1 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:15,880 Happy Monday. Pastor Matt is here with you, 2 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,640 Pastor Chris as well. His earring holes are open for 3 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:29,840 business. Looking for ideas for the 4 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:35,040 earring holes for Pastor Chris. Why is this how we started? 5 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:39,720 What is happening? It's what the people want. 6 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:45,280 Chris, we had a weird staff meeting this morning. 7 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:50,240 To be honest with you, what should be the most telling part 8 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,160 about how our morning staff meeting was, was that it's 9 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:53,600 spilled well into the afternoon. So. 10 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:54,040 Oh. My. 11 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,600 Gosh, yeah, you're welcome for that. 12 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,960 Open for business. Kristen said. 13 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,360 I can, I, I can see your earring holes today. 14 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,280 I was like. Yeah, yeah, Well, you know, fun 15 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:11,240 fact is I think I, I think I got my ears pierced when I was like 16 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,600 12:00-ish, give or take, you know, 'cause now at this point 17 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,960 we are in the very early 90s and made sense for me at the time 18 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:24,400 and stuff, but I pretty continuously wore earrings into 19 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,520 my late 20s for sure, maybe even into my early 30s. 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,080 And so, you know, you do that for 20 years and they're never 21 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,360 going away. So, you know, every once in a 22 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,520 while they make kids laugh. I guess if the opportunity 23 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:40,160 arises, I'll put in dangly earrings and make them laugh. 24 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,880 And because I do things like that. 25 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,400 But yeah, you're right. They're they'll, they'll always 26 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,440 be there. I think Valentine's Day dinner 27 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,320 fundraiser next year pick Pastor Chris's earrings. 28 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,120 Don't you dare. Oh no, Oh no. 29 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,120 I can't believe you said that. You're welcome. 30 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:01,760 And it's it's, it's out there now that you said that. 31 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,920 Yes, it is. Oh my gosh, Matt. 32 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,560 Someone else has to do the work. I'm not doing the work. 33 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,000 Someone else has to make that dream a reality. 34 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,280 No, but that's your idea. That's my nightmare. 35 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,800 What are we doing? Oh my gosh, Matt is just hanging 36 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,720 me out to drag today friends and this. 37 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,480 Wow. Dang it. 38 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:22,240 I see. I still need to think of a 39 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,840 hilarious way to make sure that you have a weird Valentine's 40 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,680 dinner next year. Or maybe, maybe I'll just enlist 41 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,760 the help of the people. What would, Matt? 42 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,160 Just. It's not so embarrassing that 43 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,600 like it that it makes you feel bad, but it's embarrassing 44 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,720 enough that you don't want to do it, you know? 45 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:42,960 Yeah. You could try that. 46 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,720 You could try. I need your help people. 47 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,520 Yeah, I'd be interested in hearing some of those. 48 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,640 I just, I don't leave myself like as open to that as as you 49 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,280 already have through your life choices so. 50 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,440 Dang it. I don't for example, I don't I 51 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:07,640 don't have earring holes so. So, OK, never, OK, never thought 52 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:09,720 about any kind of period. And when you were younger, you 53 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,280 know, whatever, never even considered it like. 54 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,320 Anything. No. 55 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:14,680 Oh my God. Never. 56 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:16,480 Never tempted, never drawn towards that. 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,960 I don't know why. And I don't like. 58 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,400 I don't think it's weird that you that you do, sure, but I 59 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,040 just don't. So yeah. 60 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,240 OK. Yeah, I mean the world I grew up 61 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,200 in, like fairly normal for. A lot of guys, yeah, of. 62 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:34,400 Course, yeah, I don't know. Weird. 63 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,320 Oh, sorry, you were saying the piercings were. 64 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:38,240 I thought you were saying you were fairly normal. 65 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,680 Oh, oh, I don't know if that's ever been true. 66 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:42,760 No. Yeah, you would. 67 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:46,520 You would laugh at me correctly if I ever said I was normal, 68 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,920 because you'd know I was a terrible liar. 69 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,080 So never been that. Yikes, we've barely, barely even 70 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:54,800 started. This is the ERC Leftovers 71 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:58,160 podcast. We will get to reviewing the 72 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,920 sermon on Biblical womanhood this week that Pastor Chris 73 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,040 preached and and that was great. I thought you gave a really good 74 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:11,520 overview of God's design for women as as helpers, as 75 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:17,120 partners, as they're created being though too, because that's 76 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,640 what first and foremost their their identity that God was 77 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,360 given they they are independent, which I which you can take that 78 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:29,120 several ways that they're, as I said with men last week, like we 79 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,280 are raised to be dependent on God and in ways women are 80 00:04:32,280 --> 00:04:38,840 created to also be dependent both on God and on men and men 81 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,080 also, as you were talking about the the complementary opposites 82 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:46,600 are also made to depend on women in certain ways too, in in areas 83 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,040 of our weakness and their strength. 84 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,000 So. Yeah, I love that word. 85 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,840 I I've typically glossed over. You know, you read Genesis 218 86 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,280 and you catch that word helper and that kind of gets your 87 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,720 attention, but I've typically glossed over that word helper 88 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,600 fit for him. And I was just amazed at the 89 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,560 depth of that word and how that actually works. 90 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,600 And you know, then you look at the larger world and how God has 91 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,640 created it and the fact that there are so many opposites that 92 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,320 they never destroy each other. In fact, if they weren't 93 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,880 opposite and equals, we wouldn't even exist on this planet. 94 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,360 And so there are science, there are science brain minds and, you 95 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:27,800 know, engineering minds among us that would probably have 1000 96 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:31,080 examples of equal opposites that if they didn't exist, none of it 97 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,000 would work at all. But anyway, yeah, so I just, I 98 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:37,040 was very, very intrigued by that this week. 99 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:38,640 Yeah. So we have a couple of 100 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:42,320 follow-ups continuing some thoughts that came out of the 101 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:45,320 sermon yesterday. We've got a few questions that 102 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,600 you all submitted in in response to the sermon too that we'll 103 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,280 kind of work through. Before that, we are going to 104 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,640 resurrect a segment here adulting with Pastor Matt and 105 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,480 yeah, it's going to be on socks today. 106 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,000 Socks. He's called adult day. 107 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,320 I'm adult. He sells authorities. 108 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:10,640 I'm adulting. I'm an adult. 109 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:16,360 So the start of this was I love my wife and that's a good way. 110 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,840 It's a good thing to say it's. A good way to start anything. 111 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,040 Yeah, really any sentence that I say if I start with I love my 112 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:26,440 wife, it's probably, it's probably a safe start anyway. 113 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:34,520 It's a really good day if she when she does her laundry, all 114 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,440 of her socks come out. Having a match, like a matched 115 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,160 pair. That would be a good day. 116 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:46,000 Like cause for celebration level like happens way, way less 117 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,880 often. Most of the time her socks come 118 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:53,800 out not all having matches and it so you're looking at me like 119 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,720 that's fairly normal. Yeah, but please keep going 120 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:04,600 before I have my rebuttal. For me, and this is maybe just 121 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,720 the person that I am or you guys, you guys got to let me 122 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:09,760 know out there, am I the crazy person? 123 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:16,000 I do my laundry like before they go into the washer. 124 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,080 I know that every sock in that basket has a match. 125 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:22,520 How could one even confirm? That Oh my. 126 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:26,000 Seems like an impossibility, Sir. 127 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,040 No, it doesn't. That's what that's what I don't 128 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:31,880 understand that it seems like an impossible task to keep all the 129 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,080 pairs of socks together. They came off your feet in 130 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,200 pairs. Did, did they did somewhere they 131 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,680 should have. And that's we did have Kristen 132 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,240 this morning saying one of one of her kids runs around with one 133 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:46,600 sock on and one sock off and that's just madness. 134 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,880 But I'm not even going to get into the mismatched socks. 135 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:52,440 I'm not even talking about the mismatched socks. 136 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,680 You can. Everything should still have 137 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,200 like there shouldn't be an odd number of socks coming out of 138 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,880 the laundry, right? I mean, no, no, no, there's not 139 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,760 room for interpretation there. There should not be an odd 140 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,240 number of socks. On this segment do. 141 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:19,120 You have an odd number of feet. Yes, I'm just hopping around 142 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,760 because I have one. Like what? 143 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:24,640 That's what I'm saying like that's you took them off in 144 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,400 pairs. I I don't understand how they 145 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,440 should be able to vanish between your feet and the hamper then. 146 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,039 Do you have a gremlin that's rooting around in the hamper 147 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:36,080 just. Stop Gremlin. 148 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:40,159 Just disappear in the socks before you put them. 149 00:08:40,159 --> 00:08:44,080 No, that's that's why I know that they're in pairs before 150 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,200 they go in the washer because they came off my feet in pairs. 151 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:47,200 They went in the hamper in pairs. 152 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:50,880 Thereby they went from the hamper to the washer in pairs. 153 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,320 But here's the thing. There's there's several steps I 154 00:08:53,320 --> 00:09:01,200 think you missed a if you see the floor, if you have a dog 155 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:05,360 like I have a dog, then you'll know that sometimes socks do 156 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,600 just really disappear and I'm like, that's weird. 157 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:10,440 Now, The funny thing about. How though? 158 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,160 Where are you leaving the socks? Well, that might be a different 159 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,280 problem. So here's the thing, hampers in 160 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,000 my house are located in the bathroom and in the laundry. 161 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,320 Room. Two hampers. 162 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,160 That's where they're located. All right. 163 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:31,040 Well, I, in my sometimes not perfectly sanctified state, will 164 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,280 take off socks and I'll just kind of throw them behind the 165 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,040 door along with other dirty clothes. 166 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:38,200 And then either I or Alyssa, like we're kind of walking 167 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:39,440 around the house gathering things up. 168 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:40,840 And it's Lisa. We know it's Lisa. 169 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,440 It's OK. Not every time. 170 00:09:44,680 --> 00:09:46,560 Most of the time. Most of the time, Not every 171 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:50,360 time. I like that you tried to say it. 172 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:51,920 Me or Alyssa. It could be either one of. 173 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:54,960 Them could be even up the house, you know, 9010, you know. 174 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,360 Whatever. I throw this stuff, but I come 175 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,760 back to clean it up later. Yeah. 176 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,440 Seems like that fits your personality. 177 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:00,880 OK. OK, Yeah, exactly. 178 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,800 So, I mean, so socks apparently disappear. 179 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,720 Their pairs of socks disappear. Now here's the The other thing 180 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,280 is that I think you've missed sometimes when OK, if the if The 181 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,440 Dirty laundry hamper is very full, right? 182 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,800 OK, maybe you just. You waited too long to do your 183 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,880 laundry, but OK. Maybe you just grab like an 184 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,280 armful of seemingly light colored things and you throw 185 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,720 them in there and you start washing and oh man I missed a 186 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,840 sock or two along the way. So therefore when it's clean now 187 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,120 I've got random single socks on top of my dresser waiting for 188 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,480 their perfect match. Wow, wow. 189 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:46,240 So what I hear from you actually in explaining how this is 190 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,520 possible is really we're just uncovering a treasure trove of 191 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:54,520 other problems, really. Are they problems too? 192 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:01,240 I mean, we're using a hamper as like a general target that if I 193 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,560 toss the clothes that way, good enough. 194 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:10,920 I mean, and if the Sox happened to disappear, well, I couldn't. 195 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,520 There was no power within me to stop that so. 196 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,560 No, none whatsoever. Wrigley might be rooting around 197 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,720 the hamper, too. Just trying to dig the Sox out 198 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:19,200 of there. But. 199 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,000 She does like dirty socks. It's weird. 200 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,920 The the overflowing laundry is again just to We could have done 201 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,720 the laundry yesterday before it was over. 202 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,040 Impossible. Right. 203 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:32,600 Yeah. Impossible. 204 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,360 You have no idea. I did not have 4 minutes to 205 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,160 spare to go do laundry. So I. 206 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,440 Throw it in the washer. That I guess that's the other 207 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,760 part of this. I don't you all have to let us 208 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:47,600 know and you can roast me. Feel free to roast me because I 209 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,880 don't live my life in a way that is I don't how many times in 210 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,680 your life and I know you're out there. 211 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:57,920 I know, I know, there are those of you listening that are out 212 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,760 there. I have the feeling that there's 213 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:01,680 one of these people sitting right across the desk for me. 214 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,160 But we're going to say this might be far too accusatory. 215 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:10,240 How many times in your life have you done laundry because you're 216 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:12,560 out of underwear? Oh. 217 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,160 Like there isn't if I don't do it today, there is not underwear 218 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:22,480 for tomorrow because for me, for me, that's a big fat 0. 219 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:28,040 Never once never once have I done like my laundry on D-Day as 220 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:34,720 it were like, well, what are you going to do tomorrow? 221 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,960 OK, OK. OK, I. 222 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,320 Got to stop. I'm going to answer the 223 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,080 question. I'm going to, I'm going to, you 224 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,120 know, pretty open book. Here's the thing. 225 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:50,480 I that certainly did happen when I was younger. 226 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,000 And by younger, I mean probably like mid 20s and below. 227 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:55,840 OK. But then again, I don't think 228 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,240 I've necessarily gotten better about doing my laundry as 229 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,280 frequently as I should, simply because now I just own more of 230 00:13:03,280 --> 00:13:08,960 the things. Unless it was it, I don't know, 231 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:10,960 man. If if there's anything that's a 232 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,840 little bit more evenly split, it's probably that Well, because 233 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,040 I can just jump in anywhere and be like, oh, there's clean 234 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,320 clothes haven't been folded. I'll do that. 235 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,600 I got 10 minutes or, oh, the other day it's like, oh, we got 236 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,040 a bunch of towels. I'll just wash them real quick 237 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,800 and whatever. How many towels do you have? 238 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,440 Oh, so many. So many towels. 239 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,080 So. Many different different topics. 240 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:32,920 Sorry, that was a different day. So many towels, Matt. 241 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:34,200 We'll work on it. Yeah. 242 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:37,120 But anyways, no. So I, yeah, I, I don't run into 243 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,160 that kind of level of thing very often. 244 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,160 So if. Ever. 245 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:42,400 Now in the context that you're describing, though, yeah, I feel 246 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,960 like you are. There are a lot of explanations 247 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,280 for how the socks got lost. They didn't make it into the 248 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:50,480 hamper. The hamper was overflowing. 249 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:54,600 They may not have been matched to begin with. 250 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,480 It's just setting yourself up from failure. 251 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,760 Failure from the get. So is it, is it perfectly 252 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,000 possible? Then what if you are the kind of 253 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:06,800 person who's like, I'm only going to buy one kind of sock, 254 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,600 Like I'm going to fix this by only buying one kind of sock. 255 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,800 I still, I still say to you Sir, it is very possible, and at 256 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,440 least in my house for me likely that I would just have an odd. 257 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:22,400 Number socks. So I could have all the same, 258 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:23,840 but it's going to be an odd number. 259 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,960 It's also mystifying to me, but again, odd number of feet. 260 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,840 Did you? Did you lose a foot in the way 261 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,440 that you lost a sock like? Perhaps. 262 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,160 Perhaps I do. I do bull fighting on the 263 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:36,240 weekends. It could have happened. 264 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:39,600 So I don't, I don't have a specific prescription, I guess, 265 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,880 for, for how to solve that. I was just that was one of the 266 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:44,480 things this week that was men and women are different. 267 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,800 I I was, it just makes her day. And she did it like they'd 268 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:50,880 happened this past week. She she did her laundry and she 269 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,880 was like, I have all my socks. I was like, I don't understand 270 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,280 how that was a surprise. Emily and I, and there have to 271 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,880 be so many others. Emily and I would have the same 272 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:07,320 excited joy of that for sure. And that's and she doesn't 273 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,440 understand how I don't have joy for it and it's I don't because 274 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:12,520 I was planning on all the socks being there. 275 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:19,800 So anyway, this has been adulting, Pastor, man, I'm an 276 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:24,160 adult, all right? We are getting into some 277 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,440 biblical womanhood, I think. Yeah. 278 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:33,240 You gave us kind of a 5 point overview of conclusions. 279 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,320 Yeah. Things, things that you wanted 280 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,880 us to ruminate on and think about for God's divine, designed 281 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:44,200 for women. It was funny the way you decided 282 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,760 to pose it and phrase it. Why women? 283 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,480 But I think you did. Yeah, you did a great job in 284 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:57,200 narrating that sort of helper but equal opposites sort of sort 285 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,480 of way, which is really good. We had a pretty good discussion 286 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,560 on that with with Life group last night too. 287 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:04,480 And it makes it makes a lot of sense. 288 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,840 And not to call out I, I think that's best illustrated in a 289 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:13,920 healthy marriage like you, you feel those equal opposites best 290 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,760 when when you see a marriage in its best place, right? 291 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,640 Absolutely. Well, you know, and, and there's 292 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:24,120 so many even in our life life group last night, it was so fun 293 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,960 to kind of look around the room and see where these these men 294 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,880 and women were so complimentary to each other in terms of 295 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:34,600 personality traits and whatever, you know, so somebody is 296 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,000 incredibly decisive and the other person is like, go with 297 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,680 the flow all the time. And that works really well. 298 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,960 And I don't know, there's just so many different ways that that 299 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:44,720 came out even in that small group of people that I was like, 300 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:48,680 this is really impressive. God's design is in fact well 301 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,720 created in these things. And you know, we also kind of 302 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,200 talked about the fact that it's really good that we're opposite 303 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,120 in a lot of ways. It's so helpful. 304 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,600 Would I want to live with somebody who's just like me? 305 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,680 No. No. 306 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,359 I don't want to deal with my level of madness. 307 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:13,200 So God bless all of you for doing that for me, with me. 308 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,599 I don't know. But I wouldn't want to live with 309 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:17,359 me. And so I'm so thankful my wife 310 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,839 is who she is and that she is incredibly different than me. 311 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:22,800 And that's been a gift. Yeah. 312 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,480 I love your word dive on azer helper. 313 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,120 I get I I'm most well this passage and also then Jesus 314 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:37,000 passage of well I am going and there is one who's coming who 315 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,880 who will be your helper who who will do through you even greater 316 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:46,120 things than I did those two key passages and you dove into is 317 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:48,280 there in the Hebrew in the Old Testament. 318 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:54,520 I think it was 15 out of 211616 out of 21 references are that 319 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,480 that word is used as helper is in reference to God himself as 320 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,960 the helper for his people right. So in that same vein, God is the 321 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,960 helper for his people, the Holy Spirit as a helper like when 322 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:09,200 they use that word. It is not, it is not derogatory. 323 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,160 It is not less than it is, it is not in fear. 324 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,960 That's actually key cog in all the things, right. 325 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:22,000 So I, I thought that was a really excellent conclusion that 326 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,000 you had or that yeah, just a research conclusion there to to 327 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,640 teach about that, that it is more about a partnership than a 328 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:30,800 hierarchy. Again, going back to last week, 329 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,640 I talked to the guys about how God, God has placed them in 330 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,240 headship, right as as head of household. 331 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,320 And that comes with a good and a bad that's you're, you're in 332 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,040 charge, but you're also in charge. 333 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,360 And there's, there's accountability that comes with 334 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:50,240 that too. There's extra responsibility 335 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,440 that comes with that. So, but with this understanding 336 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,000 of the word is there, we do, we do see that more as a, as a 337 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,640 partnership rather than a dictatorial ship. 338 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:07,000 Just just when, when it comes down to it, the the man is in 339 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,800 God in God's hierarchy of things is is given kind of that 340 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,160 deciding tiebreaker if if we can if I can go there with that. 341 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,640 That's not to you pointed out some of the later passages in 342 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:27,400 Proverbs 31 about the capable, entrepreneurial, wise and 343 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:35,160 intelligent, strategic woman as as provider as as, yeah, as, as 344 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:39,320 all of those things. So that's not to say that a 345 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,240 woman can't act that way, but it also isn't designed, I don't 346 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:50,080 think, for those actions to to supersede her husband, again 347 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,760 assuming that the husband is also acting in godly manhood. 348 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,640 And that's where you have to, and that's where you have to be 349 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,880 very nuanced in both of these topics. 350 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,680 Not because you're trying to walk carefully and not offend 351 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,680 people unnecessarily, although that's helpful. 352 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:11,000 But The thing is, like all of all of these things, both the 353 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,680 best things about women and the best things about men, as the 354 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,560 Bible would describe it, it is describing this is what this 355 00:20:18,560 --> 00:20:21,360 should ideally look like, right? So. 356 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,720 In perfect design. In perfect design, this is what 357 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,800 it's going to look like. And so we, we get this kind of 358 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:32,000 stuff messed up all the time simply because I don't even, I 359 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,320 mean, we could, we can talk about perfection from God's 360 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,360 perspective on these things, but I don't know if we ever see it 361 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:43,360 even like close up enough because we don't examine it and 362 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,840 we are not trying really hard to be this. 363 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:50,120 So I, I think it gets messed up a lot just because we've never 364 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:53,560 probably seen it in real time. And you can't negate the fact 365 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,840 that, again, I talked about it briefly yesterday, we all come 366 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,080 with baggage and we come with background beliefs and all that 367 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,200 kind of stuff. Imagine the background beliefs 368 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:07,480 that any man or any woman come into a marriage with based on 369 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:11,440 what they've seen from their own parents and that and what that 370 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,200 relationship look like. So, I mean, you know, in the 371 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,480 case of how how often would have even happened today 372 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,760 statistically that both parties coming into a marriage would 373 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,560 have had, would, would both come from households where neither 374 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,520 parents were divorced. Is that even statistically 375 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,680 probable anymore? So one of the two people comes 376 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:36,160 into the new marriage and they've seen divorce and they've 377 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,640 seen breakups and they've seen all this kind of cast. 378 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,040 The other one comes in, they have very different background 379 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:42,920 beliefs because their parents stayed married. 380 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:48,080 And so like it's difficult for us to even come into some of 381 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:51,560 these like textual truths because of all of our background 382 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:53,880 bags and all of our background information that we came with 383 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,360 that we didn't even necessarily create ourselves. 384 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,120 They were put on us by who we were raised by and what that 385 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:01,400 looks like. So it's very difficult. 386 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:06,120 I, I, I, you know, I, my heart goes out to people who are 387 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:09,680 honestly seeking God's wisdom in their marriage and God's like 388 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,240 framing for what that's supposed to look like. 389 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,960 Because man, it's good what God says. 390 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,320 But you have to know coming into this that you are fighting an 391 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:21,320 uphill battle against your own background beliefs, against what 392 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,160 culture says in all in everything in between. 393 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,880 It's very difficult. Yeah, 'cause you like, like 394 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:32,920 you're saying, we might not even have grounded experience in what 395 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:36,520 this is supposed to look like. So then how do we, how do we 396 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,400 pull it off in our own lives necessarily? 397 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:43,200 But and that's going to get us into kind of, I thought the 398 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:48,640 touchiest of your 5 was kind of this next point .3 of a husband 399 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,920 and kids and use the word is that necessary with the with the 400 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:54,480 subtitle the fullness of calling. 401 00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:00,160 Now correct me if I'm wrong, but what I heard you say is that 402 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,880 husband, husband and kids do not complete the design of 403 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:11,200 womanhood, but that a woman is fully equipped in God's design 404 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,800 for being for marriage and parenthood. 405 00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:22,480 So they they do not, they do not make her a complete woman in 406 00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:26,160 God's design, but she is fully equipped and able for those 407 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,400 things. She, you know, as God creates 408 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,840 Eve obviously again and I I want to go back to something real 409 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:36,600 quick. If you go back to Genesis 316 at 410 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,480 the second-half of that verse, we see God laying out, oh, this 411 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:44,800 marriage thing is going to be a problem for you because God 412 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,000 states your desire will be contrary to your husband and he 413 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,240 will rule over you. Do you see what God has just 414 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,520 predicted that like there's, there's no longer this sense of 415 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,240 equality. One is always going to try and 416 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:02,960 Lord something over the other. And so anyway, if you start with 417 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:09,160 that understanding that sin has become a part of these 418 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,920 relationships, well, again, now everything is pretty skewed and 419 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,960 it's going to be more difficult from this point on. 420 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:20,480 So anyway, as far as the, the woman having like, I would say 421 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,320 like rather than complete, I would say it like a really 422 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:30,520 fulfilled life can, can women have truly fulfilled lives, you 423 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:33,160 know, as single people who maybe don't have kids? 424 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,320 The Bible absolutely points to the fact that that is a yes, 425 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,560 because it gives us all these examples of that. 426 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,040 And so I mean, like, that's absolutely. 427 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,560 And the same thing for men, Jesus, Paul, you know, etcetera, 428 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:47,040 etcetera. So we, we definitely see that 429 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,640 this is a reliable biblical way to live. 430 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,680 So there shouldn't be any shame in it. 431 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,360 Yeah, I, I don't know, I, I wondered how many people might 432 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,880 struggle with that or might have had questions about that. 433 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:04,400 But I just think there's too many biblical examples of, of 434 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:09,960 singleness and how the Bible supports that to, to, to have 435 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,200 any other stance. So I'm sorry if I missed 436 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,600 whatever your question was. No, that's. 437 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:17,120 That's fine. And I just wanted to jump into, 438 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:19,240 I think 2 of the touchier situations. 439 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:23,760 Not only that yeah, what's the what's the worth in marriage and 440 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,320 parenthood Is that what completes me, but also the 441 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,800 brokenness of what what about single moms? 442 00:25:31,360 --> 00:25:34,680 What what about what about that married or not. 443 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,320 If we're leaning into this design for manhood and womanhood 444 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:43,760 that children as a part of that the perfect design for children 445 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,120 in God in God's design is marriage, right? 446 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,200 Is, is, is a mom and dad who stay together. 447 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,600 And that's not, I'm just calling it, calling it like it is. 448 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,840 That is what it is. And if you're not in that 449 00:25:55,840 --> 00:26:01,800 situation, either as a kid or as a parent, you probably know 450 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:08,080 pretty well the brokenness that comes with not that situation 451 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,280 that, that come, that comes with a mom and dad who haven't stayed 452 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,160 together through marriage with, with the kids. 453 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,880 And I'm not, I'm not condemning, I'm not judging in that. 454 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,120 And I don't need to point that you've lived, you've lived it, 455 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,680 you've lived the awkwardness of those situations. 456 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:30,320 That's a testament to God's design that, that, that, that 457 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:34,440 this is the way it was supposed to work out. 458 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,600 So single moms, I, I think of are, are in a pinch because 459 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,160 they're, they're trying to wear both of these hats. 460 00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,960 They're, they're trying to wear the design of manhood and 461 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,920 womanhood. And in a way, God, God can 462 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:56,880 redeem and restore and strengthen any, any situation in 463 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,080 a way. They are acting as mom and dad 464 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,640 in, in both ways. And, and sometimes they just 465 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:09,200 have to and that's amazing for to, to have that, that effort 466 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,160 and intentionality and and energy for that. 467 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:18,280 But there's also there's also the orphans and widows 468 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:19,760 mentality. I know I'm not, I know I'm 469 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:26,040 stretching that a little bit, but God's church as theology 470 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,840 man, you're gonna have to check me if I'm stretching, if I'm 471 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,320 stretching that passage too much. 472 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,400 I I hear that passed in the New Testament, though, as as those 473 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:38,480 in need, those that the the widow doesn't have the husband 474 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,280 anymore. The orphan doesn't have the 475 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:42,600 parents anymore. So in in the case of single or 476 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,240 in the case of single moms, we're missing a husband, the 477 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:49,040 child is missing a father. How can the church community, 478 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,440 then the church village, then surround that individual with 479 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,280 with love and support and care and try and try to again 480 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,680 imperfectly the perfect. That's that's still not a 481 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,440 perfect solution, right? The perfect solution is man, 482 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,520 wife, man, woman, husband, wife, and and kid. 483 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,640 Short of that, though, we as the Church can can act to supplement 484 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,960 and strengthen that right even in brokenness. 485 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:18,440 Actually, I think that is a beautiful picture of we we spent 486 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,760 so much time in Romans 8, but God working all things for good 487 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,680 for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. 488 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,240 I think that is one of the places where the church can 489 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:33,240 shine is for single parents, whether male or female, the 490 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,200 church can shine and it can be that village that both the adult 491 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,440 needs as a support system socially and otherwise, and what 492 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,520 that child potentially needs in terms of a support system. 493 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,840 So, you know, you could be, you could be somebody in the church 494 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,400 who man, every single week or, or you just become really 495 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,280 intentional about pouring into and loving on a kid or a parent 496 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,400 who's who's doing this kind of by themselves. 497 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,040 And if the church is functioning that way, man, now that's an 498 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,640 amazing picture of the gospel. That's an amazing picture. 499 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,520 And so to whatever degree that, you know, any church, including 500 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:17,080 us, can lean into, we are the village that helps raise that 501 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560 helps raise kids and supports parents. 502 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,360 That would be amazing for us to continue to do that in a way 503 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,720 that I don't know. It's, it's a beautiful picture 504 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,760 of not an ideal situation, but God can redeem it all. 505 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,320 God can redeem it all. And, and as long as we don't 506 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,000 doubt that, and as long as we actively seek to be good 507 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,840 ambassadors, meaning hands and feet of Jesus man, we can, we 508 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,160 can actually help kids and, and, and single parents do really, 509 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:51,000 really well together. Yeah, the other sort of awkward 510 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,440 side of this, of this topic of #3 the parenthood and, and 511 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,640 wifehood, as it were, we got, we got a question about this too. 512 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,320 It's submitted after the service. 513 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,600 My husband and I are not equally yoked. 514 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:10,400 What do I do now? And this is kind of in response 515 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:14,720 because you talked to the, the point of in entering into 516 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:17,240 marriage, the. But the Bible commanding us to 517 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:24,480 not be unequally yoked. Sorry, pointed question though. 518 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:29,240 OK, I'm in this. Maybe maybe maybe we did still 519 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:33,080 get married. Or maybe we were equal. 520 00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:34,680 Maybe we were both unbelievers when we got married. 521 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,480 I've since come to faith, but I'm married to an unbelieving 522 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,080 husband. What do I do now? 523 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,000 Yeah, it's interesting. That could have very well be 524 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,320 been. Listen, I story because we were 525 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:47,960 both unbelievers when we got married. 526 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:51,240 She wanted to come into the church and I was like, 527 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,840 absolutely not. That's just part of my story, 528 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:58,280 our story together. And if I just hold, you know, 529 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,560 held my ground and said, no, you can take the kids. 530 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,960 I'm not going. You know, she could have done 531 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,480 that. And I think that actually 532 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,080 happened somewhat frequently. It could have it could have 533 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,920 turned out that way. God, God moved in this stubborn, 534 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,880 stubborn man's heart and to soften it. 535 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,600 And so that's not the case today, but the the New Testament 536 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,200 does address this very topic and it does a very clear job of it. 537 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,800 So if you go to 1st Corinthians Chapter 7, I believe starting in 538 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,600 verse 12, yeah, let's start in verse 12 and we're going to read 539 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,480 through 16. Here's what it says to the rest. 540 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,320 I say I not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is, 541 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,040 who is an unbeliever and she consents to live with him, he 542 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:45,080 should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who 543 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,240 is an unbeliever and he can sense to live with her, she 544 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:51,400 should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is 545 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,400 made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made 546 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,480 holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be 547 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,760 unclean. But as it is their holy but the 548 00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,720 unbelieving. But if the unbelieving partner 549 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,200 separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or 550 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,480 sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. 551 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:18,400 For how do you know wife whether you will save your husband? 552 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:22,080 Or how do you know husband whether you will save your wife? 553 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:29,360 Wow. So very specific actually for 554 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,080 this situation. There is a there is a gospel, 555 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:36,840 there is a New Testament response for this scenario. 556 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,120 I don't, I don't know if this question was asked. 557 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:45,160 I don't I don't think it was expecting a answer of get out. 558 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,880 I don't, I don't think they were expecting the answer of of find 559 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,360 a new husband. But it is I understand how it's 560 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:56,800 a what do I do with that from Paul. 561 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,480 Here is again, this is First Corinthians 712 through 16. 562 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,360 Whatever, whatever it is, as as long as your faith is not 563 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,760 something that is driving him away right? 564 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,520 I think I think that's I think that's what we're hearing if if 565 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,920 he is willing to accept you in your faith in his household and 566 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,640 doesn't want to divorce you because of your faith. 567 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:27,520 Paul encourages those wives to to stay in that relationship, to 568 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:32,360 bring God's freedom and sanctification and and holiness 569 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,040 to your household. Yeah. 570 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,000 Well, and you know, you look at this and we talked about this, 571 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,480 we've talked about this at various times, at various times, 572 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,040 but your household is your first mission field. 573 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,280 Yep, it is. And your household are the first 574 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,800 people that you are called to disciple. 575 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,680 And so I mean, like to the degree that maybe you were not 576 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:57,600 on the same playing field in terms of our faith life, well 577 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,480 now this is OK because we can still have these open and honest 578 00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,080 conversations about faith and how that affects my priorities 579 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,320 and what I'd want to do and what I want to do in the future or 580 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,400 what or what I want to try and achieve. 581 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,880 Those are conversations that can be had amongst A believer, 582 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:19,120 unbeliever, somebody who's more in, you know, that that faith 583 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,239 moves them through their life versus somebody's very casual 584 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,639 about it. I think, I think those are 585 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:28,520 conversations that you get to have, you know, doing that 586 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,360 missionary and disciple making work. 587 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:35,120 And there's nothing wrong in terms of like if the woman is 588 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,840 doing the disciple making great because God has called women to 589 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,040 teach and make disciples. So there we are. 590 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,520 I think that's OK. Yeah, and there are further 591 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:51,080 thoughts on this in first Peter chapter 3 verses one through 6. 592 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,920 Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husband, so that even 593 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,400 if some do not obey the word, they may be 1 without a word by 594 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,320 the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and 595 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,080 pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be 596 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,960 external, the braiding of hair and the putting on a gold 597 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,160 jewelry of the clothing you wear, but let your adorning be 598 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,000 the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable beauty of 599 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,680 a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 600 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,680 This is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn 601 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,640 themselves by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah 602 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,400 obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord. 603 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,800 And you are her children if you do good and do not fear anything 604 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:35,720 that is frightening, Paul, or I'm sorry, this is Peter, God's 605 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:40,960 word here. Also pretty peaceful and calming 606 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,560 in this situation. Acknowledging do not fear 607 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:48,000 anything that is frightening, acknowledging that this is an 608 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,320 awkward situation that this is an unclear situation that that 609 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,920 people can find themselves in couple Nuggets here. 610 00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:58,920 Even if they do not obey the word. 611 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:02,880 They may be 1 without a word by the conduct of their wives. 612 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,080 This is and we might have a little back and forth here. 613 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:13,840 What what I understand that to be saying is not even a 614 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,320 directive to be like hey, we should go to church. 615 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,040 I'm in love with Jesus. You should love Jesus too. 616 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:26,440 I need you to love Jesus, which I have a little internal tension 617 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,280 with that actually, but that's, that's what I'm seeing in the 618 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:31,880 word. It's what I'm reading in the 619 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:38,760 word here, that it's not even actually the wife's place to win 620 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:45,880 their husband over in this way, which that feels like a lot of 621 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,760 tension, honestly, in that. So I'm, I'm not 100% that that 622 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,760 feels weird that the wife shouldn't be able to evangelize 623 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,720 to her husband. And I don't think that's what is 624 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,520 absolutely being said here. But what's interesting is the 625 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,640 evangelism is being done what, by your respectful and pure 626 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,480 conduct. Let your adorning be the hidden 627 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:11,400 person of the heart, with the imperial beauty of a quiet and 628 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,840 gentle spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 629 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:19,920 And that begs the question then, does evangelism always look like 630 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:26,400 speaking truth and content? Or can it look like my life is 631 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:31,960 my evangelistic tool, how I live is my witness to the gospel? 632 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,200 Because, you know, you can consider any number of people 633 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:40,320 who, man, maybe they're just not great with words and speaking 634 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,960 and convincing arguments and all these kinds of things that Paul 635 00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,760 uses in the New Testament. He's very convincing rhetorical 636 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,640 arguer. Not everybody's built like that. 637 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,040 And so God calls us to use how He has naturally crafted us. 638 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,880 Maybe that's through service, maybe that's through love and 639 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,880 care, all these kinds of things. Like those are ways to 640 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,600 evangelize inside your household or even outside in your 641 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,840 workplace or other places. That's ways to show what God 642 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,520 looks like. I watched. 643 00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,560 I've watched people in my life do that subtly. 644 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,760 So again, I've shared this before so I'll be brief, but 645 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,120 when I was coming into faith, the pastor who is here, Jason 646 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:27,440 Lang, he was evangelizing me by allowing me into his life and 647 00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,120 just showing me what life looked like. 648 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:32,200 He never like beat me over the head with the Bible or talked 649 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,280 about Jesus all of the time or whatever. 650 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,400 No, he just like evangelized me by allowing me to see his life 651 00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,720 and it was attractive and there was something interesting about 652 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,640 it. And so I do think that God 653 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,280 allows us to do that kind of work without beating people over 654 00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:50,520 the head with it. And if in fact that's where 655 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,800 First Peter is kind of pointing at, that is perfectly legitimate 656 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,640 and valid way to continue to disciple and draw people into a 657 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,600 relationship with Jesus. Yeah. 658 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,400 So from this a couple of just practical conclusions I would 659 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:13,360 draw your your relationship with God is still first and foremost 660 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,640 your your husband not being involved in that aspect of your 661 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,360 life of your faith should not detract from your faith. 662 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,760 It's not your husband is not going to keep you from the 663 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,800 fullness of God. If I can be bold enough to say 664 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:35,400 that. So you still have your original 665 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,520 intent calling as image bearer of God in and in and of 666 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:43,480 yourself. Pursue peace and and unity in 667 00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,240 your household within that aspect of your relationship. 668 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,520 Don't make your faith or your church attendance at a point of 669 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:56,120 contention in your marriage. He certainly can know where you 670 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,280 stand on it if you're if you're coming to church regularly, even 671 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:03,040 if he's not like he certainly knows that it's it's an 672 00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:10,280 important thing in your life. And and and pray faithfully and 673 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,360 and persistently over this situation too. 674 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:16,520 Over, over your husband, over your household, over your kids. 675 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:24,280 If if you have kids, I I think those are the still powerful but 676 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:29,640 less abrasive actions. You know, and, and for the 677 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:35,840 biblical woman who wants to take Ephesians 5 super seriously and, 678 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,240 you know, head of household, husband, that kind of stuff. 679 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,520 Here's the thing, like if if somebody is actively working 680 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:51,880 against the gospel in overt and aggressive ways, that is a 681 00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:55,960 moment where as a Christian, whatever situation you're in, 682 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,640 you get to put your foot down and say no because God's law, 683 00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,760 God's word, comes first. This is why Martin Luther King 684 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:10,360 Junior was able to work civil rights with a clear conscience 685 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:14,600 because other pastors along the way were writing letters to him 686 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,880 and, and just trying to beat him up on like, well, the Bible says 687 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,720 you're supposed to respect civil authority. 688 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,160 Well, Martin Luther, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King 689 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:27,080 Junior, he comes back with this amazing truth, which is this, 690 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:32,360 yes, we are supposed to respect those put in place leadership 691 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,040 over us, etcetera. However, I have to honor God's 692 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,800 word above that authority because God is the greatest 693 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,640 authority. So you know, and so then he 694 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,840 protests against unfair and unjust laws. 695 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:49,240 All right, Well, same thing in any given relationship or 696 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,560 household. And we would even say this to, 697 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,400 you know, students or kids, to parents. 698 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,120 If your parents are honoring God, man, you, you better be on 699 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:01,480 track with them. You better be on track with 700 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,920 them. Now, if they're telling you to 701 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:08,080 do something that is breaking God's law, it is not breaking a 702 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,840 commandment to disagree with them because we are honoring 703 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,800 God's law above all things. Now you have to do that with 704 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,640 love and respect so you can honor your mother and father. 705 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,760 But even inside of a, a marriage relationship, there's the same 706 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:27,320 thing of like, I do want to be a servant and, or submissive to my 707 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,320 spouse and what they want. And you know, but if what they 708 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,880 want or what they're asking me to do is breaking God's law, 709 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,520 absolutely not. There is a higher authority than 710 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,880 you, and that is what I am to respect and honor. 711 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:43,200 Right, Those are still your primary boundaries. 712 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:48,760 And so so the answer to this question is not on the surface 713 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:52,280 seek a divorce that that's not that's not what we're saying. 714 00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:56,640 Absolutely not. If if your husband's stance is 715 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:03,520 contentious and strife and and he's outraged and he he wants 716 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:08,040 out because of the faith that you have, that's maybe a 717 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,760 different conversation. But if if you largely are in 718 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,120 faith in peace in your household about that. 719 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,680 I know it sounds frustrating to say watch and wait, but that's 720 00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,800 that's the role right now be be praying for God to be working on 721 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,440 his heart. Continue to pray over the rest 722 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,000 of your household and and walk in godliness. 723 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,080 Walk in the gentle, quiet spirit first Peter three one through 6 724 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:42,240 and that's that's God's strength and design for you in that even 725 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:45,800 even to and what's encouraging is he did write words for this 726 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,920 situation, which means his strength, his endurance, his 727 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:56,120 perseverance apply here too. And you may not always be 728 00:43:56,120 --> 00:44:01,240 strongly felt, but it's true. It's it's true that he enabled 729 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:05,480 and equipped and designed you as woman, as wife to weather this 730 00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,760 storm. Yep, God has made women uniquely 731 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:13,080 strong and you know to maybe give an additional cap to this 732 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:16,600 thing that verse 16 and 1st Corinthians sevens for how do 733 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,800 you know wife whether you whether you will save your 734 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,240 husband or how do you know husband whether you will save 735 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:23,920 your wife. In other words, there is always 736 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:28,520 hope in the gospel. God doesn't stop working on any 737 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,200 of us. He's always pursuing us always 738 00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:33,280 always that never stops. He's always seeking a 739 00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,360 relationship with us. And man who knows? 740 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,680 Who knows whether you are the impetus, you are the driving 741 00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:45,320 force behind softening a heart, you know, for the gospel, for 742 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,680 Jesus Christ. I've seen it happen. 743 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:53,600 And I just don't doubt that, you know, the godly person, man, the 744 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,360 gospel, it's just so the love of God is so powerful. 745 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,440 I'm losing my words. But the love of God is so 746 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:03,880 powerful that we just ought not doubt that power, especially if 747 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:08,080 even in a current situation, it may look bleak or weird or we're 748 00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:11,720 opposites. Now, God can do this too, and he 749 00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:13,880 most likely wants to do it through you. 750 00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,360 So that's a pretty amazing thing to be a part of. 751 00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,720 All right, so that was a lot of time on on point #3 your fourth 752 00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,560 point from yesterday, a biblical woman looks like and you gave 753 00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,480 just many prescriptive. You didn't even not a knock, but 754 00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,200 you didn't elaborate a whole lot on much of these because they 755 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,800 are pretty clear and clean cut. Proverbs 31. 756 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,520 We didn't even go through the whole chapter, but that that is 757 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:41,880 a rife context for there's Proverbs 31 ministries is 758 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:46,360 literally a ministry for women of what a Proverbs 31 woman 759 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,400 looks like. Luke 10 and and judges four and 760 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:54,040 five are also passages of sources for those things. 761 00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,840 We talked a little bit about the, the entrepreneurial ship 762 00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,840 and and strength and courage there. 763 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,440 There's also verses in there about her being the, the crown 764 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,960 jewel of her, of her husband, right? 765 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:10,480 Yeah, a faithful wife who who can find the crowning jewel, 766 00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:14,200 which is more precious than jewels, again, in the context of 767 00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:19,800 a godly biblical manhood. But that's it's interesting that 768 00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,160 it I hear it working that way. You pose the question our our 769 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:30,520 husband and kids completing the picture of womanhood in some 770 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,440 ways that the godly wife completes the picture of 771 00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,080 manhood, right. And it doesn't exactly work the 772 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,200 other way for women, but for men like this is something to lead 773 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,520 and pursue. And that's why that's kind of 774 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,640 the downside of being in charge because you've got one to bring 775 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,880 along with you. The the the wife who loves God 776 00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,120 is the is the crown jewel of the husband. 777 00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:55,840 I'll tell you what, man, if you, if you pressed me and you were 778 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,440 like, hey, man, what, what is, what is a great achievement in 779 00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,160 your life? Like, you know, if you died 780 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:02,640 tomorrow, what would you brag about? 781 00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,720 What would you be incredibly hopeful about, Number one, like 782 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,560 man, I, the Lord has given me a woman worth bragging about all 783 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,520 the time. Somebody who really does can. 784 00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,520 Well, somebody wrote in quotes, you complete me as one of the 785 00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,800 notes. But as cheesy as that is, Jerry 786 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,360 Maguire, there's some real truth to that. 787 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:26,960 And so if I was going to brag about anything in my life, it 788 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,400 would be first and foremost that, you know, God has sent his 789 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,600 son for me. And immediately second is that 790 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:36,320 God has sent one of his daughters to love me and that is 791 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,880 my wife. And that is a huge gift. 792 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,240 And that I, I don't have words for that, right? 793 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,640 And then, you know, third would be like, I'm so proud of who God 794 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:49,320 is shaping my kids to be that he allowed me to steward, even 795 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,480 though they're his. And so I mean, you kind of go 796 00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:55,440 down through that, through that those things that matter to you 797 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,840 most, right? It was never about career. 798 00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,480 It was never about the stuff I got out of the house. 799 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,760 I lived near the car drive. Like it's never about any of 800 00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,360 those things. It's always about this pecking 801 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:10,240 order of greatness that God has put into my life. 802 00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:15,800 So my wife is certainly the direct thing person behind the 803 00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,000 Lord himself. So there you go. 804 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:20,920 I hope you heard that, honey, because I meant it. 805 00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:28,240 And the final point, God's trusted witness your your fifth 806 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,480 point on women in redemptive history. 807 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,520 Obviously Mary Magdalene being the the first witness to Jesus, 808 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:37,480 his resurrection at the tomb, equipping women with this 809 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,560 message affirming that that there is teaching and and 810 00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:44,800 discipleship as part of their gifting and charge and design as 811 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,920 well. And so we want to women, we want 812 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:52,400 you to hear you built up in that as well, because there are there 813 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,600 are strengths and weaknesses even within that that even even 814 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,280 Pastor Chris and I don't do don't do perfectly in our 815 00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,840 teaching. We don't we don't assume that 816 00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,160 all the time at all. And there are aspects of of 817 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,840 teaching a discipleship for women in the church as well. 818 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,880 Again, as the those equal opposites kind of where we where 819 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,200 we maybe have gaps or we maybe have weaknesses. 820 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,600 There's there's room for that in the church. 821 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:23,600 Many many parts. 1 body too. One of the things that I, I, I 822 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:28,160 find remarkable about where ERC is right now in its, in its life 823 00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:33,720 is I've seen from, you know, a short distance so many of the 824 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:36,960 women of our church just growing in their faith and growing in 825 00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:38,880 holiness and growing in relationship. 826 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,440 And that in a lot of ways is primarily happening through the 827 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,000 teaching of other women, in the leadership of other women, 828 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:49,080 through that woman's ministry. I am so thoroughly impressed by 829 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:53,240 those who lead that and those who are just super courageous 830 00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:56,920 for the gospel and have a heart for teaching and leading and 831 00:49:56,920 --> 00:49:59,480 disciple in that. I think that's incredible. 832 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,920 Now, the really cool thing is when that also spills out over, 833 00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:08,160 and it does into other parts of our faith community, and I've 834 00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:10,440 watched that happen too. And I think that's a remarkable 835 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,240 thing. And so I'm just super impressed 836 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:18,000 by what what God has allowed. Well, what has got it, what God 837 00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:22,480 has intentionally done by making Mary Magdalene the first 838 00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:26,560 witness. What a remarkable thing and how 839 00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:29,760 radical in that culture. And I think we've maybe we've 840 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,520 talked about this before. Women weren't even allowed to be 841 00:50:32,520 --> 00:50:35,640 witnesses in court cases in any way, shape or form. 842 00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:40,280 And yet here God is saying, Oh, no, I will take the person that 843 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:44,440 even the courts won't hear and I will make them the first witness 844 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,120 to the greatest news ever. That is a remarkable, remarkable 845 00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:52,080 compliment to give somebody and and a huge responsibility. 846 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:57,120 So, I mean, how can we look at that and not just go, wow, God 847 00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,240 has called women into an important calling. 848 00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:03,040 Yeah. Good thoughts, good thoughts. 849 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:07,840 If I can turn it right back to you, Do you have a summation of 850 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,480 the Sunday for Mere Mortal Monday? 851 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:16,960 Mere Mortal Monday. Yeah, I'm going to try and say 852 00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:19,280 this as concisely as I possibly can. 853 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:25,520 There is no inferiority in women in relation to how God has made 854 00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:27,960 them next to men. There is a completeness to them, 855 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:34,160 and it is only together that we see a full reflection of God's 856 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,600 character, because God's character shows that both male 857 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,840 qualities and feminine qualities work together for a total 858 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,000 picture. Love it. 859 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,960 Nailed it. We've got one more week to go. 860 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:52,480 Next Sunday is going to be about how we're children of God and 861 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,080 how we still have that posture. We have responsibility to raise 862 00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,560 up children, but we ourselves also are God's children 863 00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:02,120 throughout this life. So hope you join us for church 864 00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:04,240 next week. Pastor Chris is closing out the 865 00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:05,640 series. With that. 866 00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,120 Thanks for hanging with us on the ERC leftovers today. 867 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,960 Just really thrilled and excited. 868 00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:13,720 Blessed to be a part of this growing community. 869 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,440 Hope you have a blessed week, Church.