did laugh. 00:12:44.979 --> 00:12:47.139 It's like, just acknowledge it, okay? 00:12:48.219 --> 00:12:49.579 Okay, that's the cynical laugh. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:53.279 You know, God says, is anything too hard for the Lord? 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:55.579 What a great question, right, from the Lord. 00:12:56.220 --> 00:13:00.659 And essentially, that's the question we have to ask ourselves when we're faced with something difficult. 00:13:00.980 --> 00:13:02.399 Is anything too hard for the Lord? 00:13:02.819 --> 00:13:03.419 Is it? 00:13:03.699 --> 00:13:07.139 And sometimes we can laugh with like this kind of scoff or cynicism. 00:13:07.839 --> 00:13:12.839 That's not the laugh of a woman who's fulfilling the dominion mandate that God has given her. 00:13:13.220 --> 00:13:14.579 That's not the right kind of laugh. 00:13:14.579 --> 00:13:20.339 The right kind of laugh is Proverbs 31, 25. 00:13:20.340 --> 00:13:24.399 Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come. 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:26.000 I love that verse. 00:13:26.500 --> 00:13:30.720 That, to me, is such a beautiful picture of feminine beauty. 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:38.600 Because, ladies, if you don't know this, one of the most attractive things that a woman can possess is the lack of fear. 00:13:40.100 --> 00:13:40.960 Hoping in the Lord. 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.680 That is very attractive to a man. 00:13:43.220 --> 00:13:44.700 And it's very precious to God. 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:46.980 He says it's of great worth in his sight, okay? 00:13:46.980 --> 00:13:48.940 So she laughs at the time to come. 00:13:49.200 --> 00:13:51.440 When you put your hope in God, you can laugh at the times to come. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.879 You can approach them with levity. 00:13:54.539 --> 00:13:55.600 Lightness, right? 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:05.800 I think the other thing in a personal life that a woman needs to overcome is discontentment or complaining. 00:14:06.820 --> 00:14:06.940 Okay? 00:14:07.779 --> 00:14:08.899 Discontentment or complaining. 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:13.759 Elizabeth Elliot has this great thing to say about femininity. 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:16.399 She says, femininity receives. 00:14:17.179 --> 00:14:19.319 It says, may it be to me as you have said. 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.220 That's quoting Mary after she was told she was going to have Jesus. 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:23.139 Okay? 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:24.000 Femininity receives. 00:14:24.100 --> 00:14:26.319 It says, may it be to me as you have said. 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:26.819 Like Mary. 00:14:27.319 --> 00:14:28.740 It takes what God gives. 00:14:29.179 --> 00:14:30.159 A special place. 00:14:30.439 --> 00:14:31.240 Special honor. 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:33.100 A special function in glory. 00:14:33.779 --> 00:14:35.419 Different from that of masculinity. 00:14:36.299 --> 00:14:37.279 Meant to be a help. 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:46.039 In other words, it is for us women to receive the given as Mary did, not to insist on the not given as Eve did. 00:14:46.659 --> 00:14:46.899 Okay? 00:14:46.959 --> 00:14:48.240 Let me read that last part again. 00:14:49.259 --> 00:14:56.259 It is for us women to receive the given as Mary did, not to insist on the not given as Eve did. 00:14:56.980 --> 00:14:57.240 Okay? 00:14:57.240 --> 00:15:04.580 You see, this is the lie that's been perpetuated ever since Eve. 00:15:05.259 --> 00:15:05.419 Okay? 00:15:05.799 --> 00:15:07.620 Essentially, you've been ripped off. 00:15:08.620 --> 00:15:08.799 Okay? 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.600 You did not get what you should get. 00:15:12.940 --> 00:15:14.680 And there's more out there that you should have. 00:15:14.860 --> 00:15:16.039 This was the lie in the garden. 00:15:16.659 --> 00:15:19.639 Eve said, oh, this thing that's forbidden, I need this. 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:20.560 I want this. 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:23.559 And ever since then, that's the feminist movement. 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:28.119 The feminism says, God's withholding from you. 00:15:28.839 --> 00:15:36.299 There's something you don't have that you need to fight for and clamor for and insist on the not given. 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:37.379 Like Eve did. 00:15:37.439 --> 00:15:38.879 And it's been happening ever since. 00:15:39.219 --> 00:15:44.279 Rather than Mary, who is the opposite of that, who receives what has been given. 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:51.480 A woman who is functioning in her God-given mandate to subdue, to rule, and to be fruitful, 00:15:51.959 --> 00:15:54.819 takes what she's been given and makes it better. 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.459 She takes what she's been given and stewards it. 00:15:57.699 --> 00:16:02.179 She takes what she's been given and she's not focused on what she hasn't been given. 00:16:02.779 --> 00:16:06.199 The temptation would be, don't focus on what you have been given. 00:16:06.279 --> 00:16:07.819 Don't be thankful for what you have been given. 00:16:08.199 --> 00:16:09.899 Focus on what you have not been given. 00:16:10.199 --> 00:16:11.139 Be discontent. 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:11.759 Grumble. 00:16:11.939 --> 00:16:12.439 Complain. 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:16.340 Think about what you don't have rather than to think about what you do have. 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.580 That is the temptation. 00:16:19.600 --> 00:16:23.020 And a woman who's functioning the way she should, she's content. 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:24.760 She's content. 00:16:25.300 --> 00:16:27.720 And she's subduing her discontentment. 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:32.280 She's ruling over that and saying, I'm not going to let my mind go there. 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:38.500 I'm not going to, I'm going to be fruitful in the sense that I'm going to take what I've been given 00:16:38.500 --> 00:16:41.120 and not focus on what I've not been given, but I'm going to take what I've been given 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:42.240 and I'm going to make it better. 00:16:42.440 --> 00:16:44.400 I'm going to be fruitful in it. 00:16:44.800 --> 00:16:44.980 Okay. 00:16:45.380 --> 00:16:49.680 Another way you can subdue in our personal lives is education. 00:16:50.500 --> 00:16:50.940 Okay. 00:16:51.400 --> 00:16:54.720 Where a woman is theologically astute. 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:56.040 All right. 00:16:56.340 --> 00:17:02.860 There are a lot of women who, because a man in the church is called to lead and that women 00:17:02.860 --> 00:17:04.360 aren't supposed to take authority over a man. 00:17:04.360 --> 00:17:09.900 They have then relegated theological astuteness to men only. 00:17:10.099 --> 00:17:11.700 That is a tragic mistake. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:15.940 Women, you should be given to theological rigor. 00:17:15.940 --> 00:17:19.480 You should be given to Bible study. 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:21.740 You should be given to the knowledge of God. 00:17:21.740 --> 00:17:28.640 You should be given to understanding how life works in such a way through the scriptures and 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:33.080 through the truth so that you can be a good teacher, so that you can bring good counsel, 00:17:33.500 --> 00:17:37.640 so that you can be someone who is fruitful with the scriptures. 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:39.980 Not just farming that out to men. 00:17:40.360 --> 00:17:40.700 Yes. 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:46.980 Men have a unique call in the church to rule and to teach, but that doesn't mean that women 00:17:46.980 --> 00:17:47.860 don't teach as well. 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:50.240 And we'll look at that later on in this message. 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:58.519 But to do that, you must pay much attention to your own spiritual education, your own theological 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.880 education, and saying, hey, this is a big deal. 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:07.819 I'm not going to, you know, I'm not just going to let that be for men. 00:18:08.259 --> 00:18:14.940 As women, we need stalwart women who are very rigorous when it comes to learning the scriptures, 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:18.099 knowing the scriptures, memorizing the scriptures, understanding the scriptures. 00:18:18.099 --> 00:18:27.019 Do you have that vision to subdue your lack of knowledge, to rule in the gates, to rule 00:18:27.019 --> 00:18:36.099 in these places of where you have been given responsibility because you know what God wants. 00:18:36.859 --> 00:18:37.919 You know what the word says. 00:18:38.339 --> 00:18:40.619 You know his will and you know his ways. 00:18:40.959 --> 00:18:42.119 Very important thing. 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:43.740 Okay. 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:50.779 Another way we can personally subdue things is subdue the last minute plans and failure 00:18:50.779 --> 00:18:51.660 to plan ahead. 00:18:51.900 --> 00:18:56.640 Just letting life happen to us rather than attacking life with purpose. 00:18:57.039 --> 00:18:57.160 Okay. 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:02.519 A lot of times women can get and feel overwhelmed by all the things coming at them, especially 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:07.799 with all the responsibilities of home and children and work and all these different things. 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:08.759 Okay. 00:19:09.139 --> 00:19:15.720 And we can just react to those things instead of really just having a plan for those things 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:18.259 and not just being last minute, but having vision. 00:19:18.399 --> 00:19:20.460 Not saying, oh no, vision is just for men. 00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:21.700 Absolutely not. 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.200 Women should be functioning in a way where they're saying, I have vision for the different 00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.139 domains in my life. 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:31.740 I have vision for how I'm going to handle these things when they come at me and I'm going to 00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:32.299 subdue them. 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.079 I'm going to rule them and I'm going to make them more fruitful. 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:34.519 Okay. 00:19:36.659 --> 00:19:39.119 Number two domain, marriage. 00:19:39.419 --> 00:19:39.599 Okay. 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:40.879 Marriage. 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:42.259 This is, this would be different. 00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:47.179 The one different one for those who are single, but there's something to say in that as well. 00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:48.000 Okay. 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:49.159 Marriage. 00:19:49.419 --> 00:19:52.139 Are you subduing, ruling, and being fruitful in marriage? 00:19:52.439 --> 00:19:55.399 Now, that doesn't mean you rule over your husband, right? 00:19:55.579 --> 00:19:57.539 And so there's a way to do this as a woman. 00:19:58.500 --> 00:20:01.319 First Peter three says, wives be subject to your own husbands. 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:02.419 All right. 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:06.779 So that even if they, some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the 00:20:06.779 --> 00:20:11.000 conduct of their wives when they see you respectful in pure conduct. 00:20:11.420 --> 00:20:15.580 That's such a great verse to even say right there that, all right, I'm supposed to submit 00:20:15.580 --> 00:20:16.960 to my husband as a woman. 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:23.779 And even if they do not obey the word, I still can be fruitful. 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:29.080 I'm not, I don't have this excuse that, oh, my husband hasn't done things right. 00:20:29.140 --> 00:20:30.779 My husband isn't doing what he's supposed to do. 00:20:30.779 --> 00:20:32.099 My husband has made mistakes. 00:20:32.259 --> 00:20:34.079 In this case, my husband isn't even a believer. 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:36.660 Therefore, I'm a victim. 00:20:37.379 --> 00:20:39.139 I don't have any hope in this matter. 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.319 Oh, on the contrary, no. 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:44.259 I can actually be fruitful in that scenario. 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.839 And without a word, by the conduct of their wives, when they see the respectful and pure 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.980 conduct, they can win over their husbands. 00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:51.720 Right? 00:20:51.779 --> 00:20:52.920 That's a powerful thing. 00:20:52.920 --> 00:20:54.860 That's a powerful thing. 00:20:55.380 --> 00:21:00.740 And it's something, it's a way that a woman in that context, even though she's not supposed 00:21:00.740 --> 00:21:03.800 to rule over her husband, she can rule over her emotions. 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:07.500 She can rule over her unbelief. 00:21:07.620 --> 00:21:12.779 And in that moment say, even though I lack authority in this area, I can still bring influence. 00:21:12.779 --> 00:21:19.859 I can still bring fruitfulness by trusting in the Lord and doing my part and not being focused 00:21:19.859 --> 00:21:21.180 on what the man isn't doing. 00:21:21.379 --> 00:21:23.119 I'm going to focus on what I'm supposed to do. 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:25.119 I'm not going to be a victim to those things. 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:32.019 I'm actually going to be fruitful in this place of subjection and submission in order to 00:21:32.019 --> 00:21:33.819 bring life into my marriage. 00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:35.259 That's a powerful thing. 00:21:35.259 --> 00:21:43.240 Oftentimes, though, we tend to think of this on two different kind of spectrums. 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:47.460 Either wife is usurpacious, she's not submitting, she's controlling. 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:50.099 And then, but on the other, and that's wrong. 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:51.640 Woman shouldn't do that. 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.500 She needs to be in the place that God's called her to be. 00:21:54.879 --> 00:21:56.640 And she needs to be in submission to her husband. 00:21:57.240 --> 00:22:01.559 But on the other side, and so if a woman sometimes feels like, oh, I'm doing a good job then 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:02.740 because I'm not doing that. 00:22:02.740 --> 00:22:08.740 But on the flip side, if a wife can't ever do anything without first asking her husband, 00:22:09.339 --> 00:22:13.519 that's also the other side of this coin. 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:14.480 Okay? 00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:18.160 Most definitely, there are many things a wife should ask her husband about. 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.400 But if a wife can't do anything unless she asks her husband, she can't think on her own, 00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:30.200 she can't be looking at things that are in her responsibility and taking dominion over 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:35.480 those things, subduing those things, knowing what her husband would want in certain situations, 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:41.080 and also having the freedom to be able to say, I'm a woman, I'm a competent woman, that 00:22:41.080 --> 00:22:44.019 God has given a mandate to subdue, rule, and to be fruitful. 00:22:44.420 --> 00:22:50.140 And I can make decisions that are godly and that will help my husband. 00:22:50.140 --> 00:22:57.720 And I think sometimes in the name of submission, a woman goes too far and ends up being someone 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:01.620 who can't do anything unless her husband's there to tell her what to do. 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:06.140 And that is not the kind of woman that God wants in this world. 00:23:06.820 --> 00:23:06.980 Okay? 00:23:07.320 --> 00:23:10.120 He wants that woman to be able to subdue, rule, and be fruitful. 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:18.000 And that means that she's anticipating ways that she could help her husband and not having 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:19.039 to always ask him. 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:20.279 Okay? 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:29.079 She's also, when we look at, she's also in her role to be the glory of man. 00:23:29.179 --> 00:23:33.779 1 Corinthians 11, 7 and 9, a man is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of 00:23:33.779 --> 00:23:34.139 man. 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.879 For man was not made from woman, but woman from man. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.059 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 00:23:40.839 --> 00:23:41.000 Okay? 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:44.699 Proverbs 12, verse 4 says, an excellent wife is the crown of her husband. 00:23:45.479 --> 00:23:51.139 So if man is the glory of God and woman is the glory of man, essentially she's the glory 00:23:51.139 --> 00:23:51.859 of the glory. 00:23:52.459 --> 00:23:55.039 And she should be glorifying the glory of God. 00:23:56.719 --> 00:24:01.699 A man is the glory of God as something that secures praise or renown. 00:24:02.239 --> 00:24:02.379 Okay? 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:08.599 A woman is the glory of man as a distinguished quality or asset that essentially makes things 00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:08.959 better. 00:24:09.619 --> 00:24:09.799 Okay? 00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:13.299 She helps by glorifying what is given to her. 00:24:13.419 --> 00:24:14.700 She makes things glorious. 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:19.019 Sometimes when people use the word glorified, they say, they speak of something that's better 00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:20.259 than something else. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:23.379 They say, this is a glorified version of this. 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:23.819 Right? 00:24:23.819 --> 00:24:26.579 So a wife takes what she receives. 00:24:26.579 --> 00:24:31.980 She takes what the husband has provided as the husband's role of a provider. 00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:35.879 She takes what's provided and she glorifies it. 00:24:36.159 --> 00:24:37.059 She makes it better. 00:24:37.439 --> 00:24:38.639 She rules over it. 00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:41.179 She subdues it and says, I'm going to make it more fruitful. 00:24:41.180 --> 00:24:47.160 That's how a woman can be the glory of man in the context of a marriage. 00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:47.980 All right? 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:49.420 This is what women do. 00:24:49.820 --> 00:24:52.060 They take what's given to them in areas. 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:53.400 They receive things. 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:55.420 They say, may it be to me as you have said. 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:59.360 They're not saying, oh, I wish I had this or because I don't have this, I can't do something. 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:03.519 They're saying, no, I'm going to take whatever is given to me, whatever the Lord has given to me, 00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:07.240 whatever life gives to me, and I'm going to glorify it. 00:25:07.639 --> 00:25:08.679 I'm going to make it better. 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:09.479 Okay? 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:13.619 Great example of this, again, I'm going to go back to childbirth. 00:25:13.959 --> 00:25:16.939 And in this case, I'm going to quote Jim Gaffigan. 00:25:17.059 --> 00:25:18.119 And maybe you've heard this before. 00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:22.399 Wouldn't quote a lot of things Jim says, but I'll quote this thing. 00:25:22.500 --> 00:25:22.599 Okay? 00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:25.679 Jim Gaffigan says, women are amazing. 00:25:26.179 --> 00:25:29.259 A woman can grow a baby inside their body. 00:25:29.359 --> 00:25:33.279 And then somehow a woman can deliver the baby through their body. 00:25:34.219 --> 00:25:38.379 And then by some miracle, a woman can feed a baby with their body. 00:25:38.859 --> 00:25:42.379 And when you think of the male contribution to life, it's kind of embarrassing. 00:25:44.719 --> 00:25:51.759 But I think that's also just, although that's a funny joke, it's also interesting to see how the roles work. 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.039 Because essentially, in that equation, all man gives is his sperm. 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.579 The woman takes the sperm and makes a human. 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.099 You know? 00:26:01.359 --> 00:26:02.279 That's insane. 00:26:02.519 --> 00:26:03.379 If you think about it. 00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:06.180 The man gives the sperm, and what does the woman do? 00:26:06.579 --> 00:26:07.539 She glorifies it. 00:26:07.659 --> 00:26:08.460 She makes it better. 00:26:08.940 --> 00:26:09.720 Okay, I'll take that. 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:11.299 We'll combine it with the female egg. 00:26:11.639 --> 00:26:12.399 And here you go. 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:13.200 Humans. 00:26:13.639 --> 00:26:14.039 You know? 00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:18.920 And not only will I make the human, I will birth the human, but I will feed the human. 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:19.519 You know? 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:20.980 That's an amazing thing. 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.200 But that typifies what women do. 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.640 They take what's given to them, whether a lot or a little, doesn't matter. 00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:28.360 Okay? 00:26:28.440 --> 00:26:31.319 And they take what's given to them by male authority in their life. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:36.180 They take these things, and they don't say, oh, I wish I had this, or if I had this, I could do more. 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:36.680 It's like, no. 00:26:37.340 --> 00:26:39.960 I'm going to take what's given and make something beautiful. 00:26:40.100 --> 00:26:42.580 I'm going to take what's given and make something magnificent. 00:26:42.579 --> 00:26:52.519 That is the way a woman fulfills the feminine mandate, the feminine portion of the dominion mandate in Genesis 1. 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:55.119 She takes what's given, and she glorifies it. 00:26:55.179 --> 00:26:56.279 She is the glory of man. 00:26:56.599 --> 00:27:01.039 That is an amazing aspect of femininity that I definitely love. 00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:02.259 Okay? 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:15.480 Also, in this, when it comes to marriage, you can have two different sides of this, where are you taking things off your husband's plate versus waiting for him to come home and do everything? 00:27:16.079 --> 00:27:16.279 Okay? 00:27:16.279 --> 00:27:25.200 Sometimes we get in these role things where, instead of being a helper, who, again, anticipates, how can I help my husband? 00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:29.119 How can I help him fulfill the mission that he has? 00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:36.579 He was, the man was put in the garden to work the garden, and the woman was put in the garden to help the gardener. 00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:37.039 Okay? 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:47.339 The man was given a mission, and the woman was given a mandate to help him with the mission, to submit to the mission, to submission, come under that mission. 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:48.059 All right? 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:59.159 As a wife, are you waiting for your husband to do all the things, and you can't do very much unless your husband is there to do it? 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:03.579 Or are you saying, yes, my husband is going to do a lot, and hopefully I married a man who does do a lot. 00:28:03.639 --> 00:28:04.139 That's great. 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:05.379 Men should be doing a lot. 00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:07.660 But I'm also going to say, how can I help him? 00:28:08.100 --> 00:28:09.620 How can I help him do his mission? 00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:24.500 How can I anticipate things that he has responsibility over that I, as his helper, could actually take off his plate to make things better, to make things easier so he can be more focused on his mission, more free in his mission? 00:28:25.060 --> 00:28:28.260 That's how I can help him with that. 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:29.580 Do you think that way? 00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:31.000 Do you think that way? 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.839 Or are you just kind of saying, well, that's his deal, that's his deal, that's his deal. 00:28:35.200 --> 00:28:38.500 And there's these finely divided lines, that's his deal, that's my deal. 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:47.400 When there's certain things that may be his deal, but that you can help with and take off his plate so that he can greater do things called to do. 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:48.579 Okay? 00:28:48.579 --> 00:28:54.059 Basically being a helper, which is in Genesis 2, right? 00:28:54.699 --> 00:28:59.000 This is how, I love Proverbs 31, 10 to 12 says, 00:28:59.399 --> 00:29:02.759 An excellent wife who can find, she is far more precious than jewels. 00:29:03.179 --> 00:29:06.539 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 00:29:06.919 --> 00:29:09.759 She does him good and not harm all the days of her life. 00:29:10.159 --> 00:29:10.980 What a great picture. 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:11.740 Okay? 00:29:12.140 --> 00:29:13.279 So what about a single woman? 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.220 Touch on that for a second. 00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:15.980 Okay? 00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:18.440 I believe that God wants men and women to get married. 00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:27.400 I believe that when he said it's not good for a man to be alone, he meant that a man should leave his father and mother, claim to his wife, and if he finds a wife, he finds a good thing. 00:29:27.980 --> 00:29:28.160 Okay? 00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:29.720 I believe that's supposed to happen. 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:37.640 And there are some who are called to celibacy, but there are some who are not called to celibacy who still find themselves not married. 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:43.540 If someone's called to celibacy and they're not married, that's a good thing because that's what God has for them. 00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:55.700 If they're not called to celibacy and they just find in the brokenness of life and where we're at and how circumstances have happened that they're not married, that's a difficulty and affliction that's hard to deal with. 00:29:56.360 --> 00:29:56.480 Okay? 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:07.460 But a woman in that mode as well can still subdue the fact that she's not having what God would want would be the ideal thing. 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:17.700 She can subdue the feelings and the affliction of that, the suffering of that, and say, I'm still going to rule and be fruitful in the midst of this unideal situation. 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:18.700 Okay? 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:20.180 Because it is an unideal situation. 00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:28.440 But what can happen is, is a single person in that can be so focused on the unideal nature of that that they cease to be fruitful in their singleness. 00:30:28.860 --> 00:30:41.259 And that is a travesty because that's not taking the dominion mandate and saying, no, I'm going to, even though this isn't ideal, even though this isn't ultimately what God in his overall overhearkened perfect will would want, 00:30:41.620 --> 00:30:46.860 this is the lot that I have in life, at least at this point in time, and I'm going to make the most of this. 00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:48.519 I'm going to be fruitful in this. 00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:54.519 And I'm going to cause fruitfulness to come out of this, which I think is a powerful thing. 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:02.799 Third domain that a woman should rule or subdue, rule, and be fruitful in is the household, okay? 00:31:03.099 --> 00:31:04.519 Which also includes children. 00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:11.200 You see a lot of household language when it comes to women in the scriptures, and that's not by accident, okay? 00:31:11.539 --> 00:31:14.400 A woman has a unique calling to the home. 00:31:14.900 --> 00:31:17.440 You're going to ask the question, is a woman's place in the home? 00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.019 No, her place is not in the home, but her focus is the home. 00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:25.519 That will keep her in the home often, but it doesn't relegate her only to the home. 00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:35.180 And Proverbs 31 is a great example of a woman who, although she was focused on her household, if you even do a word search in Proverbs 31, you'll see household mentioned multiple times. 00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:38.140 But she is clearly not only in the household. 00:31:38.140 --> 00:31:44.340 She is doing business outside of her household, but it's for her household, and that's the key. 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:52.259 A woman has a calling to rule her household, to subdue her household, to rule it, and to be fruitful in it, okay? 00:31:52.259 --> 00:31:54.900 Titus 2, 3 to 5 says, 00:31:54.900 --> 00:31:55.900 Okay? 00:31:55.900 --> 00:32:22.400 So, again, talking about training young women to love their husbands and kids, talking about being self-controlled and working at the home, okay? 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:31.980 And then when you see 1 Timothy 5, you see younger widows in the negative light who are not widows who are being responsible in their widowhood. 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:42.740 It says that these ones in 1 Timothy 5, 13, learn to be idlers going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies saying what they should not. 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:46.359 He's saying one of the negative things they do is they go from house to house. 00:32:46.759 --> 00:32:48.779 They are not home managers. 00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:53.120 They are not domestic, meaning a home ruler, okay? 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.819 That's what that word means. 00:32:54.819 --> 00:33:03.460 What he then says to them is, okay, those of you younger widows who are not functioning the way a widow should, I encourage you, verse 14, he said, 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:07.639 I would have the younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.500 Don't go from house to house. 00:33:09.939 --> 00:33:10.839 Manage a household. 00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:13.839 And give the adversary no occasion for slander. 00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:20.419 In fact, if you look at Proverbs 7, verse 1, Proverbs 7 is talking about the adulterous woman, okay? 00:33:20.420 --> 00:33:26.360 One of the things that is said of the adulterous woman in Proverbs 7, 11 is that she is loud and wayward. 00:33:26.740 --> 00:33:29.380 Her feet do not stay at home, okay? 00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:33.039 So one of her weaknesses was that she was not home-centric. 00:33:33.300 --> 00:33:34.720 She was not ruling in the home. 00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:43.660 And because that responsibility was not something that she was taking on herself, it lent her to the waywardness of adultery, okay? 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:45.180 And this is the thing. 00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:53.600 And God has certain roles for a woman, and when she functions in those roles, they are keepers of purity, okay? 00:33:53.620 --> 00:33:59.000 When a woman is managing a home and not going from home to home, it keeps her from being the wayward, adulterous woman. 00:33:59.620 --> 00:34:07.960 In the same way, when you see, like the verse we read before, when it talks about, in 1 Timothy, when it talks about a woman being saved through childbearing, 00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:14.179 that word saved there isn't referring to saved like you're saved from your sins like the gospel saved, 00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:15.659 because that would be ridiculous. 00:34:15.820 --> 00:34:19.420 Then people who don't have barren people would never be able to be saved, okay? 00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:27.139 If you look at the context of 1 Peter 5, the context of being saved in there is also used when it says, 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:32.159 watch your life and your doctrine closely, because you will save both yourself and your hearers. 00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:38.259 That save, again, is not talking about you will save them like gospel saved and salvation from hell saved. 00:34:38.440 --> 00:34:40.139 It's talking about saving them from what? 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.079 Deception. 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:50.819 So in the same way, when a woman is functioning in her God-given role to manage children, to rear children, to nurture children, 00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:56.299 and that's true whether she has her own children or whether or not she doesn't have children, 00:34:56.440 --> 00:35:00.359 she's still called to be someone who nurtures children, okay? 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.579 God has given women a unique ability to nurture children in a way that men cannot. 00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:09.599 And we see this most often nowadays in the weirdness of the dad-mom, 00:35:10.059 --> 00:35:18.300 this new thing where dads become the stay-at-home dad who's basically doing the role of what a mom used to do, 00:35:18.300 --> 00:35:23.340 and how weird and clunky and out of place it looks, 00:35:23.620 --> 00:35:27.559 because men have different bodies for different purposes. 00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:30.140 Women have different bodies that are very suited for children. 00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:30.800 Okay? 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:32.519 They have different hormones. 00:35:32.720 --> 00:35:36.760 They have different makeups that God has created men and women for different purposes. 00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:40.380 Men have a role with children for sure, but it's not the same as a woman. 00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:41.380 Okay? 00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:47.160 And when a woman finds herself doing things with children, it saves her from deception. 00:35:47.740 --> 00:35:48.820 Does that make sense? 00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:52.539 There are things, the role of a woman, she's functioning the way she's supposed to, 00:35:52.680 --> 00:35:54.140 it saves her from deception. 00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:55.579 That's a powerful thing. 00:35:56.500 --> 00:36:01.900 Another way to redeem the use of the home, especially if you're someone who's not married and doesn't have kids, 00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:03.299 it's Colossians 4.15. 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:04.480 Paul says, 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:08.799 Give my greetings to the brothers at Laodicea and to Nympha and the church in her house. 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.840 Again, I love even that, that management of the home, saying, 00:36:13.060 --> 00:36:17.480 I'm going to subdue the home in such a way that it becomes a place of hospitality, 00:36:18.140 --> 00:36:20.600 fruitful life-giving, where people want to be. 00:36:20.700 --> 00:36:22.120 In fact, the church wants to meet here. 00:36:22.180 --> 00:36:22.440 Why? 00:36:22.440 --> 00:36:27.280 Because Nympha's got a home that is fruitful. 00:36:28.159 --> 00:36:28.260 Okay? 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:33.280 This is another, again, this is another way that a woman, she takes what's given to her, 00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:39.220 say, a man provides a home, a woman makes, a man provides a house, a woman makes a home. 00:36:40.220 --> 00:36:40.480 Okay? 00:36:41.179 --> 00:36:45.119 A house, you can, you've been in houses or seen houses, they don't feel homey. 00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:47.179 They don't feel like a home. 00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:47.839 Okay? 00:36:48.259 --> 00:36:52.159 A man can provide for his wife and their family in a way and say, 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:56.099 Okay, I've provided a house, but a woman makes it a home. 00:36:56.539 --> 00:37:01.219 A woman is, as a domestic rule, this rule over the house to say, 00:37:01.440 --> 00:37:02.599 I'm going to subdue this home. 00:37:03.019 --> 00:37:04.719 I'm going to subdue the things that are out of order. 00:37:05.019 --> 00:37:06.259 I'm going to subdue the mess. 00:37:06.259 --> 00:37:12.299 I'm going to subdue and use and rule over it and rule over the different aspects of the home 00:37:12.300 --> 00:37:19.320 so that it is a life-producing, hospitality-producing environment that people want to be in 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:20.500 and that people are blessed for. 00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:23.360 That's a beautiful thing. 00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:25.280 And Nympha did that with the church. 00:37:25.460 --> 00:37:27.039 Nympha had a church that met in her house. 00:37:27.560 --> 00:37:32.440 She didn't say, she used that home for the church, which is a beautiful thing. 00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.940 Proverbs 31, 27-29 says, 00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:41.380 She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 00:37:41.860 --> 00:37:46.119 Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her. 00:37:46.460 --> 00:37:49.340 Many women have done excellently, but you surpassed them all. 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:53.619 A woman, if she's following the dominion mandate, will do excellently, 00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:56.139 and she will not give herself to the bread of idleness. 00:37:56.619 --> 00:38:00.320 She will not give herself to the bread of idle Instagram scrolling. 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:00.880 Okay? 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:04.780 And there are many women who have a lot of time on their hands 00:38:04.780 --> 00:38:10.059 who waste it with social media scrolling and such things. 00:38:10.180 --> 00:38:11.900 Not that men don't do that as well. 00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:17.660 But again, a woman inside her home, hopefully is taking authority over that home, 00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:22.480 looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. 00:38:23.200 --> 00:38:24.960 Women, are you idle in your time? 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:26.440 Do you have a plan for your time? 00:38:26.680 --> 00:38:30.180 Do you have a plan for the time that will come up that you didn't know you were going to have? 00:38:31.220 --> 00:38:31.420 Okay? 00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:34.940 Knowing that if I get some free time, this is what I'm going to do with it. 00:38:35.160 --> 00:38:42.559 Most often, idleness springs forth from not having prioritized the time that you don't have now, 00:38:42.640 --> 00:38:44.720 but if it comes to you, you'll know what to do when it comes. 00:38:45.059 --> 00:38:48.700 Because the lack of decision in that moment of what you're going to do ahead of time 00:38:48.700 --> 00:38:51.000 causes you to be paralyzed in that decision, 00:38:51.220 --> 00:38:54.000 and most often you end up just doing one of these deals. 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.460 Just scrolling. 00:38:56.460 --> 00:38:56.579 Okay? 00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:02.360 But a woman who looks well to the ways of her household does not eat the bread of idleness. 00:39:02.940 --> 00:39:05.840 She is experiencing this domestic household rule. 00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:06.619 Okay? 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:07.980 She makes a house a home. 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:10.920 She brings the order where there's disorder. 00:39:11.300 --> 00:39:11.699 Okay? 00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:12.480 With her kids. 00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:14.119 She sees that her kids are in a bang. 00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:18.500 She's not just saying, well, you can get disciplined when you get home, 00:39:18.500 --> 00:39:19.820 when dad gets home. 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.559 Yes, there are some times where that makes a lot of sense. 00:39:22.940 --> 00:39:26.420 But if that is the default, you are not managing your home well. 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.500 And you should be the home executive. 00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:32.320 We're managing the home, training the children, 00:39:32.539 --> 00:39:34.900 so that when dad does get home, there's order there. 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:38.019 Coming home to order in the home, 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:39.679 order in how things are organized, 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.039 order in how the kids obey, 00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:43.079 order in how the kids know how to sit, 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:45.840 order in that the kids aren't wild and disobedient 00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:48.820 and hanging from the chandelier or the curtains 00:39:48.820 --> 00:39:50.539 or whatever else they might be hanging from, 00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.000 but that they actually are respectful, orderly. 00:39:54.539 --> 00:39:58.120 And when dad comes home, when husband comes home, 00:39:58.340 --> 00:39:59.780 he's not coming home to chaos. 00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:01.579 He's coming home to peace. 00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:04.140 No, it doesn't always work that way. 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:05.420 And that's okay. 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:09.140 Because it's not that you're supposed to dominate 00:40:09.140 --> 00:40:11.220 from day one and on. 00:40:11.380 --> 00:40:12.240 It's that you're always, 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:16.439 the dominion matter is to continually bring things into rule. 00:40:17.019 --> 00:40:17.179 Okay? 00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:19.879 So there's some things that take longer to subdue, 00:40:20.539 --> 00:40:22.559 including an unruly child, right? 00:40:22.939 --> 00:40:24.199 It doesn't happen overnight. 00:40:24.399 --> 00:40:26.500 Many times it takes many, many, many years. 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:27.379 Okay? 00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:29.119 And for all those who say, 00:40:29.179 --> 00:40:30.279 oh, spanking isn't working. 00:40:30.339 --> 00:40:31.059 I've heard this so many times. 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:32.599 We say, spanking isn't working. 00:40:32.859 --> 00:40:33.699 How old is your kid? 00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:34.839 Five years old. 00:40:35.219 --> 00:40:35.919 How do you know? 00:40:37.779 --> 00:40:38.659 How old is your kid? 00:40:38.879 --> 00:40:39.519 Two years old. 00:40:39.819 --> 00:40:40.500 How do you know? 00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:42.139 How do you know spanking isn't working? 00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:43.320 You're not done. 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:46.219 You're not done. 00:40:47.219 --> 00:40:48.099 I mean, that's like saying, 00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:49.019 you know, pulling a, 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:50.539 you know, putting a cake in the, 00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:52.280 the batter for a cake in an oven 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:53.800 and two minutes taking it out 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:55.559 and say the stove isn't working. 00:40:55.940 --> 00:40:58.219 It's like, what do you mean the stove isn't working? 00:40:58.940 --> 00:41:00.840 You've only had it in there for two minutes. 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:02.699 You need to keep it in there for whatever, 00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:05.139 a half hour or whatever it takes to cook that thing. 00:41:05.780 --> 00:41:06.000 Okay? 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.119 So part of that dominion mandate 00:41:09.119 --> 00:41:10.980 is for you to persevere 00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:12.739 and subdue even your own belief 00:41:12.739 --> 00:41:13.480 in the ways of God, 00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:14.280 including discipline 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.360 and be consistent in that discipline, 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:17.539 knowing that yes, 00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:18.119 over time, 00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:21.260 I'm going to bring order to disorder 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:22.679 by following God's ways, 00:41:22.780 --> 00:41:23.840 recognizing his ways 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:24.619 and saying, 00:41:24.739 --> 00:41:26.019 I'm going to be fruitful 00:41:26.019 --> 00:41:27.320 with what God has given me. 00:41:27.719 --> 00:41:28.579 He's given me a home. 00:41:28.739 --> 00:41:29.579 He's given me children 00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:30.860 and I'm going to make them 00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:31.599 into world changers. 00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:31.860 You know, 00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:32.740 I was reading something 00:41:32.740 --> 00:41:35.440 about Thomas Edison's mom. 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:36.940 Thomas Edison, 00:41:37.680 --> 00:41:38.860 do you know who Thomas Edison was? 00:41:38.940 --> 00:41:39.120 Kids, 00:41:39.180 --> 00:41:40.280 do you know who Thomas Edison was? 00:41:40.740 --> 00:41:42.019 One of the greatest inventors 00:41:42.019 --> 00:41:42.720 of all time. 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:43.160 Okay? 00:41:44.660 --> 00:41:46.519 Invented things like the light bulb, 00:41:47.300 --> 00:41:49.640 things we use today, 00:41:49.820 --> 00:41:50.620 maybe take for granted, 00:41:50.740 --> 00:41:51.760 but Thomas Edison was the guy 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:52.640 who thought of these things. 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:53.340 All right? 00:41:53.579 --> 00:41:54.720 When he was in school, 00:41:55.300 --> 00:41:57.720 the teacher sent him home 00:41:57.720 --> 00:41:58.640 and told the mom 00:41:58.640 --> 00:42:00.120 that Thomas Edison was dumb. 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:00.400 Well, 00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:03.239 guess what Thomas Edison's mom said? 00:42:03.759 --> 00:42:04.039 Like, 00:42:04.279 --> 00:42:05.799 he's not dumb. 00:42:05.900 --> 00:42:06.679 He's going to be great 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:07.980 and I'll take it from here 00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:09.799 and then decided to take over 00:42:09.799 --> 00:42:11.639 his education. 00:42:12.539 --> 00:42:14.299 And I'd say she probably 00:42:14.299 --> 00:42:15.559 did a pretty good job with him, 00:42:15.699 --> 00:42:16.019 you know? 00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:16.960 But again, 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:18.039 that's such a great example 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:18.859 of a woman saying, 00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:19.380 hey, listen, 00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:21.559 I'm going to take what's given to me 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:22.659 and I'm going to make it better. 00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:24.239 I've been given this son. 00:42:25.099 --> 00:42:26.859 The kid's teacher says he's dumb. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:28.799 He wasn't dumb. 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:29.160 Okay? 00:42:29.260 --> 00:42:30.320 Let's just say that. 00:42:30.720 --> 00:42:32.140 He created a lot of value 00:42:32.140 --> 00:42:32.720 in this world. 00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:33.660 But maybe, 00:42:33.820 --> 00:42:34.680 what would have happened 00:42:34.680 --> 00:42:35.980 if mom didn't steward 00:42:35.980 --> 00:42:36.820 that child well? 00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:37.700 Maybe wouldn't have seen 00:42:37.700 --> 00:42:38.180 all the value 00:42:38.180 --> 00:42:40.019 that came out of Thomas Edison. 00:42:40.460 --> 00:42:41.500 Behind that great man 00:42:41.500 --> 00:42:42.280 was a great mom 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:44.280 who took on his education. 00:42:44.600 --> 00:42:45.160 I love that. 00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:45.840 That's awesome. 00:42:47.019 --> 00:42:47.160 Okay? 00:42:48.180 --> 00:42:49.200 Household executive. 00:42:49.640 --> 00:42:50.780 It's a domain of your rule 00:42:50.780 --> 00:42:51.400 is the household. 00:42:52.080 --> 00:42:52.760 Number four. 00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:53.620 Okay? 00:42:54.080 --> 00:42:54.540 A woman, 00:42:55.540 --> 00:42:56.960 and by the way, 00:42:57.380 --> 00:42:58.140 if you're single, 00:42:58.240 --> 00:42:59.520 you can still rule over a household. 00:42:59.980 --> 00:43:01.620 You don't even have to own a house 00:43:01.620 --> 00:43:02.880 to rule over it 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:04.320 and domesticate it, 00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:05.620 make it this place 00:43:05.620 --> 00:43:06.900 of life-giving fruitfulness. 00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:08.460 You can rent and do that. 00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:09.980 Seen it many times. 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:11.500 But it's something 00:43:11.500 --> 00:43:12.580 that a woman should do. 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:13.760 It's something that a woman 00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:14.600 should be known for. 00:43:15.160 --> 00:43:17.480 And that's a very precious gift. 00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:19.380 Homes are such a precious gift 00:43:19.380 --> 00:43:20.820 in the practicals of life. 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.320 They're such a precious gift. 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:24.900 Think of all the great memories 00:43:24.900 --> 00:43:25.420 of your life. 00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:26.800 How many of them happened in homes? 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:29.420 Think of all the bad memories 00:43:29.420 --> 00:43:30.000 in your life. 00:43:30.219 --> 00:43:31.179 How many of them happened 00:43:31.179 --> 00:43:32.539 in disorderly homes? 00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:34.880 The home can be a source 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:35.659 of great grief 00:43:35.659 --> 00:43:37.260 or a source of great 00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:39.860 life-giving order and benefit. 00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:42.760 How are you making your home? 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:44.139 Number four. 00:43:44.219 --> 00:43:44.719 The church. 00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:45.960 Okay? 00:43:45.960 --> 00:43:48.260 Subduing and ruling 00:43:48.260 --> 00:43:49.480 and be fruitful in the church. 00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.320 Okay? 00:43:50.460 --> 00:43:51.440 Again, glorifying it, 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.099 making it better. 00:43:52.220 --> 00:43:53.220 Take what's given to you 00:43:53.220 --> 00:43:54.199 and make it better. 00:43:54.659 --> 00:43:54.820 Okay? 00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:57.820 And this means 00:43:57.820 --> 00:44:01.659 being a servant of the church. 00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:03.059 Phoebe is a great example of this. 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:04.320 I commend you our sister Phoebe, 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:05.699 a servant of the church 00:44:05.699 --> 00:44:06.579 at Centraea, 00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:07.480 that she has become 00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:08.300 a patron of many 00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:09.420 and of myself as well. 00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:10.599 That word servant 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:11.320 is the same word 00:44:11.320 --> 00:44:12.139 where we get deacon. 00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:12.500 Okay? 00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:14.320 She was a distinguished servant 00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:15.820 at the church there. 00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:17.460 She's been a patron of many 00:44:17.460 --> 00:44:18.659 and of myself as well. 00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:20.119 She was a philanthropist. 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:21.780 She was actually bringing value 00:44:21.780 --> 00:44:22.800 because she was a patron. 00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:23.599 Okay? 00:44:23.619 --> 00:44:24.740 She was able to give money. 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:26.280 She was able to serve. 00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:27.860 That is a beautiful thing. 00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:28.460 All right? 00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:29.559 She took what she was given. 00:44:29.940 --> 00:44:30.659 She made it better. 00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:31.420 Subdued it. 00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:31.900 Ruled it. 00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:32.920 Fruitful in it. 00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:33.800 All right? 00:44:35.380 --> 00:44:36.079 You might say, 00:44:36.079 --> 00:44:36.319 well, 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:38.440 but a woman can't teach men. 00:44:39.099 --> 00:44:40.480 She can't take authority over men. 00:44:40.860 --> 00:44:41.699 I don't have anything to do 00:44:41.699 --> 00:44:42.340 in the church. 00:44:42.779 --> 00:44:43.500 That is ridiculous. 00:44:45.299 --> 00:44:46.299 Don't give in 00:44:46.299 --> 00:44:47.880 to the sin of Eve 00:44:47.880 --> 00:44:48.599 and think about 00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:49.599 what you don't have. 00:44:50.219 --> 00:44:51.279 Think of Mary 00:44:51.279 --> 00:44:52.000 and say, 00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:52.739 may it be to me 00:44:52.739 --> 00:44:53.579 as you have said. 00:44:53.940 --> 00:44:54.219 Yes, 00:44:54.219 --> 00:44:54.900 I can't teach her 00:44:54.900 --> 00:44:55.739 authority over men, 00:44:55.860 --> 00:44:56.960 but I most definitely 00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:57.759 can teach women. 00:44:57.940 --> 00:44:58.819 I can teach children. 00:44:59.239 --> 00:44:59.880 I can teach, 00:44:59.960 --> 00:45:00.500 and I should. 00:45:00.940 --> 00:45:01.500 Titus 2, 00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:02.280 3 to 5 says, 00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:02.860 older women, 00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:03.420 they are to teach 00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:04.039 what is good. 00:45:04.920 --> 00:45:06.019 And so train the young women 00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:06.800 to love their husbands 00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:07.380 and children, 00:45:07.659 --> 00:45:08.800 to be self-controlled, 00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:09.300 pure, 00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:10.519 working at home, 00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:11.519 kind and submissive 00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:12.380 to their own husbands, 00:45:12.619 --> 00:45:13.519 that the word of God 00:45:13.519 --> 00:45:14.400 may not be reviled. 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:15.860 Proverbs 31, 00:45:15.940 --> 00:45:16.639 26 says, 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:17.579 she opens her mouth 00:45:17.579 --> 00:45:18.139 with wisdom 00:45:18.139 --> 00:45:19.260 and the teaching 00:45:19.260 --> 00:45:19.920 of kindness 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:21.119 is on her tongue. 00:45:22.619 --> 00:45:23.519 You can't teach 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:24.340 what you don't know. 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:25.719 Okay? 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:27.440 I love the story 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:28.500 of Priscilla and Aquila. 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:29.340 Okay? 00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.239 Aquila is the guy 00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:30.979 Priscilla's the girl, 00:45:31.059 --> 00:45:31.399 by the way, 00:45:31.459 --> 00:45:31.939 if you're wondering, 00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:32.459 because they both 00:45:32.459 --> 00:45:33.039 kind of sound like 00:45:33.039 --> 00:45:33.959 they could be feminine names. 00:45:35.479 --> 00:45:35.659 Now, 00:45:35.759 --> 00:45:36.739 a Jew named Apollos 00:45:36.739 --> 00:45:37.579 in Acts 18, 00:45:37.959 --> 00:45:39.179 a native of Alexandria, 00:45:39.359 --> 00:45:40.099 came to Ephesus. 00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:41.759 He was an eloquent man, 00:45:41.879 --> 00:45:42.879 competent in the scriptures. 00:45:43.500 --> 00:45:44.299 He had been instructed 00:45:44.299 --> 00:45:45.199 in the way of the Lord, 00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:46.739 and being fervent in spirit, 00:45:46.819 --> 00:45:48.219 he spoke and taught accurately 00:45:48.219 --> 00:45:49.899 the things concerning Jesus, 00:45:50.539 --> 00:45:51.559 though he knew 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:53.039 only the baptism of John. 00:45:53.839 --> 00:45:54.039 Okay? 00:45:54.759 --> 00:45:55.159 Also, 00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:56.119 side note on him, 00:45:56.879 --> 00:45:59.079 he's referred to with Paul 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:00.199 in 1 Corinthians 3, 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:01.079 I think there's 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:02.319 a really strong case 00:46:02.319 --> 00:46:03.379 to say that he was an apostle, 00:46:03.739 --> 00:46:04.779 and the way he's talking 00:46:04.779 --> 00:46:06.479 about himself and Apollos, 00:46:06.539 --> 00:46:07.019 he says, 00:46:07.379 --> 00:46:08.000 we apostles, 00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:08.739 when he's speaking 00:46:08.739 --> 00:46:10.239 of him and Apollos. 00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:10.879 Okay? 00:46:11.299 --> 00:46:12.019 He was an apostle 00:46:12.019 --> 00:46:13.219 who went to Corinth 00:46:13.219 --> 00:46:14.039 and Ephesus 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:16.139 and did apostolic work there. 00:46:16.619 --> 00:46:16.859 Okay? 00:46:16.979 --> 00:46:17.879 So this is a man 00:46:17.879 --> 00:46:18.859 who has influence. 00:46:18.979 --> 00:46:19.479 This is a man 00:46:19.479 --> 00:46:20.099 who's competent 00:46:20.099 --> 00:46:20.719 in the scriptures. 00:46:21.219 --> 00:46:21.939 He's eloquent. 00:46:22.219 --> 00:46:23.819 He had been instructed 00:46:23.819 --> 00:46:24.399 in the way of the Lord. 00:46:24.459 --> 00:46:25.539 He's fervent in spirit. 00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:27.319 He spoke and talked 00:46:27.319 --> 00:46:28.239 accurately 00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:29.619 the things concerning Jesus. 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:31.419 And then, 00:46:31.899 --> 00:46:33.219 as he's speaking boldly 00:46:33.219 --> 00:46:33.759 in the synagogue 00:46:33.759 --> 00:46:34.759 in Acts 18, 00:46:35.619 --> 00:46:36.559 Priscilla and Aquila 00:46:36.559 --> 00:46:37.219 heard him 00:46:37.219 --> 00:46:38.639 and they took him aside 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:39.519 and explained to him 00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:40.199 the way of God 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:40.899 more accurately. 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:43.559 What a beautiful thing there. 00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:44.419 And it's saying 00:46:44.419 --> 00:46:45.339 Priscilla first 00:46:45.339 --> 00:46:46.119 before Aquila, 00:46:46.579 --> 00:46:47.299 which in the way 00:46:47.299 --> 00:46:48.439 that things are written, 00:46:48.779 --> 00:46:49.639 that means she probably 00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:50.719 had a prominent role 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.819 in that exhortation. 00:46:52.820 --> 00:46:53.660 But she did it 00:46:53.660 --> 00:46:54.460 in a feminine way. 00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:55.059 Okay? 00:46:55.160 --> 00:46:56.480 She wasn't taking authority. 00:46:56.640 --> 00:46:57.740 It doesn't seem like 00:46:57.740 --> 00:46:58.160 because it's saying 00:46:58.160 --> 00:46:58.800 she did it right. 00:46:59.140 --> 00:47:00.120 She's taking authority 00:47:00.120 --> 00:47:00.920 over a man. 00:47:01.720 --> 00:47:02.160 Okay? 00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:03.980 But she's teaching 00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:04.920 in a feminine way. 00:47:05.019 --> 00:47:06.100 She's instructing 00:47:06.100 --> 00:47:08.059 and using what God's given her 00:47:08.059 --> 00:47:09.260 to influence this man, 00:47:09.340 --> 00:47:09.860 Apollos, 00:47:10.059 --> 00:47:10.900 to make him into 00:47:10.900 --> 00:47:11.580 a better man, 00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:12.780 make him into 00:47:12.780 --> 00:47:13.539 a better apostle. 00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:15.080 That's awesome. 00:47:15.940 --> 00:47:16.140 Okay? 00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.620 She had a role there 00:47:17.620 --> 00:47:18.600 that she was using 00:47:18.600 --> 00:47:20.019 alongside Aquila 00:47:20.019 --> 00:47:21.260 that was powerful. 00:47:21.260 --> 00:47:22.420 And Paul mentions 00:47:22.420 --> 00:47:24.100 these two multiple times. 00:47:24.580 --> 00:47:24.760 Why? 00:47:24.860 --> 00:47:25.620 Because they were probably 00:47:25.620 --> 00:47:26.780 a really great couple. 00:47:27.420 --> 00:47:27.580 Okay? 00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:29.240 And it wasn't just mentioning, 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:29.800 oh, Aquila, 00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:31.020 he's just such a great guy. 00:47:31.060 --> 00:47:31.880 He's an awesome guy. 00:47:32.120 --> 00:47:32.420 Oh, yeah, 00:47:32.500 --> 00:47:33.480 that is Priscilla as well. 00:47:33.740 --> 00:47:35.240 No, it's Priscilla and Aquila. 00:47:35.740 --> 00:47:36.320 In this case, 00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:37.660 Priscilla's mentioned first. 00:47:38.140 --> 00:47:39.000 And in this case, 00:47:39.340 --> 00:47:40.940 they were both used 00:47:40.940 --> 00:47:42.220 to correct Apollos 00:47:42.220 --> 00:47:42.680 and bring him 00:47:42.680 --> 00:47:43.940 into more greater effectiveness, 00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:45.540 which had a great impact 00:47:45.540 --> 00:47:46.000 on the church. 00:47:46.660 --> 00:47:47.780 Apollos was the real deal. 00:47:47.900 --> 00:47:49.400 He was a big deal back then 00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:50.220 and the impact 00:47:50.220 --> 00:47:50.980 that he was having 00:47:50.980 --> 00:47:52.240 one of the few apostles 00:47:52.240 --> 00:47:53.179 that Paul mentions. 00:47:54.079 --> 00:47:54.219 Okay? 00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:55.679 So when you think 00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:56.320 of the church, 00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:58.800 are you subduing, 00:47:58.920 --> 00:47:59.199 ruling, 00:47:59.340 --> 00:47:59.800 being fruitful 00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:00.840 with what you've been given? 00:48:03.980 --> 00:48:05.179 Are you engaged 00:48:05.179 --> 00:48:05.820 with the church? 00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:06.760 I think sometimes 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:07.699 women end up 00:48:07.699 --> 00:48:08.940 being disengaged 00:48:08.940 --> 00:48:09.800 from the church 00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:11.820 because of the role 00:48:11.820 --> 00:48:12.760 that a woman has 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:13.740 and sometimes 00:48:13.740 --> 00:48:15.019 hiding behind kids, 00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:16.219 not engaging 00:48:16.219 --> 00:48:16.820 in worship 00:48:16.820 --> 00:48:18.099 and prayer, 00:48:18.579 --> 00:48:19.780 not discussing things 00:48:19.780 --> 00:48:20.300 or engaging 00:48:20.300 --> 00:48:20.880 with men 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:21.880 in a proper way 00:48:21.880 --> 00:48:23.660 and talking about 00:48:23.660 --> 00:48:25.040 things that are 00:48:25.040 --> 00:48:27.700 theologically rigorous 00:48:27.700 --> 00:48:28.900 because maybe 00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:29.660 sometimes hiding 00:48:29.660 --> 00:48:30.500 behind children 00:48:30.500 --> 00:48:31.540 or responsibility 00:48:31.540 --> 00:48:32.220 to children, 00:48:32.540 --> 00:48:33.360 that's not okay. 00:48:34.200 --> 00:48:35.260 That's not okay. 00:48:36.200 --> 00:48:37.080 Women should be engaged 00:48:37.080 --> 00:48:37.660 in the church, 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:38.760 yes, 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:39.500 in a different way 00:48:39.500 --> 00:48:39.940 because they have 00:48:39.940 --> 00:48:40.720 different responsibilities, 00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:41.519 but in many ways 00:48:41.519 --> 00:48:42.220 the same way. 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:43.380 Engaged in prayer, 00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:44.600 engaged in worship, 00:48:44.820 --> 00:48:46.680 engaged in theological 00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:47.859 rigor and discussion, 00:48:48.399 --> 00:48:49.199 engaged not just 00:48:49.199 --> 00:48:49.599 with women 00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:50.579 but with men as well 00:48:50.579 --> 00:48:52.139 in a way that 00:48:52.139 --> 00:48:53.359 the church has built up, 00:48:53.500 --> 00:48:54.239 using their gifts 00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:54.779 to encourage 00:48:54.779 --> 00:48:55.399 and strengthen. 00:48:55.759 --> 00:48:57.019 That's a powerful thing, 00:48:57.500 --> 00:48:58.559 a very powerful thing. 00:49:02.899 --> 00:49:03.759 Number five, 00:49:03.899 --> 00:49:05.440 work in your work, 00:49:05.779 --> 00:49:06.639 subduing and ruling 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:07.519 and being fruitful. 00:49:08.419 --> 00:49:08.559 Okay? 00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:10.719 1 Timothy 5, 9-10 00:49:10.719 --> 00:49:11.000 says, 00:49:11.059 --> 00:49:11.919 let a widow be enrolled. 00:49:12.319 --> 00:49:13.179 She has a reputation 00:49:13.179 --> 00:49:14.119 for good works 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:15.159 and has devoted herself 00:49:15.159 --> 00:49:16.179 to every good work. 00:49:17.059 --> 00:49:18.579 1 Timothy 2, 9-10 00:49:18.579 --> 00:49:18.839 said, 00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:19.739 women should adorn 00:49:19.739 --> 00:49:20.380 themselves 00:49:20.380 --> 00:49:22.019 in respectable apparel 00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:23.059 with modesty 00:49:23.059 --> 00:49:24.000 and self-control, 00:49:24.299 --> 00:49:25.359 not with braided hair 00:49:25.359 --> 00:49:26.319 and gold or pearls 00:49:26.319 --> 00:49:27.299 or costly attire, 00:49:27.619 --> 00:49:28.599 but with what is proper 00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:29.179 for women 00:49:29.179 --> 00:49:30.460 to profess godliness 00:49:30.460 --> 00:49:31.960 with good works. 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:35.179 Proverbs 31, 13-24 00:49:35.179 --> 00:49:36.699 Listen to this woman. 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:38.699 She seeks wool and flax 00:49:38.699 --> 00:49:40.179 and works with willing hands. 00:49:40.639 --> 00:49:41.480 She is like the ships 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:42.059 of the merchant. 00:49:42.059 --> 00:49:43.599 She brings her food 00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:44.239 from afar. 00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:46.500 She rises while it is yet night 00:49:46.500 --> 00:49:47.420 and provides food 00:49:47.420 --> 00:49:48.299 for her household 00:49:48.299 --> 00:49:49.159 and portions 00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:50.139 for her maidens. 00:49:50.659 --> 00:49:51.840 She considers a field 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:52.960 and buys it. 00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:54.400 With the fruit of her hand, 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:55.440 she plants a vineyard. 00:49:55.940 --> 00:49:56.820 She dresses herself 00:49:56.820 --> 00:49:57.380 with strength 00:49:57.380 --> 00:49:58.759 and makes her arms strong. 00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:00.019 She perceives 00:50:00.019 --> 00:50:00.639 that her merchandise 00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:01.440 is profitable. 00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:02.799 Her lamp does not 00:50:02.799 --> 00:50:03.599 go out at night. 00:50:04.019 --> 00:50:04.840 She puts her hands 00:50:04.840 --> 00:50:05.639 to the distaff 00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:06.179 and her hands 00:50:06.179 --> 00:50:07.119 hold the spindle. 00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:08.900 She opens her hand 00:50:08.900 --> 00:50:09.380 to the poor 00:50:09.380 --> 00:50:10.299 and reaches out her hands 00:50:10.299 --> 00:50:10.980 to the needy. 00:50:10.980 --> 00:50:12.139 She is not afraid 00:50:12.139 --> 00:50:12.559 of snow 00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:13.480 for her household 00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:14.980 for all her household 00:50:14.980 --> 00:50:16.300 are clothed in scarlet. 00:50:16.840 --> 00:50:18.119 She makes bed coverings 00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:18.740 for herself. 00:50:19.059 --> 00:50:20.179 Her clothing is fine linen 00:50:20.179 --> 00:50:20.719 and purple. 00:50:21.179 --> 00:50:21.980 Her husband is known 00:50:21.980 --> 00:50:22.480 at the gates 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.119 when he sits among 00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:24.079 the elders of the land. 00:50:24.420 --> 00:50:25.480 She makes linen garments 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:26.240 and sells them. 00:50:26.539 --> 00:50:27.440 She delivers sashes 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:28.139 to the merchants. 00:50:30.300 --> 00:50:31.480 That's a hard-working woman 00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:31.900 right there. 00:50:33.119 --> 00:50:33.840 That's a woman 00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:34.719 who is subduing 00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:35.659 a lot of things. 00:50:36.179 --> 00:50:37.000 She's ruling over 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:37.679 a lot of things. 00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:39.300 Love it. 00:50:39.539 --> 00:50:40.559 It's a beautiful picture. 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:42.679 Women should be known 00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:44.079 for hard work, 00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:44.800 good works. 00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:46.179 You see this over 00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:47.039 and over in the scriptures. 00:50:47.559 --> 00:50:47.820 In fact, 00:50:47.860 --> 00:50:48.960 at the end of Proverbs 31, 00:50:49.059 --> 00:50:49.500 31, 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:50.079 it says, 00:50:50.240 --> 00:50:50.639 give her the fruit 00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:51.179 of her hands 00:50:51.179 --> 00:50:52.139 and let her works 00:50:52.139 --> 00:50:53.199 praise her in the gates. 00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:54.740 It says that earlier on 00:50:54.740 --> 00:50:55.480 the husband is known 00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:55.940 in the gates. 00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:57.000 What's he known for? 00:50:57.320 --> 00:50:58.460 If the wife is being 00:50:58.460 --> 00:50:59.219 praised in the gates 00:50:59.219 --> 00:50:59.699 and the husband 00:50:59.699 --> 00:51:00.599 is known in the gates, 00:51:00.820 --> 00:51:01.740 the reason the husband 00:51:01.740 --> 00:51:02.500 is known in the gates 00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:04.320 is because he has a great wife. 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.180 And he's being praised 00:51:07.180 --> 00:51:07.620 in the gates 00:51:07.620 --> 00:51:09.300 because he's saying, 00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:09.559 man, 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:10.820 you're able to do 00:51:10.820 --> 00:51:11.380 a lot of things 00:51:11.380 --> 00:51:11.760 because you have 00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:12.320 a great wife. 00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:13.519 She's incredible. 00:51:14.120 --> 00:51:15.280 She's doing some great things. 00:51:15.580 --> 00:51:16.740 He's taking what's given to her 00:51:16.740 --> 00:51:17.660 and making it better. 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:19.120 He's taking what's given to her, 00:51:19.340 --> 00:51:20.200 she's subduing it, 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:21.380 she's ruling over it, 00:51:21.539 --> 00:51:22.980 and she's being fruitful with it. 00:51:25.200 --> 00:51:26.260 She's not lazy. 00:51:26.260 --> 00:51:28.700 She's hardworking. 00:51:29.440 --> 00:51:30.920 She's not even lazy 00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:31.880 in the fact that 00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:32.920 sometimes even busyness 00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:33.380 can be lazy. 00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:34.700 We talked about this last week. 00:51:35.100 --> 00:51:36.040 You just have a whole bunch 00:51:36.040 --> 00:51:36.780 of things going on 00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:37.360 but you're not doing 00:51:37.360 --> 00:51:38.420 the things that are priority. 00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:40.080 You find yourself busy 00:51:40.080 --> 00:51:40.640 and you don't know 00:51:40.640 --> 00:51:41.060 what you did 00:51:41.060 --> 00:51:42.120 when you look back on a day. 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:43.580 You find yourself overwhelmed 00:51:43.580 --> 00:51:44.300 but you're not doing 00:51:44.300 --> 00:51:45.540 the things you were supposed to do. 00:51:46.140 --> 00:51:46.780 Busyness can be 00:51:46.780 --> 00:51:47.580 a form of laziness. 00:51:48.220 --> 00:51:49.520 It's indiscriminate action 00:51:49.520 --> 00:51:50.540 making you feel like, 00:51:50.700 --> 00:51:51.500 oh, I'm doing something 00:51:51.500 --> 00:51:52.380 but if you're not doing 00:51:52.380 --> 00:51:52.940 the right things, 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:53.980 it's a form of laziness. 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:56.160 This woman in Proverbs 31 00:51:56.159 --> 00:51:56.819 doesn't look like 00:51:56.819 --> 00:51:57.359 she's doing it. 00:51:57.859 --> 00:51:58.659 It looks like she's getting 00:51:58.659 --> 00:51:59.460 a lot of things done 00:51:59.460 --> 00:52:00.559 in an amazing way. 00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:01.679 She has a plan 00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:02.539 and she's executing. 00:52:03.379 --> 00:52:03.519 Okay? 00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:07.779 Lastly would be 00:52:07.779 --> 00:52:08.500 everywhere else 00:52:08.500 --> 00:52:09.980 which that could be 00:52:09.980 --> 00:52:10.839 anything else, right? 00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:11.920 Subduing, ruling, 00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:13.899 and being fruitful 00:52:13.899 --> 00:52:15.239 in every other area of life. 00:52:16.139 --> 00:52:16.599 Ladies, 00:52:17.019 --> 00:52:17.739 are you fulfilling 00:52:17.739 --> 00:52:18.879 this dominion mandate? 00:52:19.759 --> 00:52:21.679 Are you subduing 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:23.379 these different areas 00:52:23.379 --> 00:52:24.139 and different domains 00:52:24.139 --> 00:52:24.559 of your life? 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:25.399 You're ruling over them 00:52:25.400 --> 00:52:26.500 and you're being fruitful. 00:52:28.019 --> 00:52:28.340 Again, 00:52:28.619 --> 00:52:29.619 why think of all the things 00:52:29.619 --> 00:52:30.340 that you can't do 00:52:30.340 --> 00:52:30.960 when there's so much 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:31.500 you could do? 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:33.400 There's plenty to do. 00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:34.820 Sometimes it's, 00:52:35.280 --> 00:52:35.780 Gina and I have talked 00:52:35.780 --> 00:52:36.059 about this, 00:52:36.099 --> 00:52:36.960 it's crazy sometimes 00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:37.660 that women complain 00:52:37.660 --> 00:52:38.619 about what they can't do 00:52:38.619 --> 00:52:39.300 and it's like, 00:52:39.460 --> 00:52:40.420 there is plenty to do. 00:52:41.240 --> 00:52:42.420 There's plenty to do here. 00:52:43.099 --> 00:52:43.420 Really? 00:52:43.559 --> 00:52:44.340 You need more to do? 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:44.700 I mean, 00:52:44.780 --> 00:52:45.260 come on. 00:52:45.660 --> 00:52:46.260 When I read that, 00:52:46.360 --> 00:52:47.099 I get a little overwhelmed 00:52:47.099 --> 00:52:47.680 when I read that 00:52:47.680 --> 00:52:48.639 Proverbs 31 thing. 00:52:48.700 --> 00:52:48.960 I'm like, 00:52:49.059 --> 00:52:49.260 wow, 00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:50.539 that's overwhelming. 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:51.860 How in the world 00:52:51.860 --> 00:52:52.880 is she doing all that stuff? 00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:53.660 That's crazy. 00:52:54.579 --> 00:52:55.720 She's a fruitful woman. 00:52:56.260 --> 00:52:56.860 She's a woman, 00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:57.480 she's dominating. 00:52:57.760 --> 00:52:58.420 She's got, 00:52:58.539 --> 00:52:59.200 she believes in the 00:52:59.200 --> 00:52:59.760 dominion mandate. 00:52:59.900 --> 00:53:00.579 She believes that God 00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:02.460 anointed her for good works 00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:03.300 and she's going to get out 00:53:03.300 --> 00:53:03.920 there and do it. 00:53:04.820 --> 00:53:05.360 All right? 00:53:05.640 --> 00:53:06.539 These are the kind of women 00:53:06.539 --> 00:53:07.460 that we want. 00:53:07.460 --> 00:53:24.039 in all 00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:24.900 in the world.