Gender Parables
2/6/17-2/8/17 (recompiled); 2/21/17…2/28/21
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Contents
People, Providence, Submission
& Authority3
1Pe_2-3 – No Fear, In All Fear 4
Unthankfulness, Unsubmission,
& Fear4
Real vs. Shallow “Thankfulness”. 4
Staying
Feminine in a World of Rush7
It is
Very Non-Femenin to Not Love8
Being who you were made to be
sets you free spiritually9
Not Talking about Romance
Primarily9
Men Should
Not be Like Women10
Righteous
Geographical Boundaries10
Maintenance is a Male Authority’s
Obligation10
Binding and Loosing – What Does
The Father Want or Prefer?11
Outside of Father’s Home? – Ruth
Living with Naomi11
Japheth’s Daughter had Friends...
They Went Camping12
The Women Who Followed Jesus. 12
Main Summaries & Conclusions. 12
Group Therapy is helpful before
beginning this Study on women:13
The first order of business for
feeling reality is to start believing truth.14
Always Respond and mobilize
Quickly to the Voice of Your Husband15
Should
Men Repeatedly Beg Women For Marriage?15
1. Women in the “Christian Assembly”. 21
Women Commanded not to Speak in Assembly21
Women can be Servants of the Church (Deaconesses) 21
Women are Specifically Encouraged to Teach other Women and Children. 22
Women are Spiritually Equal with Men22
Other Encouraging References to Women22
2. Women in the Secular Assembly. 22
What the Bible says about Women and Modesty. 23
Ekklēsia, and the “Shame” of Being Corporately “Perceived”. 23
Modesty is Much More than Clothing24
Our Men and Women Love the Special Aspects of Modesty Given Particularly
to Females24
Modern christianity is not the same as Obeying the Bible. 24
3. Conclusion: The Truth of Jesus is
Better than Compromise or Counterfeits25
Truth is not Popular or Socially Acceptable. 25
But Don’t Distort Truth and Become “The Devil’s Martyr”. 25
6/24/21
See: The Lord Will Roar in SPI
While I have my
own fears to conquer…
·
Can we at least tackle a special fear that women are more
vulnerable to?
·
Can we at least lead temptations into non-fear/anxiety with Logos?
·
We’re not talking about initial reactions to providence and
situations, but rather we’re especially talking about what you LEAD situations
into on a long-term posture and basis.
I have many stories of fearful
women (especially international ones)
Ÿ
on airplanes
Ÿ
in church
Ÿ
women with loud mouths and defeated husbands
While many of these extreme stories occurred when I was traveling, what continually strikes me is how these same dynamics can continue to play out in in very normal day-to-day life -- as it did with that Spanish momma who went from being hospitable and welcoming into being enthusiastically darkened and bitter through fear…
So Why Are Women Often More Fearful?
1Pe_3:7 - weaker container
2Ti_3:6 - little women
1Ti_2:15 – she will be saved
Ay Notes
Women came from rib and pertain to deep
thought and emotion.
Since women's nature is riblike, they needs to reach to
become logical.
Men need to reach to be heartfelt and
emotional.
Not and insult but point of reference.
It's where you end that's important.
Wisdom personified by female because it's
more than just about intellect.
Women tend to be more fearful and face
irrational fears than men.
Ex. Women deal more with white coat
syndrome (increased blood pressure when around doctors) more than men.
There's a fine line between being cute and
"a little woman" / (diminutive phrase possibly meaning immature in
virtue).
Getting somewhere is about what do &
what you obtain from growing into your gender specific need.
Ex women need to grow into logos and men
need to grow into being more caring, heartfelt, emotional,
etc.
Evil women [cope/]deal
with fear through witchcraft & harlotry.
The way to win is through virtue.
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The Point: I’m pretty sure there are good biblical reasons why typical women are afraid and why we don’t have to be that way.
(A) 1 Corinthians 11 (& 1Ti_2) –
Headship among the gathering (Assembly)
(Mankind is the head of womankind in the
called-out assembly)
(B) Ephesians 5 (& 1Pe_3) – Headship
in Marriage
(other general
authority-related passages are listed below)
Note: headship deals with humans in
general and marriage specifically - both realities are essentially always at
play among humans (as seen when comparing 1Co_11 and Eph_5).
What happens if you behead biblical
authority?
If someone tampers with and disarranges
their God-ordained headship what could the repercussions/consequences be?
If a woman excludes herself from virtue,
then beware how much of a harlot, witch, and shallow ‘little woman’ she may
become, and notice how painfully she will ultimately doom herself to be
completely defeated by fear.
· There is always a trade-off between your own fear and God-ordained fear (as seen in Ephesians 5)
· Be under authority to have authority: Mat_8:9; Luk_7:8 (watch for this pattern again in Ephesians 4-6)
· If you are fearful in this life that suggests that you are not fearful of the One who shines out in the next life
· Which fear are you willing to bear?
(A) Flesh vs. Justice – Regarding Authority
· Jud_1:8 – The Filthy Flesh (always) Despises Lordship
· Satan worshipers demand equality.
· Righteous people love Lordship.
(B) Gender & Providence – Regarding Submission
· Husband & Wife || God & Assembly -- Remember the Parallels
· What attitude do women often have toward/against their husbands?
· What attitude are people really exhibiting toward the real God in heaven?
· Wives toward their husbands is radically paralleled with people toward their providence…
Consider what you are getting in exchange
if you are unfaithful…
1Jo_4:18 – no fear in love
1Pe_1:17 – Rejoice through
trials…“sojourning here in fear” (CAB)
[ἐν φόβῳ
τὸν τῆς
παροικίας ὑμῶν
χρόνον ἀναστράφητε]
1Pe_2:18 – Servants to masters in all fear
1Pe_3:1-2 – Wives Likewise…fear
1Pe_3:6 – “Lord” Abe, no fear
-- ‘fearless daughters of Sarah’!
1Pe_3:14 – don’t
fear their threats
The Point: You got to fear the right way to be free of fearing the bad
way.
Remember: Consider what you are getting in exchange if you
are unfaithful / Unthankful
·
· Unsubmission & Fear are Characterized/Recognized/Preceded by Unthankfulness
· Remember: keep in mind that we’re not talking about initial reactions to providence and situations, but rather we’re especially talking about what you LEAD situations into on a long-term posture and basis.
· We are also not always just addressing overt & simple fear, but sometimes we need to also address subtle fear in the form of (less noticeable) anxiety.
· We might not outright embrace unsubmission, but some of us have often reaped the harsh consequences of fear and evil, and have been punished sometimes severely through our own unthankfulness.
· The virtues of thankfulness have been neglected way too long among some of us in various degrees.
· What then, does unthankfulness have to do with unsubmission?
· Thankfulness is not notional/idealistic/philosophical “positivity”
· Thankfulness is only seriously thankful when it is acknowledging the real value of someone:
· Rom_15:7 – Receive one another [in general]
· 1Th_5:12 – Recognize those who labor among you [specifically]
· Recognizing/Receiving = (real) Thankfulness = Loving Lordship / Being Spiritual = Submission = being “under authority to have authority”
If you submit under authority with real
acknowledgement and thankfulness for Lordship, then what kind of reverent fear
are you gaining and what kind of anxiety are you defeating?
Rejoicing in the dominance of Lordship over
your life
Intro
· Presidents always try to talk positive about everything as long as they are in control.
· Likewise, their enemies are notorious for exaggerating the crisis until the president is replaced by his opponent.
· If you are habitually unhappy (unthankful), what does it say about your attitude toward the Lordship & providence responsible over your life?
(A) Live The King
1Sa_10:24 – Long live the king [Saul]
1Ki_1:25 – Long live King Adonijah [Rebellion]
1Ki_1:39 – Long live King Solomon
2Ki_11:12 – Long live King [Joash] -- They Clapped their hands
(B) The King Live Forever
Dan_3:9; Dan_6:21 – May the king live forever
Notice the striking terminology from the (Jewish/Monotheistic) Daniel to a pagan King! -- talk about reverently taking things well even under your pagan authority!
(C) Hosanna
Psa_118:25, etc.; Mat_21:9
(D) Paul Horning Authority
Act_24:10 – Out of many years you have been
being a judge of that of this nation, establishing/standing upon this I am
good/well heated to answer a legal word of defense for myself
For many years we have enjoyed peace under your rule
I'm glad to speak to you because of your good rulership
(under your rule we have experienced peace)
(E) Thankful Honor or Fearful Unsubmission
In these passages, there are basic expressions of love, admiration/adoration, and appreciation for someone else being “great”/big over you.
In light of these examples (like Daniel), how shall we escape or have any excuse for not submitting under good providence and authority?
One way to be out from under submission
and reap anxiety, fear, and unrighteousness, is to be unthankful with the
authority, leadership, and Providence over your soul.
(F) Despising & Rebellion
Luk_19:14 – We will not have this man rule over us
Act_7:27; Act_7:35 CAB – Pushing Moses away
1Sa_10:27 CAB But evil men said, Who is this man [Saul] that shall save us? And they despised him, and brought him no gifts.
[Remember: 1Sa_10:24 – Long
live the king [Saul]]
Mar_6:3-4 – Despising and
offended
[See: Josiahs’ Testimony (where these passages are discussed toward the end)]
2Sa_6:16-23 – [Michal] despised [David] in her heart
(G) Thankfulness or Rebellion -- Which Do You
Choose?
Remember: Consider what you are getting in exchange if you
are unfaithful / Unthankful
…because being zealous for all such lust-based and vain values is never warranted or excusable…
Positivity First Whenever
possible
Lord’s Prayer
1Pe_1:17 – Rejoice through
trials…“sojourning here in fear” (CAB)
[ἐν φόβῳ
τὸν τῆς
παροικίας ὑμῶν
χρόνον ἀναστράφητε]
Get rid of resentment and bitterness as
much as possible whenever it is not assigned to you from heaven, lest you be in
unthankful rebellion and reap the fear of being rebuked!
Eph_4:7 – unto each one FAVOR of given
Eph_4:22 – arrange away from the...old man
Eph_4:22 – sour words
...
Eph_4:31-32 – Get rid of all bitterness
· Ephesians 4:31 - lift away all bitterness
· Ephesians 4:32 - be kind useful favorably granting* to each other (* see: Eph_5:4)
Note: this is the same virtue as being
thankful when being kind and favorable in general and forgiving sins...
So, if you are thankful do you think you
will also forgive people's sins?
Eph_5:4 – but
rather, thanksgiving
Eph_5:_ – favorably thankful…favorably
singing
1Th_5:18 – the will of God: thankfulness
Eph_5:21 – Fear ·Anointed One
Eph_5:33, etc. – Fear Husband as Lord = part
of “Headship” (in marriage)
(Eph_5: – Anointed One)
Eph_6: Submit to Parents, masters… then:
Armor-of-God
Jos_22:24 – the alternate alter
Pro_28:14 – always (struckLXX
withLXX) good-taking
Heb_5:7 – Jesus was heard
Heb_12:28 – we must worship God
(Rom_8:28)
We need to reverence the sacred privileges
of our exaltations lest we reap perversions and disapproval from our profaning
blasphemies...
Let’s consider how thankfulness and
reverence reinforces submission and defeats bad fear:
>> Scrip:
Sarah
1sa25 -
jdg4:4 - Debra & Jael
Judith
Mary
Pro_31:
Vs.
Sirach 26 – heavy yoke wife
1Ti_2: Woman should not do herself to/over a man
10/12/19
John 4
Consider how fast you can wash your hands with running water
That experience is nice, but it is NOT canonical
You cannot simply take your privileges for granted presume you have a prerogative to running water
Notice that Jesus did not help the woman to stop having to spend all that time going to the well…
Sir_25:17 – Wickedness of a woman darkens her countenance
There are always principles to guard activity
Don’t let perishables intrude on glories
Luk_10:38-42 – Martha presumably learned how to choose the good
Warning: If you live a profane life, none of the supernatural blessed promises apply to you!
Pro_23:7 WEB for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, but his heart is not with you.
Pro_23:7 so he eats and drinks as if anyone should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him;
Pro_23:7 ὃν τρόπον
γὰρ εἴ τις
καταπίοι τρίχα,
οὕτως ἐσθίει
καὶ πίνει.
Pro_23:8 WEB The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up, and lose your good words.
Pro_23:8 for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.
Pro_23:8 μηδὲ πρὸς
σὲ εἰσαγάγῃς αὐτὸν
καὶ φάγῃς τὸν
ψωμόν σου μετ᾿
αὐτοῦ· ἐξεμέσει
γὰρ αὐτὸν καὶ
λυμανεῖται τοὺς
λόγους σου τοὺς
καλούς.
Sir_14:10 The miser’s eye is rapacious for bread,
but on his own table he sets it stale.
Sir_14:10 A wicked eye envieth his bread, and he is a [stingy person] niggard [Scandinavian origin?] at his table.
Sir_14:10 ὀφθαλμὸς
πονηρὸς
φθονερὸς ἐπ᾿ ἄρτῳ
καὶ ἐλλιπὴς ἐπὶ
τῆς τραπέζης αὐτοῦ.
Appointed Fasting
No love
traumatized instead of faithful sacrificing
Feeling not taken care of
rush to take care of self
Lusting for this life
Rushing to get more than what’s appointed to never have to fast again
Loose blessed abundance
Rush even more to keep up
Accuse heaven of not providing
Tempted to give up because of the stress of not being blessed
Heaven/Husband: “I am not responsible for what happens to those who do not follow in my ways”
At some point we got to stop being dense and finally get the point of (perceptive, caring) imitation
Go at the same speed of virtue
Don’t rush w your feet
>> TSK!!!
Man’s shorthand notes
after prayer eating
deal w things in a prompt way
men are dossal in wife's fam
women got to take care of things
handy woman build house
think for man
manly position
tempting to be not as submissive
3/28/15; 2/21/17 (recompiled)
1Ti_5:1-15
Preleminary Appeals...
- Physical as His creature -- most basic and often overlook in the hype of churchianity
- Spiritual -- by relating to the Clean Jesus through the Monotheistic Spirit
- You are beseaching the love, mercy, and favor of the one who made you
- You cannot be a recreated spiritual being with Jesus if you are violating your first created nature as a physical being against the Father who made you
- good to not shoot yourself in the foot
women
- but it could include that
- not being romantic is very non-femenine
- Women should be ready to love romantically and motherly
- but in this case: mostly talking about womanly/sisterly/motherly love
- Loving as Sisters*, nurtering toward strangers
- * even your spiritual identity is realised through your gender inasmuch as it connects to and relates to the redeeemed new society of the Holy Assembly on earth
- Never to be ashamed of tender, weak, compassionate, clean love / goodmindedness
Gen_24: -- Rachel's righteous love
Rom_16:13 Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
Rom 16:13 ἀσπάσασθε
῾Ροῦφον τὸν
ἐκλεκτὸν ἐν
Κυρίῳ καὶ τὴν
μητέρα αὐτοῦ
καὶ ἐμοῦ.
- Paul goes through Rufus to mention his "mother" -- not the natural rout if she were his natural mother, but quite appropriate socially, and spiritually strategic, if he speaks of a woman that pertains to another man's house.
- Spiritual Motherhood: Mat_12:49; Mat_12:47-50
- Rufus was a comon pagan name -- but with no qualification made, it clearly refers to someone famious
- Probably that same (famious?) Rufus in Mar_15:21: "Simon, a Cyrenian, the father of Alexander and Rufus")
- Mark wrote Peter's Gospel which was siad to be in Rome, and that is the same assembly which "Romans" addresses
- Paul was also famious when Mark wrote his Gospel
- Mark does not mention "Paul" as a son of Simon the Cyrenian in Mar_15:21
- Rufus' physical mother appears to be Paul's spiritual mother
- Paul had just referenced a common spiritual relationship with Phoebe: Rom_16:1-2 (Meyer: 1Co_16:18; Phm_1:11; and see on 1Co_1:2)
1Th_2:7
Gal_4:19
7/15/12; 2/21/17
(recompiled)
In Dress
Law: wear nothing that pertainst
to a woman...
In Courage
Nah_3:13 CAB Behold,
your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be
opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
it is
expected that women would fear physical punishment, and be kept in a posture of
submissive obedience.
Moses and paul
say to their disciples to "Man up"
KJV: quit ye like men
Job: prepare your self
like a man
In Character and Sexuality
soft
men go to hell
[see: Long Live the King (it was originally placed here for some reason)]
Shall an unmarried daughter ever think it good to live abroad when she is invited to live at home?
Sarah is in the tent
Women busy at home
no going house to house
- any social life?
Exo_21:7-11 CAB
And [not in MT] if anyone sell [ἀποδῶται]
*his
daughter [* τὴν ἑαυτοῦ θυγατέρα]
*as
a domestic [* LXX: οἰκέτιν
– Lit. household-ish (fig. servant) woman (Lev_19:20; Pro_30:23); MT: לאמה – lit. bondwoman; fig.
female servant/ handmaid]
[i.e. out of poverty: Lev_25:39],
she shall not *depart [ἀπελεύσεται
(middle voice) – i.e. be dismissed from servitude at the year of Jubilee (same
Heb. & Gr. words as Exo_21:2-5, etc.)]
as *the
maidservants [* LXX: αἱ δοῦλαι
– a contrast of two classes of “servants” (οἰκέτιν
vs. αἱ δοῦλαι)
is being made here; MT: העבדים׃
– “male
servants” (WEB) – a contrast of gender?] depart [ἀποτρέχουσιν
(i.e. at Jubilee)].
8 If she be not pleasing [εὐαρεστήσῃ]
*to
her master [* τῷ κυρίῳ
αὐτῆς – to the lord of hers/ to that of her lord],
after she *has [* MT: לא – has not; interestingly, MT (and most professionals)
mark this Heb. negative as actually a positive (as LXX has it)]
betrothed [καθωμολογήσατο
from καθομολογέω
(ALS p. 296)] herself to him [after he has betrothed her
to himself?] Gr.: or , *he shall let her go
free [* ἀπολυτρώσει
αὐτήν (apó (G575), from + loúō (G3068),
to wash, bathe) – he washes her away; MT:
“let her be redeemed” (WEB) – by another Israelite]; but [δὲ – fig. and (i.e. there
is no contrast here, which is common for δὲ)]
*he
is not at liberty [* οὐ κύριός
ἐστιν – he is not lord]
to sell [πωλεῖν] her
to a foreign
nation [ἔθνει],
because [ὅτι] he has trifled [ἠθέτησεν – lit. disarranged ]
with [ἐν – in]
her. 9 And
if he should have betrothed [καθομολογήσηται]
her to his son, he shall do
to her according to the right [δικαίωμα
– righteous thing; fig. righteous deed (pertaining to that)] of daughters. 10 And if he take another [ἄλλην] to himself, he
shall not *diminish [οὐκ
ἀποστερήσει
– he shall not turn away; fig. defraud (same as 1Co_7)]
*her
food [τὰ δέοντα
– lit. the bindings; fig. needs/
necessities; i.e. things she is bound/ indebted to need],
[καὶ
– and (omitted in CAB
but not NETS)] *her clothing [τὸν ἱματισμὸν],
and *her
companionship [τὴν ὁμιλίαν]
with him. 11 And
[not in MT]
if he *will
not do [* μὴ ποιήσῃ
– does not do (as NETS affirms)]
these three things to her, *she shall go out free [* ἐξελεύσεται
δωρεὰν]
*without
[MT: “paying
any”?] money [* ἄνευ ἀργυρίου].
Jesus: Behold you mother
Important Summary
v. in extreme poverty a man might sell his daughter, but women sold into cohabitation (οἰκέτιν) cannot just “depart” like other slaves can. For example: other women servants might stay out in a shed in the field, and they can depart when it comes time for them to become free.
Critical Notes
God’s command was for her not to depart
God still foresees that he might divorce her
Can He Make her Work?
What if he might like a daughter to stay at home and work, but is ok with her moving elsewhere?
This may affect his preference/ choice…
One Main Question: does he want you to go out and have a career/ be successful?
He Can Choose What He Prefers
Num_30:3-5, etc.
Note: this is a widow. Does it apply to her who has never been
married?
Divorced/ neglected daughter… = widow
Rth_1:8-11 CAB And Naomi said to her daughters-in-law, Go now, return each to the house of her mother: the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me. 9 The Lord grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept. 10 And they said to her, We will return with you to your people. 11 And Naomi said, Return now, my daughters; and why do you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb to be your husbands?
Rth_1:15-22 CAB And Naomi said to Ruth, Behold, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods; turn now also after your sister-in-law. 16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following you; for wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. 17 And wherever you die, I will die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I leave you, for death only shall divide between me and you. 18 And Naomi, seeing that she was determined to go with her, ceased to speak to her anymore. 19 Now they both went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they arrived at Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them, and they said, Is this Naomi? 20 And she said to them, No, do not call me Naomi; call me 'Bitter,' for the Mighty One has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty. And why do you call me Naomi, seeing the Lord has humbled me and the Mighty One has afflicted me? 22 So Naomi and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, returned from the country of Moab; and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Rth_3:1 CAB *And she lodged with her mother-in-law [MT has this in Rth_2:23]. And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Note 1: “rest” = “a big veil,” not relaxation (Pro_31)
Note 2: Widows and virgins often go together
Jdg_11:37-39 CAB And she said to her father, Let my father now do this thing: let me alone for two months, and I will go up and down on the mountains, and I will lament my virginity, I and my companions. 38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months. And she went, and her companions, and she lamented her virginity on the mountains. 39 And it came to pass at the end of the two months that she returned to her father; and he performed upon her his vow which he vowed; and she knew no man.
Luk_1:36-41 CAB And behold, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for she who was called barren. 37 For with God nothing shall be impossible." 38 Then Mary said, "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! May it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. 39 Now Mary rose up in those days and traveled into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah, 40 and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. 41 And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Luk_8:1-3 CAB Now it came to pass afterward, that He was traveling through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom of God, and the twelve were with Him, 2 and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities; Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joanna the wife of Chuza, a supervisor of Herod, and Susanna, and many others who were ministering to them from their belongings.
Certainly this included some of the “harlots” as well as he the “tax collectors”–
Mat_21:31-32 CAB …Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; but you, having seen, did not repent afterwards, that you might believe him.
Considerations
· Such “harlots” were certainly Unmarried
· Such “harlots” were certainly Un-provided for by their fathers
· Didn’t the words, “…you, having seen…” include some men and some women who were eager to keep hanging out with Jesus?
- If he has no preference, then you are free to move to the mountains
- If you want to stack things in a certain order, then that is ok too
- If he prefers you at home, he still owns you even if he lets you leave
- If he effectively forsakes the rest/ protection of maintenance, he forfeits his authority
This teaching is specifically designed to encourage women in how they might take hold of the things of God, but the men that also participate will also gain wisdom and a proper understanding of how they ought to be viewing and treating women with respect and help as they aspire to be women of God.
I’m here writing these things so that women will feel the affirmation and hope that the Bible has been specifically offering them all along, that has been stolen from their hearts by feminist paranoia and propaganda, and by spiritually week pastors who are too intimidated by the controversial implications to even address the issue.
(Repeat the following out loud)
· The Bible has my best interests in mind, even as a woman
· To get the real and Truest hope and encouragement that God called me to, I have to begin by believing the Bible, even when it seems discouraging to me at first. [Be aware that the counterfeit supplies a temporary, shallow, “sugar rush” satisfaction that quickly burns off and leaves you ultimately dissatisfied and unhealthy].
· Avoiding the verses in the Bible that are accused of putting women down solves nothing, but in fact, achieves the very purpose that these lies set out to accomplish by obstructing us from believing and understanding the verses God designed for our good.
· I can’t let foolish anti-Bible ideas persuade me that certain “men” who were used to write the Bible allowed shovanistic beliefs to cloud their perception, and wrote in a way to suppress women.
· It is dishonest to believe that the positional distinctions given to women (such as submission) were only temporary commandments dependent upon the culture.
· To be fulfilled and satisfied in Jesus as a woman of God and to obtain the greatness that He has called me to, I cannot make any excuses at all whatsoever to avoid believing the Bible, even when it seems impossible, impractical, unrealistic, over limiting, discouraging, or in any other way, hard to accept.
· By minimizing certain Bible verses, I’ve done nothing more than to lie to myself and others.
If we can first embrace these very basic realities and certify them in our hearts and build them into our values as being indispensable, then we will lay a good foundation and be off to a bright start to taking a hold of the huge calling which the Bible calls being A Women of God.
I see so many women stunted from accessing or even pursuing greatness in God because they have no idea what God has called women to as well as men.
Some men can say with excitement, “I want to be a man of God like Samson” but in many cases I scarcely hear women aspiring for these things. And when women do aspire for something big in church, it is almost always in unbiblical positions and vain aspirations to take the positions that have been exclusively given to men.
So often we think of greatness as being on the stage, and we think of not preaching publically of not being in real ministry at all.
I see some men who are ready to be stirred for honor and greatness in God’s kingdom, but so often I see women grasping for the motivation and it consistently evading them.
The lie: Women have to be like men to be great
The most Difficult Scriptures For women
If you will hear the Bible out for what it actually says, then you will find no trace of minimizing women in God’s kingdom
The proof of a real woman of God, or prophetess:
She will seek to only teach women, but men will come to hear anyway out of desperation for the word of God.
Deborah exemplifies this,
and it even goes to the point when she tell Barrack to go and fight by himself
Case and point: Deborah was a woman of God, Joan of Arc was not
Why is wisdom called “she”? There is something to the special humility that women are called to that exemplifies the gentleness of wisdom.
Even though the Bible says that women are spiritually equal with men we still stumble over this in view of the men in the foreground operating as the pushers and movers of life, even in the Bible.
The disciples were amazed to see him talking with a woman.
Ø This specific societal restraint was not one of sexual purity or Jesus certainly would not have defied it (avoid the appearance of evil), but this taboo was one of the worth of women
What should be our response to these things?
Ø YES Lord, but even the dogs lick up the crumbs that fall from the master’s table
Ø Do you see how rebelling in our heart to these verses disqualifies us from obtaining the prize hidden behind it?
The Most Encouraging Scriptures for women
Since when in God’s kingdom has humble circumstances equaled insignificance in heaven?
Ø Fist last, last first
How is it that we’ve come to despise the humility that god has called us to?
Ø Jesus was subject to His parents (can you imagine how humiliating that could have been for Him?)
When women are exalted above men
Ø The anvil on the head
Ø Deborah
Ø Joseph was not chosen to behold the ministry of Jesus, but only His mother Marry.
Address:
No flirtation
Preparation in the ordinary yield a reward of the extra-ordinary
Busy at home
Ø NT command, Sarah in tent,
Ø
make beautiful like women of old:
- Secular women’s movements
- Hillary doesn’t want to bake cookies
- Stand in the way and ask for the old paths
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Loud and defiant
Pro 7
7/22/14; 8/8/14;
9/6/14; 2/21/17 (recompiled)
Prince of England
V: Prince followup:
vs. "if she is not pleasing to her master"
- Ero celebrates the liberation of makeing the woman the decition-maker
of her potential marriage, rather than the men
- think about what that does to the parable of
Jesus begging people to marry Him!
- Jesus says, "come to me" not
"will you please reconsider being attracted to me?"
- Ero breeds a culture of cheap and imasculated men who do not hold value and integrity before
them and insist on worthiness
--
the foolishness of "fire proof" -- its
always the man needs to change (no matter how much we justify the witch)
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7/27/14;
> Judith saying NO in order to remain a widdow...
> Judah's inappropriate neglect of Tamar
> Contrasted w Rachel saying YES to Issacc
> David saying NO in order to avoid inappropriate-ness / getting in
by an inappropriate / less honorable way -- I.e. Making himself of honorable /
"noble" marriage (in this life) by money rather than virtue and
courage. - but when God has to be involved, he happily
agrees.
- Solomon should have said NO to royal marriages like his father had
done
I have been deeply zealous, offended, angery
at the non-exclusivity I have been approached with throughout my life.
This "non-exclusivity" treachery can be lacking in
"physically romantics" and or "Spiritually romantics".
Loving (and beliving) God and or a person
means loving the actual substance and true reality of who they actually are,
and shunning regaurding your own ideas.