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Are you thankful this morning for our praise team who week
after week after week leads us to remember the importance of
things such as what we just sang to set our hope on Jesus?
Aren't you thankful for them all?
And I love that we keep seeing new faces up there as God
continues to add to this congregation those people who
can be a part of those teams. And I don't say that to draw
attention to them. I say that to thank the Lord for
always providing for what we need.
When you see some of these guys around the church, be sure and
tell them thank you for your obedience and using your
abilities and your gifts to lead us in praise.
Each week you have your Bibles. If you would turn to first
Timothy and the second chapter as we continue looking epistles,
the series that has been titled Biblical Ministers and Biblical
Ministries of this that we are going to look at today in first
Timothy chapter 2, we're going to read verses 18 through 15,
but we're really going to focus on verses 9 through 15 because.
8 was last week, but I'm just going to use that verse to make
a point and to show you something in the midst of what
we're going to be looking at today.
And so I want you to see the clear and the concise context of
this so that you're not confused because when you take this
passage of Scripture out of the context, you can make a big mess
out of it very quickly. Do that because I believe this,
that this is one of the clearest, yet most controversial
passages in all of the New Testament.
Especially in our day. And that's difficult for some of
you to understand. How can it be so clear and yet
be so? We're going to talk about that a
little today, but it's not always been the case of this
passage being controversial. It's generally throughout church
history, been pretty widely accepted and clearly understood.
But historically, if we were to depend on where things might
have fallen off the track, we would probably have to start
somewhere. World War 2 or post World War
2IN what is known as the second wave of feminism in this country
and during the 1960s and the 1970s following the.
Second World War. And it is in that and it is
there that we see a headlong and vicious assault.
And that's what I will call it. Because against the biblical
role of women, the biblical role of women in the home and in the
biblical role of women in the church, There was a first wave
of prior to this second wave of feminism, a wave that was in the
late 18, early 1900s. And this wave of feminism fought
for the fact that women had suffered for a long time and and
true, they had been oppressed. But the second wave is quite
different because it wasn't just women from human oppression, but
unfortunately. The second wave is subverts the
word of God, suppresses the truth and attempts to change the
God-given role of women. Now it asks this question.
Any further, how many of you still believe that God's word is
infallible, inerrant, 100% God breathed.
It is the very word of God. How many of you still believe
that? Let let me make this easy.
How many of you don't believe that?
Because if you're going to have a hard time hearing anything
that I say today. Because we based everything that
we teach, we based everything that we believe.
We based everything that we live here on the principle of sola
Scripture, Scripture alone. We believe that Scripture alone
is the word of God. And Scripture alone dictates how
we live our lives, how we conduct our business, how we
worship, how we handle our affairs, even in this world.
So we turn to Scripture today and Scripture alone as we see
the call for godly women. Call for godly women.
Now, I told the men prior to this when we were praying case
you guys don't know this. There's men's prayer immediately
prior to the service out in the foyer.
For all you men who would desire to pray for us before the
service, we'd love to have you. We were out there and I let them
know we're going to be talking about the call for godly women
today. Now don't think for a second
that you guys are off the hook because we're preaching, because
it is your duty as men to lead them, and yes, even to lead them
in godliness as a godly woman, to teach them the scriptures, to
know the scriptures so you can teach them the scriptures so
that they can be the women that God desires them to be.
So you do have a role in this that we won't look at your
direct role to their direct role.
In hearing the call to be godly women.
First Timothy, chapter 2, verse 8.
Paul says, I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer
without anger or disputing. I I read that as I said a moment
ago to remind you of the context was calling on the church to
pray and to pray for specifically lost people, the
unbelieving. And he tells the man, here's
your role to lift up holy hands, right?
Who can ascend the hill of the Lord?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, He's saying, be of
pure conscience and of pure hands, lifting up those hands in
prayer without any anger or dispute, nonsense aside.
And then he's going to say this in verse 9.
I also want, he says likewise, I have some commands for the
women. I have a call for women and a
call that they need to hear and a call that they need to follow.
I also modestly with decency and propriety, not with braided hair
or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds
appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
Verse 11, it says a woman should learn in quietness and full
support. I do not permit a woman to teach
or to have authority over a man. She must be silent.
Again, he's talking about in the congregation in the assembly of
the Saints. He says for Adam was formed 1st
and then Eve and Adam was not the one deceived, it was the
woman who was deceived. But women will be saved through
childbearing if they continue in faith.
Love and holiness with propriety.
Let's pray to God the Father in the name of Jesus.
We thank you for your word. We thank you that it is true.
We thank you that culture is a man made thing.
Philosophy is both culture and philosophy could be full of
errors. And untruths and deception.
The Lord, we know that Your word is true and infallible and
inerrant. There is not one error in your
teaching. God, I pray today that You give
us by Your Spirit, with minds willing lives to obey.
Your word over culture, over the philosophies and the ideologies
of man. That we would obey Your word and
that we would bring glory to you in doing so, as you've called us
to do. Both men and women alike, we
pray and we ask things in Christ's name.
Amen. Now, I told you immediately as I
began my intro just a moment ago, that this is one of the
clearest passages in all of the New Testament, and I do believe
that. But that doesn't mean that it
comes without some difficulty. Right?
About verse 15. You saw the difficulty did
because from verse 9 all the way to verse 14, it was pretty plain
and simple the things that he taught.
But verse 15 takes a different turn when we kind of scratch our
head and we asked the question, what does it mean that women
will be saved through childbearing?
Now let me tell you this. You're not the first person who
got the question. So what I'm going to do is,
though I'm going to cover 9 through 15 today, I want to
start with 15, and I want to tell you what I believe that
verse 15 is saying so that nine through 14 will make sense as we
walk through the rest of this passage.
There are many people who say that when we read that text
there in verse 9, want women to dress modestly with decency and
propriety and braided hair, gold pearls, expensive clothes.
And he goes on and tells him what he wants and then he drops
to 15 and says, but women will be saved through childbearing.
Many people will say this, and this is 1 view.
This is a view that that I strongly disagree with.
This is the view that says women will be saved from the curse of
sin through literal childbirth, meaning this.
They interpret this to say when man fell to sin, man was cursed
and part of the curse that fell upon women.
And this is true. They will have childbirth.
And there are schools of thought that say women will be saved
because they are willing to endure the pain of childhood.
Now that would mean it's the women who have more children and
endure more pain. They're more holy, they're more
saved. Well, the problem with this is I
hope you immediate it from what we preach here all the time that
we are justified by grace alone, through faith alone and Christ
alone. If he's talking about salvation
and saying that a woman is going to be saved simply because she
has children, that would be a work, wouldn't it?
That would be no salvation at all.
And so that's a a school of thought that very quickly I can
throw out and say, because this would contradict everything that
the Apostle Paul told elsewhere in Scripture about being saved
by grace through faith and that alone.
The second view is this, and I find this view very interesting.
And I'll tell you this, there are many reformers who held on
to this view. Now what I really believe about
the next, the second view is that it was possibly a holdover
from Catholic interpretation. This is something that they just
didn't reform from the reformers.
And it says this, it says that women will be saved by child
bearing with this specific thing in mind, and I want you to talk
this through with me, that yes, a woman named Eve LED men into
sin, but a woman named Mary through birthings of Christ will
lead people out of sin, Barry actually, and her birth will
lead to the saving of souls. Now let me tell you this.
That's true 100%. But I don't think that's what
Paul is saying here, even though the reformers would say, but
it's fulfilling Genesis 315 and Genesis 3:15, if you're not
familiar. That is the promise of the
Messiah who would come, who though the serpent would strike
his heel, he would crush his head.
And So what many people would do is they interpret this verse 15
in saying that women are going to find the redemption in the
fact that a woman, a virgin named Mary, bore a son and his
name is Christ. And of course, we find
redemption nowhere else other than Christ.
However, the reason that I can't take that view and accept that
view, though that view theologically would be
considered true. I don't think that's what Paul
is saying here because he is in the context about a woman
singular. He's talking about women in the
plural. He's talking about those women
who are already followers of Christ because he is addressing
the church and he is addressing how we are to worship the Lord.
And so he's not talking about Mary singular.
He's actually talking about women in the plural.
So then what is he saying? What what is a good
interpretation of this? And I think we find it the third
view as in my opinion, the most appropriate.
And because of my, it's my opinion, 100% correct.
Why? Simply because it's my opinion.
Just like if your opinion was your opinion, you would be right
until proven wrong. But I think that if we put it in
its context, and this is very important, you, you do know
this, right? The three most important things
in interpreting script, context and context.
Don't ever forget that. And so as we look at this in its
context, I think he is addressing a group of women and
and in fact specifically a group of believing women at Ephesus.
And so he is teaching them something.
What is he teaching them? Well, I think we here, when we
automatically assume, because we see in English the term saved,
that he's talking about salvation.
I don't think that he's talking about salvation at all.
Why? Because he's addressing women
that are already professing, as we will see in a moment to
follow God. He's addressing profession now.
I don't think he's talking about saved at all, though.
I think he is talking about redemption in a sense.
And he's talking about redemption as far as a woman's
usefulness to God and His plan for women, despite the fact that
they were deceived in the Garden, LED mankind into sin and
into chaos. So I believe that this verse 15
teaches us that women will be saved or redeemed from the
stigma of being the ones who let all of us into this Mass.
And we can quickly see how that would be a stigma.
In fact, traditionally up until this point that Paul makes this
address, it was a stigma in the Jewish culture and in Jewish
worship, women could not ship in the same area as men.
But Paul is saying this, there is still redemption for women in
the fact that yes, they do have this stigma of leading all of
mankind into sin, but they will also be used by God to lead
their children out of sin. So he's saying they will find
redemption in the children that they produce and that they
nurture and that they admonish in the Lord.
He's saying this that women have a role, and the role has not
ceased simply because they were the the enemy used to deceive
mankind into falling into sin. There is hope.
Yet still for them now, I feel that this is the right
interpretation because of the context, not only of what we're
seeing here in First Timothy chapter 2, but the context of
everything that testament and in the Word of God throughout its
entirety. So now that I have established
that right, that most difficult thing, everything else about
this from verse 9 all the way to verse 15 ought to be crystal
clear thing that we read and something that we say, OK,
that's not hard to understand. God is calling women to be
godly. He is calling each and everyone
of you in this room who professed Jesus Christ as Lord
and Savior. He is calling you to be godly so
that the next generation will be redeemed because of the
influence of their mothers. Well, so many times a mother's
role gets downplayed, doesn't it?
Can I say this just specifically about my family?
My children are now grown and have children of their.
Own. And though I spent as much time
as I could with my children when they were growing up, the time
that I spent with my children is minuscule compared to the time
that my wife spent with my children.
People wonder all the time. They ask me, Kirk, aren't you so
thankful how your children turn out?
Yes. Then they asked me this
question. What did you do?
I will tell you this. I attempted to pastor my wife to
the best of my ability because I knew how important her role was
in teaching our children. I was not going to let her live
with the stigma like Eve leading others into sin.
No, you have been redeemed from that stigma and you're in
Christ. You have a great responsibility
to raise up the next generation in a godly fashion.
And I'm, I'm here to help you any way that I can and to
compliment your role as a godly woman.
That's the answer. I tell them, go talk to Brandy.
If it would have been up to me, I would have messed things up,
but I'm thankful that somewhere along the line she read the Word
of God and determined in her heart and her mind through the
power and persuasion of the Holy Spirit to be the godly woman
that she is today. What is a godly woman?
What does it mean to be called to be godly in this passage?
This is what we see, and I don't want you to lose sight of the
truth here because of all the controversy surrounding it.
The controversy is quite silly. It is cutting and it is clear.
So let's approach it today as such.
First, if you're taking notes, write this down.
Godly women are called to adorn themselves in godliness.
Watch what Paul does here. You ladies are going to like
this. He starts with your wardrobe.
He does. He is going to.
To you Christian women in this room, that it is so important
how you dress in your apparel, what you wear, you say, well,
what? Yes, watch what he says.
I also want women to dress modestly.
Now he just said, I want men to lift up holy hands in prayer.
And here's an important thing for women.
I want you to dress modestly. I want women to dress modestly.
When you come into the congregation to dress modestly
with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or
pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds appropriate for
women who profess to worship God, He said.
You're professing believers, and as a professing and believing
woman, he attention to this pay. Attention to what you wear.
Many people would say he's making a parallel.
He's not yet he will in a moment.
What he's going to do, he's going to establish the
importance of a godly woman's apparel, the way you physically
dress. He describes it for us.
In fact, he takes great detail to describe it.
Of course, he says first modestly.
What does that mean? Well, to be modest means to not
be elaborate or sensual. He's telling women to refuse to
dress overly elaborate and refuse to dress overtly sexual.
Yes, this does have a sexual connotation.
When he says modest, what he's saying is that if you are
dressing in order to draw attention by the way you dress
of women or the attention of men, and you ladies know this,
you do both. I joke with my wife all the time
and I, I, I laugh and I say women dress to impress women
because baby, I really don't care.
I think you look really cute and no makeup and sweats and a ball
cap because I see her true beauty.
True beauty is not found in those things and I have grown in
the Lord enough to realize that. Now she thinks I'm crazy when I
say that. But ladies, let me tell you,
when your husband says that, he means that he is trying.
That those things have nothing to do with truly being a godly
woman. He says dressed modestly.
It's important that we learn this.
Why? So we can teach this, right
ladies? Anyone here seen a homecoming
picture or a prom picture? Lately.
I'm going to be honest with you, I have to get past them and
shame most of the time. There's a lot of times when on
social media these things are posted, I wonder are they going
to a homecoming or a prom or are they somewhere in Vegas trying
to earn a little extra money? He said.
What does that have to do with women?
They learned it from somewhere or someone who should be in an
authority in their life and a teacher in their life is
allowing it to happen first. Dad, that's your responsibility.
You tell mom no, she can't buy that dress.
I don't care how mad mom gets at you.
She needs to cover herself up. Why?
Because that's what godly women do.
We're teaching her to be a godly woman.
We are not teaching her to be a prostitute.
You can just go on and buckle your seat belt.
We're going to talk about things today that they don't usually
talk about modestly, not overly elaborate nor overtly sexual.
Isn't it interesting that in our pornography driven culture our
styles have also become overly sexual?
Girls dressed the way an addicted young male counterparts
desire for them to dress moms. It's your job to put a stop to
it. How do you do that?
By the way you dress your apparel modestly.
He then goes on and he says with decency.
This takes another turn. Decency here is very interesting
because you know what it means. Reverence, Reverence and
reverence belongs to the Lord. He is actually telling the women
at Ephesus dress modestly. And dress worshipfully.
Time asking yourself this question, is what I'm wearing
something that would bring honor to God?
Is it something that is reverent?
I know we don't talk about reverence a lot anymore in the
church because we're real confused about what it means.
The ladies, I want to encourage you to be reverent in how you
dress humbly and gracefully. Can I help all of the aging
women in this room stop trying to be young, be reverent, be
humble, and be graceful. There is nothing more than an
older woman who dresses. And carries herself.
Gracefully and humbly out of reverence for the Lord and honor
for her husband. He says decency.
Seek to glorify God even in how you dress.
This would be crazy wouldn't instead of it just being the
latest style. So I buy it.
Lord, is this appropriate? Is this appropriate for one of
your children to wear in the assembly, for one of your
children to wear out in public? Now let me help you.
If it is tied and it is showing every curve of your body, or it
is so loose that it is showing all the things that no one but
your husband ought to see, you don't even have to pray that
prayer. You can just write it down.
It is not modest and it is not decent.
It's not reverent unto the Lord. But then he doesn't stop there
and he says and propriety says so much.
When we get down to the original meaning, it means soundness of
mind and self controlled. Ladies, are you of sound mind
and of self-control? When you dress yourself, are you
just doing what you do because fashion says do it?
That's not sound mind. Let's do it.
That's not sound mind. Are you just doing it because
you want to do it? That's not self-control, that's
you actually being out of control and being led by your
emotions and your feelings. We'll talk more about that in a
moment. The soundness of mine and self
controlled in our apparel. Ladies, please pay attention to
this. It means thinking of others when
you dress, considering other people, considering the example
that you're leaving or considering the lust of that
you're causing. Considering the example that
you're leaving or the lust of that you're causing.
Other people view what I am wearing.
You need to ask yourself this question.
How Will Young ladies see me? Will Young ladies see me hip,
cool and stylish? That's not the objective.
Well, others see me as sexy, sensual.
Those are questions that you must ask in our culture that is
designing women's clothing to be sexual and sensual.
Yeah. It's a question we don't find
ourselves asking as women much of the time.
Ask yourself, who calls to stumble by my apparel?
You say, What do you mean? I mean this when you come into
the congregation and you walk past someone else's husband and
you are dressed in a way that draws sexual attention to
yourself, but you just enabled him to do.
You enabled him to commit. Adultery in his mind when he
lusted after you because you left nothing to the imagination.
What about when you walk down the hall and that young girl
says I want she looks up to you and she she sees you
accentuating your body parts in a sensual or sexual way.
Do you not think that you've caused that young 1 to stumble
Here's what Jesus says about this.
You can take it or leave it. I pray that you would take it.
Matthew 18 verse six. He says if anyone causes one of
these little. Do you believe in me to stumble?
It would be better for them to have a large millstone hung
around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Woe to the world because of the things that caused people to
stumble. Such things must come.
But woe to the person through whom they come.
Ladies, hear this woe. They come through you.
Your hand or your foot causes you to stumble.
Cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter
life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet to be
thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to
stumble, gouge it out and throw it away.
It's better for you to enter life with one eye than to have
two eyes and to be thrown into the Most of the time we get to
that last part of the Scripture and we we just focus on that.
But the whole meaning of the Scripture is this.
Don't cause others to stumble because if you give no regard to
others, it reveals your true heart.
You are still self-centered, self controlled emotions and
desires and. So you got to think of others
when you dress, refusing to put self desire over others over
what it may cause them to do. Yes, you may look good.
You may even look and feel sexy in that because you ladies know
what I'm talking about, right? When when you go to that
important thing and you put on that dress that you've never
worn before and you look in the mirror, mirror and you know that
you do look sexy in that love you Sexy is OK for your husband
at home in the confines of your own bedroom.
It's not OK in the congregation. Amen.
It's not OK in the congregation. I don't care if it is the style,
Go against the style. Create new styles.
We need them. It's not for the congregation.
Why? Because in doing so, you were
going to cause little ones who are here to worship the Lord,
whether that's little ones as the children or as little ones
in faith in Christ, you are going to cause them to stumble.
And he says it's better for you to have a millstone tied around
your neck and thrown into the sea.
I didn't make that up. That's red.
If you have a red letter edition, that's Christ.
What message are you sending to others?
Who are you causing to sin? Philippians chapter 2 says this.
It says in verse 3, do nothing out of selfish ambition or
vacancy. That means don't dress out of
selfish ambition or vain conceit or anything else rather than
humans above yourselves, not looking to your own interests,
but each of you to the interests of the others.
Ladies, let me just help you out.
The pornography industry in our culture is a multi billion
dollar industry. Even before the pornography
industry happened, men first. Why?
Because men are visual creatures.
They are excited by the things that they see.
Don't cause them to stumble by being ungodly in the way that
you approach your apparel, he says.
Modestly decent. With propriety, soundness of
mind, thinking of others, putting others above yourself,
asking yourself this question. Could that that I'm wearing
'cause someone else to slip off into sin?
Be it vanity for that woman who admired, or be it lust for that
young man who's looking at me and gazing upon me in an
inappropriate way. Or that husband who's committed
and devote himself to be true and loyal to another woman who
sits here in this congregation together.
Yet by your dress you catch his eye.
It's not I that you are intended to catch.
That's his wife's job. You see the problem here, I hope
though it may be old fashioned in many people's eyes, and it
is. It's 2000 years old, but it's
still 100% applicable today and in the church.
Godly women are adorning themselves in godliness, their
apparel, he says. I I also want women to dress
modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair
or gold or pearls or expensive clothes.
Here's what he's going to do. He moves from apparel to
accents. We know we all have to accent
everything, don't we? The Roman culture there, the
same braided hair, jewelry and all the things they had to have
them so that they fit the fashion that was going on there
in that culture that was surrounded around Artemis, the
false goddess. So he addresses accents.
What is he talking about here? Is he specifically gold pearls?
Is it wrong for you to braid your hair?
Is it wrong for you to color your hair?
Is it wrong for you to have hair?
Is it wrong for you to have jewelry?
No, he's not saying that at all. Is it wrong for you to wear
makeup? No, Please do.
He's not saying any of those things.
What he is doing is he is saying don't fall into the trap of
needless elaborations, needless enhancements.
Paul's not saying that you shouldn't fix your hair or wear
jewelry. He's saying women shouldn't use
these things to draw undue attention to themselves and away
from God when they come in. No, not to be a man in here
who's struggling when we're singing songs to Jesus about
focusing on the Lord and what he's done.
There ought not to be a man in here who's who's struggling with
focusing on that because you wear your clothes too tight or
you wear your clothes too loose. Whatever the case may be, That's
exactly what he's saying. And then he takes it a step
further and he says, and also don't add to it these needless
elaborations that don't mean anything.
This culture was being inundated with this, as you can tell from
the context. He mentions many things that are
nothing but elaborations and enhancements.
Paul didn't want Christian women to devote time to devote, to
devote energy to the fashions of the day and only draw attention
to the woman and away from God. Now the good thing is in our
culture. We don't struggle with this at
all. There's no danger in our culture
trap of extras and elaborations or enhancements, right?
No, that's sarcasm as intended. I'll tell you how dangerous it
is in our culture annually in the United States of America.
People spend $4 billion on Botox and facial fillers, $4 billion
to trick someone into thinking that they're not.
Really wrinkled under all that annually in the US. 1.4 to 1.6
billion dollars of revenue on breast augmentations and
liposuctions. That's not reconstructive after
breast cancer, that's just enhancements.
That's just add on operations because I guess you weren't
content with what? God had given you it wasn't
impressive enough. 8 to 10 billion on unneeded cosmetic
surgery. By that, well, you didn't get in
a car wreck and half your face get knocked off in the accident
and you had to have reconstructive surgery and a
face rebuilt. That's not what I'm talking
about here. It's things you didn't need.
Well, you saw some influencer on social media who had a nose that
wasn't like your nose and you really like their nose.
So you took place and said, I want their nose.
They said OK, I specialize in noses here, I'll give you a new
nose. I can tell you this, I've
watched one episode of Botched and that was enough for me to
never kind of enhancement or some kind of elaborate change in
my face, right? If this wasn't Botched enough,
ladies are spending billions. Of dollars on needless
elaborations and enhancements in our country, 17 to $18 billion a
year on cosmetic surgeries and alterations that do nothing but
draw attention to that person who is desiring attention.
Godly women are to adorn them and godly apparel modestly,
decently, with propriety. Their accent, their dress.
Not with needless elaborations or enhancements.
Now I know. What was it wrong to wear
earrings? No, wear earrings.
But if you're wearing hubcaps to draw attention to yourself,
that's another he's talking about going beyond reasonable
for the mere desire to draw attention to yourself.
Why is that important? Woman of God, listen to me.
If you're drawing attention to yourself, you're not where it
belongs to the Lord. That's why he takes it a step
further. Now he makes this parallel.
He said instead of being dressed with immodest clothes and
undecent clothes and clothes that show you have no soundness
to mind or self-control. Or acts aberrant, right then
nobody even believes they're real, right?
4 inch eyelashes? Nobody's buying it.
Lips that make you look like Howard the Duck.
If you're a kid from the 80s, sorry you missed it.
Don't go watch it. It's pre Christ.
He now makes the parallel and he says this but with good deeds
appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
He says don't worry about these outward things.
As much as you worry about what comes out of your life, inside
of your life, this is the proper display of beauty.
Paul's going to teach that instead of putting so much
effort and so much time and so much energy and so much money
into drawing attention to yourself so your girlfriends
will say, oh girl, you look good on Facebook.
They're lying. They just want you to lie.
They post something, figure it out.
He says adorn yourself of godly action.
Godly woman should draw attention not to herself but to
God. First Peter, chapter 3, verse 3.
It says your beauty. Should not come from outward
adornment, such as elaborate of gold jewelry or fine clothes.
Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading
beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is of great worth
in God's sight. Who are you trying to please?
Who are you trying to impress? Peter saying almost verbatim
teaching here. He's saying this.
Live your life to impress the Lord.
We're going to see why in just a moment.
Showing your actions, your service to Him, bringing him
glory by being clothed, not as the world is clothed.
With styles and fashions and sensuality and sexuality would
be the service that bring glory to your heavenly Father.
This is a common analogy that Paul uses in Colossians.
He uses clothing again to make this point.
He says in chapter 3 of Colossians verse 12.
Therefore, is God's chosen people wholly and dearly loved.
Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, gentleness
and patience, ladies. You'll be dressed in a way that
honors God. Clothe yourself with these
things. Bear with each other and forgive
one another. And any if any of you has a
grievance against someone, forgive as the Lord forgave you.
And over all these virtues, put on love which binds them.
What is he saying? Clothe yourself in godliness.
Make that a priority. Let that outshine any earrings
you would wear, any braided hair that you may have, any style
that you may purchase. Let the glory of God and service
to Him outshine all those things in your life so that when people
see you, they don't see. It's important.
So may the women here who are hearing my voice and hearing the
word of God this morning adorn themselves in godliness and not
as the world chooses to adorn themselves.
Secondly. Godly women are not only to
adorn themselves in godliness, they are to avoid usurping God's
order. Pay attention, attention to what
he says in this context. He says a woman should learn in
quietness, in full submission. He didn't say kind of
submission, half hearted submission, pretend submission,
full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach
her to have authority over a man.
Be silent. For Adam was formed first, then
Eve. Now I know what the people who
come against this passage of Scripture try to say.
This is where they say Kirk. That was just for Ephesus
because of the influence of Diana or or or who is otherwise
known as Artemis. That is just talking to Ephesus.
Let me make this very clear. This is talking to any culture
and any church that would usurp God's order and God's authority.
You know how I know that? That's why I read verse 8 for
you. That would be like saying men
lifting holy hands in prayer was limited to just Ephesus and
there's no need for us to do the same anymore, right guys?
No, absolutely not. That's foolish.
But it's only this particular part of this passage where we
try to say, oh, this is just written in light of Artemis.
That was Artemis influential? You bet.
Was Artemis worship influential? Did it affect the culture?
Yes. Did it affect women?
Absolutely. The same thing would be written
to a culture that had no Artemis but still struggled with the
same thing because he's speaking it to our culture even this day.
Paul's not calling women ignorant.
You know how I know that? He said a woman should learn.
He wants you to learn. It says here's the way that you
are to learn in the congregation.
He wants you to learn. That's great news.
Why? Because the women of the Old
Testament weren't even permitted to learn.
They didn't even come into the same courts as the men for
worship to learn as the men were.
He's saying you're in there, you're assembly, you're
assembled, you're an assembly and you have the right now and
the duty to learn. So he's not saying to be
ignorant and unlearned. He's not saying to be silent,
barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen.
He's not talking about the kitchen at all.
He's referring. To the assembly, he's referring
to an assembly just like this, who has joined together on the
Lord's Day to worship and honor the Lord.
And he is saying to them that you are to learning quietness
and full submission to your husband.
Quietness and full submission to the male leadership and
authority in that first to your husband.
And then to those male pastors and elders who direct the
affairs of the church and who teach the word of God.
This is the way that it has always been throughout church
history. Again, it wasn't into the last
100 years that this has even been a topic for debate or not
to exercise speaking gifts and leadership gifts in positions of
authority in the Congregation of the Saints.
For those of you who would say that's just for Ephesus to the
Corinthian church, First Corinthians chapter 14.
On the subject of speaking gifts in the congregation and
instructions on orderly worship, here's what Paul instructs to.
He says for God is not a God of disorder verse 33, but it's but
of peace and then he says. As in all the congregations of
the Lord's people. This is the way it is throughout
the church. All congregations of the Lord's
people. How many of you here today
belong to Jesus Christ? Raise your hand.
Just a congregation of the Lord's people.
All right, here's what he says. Women should remain silent in
the churches. Is he saying that you shouldn't
talk to your friends in the hallway?
No, he's talking about the context of speaking and teaching
leadership. He said women should remain
signed and the churches there, but must be in submission as the
law says. What is he doing?
He's going all the way back to the Old Testament to remind you
of what Paul is reminding the church.
Here at Alpha. System Timothy.
He says that they want to inquire about something.
They should ask their own husbands at home.
I know husband, it's time for you to freak out.
But what if I don't know the answer?
Open your answer and start pastoring your home like you
should do. I need to say that again.
Open your Bibles. Study to show yourself a Workman
who is approved rightly dividing the word of truth.
Why? Because you are the pastor of
your home. Your wife's depending on you.
I told you, men, they can't be the godly women they need to be
until you devote yourself to being the godly man that you
need to be. If they want to inquire about
something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is
it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
Now let me remind you that was not inundated with the teachings
of Artemis. The following of Artemis that
was to the Corinthian. Church and there at the
Corinthian church, he says, and this applies to all the
congregations of the Saints, meaning this this applies to key
life fellowship right now in 2026.
And for anybody to tell you anything else is to sub.
The Word of God, and to pervert the word of God before your very
eyes. Don't fall for it.
These roles always have and always will be reserved for men.
He's not giving them any new teaching.
Here he says a woman should learn in quietness and full
submission teacher to have authority over men, she must be
silent. Why he gives you the answer.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
What is he doing? He's going all the way back to
the law, just as he said. In First Corinthians chapter 14,
he's going back to the Torah and he is saying this.
Remember back in Genesis what happened.
Now what happened? God created things in a certain
way, and he goes back and he says even creation.
Tells us that. What he's saying is this, that
women must avoid usurping God's authority.
Why? First of all, because his
authority and this authority that he's established in the
church is God himself by his word throughout time, throughout
culture. This is not an Ephesian command,
as I've already I hope made that point, as many even liberal
evangelicals will claim, but it is the very word of God.
First Corinthians 11, verse three, it says this, but I want
you to realize that the head of every man is Christ in the head
of the and the head of Christ is God.
Do you see the order there? Don't get that out of whack.
Don't lose sight of that. There's a purpose for that.
It's God's design you're going to see in a moment, and it's for
a reason. And ladies, your role as a
woman, as we will see in a moment, is a beautiful role and
a but you can't fulfill your role if you are usurping God's
order in the church and in the home, or even both.
Because usually in generally it works that way.
The one who tries to usurp the authority in the church is also
trying to usurp the authority in the home.
Funny how that always goes hand in hand First Peter chapter 3 If
you don't believe it's the word of God lives in the same way,
submit yourself to your own husbands so that if any of them
do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by
the behavior of their wives dressed in godliness when they
see the purity and. Reverence of your lives.
What is he saying? If you got an unbelieving
husband, you know what you ought not to do.
You ought not to nag him to death about coming to church
with you. You ought not to nag trying to
cram the gospel down his throat. You know what you ought to do.
Clothe yourself in godliness, stop nagging Him, and live a
virtuous and reverent life before him.
And you know what? God tells us that's going to get
his attention. Why?
Because God has designed us as men to have a run when someone
is godly before eyes, especially a female.
That's why. When men are young, you know
what they do when they're looking for a girlfriend?
They go out to where all the people are partying when they
sit. Down they start looking for a
wife. You know where they come to.
Church. True story.
Why? Because there's nothing more
alluring to us than a woman of virtue.
Why? Because she's hard to find.
Is that not what Proverbs 31 tells us?
Who can find someone like this? It's not an easy catch.
So wives be that kind of wives because it's designated by God
to do so. He says this.
Sure, to teach the women to be self controlled and pure, to be
busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their husbands.
Why? We saw it in our scripture
reading. So that no one will malign the
word of God. What is He?
Talking about so that no one will say that create of whack in
your home. They won't say things like this.
She tells him what pants to wear, or in fact, he might even
be wearing her pants. Maybe she ought to give him his
pants back. We know that there are many
other illustrations that are used.
Why? Because the very Word of God
teaches us that a woman is not to have authority over a man.
Not in the home and not in the church because it's defined by
creation order. This is what Paul goes to for
Adam was he wants you to understand the order of the way
things happen. In case you forgot this order
was not post fall. Don't don't think that this
order happened just because man and women fell into sin.
This is pre fall. This is at creation.
This is the order that God established.
Adam was formed 1st and then Eve.
You don't believe me? Turning 2 and we'll look at it.
Says this in verse. 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in
the Garden of Eden to work it and care and take care of it,
And the Lord God commanded the man.
You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must
not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for
when you eat from it, you will certainly not die before there
was ever an Eve. I want you to pay attention to
this, because you know what happened in the Garden when
mankind fell into sin. Woman.
Usurped the authority of man. And man usurped the authority of
God. Watch this from the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will
certainly die. Verse 18.
The Lord God said, It is not good for man to be alone, I will
make a suitable helper for him. Now the Lord God had formed out
of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the
sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would name
them. And whatever the man creature,
that was its name. So the man gave names to all the
livestock, the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable help helper was found.
So the Lord God calls the man to fall into a deep sleep, and
while he was sleeping he took one of the man's ribs and then
closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a he had
taken out of the man and he brought her to the man and the
man said he got to name her. This says he did all of the rest
of God's creation. And the man said, this is now
bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called was taken out of man fast.
Forward here to Ephesus here in the letter of First Timothy.
Paul reminds them, he reminds the ladies there that Adam was
formed first, then Eve. This is the creative order.
This is what God intended. Basic creation order defines for
us the order of God in the relationship of men and women,
both in the home and in the church.
They are always a direct reflection of one another.
And so to our liberal do. This.
We mustn't rewrite scripture just to fit your agenda.
Because when we take them back to Genesis chapter 2, you know
what they then say, well, Genesis chapter 2 can't be real.
I mean, how realistic is it that that God would open up man's
side and he would create a woman from that?
So let's just completely right. So now we got Genesis One
through 11. Let's erase it.
Now we can believe anything in all the world that we want to
believe. If all doesn't let us do that,
he says go back to Genesis 2 and you see the order.
The roles are defined by God and we are not to usurp God's order
that He has set in place. This has been designated by God
and His Word over and over again.
It's defined by creation order, and when you see the beauty of
it is depicting the relationship of Christ and the church, it is
depicting the relationship of Christ in the church, and
there's no more beautiful relationship in all of creation.
Just as the wife submits to her husband, so the church submits
to Christ. And oh, what benefits the church
receives from wives. If you will learn this, when you
submit to your husbands as unto the Lord, you will reap great
benefits that you never could have imagined.
You will be blessed by God for your obedience and you will be
blessed by your husband when he sees it in submissive spirit and
he knows that that didn't come from you because he knows what
you are in your flesh. He will quickly say that is a
work of God. You know what you'll do.
You'll cause your husband to worship.
He'll thank God for the work that God has done in his wife.
What a beautiful picture the submissive wife get eject when
properly understood and when she doesn't continue to try to usurp
authority. Ephesians 5 verse 22, it says
Wives submit to yourselves. To your own husband's.
As you do to the Lord, he says, just like that full submission.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ, as the head
of the Church, his body, what she is the Savior.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should
submit to their husbands in everything.
This is not just talking about sexual submission as many people
have tried to make it. Submit to your husband's in
everything. But what if he's not things?
He's going to give an account to the Lord, and so will you for
not submitting to Him. Pay attention to what the Word
of God teaches. There is a reason Ephesians
chapter 5 is not teaching us about the family, about the
roles of men and women in the church.
It's teaching us about the church.
The given here was the fact that people already understood
biblically that the husband is the head, the leader of the
wife, and the wife is to take a submissive and complimentary
complimentary role to him. That they are to work together
to bring glory to God as one flan.
So see it. See it for what it is.
Stop fighting your fleshly desires to fit into the liberal
culture of the day. Surrender to the call to be a
godly woman, resisting your flesh, your urges to usurp God's
authority. Do you know this after the fall
that this was the way it was going to be?
He said that wives would desire their husbands.
He didn't mean to desire them sexually or sensually.
What he meant was to desire their leadership position.
Don't continue to walk in your follow your fallen name.
Attempting to usurp the authority and order of God.
Submit to God today and display that by submitting not only to
your husband, submitting in the congregation to the role that
God has for women even in the church.
Lastly, we've seen godly themselves in godliness to avoid
usurping God's authority in His order, but godly women are to
accept their God ordained role. You are to put these shoes on,
take your husband's shoes off, let him have them.
You put yours on, you accept your God ordained role.
Here's what he said it is he says verse 14, and Adam was not
the one deceived. It was the woman who was
deceived and became a Sinner, right?
We talked about the stigma earlier, boy, that put a stigma
on women, the ones who are easily deceived and fall into
sin and lead others into sin. Is that not what happened?
Yes, it is what happened. When they assume their God
ordained role here it is, but women will be saved through
childbearing if they continue in faith, love and holiness with
propriety. Paul here is calling Christian
women to accept their God-given roles.
He makes this point that even though Eve was deceived and
ultimately LED all of mankind into sin because she was
deceived by the serpent. God still has a role.
God still has a plan for her in his Kingdom.
God still has a plan of redemption for woman is to raise
godly children. You as godly women in this room,
you ought to accept that role no matter what culture wants to
tell you. Culture is going to tell you
this. You have to have two incomes,
you have to have success, you have, you have to be somebody,
you have to use the degree your parents paid for it, for crying
out loud. Or you might still be paying for
it, but God says there's no shame in accepting your God
ordained role. Godly woman whose objective in
life is to glorify God by. Teaching the next generation how
to glorify God. First, I want you to see this.
You're to accept your God ordained role even as those who
are the weaker vessel just all the time.
When you say the woman is the weaker vessel, you need to
understand that that's what Paul is saying here when he says Adam
was not the one deceived. It was the woman who was
deceived and became a Sinner. He's making very clear as to why
she is the weaker vessel back first Peter chapter 3 verse 7
tells us that husbands in the same way, be considerate as you
live with your wives as the weaker partner.
What does he mean by calling them a weaker partner?
He's not saying that they are inferior to man.
Everybody understand that. Don't leave here today and
accuse Kirk Hall of saying that that women are inferior to men.
They're not inferior. They have a different but a
God-given role. Part of that means accepting the
fact that they. Are a weaker vessel.
No, they're not inferior to men spiritually or in their
relationship to Christ. That would violate Galatians
chapter 3. Neither male nor female, nor Jew
nor Greek. We're all the same in Christ.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
But what I am saying is emotionally and physically,
women are weaker by nature. No matter.
Watch this. No matter what the transgender
movement might be trying to say in the court system right now,
that a man really has no advantage athletically.
Over a woman. Is that so?
I've made this challenge every time that I have preached this
passage of Scripture. I will make it again.
Any woman in this room right now who wants to arm wrestle me
right here, I'm willing. Now come on, I'm a four eyed,
Gray haired old man. But you know this.
I have this to my advantage. I'm a male and generally
speaking, I'm not saying that there's not a woman who couldn't
beat me in arm wrestling. I'm saying there's not a woman
here who's fool enough to even step up to the challenge
because, you know, that percentage says I'm going to
beat you. Now, I am thankful that every
time I make that challenge, no one steps up.
Same thing to me in all the world, as if a woman beat me on
the pulpit arm wrestling. But I say this to make a point.
Women are generally the weaker vessel and physical strength and
emotional, no matter what anyone else wants to say.
And the context points to this fact that women were and still
are easily deceived by their feeling, by their emotions, by
their flesh. They're more vulnerable
emotionally. They're less logical than men.
We know this to be true just by very nature.
But yet we still let the liberal voices try to get us to
question. This is not up for debate.
Women are the weaker vessel and they need to accept their role
as the weaker vessel, not an inferior vessel.
They are that flower that we see growing out in the flower bed,
beautiful and colorful, of great worth compared to that rock
laying on the ground. That would be the male.
But yet that same rock could inadvertently crush that
beautiful and delicate flower. They are the weaker vessel.
Know that. Know that going into this,
ladies and roll. Why?
Because when you admit your weakness, you'll depend upon
God's strength. When you admit your weakness,
you'll depend upon the strength and the rationale of your
husband, and you won't depend upon your feelings and your
emotions. Because we know this, don't we?
Ladies? Let's just be honest.
They are ever wavering. And Paul's making that case was
Eve that was deceived, and she was deceived by her feelings,
her emotions. She saw the fruit, it looked
good, she touched it, it felt good, and she ate it and it
tastes good. Total impulse, right?
None of you women was on have you Sheen total impulse see
yourselves as those who are the weaker vessel if you're going to
accept your God ordained role. Secondly, though you see
yourself as the weaker vessel. I want you also to see yourself
as those of great worth and value.
See that important word there in verse 15?
But but the women are the weaker vessel because they come from
Eve and they are easily deceived and they are LED astray by their
feelings and their emotions. But the woman was deceived by
Satan in the garden. Women still have great worth and
value in the Kingdom of God. What is that worth and value?
Well, it's what the world will tell you not to find your worth
in. They'll say don't find your
worth. Don't don't find your worth and
just being a mom. No ladies find your worth there
because that is where you find the worth that God gives you.
They are a vessel that God uses to point the next generation to
new birth in Christ. They are God used to bring that
child, one of his elect, into this.
World so that they could hear the gospel from from someone
none other than their mother, so that they could believe and so
that they could be saved and so that they could be cleansed of
all their sin and have the hope of eternal life.
That you don't have a role. Of great worth and value.
You should view child rearing as the highest calling that a woman
could ever have in this life. You shouldn't be upset when I
say things like you shouldn't be a pastor as a woman.
You should remain congregation if I give you the rest of it.
But what you should do instead, as you take your time, your
energy, your resources, your love for God, your love for your
children, and you pour Christ into your kids as much as you
can. I get tired of hearing mom say
that all I am is a stay at home mom.
You don't know how valuable you are yet.
Please see it. Where Eve LED all of mankind
into sin because she was deceived.
You can lead mankind out of sin as a mom.
What a great duty. What worth you do have in the
Kingdom of God? View it as a high calling.
A high calling to make spirit who loves the Lord still.
Kirk, you don't understand. I can't have children.
How can this apply to me? The older women are to teach the
younger women. Find women in this congregation
who don't have godly moms and women that are discipling them.
And you be a. Spiritual mother to them.
How about that about this? Their kids being abandoned left
and right up for adoption. Adopt A child.
Teach them about Jesus. So you think God's calling all
the people to adopt children? No.
I think that's a special calling from God.
If he leads you to do it, do it. He's going to give you the
resources to do it and then pour Christ into them.
Except your God ordained role is 1 of great worth and value not
only to your husband and to your children, but to the Kingdom of
God. He by his own design.
Promises to redeem you through of children, birthing those
children in painful agony. And I know it's painful.
I've never had childbirth. Somebody told me it was akin to
kidney stones, and I've had three or four of those.
And so I understand. You know what's interesting
about you have a gorgeous and a precious gift from God.
All I had was a stone that I had to take to your urologist to
have it tested to see why I was having kidney stone.
You have something precious that he's trusted you with.
The next generation, they're depending upon you.
The ordained role as the weaker vessel has those of great worth
and value, and as those who teach worship and virtue.
Watch what he says. But women will be saved through
childbearing if here's the condition here, if they continue
in faith, love and holy with propriety, he said.
You'll be safe through childbearing if you give them
the godly example that you were supposed to give to them.
The whole stigma of woman being the weaker vessel that led men
into sin and you devoting yourself.
To teach worship and virtue to your children how through your
example, your example, watch this your example of what he
says it faith pointing your children to true faith in God
through the Lord Jesus over again.
I can't tell you how many times my wife presented the gospel to
my grown children, but I can confidently say that she
presented the gospel to my grown children far more times than I
ever did, which I'm thankful because it is through her
example. My children are believers today.
We know it's because of the grace of God that this is His
instrument that He uses. If they continue in faith,
thankful for a wife who continues continued in faith as
she pointed her children to Christ.
True faith in God, that only comes through submission to the
Lord Jesus, trusting and teaching.
It's only through the gospel that a person has ever saved.
About my children, they're growing.
They both serve the Lord. What's the secret?
There's no secret, there's just scripture.
And when a woman accepts their God ordained role and a man
accepts his God ordained role, God does what God promises to do
through their faith. Oh, just yesterday I got to
witness one of the most precious things to me so far in my life.
I sat in a restaurant and I had my 17 I believe months month old
granddaughter. She's 17 months.
Sounds close or 18. I know I've only forked out cash
for one birthday so far but I can't wait till the 2nd.
I got that jade who made you? She said God named me, I'll give
you the translation. God made me.
I said what else? She said everything, everything.
And then asked why did God make everything?
She says, but for his glory. How does she know this?
She has a mom who is willing to go against the grain, who has
found her worth in Christ and is teaching them to find their
worth in Christ. She has accepted her God
ordained role and already we are seeing the fruits of it already.
I'm thankful also for my son and for his wife.
I am for Jordan and Tyler and JoJo as you know her already for
Knox can even talk reading him the truth of scripture, playing
him songs that edify and glorify Christ.
Because this is important ladies, be willing to accept
your God ordained role. Stop listening to society and
culture. Caved through childbearing,
meaning this you will find redemption seeing the next
generation come to know God if you continue in faith, the one
true faith, the gospel of Jesus Christ.
He says in love, the love that is described there in first
Corinthians chapter 13 where it says in verse 4 love is patient,
love is kind, does not boast, it is not proud, it does not
dishonor others. It is not self seeking.
It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always
perseveres. Love never fails.
That kind of love God kind of love love your children being a
through how you love how you love God.
Does that know what Jesus said was the first command he says
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest
command. Matthew 22 verse 37 and 38
Ladies, children, that you love the Lord your God with
everything that you are, that you love God more than
everything and teach. Them to do the same not only how
you love God, but also how you love others.
Jesus didn't stop with the 1st and greatest commandment.
I want you to pay attention to that.
Teach your children. But Matthew 2239 says love your
neighbor as yourself. You think you don't have an
important job, you have an essential role and the godly or
the godlessness of the next generation, except your role as
those who teach worship and virtue to your children.
This is if you continue in faith, love and holiness with
propriety. Show them the holy and righteous
life looks like self controlled, reverent, Worshipful, prayerful
Titus 2-3 and I'm done. It says.
Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they
live, not to be slanders or addicted to much wine, but to
teach what is good. Urge the younger women to love
their husbands and children. Love your husbands and children.
Love the Lord first of your husbands and children and to be
self controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind and be
subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the word
of God. So that no one can come back and
say the word of God is not true, the word of God.
And he has called women who profess his name to godliness.
Hear that call, accept that call.
Walk in that God ordained role for your life.
Women, you've heard it today, the biblical call.
Women, you're now faced with a dilemma.
Oh, please don't turn me off yet.
I know that I've gone long, but isn't this important?
Isn't this more important than anything else we could do?
Your children are at stake. Your home's at stake.
The church is at stake. It's important you're faced with
it. I'm not.
All I've done today is deliver the message.
Here's the dilemma. Do you continue to give in to
the godlessness of this culture, what it says in contradiction to
the work? You walk out these doors today
and get mad at me, get in your fills and say that stupid pastor
with that old outdated message. It's not my message.
How do you hear the word of God that you said at the beginning
of the service when I asked you, do you believe that this is
global and inspired, breathed by God?
You believe this is truth? He surrendered to the truth.
Today you bow before God and say God, I want to be what you want
me to be. Would you obediently answer
God's call to be a godly woman? Women here, I want to tell you
this. There's hope for you in Christ.
That is the only hope you'll find.
You will never raise the next generation to be godly if you
don't first know God through Jesus Christ.
You're a Sinner and you were separated from God himself
because of your sin and it's Christ who came to die and your
place to rescue you from that sin that keeps you from God.
He bore deserved on his back at the cross and he will set you
free today from the penalty of sin as you cry out to him as
Lord and Savior. Perhaps today you say, Kurt, I
want to talk to somebody about what it means to know Christ.
I pray that you would. I'm thankful that in the earlier
service the young lady did just that.
She wanted to know how do Christ?
There'll be people up here in just a moment who are standing
here to pray with you and to pray for you.
Talk to you about what it means to know Christ.
I pray today that you would repent and believe on Christ and
be saved. To the women of this
congregation, you can get stuck. You can succumb to the culture,
or you can submit to Christ. Those are the only two options.
You stand your feet now as heads are bowed and eyes are closed.
Today, who has been doing it your way or the way of the
culture? This message has brought you to
a place of repentance. I pray that you would do just
that, that you would fall in your face and you would confess
your sin, that you would repent, turn to and His word, live a
life of obedience to it, to Him, bringing Him glory and honor and
praise. You need folks to pray with you
about that. There'll be ladies down here to
my right and to my left who would be more than eager and
excited to pray for you. Maybe you just want to come at
these steps and just kneel, pour your heart out to God.
My prayer is this. And God would raise up a group
of godly women like this community has never seen before,
that through you, through you, through the gospel that you
preached, in the gospel that you live, you would save the next
generation. Again, if you need prayer,
there's folks to pray with you. I'll be down in front of you.
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