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If you have your Bobby, you turn to Genesis Chapter 2, Genesis
Chapter 2. We are in week three of the
series called Happy the Home. God's design for family.
So we're. Examining the scriptures to see.
God's design. For the home today, my.
Sermon is on womanhood. From creation If you missed last
week, it. Was manhood from creation and we
had a good time. With that, and I hope today to
do. Something very similar just
provide for you a high view. Of womanhood of what God has
called. Women specifically to be and to
do how he's designed and created.
Them uniquely and that this is something worth.
Celebrating it's it's not. Something worth getting rid of
so still you buddy. So in last week's installment,
we observed that God made the man Ouch.
That last, that last flood, was his.
Head on the door. So there we go.
Never fails that when your kids throwing a fit.
They injure themselves. Or I just like if you would just
calm down just a little, we could avoid.
Some of those, so. All right, so.
Last week's installment? We observed how God.
Created the man and he created. The man was it inside or
outside? Of the guard somebody answer
that outside or I was outside the.
Then he created the garden, and he put the man into the garden
and. He told him to do.
What can anybody remember? Work it and keep it.
Very good. All right, You guys are good.
Listeners, that makes me happy that are you just good readers
of your word which? Also makes me happy so so he he
set him. In the garden to work it and
keep it. And today we're going to look at
is the creation. Of woman so man's in the garden.
He's called to work and to keep. And it's just the man there
currently. So today we're going to observe.
How God created the woman? And and what that means?
For what I'll just call biblical.
Womanhood the reason I'll use the term.
Biblical womanhood is because it's the.
Phrase we use around here often as we think about especially.
Our our women's group that meets weekly, we think about biblical.
Womanhood and in. Men's group We Think about
Biblical. Manhood often.
So I want to. I want to do that because I hope
to always. Be calling you to.
The scriptures and to trust and to believe what the scriptures
say. About particular things, but
especially about the sexes. It really matters in our world
today what we think about the sexes as far as, especially as
far as God's word. Says these things.
So the definition I have for you today is this.
Biblical womanhood bears the image of God by nourishing and
cherishing all that God grants a woman in Christ's strength.
All right, so. If you're taking notes, I
encourage. You to write that down, Biblical
woman. That bears the image of.
God, by nourishing and cherishing all that God grants a
woman in Christ's strength. All right.
You can finish that in just a second.
Would you stand to your feet? Let's read our text today.
When I'm finished reading, I'll say this is the word of the
Lord, so if you're visiting with us, I ask you to.
Respond Thanks be to God. This is our way of.
Setting God's word above. Man's word as we begin to look
at it today. Genesis 218.
Through 25 Then the Lord. God said it is not good.
That the man should be alone. I will make him a helper fit for
him. And now sorry, now out of the
ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the.
Field and every bird of the heavens.
And brought them to the man to see what he.
Would call them, and whatever the man called every living
creature. That was its name.
The man gave names to all livestock, into the birds of the
heavens, and to every beast of the field but for Adam.
There was not found a helper fit for him, so the Lord God caused
the deep sleep. To fall upon the man, and while
he slept, took one of his. Ribs and closed up its place
with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God.
Had taken. From the man he made.
Into a woman and brought her to the man.
Then the man said this at last is.
Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.
She shall be called. Woman because she was taken.
Out of man, therefore a man shall leave his father and his.
Mother, hold fast to his. Wife and they shall become one
flesh, And the man and his wife were both naked.
And we're not ashamed. This is the word of the Lord.
Thanks me to God, Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you
for your word. We thank you, Lord.
For the time that we have now in it, and we ask, Lord, that you
would illuminate these verses for us by the power of your
spirits, so. That we might know them.
Might understand them and believe.
And that we might commit ourselves to the things that you
call us to do. Lord, I thank you for.
The time we have now to study your.
Word and we pray, Lord, that you be.
With us in this, Lord, I stand before you today, as always.
Really just. In need of your strengths.
And your mercy, and your grace and your help.
Today. And so I asked, Lord, that you
would strengthen. And that you would help me to
preach your word. But that ultimately what people
here today is not the words of Kyle, but the words of Christ.
Lord his. Words are what truly nourish us.
It His words are what truly grow us up and mature us well.
It truly help us. Become the men, the women, the
boys, the girls that you've called us to be.
And so we asked. For your help today in this it's
in the name of Christ, I pray. Amen, Amen.
And in Genesis? 127, which we looked at a couple
of weeks ago, we we read that. God.
Created man in his own image in the image.
Of God he created Him. Male and female he created.
And so we see. From the very beginning, and I
told you last week, the Genesis. One is kind of a it's a 30,000.
Foot view of the creation. Of the man and woman.
Genesis chapter 2 gets into a much more detailed.
Account of how they were created, what took place.
In that time and so and then in Genesis.
Two, what we're seeing here is that the Lord God caused the
deep sleep to fall. Upon the man, and while he
slept, he took his one of his ribs, he closed.
Up the place with flesh, and out of the rib God he created a.
Woman and brought him to or brought her sorry.
To the man now. There's an old joke that my dad.
Said I had to say. And how many are?
You're supposed to be obedient to your parents, right?
So there's a joke that goes this way.
That God. Comes to the man, he says.
Look, it's not good for you to be alone.
I'm going to make a helper fit for you.
And Adam, says Okay. He says, well, you know what's
it going to take and and God said, well, it's going to cost
you. An arm and a leg.
And Adam says well. What can I get for a rib right?
So that's that's the old joke, so.
I want you to know that despite the.
Or lack of humor, anyway, of such a joke.
The biblical narrative here. Ascribes glory to womanhood.
It describes the very. Glory of God to womanhood that
he that that she is created. In his image and in his likeness
and women are not a second rate creation.
And and I do recognize that throughout history, it is.
Women and children that have bore the greatest burden of.
Men who? Exercise dominion in the worst
ways, right? It's it's women and children who
are most often taken advantage of in those things.
But God made the woman. In his image.
And we need to recognize. This we need to celebrate this
Won't manhood and womanhood bear the image of God at creation?
But this is. Intrinsically true of their
value and of of why we should celebrate the sexes.
God created the sexes. Male and female and called it
very good and. So this is a very good.
Thing right that that when he when he observes creation after
that last day. He looks at all of it and says
this is very good and. When a woman embraces her
feminine nature, it's a very good thing It's a.
Thing for a woman to. Be a woman.
After all, she is. The glory of man, that's what
Paul. Writes in the First Corinthians.
11 verse 7. He says a man is the.
Image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.
He continues. For man was not.
Made from woman, but woman from man.
Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
And so two weeks ago we established that because God
created. Man last of all creation.
And in his own image. But there's a unique value.
Placed upon them as the. Crown Jewel of Creation.
They are what caused God to say it is very good.
Prior to that, everything was good.
The. Lord saw it, and it was good.
The Lord saw it and it was good. The.
Lord saw it and it was good. And then he gets to this and
it's the Lord saw all. That he had made and said it is
very good. And so there's a unique value in
this. Mankind is the best and most
excellent of all of God's. They are the.
Ones who are created in his image.
Again, you look at, you could go.
Back and listen to week one of the series.
If you want to hear more about that, I'm not trying to
resurrect an old. Sermon here to to get to.
Get the point across, but I want to remind.
Us of these things Eaves. Being made after Adam Eves Being
made out of Adam. Even puts an.
Honor and a dignity upon. As the glory.
Of man so if. Man is the head, she is the.
A crown to her husband. The crown of the visible.
Creation Matthew. Henry puts it this way.
He. Says the man was dust.
But the woman was dust. Double refined, one removed
further from the earth. I like that.
Once again, we see that. Adam had nothing to do with
God's creative work. Which is important to note.
He he notices that there's not a helper fit for.
He sees that after naming all of the creatures that God paraded
before. This was part of his working and
keeping this was part of his work as God's vice.
Region on the earth it was to subdue.
Creation it was to. Name them and whatever he called
them that was. Its name, but he gets to.
The end of that long line of. Creatures, and he sees that.
There's not a helper fit for him, but what could Adam do
about? Nothing.
He has no power to create. He's.
He is. He is not a creator, all right,
he simply. Named the creation.
He didn't. Create those things.
And so we see that he's aware. Of his need for a helper, but
he. Cannot create a helper.
Himself doesn't even. Really know what he needs.
Just notices that it's lacking and so he rest.
As one who has cast his cares. Upon the Lord right He's he.
Falls into a deep sleep, the Lord.
Puts him into a deep. Sleep and he.
Trusts in the infinite wisdom and the will.
Of God, and God brings. Forth a woman, a helper fit for
him. This further signifies the glory
of the woman. As man's helper and we see that,
I think. Also in the way that she was
created. This something that.
That Matthew Henry pointed out and saw years ago.
But. It's made its way into pretty
much every marriage sermon I've ever preached.
He says this. He says she was made of a rib
out of his side. Not made out of, out of his head
to. Rule over him.
Nor out of his feet. To be trampled upon by him.
But out of his side to be. Equal with him under his arm, to
be protected by him, and near to his heart to be loved by him.
It's wonderful truth, right? Biblical.
Then the kind of womanhood that nourishes and cherishes all that
God grants to her. And we're going to see more.
About that in a moment. And as she's doing this in
Christ's strength. Kind of womanhood is under
attack now, similar to. The Irony of the L GB TQ.
Plus movement branding. Itself under the one word.
Pride the modern feminist movement.
And its preceding ways brand themselves under feminism.
Now the irony of. Forsaking all that God declares
feminine from creation as they work to create a new definition
of. Femininity should not be lost on
us using the same name, today's feminists.
Fight for abortion on demand. They fight for language
equality. Insisting on saying chairperson
instead. Of chairman, for example.
They, they fight for the. Blurring of gender lines.
The more radical. Feminists actively seek to
overthrow any trace of male dominance in society.
They oppose the biblical roles of.
Husbands and Wives and promotes. Lesbianism.
Radical feminists deny that there is any difference between.
Men and women teaching that any perceived differences between
the. Sexes are due solely to social
conditioning. Wow, now you can look across the
room if you're a. Man at women or look at your
wife. And you can see clearly that
there are. Differences and those
differences. Are natural.
They're they're wired. Into a woman wired into a man
at. Creation.
It's good and right that we're different that.
We're built different. Now that's not social
conditioning, that's common sense, which, oddly, isn't so
common this it's. So here's what we know.
About the feminist movement. The modern feminist movement.
Especially they are anti God. They are anti wifehood, anti
motherhood, anti modesty. And therefore altogether they
are. Anti woman again.
The irony is not lost on me here.
It's a satanic movement. And it should be repudiated as
such. And so, I urge call even all of
you Christian women to fight. Against Modern Feminism by.
Growing in your knowledge of God.
Growing in your understanding of what?
Godliness is by. Growing in your understanding of
the wonderful call that God. Has on your life as women.
Who may or may not become wives, who may or may not become
mothers, but just simply. In your design we believe those
things knowledge of such. Growing in these things, growing
in godliness. Growing in the knowledge of God.
Growing in his understanding the wonderful call that he's.
Placed on you. We believe those.
Things will lead women old. And young?
To spend their lives for the glory of the Lord.
To spend their lives in good works.
Toward their neighbors. That your neighbor might be your
husband or your child, or it could be a coworker, or a friend
could be a church member. Could be literally your neighbor
on your street, right it it. Leads you in good works to such.
Biblical. Womanhood, then, is faith in
Christ and love for others in action.
It's putting those things in action.
Now I am encouraged. I try to kind of keep up with
some of the things going on in the US especially, especially.
Within churches across EU. S And so I'm encouraged by what
appears to be a. Resurgence of biblical womanhood
among Western Christians. I'm especially encouraged to see
the ladies in this. Church, both young and old.
Striving. Side by side in pursuit of.
Biblical womanhood. But I I.
Want to encourage you ladies to to do?
Well, in studying what God's word says about.
Womanhood to to see it and to. Believe it.
And that's part of what the? Series is designed to do it's to
to help both of us men and. Women to see what God's word
says about what he's called us to.
Especially in building households.
And so you would do well to study God's Word to see what it
says. About womanhood, you would do
even more better to do so alongside.
Your husband if you're married or alongside the ladies of
Biblical. Womanhood or they're married or?
And then to submit yourself to God's wise design.
You. And his wise will for you then I
think you get to reap. The benefits?
Of what God-given womanhood looks like as you submit
yourself. To those things.
Proverbs 31 says this. It says that.
Her children rise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also and he. Praises her and this is what he
said. This is what they say.
Many women have done excellently, but you surpass
them all in first thirty. We read that.
Charm is deceitful and beauty is.
Vain but a woman who? Fears the Lord is to be.
Praised one way you might word that is say that.
Godliness is attractive for a lifetime beauty.
But godliness is always attractive.
It never fades. And in verse 31 it says give her
of. The fruit of her.
Hands and let her works praise her.
In the gates it'll be. Known the kind of.
Woman who is godly right, it's seen and it's praised.
Biblical womanhood bears the. Image of God by nourishing and
cherishing all that God grants a woman in Cross.
And so I'm just. Trying to.
In this first sermon on womanhood and as we get into
subsequent sermons in the future where we'll deal with.
Things a little more specifically.
Today I'm just trying to raise your.
Awareness that God's design is good.
That's right, it's holy. That it's your design as a woman
is not. Some product of the fall, there
are issues. In womanhood and manhood as a
result of the fall, yes. But the fact.
That you're a woman. The fact that you were built the
way you're. Built and the fact.
That you're designed the way you're designed is good and.
It's a part of God's creation and it's worthy of celebration.
Let's we get into what it means to nourish and cherish.
Nourishing and cherishing, specifically, all that God
grants a woman. And the Lord God said.
I want to read to you again, verse 18.
The Lord God said it's not. Good, that the man should be
alone. I will make him a helper fit for
him. And then in verse 20 we read but
for Adam after he named all of the livestock and the.
Birds of the heavens and every beast of the field says but for.
Adam there was not a helper. There was not found a helper fit
for him. So if the man was going to truly
work and keep all that God grants to him in the garden as.
God had told him to do if he was going to be fruitful and
multiply as the. Word came down in chapter one if
he was going to. Truly subdue the earth and.
Exercise dominion as the word came down in chapter One as
well. Then he couldn't be alone.
For that God declares it not good for him to be alone,
because you can't be fruitful and multiply on your own men.
You need a wise. And it's good to desire a godly
wife. As a man carries authority that
was dedicated to him by God, that is working and keeping, so
also a woman carries authority. Dedicated to her by God, which
is to be a helper fit for him and in all.
Of that so that together they can be fruitful and multiply so
that together they can. Subdue creation and exercise
dominion as God's vice Regents on the earth.
So what is a helper? Well, the the Biblical word for
helper here. Has the sense of a person who
contributes to the fulfillment of a need.
Or the furtherance of an effort or.
What was the effort or purpose? What was the need to be
fruitfully multiplied to work and to keep?
Right to. Exercise dominion and subdued
creation and and so the woman is meant, then by God to be a help.
Meet for the man which is the King James word Help meet.
To contribute to his labors of working and keeping all that
God. Grants to him yet as a woman.
She carries a different. Role which is intrinsic to her
design and her. Makeup she is.
To nourish and cherish all that God grants to her.
That. That's not to say there's never
any working and keeping for the woman.
After all, nourishing and cherishing is important to
working and keeping. It's they go hand in hand.
You. You have to nourish and cherish
the things you're working and keeping.
This is how you work together. And a man doesn't escape the
duty of nourishing and cherishing either God.
Commands men to nourish and cherish their wives and.
Ephesians 529 using those exact. Words nourish and cherish.
Your wife, as Christ does the church.
It says so. Then you have to.
Ask What does it mean to nourish?
What are What are we saying by the word nourish?
Will the word nourish there in 529?
Of Ephesians is to nourish up to maturity.
It's to nurture, to bring. Up and it's to provide the
necessary components for something to grow up, to mature,
to become beautiful or productive.
Now, what's interesting about this?
Is the man commits himself. To this work with his.
Wife, and then she commits herself to that work in.
The home and in this. Way they work together.
What does it mean to? Cherish is to warm, to keep
warm, to cherish with tender love, to foster with tender
care. In another word, it might.
Be to provide. The necessary environment for
something to grow up, to mature, to become beautiful and.
So you see, it's it's the wife's role.
It's the woman's role in society, the wife's role in a
home. To nourish and cherish it's.
Provide the. Elements needed for the maturing
and the growing up. For the sustenance that it takes
to nourish. Something to maturity, but also.
To build the place where the nourishing and cherishing takes
place where the cherishing. Is found right where you find
the love, the warmth. Of love in a home.
A wife does that far. Better than a husband does.
And she she helps. Him in those things one good.
Example of this is your child's coloring.
Sheets today in the Worship Guide, if you got one of those.
Last week it was a picture of a farmer working and keeping his
land. He's out there.
And by the sweat of his brow, he is bringing home the bacon baby.
He's gathering the produce. All right, this week it's a
woman training her child. How to use the stuff?
Grown on the land to feed the family he's working and keeping.
She's nourishing and cherishing. Another example might be your
own work and your own keeping men in your home, right?
You work and keep week to week. On the job, right?
So that you have a house to live in, in our home, Patricia's home
with our children. Which is the.
The the way we've. Chosen to do it.
It's just based on our convictions.
But she's nourishing and cherishing all week, so that
our. Family has a home to live in.
You see the difference? I might provide the raw.
Goods but she. Takes those raw goods and turns
them into something beautiful, desirable, and often times
edible. So I'm not saying there's no
crossover. I'm not saying there's not
working and keeping done on a woman's part and not nourishing
and cherishing done on a man's part.
Absolutely there are. But we cannot unwisely skip over
your intrinsic design, right? That's what feminists are doing.
That's the goal of. Of their work.
Not the Bible. The Bible.
Lays out specific tasks and roles.
For men and women to fulfill based on how God.
Has designed them by nature. With who they are, Proverbs 14.
One that's it's a verse feminist love, I'm sure.
Proverb. 14-1, says the wisest of women, builds her house, but
folly with her own. Hands tears it down.
The wisest of women builds her. House What does that?
It means she's committed to doing these things.
The building the home is the first priority of womanhood.
And and in Titus Two we see the same thing in Titus 2.
Versus 3 through 5, it's. Instructions.
There, it says. Older women, likewise, are to be
reverent in behavior. Not slanders or slaves too much.
One, they're to teach. What is good?
And so train the young women to love their husbands and
children, to be self controlled, pure, working at home, kind and.
Submissive to their own husbands that the Word of God may not be
reviled. The interesting thing there is
that the word. Of God is at stake.
In this. Which makes total sense again if
you look. At the movements of today and
the the destruction of. Households, it becomes very.
Clear that the word of God is at stake because it's the word of
God that gets mocked the most when people.
Strive to live this way and then when.
People aren't living this way. That makes a mockery.
Of the word of God as well. And so when this is cultivated
in a woman, especially in her early childhood.
Years you see it blossom so beautifully in front of your
eyes when a mother enters the work of nourishing and
cherishing with joy her daughter's.
Desire to do, to come alongside her and to do the same things.
It's natural, is what I'm trying to say in in preparing the
sermon this week. Which you guys?
Keep us in prayer. This weekend marks the one year.
Anniversary of when he's passing.
So that that's why it's difficult when he's.
Again, if you're visiting, you stumbled into a whole thing
here. My daughter, Winnie.
Passed away last. Year on the 4th at.
She was six years old and so for a year we've been kind of
walking. This road together as a church
as well, so I'm preparing. The sermon this.
Week particularly, probably because of the anniversary
looming. Over my head, but also just
looking at. Womanhood and the nurture and
the nourishing and cherishing of homes.
I couldn't help but think of Winnie often.
So maybe you'll forgive me if I say just a little something
about Winnie here. She was the perfect picture of a
little girl striving to become. What the Bible describes.
Of womanhood. Now, would she have worded it
that way? No, no, she was 6.
But she. Was, and it was obvious each day
she nourished and cherished her family.
You can ask her brothers how much she cared for them, how
much they cared for her, and certainly hear.
It on the lips of Patricia and I as we think about her often and
talk about her. But but Wendy's nourishing and
cherishing it didn't know any dark corners.
It extended to everything in her care she took.
Care of her room, she made sure that her Barbie.
House was tidy and neat, which is has to be nearly impossible
as I can tell so many things there.
The produce section and the Barbie shop was organized.
You know and still is still sits there.
She took care of everything. She cooked.
She cleaned one of my. Favorite pictures of hers?
She's standing on a chair in our kitchen.
Putting pepperonis on pizza. Homemade pizza.
Haddon knew letters and numbers. He's our four year old.
He knew letters and numbers far sooner than he should have
because. Winnie imitated her mom's
homeschooling with him, often taking her into a room or
sitting at a board and helping him learn.
To write letters. And numbers, and to know to know
those things. When he was kind, she was
independent in mostly the right. It got her in trouble a time or
two, but I liked her independence.
She was beautiful inside and outside.
Why? You know, you look.
At something like that, you look at little girls like that and
there's. Many of the same kinds of little
girls in this room today. I'm just going on my fatherly
experience with Winnie. Why though?
Is it because they're moms or super moms?
I mean we should praise. Them as such, but in reality,
no, they're not super. Moms, right?
That it's not not. The the reason little girls grow
up. Loving those kinds of things is
because the leaders in the home, the mom and the dad.
Work daily on submitting themselves, submitting their
children and their. Household to God's rule and
design becomes a part of what you're wanting to build, and so
you get it wrong. A.
Lot and God knows. We get it wrong often, but but
there's grace for that. There's there's grace upon grace
as we read. In John this Week in home
groups, the Lord honors his. Commands by blessing those who
obey him. Like you won't be.
Put to shame by saying I'm going to abide in.
Christ never going to happen, and so I.
Encourage you ladies, both young and old.
And I don't mean old and like a weird, you know, being.
Hateful sense at all. It's A-frame of mind, right Mr.
into, but I encourage you whether.
You're 6 or 66. And to pursue God's design for
womanhood, not the world's. There's a great blessing in
returning to the good work of nourishing and cherishing all
that God grants. To you that the description,
the, the. Deception of feminism, I should
say. Is that those women?
Who see themselves as free from the bondage of a husband or
even. Those women who say making the
home my number one priority isn't for me.
But I just, I don't do that. I don't do that.
Well, the irony of. That, or the deception.
Really of that is that there are nourishing and cherishing some
other man's company. They're nourishing and
cherishing some other man's property.
Some other person's things you understand what I mean like.
You go to work, you're you're helping him out.
Why not help your? Husband out in your home, right?
And so you don't want to help. Someone else subdue an exercise.
Dominion, when you're subduing and exercising, has been
decided. For you, by God, in your
household. So why not give yourselves
primarily to building? A household.
Now the thing about building a household is you can be single
or married and build households, right?
There are single women who have not yet been married, don't yet
have children, and you can be committed.
To building households. In that way you can commit.
Yourself to the good work of this, to creating the kind of
home if the Lord should. Call you to marriage that you
would want to have with a husband.
But even if not, you can use such a home in the.
Service of God to his. And you should.
You should think through those. Things Some of you are single
with children and ladies. You may be in that space because
of a man who abdicated on his responsibilities.
Like we talked about last week. And I want you to know that you
are in a tough. Spot I see it.
I understand that. But the Lord cares for you.
The Lord is near to you. In your broken heartedness, the
Lord will strengthen you. For the work that.
He has for you of. Raising those children in a
godly home. And if she if he should grant 1
the repentance of said husband or.
Another husband in the future? So be it.
But you can't wait on that. You have to nourish and cherish.
Today, you have to get busy with the work that God's called you
to. You can't.
You can't sit. And sulk.
And I know that's a tough thing to think through.
But God will strengthen you the other thing that you can
think. Through is for all ladies.
Is how can I nourish and cherish the church that I'm in?
How? Can I be of service?
To the to the men and women of God, and the boys and girls.
Of God that. He's placed me in community with
how can I give myself. To them right and nourish and
cherish that community. There's there's great, great
benefit, Paul said. Even in First Corinthians 7.
Of those who are single. That and this is single without
children, but those who are single.
With no children, no marriage. Is that?
You don't have the entanglements.
Of the. Worries of a home yet, And so
you can give yourself to those things more fully.
As as one who doesn't. Have to yet take care of a
house. And so in that way you can learn
how to nourish and cherish even better and be more prepared.
For that day when? God might grant a husband.
Biblical womanhood bears the image of God.
By nourishing and cherishing all that God grants a woman in
Christ's strength in Christ's strength.
Ladies, you were created by God because you were created by God.
You must go to God regularly for the strength that you need.
To carry out the task. That God has granted to you if
you're going to nourish and cherish in a.
Way that. Brings glory to the Lord.
You must depend upon the Lord daily.
You must give yourself to him daily.
Now I know. I see it.
This is hard. There are things that get in the
way. Of being able to do.
That well, but you need to find a way.
To get into the word. Of God.
Each day to to. Read it chapter by chapter, line
by line. And to come to know.
Who God is. Well, so that you might.
Carry out his duties, his responsibilities for you, well
in your own home. You have to make a way to do
that. There's just no way.
There's no substitute, No substitute.
You have to pray. Wells asked me the other day.
Hadn't. He told you this yet, Patricia,
but. Wells asked me, though.
They said Daddy Mama takes really long showers.
In the evenings, so yeah. That's because since she woke up
this morning, she's been caring for you.
Guys and it's a never stop job and the one time.
She has to just relax. And decompress and to pray
fervent prayers. And I know that she does is when
she's in the shower in the evenings, all right.
It's just finding time to make it happen.
And you just have to. You have.
To say I'm doing this all right. Because God has work for you.
God has things that He's granted to you, and he has things.
He has expectations for how you'll.
Manage those things and. So just like I talked with the
guys last week, we don't want to be the.
Servant who goes and buries the thing we've been given.
Only to just give it back to him when he returns.
We want to get to. Work with it.
We want to see it increase. Amen.
We want to see those things grow and so.
We have to trust the Lord to help.
Us in these things, which means we have to depend on the Lord.
To help us in these. Things to grant us the.
Strength needed. And so you are weak.
Not because you're women, but because you're human.
You are weak. You lack the.
Strength you need, you've been called.
To a task that's higher than you can perform, it's grander than
you can imagine, and you need. The strength of Christ to
perform it well, that's the bottom line.
I don't know how else to put it, I'm not feeling very eloquent.
Today, anyway. So here's the good news.
Your. Weakness often leads to
sinfulness, right? Am I the only?
One who deals with this. Did you know that Christ died to
save? You from your sins in Christ.
You have the greatest savior. You could ever imagine in Romans
chapter 6, verse 20. Three, we read that for the.
Wages of sin is death. But the gift of God is eternal.
Life through Jesus Christ our. Lord and so if you'll believe in
Christ. Letter in Romans. 10 It says
anyone who believes in Christ will.
Be saved anyone who calls upon the name of the.
Lord will be saved, so if you'll believe that.
Christ died for your sins, and they got.
Raised him from the dead on the third day.
You will be saved. Praise God, there's grace.
To cover your sins. There's grace to cover your.
Weaknesses, right? And so when you believe that the
next step is not to become some greater version of yourself,
it's not to. Run to the selfhelp shelves at
Walmart or Barnes and Noble or. The the podcast section on
Spotify and look for ways to. Become a boss, babe.
Or some other thing, it won't help you.
You are what got. Yourself in the mess?
How? Are you going to get yourself
out of it? Right.
And so we have to recognize that.
We're weak. Christ is strong.
We're unable. To save, but he saves to the
other most all of those who draw near to the father through him.
Hebrew 7/25. And so therefore you must die to
yourself. This is exactly what Christ
said. If you want to follow me, you
must deny yourself. Take up your cross and.
Follow me so you must. Die to yourself and that.
Means women that we can't demand our way, we can't demand our
thing, our happiness, whatever we think will make.
US most peaceful. Patricia has picked up a phrase
that I think is wonderful. And it's to quiet your heart.
You have to quiet your heart, your heart.
Wants to lead you astray. Your flesh wants to run after
things that your. Flesh desires.
And you have to quiet. That thing.
How do you quiet? It depending on the.
Christ, prayer, Bible reading, talking with a friend even.
But I would start with prayer and Bible reading, not the
talking with a friend. Go to Christ first.
Find him sufficient for your need, every one of them right.
But you must die to yourself. You must quiet your heart, you
must. Stop and say not my.
Will Christ but your will be done.
Glacius 220 We read what I. Think is just.
Kind of the the mantra of a disciple, Paul.
Writes There, he says, I have been crucified with.
Christ, it is no longer. I who live but Christ.
Who lives in me and the life I now?
Live in the flesh I live by. Faith and the Son of God who
loved. Me and gave himself for me.
Praise God. I mean that's.
The mantra of discipleship. This.
Is what all of us, men and women, boys and girls, should
be. Saying daily, we ought to.
Memorize that verse. Pray it.
Think through it each day. You're you're only going to bear
the image of God by nourishing and cherishing all that God
grants. To you as much as you depend on
the Lord who granted the things. We have to trust the.
Lord and in that way. You will bear his image, and
that way you will nourish and cherish all that he grants to.
You but you must do it in the strength of Christ.
Amen. Amen.
Let me pray for you, Heavenly Father, I thank.
You for today. I thank you for your word.
Lord, we praise you for the glory of womanhood.
God we thank. You that you have.
Designed and created and given a worth and a value and a makeup
and a. Purpose for womanhood?
That goes beyond anything that our world could think of and and
we see the problem with when our.
World tries to think of. What feminism should look like
It's an it's ugly. It's anything but effeminate.
But, Lord, your calling is higher, and so here I.
Stand among ladies in large. Part who have committed
themselves. To you who have.
Surrendered their lives to Christ and are.
Seeking to live life biblically. What?
Has God said about womanhood? They asked.
The question they want the answer so that they can go do
it. And I praise you for their
heart. Lord the Father, I pray that you
would strengthen them for nourishing and cherishing all
that God's granted to. Them, Whatever that may be,
whether. It's has a spouse as a mother,
maybe those things haven't come into view yet.
And so it's. As a coworker, As a.
As someone who's in. School as a daughter, a friend,
a church woman, whatever the role may be.
Lord, I pray that you. Help them to nourish and cherish
those things. Commit them to.
You to trust you, Lord? I pray that you would help them
to be. Aware of their sinfulness, aware
of the ways in which their hearts desire their own will.
Pray, Lord, that you would empower them now to confess
those things before you to repent and to believe and.
Trust Christ, His commands the the word that we see.
Even here in Genesis 2, Lord, as we continue this.
We ask that you would help. Us men and women alike.
Boys and girls. Alike to, to come, to know and
to. Value a Godly household.
Father, we love you dearly. We thank you for your deep care
for. Us your commitment to your.
People, you are faithful. And steadfast in love when we
are. Unfaithful and have zero love.
To give and so we praise. You, Lord, for your care for us.
We love you. Christ and we pray.
Amen.