1 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,120 All right. It's good to see you guys today, 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,320 you. Want to help me? 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:09,440 No. Come on. 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,920 Yeah, you got to sit. Up for here? 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,320 No. Good morning. 6 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,240 You guys give you a second to find your seat. 7 00:00:18,240 --> 00:00:21,360 Love you buddy. Be good for Mamas. 8 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:29,490 If you have your Bobby, you turn to Genesis Chapter 2, Genesis 9 00:00:29,490 --> 00:00:34,210 Chapter 2. We are in week three of the 10 00:00:34,210 --> 00:00:38,650 series called Happy the Home. God's design for family. 11 00:00:38,650 --> 00:00:41,130 So we're. Examining the scriptures to see. 12 00:00:41,530 --> 00:00:45,210 God's design. For the home today, my. 13 00:00:45,210 --> 00:00:49,050 Sermon is on womanhood. From creation If you missed last 14 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:52,370 week, it. Was manhood from creation and we 15 00:00:52,370 --> 00:00:57,130 had a good time. With that, and I hope today to 16 00:00:57,130 --> 00:00:59,180 do. Something very similar just 17 00:00:59,180 --> 00:01:03,460 provide for you a high view. Of womanhood of what God has 18 00:01:03,460 --> 00:01:06,020 called. Women specifically to be and to 19 00:01:06,020 --> 00:01:08,780 do how he's designed and created. 20 00:01:08,780 --> 00:01:12,820 Them uniquely and that this is something worth. 21 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:15,820 Celebrating it's it's not. Something worth getting rid of 22 00:01:15,940 --> 00:01:24,660 so still you buddy. So in last week's installment, 23 00:01:24,660 --> 00:01:33,880 we observed that God made the man Ouch. 24 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,920 That last, that last flood, was his. 25 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,440 Head on the door. So there we go. 26 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,960 Never fails that when your kids throwing a fit. 27 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:46,880 They injure themselves. Or I just like if you would just 28 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,680 calm down just a little, we could avoid. 29 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,640 Some of those, so. All right, so. 30 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:53,400 Last week's installment? We observed how God. 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,000 Created the man and he created. The man was it inside or 32 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,840 outside? Of the guard somebody answer 33 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,580 that outside or I was outside the. 34 00:02:00,940 --> 00:02:03,220 Then he created the garden, and he put the man into the garden 35 00:02:03,220 --> 00:02:05,060 and. He told him to do. 36 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:08,979 What can anybody remember? Work it and keep it. 37 00:02:08,979 --> 00:02:10,900 Very good. All right, You guys are good. 38 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:13,740 Listeners, that makes me happy that are you just good readers 39 00:02:13,740 --> 00:02:17,060 of your word which? Also makes me happy so so he he 40 00:02:17,060 --> 00:02:18,380 set him. In the garden to work it and 41 00:02:18,380 --> 00:02:21,140 keep it. And today we're going to look at 42 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:23,300 is the creation. Of woman so man's in the garden. 43 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:27,180 He's called to work and to keep. And it's just the man there 44 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:30,790 currently. So today we're going to observe. 45 00:02:30,790 --> 00:02:34,550 How God created the woman? And and what that means? 46 00:02:34,550 --> 00:02:36,750 For what I'll just call biblical. 47 00:02:36,750 --> 00:02:38,390 Womanhood the reason I'll use the term. 48 00:02:38,390 --> 00:02:39,870 Biblical womanhood is because it's the. 49 00:02:39,870 --> 00:02:44,790 Phrase we use around here often as we think about especially. 50 00:02:44,790 --> 00:02:47,910 Our our women's group that meets weekly, we think about biblical. 51 00:02:47,910 --> 00:02:50,590 Womanhood and in. Men's group We Think about 52 00:02:50,590 --> 00:02:52,350 Biblical. Manhood often. 53 00:02:52,350 --> 00:02:54,230 So I want to. I want to do that because I hope 54 00:02:54,230 --> 00:02:56,070 to always. Be calling you to. 55 00:02:56,500 --> 00:02:59,580 The scriptures and to trust and to believe what the scriptures 56 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:02,300 say. About particular things, but 57 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:06,740 especially about the sexes. It really matters in our world 58 00:03:06,740 --> 00:03:10,700 today what we think about the sexes as far as, especially as 59 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:12,780 far as God's word. Says these things. 60 00:03:12,780 --> 00:03:15,780 So the definition I have for you today is this. 61 00:03:15,780 --> 00:03:19,220 Biblical womanhood bears the image of God by nourishing and 62 00:03:19,220 --> 00:03:23,340 cherishing all that God grants a woman in Christ's strength. 63 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:25,840 All right, so. If you're taking notes, I 64 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:27,440 encourage. You to write that down, Biblical 65 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,720 woman. That bears the image of. 66 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:33,520 God, by nourishing and cherishing all that God grants a 67 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:44,680 woman in Christ's strength. All right. 68 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:47,040 You can finish that in just a second. 69 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,120 Would you stand to your feet? Let's read our text today. 70 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,040 When I'm finished reading, I'll say this is the word of the 71 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,320 Lord, so if you're visiting with us, I ask you to. 72 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:00,370 Respond Thanks be to God. This is our way of. 73 00:04:00,370 --> 00:04:03,610 Setting God's word above. Man's word as we begin to look 74 00:04:03,610 --> 00:04:05,810 at it today. Genesis 218. 75 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:08,850 Through 25 Then the Lord. God said it is not good. 76 00:04:09,130 --> 00:04:12,770 That the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for 77 00:04:12,770 --> 00:04:15,490 him. And now sorry, now out of the 78 00:04:15,490 --> 00:04:17,690 ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the. 79 00:04:17,690 --> 00:04:19,290 Field and every bird of the heavens. 80 00:04:19,610 --> 00:04:21,329 And brought them to the man to see what he. 81 00:04:21,329 --> 00:04:24,090 Would call them, and whatever the man called every living 82 00:04:24,090 --> 00:04:25,890 creature. That was its name. 83 00:04:26,590 --> 00:04:29,190 The man gave names to all livestock, into the birds of the 84 00:04:29,190 --> 00:04:32,590 heavens, and to every beast of the field but for Adam. 85 00:04:32,750 --> 00:04:37,630 There was not found a helper fit for him, so the Lord God caused 86 00:04:37,630 --> 00:04:40,030 the deep sleep. To fall upon the man, and while 87 00:04:40,030 --> 00:04:43,070 he slept, took one of his. Ribs and closed up its place 88 00:04:43,070 --> 00:04:45,670 with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God. 89 00:04:45,670 --> 00:04:47,110 Had taken. From the man he made. 90 00:04:47,110 --> 00:04:49,110 Into a woman and brought her to the man. 91 00:04:49,670 --> 00:04:51,390 Then the man said this at last is. 92 00:04:51,390 --> 00:04:53,550 Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. 93 00:04:54,030 --> 00:04:56,470 She shall be called. Woman because she was taken. 94 00:04:56,470 --> 00:04:59,790 Out of man, therefore a man shall leave his father and his. 95 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:02,670 Mother, hold fast to his. Wife and they shall become one 96 00:05:02,670 --> 00:05:05,470 flesh, And the man and his wife were both naked. 97 00:05:05,870 --> 00:05:08,950 And we're not ashamed. This is the word of the Lord. 98 00:05:09,630 --> 00:05:12,910 Thanks me to God, Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you 99 00:05:12,910 --> 00:05:14,750 for your word. We thank you, Lord. 100 00:05:14,750 --> 00:05:17,870 For the time that we have now in it, and we ask, Lord, that you 101 00:05:17,870 --> 00:05:21,390 would illuminate these verses for us by the power of your 102 00:05:21,390 --> 00:05:23,310 spirits, so. That we might know them. 103 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:25,870 Might understand them and believe. 104 00:05:26,870 --> 00:05:31,270 And that we might commit ourselves to the things that you 105 00:05:31,270 --> 00:05:35,750 call us to do. Lord, I thank you for. 106 00:05:35,950 --> 00:05:37,470 The time we have now to study your. 107 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,190 Word and we pray, Lord, that you be. 108 00:05:39,190 --> 00:05:45,310 With us in this, Lord, I stand before you today, as always. 109 00:05:45,750 --> 00:05:49,790 Really just. In need of your strengths. 110 00:05:49,830 --> 00:05:51,990 And your mercy, and your grace and your help. 111 00:05:52,290 --> 00:05:54,050 Today. And so I asked, Lord, that you 112 00:05:54,050 --> 00:05:56,850 would strengthen. And that you would help me to 113 00:05:56,850 --> 00:05:59,930 preach your word. But that ultimately what people 114 00:05:59,930 --> 00:06:03,290 here today is not the words of Kyle, but the words of Christ. 115 00:06:04,730 --> 00:06:08,690 Lord his. Words are what truly nourish us. 116 00:06:09,290 --> 00:06:13,170 It His words are what truly grow us up and mature us well. 117 00:06:13,170 --> 00:06:16,210 It truly help us. Become the men, the women, the 118 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:18,210 boys, the girls that you've called us to be. 119 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:22,140 And so we asked. For your help today in this it's 120 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:25,420 in the name of Christ, I pray. Amen, Amen. 121 00:06:31,090 --> 00:06:33,850 And in Genesis? 127, which we looked at a couple 122 00:06:33,850 --> 00:06:36,810 of weeks ago, we we read that. God. 123 00:06:36,810 --> 00:06:39,290 Created man in his own image in the image. 124 00:06:39,290 --> 00:06:42,370 Of God he created Him. Male and female he created. 125 00:06:42,730 --> 00:06:45,290 And so we see. From the very beginning, and I 126 00:06:45,290 --> 00:06:48,930 told you last week, the Genesis. One is kind of a it's a 30,000. 127 00:06:48,930 --> 00:06:51,130 Foot view of the creation. Of the man and woman. 128 00:06:51,490 --> 00:06:53,890 Genesis chapter 2 gets into a much more detailed. 129 00:06:53,890 --> 00:06:56,810 Account of how they were created, what took place. 130 00:06:57,370 --> 00:07:00,250 In that time and so and then in Genesis. 131 00:07:00,250 --> 00:07:03,130 Two, what we're seeing here is that the Lord God caused the 132 00:07:03,130 --> 00:07:05,410 deep sleep to fall. Upon the man, and while he 133 00:07:05,410 --> 00:07:08,130 slept, he took his one of his ribs, he closed. 134 00:07:08,130 --> 00:07:12,490 Up the place with flesh, and out of the rib God he created a. 135 00:07:12,490 --> 00:07:15,410 Woman and brought him to or brought her sorry. 136 00:07:15,410 --> 00:07:19,540 To the man now. There's an old joke that my dad. 137 00:07:19,540 --> 00:07:20,900 Said I had to say. And how many are? 138 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:22,780 You're supposed to be obedient to your parents, right? 139 00:07:23,860 --> 00:07:26,100 So there's a joke that goes this way. 140 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:27,700 That God. Comes to the man, he says. 141 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:29,980 Look, it's not good for you to be alone. 142 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:31,460 I'm going to make a helper fit for you. 143 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,380 And Adam, says Okay. He says, well, you know what's 144 00:07:35,380 --> 00:07:37,620 it going to take and and God said, well, it's going to cost 145 00:07:37,620 --> 00:07:39,300 you. An arm and a leg. 146 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:43,140 And Adam says well. What can I get for a rib right? 147 00:07:43,460 --> 00:07:46,980 So that's that's the old joke, so. 148 00:07:50,270 --> 00:07:51,950 I want you to know that despite the. 149 00:07:52,470 --> 00:07:55,390 Or lack of humor, anyway, of such a joke. 150 00:07:56,430 --> 00:08:00,430 The biblical narrative here. Ascribes glory to womanhood. 151 00:08:00,430 --> 00:08:04,230 It describes the very. Glory of God to womanhood that 152 00:08:04,230 --> 00:08:08,510 he that that she is created. In his image and in his likeness 153 00:08:09,430 --> 00:08:14,270 and women are not a second rate creation. 154 00:08:15,190 --> 00:08:19,020 And and I do recognize that throughout history, it is. 155 00:08:19,020 --> 00:08:24,060 Women and children that have bore the greatest burden of. 156 00:08:24,060 --> 00:08:26,420 Men who? Exercise dominion in the worst 157 00:08:26,420 --> 00:08:29,300 ways, right? It's it's women and children who 158 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,020 are most often taken advantage of in those things. 159 00:08:32,900 --> 00:08:35,620 But God made the woman. In his image. 160 00:08:35,740 --> 00:08:39,299 And we need to recognize. This we need to celebrate this 161 00:08:39,299 --> 00:08:43,580 Won't manhood and womanhood bear the image of God at creation? 162 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:47,260 But this is. Intrinsically true of their 163 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:52,700 value and of of why we should celebrate the sexes. 164 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:56,180 God created the sexes. Male and female and called it 165 00:08:56,180 --> 00:08:58,780 very good and. So this is a very good. 166 00:08:58,780 --> 00:09:02,620 Thing right that that when he when he observes creation after 167 00:09:02,620 --> 00:09:04,620 that last day. He looks at all of it and says 168 00:09:04,620 --> 00:09:08,740 this is very good and. When a woman embraces her 169 00:09:08,740 --> 00:09:12,020 feminine nature, it's a very good thing It's a. 170 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:14,940 Thing for a woman to. Be a woman. 171 00:09:14,940 --> 00:09:17,940 After all, she is. The glory of man, that's what 172 00:09:18,180 --> 00:09:19,620 Paul. Writes in the First Corinthians. 173 00:09:19,620 --> 00:09:21,620 11 verse 7. He says a man is the. 174 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:24,420 Image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 175 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:26,660 He continues. For man was not. 176 00:09:26,660 --> 00:09:28,980 Made from woman, but woman from man. 177 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:32,740 Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 178 00:09:33,980 --> 00:09:36,020 And so two weeks ago we established that because God 179 00:09:36,020 --> 00:09:38,220 created. Man last of all creation. 180 00:09:38,540 --> 00:09:41,270 And in his own image. But there's a unique value. 181 00:09:41,270 --> 00:09:44,750 Placed upon them as the. Crown Jewel of Creation. 182 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:48,750 They are what caused God to say it is very good. 183 00:09:49,990 --> 00:09:52,150 Prior to that, everything was good. 184 00:09:52,150 --> 00:09:53,750 The. Lord saw it, and it was good. 185 00:09:54,470 --> 00:09:56,030 The Lord saw it and it was good. The. 186 00:09:56,190 --> 00:09:58,710 Lord saw it and it was good. And then he gets to this and 187 00:09:58,710 --> 00:10:01,990 it's the Lord saw all. That he had made and said it is 188 00:10:02,110 --> 00:10:06,830 very good. And so there's a unique value in 189 00:10:06,830 --> 00:10:09,870 this. Mankind is the best and most 190 00:10:09,870 --> 00:10:12,270 excellent of all of God's. They are the. 191 00:10:12,270 --> 00:10:14,070 Ones who are created in his image. 192 00:10:14,310 --> 00:10:16,030 Again, you look at, you could go. 193 00:10:16,030 --> 00:10:18,590 Back and listen to week one of the series. 194 00:10:18,590 --> 00:10:21,830 If you want to hear more about that, I'm not trying to 195 00:10:22,070 --> 00:10:25,070 resurrect an old. Sermon here to to get to. 196 00:10:25,230 --> 00:10:27,150 Get the point across, but I want to remind. 197 00:10:27,150 --> 00:10:31,990 Us of these things Eaves. Being made after Adam Eves Being 198 00:10:31,990 --> 00:10:34,470 made out of Adam. Even puts an. 199 00:10:34,470 --> 00:10:38,100 Honor and a dignity upon. As the glory. 200 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:40,780 Of man so if. Man is the head, she is the. 201 00:10:41,820 --> 00:10:45,220 A crown to her husband. The crown of the visible. 202 00:10:45,340 --> 00:10:47,980 Creation Matthew. Henry puts it this way. 203 00:10:47,980 --> 00:10:49,300 He. Says the man was dust. 204 00:10:50,580 --> 00:10:53,740 But the woman was dust. Double refined, one removed 205 00:10:53,740 --> 00:10:56,340 further from the earth. I like that. 206 00:10:57,460 --> 00:10:59,780 Once again, we see that. Adam had nothing to do with 207 00:10:59,780 --> 00:11:02,420 God's creative work. Which is important to note. 208 00:11:02,420 --> 00:11:05,020 He he notices that there's not a helper fit for. 209 00:11:05,380 --> 00:11:10,190 He sees that after naming all of the creatures that God paraded 210 00:11:10,190 --> 00:11:12,070 before. This was part of his working and 211 00:11:12,070 --> 00:11:15,470 keeping this was part of his work as God's vice. 212 00:11:15,470 --> 00:11:17,390 Region on the earth it was to subdue. 213 00:11:17,390 --> 00:11:19,470 Creation it was to. Name them and whatever he called 214 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:22,630 them that was. Its name, but he gets to. 215 00:11:22,630 --> 00:11:26,430 The end of that long line of. Creatures, and he sees that. 216 00:11:26,430 --> 00:11:29,830 There's not a helper fit for him, but what could Adam do 217 00:11:29,830 --> 00:11:32,510 about? Nothing. 218 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:35,820 He has no power to create. He's. 219 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,980 He is. He is not a creator, all right, 220 00:11:38,980 --> 00:11:40,420 he simply. Named the creation. 221 00:11:40,420 --> 00:11:42,420 He didn't. Create those things. 222 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:47,980 And so we see that he's aware. Of his need for a helper, but 223 00:11:47,980 --> 00:11:49,660 he. Cannot create a helper. 224 00:11:49,980 --> 00:11:53,220 Himself doesn't even. Really know what he needs. 225 00:11:53,220 --> 00:11:57,100 Just notices that it's lacking and so he rest. 226 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,880 As one who has cast his cares. Upon the Lord right He's he. 227 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:03,600 Falls into a deep sleep, the Lord. 228 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:06,760 Puts him into a deep. Sleep and he. 229 00:12:06,760 --> 00:12:09,720 Trusts in the infinite wisdom and the will. 230 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,600 Of God, and God brings. Forth a woman, a helper fit for 231 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,280 him. This further signifies the glory 232 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,720 of the woman. As man's helper and we see that, 233 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,080 I think. Also in the way that she was 234 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:23,160 created. This something that. 235 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:26,840 That Matthew Henry pointed out and saw years ago. 236 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,030 But. It's made its way into pretty 237 00:12:29,030 --> 00:12:31,910 much every marriage sermon I've ever preached. 238 00:12:33,630 --> 00:12:37,150 He says this. He says she was made of a rib 239 00:12:37,150 --> 00:12:40,310 out of his side. Not made out of, out of his head 240 00:12:40,310 --> 00:12:41,390 to. Rule over him. 241 00:12:41,710 --> 00:12:44,310 Nor out of his feet. To be trampled upon by him. 242 00:12:44,590 --> 00:12:47,350 But out of his side to be. Equal with him under his arm, to 243 00:12:47,350 --> 00:12:51,150 be protected by him, and near to his heart to be loved by him. 244 00:12:52,470 --> 00:12:56,390 It's wonderful truth, right? Biblical. 245 00:12:57,350 --> 00:13:00,190 Then the kind of womanhood that nourishes and cherishes all that 246 00:13:00,190 --> 00:13:02,790 God grants to her. And we're going to see more. 247 00:13:02,790 --> 00:13:06,110 About that in a moment. And as she's doing this in 248 00:13:06,110 --> 00:13:08,710 Christ's strength. Kind of womanhood is under 249 00:13:08,710 --> 00:13:14,430 attack now, similar to. The Irony of the L GB TQ. 250 00:13:14,430 --> 00:13:17,670 Plus movement branding. Itself under the one word. 251 00:13:17,790 --> 00:13:22,190 Pride the modern feminist movement. 252 00:13:22,230 --> 00:13:25,550 And its preceding ways brand themselves under feminism. 253 00:13:25,630 --> 00:13:29,110 Now the irony of. Forsaking all that God declares 254 00:13:30,070 --> 00:13:34,070 feminine from creation as they work to create a new definition 255 00:13:35,030 --> 00:13:37,070 of. Femininity should not be lost on 256 00:13:37,070 --> 00:13:42,630 us using the same name, today's feminists. 257 00:13:42,630 --> 00:13:45,950 Fight for abortion on demand. They fight for language 258 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:48,270 equality. Insisting on saying chairperson 259 00:13:48,270 --> 00:13:49,870 instead. Of chairman, for example. 260 00:13:50,910 --> 00:13:53,310 They, they fight for the. Blurring of gender lines. 261 00:13:54,070 --> 00:13:55,950 The more radical. Feminists actively seek to 262 00:13:55,950 --> 00:14:00,270 overthrow any trace of male dominance in society. 263 00:14:00,910 --> 00:14:02,190 They oppose the biblical roles of. 264 00:14:02,190 --> 00:14:04,630 Husbands and Wives and promotes. Lesbianism. 265 00:14:05,430 --> 00:14:08,230 Radical feminists deny that there is any difference between. 266 00:14:08,230 --> 00:14:11,830 Men and women teaching that any perceived differences between 267 00:14:11,830 --> 00:14:14,670 the. Sexes are due solely to social 268 00:14:14,670 --> 00:14:20,350 conditioning. Wow, now you can look across the 269 00:14:20,350 --> 00:14:23,150 room if you're a. Man at women or look at your 270 00:14:23,150 --> 00:14:25,240 wife. And you can see clearly that 271 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,240 there are. Differences and those 272 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,200 differences. Are natural. 273 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:33,480 They're they're wired. Into a woman wired into a man 274 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:34,840 at. Creation. 275 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:36,480 It's good and right that we're different that. 276 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,080 We're built different. Now that's not social 277 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:43,200 conditioning, that's common sense, which, oddly, isn't so 278 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,320 common this it's. So here's what we know. 279 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:50,240 About the feminist movement. The modern feminist movement. 280 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:55,390 Especially they are anti God. They are anti wifehood, anti 281 00:14:55,390 --> 00:14:58,790 motherhood, anti modesty. And therefore altogether they 282 00:14:58,790 --> 00:15:01,350 are. Anti woman again. 283 00:15:01,350 --> 00:15:03,070 The irony is not lost on me here. 284 00:15:04,550 --> 00:15:07,510 It's a satanic movement. And it should be repudiated as 285 00:15:07,510 --> 00:15:14,870 such. And so, I urge call even all of 286 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:19,070 you Christian women to fight. Against Modern Feminism by. 287 00:15:19,070 --> 00:15:20,790 Growing in your knowledge of God. 288 00:15:21,870 --> 00:15:23,150 Growing in your understanding of what? 289 00:15:23,150 --> 00:15:27,350 Godliness is by. Growing in your understanding of 290 00:15:27,350 --> 00:15:31,670 the wonderful call that God. Has on your life as women. 291 00:15:32,550 --> 00:15:35,230 Who may or may not become wives, who may or may not become 292 00:15:35,230 --> 00:15:39,110 mothers, but just simply. In your design we believe those 293 00:15:39,110 --> 00:15:43,070 things knowledge of such. Growing in these things, growing 294 00:15:43,070 --> 00:15:44,790 in godliness. Growing in the knowledge of God. 295 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:47,270 Growing in his understanding the wonderful call that he's. 296 00:15:47,270 --> 00:15:48,390 Placed on you. We believe those. 297 00:15:48,390 --> 00:15:51,270 Things will lead women old. And young? 298 00:15:51,850 --> 00:15:54,370 To spend their lives for the glory of the Lord. 299 00:15:55,410 --> 00:15:57,290 To spend their lives in good works. 300 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,930 Toward their neighbors. That your neighbor might be your 301 00:16:00,930 --> 00:16:04,730 husband or your child, or it could be a coworker, or a friend 302 00:16:04,730 --> 00:16:08,290 could be a church member. Could be literally your neighbor 303 00:16:08,290 --> 00:16:12,450 on your street, right it it. Leads you in good works to such. 304 00:16:12,970 --> 00:16:17,370 Biblical. Womanhood, then, is faith in 305 00:16:17,370 --> 00:16:20,130 Christ and love for others in action. 306 00:16:20,930 --> 00:16:22,530 It's putting those things in action. 307 00:16:23,730 --> 00:16:29,090 Now I am encouraged. I try to kind of keep up with 308 00:16:29,090 --> 00:16:33,050 some of the things going on in the US especially, especially. 309 00:16:33,050 --> 00:16:36,290 Within churches across EU. S And so I'm encouraged by what 310 00:16:36,290 --> 00:16:38,850 appears to be a. Resurgence of biblical womanhood 311 00:16:39,450 --> 00:16:44,170 among Western Christians. I'm especially encouraged to see 312 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:46,610 the ladies in this. Church, both young and old. 313 00:16:47,140 --> 00:16:49,700 Striving. Side by side in pursuit of. 314 00:16:49,740 --> 00:16:53,500 Biblical womanhood. But I I. 315 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:55,540 Want to encourage you ladies to to do? 316 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:59,660 Well, in studying what God's word says about. 317 00:16:59,660 --> 00:17:02,100 Womanhood to to see it and to. Believe it. 318 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:04,339 And that's part of what the? Series is designed to do it's to 319 00:17:04,619 --> 00:17:07,339 to help both of us men and. Women to see what God's word 320 00:17:07,339 --> 00:17:09,500 says about what he's called us to. 321 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:11,579 Especially in building households. 322 00:17:12,660 --> 00:17:15,760 And so you would do well to study God's Word to see what it 323 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,200 says. About womanhood, you would do 324 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,560 even more better to do so alongside. 325 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,160 Your husband if you're married or alongside the ladies of 326 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:26,319 Biblical. Womanhood or they're married or? 327 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,800 And then to submit yourself to God's wise design. 328 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,880 You. And his wise will for you then I 329 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,800 think you get to reap. The benefits? 330 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,880 Of what God-given womanhood looks like as you submit 331 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:44,960 yourself. To those things. 332 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,440 Proverbs 31 says this. It says that. 333 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,800 Her children rise up and call her blessed. 334 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:52,160 Her husband also and he. Praises her and this is what he 335 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,440 said. This is what they say. 336 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,160 Many women have done excellently, but you surpass 337 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,320 them all in first thirty. We read that. 338 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:02,160 Charm is deceitful and beauty is. 339 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,000 Vain but a woman who? Fears the Lord is to be. 340 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:08,800 Praised one way you might word that is say that. 341 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,790 Godliness is attractive for a lifetime beauty. 342 00:18:13,270 --> 00:18:15,190 But godliness is always attractive. 343 00:18:16,190 --> 00:18:22,710 It never fades. And in verse 31 it says give her 344 00:18:22,710 --> 00:18:23,550 of. The fruit of her. 345 00:18:23,550 --> 00:18:25,550 Hands and let her works praise her. 346 00:18:25,910 --> 00:18:29,110 In the gates it'll be. Known the kind of. 347 00:18:29,110 --> 00:18:32,430 Woman who is godly right, it's seen and it's praised. 348 00:18:33,790 --> 00:18:36,310 Biblical womanhood bears the. Image of God by nourishing and 349 00:18:36,310 --> 00:18:38,590 cherishing all that God grants a woman in Cross. 350 00:18:39,070 --> 00:18:40,270 And so I'm just. Trying to. 351 00:18:40,830 --> 00:18:44,510 In this first sermon on womanhood and as we get into 352 00:18:44,510 --> 00:18:48,310 subsequent sermons in the future where we'll deal with. 353 00:18:48,310 --> 00:18:50,190 Things a little more specifically. 354 00:18:50,190 --> 00:18:52,270 Today I'm just trying to raise your. 355 00:18:52,270 --> 00:18:55,190 Awareness that God's design is good. 356 00:18:56,710 --> 00:19:01,070 That's right, it's holy. That it's your design as a woman 357 00:19:01,070 --> 00:19:03,150 is not. Some product of the fall, there 358 00:19:03,150 --> 00:19:06,390 are issues. In womanhood and manhood as a 359 00:19:06,390 --> 00:19:08,820 result of the fall, yes. But the fact. 360 00:19:08,820 --> 00:19:10,740 That you're a woman. The fact that you were built the 361 00:19:10,740 --> 00:19:11,820 way you're. Built and the fact. 362 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:14,140 That you're designed the way you're designed is good and. 363 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:18,060 It's a part of God's creation and it's worthy of celebration. 364 00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:26,900 Let's we get into what it means to nourish and cherish. 365 00:19:28,860 --> 00:19:32,140 Nourishing and cherishing, specifically, all that God 366 00:19:32,140 --> 00:19:41,220 grants a woman. And the Lord God said. 367 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:42,780 I want to read to you again, verse 18. 368 00:19:42,780 --> 00:19:44,820 The Lord God said it's not. Good, that the man should be 369 00:19:44,820 --> 00:19:47,100 alone. I will make him a helper fit for 370 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:50,900 him. And then in verse 20 we read but 371 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,220 for Adam after he named all of the livestock and the. 372 00:19:54,220 --> 00:19:58,020 Birds of the heavens and every beast of the field says but for. 373 00:19:58,020 --> 00:20:01,100 Adam there was not a helper. There was not found a helper fit 374 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:07,170 for him. So if the man was going to truly 375 00:20:07,170 --> 00:20:10,290 work and keep all that God grants to him in the garden as. 376 00:20:10,290 --> 00:20:13,770 God had told him to do if he was going to be fruitful and 377 00:20:13,770 --> 00:20:17,690 multiply as the. Word came down in chapter one if 378 00:20:17,690 --> 00:20:20,650 he was going to. Truly subdue the earth and. 379 00:20:20,650 --> 00:20:24,450 Exercise dominion as the word came down in chapter One as 380 00:20:24,450 --> 00:20:27,210 well. Then he couldn't be alone. 381 00:20:27,210 --> 00:20:32,290 For that God declares it not good for him to be alone, 382 00:20:32,330 --> 00:20:35,680 because you can't be fruitful and multiply on your own men. 383 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,880 You need a wise. And it's good to desire a godly 384 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:43,680 wife. As a man carries authority that 385 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,320 was dedicated to him by God, that is working and keeping, so 386 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:51,360 also a woman carries authority. Dedicated to her by God, which 387 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,520 is to be a helper fit for him and in all. 388 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,600 Of that so that together they can be fruitful and multiply so 389 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,520 that together they can. Subdue creation and exercise 390 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,040 dominion as God's vice Regents on the earth. 391 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,040 So what is a helper? Well, the the Biblical word for 392 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:11,400 helper here. Has the sense of a person who 393 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:14,240 contributes to the fulfillment of a need. 394 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,720 Or the furtherance of an effort or. 395 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,960 What was the effort or purpose? What was the need to be 396 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:23,920 fruitfully multiplied to work and to keep? 397 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,000 Right to. Exercise dominion and subdued 398 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,440 creation and and so the woman is meant, then by God to be a help. 399 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,760 Meet for the man which is the King James word Help meet. 400 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:37,820 To contribute to his labors of working and keeping all that 401 00:21:37,820 --> 00:21:41,420 God. Grants to him yet as a woman. 402 00:21:41,740 --> 00:21:44,300 She carries a different. Role which is intrinsic to her 403 00:21:44,300 --> 00:21:46,020 design and her. Makeup she is. 404 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:48,740 To nourish and cherish all that God grants to her. 405 00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:50,660 That. That's not to say there's never 406 00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:53,220 any working and keeping for the woman. 407 00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:55,660 After all, nourishing and cherishing is important to 408 00:21:55,660 --> 00:21:58,220 working and keeping. It's they go hand in hand. 409 00:21:58,220 --> 00:21:59,620 You. You have to nourish and cherish 410 00:21:59,620 --> 00:22:01,060 the things you're working and keeping. 411 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:06,320 This is how you work together. And a man doesn't escape the 412 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,200 duty of nourishing and cherishing either God. 413 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:11,800 Commands men to nourish and cherish their wives and. 414 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,880 Ephesians 529 using those exact. Words nourish and cherish. 415 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:17,840 Your wife, as Christ does the church. 416 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,320 It says so. Then you have to. 417 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,920 Ask What does it mean to nourish? 418 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,400 What are What are we saying by the word nourish? 419 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,360 Will the word nourish there in 529? 420 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,200 Of Ephesians is to nourish up to maturity. 421 00:22:32,050 --> 00:22:36,530 It's to nurture, to bring. Up and it's to provide the 422 00:22:36,530 --> 00:22:39,610 necessary components for something to grow up, to mature, 423 00:22:39,850 --> 00:22:41,690 to become beautiful or productive. 424 00:22:41,690 --> 00:22:43,890 Now, what's interesting about this? 425 00:22:43,890 --> 00:22:46,210 Is the man commits himself. To this work with his. 426 00:22:46,210 --> 00:22:48,770 Wife, and then she commits herself to that work in. 427 00:22:49,050 --> 00:22:53,090 The home and in this. Way they work together. 428 00:22:53,730 --> 00:22:57,410 What does it mean to? Cherish is to warm, to keep 429 00:22:57,410 --> 00:23:00,090 warm, to cherish with tender love, to foster with tender 430 00:23:00,090 --> 00:23:04,490 care. In another word, it might. 431 00:23:04,490 --> 00:23:07,930 Be to provide. The necessary environment for 432 00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:11,690 something to grow up, to mature, to become beautiful and. 433 00:23:12,290 --> 00:23:15,610 So you see, it's it's the wife's role. 434 00:23:15,610 --> 00:23:19,770 It's the woman's role in society, the wife's role in a 435 00:23:19,770 --> 00:23:22,810 home. To nourish and cherish it's. 436 00:23:22,810 --> 00:23:26,570 Provide the. Elements needed for the maturing 437 00:23:26,570 --> 00:23:29,170 and the growing up. For the sustenance that it takes 438 00:23:29,170 --> 00:23:32,770 to nourish. Something to maturity, but also. 439 00:23:32,770 --> 00:23:36,090 To build the place where the nourishing and cherishing takes 440 00:23:36,090 --> 00:23:39,010 place where the cherishing. Is found right where you find 441 00:23:39,050 --> 00:23:41,890 the love, the warmth. Of love in a home. 442 00:23:42,610 --> 00:23:45,770 A wife does that far. Better than a husband does. 443 00:23:47,450 --> 00:23:51,530 And she she helps. Him in those things one good. 444 00:23:51,530 --> 00:23:53,650 Example of this is your child's coloring. 445 00:23:53,650 --> 00:23:57,250 Sheets today in the Worship Guide, if you got one of those. 446 00:23:58,410 --> 00:24:01,090 Last week it was a picture of a farmer working and keeping his 447 00:24:01,090 --> 00:24:02,410 land. He's out there. 448 00:24:02,690 --> 00:24:06,490 And by the sweat of his brow, he is bringing home the bacon baby. 449 00:24:07,930 --> 00:24:12,570 He's gathering the produce. All right, this week it's a 450 00:24:12,570 --> 00:24:15,610 woman training her child. How to use the stuff? 451 00:24:15,610 --> 00:24:20,090 Grown on the land to feed the family he's working and keeping. 452 00:24:20,090 --> 00:24:24,490 She's nourishing and cherishing. Another example might be your 453 00:24:24,490 --> 00:24:28,570 own work and your own keeping men in your home, right? 454 00:24:28,770 --> 00:24:32,770 You work and keep week to week. On the job, right? 455 00:24:32,770 --> 00:24:37,690 So that you have a house to live in, in our home, Patricia's home 456 00:24:37,690 --> 00:24:39,130 with our children. Which is the. 457 00:24:39,370 --> 00:24:40,970 The the way we've. Chosen to do it. 458 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:42,730 It's just based on our convictions. 459 00:24:43,610 --> 00:24:46,170 But she's nourishing and cherishing all week, so that 460 00:24:46,170 --> 00:24:47,730 our. Family has a home to live in. 461 00:24:48,090 --> 00:24:50,490 You see the difference? I might provide the raw. 462 00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:54,250 Goods but she. Takes those raw goods and turns 463 00:24:54,250 --> 00:24:57,010 them into something beautiful, desirable, and often times 464 00:24:57,050 --> 00:25:04,750 edible. So I'm not saying there's no 465 00:25:04,750 --> 00:25:07,590 crossover. I'm not saying there's not 466 00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:10,190 working and keeping done on a woman's part and not nourishing 467 00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:11,510 and cherishing done on a man's part. 468 00:25:11,510 --> 00:25:15,430 Absolutely there are. But we cannot unwisely skip over 469 00:25:15,430 --> 00:25:18,350 your intrinsic design, right? That's what feminists are doing. 470 00:25:18,350 --> 00:25:20,270 That's the goal of. Of their work. 471 00:25:21,190 --> 00:25:22,550 Not the Bible. The Bible. 472 00:25:22,550 --> 00:25:25,510 Lays out specific tasks and roles. 473 00:25:25,510 --> 00:25:28,310 For men and women to fulfill based on how God. 474 00:25:28,310 --> 00:25:35,430 Has designed them by nature. With who they are, Proverbs 14. 475 00:25:35,430 --> 00:25:41,910 One that's it's a verse feminist love, I'm sure. 476 00:25:42,630 --> 00:25:47,550 Proverb. 14-1, says the wisest of women, builds her house, but 477 00:25:47,550 --> 00:25:49,750 folly with her own. Hands tears it down. 478 00:25:50,990 --> 00:25:54,430 The wisest of women builds her. House What does that? 479 00:25:54,750 --> 00:25:56,950 It means she's committed to doing these things. 480 00:25:57,510 --> 00:26:00,390 The building the home is the first priority of womanhood. 481 00:26:01,930 --> 00:26:06,410 And and in Titus Two we see the same thing in Titus 2. 482 00:26:06,410 --> 00:26:09,090 Versus 3 through 5, it's. Instructions. 483 00:26:09,090 --> 00:26:11,210 There, it says. Older women, likewise, are to be 484 00:26:11,210 --> 00:26:14,730 reverent in behavior. Not slanders or slaves too much. 485 00:26:14,730 --> 00:26:17,170 One, they're to teach. What is good? 486 00:26:17,810 --> 00:26:20,570 And so train the young women to love their husbands and 487 00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:24,970 children, to be self controlled, pure, working at home, kind and. 488 00:26:24,970 --> 00:26:28,690 Submissive to their own husbands that the Word of God may not be 489 00:26:28,730 --> 00:26:31,380 reviled. The interesting thing there is 490 00:26:31,380 --> 00:26:33,100 that the word. Of God is at stake. 491 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:36,540 In this. Which makes total sense again if 492 00:26:36,540 --> 00:26:38,500 you look. At the movements of today and 493 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:42,220 the the destruction of. Households, it becomes very. 494 00:26:42,220 --> 00:26:44,900 Clear that the word of God is at stake because it's the word of 495 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:48,380 God that gets mocked the most when people. 496 00:26:48,380 --> 00:26:51,140 Strive to live this way and then when. 497 00:26:51,140 --> 00:26:54,220 People aren't living this way. That makes a mockery. 498 00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:58,750 Of the word of God as well. And so when this is cultivated 499 00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:01,910 in a woman, especially in her early childhood. 500 00:27:01,910 --> 00:27:06,270 Years you see it blossom so beautifully in front of your 501 00:27:06,270 --> 00:27:09,430 eyes when a mother enters the work of nourishing and 502 00:27:09,430 --> 00:27:11,790 cherishing with joy her daughter's. 503 00:27:11,790 --> 00:27:15,350 Desire to do, to come alongside her and to do the same things. 504 00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:20,710 It's natural, is what I'm trying to say in in preparing the 505 00:27:20,710 --> 00:27:24,000 sermon this week. Which you guys? 506 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,160 Keep us in prayer. This weekend marks the one year. 507 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:27,400 Anniversary of when he's passing. 508 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,640 So that that's why it's difficult when he's. 509 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,040 Again, if you're visiting, you stumbled into a whole thing 510 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,040 here. My daughter, Winnie. 511 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,080 Passed away last. Year on the 4th at. 512 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,840 She was six years old and so for a year we've been kind of 513 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,280 walking. This road together as a church 514 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:51,180 as well, so I'm preparing. The sermon this. 515 00:27:51,180 --> 00:27:53,740 Week particularly, probably because of the anniversary 516 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:56,740 looming. Over my head, but also just 517 00:27:56,740 --> 00:27:59,860 looking at. Womanhood and the nurture and 518 00:27:59,860 --> 00:28:01,860 the nourishing and cherishing of homes. 519 00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:04,740 I couldn't help but think of Winnie often. 520 00:28:07,460 --> 00:28:09,700 So maybe you'll forgive me if I say just a little something 521 00:28:09,700 --> 00:28:13,380 about Winnie here. She was the perfect picture of a 522 00:28:13,380 --> 00:28:16,580 little girl striving to become. What the Bible describes. 523 00:28:16,580 --> 00:28:19,620 Of womanhood. Now, would she have worded it 524 00:28:19,620 --> 00:28:23,660 that way? No, no, she was 6. 525 00:28:27,460 --> 00:28:31,900 But she. Was, and it was obvious each day 526 00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:34,100 she nourished and cherished her family. 527 00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,420 You can ask her brothers how much she cared for them, how 528 00:28:38,420 --> 00:28:41,340 much they cared for her, and certainly hear. 529 00:28:41,340 --> 00:28:46,060 It on the lips of Patricia and I as we think about her often and 530 00:28:46,060 --> 00:28:51,070 talk about her. But but Wendy's nourishing and 531 00:28:51,070 --> 00:28:55,550 cherishing it didn't know any dark corners. 532 00:28:58,230 --> 00:29:02,430 It extended to everything in her care she took. 533 00:29:02,430 --> 00:29:06,030 Care of her room, she made sure that her Barbie. 534 00:29:06,030 --> 00:29:10,550 House was tidy and neat, which is has to be nearly impossible 535 00:29:10,630 --> 00:29:13,830 as I can tell so many things there. 536 00:29:16,330 --> 00:29:19,930 The produce section and the Barbie shop was organized. 537 00:29:20,090 --> 00:29:23,890 You know and still is still sits there. 538 00:29:29,090 --> 00:29:31,170 She took care of everything. She cooked. 539 00:29:32,210 --> 00:29:34,410 She cleaned one of my. Favorite pictures of hers? 540 00:29:34,410 --> 00:29:36,410 She's standing on a chair in our kitchen. 541 00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:40,050 Putting pepperonis on pizza. Homemade pizza. 542 00:29:45,610 --> 00:29:49,050 Haddon knew letters and numbers. He's our four year old. 543 00:29:49,810 --> 00:29:52,170 He knew letters and numbers far sooner than he should have 544 00:29:52,170 --> 00:29:53,930 because. Winnie imitated her mom's 545 00:29:53,930 --> 00:29:57,570 homeschooling with him, often taking her into a room or 546 00:29:57,570 --> 00:30:00,050 sitting at a board and helping him learn. 547 00:30:00,050 --> 00:30:05,210 To write letters. And numbers, and to know to know 548 00:30:05,210 --> 00:30:10,570 those things. When he was kind, she was 549 00:30:10,570 --> 00:30:16,970 independent in mostly the right. It got her in trouble a time or 550 00:30:16,970 --> 00:30:20,530 two, but I liked her independence. 551 00:30:21,570 --> 00:30:24,010 She was beautiful inside and outside. 552 00:30:27,090 --> 00:30:29,330 Why? You know, you look. 553 00:30:29,330 --> 00:30:32,770 At something like that, you look at little girls like that and 554 00:30:32,770 --> 00:30:34,570 there's. Many of the same kinds of little 555 00:30:34,570 --> 00:30:38,730 girls in this room today. I'm just going on my fatherly 556 00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:43,020 experience with Winnie. Why though? 557 00:30:43,020 --> 00:30:45,260 Is it because they're moms or super moms? 558 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:49,260 I mean we should praise. Them as such, but in reality, 559 00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:52,540 no, they're not super. Moms, right? 560 00:30:52,540 --> 00:30:58,700 That it's not not. The the reason little girls grow 561 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:01,340 up. Loving those kinds of things is 562 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:05,620 because the leaders in the home, the mom and the dad. 563 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,400 Work daily on submitting themselves, submitting their 564 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,880 children and their. Household to God's rule and 565 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,440 design becomes a part of what you're wanting to build, and so 566 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,200 you get it wrong. A. 567 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,200 Lot and God knows. We get it wrong often, but but 568 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,080 there's grace for that. There's there's grace upon grace 569 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,160 as we read. In John this Week in home 570 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:35,040 groups, the Lord honors his. Commands by blessing those who 571 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,500 obey him. Like you won't be. 572 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:40,620 Put to shame by saying I'm going to abide in. 573 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:48,260 Christ never going to happen, and so I. 574 00:31:48,260 --> 00:31:50,540 Encourage you ladies, both young and old. 575 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:53,620 And I don't mean old and like a weird, you know, being. 576 00:31:53,740 --> 00:31:59,820 Hateful sense at all. It's A-frame of mind, right Mr. 577 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:06,760 into, but I encourage you whether. 578 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:14,480 You're 6 or 66. And to pursue God's design for 579 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:19,480 womanhood, not the world's. There's a great blessing in 580 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,440 returning to the good work of nourishing and cherishing all 581 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:27,240 that God grants. To you that the description, 582 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:29,880 the, the. Deception of feminism, I should 583 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,680 say. Is that those women? 584 00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:36,820 Who see themselves as free from the bondage of a husband or 585 00:32:36,820 --> 00:32:39,580 even. Those women who say making the 586 00:32:39,580 --> 00:32:42,220 home my number one priority isn't for me. 587 00:32:42,340 --> 00:32:44,380 But I just, I don't do that. I don't do that. 588 00:32:44,380 --> 00:32:49,340 Well, the irony of. That, or the deception. 589 00:32:49,340 --> 00:32:52,220 Really of that is that there are nourishing and cherishing some 590 00:32:52,220 --> 00:32:55,500 other man's company. They're nourishing and 591 00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:57,260 cherishing some other man's property. 592 00:32:58,180 --> 00:33:00,820 Some other person's things you understand what I mean like. 593 00:33:01,070 --> 00:33:03,110 You go to work, you're you're helping him out. 594 00:33:04,190 --> 00:33:06,390 Why not help your? Husband out in your home, right? 595 00:33:07,990 --> 00:33:12,790 And so you don't want to help. Someone else subdue an exercise. 596 00:33:12,790 --> 00:33:16,070 Dominion, when you're subduing and exercising, has been 597 00:33:16,390 --> 00:33:18,590 decided. For you, by God, in your 598 00:33:18,590 --> 00:33:22,310 household. So why not give yourselves 599 00:33:22,310 --> 00:33:24,670 primarily to building? A household. 600 00:33:25,470 --> 00:33:27,590 Now the thing about building a household is you can be single 601 00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:30,830 or married and build households, right? 602 00:33:32,420 --> 00:33:35,580 There are single women who have not yet been married, don't yet 603 00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:37,540 have children, and you can be committed. 604 00:33:37,540 --> 00:33:41,100 To building households. In that way you can commit. 605 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,660 Yourself to the good work of this, to creating the kind of 606 00:33:44,660 --> 00:33:50,820 home if the Lord should. Call you to marriage that you 607 00:33:50,820 --> 00:33:52,340 would want to have with a husband. 608 00:33:53,100 --> 00:33:55,220 But even if not, you can use such a home in the. 609 00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:58,940 Service of God to his. And you should. 610 00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:03,850 You should think through those. Things Some of you are single 611 00:34:03,850 --> 00:34:10,050 with children and ladies. You may be in that space because 612 00:34:10,050 --> 00:34:12,570 of a man who abdicated on his responsibilities. 613 00:34:12,570 --> 00:34:19,210 Like we talked about last week. And I want you to know that you 614 00:34:19,210 --> 00:34:21,330 are in a tough. Spot I see it. 615 00:34:21,370 --> 00:34:30,080 I understand that. But the Lord cares for you. 616 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,159 The Lord is near to you. In your broken heartedness, the 617 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,960 Lord will strengthen you. For the work that. 618 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,239 He has for you of. Raising those children in a 619 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:44,639 godly home. And if she if he should grant 1 620 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:48,800 the repentance of said husband or. 621 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,199 Another husband in the future? So be it. 622 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,760 But you can't wait on that. You have to nourish and cherish. 623 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,160 Today, you have to get busy with the work that God's called you 624 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:00,920 to. You can't. 625 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,280 You can't sit. And sulk. 626 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,040 And I know that's a tough thing to think through. 627 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:24,710 But God will strengthen you the other thing that you can 628 00:35:24,710 --> 00:35:26,870 think. Through is for all ladies. 629 00:35:26,910 --> 00:35:29,430 Is how can I nourish and cherish the church that I'm in? 630 00:35:30,710 --> 00:35:31,670 How? Can I be of service? 631 00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:34,230 To the to the men and women of God, and the boys and girls. 632 00:35:34,230 --> 00:35:37,270 Of God that. He's placed me in community with 633 00:35:37,990 --> 00:35:42,260 how can I give myself. To them right and nourish and 634 00:35:42,260 --> 00:35:45,580 cherish that community. There's there's great, great 635 00:35:45,580 --> 00:35:49,940 benefit, Paul said. Even in First Corinthians 7. 636 00:35:50,940 --> 00:35:54,660 Of those who are single. That and this is single without 637 00:35:54,660 --> 00:35:56,220 children, but those who are single. 638 00:35:56,220 --> 00:35:58,180 With no children, no marriage. Is that? 639 00:35:58,580 --> 00:36:00,100 You don't have the entanglements. 640 00:36:00,740 --> 00:36:04,820 Of the. Worries of a home yet, And so 641 00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:07,420 you can give yourself to those things more fully. 642 00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:11,350 As as one who doesn't. Have to yet take care of a 643 00:36:11,350 --> 00:36:14,110 house. And so in that way you can learn 644 00:36:14,110 --> 00:36:17,590 how to nourish and cherish even better and be more prepared. 645 00:36:17,590 --> 00:36:20,590 For that day when? God might grant a husband. 646 00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:24,990 Biblical womanhood bears the image of God. 647 00:36:24,990 --> 00:36:27,990 By nourishing and cherishing all that God grants a woman in 648 00:36:27,990 --> 00:36:31,790 Christ's strength in Christ's strength. 649 00:36:36,070 --> 00:36:41,150 Ladies, you were created by God because you were created by God. 650 00:36:41,150 --> 00:36:44,750 You must go to God regularly for the strength that you need. 651 00:36:44,750 --> 00:36:50,110 To carry out the task. That God has granted to you if 652 00:36:50,110 --> 00:36:51,750 you're going to nourish and cherish in a. 653 00:36:51,750 --> 00:36:54,550 Way that. Brings glory to the Lord. 654 00:36:55,550 --> 00:36:57,830 You must depend upon the Lord daily. 655 00:36:58,510 --> 00:37:01,110 You must give yourself to him daily. 656 00:37:02,990 --> 00:37:05,310 Now I know. I see it. 657 00:37:05,830 --> 00:37:13,660 This is hard. There are things that get in the 658 00:37:13,660 --> 00:37:14,580 way. Of being able to do. 659 00:37:14,580 --> 00:37:18,620 That well, but you need to find a way. 660 00:37:19,220 --> 00:37:20,460 To get into the word. Of God. 661 00:37:20,460 --> 00:37:25,460 Each day to to. Read it chapter by chapter, line 662 00:37:25,460 --> 00:37:27,580 by line. And to come to know. 663 00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:29,700 Who God is. Well, so that you might. 664 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:32,700 Carry out his duties, his responsibilities for you, well 665 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:36,540 in your own home. You have to make a way to do 666 00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:39,140 that. There's just no way. 667 00:37:39,140 --> 00:37:43,420 There's no substitute, No substitute. 668 00:37:47,260 --> 00:37:50,860 You have to pray. Wells asked me the other day. 669 00:37:50,860 --> 00:37:54,420 Hadn't. He told you this yet, Patricia, 670 00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:55,700 but. Wells asked me, though. 671 00:37:55,740 --> 00:37:58,820 They said Daddy Mama takes really long showers. 672 00:37:58,820 --> 00:38:04,390 In the evenings, so yeah. That's because since she woke up 673 00:38:04,390 --> 00:38:05,830 this morning, she's been caring for you. 674 00:38:05,830 --> 00:38:09,830 Guys and it's a never stop job and the one time. 675 00:38:09,830 --> 00:38:14,230 She has to just relax. And decompress and to pray 676 00:38:14,910 --> 00:38:19,750 fervent prayers. And I know that she does is when 677 00:38:19,750 --> 00:38:23,510 she's in the shower in the evenings, all right. 678 00:38:23,510 --> 00:38:25,590 It's just finding time to make it happen. 679 00:38:26,150 --> 00:38:27,750 And you just have to. You have. 680 00:38:27,750 --> 00:38:35,200 To say I'm doing this all right. Because God has work for you. 681 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,120 God has things that He's granted to you, and he has things. 682 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,320 He has expectations for how you'll. 683 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,280 Manage those things and. So just like I talked with the 684 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,000 guys last week, we don't want to be the. 685 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,920 Servant who goes and buries the thing we've been given. 686 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,520 Only to just give it back to him when he returns. 687 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:56,680 We want to get to. Work with it. 688 00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,560 We want to see it increase. Amen. 689 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:01,920 We want to see those things grow and so. 690 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:03,920 We have to trust the Lord to help. 691 00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,080 Us in these things, which means we have to depend on the Lord. 692 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,840 To help us in these. Things to grant us the. 693 00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:11,040 Strength needed. And so you are weak. 694 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,720 Not because you're women, but because you're human. 695 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,600 You are weak. You lack the. 696 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,040 Strength you need, you've been called. 697 00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,880 To a task that's higher than you can perform, it's grander than 698 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,720 you can imagine, and you need. The strength of Christ to 699 00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:32,640 perform it well, that's the bottom line. 700 00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:37,680 I don't know how else to put it, I'm not feeling very eloquent. 701 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:42,640 Today, anyway. So here's the good news. 702 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:46,920 Your. Weakness often leads to 703 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,520 sinfulness, right? Am I the only? 704 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:54,400 One who deals with this. Did you know that Christ died to 705 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,730 save? You from your sins in Christ. 706 00:39:58,730 --> 00:40:04,490 You have the greatest savior. You could ever imagine in Romans 707 00:40:04,490 --> 00:40:06,530 chapter 6, verse 20. Three, we read that for the. 708 00:40:06,530 --> 00:40:10,810 Wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal. 709 00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:15,730 Life through Jesus Christ our. Lord and so if you'll believe in 710 00:40:15,730 --> 00:40:17,570 Christ. Letter in Romans. 10 It says 711 00:40:17,570 --> 00:40:20,530 anyone who believes in Christ will. 712 00:40:20,530 --> 00:40:23,050 Be saved anyone who calls upon the name of the. 713 00:40:23,050 --> 00:40:26,130 Lord will be saved, so if you'll believe that. 714 00:40:26,540 --> 00:40:28,180 Christ died for your sins, and they got. 715 00:40:28,180 --> 00:40:30,140 Raised him from the dead on the third day. 716 00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:33,740 You will be saved. Praise God, there's grace. 717 00:40:33,980 --> 00:40:37,380 To cover your sins. There's grace to cover your. 718 00:40:37,380 --> 00:40:42,260 Weaknesses, right? And so when you believe that the 719 00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:46,620 next step is not to become some greater version of yourself, 720 00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:49,580 it's not to. Run to the selfhelp shelves at 721 00:40:49,580 --> 00:40:53,940 Walmart or Barnes and Noble or. The the podcast section on 722 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:58,020 Spotify and look for ways to. Become a boss, babe. 723 00:40:58,020 --> 00:41:04,740 Or some other thing, it won't help you. 724 00:41:06,460 --> 00:41:08,220 You are what got. Yourself in the mess? 725 00:41:08,220 --> 00:41:09,460 How? Are you going to get yourself 726 00:41:09,460 --> 00:41:10,420 out of it? Right. 727 00:41:11,380 --> 00:41:13,060 And so we have to recognize that. 728 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:16,700 We're weak. Christ is strong. 729 00:41:17,580 --> 00:41:19,860 We're unable. To save, but he saves to the 730 00:41:19,860 --> 00:41:23,380 other most all of those who draw near to the father through him. 731 00:41:23,460 --> 00:41:27,690 Hebrew 7/25. And so therefore you must die to 732 00:41:27,690 --> 00:41:31,170 yourself. This is exactly what Christ 733 00:41:31,170 --> 00:41:32,330 said. If you want to follow me, you 734 00:41:32,330 --> 00:41:34,170 must deny yourself. Take up your cross and. 735 00:41:34,170 --> 00:41:39,330 Follow me so you must. Die to yourself and that. 736 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:44,890 Means women that we can't demand our way, we can't demand our 737 00:41:44,930 --> 00:41:47,650 thing, our happiness, whatever we think will make. 738 00:41:47,650 --> 00:41:51,250 US most peaceful. Patricia has picked up a phrase 739 00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:55,780 that I think is wonderful. And it's to quiet your heart. 740 00:41:57,980 --> 00:42:01,540 You have to quiet your heart, your heart. 741 00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:05,260 Wants to lead you astray. Your flesh wants to run after 742 00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:07,340 things that your. Flesh desires. 743 00:42:07,340 --> 00:42:08,900 And you have to quiet. That thing. 744 00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:11,660 How do you quiet? It depending on the. 745 00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:17,220 Christ, prayer, Bible reading, talking with a friend even. 746 00:42:17,420 --> 00:42:19,380 But I would start with prayer and Bible reading, not the 747 00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:22,900 talking with a friend. Go to Christ first. 748 00:42:23,870 --> 00:42:28,070 Find him sufficient for your need, every one of them right. 749 00:42:28,070 --> 00:42:30,350 But you must die to yourself. You must quiet your heart, you 750 00:42:30,350 --> 00:42:33,470 must. Stop and say not my. 751 00:42:33,470 --> 00:42:35,750 Will Christ but your will be done. 752 00:42:37,910 --> 00:42:40,110 Glacius 220 We read what I. Think is just. 753 00:42:40,110 --> 00:42:44,070 Kind of the the mantra of a disciple, Paul. 754 00:42:44,070 --> 00:42:46,390 Writes There, he says, I have been crucified with. 755 00:42:46,750 --> 00:42:50,030 Christ, it is no longer. I who live but Christ. 756 00:42:50,030 --> 00:42:52,350 Who lives in me and the life I now? 757 00:42:52,350 --> 00:42:55,840 Live in the flesh I live by. Faith and the Son of God who 758 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,640 loved. Me and gave himself for me. 759 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:00,920 Praise God. I mean that's. 760 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,400 The mantra of discipleship. This. 761 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,840 Is what all of us, men and women, boys and girls, should 762 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,640 be. Saying daily, we ought to. 763 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,800 Memorize that verse. Pray it. 764 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:14,400 Think through it each day. You're you're only going to bear 765 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,800 the image of God by nourishing and cherishing all that God 766 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,880 grants. To you as much as you depend on 767 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:24,460 the Lord who granted the things. We have to trust the. 768 00:43:24,460 --> 00:43:31,580 Lord and in that way. You will bear his image, and 769 00:43:31,580 --> 00:43:34,460 that way you will nourish and cherish all that he grants to. 770 00:43:34,460 --> 00:43:37,380 You but you must do it in the strength of Christ. 771 00:43:38,060 --> 00:43:39,700 Amen. Amen. 772 00:43:39,700 --> 00:43:41,780 Let me pray for you, Heavenly Father, I thank. 773 00:43:41,780 --> 00:43:45,300 You for today. I thank you for your word. 774 00:43:52,780 --> 00:43:59,700 Lord, we praise you for the glory of womanhood. 775 00:44:03,660 --> 00:44:05,300 God we thank. You that you have. 776 00:44:05,740 --> 00:44:16,220 Designed and created and given a worth and a value and a makeup 777 00:44:16,220 --> 00:44:18,700 and a. Purpose for womanhood? 778 00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:23,100 That goes beyond anything that our world could think of and and 779 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:24,540 we see the problem with when our. 780 00:44:24,540 --> 00:44:27,660 World tries to think of. What feminism should look like 781 00:44:30,780 --> 00:44:34,300 It's an it's ugly. It's anything but effeminate. 782 00:44:37,620 --> 00:44:41,460 But, Lord, your calling is higher, and so here I. 783 00:44:41,620 --> 00:44:46,940 Stand among ladies in large. Part who have committed 784 00:44:46,940 --> 00:44:50,140 themselves. To you who have. 785 00:44:50,140 --> 00:44:53,260 Surrendered their lives to Christ and are. 786 00:44:53,260 --> 00:44:57,820 Seeking to live life biblically. What? 787 00:44:57,860 --> 00:45:02,780 Has God said about womanhood? They asked. 788 00:45:02,780 --> 00:45:07,140 The question they want the answer so that they can go do 789 00:45:07,140 --> 00:45:08,780 it. And I praise you for their 790 00:45:08,780 --> 00:45:15,660 heart. Lord the Father, I pray that you 791 00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:18,140 would strengthen them for nourishing and cherishing all 792 00:45:18,140 --> 00:45:22,220 that God's granted to. Them, Whatever that may be, 793 00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:26,340 whether. It's has a spouse as a mother, 794 00:45:27,380 --> 00:45:29,260 maybe those things haven't come into view yet. 795 00:45:29,260 --> 00:45:31,660 And so it's. As a coworker, As a. 796 00:45:33,780 --> 00:45:38,180 As someone who's in. School as a daughter, a friend, 797 00:45:38,900 --> 00:45:44,860 a church woman, whatever the role may be. 798 00:45:44,860 --> 00:45:46,900 Lord, I pray that you. Help them to nourish and cherish 799 00:45:46,900 --> 00:45:49,780 those things. Commit them to. 800 00:45:49,780 --> 00:46:03,220 You to trust you, Lord? I pray that you would help them 801 00:46:03,220 --> 00:46:06,540 to be. Aware of their sinfulness, aware 802 00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:10,740 of the ways in which their hearts desire their own will. 803 00:46:13,460 --> 00:46:15,740 Pray, Lord, that you would empower them now to confess 804 00:46:15,740 --> 00:46:19,380 those things before you to repent and to believe and. 805 00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:23,260 Trust Christ, His commands the the word that we see. 806 00:46:23,260 --> 00:46:29,460 Even here in Genesis 2, Lord, as we continue this. 807 00:46:29,860 --> 00:46:32,380 We ask that you would help. Us men and women alike. 808 00:46:32,380 --> 00:46:35,820 Boys and girls. Alike to, to come, to know and 809 00:46:35,820 --> 00:46:39,180 to. Value a Godly household. 810 00:46:43,890 --> 00:46:47,250 Father, we love you dearly. We thank you for your deep care 811 00:46:47,250 --> 00:46:48,970 for. Us your commitment to your. 812 00:46:48,970 --> 00:46:53,250 People, you are faithful. And steadfast in love when we 813 00:46:53,250 --> 00:46:56,290 are. Unfaithful and have zero love. 814 00:46:56,290 --> 00:47:03,050 To give and so we praise. You, Lord, for your care for us. 815 00:47:05,290 --> 00:47:09,480 We love you. Christ and we pray. 816 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,560 Amen.