1 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,720 You're listening to Key Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:08,920 podcast. We thank you for tuning in as we 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:12,280 learn from God's Word together. If you would like more 4 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,760 information regarding Key Life or to speak with one of our 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,920 pastors, please visit us at Key Life Fellowship. 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,640 Are you thankful this morning for our praise team who week 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:33,280 after week after week leads us to remember the importance of 8 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:38,160 things such as what we just sang to set our hope on Jesus? 9 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:39,400 Aren't you thankful for them all? 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,320 And I love that we keep seeing new faces up there as God 11 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:51,400 continues to add to this congregation those people who 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,240 can be a part of those teams. And I don't say that to draw 13 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:58,760 attention to them. I say that to thank the Lord for 14 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:01,560 always providing for what we need. 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,879 When you see some of these guys around the church, be sure and 16 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:08,600 tell them thank you for your obedience and using your 17 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,120 abilities and your gifts to lead us in praise. 18 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,040 Each week you have your Bibles. If you would turn to first 19 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:21,640 Timothy and the second chapter as we continue looking epistles, 20 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,480 the series that has been titled Biblical Ministers and Biblical 21 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:31,960 Ministries of this that we are going to look at today in first 22 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:35,800 Timothy chapter 2, we're going to read verses 18 through 15, 23 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,200 but we're really going to focus on verses 9 through 15 because. 24 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,360 8 was last week, but I'm just going to use that verse to make 25 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,760 a point and to show you something in the midst of what 26 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:49,480 we're going to be looking at today. 27 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,600 And so I want you to see the clear and the concise context of 28 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,880 this so that you're not confused because when you take this 29 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:59,080 passage of Scripture out of the context, you can make a big mess 30 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:03,040 out of it very quickly. Do that because I believe this, 31 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:10,520 that this is one of the clearest, yet most controversial 32 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,280 passages in all of the New Testament. 33 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,400 Especially in our day. And that's difficult for some of 34 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:19,000 you to understand. How can it be so clear and yet 35 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,160 be so? We're going to talk about that a 36 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:27,600 little today, but it's not always been the case of this 37 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,240 passage being controversial. It's generally throughout church 38 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,400 history, been pretty widely accepted and clearly understood. 39 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:43,160 But historically, if we were to depend on where things might 40 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,280 have fallen off the track, we would probably have to start 41 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:52,680 somewhere. World War 2 or post World War 42 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:59,840 2IN what is known as the second wave of feminism in this country 43 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:06,960 and during the 1960s and the 1970s following the. 44 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:12,560 Second World War. And it is in that and it is 45 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,480 there that we see a headlong and vicious assault. 46 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:23,440 And that's what I will call it. Because against the biblical 47 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:30,640 role of women, the biblical role of women in the home and in the 48 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:36,840 biblical role of women in the church, There was a first wave 49 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,920 of prior to this second wave of feminism, a wave that was in the 50 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,960 late 18, early 1900s. And this wave of feminism fought 51 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,920 for the fact that women had suffered for a long time and and 52 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:58,240 true, they had been oppressed. But the second wave is quite 53 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:06,960 different because it wasn't just women from human oppression, but 54 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:11,120 unfortunately. The second wave is subverts the 55 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:14,640 word of God, suppresses the truth and attempts to change the 56 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:20,079 God-given role of women. Now it asks this question. 57 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:25,680 Any further, how many of you still believe that God's word is 58 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:31,600 infallible, inerrant, 100% God breathed. 59 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,200 It is the very word of God. How many of you still believe 60 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,120 that? Let let me make this easy. 61 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,520 How many of you don't believe that? 62 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,240 Because if you're going to have a hard time hearing anything 63 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:47,560 that I say today. Because we based everything that 64 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:49,280 we teach, we based everything that we believe. 65 00:04:49,280 --> 00:04:52,520 We based everything that we live here on the principle of sola 66 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:57,280 Scripture, Scripture alone. We believe that Scripture alone 67 00:04:57,280 --> 00:04:59,240 is the word of God. And Scripture alone dictates how 68 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,120 we live our lives, how we conduct our business, how we 69 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:06,400 worship, how we handle our affairs, even in this world. 70 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,120 So we turn to Scripture today and Scripture alone as we see 71 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,360 the call for godly women. Call for godly women. 72 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,160 Now, I told the men prior to this when we were praying case 73 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,800 you guys don't know this. There's men's prayer immediately 74 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,520 prior to the service out in the foyer. 75 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,000 For all you men who would desire to pray for us before the 76 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,480 service, we'd love to have you. We were out there and I let them 77 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,400 know we're going to be talking about the call for godly women 78 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,280 today. Now don't think for a second 79 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:43,040 that you guys are off the hook because we're preaching, because 80 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,080 it is your duty as men to lead them, and yes, even to lead them 81 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,680 in godliness as a godly woman, to teach them the scriptures, to 82 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,360 know the scriptures so you can teach them the scriptures so 83 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:56,400 that they can be the women that God desires them to be. 84 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,240 So you do have a role in this that we won't look at your 85 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:02,920 direct role to their direct role. 86 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,320 In hearing the call to be godly women. 87 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,760 First Timothy, chapter 2, verse 8. 88 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,080 Paul says, I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer 89 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:18,040 without anger or disputing. I I read that as I said a moment 90 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,040 ago to remind you of the context was calling on the church to 91 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,320 pray and to pray for specifically lost people, the 92 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,200 unbelieving. And he tells the man, here's 93 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:30,280 your role to lift up holy hands, right? 94 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Who can ascend the hill of the Lord? 95 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,280 He who has clean hands and a pure heart, He's saying, be of 96 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,440 pure conscience and of pure hands, lifting up those hands in 97 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,400 prayer without any anger or dispute, nonsense aside. 98 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,440 And then he's going to say this in verse 9. 99 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:52,040 I also want, he says likewise, I have some commands for the 100 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,520 women. I have a call for women and a 101 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,320 call that they need to hear and a call that they need to follow. 102 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:06,920 I also modestly with decency and propriety, not with braided hair 103 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,080 or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds 104 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,960 appropriate for women who profess to worship God. 105 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,840 Verse 11, it says a woman should learn in quietness and full 106 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,400 support. I do not permit a woman to teach 107 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,480 or to have authority over a man. She must be silent. 108 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,520 Again, he's talking about in the congregation in the assembly of 109 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,720 the Saints. He says for Adam was formed 1st 110 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,680 and then Eve and Adam was not the one deceived, it was the 111 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,960 woman who was deceived. But women will be saved through 112 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:46,560 childbearing if they continue in faith. 113 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,400 Love and holiness with propriety. 114 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,160 Let's pray to God the Father in the name of Jesus. 115 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,360 We thank you for your word. We thank you that it is true. 116 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,200 We thank you that culture is a man made thing. 117 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,680 Philosophy is both culture and philosophy could be full of 118 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,240 errors. And untruths and deception. 119 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,800 The Lord, we know that Your word is true and infallible and 120 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,600 inerrant. There is not one error in your 121 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,760 teaching. God, I pray today that You give 122 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:24,840 us by Your Spirit, with minds willing lives to obey. 123 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:30,880 Your word over culture, over the philosophies and the ideologies 124 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,440 of man. That we would obey Your word and 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,960 that we would bring glory to you in doing so, as you've called us 126 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:39,440 to do. Both men and women alike, we 127 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:42,240 pray and we ask things in Christ's name. 128 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,200 Amen. Now, I told you immediately as I 129 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,640 began my intro just a moment ago, that this is one of the 130 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:52,480 clearest passages in all of the New Testament, and I do believe 131 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:55,360 that. But that doesn't mean that it 132 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,520 comes without some difficulty. Right? 133 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,080 About verse 15. You saw the difficulty did 134 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,120 because from verse 9 all the way to verse 14, it was pretty plain 135 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,080 and simple the things that he taught. 136 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,120 But verse 15 takes a different turn when we kind of scratch our 137 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:15,040 head and we asked the question, what does it mean that women 138 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:17,480 will be saved through childbearing? 139 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,600 Now let me tell you this. You're not the first person who 140 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:23,520 got the question. So what I'm going to do is, 141 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:25,840 though I'm going to cover 9 through 15 today, I want to 142 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:29,000 start with 15, and I want to tell you what I believe that 143 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,480 verse 15 is saying so that nine through 14 will make sense as we 144 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,520 walk through the rest of this passage. 145 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,200 There are many people who say that when we read that text 146 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,800 there in verse 9, want women to dress modestly with decency and 147 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:47,080 propriety and braided hair, gold pearls, expensive clothes. 148 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,880 And he goes on and tells him what he wants and then he drops 149 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,360 to 15 and says, but women will be saved through childbearing. 150 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:58,960 Many people will say this, and this is 1 view. 151 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,680 This is a view that that I strongly disagree with. 152 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,400 This is the view that says women will be saved from the curse of 153 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,720 sin through literal childbirth, meaning this. 154 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:16,040 They interpret this to say when man fell to sin, man was cursed 155 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:18,080 and part of the curse that fell upon women. 156 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,160 And this is true. They will have childbirth. 157 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,680 And there are schools of thought that say women will be saved 158 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:30,160 because they are willing to endure the pain of childhood. 159 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,840 Now that would mean it's the women who have more children and 160 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,600 endure more pain. They're more holy, they're more 161 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,160 saved. Well, the problem with this is I 162 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,880 hope you immediate it from what we preach here all the time that 163 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:45,320 we are justified by grace alone, through faith alone and Christ 164 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,160 alone. If he's talking about salvation 165 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,720 and saying that a woman is going to be saved simply because she 166 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:54,160 has children, that would be a work, wouldn't it? 167 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:55,600 That would be no salvation at all. 168 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,160 And so that's a a school of thought that very quickly I can 169 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,560 throw out and say, because this would contradict everything that 170 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:06,720 the Apostle Paul told elsewhere in Scripture about being saved 171 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,480 by grace through faith and that alone. 172 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,120 The second view is this, and I find this view very interesting. 173 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,280 And I'll tell you this, there are many reformers who held on 174 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,960 to this view. Now what I really believe about 175 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,600 the next, the second view is that it was possibly a holdover 176 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,440 from Catholic interpretation. This is something that they just 177 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,360 didn't reform from the reformers. 178 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:35,840 And it says this, it says that women will be saved by child 179 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:41,240 bearing with this specific thing in mind, and I want you to talk 180 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:47,520 this through with me, that yes, a woman named Eve LED men into 181 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:57,520 sin, but a woman named Mary through birthings of Christ will 182 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:03,360 lead people out of sin, Barry actually, and her birth will 183 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,720 lead to the saving of souls. Now let me tell you this. 184 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:10,200 That's true 100%. But I don't think that's what 185 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,040 Paul is saying here, even though the reformers would say, but 186 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,640 it's fulfilling Genesis 315 and Genesis 3:15, if you're not 187 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,840 familiar. That is the promise of the 188 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,960 Messiah who would come, who though the serpent would strike 189 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,760 his heel, he would crush his head. 190 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:28,720 And So what many people would do is they interpret this verse 15 191 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,560 in saying that women are going to find the redemption in the 192 00:12:32,560 --> 00:12:36,120 fact that a woman, a virgin named Mary, bore a son and his 193 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,960 name is Christ. And of course, we find 194 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,120 redemption nowhere else other than Christ. 195 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:47,600 However, the reason that I can't take that view and accept that 196 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,920 view, though that view theologically would be 197 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:53,440 considered true. I don't think that's what Paul 198 00:12:53,440 --> 00:13:02,520 is saying here because he is in the context about a woman 199 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:09,440 singular. He's talking about women in the 200 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,280 plural. He's talking about those women 201 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,000 who are already followers of Christ because he is addressing 202 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,560 the church and he is addressing how we are to worship the Lord. 203 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,360 And so he's not talking about Mary singular. 204 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:28,240 He's actually talking about women in the plural. 205 00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:31,120 So then what is he saying? What what is a good 206 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,160 interpretation of this? And I think we find it the third 207 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:37,600 view as in my opinion, the most appropriate. 208 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:42,680 And because of my, it's my opinion, 100% correct. 209 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:46,560 Why? Simply because it's my opinion. 210 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,200 Just like if your opinion was your opinion, you would be right 211 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,960 until proven wrong. But I think that if we put it in 212 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,920 its context, and this is very important, you, you do know 213 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,200 this, right? The three most important things 214 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,120 in interpreting script, context and context. 215 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,040 Don't ever forget that. And so as we look at this in its 216 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,800 context, I think he is addressing a group of women and 217 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:15,280 and in fact specifically a group of believing women at Ephesus. 218 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:16,880 And so he is teaching them something. 219 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:21,760 What is he teaching them? Well, I think we here, when we 220 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:27,160 automatically assume, because we see in English the term saved, 221 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,240 that he's talking about salvation. 222 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,320 I don't think that he's talking about salvation at all. 223 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:34,680 Why? Because he's addressing women 224 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,320 that are already professing, as we will see in a moment to 225 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:42,320 follow God. He's addressing profession now. 226 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,560 I don't think he's talking about saved at all, though. 227 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,080 I think he is talking about redemption in a sense. 228 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,400 And he's talking about redemption as far as a woman's 229 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:57,240 usefulness to God and His plan for women, despite the fact that 230 00:14:57,240 --> 00:15:04,560 they were deceived in the Garden, LED mankind into sin and 231 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:10,520 into chaos. So I believe that this verse 15 232 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:16,120 teaches us that women will be saved or redeemed from the 233 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:23,040 stigma of being the ones who let all of us into this Mass. 234 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,040 And we can quickly see how that would be a stigma. 235 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,440 In fact, traditionally up until this point that Paul makes this 236 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:38,360 address, it was a stigma in the Jewish culture and in Jewish 237 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:43,680 worship, women could not ship in the same area as men. 238 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,800 But Paul is saying this, there is still redemption for women in 239 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,640 the fact that yes, they do have this stigma of leading all of 240 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:58,760 mankind into sin, but they will also be used by God to lead 241 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,600 their children out of sin. So he's saying they will find 242 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:08,840 redemption in the children that they produce and that they 243 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,080 nurture and that they admonish in the Lord. 244 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:16,680 He's saying this that women have a role, and the role has not 245 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:22,840 ceased simply because they were the the enemy used to deceive 246 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,680 mankind into falling into sin. There is hope. 247 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,560 Yet still for them now, I feel that this is the right 248 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:35,760 interpretation because of the context, not only of what we're 249 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:39,120 seeing here in First Timothy chapter 2, but the context of 250 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:44,800 everything that testament and in the Word of God throughout its 251 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,600 entirety. So now that I have established 252 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:53,240 that right, that most difficult thing, everything else about 253 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:58,440 this from verse 9 all the way to verse 15 ought to be crystal 254 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,119 clear thing that we read and something that we say, OK, 255 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:12,560 that's not hard to understand. God is calling women to be 256 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:16,720 godly. He is calling each and everyone 257 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:22,240 of you in this room who professed Jesus Christ as Lord 258 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:27,079 and Savior. He is calling you to be godly so 259 00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:31,840 that the next generation will be redeemed because of the 260 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:37,760 influence of their mothers. Well, so many times a mother's 261 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,840 role gets downplayed, doesn't it? 262 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,520 Can I say this just specifically about my family? 263 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,880 My children are now grown and have children of their. 264 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:51,520 Own. And though I spent as much time 265 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:58,080 as I could with my children when they were growing up, the time 266 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:04,360 that I spent with my children is minuscule compared to the time 267 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:07,240 that my wife spent with my children. 268 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:13,280 People wonder all the time. They ask me, Kirk, aren't you so 269 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:15,000 thankful how your children turn out? 270 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,480 Yes. Then they asked me this 271 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,360 question. What did you do? 272 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:26,680 I will tell you this. I attempted to pastor my wife to 273 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:33,160 the best of my ability because I knew how important her role was 274 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:38,960 in teaching our children. I was not going to let her live 275 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,800 with the stigma like Eve leading others into sin. 276 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,360 No, you have been redeemed from that stigma and you're in 277 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:51,520 Christ. You have a great responsibility 278 00:18:51,520 --> 00:18:53,920 to raise up the next generation in a godly fashion. 279 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,720 And I'm, I'm here to help you any way that I can and to 280 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,560 compliment your role as a godly woman. 281 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:05,400 That's the answer. I tell them, go talk to Brandy. 282 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,760 If it would have been up to me, I would have messed things up, 283 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,760 but I'm thankful that somewhere along the line she read the Word 284 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,320 of God and determined in her heart and her mind through the 285 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:18,120 power and persuasion of the Holy Spirit to be the godly woman 286 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,160 that she is today. What is a godly woman? 287 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:30,080 What does it mean to be called to be godly in this passage? 288 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:32,480 This is what we see, and I don't want you to lose sight of the 289 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,400 truth here because of all the controversy surrounding it. 290 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,920 The controversy is quite silly. It is cutting and it is clear. 291 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,200 So let's approach it today as such. 292 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,240 First, if you're taking notes, write this down. 293 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:51,480 Godly women are called to adorn themselves in godliness. 294 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,280 Watch what Paul does here. You ladies are going to like 295 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,960 this. He starts with your wardrobe. 296 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,000 He does. He is going to. 297 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:04,320 To you Christian women in this room, that it is so important 298 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:08,160 how you dress in your apparel, what you wear, you say, well, 299 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:09,960 what? Yes, watch what he says. 300 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,560 I also want women to dress modestly. 301 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:16,160 Now he just said, I want men to lift up holy hands in prayer. 302 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,960 And here's an important thing for women. 303 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:23,000 I want you to dress modestly. I want women to dress modestly. 304 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,400 When you come into the congregation to dress modestly 305 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,480 with decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or 306 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,640 pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds appropriate for 307 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,000 women who profess to worship God, He said. 308 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,240 You're professing believers, and as a professing and believing 309 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,440 woman, he attention to this pay. Attention to what you wear. 310 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:46,160 Many people would say he's making a parallel. 311 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,840 He's not yet he will in a moment. 312 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,280 What he's going to do, he's going to establish the 313 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:55,000 importance of a godly woman's apparel, the way you physically 314 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:59,280 dress. He describes it for us. 315 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,840 In fact, he takes great detail to describe it. 316 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:04,160 Of course, he says first modestly. 317 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:08,880 What does that mean? Well, to be modest means to not 318 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:16,520 be elaborate or sensual. He's telling women to refuse to 319 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:24,840 dress overly elaborate and refuse to dress overtly sexual. 320 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,520 Yes, this does have a sexual connotation. 321 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:33,400 When he says modest, what he's saying is that if you are 322 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:39,760 dressing in order to draw attention by the way you dress 323 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:45,600 of women or the attention of men, and you ladies know this, 324 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,520 you do both. I joke with my wife all the time 325 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:53,880 and I, I, I laugh and I say women dress to impress women 326 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,440 because baby, I really don't care. 327 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,920 I think you look really cute and no makeup and sweats and a ball 328 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:05,520 cap because I see her true beauty. 329 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,400 True beauty is not found in those things and I have grown in 330 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,480 the Lord enough to realize that. Now she thinks I'm crazy when I 331 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,440 say that. But ladies, let me tell you, 332 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,040 when your husband says that, he means that he is trying. 333 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:24,920 That those things have nothing to do with truly being a godly 334 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:27,800 woman. He says dressed modestly. 335 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,160 It's important that we learn this. 336 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,480 Why? So we can teach this, right 337 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:36,120 ladies? Anyone here seen a homecoming 338 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,000 picture or a prom picture? Lately. 339 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,360 I'm going to be honest with you, I have to get past them and 340 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:49,880 shame most of the time. There's a lot of times when on 341 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:52,320 social media these things are posted, I wonder are they going 342 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,040 to a homecoming or a prom or are they somewhere in Vegas trying 343 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:01,240 to earn a little extra money? He said. 344 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,520 What does that have to do with women? 345 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,400 They learned it from somewhere or someone who should be in an 346 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,520 authority in their life and a teacher in their life is 347 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:16,040 allowing it to happen first. Dad, that's your responsibility. 348 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,040 You tell mom no, she can't buy that dress. 349 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:19,720 I don't care how mad mom gets at you. 350 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,040 She needs to cover herself up. Why? 351 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,160 Because that's what godly women do. 352 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,040 We're teaching her to be a godly woman. 353 00:23:28,120 --> 00:23:30,240 We are not teaching her to be a prostitute. 354 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:35,680 You can just go on and buckle your seat belt. 355 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,600 We're going to talk about things today that they don't usually 356 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:48,120 talk about modestly, not overly elaborate nor overtly sexual. 357 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,720 Isn't it interesting that in our pornography driven culture our 358 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,600 styles have also become overly sexual? 359 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:04,080 Girls dressed the way an addicted young male counterparts 360 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:10,080 desire for them to dress moms. It's your job to put a stop to 361 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,680 it. How do you do that? 362 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,720 By the way you dress your apparel modestly. 363 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:18,280 He then goes on and he says with decency. 364 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,640 This takes another turn. Decency here is very interesting 365 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,440 because you know what it means. Reverence, Reverence and 366 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,000 reverence belongs to the Lord. He is actually telling the women 367 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:37,840 at Ephesus dress modestly. And dress worshipfully. 368 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:47,320 Time asking yourself this question, is what I'm wearing 369 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,880 something that would bring honor to God? 370 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:55,640 Is it something that is reverent? 371 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,200 I know we don't talk about reverence a lot anymore in the 372 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,160 church because we're real confused about what it means. 373 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,040 The ladies, I want to encourage you to be reverent in how you 374 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:09,360 dress humbly and gracefully. Can I help all of the aging 375 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:16,760 women in this room stop trying to be young, be reverent, be 376 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,920 humble, and be graceful. There is nothing more than an 377 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:26,320 older woman who dresses. And carries herself. 378 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,960 Gracefully and humbly out of reverence for the Lord and honor 379 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,000 for her husband. He says decency. 380 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,520 Seek to glorify God even in how you dress. 381 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,240 This would be crazy wouldn't instead of it just being the 382 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,920 latest style. So I buy it. 383 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:52,040 Lord, is this appropriate? Is this appropriate for one of 384 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,560 your children to wear in the assembly, for one of your 385 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,000 children to wear out in public? Now let me help you. 386 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,200 If it is tied and it is showing every curve of your body, or it 387 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,800 is so loose that it is showing all the things that no one but 388 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,960 your husband ought to see, you don't even have to pray that 389 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,840 prayer. You can just write it down. 390 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,440 It is not modest and it is not decent. 391 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,000 It's not reverent unto the Lord. But then he doesn't stop there 392 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,680 and he says and propriety says so much. 393 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,640 When we get down to the original meaning, it means soundness of 394 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:32,080 mind and self controlled. Ladies, are you of sound mind 395 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,680 and of self-control? When you dress yourself, are you 396 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,280 just doing what you do because fashion says do it? 397 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,480 That's not sound mind. Let's do it. 398 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,840 That's not sound mind. Are you just doing it because 399 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,720 you want to do it? That's not self-control, that's 400 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,640 you actually being out of control and being led by your 401 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,520 emotions and your feelings. We'll talk more about that in a 402 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:56,440 moment. The soundness of mine and self 403 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,240 controlled in our apparel. Ladies, please pay attention to 404 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,880 this. It means thinking of others when 405 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:08,800 you dress, considering other people, considering the example 406 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:13,240 that you're leaving or considering the lust of that 407 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:17,360 you're causing. Considering the example that 408 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,920 you're leaving or the lust of that you're causing. 409 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,560 Other people view what I am wearing. 410 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,080 You need to ask yourself this question. 411 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,840 How Will Young ladies see me? Will Young ladies see me hip, 412 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,920 cool and stylish? That's not the objective. 413 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:41,680 Well, others see me as sexy, sensual. 414 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,880 Those are questions that you must ask in our culture that is 415 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:52,040 designing women's clothing to be sexual and sensual. 416 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:54,560 Yeah. It's a question we don't find 417 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,800 ourselves asking as women much of the time. 418 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:04,560 Ask yourself, who calls to stumble by my apparel? 419 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:11,840 You say, What do you mean? I mean this when you come into 420 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,280 the congregation and you walk past someone else's husband and 421 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,400 you are dressed in a way that draws sexual attention to 422 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,040 yourself, but you just enabled him to do. 423 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,840 You enabled him to commit. Adultery in his mind when he 424 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,000 lusted after you because you left nothing to the imagination. 425 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,640 What about when you walk down the hall and that young girl 426 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,600 says I want she looks up to you and she she sees you 427 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:47,960 accentuating your body parts in a sensual or sexual way. 428 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,720 Do you not think that you've caused that young 1 to stumble 429 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,040 Here's what Jesus says about this. 430 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,200 You can take it or leave it. I pray that you would take it. 431 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,160 Matthew 18 verse six. He says if anyone causes one of 432 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,560 these little. Do you believe in me to stumble? 433 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,520 It would be better for them to have a large millstone hung 434 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,160 around their neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea. 435 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,960 Woe to the world because of the things that caused people to 436 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,000 stumble. Such things must come. 437 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,200 But woe to the person through whom they come. 438 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,040 Ladies, hear this woe. They come through you. 439 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,120 Your hand or your foot causes you to stumble. 440 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,880 Cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter 441 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,240 life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet to be 442 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,360 thrown into the eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to 443 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,080 stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. 444 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,480 It's better for you to enter life with one eye than to have 445 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,760 two eyes and to be thrown into the Most of the time we get to 446 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,920 that last part of the Scripture and we we just focus on that. 447 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,040 But the whole meaning of the Scripture is this. 448 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:51,920 Don't cause others to stumble because if you give no regard to 449 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,440 others, it reveals your true heart. 450 00:29:54,440 --> 00:30:02,960 You are still self-centered, self controlled emotions and 451 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,480 desires and. So you got to think of others 452 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:16,720 when you dress, refusing to put self desire over others over 453 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,960 what it may cause them to do. Yes, you may look good. 454 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:29,280 You may even look and feel sexy in that because you ladies know 455 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,560 what I'm talking about, right? When when you go to that 456 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:33,720 important thing and you put on that dress that you've never 457 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,880 worn before and you look in the mirror, mirror and you know that 458 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:42,640 you do look sexy in that love you Sexy is OK for your husband 459 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,920 at home in the confines of your own bedroom. 460 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,480 It's not OK in the congregation. Amen. 461 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,240 It's not OK in the congregation. I don't care if it is the style, 462 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:59,160 Go against the style. Create new styles. 463 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,040 We need them. It's not for the congregation. 464 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:04,640 Why? Because in doing so, you were 465 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,600 going to cause little ones who are here to worship the Lord, 466 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,840 whether that's little ones as the children or as little ones 467 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,640 in faith in Christ, you are going to cause them to stumble. 468 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,880 And he says it's better for you to have a millstone tied around 469 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,480 your neck and thrown into the sea. 470 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,680 I didn't make that up. That's red. 471 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,440 If you have a red letter edition, that's Christ. 472 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,600 What message are you sending to others? 473 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,400 Who are you causing to sin? Philippians chapter 2 says this. 474 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,280 It says in verse 3, do nothing out of selfish ambition or 475 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:36,560 vacancy. That means don't dress out of 476 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,880 selfish ambition or vain conceit or anything else rather than 477 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,320 humans above yourselves, not looking to your own interests, 478 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:46,160 but each of you to the interests of the others. 479 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:47,920 Ladies, let me just help you out. 480 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,000 The pornography industry in our culture is a multi billion 481 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:58,440 dollar industry. Even before the pornography 482 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,080 industry happened, men first. Why? 483 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,000 Because men are visual creatures. 484 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,320 They are excited by the things that they see. 485 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:13,880 Don't cause them to stumble by being ungodly in the way that 486 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:19,160 you approach your apparel, he says. 487 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:24,880 Modestly decent. With propriety, soundness of 488 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,880 mind, thinking of others, putting others above yourself, 489 00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,880 asking yourself this question. Could that that I'm wearing 490 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,920 'cause someone else to slip off into sin? 491 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:44,200 Be it vanity for that woman who admired, or be it lust for that 492 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,760 young man who's looking at me and gazing upon me in an 493 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,760 inappropriate way. Or that husband who's committed 494 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,840 and devote himself to be true and loyal to another woman who 495 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,360 sits here in this congregation together. 496 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,640 Yet by your dress you catch his eye. 497 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:03,400 It's not I that you are intended to catch. 498 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,560 That's his wife's job. You see the problem here, I hope 499 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,200 though it may be old fashioned in many people's eyes, and it 500 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,720 is. It's 2000 years old, but it's 501 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,080 still 100% applicable today and in the church. 502 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:23,600 Godly women are adorning themselves in godliness, their 503 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,840 apparel, he says. I I also want women to dress 504 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,680 modestly, with decency and propriety, not with braided hair 505 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:32,920 or gold or pearls or expensive clothes. 506 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,960 Here's what he's going to do. He moves from apparel to 507 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,440 accents. We know we all have to accent 508 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,120 everything, don't we? The Roman culture there, the 509 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:45,520 same braided hair, jewelry and all the things they had to have 510 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,440 them so that they fit the fashion that was going on there 511 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:54,120 in that culture that was surrounded around Artemis, the 512 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,560 false goddess. So he addresses accents. 513 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,640 What is he talking about here? Is he specifically gold pearls? 514 00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,800 Is it wrong for you to braid your hair? 515 00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:03,800 Is it wrong for you to color your hair? 516 00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:04,880 Is it wrong for you to have hair? 517 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:06,560 Is it wrong for you to have jewelry? 518 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,679 No, he's not saying that at all. Is it wrong for you to wear 519 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:09,920 makeup? No, Please do. 520 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,000 He's not saying any of those things. 521 00:34:18,639 --> 00:34:22,880 What he is doing is he is saying don't fall into the trap of 522 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:26,480 needless elaborations, needless enhancements. 523 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:31,000 Paul's not saying that you shouldn't fix your hair or wear 524 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,400 jewelry. He's saying women shouldn't use 525 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:38,560 these things to draw undue attention to themselves and away 526 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:43,000 from God when they come in. No, not to be a man in here 527 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,880 who's struggling when we're singing songs to Jesus about 528 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,600 focusing on the Lord and what he's done. 529 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,199 There ought not to be a man in here who's who's struggling with 530 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:53,719 focusing on that because you wear your clothes too tight or 531 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,320 you wear your clothes too loose. Whatever the case may be, That's 532 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,040 exactly what he's saying. And then he takes it a step 533 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,160 further and he says, and also don't add to it these needless 534 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,040 elaborations that don't mean anything. 535 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,680 This culture was being inundated with this, as you can tell from 536 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,680 the context. He mentions many things that are 537 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,840 nothing but elaborations and enhancements. 538 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,360 Paul didn't want Christian women to devote time to devote, to 539 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:26,880 devote energy to the fashions of the day and only draw attention 540 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:32,920 to the woman and away from God. Now the good thing is in our 541 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,920 culture. We don't struggle with this at 542 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,120 all. There's no danger in our culture 543 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,720 trap of extras and elaborations or enhancements, right? 544 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:51,440 No, that's sarcasm as intended. I'll tell you how dangerous it 545 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:58,920 is in our culture annually in the United States of America. 546 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:14,240 People spend $4 billion on Botox and facial fillers, $4 billion 547 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,520 to trick someone into thinking that they're not. 548 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:29,800 Really wrinkled under all that annually in the US. 1.4 to 1.6 549 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,400 billion dollars of revenue on breast augmentations and 550 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,000 liposuctions. That's not reconstructive after 551 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,200 breast cancer, that's just enhancements. 552 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,360 That's just add on operations because I guess you weren't 553 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,320 content with what? God had given you it wasn't 554 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:58,390 impressive enough. 8 to 10 billion on unneeded cosmetic 555 00:36:58,390 --> 00:37:02,280 surgery. By that, well, you didn't get in 556 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,560 a car wreck and half your face get knocked off in the accident 557 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,240 and you had to have reconstructive surgery and a 558 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,920 face rebuilt. That's not what I'm talking 559 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:13,040 about here. It's things you didn't need. 560 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,520 Well, you saw some influencer on social media who had a nose that 561 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,560 wasn't like your nose and you really like their nose. 562 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,280 So you took place and said, I want their nose. 563 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,880 They said OK, I specialize in noses here, I'll give you a new 564 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:32,600 nose. I can tell you this, I've 565 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:38,480 watched one episode of Botched and that was enough for me to 566 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:44,760 never kind of enhancement or some kind of elaborate change in 567 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,360 my face, right? If this wasn't Botched enough, 568 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:57,720 ladies are spending billions. Of dollars on needless 569 00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:05,280 elaborations and enhancements in our country, 17 to $18 billion a 570 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:11,040 year on cosmetic surgeries and alterations that do nothing but 571 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:15,240 draw attention to that person who is desiring attention. 572 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,880 Godly women are to adorn them and godly apparel modestly, 573 00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:28,400 decently, with propriety. Their accent, their dress. 574 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:32,000 Not with needless elaborations or enhancements. 575 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:33,680 Now I know. What was it wrong to wear 576 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,600 earrings? No, wear earrings. 577 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,640 But if you're wearing hubcaps to draw attention to yourself, 578 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:48,400 that's another he's talking about going beyond reasonable 579 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:54,200 for the mere desire to draw attention to yourself. 580 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,200 Why is that important? Woman of God, listen to me. 581 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,400 If you're drawing attention to yourself, you're not where it 582 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:08,600 belongs to the Lord. That's why he takes it a step 583 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,640 further. Now he makes this parallel. 584 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:14,520 He said instead of being dressed with immodest clothes and 585 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,280 undecent clothes and clothes that show you have no soundness 586 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,640 to mind or self-control. Or acts aberrant, right then 587 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:27,440 nobody even believes they're real, right? 588 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,920 4 inch eyelashes? Nobody's buying it. 589 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,200 Lips that make you look like Howard the Duck. 590 00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,000 If you're a kid from the 80s, sorry you missed it. 591 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,520 Don't go watch it. It's pre Christ. 592 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,160 He now makes the parallel and he says this but with good deeds 593 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,040 appropriate for women who profess to worship God. 594 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,640 He says don't worry about these outward things. 595 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,840 As much as you worry about what comes out of your life, inside 596 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,080 of your life, this is the proper display of beauty. 597 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,400 Paul's going to teach that instead of putting so much 598 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,120 effort and so much time and so much energy and so much money 599 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,120 into drawing attention to yourself so your girlfriends 600 00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,280 will say, oh girl, you look good on Facebook. 601 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,040 They're lying. They just want you to lie. 602 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,680 They post something, figure it out. 603 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,880 He says adorn yourself of godly action. 604 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,240 Godly woman should draw attention not to herself but to 605 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:36,080 God. First Peter, chapter 3, verse 3. 606 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,680 It says your beauty. Should not come from outward 607 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,960 adornment, such as elaborate of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 608 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,600 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading 609 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,000 beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit which is of great worth 610 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,600 in God's sight. Who are you trying to please? 611 00:40:54,840 --> 00:41:00,160 Who are you trying to impress? Peter saying almost verbatim 612 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:02,200 teaching here. He's saying this. 613 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,320 Live your life to impress the Lord. 614 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,160 We're going to see why in just a moment. 615 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,840 Showing your actions, your service to Him, bringing him 616 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,280 glory by being clothed, not as the world is clothed. 617 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:19,720 With styles and fashions and sensuality and sexuality would 618 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,680 be the service that bring glory to your heavenly Father. 619 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,760 This is a common analogy that Paul uses in Colossians. 620 00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,520 He uses clothing again to make this point. 621 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,080 He says in chapter 3 of Colossians verse 12. 622 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,720 Therefore, is God's chosen people wholly and dearly loved. 623 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:42,080 Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, gentleness 624 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,280 and patience, ladies. You'll be dressed in a way that 625 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:48,120 honors God. Clothe yourself with these 626 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,920 things. Bear with each other and forgive 627 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,960 one another. And any if any of you has a 628 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,040 grievance against someone, forgive as the Lord forgave you. 629 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,800 And over all these virtues, put on love which binds them. 630 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,360 What is he saying? Clothe yourself in godliness. 631 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:08,840 Make that a priority. Let that outshine any earrings 632 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:11,920 you would wear, any braided hair that you may have, any style 633 00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,760 that you may purchase. Let the glory of God and service 634 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,120 to Him outshine all those things in your life so that when people 635 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:23,120 see you, they don't see. It's important. 636 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,600 So may the women here who are hearing my voice and hearing the 637 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,320 word of God this morning adorn themselves in godliness and not 638 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,520 as the world chooses to adorn themselves. 639 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:34,880 Secondly. Godly women are not only to 640 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,080 adorn themselves in godliness, they are to avoid usurping God's 641 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,560 order. Pay attention, attention to what 642 00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,680 he says in this context. He says a woman should learn in 643 00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,800 quietness, in full submission. He didn't say kind of 644 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,400 submission, half hearted submission, pretend submission, 645 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,960 full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach 646 00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,640 her to have authority over a man. 647 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,800 Be silent. For Adam was formed first, then 648 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:05,600 Eve. Now I know what the people who 649 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,360 come against this passage of Scripture try to say. 650 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,440 This is where they say Kirk. That was just for Ephesus 651 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,400 because of the influence of Diana or or or who is otherwise 652 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,040 known as Artemis. That is just talking to Ephesus. 653 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:26,920 Let me make this very clear. This is talking to any culture 654 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,600 and any church that would usurp God's order and God's authority. 655 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,800 You know how I know that? That's why I read verse 8 for 656 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,760 you. That would be like saying men 657 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:43,360 lifting holy hands in prayer was limited to just Ephesus and 658 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,840 there's no need for us to do the same anymore, right guys? 659 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,720 No, absolutely not. That's foolish. 660 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:52,560 But it's only this particular part of this passage where we 661 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,000 try to say, oh, this is just written in light of Artemis. 662 00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:58,120 That was Artemis influential? You bet. 663 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:02,360 Was Artemis worship influential? Did it affect the culture? 664 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,600 Yes. Did it affect women? 665 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,920 Absolutely. The same thing would be written 666 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,680 to a culture that had no Artemis but still struggled with the 667 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:17,640 same thing because he's speaking it to our culture even this day. 668 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,480 Paul's not calling women ignorant. 669 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,440 You know how I know that? He said a woman should learn. 670 00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,560 He wants you to learn. It says here's the way that you 671 00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:29,360 are to learn in the congregation. 672 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,640 He wants you to learn. That's great news. 673 00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,320 Why? Because the women of the Old 674 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,160 Testament weren't even permitted to learn. 675 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,080 They didn't even come into the same courts as the men for 676 00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,120 worship to learn as the men were. 677 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:44,360 He's saying you're in there, you're assembly, you're 678 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,440 assembled, you're an assembly and you have the right now and 679 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,040 the duty to learn. So he's not saying to be 680 00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,920 ignorant and unlearned. He's not saying to be silent, 681 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,400 barefoot, pregnant in the kitchen. 682 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:58,120 He's not talking about the kitchen at all. 683 00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:04,160 He's referring. To the assembly, he's referring 684 00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:06,680 to an assembly just like this, who has joined together on the 685 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:10,200 Lord's Day to worship and honor the Lord. 686 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,080 And he is saying to them that you are to learning quietness 687 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,720 and full submission to your husband. 688 00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,280 Quietness and full submission to the male leadership and 689 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:22,040 authority in that first to your husband. 690 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,800 And then to those male pastors and elders who direct the 691 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,760 affairs of the church and who teach the word of God. 692 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,240 This is the way that it has always been throughout church 693 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:34,120 history. Again, it wasn't into the last 694 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:41,760 100 years that this has even been a topic for debate or not 695 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:50,240 to exercise speaking gifts and leadership gifts in positions of 696 00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:54,520 authority in the Congregation of the Saints. 697 00:45:56,080 --> 00:46:01,440 For those of you who would say that's just for Ephesus to the 698 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:05,440 Corinthian church, First Corinthians chapter 14. 699 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:14,680 On the subject of speaking gifts in the congregation and 700 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,920 instructions on orderly worship, here's what Paul instructs to. 701 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:26,400 He says for God is not a God of disorder verse 33, but it's but 702 00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:31,120 of peace and then he says. As in all the congregations of 703 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:34,040 the Lord's people. This is the way it is throughout 704 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,320 the church. All congregations of the Lord's 705 00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:37,680 people. How many of you here today 706 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,640 belong to Jesus Christ? Raise your hand. 707 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,120 Just a congregation of the Lord's people. 708 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,720 All right, here's what he says. Women should remain silent in 709 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:50,240 the churches. Is he saying that you shouldn't 710 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,360 talk to your friends in the hallway? 711 00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,880 No, he's talking about the context of speaking and teaching 712 00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,080 leadership. He said women should remain 713 00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,560 signed and the churches there, but must be in submission as the 714 00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:06,120 law says. What is he doing? 715 00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:09,320 He's going all the way back to the Old Testament to remind you 716 00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:10,960 of what Paul is reminding the church. 717 00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:12,080 Here at Alpha. System Timothy. 718 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,360 He says that they want to inquire about something. 719 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,720 They should ask their own husbands at home. 720 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,360 I know husband, it's time for you to freak out. 721 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:19,440 But what if I don't know the answer? 722 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:23,400 Open your answer and start pastoring your home like you 723 00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:27,200 should do. I need to say that again. 724 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,560 Open your Bibles. Study to show yourself a Workman 725 00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:36,560 who is approved rightly dividing the word of truth. 726 00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,680 Why? Because you are the pastor of 727 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,320 your home. Your wife's depending on you. 728 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,800 I told you, men, they can't be the godly women they need to be 729 00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,160 until you devote yourself to being the godly man that you 730 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:51,080 need to be. If they want to inquire about 731 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,080 something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is 732 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,800 it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. 733 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:03,960 Now let me remind you that was not inundated with the teachings 734 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,440 of Artemis. The following of Artemis that 735 00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:10,000 was to the Corinthian. Church and there at the 736 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,080 Corinthian church, he says, and this applies to all the 737 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,400 congregations of the Saints, meaning this this applies to key 738 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,440 life fellowship right now in 2026. 739 00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,040 And for anybody to tell you anything else is to sub. 740 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,720 The Word of God, and to pervert the word of God before your very 741 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:25,800 eyes. Don't fall for it. 742 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,960 These roles always have and always will be reserved for men. 743 00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:35,880 He's not giving them any new teaching. 744 00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,720 Here he says a woman should learn in quietness and full 745 00:48:38,720 --> 00:48:42,600 submission teacher to have authority over men, she must be 746 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:44,360 silent. Why he gives you the answer. 747 00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,680 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 748 00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,600 What is he doing? He's going all the way back to 749 00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:53,440 the law, just as he said. In First Corinthians chapter 14, 750 00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,040 he's going back to the Torah and he is saying this. 751 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:58,040 Remember back in Genesis what happened. 752 00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:04,320 Now what happened? God created things in a certain 753 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,880 way, and he goes back and he says even creation. 754 00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,600 Tells us that. What he's saying is this, that 755 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,560 women must avoid usurping God's authority. 756 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:16,600 Why? First of all, because his 757 00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,360 authority and this authority that he's established in the 758 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:24,240 church is God himself by his word throughout time, throughout 759 00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,480 culture. This is not an Ephesian command, 760 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,880 as I've already I hope made that point, as many even liberal 761 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:33,760 evangelicals will claim, but it is the very word of God. 762 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,800 First Corinthians 11, verse three, it says this, but I want 763 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,760 you to realize that the head of every man is Christ in the head 764 00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,760 of the and the head of Christ is God. 765 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:46,680 Do you see the order there? Don't get that out of whack. 766 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,440 Don't lose sight of that. There's a purpose for that. 767 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:53,920 It's God's design you're going to see in a moment, and it's for 768 00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,200 a reason. And ladies, your role as a 769 00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:59,840 woman, as we will see in a moment, is a beautiful role and 770 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:04,760 a but you can't fulfill your role if you are usurping God's 771 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,840 order in the church and in the home, or even both. 772 00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:09,800 Because usually in generally it works that way. 773 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,680 The one who tries to usurp the authority in the church is also 774 00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,560 trying to usurp the authority in the home. 775 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:19,080 Funny how that always goes hand in hand First Peter chapter 3 If 776 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,800 you don't believe it's the word of God lives in the same way, 777 00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,200 submit yourself to your own husbands so that if any of them 778 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:27,080 do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by 779 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,520 the behavior of their wives dressed in godliness when they 780 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:33,280 see the purity and. Reverence of your lives. 781 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:34,520 What is he saying? If you got an unbelieving 782 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:35,840 husband, you know what you ought not to do. 783 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,120 You ought not to nag him to death about coming to church 784 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,800 with you. You ought not to nag trying to 785 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,000 cram the gospel down his throat. You know what you ought to do. 786 00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:49,760 Clothe yourself in godliness, stop nagging Him, and live a 787 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:52,160 virtuous and reverent life before him. 788 00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,440 And you know what? God tells us that's going to get 789 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,000 his attention. Why? 790 00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:02,480 Because God has designed us as men to have a run when someone 791 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,000 is godly before eyes, especially a female. 792 00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,480 That's why. When men are young, you know 793 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:07,960 what they do when they're looking for a girlfriend? 794 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:11,160 They go out to where all the people are partying when they 795 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,320 sit. Down they start looking for a 796 00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:13,120 wife. You know where they come to. 797 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,280 Church. True story. 798 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,080 Why? Because there's nothing more 799 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,200 alluring to us than a woman of virtue. 800 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:24,800 Why? Because she's hard to find. 801 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,600 Is that not what Proverbs 31 tells us? 802 00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:31,560 Who can find someone like this? It's not an easy catch. 803 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,240 So wives be that kind of wives because it's designated by God 804 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:44,720 to do so. He says this. 805 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,080 Sure, to teach the women to be self controlled and pure, to be 806 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,720 busy at home, to be kind and to be subject to their husbands. 807 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:53,400 Why? We saw it in our scripture 808 00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,480 reading. So that no one will malign the 809 00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:56,320 word of God. What is He? 810 00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:02,080 Talking about so that no one will say that create of whack in 811 00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,000 your home. They won't say things like this. 812 00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:11,200 She tells him what pants to wear, or in fact, he might even 813 00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:14,240 be wearing her pants. Maybe she ought to give him his 814 00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:17,680 pants back. We know that there are many 815 00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,920 other illustrations that are used. 816 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,640 Why? Because the very Word of God 817 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,400 teaches us that a woman is not to have authority over a man. 818 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:36,200 Not in the home and not in the church because it's defined by 819 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,520 creation order. This is what Paul goes to for 820 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:43,200 Adam was he wants you to understand the order of the way 821 00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:46,440 things happen. In case you forgot this order 822 00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,880 was not post fall. Don't don't think that this 823 00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,680 order happened just because man and women fell into sin. 824 00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:53,600 This is pre fall. This is at creation. 825 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,120 This is the order that God established. 826 00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,800 Adam was formed 1st and then Eve. 827 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:03,000 You don't believe me? Turning 2 and we'll look at it. 828 00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,920 Says this in verse. 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in 829 00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,680 the Garden of Eden to work it and care and take care of it, 830 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,360 And the Lord God commanded the man. 831 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,160 You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must 832 00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,520 not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for 833 00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,480 when you eat from it, you will certainly not die before there 834 00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:23,280 was ever an Eve. I want you to pay attention to 835 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,680 this, because you know what happened in the Garden when 836 00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:30,760 mankind fell into sin. Woman. 837 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:37,200 Usurped the authority of man. And man usurped the authority of 838 00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:41,640 God. Watch this from the tree of the 839 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:43,400 knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it, you will 840 00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,160 certainly die. Verse 18. 841 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,280 The Lord God said, It is not good for man to be alone, I will 842 00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,720 make a suitable helper for him. Now the Lord God had formed out 843 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:55,320 of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the 844 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,000 sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would name 845 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,280 them. And whatever the man creature, 846 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:04,120 that was its name. So the man gave names to all the 847 00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,360 livestock, the birds in the sky, and all the wild animals. 848 00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,240 But for Adam no suitable help helper was found. 849 00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,960 So the Lord God calls the man to fall into a deep sleep, and 850 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,320 while he was sleeping he took one of the man's ribs and then 851 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:21,520 closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a he had 852 00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,960 taken out of the man and he brought her to the man and the 853 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:31,760 man said he got to name her. This says he did all of the rest 854 00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:35,600 of God's creation. And the man said, this is now 855 00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:38,080 bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 856 00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:44,160 She shall be called was taken out of man fast. 857 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:48,320 Forward here to Ephesus here in the letter of First Timothy. 858 00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,120 Paul reminds them, he reminds the ladies there that Adam was 859 00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:58,600 formed first, then Eve. This is the creative order. 860 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:06,480 This is what God intended. Basic creation order defines for 861 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:10,400 us the order of God in the relationship of men and women, 862 00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,720 both in the home and in the church. 863 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:16,040 They are always a direct reflection of one another. 864 00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,480 And so to our liberal do. This. 865 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:27,520 We mustn't rewrite scripture just to fit your agenda. 866 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,040 Because when we take them back to Genesis chapter 2, you know 867 00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,600 what they then say, well, Genesis chapter 2 can't be real. 868 00:55:33,720 --> 00:55:36,800 I mean, how realistic is it that that God would open up man's 869 00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,280 side and he would create a woman from that? 870 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,920 So let's just completely right. So now we got Genesis One 871 00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,360 through 11. Let's erase it. 872 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,240 Now we can believe anything in all the world that we want to 873 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:49,600 believe. If all doesn't let us do that, 874 00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,440 he says go back to Genesis 2 and you see the order. 875 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:05,280 The roles are defined by God and we are not to usurp God's order 876 00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:10,360 that He has set in place. This has been designated by God 877 00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,000 and His Word over and over again. 878 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:16,920 It's defined by creation order, and when you see the beauty of 879 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:21,960 it is depicting the relationship of Christ and the church, it is 880 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,080 depicting the relationship of Christ in the church, and 881 00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:28,040 there's no more beautiful relationship in all of creation. 882 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,640 Just as the wife submits to her husband, so the church submits 883 00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:39,440 to Christ. And oh, what benefits the church 884 00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:44,360 receives from wives. If you will learn this, when you 885 00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,640 submit to your husbands as unto the Lord, you will reap great 886 00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,040 benefits that you never could have imagined. 887 00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:57,080 You will be blessed by God for your obedience and you will be 888 00:56:57,080 --> 00:57:03,360 blessed by your husband when he sees it in submissive spirit and 889 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,880 he knows that that didn't come from you because he knows what 890 00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:11,520 you are in your flesh. He will quickly say that is a 891 00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:12,720 work of God. You know what you'll do. 892 00:57:12,720 --> 00:57:14,040 You'll cause your husband to worship. 893 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,560 He'll thank God for the work that God has done in his wife. 894 00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:22,720 What a beautiful picture the submissive wife get eject when 895 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,640 properly understood and when she doesn't continue to try to usurp 896 00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,040 authority. Ephesians 5 verse 22, it says 897 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,600 Wives submit to yourselves. To your own husband's. 898 00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,920 As you do to the Lord, he says, just like that full submission. 899 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,080 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ, as the head 900 00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,040 of the Church, his body, what she is the Savior. 901 00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:45,200 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should 902 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,640 submit to their husbands in everything. 903 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,240 This is not just talking about sexual submission as many people 904 00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:57,320 have tried to make it. Submit to your husband's in 905 00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,680 everything. But what if he's not things? 906 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:07,600 He's going to give an account to the Lord, and so will you for 907 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,280 not submitting to Him. Pay attention to what the Word 908 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:14,120 of God teaches. There is a reason Ephesians 909 00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:19,440 chapter 5 is not teaching us about the family, about the 910 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,120 roles of men and women in the church. 911 00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:24,160 It's teaching us about the church. 912 00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,960 The given here was the fact that people already understood 913 00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:30,560 biblically that the husband is the head, the leader of the 914 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:33,760 wife, and the wife is to take a submissive and complimentary 915 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,280 complimentary role to him. That they are to work together 916 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,680 to bring glory to God as one flan. 917 00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:42,640 So see it. See it for what it is. 918 00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:49,240 Stop fighting your fleshly desires to fit into the liberal 919 00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:54,000 culture of the day. Surrender to the call to be a 920 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:58,320 godly woman, resisting your flesh, your urges to usurp God's 921 00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,120 authority. Do you know this after the fall 922 00:59:00,960 --> 00:59:02,520 that this was the way it was going to be? 923 00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,720 He said that wives would desire their husbands. 924 00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,200 He didn't mean to desire them sexually or sensually. 925 00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,600 What he meant was to desire their leadership position. 926 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,080 Don't continue to walk in your follow your fallen name. 927 00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:24,040 Attempting to usurp the authority and order of God. 928 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:30,800 Submit to God today and display that by submitting not only to 929 00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:34,960 your husband, submitting in the congregation to the role that 930 00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:37,520 God has for women even in the church. 931 00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:43,360 Lastly, we've seen godly themselves in godliness to avoid 932 00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:48,240 usurping God's authority in His order, but godly women are to 933 00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:53,520 accept their God ordained role. You are to put these shoes on, 934 00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,480 take your husband's shoes off, let him have them. 935 00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,800 You put yours on, you accept your God ordained role. 936 01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:06,200 Here's what he said it is he says verse 14, and Adam was not 937 01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,120 the one deceived. It was the woman who was 938 01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:09,800 deceived and became a Sinner, right? 939 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,480 We talked about the stigma earlier, boy, that put a stigma 940 01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,400 on women, the ones who are easily deceived and fall into 941 01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:18,960 sin and lead others into sin. Is that not what happened? 942 01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:23,600 Yes, it is what happened. When they assume their God 943 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,160 ordained role here it is, but women will be saved through 944 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:29,480 childbearing if they continue in faith, love and holiness with 945 01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:32,160 propriety. Paul here is calling Christian 946 01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:34,960 women to accept their God-given roles. 947 01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:39,440 He makes this point that even though Eve was deceived and 948 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:45,360 ultimately LED all of mankind into sin because she was 949 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:50,080 deceived by the serpent. God still has a role. 950 01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:54,000 God still has a plan for her in his Kingdom. 951 01:00:54,240 --> 01:01:02,160 God still has a plan of redemption for woman is to raise 952 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,320 godly children. You as godly women in this room, 953 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:11,320 you ought to accept that role no matter what culture wants to 954 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:13,240 tell you. Culture is going to tell you 955 01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,160 this. You have to have two incomes, 956 01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:22,880 you have to have success, you have, you have to be somebody, 957 01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,760 you have to use the degree your parents paid for it, for crying 958 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,880 out loud. Or you might still be paying for 959 01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:37,240 it, but God says there's no shame in accepting your God 960 01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:44,080 ordained role. Godly woman whose objective in 961 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:50,120 life is to glorify God by. Teaching the next generation how 962 01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:53,520 to glorify God. First, I want you to see this. 963 01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,800 You're to accept your God ordained role even as those who 964 01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,560 are the weaker vessel just all the time. 965 01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,640 When you say the woman is the weaker vessel, you need to 966 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:06,480 understand that that's what Paul is saying here when he says Adam 967 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,720 was not the one deceived. It was the woman who was 968 01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:11,560 deceived and became a Sinner. He's making very clear as to why 969 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:16,640 she is the weaker vessel back first Peter chapter 3 verse 7 970 01:02:16,640 --> 01:02:19,160 tells us that husbands in the same way, be considerate as you 971 01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:22,640 live with your wives as the weaker partner. 972 01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:26,800 What does he mean by calling them a weaker partner? 973 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:30,200 He's not saying that they are inferior to man. 974 01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:34,040 Everybody understand that. Don't leave here today and 975 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:38,280 accuse Kirk Hall of saying that that women are inferior to men. 976 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,920 They're not inferior. They have a different but a 977 01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:46,760 God-given role. Part of that means accepting the 978 01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:48,640 fact that they. Are a weaker vessel. 979 01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:57,120 No, they're not inferior to men spiritually or in their 980 01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,520 relationship to Christ. That would violate Galatians 981 01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,880 chapter 3. Neither male nor female, nor Jew 982 01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:04,720 nor Greek. We're all the same in Christ. 983 01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,040 That's not what I'm saying at all. 984 01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,720 But what I am saying is emotionally and physically, 985 01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:15,680 women are weaker by nature. No matter. 986 01:03:15,680 --> 01:03:17,560 Watch this. No matter what the transgender 987 01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,040 movement might be trying to say in the court system right now, 988 01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,840 that a man really has no advantage athletically. 989 01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:27,720 Over a woman. Is that so? 990 01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:31,640 I've made this challenge every time that I have preached this 991 01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:33,800 passage of Scripture. I will make it again. 992 01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,640 Any woman in this room right now who wants to arm wrestle me 993 01:03:39,120 --> 01:03:47,160 right here, I'm willing. Now come on, I'm a four eyed, 994 01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:52,720 Gray haired old man. But you know this. 995 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:58,200 I have this to my advantage. I'm a male and generally 996 01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,280 speaking, I'm not saying that there's not a woman who couldn't 997 01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:05,360 beat me in arm wrestling. I'm saying there's not a woman 998 01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,440 here who's fool enough to even step up to the challenge 999 01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:10,360 because, you know, that percentage says I'm going to 1000 01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:14,560 beat you. Now, I am thankful that every 1001 01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:16,800 time I make that challenge, no one steps up. 1002 01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:24,280 Same thing to me in all the world, as if a woman beat me on 1003 01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:29,960 the pulpit arm wrestling. But I say this to make a point. 1004 01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:39,360 Women are generally the weaker vessel and physical strength and 1005 01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:45,040 emotional, no matter what anyone else wants to say. 1006 01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:50,320 And the context points to this fact that women were and still 1007 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:58,880 are easily deceived by their feeling, by their emotions, by 1008 01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,440 their flesh. They're more vulnerable 1009 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:06,360 emotionally. They're less logical than men. 1010 01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:14,360 We know this to be true just by very nature. 1011 01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:19,560 But yet we still let the liberal voices try to get us to 1012 01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:23,840 question. This is not up for debate. 1013 01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,240 Women are the weaker vessel and they need to accept their role 1014 01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:33,200 as the weaker vessel, not an inferior vessel. 1015 01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:37,400 They are that flower that we see growing out in the flower bed, 1016 01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:43,520 beautiful and colorful, of great worth compared to that rock 1017 01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:45,200 laying on the ground. That would be the male. 1018 01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,120 But yet that same rock could inadvertently crush that 1019 01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:55,880 beautiful and delicate flower. They are the weaker vessel. 1020 01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:59,120 Know that. Know that going into this, 1021 01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:02,000 ladies and roll. Why? 1022 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,280 Because when you admit your weakness, you'll depend upon 1023 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:08,560 God's strength. When you admit your weakness, 1024 01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,440 you'll depend upon the strength and the rationale of your 1025 01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:15,560 husband, and you won't depend upon your feelings and your 1026 01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:17,520 emotions. Because we know this, don't we? 1027 01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:18,800 Ladies? Let's just be honest. 1028 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:27,240 They are ever wavering. And Paul's making that case was 1029 01:06:27,240 --> 01:06:29,880 Eve that was deceived, and she was deceived by her feelings, 1030 01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:32,960 her emotions. She saw the fruit, it looked 1031 01:06:32,960 --> 01:06:34,680 good, she touched it, it felt good, and she ate it and it 1032 01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:38,600 tastes good. Total impulse, right? 1033 01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:48,080 None of you women was on have you Sheen total impulse see 1034 01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:50,280 yourselves as those who are the weaker vessel if you're going to 1035 01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:54,720 accept your God ordained role. Secondly, though you see 1036 01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,360 yourself as the weaker vessel. I want you also to see yourself 1037 01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,560 as those of great worth and value. 1038 01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,400 See that important word there in verse 15? 1039 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:13,400 But but the women are the weaker vessel because they come from 1040 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,560 Eve and they are easily deceived and they are LED astray by their 1041 01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:24,870 feelings and their emotions. But the woman was deceived by 1042 01:07:24,870 --> 01:07:29,590 Satan in the garden. Women still have great worth and 1043 01:07:29,590 --> 01:07:32,230 value in the Kingdom of God. What is that worth and value? 1044 01:07:32,230 --> 01:07:34,670 Well, it's what the world will tell you not to find your worth 1045 01:07:34,670 --> 01:07:35,750 in. They'll say don't find your 1046 01:07:35,750 --> 01:07:37,390 worth. Don't don't find your worth and 1047 01:07:37,390 --> 01:07:44,120 just being a mom. No ladies find your worth there 1048 01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:47,800 because that is where you find the worth that God gives you. 1049 01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:56,720 They are a vessel that God uses to point the next generation to 1050 01:07:56,720 --> 01:08:02,880 new birth in Christ. They are God used to bring that 1051 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,160 child, one of his elect, into this. 1052 01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:09,200 World so that they could hear the gospel from from someone 1053 01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:15,240 none other than their mother, so that they could believe and so 1054 01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:17,920 that they could be saved and so that they could be cleansed of 1055 01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:19,800 all their sin and have the hope of eternal life. 1056 01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:25,040 That you don't have a role. Of great worth and value. 1057 01:08:25,040 --> 01:08:33,200 You should view child rearing as the highest calling that a woman 1058 01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:36,479 could ever have in this life. You shouldn't be upset when I 1059 01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:39,479 say things like you shouldn't be a pastor as a woman. 1060 01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:44,720 You should remain congregation if I give you the rest of it. 1061 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:51,160 But what you should do instead, as you take your time, your 1062 01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:54,000 energy, your resources, your love for God, your love for your 1063 01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:57,319 children, and you pour Christ into your kids as much as you 1064 01:08:57,319 --> 01:09:03,479 can. I get tired of hearing mom say 1065 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:05,800 that all I am is a stay at home mom. 1066 01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,399 You don't know how valuable you are yet. 1067 01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:15,200 Please see it. Where Eve LED all of mankind 1068 01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:17,240 into sin because she was deceived. 1069 01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,920 You can lead mankind out of sin as a mom. 1070 01:09:24,399 --> 01:09:27,920 What a great duty. What worth you do have in the 1071 01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:33,040 Kingdom of God? View it as a high calling. 1072 01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:43,439 A high calling to make spirit who loves the Lord still. 1073 01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:45,279 Kirk, you don't understand. I can't have children. 1074 01:09:45,279 --> 01:09:49,200 How can this apply to me? The older women are to teach the 1075 01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,040 younger women. Find women in this congregation 1076 01:09:52,319 --> 01:09:56,320 who don't have godly moms and women that are discipling them. 1077 01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:58,720 And you be a. Spiritual mother to them. 1078 01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:04,080 How about that about this? Their kids being abandoned left 1079 01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,000 and right up for adoption. Adopt A child. 1080 01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,920 Teach them about Jesus. So you think God's calling all 1081 01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:11,360 the people to adopt children? No. 1082 01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,240 I think that's a special calling from God. 1083 01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:14,920 If he leads you to do it, do it. He's going to give you the 1084 01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,080 resources to do it and then pour Christ into them. 1085 01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:28,440 Except your God ordained role is 1 of great worth and value not 1086 01:10:28,440 --> 01:10:30,560 only to your husband and to your children, but to the Kingdom of 1087 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:34,080 God. He by his own design. 1088 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:43,200 Promises to redeem you through of children, birthing those 1089 01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,840 children in painful agony. And I know it's painful. 1090 01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:51,680 I've never had childbirth. Somebody told me it was akin to 1091 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,240 kidney stones, and I've had three or four of those. 1092 01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:59,680 And so I understand. You know what's interesting 1093 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:03,160 about you have a gorgeous and a precious gift from God. 1094 01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:05,960 All I had was a stone that I had to take to your urologist to 1095 01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:09,200 have it tested to see why I was having kidney stone. 1096 01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,040 You have something precious that he's trusted you with. 1097 01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:17,320 The next generation, they're depending upon you. 1098 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:25,240 The ordained role as the weaker vessel has those of great worth 1099 01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,680 and value, and as those who teach worship and virtue. 1100 01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:30,120 Watch what he says. But women will be saved through 1101 01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:35,800 childbearing if here's the condition here, if they continue 1102 01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:43,200 in faith, love and holy with propriety, he said. 1103 01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,520 You'll be safe through childbearing if you give them 1104 01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,240 the godly example that you were supposed to give to them. 1105 01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:57,120 The whole stigma of woman being the weaker vessel that led men 1106 01:11:57,120 --> 01:12:04,800 into sin and you devoting yourself. 1107 01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:11,040 To teach worship and virtue to your children how through your 1108 01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:15,040 example, your example, watch this your example of what he 1109 01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:19,240 says it faith pointing your children to true faith in God 1110 01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:21,560 through the Lord Jesus over again. 1111 01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,920 I can't tell you how many times my wife presented the gospel to 1112 01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:34,920 my grown children, but I can confidently say that she 1113 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,520 presented the gospel to my grown children far more times than I 1114 01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:46,800 ever did, which I'm thankful because it is through her 1115 01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:50,280 example. My children are believers today. 1116 01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:52,480 We know it's because of the grace of God that this is His 1117 01:12:52,480 --> 01:12:57,760 instrument that He uses. If they continue in faith, 1118 01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:02,800 thankful for a wife who continues continued in faith as 1119 01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:04,600 she pointed her children to Christ. 1120 01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,600 True faith in God, that only comes through submission to the 1121 01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,600 Lord Jesus, trusting and teaching. 1122 01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:14,560 It's only through the gospel that a person has ever saved. 1123 01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:23,560 About my children, they're growing. 1124 01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:27,400 They both serve the Lord. What's the secret? 1125 01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,640 There's no secret, there's just scripture. 1126 01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:36,040 And when a woman accepts their God ordained role and a man 1127 01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:39,720 accepts his God ordained role, God does what God promises to do 1128 01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:47,120 through their faith. Oh, just yesterday I got to 1129 01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,880 witness one of the most precious things to me so far in my life. 1130 01:13:54,840 --> 01:14:02,080 I sat in a restaurant and I had my 17 I believe months month old 1131 01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:03,840 granddaughter. She's 17 months. 1132 01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:11,160 Sounds close or 18. I know I've only forked out cash 1133 01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:15,600 for one birthday so far but I can't wait till the 2nd. 1134 01:14:19,480 --> 01:14:32,880 I got that jade who made you? She said God named me, I'll give 1135 01:14:32,880 --> 01:14:34,280 you the translation. God made me. 1136 01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:47,200 I said what else? She said everything, everything. 1137 01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,960 And then asked why did God make everything? 1138 01:14:57,520 --> 01:15:08,520 She says, but for his glory. How does she know this? 1139 01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:17,440 She has a mom who is willing to go against the grain, who has 1140 01:15:17,440 --> 01:15:22,120 found her worth in Christ and is teaching them to find their 1141 01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:26,240 worth in Christ. She has accepted her God 1142 01:15:26,240 --> 01:15:33,160 ordained role and already we are seeing the fruits of it already. 1143 01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:39,520 I'm thankful also for my son and for his wife. 1144 01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:51,800 I am for Jordan and Tyler and JoJo as you know her already for 1145 01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:57,360 Knox can even talk reading him the truth of scripture, playing 1146 01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,920 him songs that edify and glorify Christ. 1147 01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:12,320 Because this is important ladies, be willing to accept 1148 01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:17,640 your God ordained role. Stop listening to society and 1149 01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:22,520 culture. Caved through childbearing, 1150 01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:26,560 meaning this you will find redemption seeing the next 1151 01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:30,280 generation come to know God if you continue in faith, the one 1152 01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:32,320 true faith, the gospel of Jesus Christ. 1153 01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:36,000 He says in love, the love that is described there in first 1154 01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,600 Corinthians chapter 13 where it says in verse 4 love is patient, 1155 01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:42,720 love is kind, does not boast, it is not proud, it does not 1156 01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:44,520 dishonor others. It is not self seeking. 1157 01:16:44,600 --> 01:16:46,920 It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. 1158 01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:49,480 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. 1159 01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:51,920 It always protects, always trust, always hopes, always 1160 01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:53,880 perseveres. Love never fails. 1161 01:16:53,880 --> 01:17:00,040 That kind of love God kind of love love your children being a 1162 01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:04,640 through how you love how you love God. 1163 01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:09,040 Does that know what Jesus said was the first command he says 1164 01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,960 love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your 1165 01:17:11,960 --> 01:17:14,720 soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest 1166 01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,840 command. Matthew 22 verse 37 and 38 1167 01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:23,120 Ladies, children, that you love the Lord your God with 1168 01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:28,920 everything that you are, that you love God more than 1169 01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:35,400 everything and teach. Them to do the same not only how 1170 01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,080 you love God, but also how you love others. 1171 01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,280 Jesus didn't stop with the 1st and greatest commandment. 1172 01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:42,240 I want you to pay attention to that. 1173 01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:49,120 Teach your children. But Matthew 2239 says love your 1174 01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,720 neighbor as yourself. You think you don't have an 1175 01:17:53,720 --> 01:18:01,640 important job, you have an essential role and the godly or 1176 01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:09,440 the godlessness of the next generation, except your role as 1177 01:18:09,440 --> 01:18:12,520 those who teach worship and virtue to your children. 1178 01:18:14,440 --> 01:18:17,320 This is if you continue in faith, love and holiness with 1179 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:22,240 propriety. Show them the holy and righteous 1180 01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:28,280 life looks like self controlled, reverent, Worshipful, prayerful 1181 01:18:31,480 --> 01:18:33,080 Titus 2-3 and I'm done. It says. 1182 01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,880 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they 1183 01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,760 live, not to be slanders or addicted to much wine, but to 1184 01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:43,240 teach what is good. Urge the younger women to love 1185 01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:46,240 their husbands and children. Love your husbands and children. 1186 01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:49,160 Love the Lord first of your husbands and children and to be 1187 01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:52,200 self controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind and be 1188 01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,840 subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the word 1189 01:18:55,840 --> 01:18:57,880 of God. So that no one can come back and 1190 01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:00,080 say the word of God is not true, the word of God. 1191 01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:09,240 And he has called women who profess his name to godliness. 1192 01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,840 Hear that call, accept that call. 1193 01:19:13,600 --> 01:19:16,640 Walk in that God ordained role for your life. 1194 01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:20,080 Women, you've heard it today, the biblical call. 1195 01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,840 Women, you're now faced with a dilemma. 1196 01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:25,840 Oh, please don't turn me off yet. 1197 01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,320 I know that I've gone long, but isn't this important? 1198 01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:32,240 Isn't this more important than anything else we could do? 1199 01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:35,440 Your children are at stake. Your home's at stake. 1200 01:19:35,440 --> 01:19:43,500 The church is at stake. It's important you're faced with 1201 01:19:43,500 --> 01:19:43,980 it. I'm not. 1202 01:19:45,340 --> 01:19:47,140 All I've done today is deliver the message. 1203 01:19:48,100 --> 01:19:51,180 Here's the dilemma. Do you continue to give in to 1204 01:19:51,180 --> 01:19:59,820 the godlessness of this culture, what it says in contradiction to 1205 01:19:59,820 --> 01:20:04,760 the work? You walk out these doors today 1206 01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,880 and get mad at me, get in your fills and say that stupid pastor 1207 01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:11,320 with that old outdated message. It's not my message. 1208 01:20:16,160 --> 01:20:18,160 How do you hear the word of God that you said at the beginning 1209 01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:20,080 of the service when I asked you, do you believe that this is 1210 01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,440 global and inspired, breathed by God? 1211 01:20:23,440 --> 01:20:28,520 You believe this is truth? He surrendered to the truth. 1212 01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:32,880 Today you bow before God and say God, I want to be what you want 1213 01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:36,240 me to be. Would you obediently answer 1214 01:20:36,240 --> 01:20:42,240 God's call to be a godly woman? Women here, I want to tell you 1215 01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:43,680 this. There's hope for you in Christ. 1216 01:20:44,160 --> 01:20:45,280 That is the only hope you'll find. 1217 01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:47,920 You will never raise the next generation to be godly if you 1218 01:20:47,920 --> 01:20:50,040 don't first know God through Jesus Christ. 1219 01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:52,840 You're a Sinner and you were separated from God himself 1220 01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:56,520 because of your sin and it's Christ who came to die and your 1221 01:20:56,520 --> 01:20:59,480 place to rescue you from that sin that keeps you from God. 1222 01:20:59,480 --> 01:21:04,080 He bore deserved on his back at the cross and he will set you 1223 01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,000 free today from the penalty of sin as you cry out to him as 1224 01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,160 Lord and Savior. Perhaps today you say, Kurt, I 1225 01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:12,840 want to talk to somebody about what it means to know Christ. 1226 01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:15,080 I pray that you would. I'm thankful that in the earlier 1227 01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,000 service the young lady did just that. 1228 01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:21,240 She wanted to know how do Christ? 1229 01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:23,160 There'll be people up here in just a moment who are standing 1230 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:24,600 here to pray with you and to pray for you. 1231 01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:27,960 Talk to you about what it means to know Christ. 1232 01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:29,960 I pray today that you would repent and believe on Christ and 1233 01:21:29,960 --> 01:21:32,680 be saved. To the women of this 1234 01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:36,880 congregation, you can get stuck. You can succumb to the culture, 1235 01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:42,600 or you can submit to Christ. Those are the only two options. 1236 01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:46,960 You stand your feet now as heads are bowed and eyes are closed. 1237 01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,920 Today, who has been doing it your way or the way of the 1238 01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:12,600 culture? This message has brought you to 1239 01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:14,680 a place of repentance. I pray that you would do just 1240 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:18,640 that, that you would fall in your face and you would confess 1241 01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:23,200 your sin, that you would repent, turn to and His word, live a 1242 01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:27,320 life of obedience to it, to Him, bringing Him glory and honor and 1243 01:22:27,320 --> 01:22:29,960 praise. You need folks to pray with you 1244 01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:31,440 about that. There'll be ladies down here to 1245 01:22:31,440 --> 01:22:34,320 my right and to my left who would be more than eager and 1246 01:22:34,320 --> 01:22:37,320 excited to pray for you. Maybe you just want to come at 1247 01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:40,040 these steps and just kneel, pour your heart out to God. 1248 01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:45,240 My prayer is this. And God would raise up a group 1249 01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:48,080 of godly women like this community has never seen before, 1250 01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:55,800 that through you, through you, through the gospel that you 1251 01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:59,760 preached, in the gospel that you live, you would save the next 1252 01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,120 generation. Again, if you need prayer, 1253 01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:04,840 there's folks to pray with you. I'll be down in front of you. 1254 01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:10,000 You've been listening to Key Life Fellowships Pulpit Ministry 1255 01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:12,800 podcast. Join us each week for more 1256 01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:14,400 teaching from God's Word.