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Good morning everyone and welcome to the Soul Winning Baptist Church in Melbourne.

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Open with me to your hymn notes to 277, only trusted.

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277.

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Good morning to everybody that's here today and I'd like to welcome everyone to Solwening

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Baptist Church, Melbourne.

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The passage there that I've chosen for today's sermon is there in Genesis 3.17 where the

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Bible reads, and unto Adam he said, Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy

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wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat

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of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days

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of thy life.

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I'm just going to link into today's sermon.

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Today is the 20th of September and our class is Pastor Matthew Stuckey.

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And then we have our church website and church email.

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If anyone has any questions they'd like to ask us.

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We are a family integrated church.

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Children and infants are welcome in the church service.

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And there's the rules for the church. Please no eating during the church service.

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Please maintain a professional atmosphere during the church service.

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And please keep children from running and making noise during church.

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On the back there you have some sermon notes and I'm going to be preaching today.

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And the chapter text is Genesis chapter 3. So if you'd like to turn there just to save some time.

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And the sermon title is called Because Thou Has Harkened.

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So if you open up the portal there we have our weekly church service times. Sunday at 11 o'clock.

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and Wednesday is going to be our continuation of our Bible study with Pastor Stucky

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and that's on our YouTube channel, So Many Melbourne, our YouTube channel

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So Many Times are listed there below, Saturday at 11 o'clock we have So Many

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The weather is getting much better so So Many has become again, just really enjoyable

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with the good weather so God willing that's going to remain

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Looks like we've got pretty decent weather today as well.

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Sunday we have a soul-winning today at three o'clock

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and I'm gonna be putting up the address

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of where we're gonna be meeting on our church, what's up?

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We have that great verse there,

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but through the righteous is a tree of life

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and he that win of souls is wise,

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from Proverbs 11 verse 30.

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And to salvations and baptisms,

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we have a total of salvations in the month of September.

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It's a great start already.

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But we have 11 salvations for this month.

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And also we have 150 salvations, so it's a bit of a milestone that we've been able to reach with the Church.

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150 salvations for the year of 2026.

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And we also have eight baptisms as well for this year.

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And again, if anyone would like to get baptised, please let me know.

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I'd like to organise that.

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and it's definitely something we can organise.

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It's not something we have to delay.

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Pastors are able to work something out for us

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if we're able to have candidates

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that would like to get baptised.

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So don't let certain occasions

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stifle you from making that decision

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if you'd like to get baptised,

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because we can make it happen.

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Salvationist report, is there any salvationist report?

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Yes, yeah.

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I mean this week, sorry.

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If there's no salvation, on the next page we have announcements and upcoming events.

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We've got the Bible memorization challenge. I've just been able to laminate. We've already finished

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our second page, so it's awesome to see all the people memorizing. And it's just a great way,

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God willing, one day when we have a church, we'll be able to put it on the wall and then

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children can see what they've already memorized. So they're not, you know,

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double memorizing the same thing. So it's a great way to keep track of the adults as well that are participating.

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And yeah, we have just a couple of the rules listed there below for the Bible memorization chart.

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There's a couple of things that we have at church. YouTube,

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Rumble and Pastors Made Us at Church Facebook as well. So if you'd like to keep track of what we're doing there.

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and we currently don't have a church location but like I said it's weekly basis. I can see that everyone's gotten pretty used to how everything's going.

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My brother Bryden's helping with posting our weekly, you know, upcoming service locations which has been really helpful so I'd like to thank you for that.

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And also our pastor, we have some information there about our pastor.

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And birthday's and anniversaries for September.

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Sis Janina was on the first, Sis Marilla was on the 13th.

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and we had that great birthday cake last week so I'd like to thank her for that.

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That was really really wonderful, we had a bit of fellowship.

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And also since Lydia and Madi are on the 23rd as well so that's birthdays and

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anniversaries for September and if anyone would like to let me know your wedding

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anniversaries and birthdays you can let me know and then we can you know put it in the bulletin.

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So with that we'll ask Brother Bill to come on and lead us in our song.

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Turn with me to number 23.

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There is power in the blood.

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23.

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That's power in the...

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was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord had made.

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And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, you should not eat of every tree of

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the garden?

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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

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but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ye shall

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not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die.

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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

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For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,

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then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

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And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes,

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and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,

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and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked,

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and they sewed feet-leaves together and made themselves aprons.

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And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden, and the call of the day,

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Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

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The Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou?

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And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself.

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And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked?

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Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

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And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

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And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done?

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And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

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And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle,

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And above every beast of the field, Upon thy belly shalt thou go,

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And dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

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and I will put enmity between thee and the woman,

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and between thy seed and her seed,

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it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

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Unto the woman, he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow

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and thy conception.

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Sorrows shalt thou bring forth children,

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and thy desire shall be to thy husband,

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and he shall rule over thee.

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And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,

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and hast eaten of the tree which I commanded thee, saying thou shalt not eat of it,

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curse it as the ground for thy sake.

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In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

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Thorns also in fissure shall bring forth to thee,

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and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.

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In the sweat of thy face shall they eat bread,

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till thou return unto the ground.

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For out of it thou was taken,

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for dust thou art,

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and unto dust shalt thou return.

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And Eve called, and Adam called his wife Eve,

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because she was the mother of all Libyan.

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unto Adam also, and to his wife, that the Lord make coats of skins and clothes them.

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And the Lord said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil.

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And now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,

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therefore the Lord God sends him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims,

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and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life.

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Let's pray.

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Ligar, we thank you this morning for church service.

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We just pray, Lord, that you'll feel, brother Christian, with your spirit, Lord,

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give him boldness to be able to preach the word this morning,

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and give us all ears to hear.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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See there in your Bible reading and the title of my sermon today is called because thou has harkened because thou has harkened

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It's an interesting topic because you see you see god actually getting mad at

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Adam and actually giving him some consequences and saying and he links it to because thou has harkened because you listened

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To the voice of your wife regarding something that was not right

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you know, there is some consequences for that.

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So we're gonna read that again in Genesis 3 verse 17.

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And I'd like to thank Pastor Stuckey again

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for another opportunity to be able to preach today.

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Genesis 317, Genesis 317 the Bible says, and unto Adam he said, because thou hast hearkened

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unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying thou shall

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not eat of it, curse is the ground for thy sake and in sorrow shall they eat of it all the days

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of thy life. So what does the Bible say about biblical authority? We see that the Bible has

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something to say about biblical authority and you know women can actually send their families in the

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the wrong direction.

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and we see this happening today as brother Jonathan was preaching last week.

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We see that, you know, it's the elephant in the room.

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It's something that's happening today very much.

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And it's something that I believe we need to be preaching against.

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And, you know, I like to start that the Bible has God's point of view

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and it's the world's point of view.

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And God has a point of view about this topic.

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There's a lot of twisting of morals, there's degeneracy today, there's a lot of different opinions,

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but we see that the the common opinion is that you know the feminist movement is just a huge

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drive today in our society.

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And like it's definitely the elephant in the room and you know as he started speaking about it, you know, I

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I asked my wife I was uh, you know in the car yesterday going somewhere with her

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And I have a lot of sermons as you know pastors, uh, you know

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Asked me to write a sermon every week and I said what what sermon would you like me to preach?

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And I gave her some sermon titles and then she remembers a bit of this sermon and she said look

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I think you should preach this sermon

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And point number one is man has biblical authority

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Man as biblical authority turn to Numbers 30 verse 3 Numbers 30 verse 3

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So we see that even from the start in Genesis chapter 3, the Bible says the man shall rule over her.

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So man is to rule over his wife according to the word of God and it's not according to society but

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according to the word of God.

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Numbers chapter 30, we're gonna see that even women,

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even in the old times, you know,

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men were able to have that biblical authority

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where they're able to, you know, command their wives

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and actually have veto power.

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Veto power means like their word is final.

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Whatever they say, that's final.

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So that's called veto power.

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We see that in Numbers 30 verse three,

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where the Bible reads,

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if a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord

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and bind herself by a bond,

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being in her father's house in her youth,

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and her father, he her.

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and her bond whereof she hath bound her soul,

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and her father shall hold his peace at her,

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then all her vows shall stand and every bound.

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every bond wherein she has bound her soul shall stand."

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Verse five,

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but if her father disallow her in the day when he heareth it,

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none, not any of her vows of all of her bonds

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wherein she has bound her soul shall stand

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and the Lord shall forgive her.

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And see this, this is underlined here

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because her father disallowed her.

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So we see that the father has veto power

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over even the decisions that, you know,

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a daughter makes in her house.

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she might make a really silly vow and then obviously you know he's able to disavow that

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when he hears about it. Verse six, and if she had at all an husband when she vowed or uttered all

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out of her lips wherein she had bound her soul and her husband heard it and held his peace at her in

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the day that he heard it then all her then her vows shall stand and her bond where she bound her

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soul shall stand. So if you know if your wife makes a decision where she's like look I told

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I told somebody I'm gonna do something.

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and I'm going to do it and then the husband hears it and the day he hears that he's able to

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veto that decision he's able to disannul that you know that decision she said look I promise

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somebody I'm going to be going there and when the husband hears that he's able to you know disannul

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that that vow that she has made

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And God's able to forgive that vow.

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But the Bible says if you keep silence,

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then all the vows that she has made shall stand.

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So if you hear the vows of your wife,

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or the vows of your daughter,

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and then you don't say anything about it,

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pretty much all their vows are gonna stand.

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Verse seven, and her husband heard it

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and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it.

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then her vow shall stand and her bond where if she had bound her soul shall stand.

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But if her husband disallow her on the day that he heard it, then it shall make her vow which she had vowed.

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then he shall make her vow which she had vowed,

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and that which she uttered with her lips,

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wherein she bound her soul of none effect."

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Meaning it's just, it's done, it's finished.

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It's of none effect, and the Lord shall forgive her.

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So we see from the beginning numbers,

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you see the biblical authority,

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we see the immense authority that a husband has in his home.

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Verse 16, these are the statutes

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which the Lord commanded Moses between a man and his wife,

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between the father and his daughter.

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being yet in her youth in her father's house.

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And then you're gonna read there

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that if a woman's divorced or if she's, you know,

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a woman's a widow and someone's living by themselves,

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then yeah, there's different rules there

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where they're actually gonna be bound

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by whatever they vow.

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So we see that that a husband and a father has veto power respectively.

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So we see that the Bible is not trying to take away that authority from the man.

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The Bible is actually trying to elevate male authority in the Bible.

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And turn to Isaiah 3 verse 12. Isaiah 3 verse 12. What does God think about this?

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We know what the world thinks about it, but what does God think about this issue?

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You know, is the man leading in the home upheld today?

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Is that something that's going to be encouraged?

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Is that something that's going to be like, you know, appreciated?

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Well, it's not.

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And, you know, when God sees the opposite, when God sees all these homes

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where they're women, women led, you know, God's not happy about it,

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especially in those that are of the household of faith.

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Isaiah three, verse 12, Isaiah three, verse 12.

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And there's nothing new under the sun.

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You know, you might think what's 2026, you know, it's, you know, it's it's

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feminism's on the rise.

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It's just a difficult time in our society.

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But there's nothing new under the sun, because Isaiah three verse 12 says,

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as for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them.

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So this is something that was already happening, something that, you know,

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you don't need technology.

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You don't need society to be pushing this agenda.

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This has always been an agenda.

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It's it's been even in the time of Isaiah.

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And the Bible says.

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Oh my people. So God's saying like, Hey, this is not a good thing.

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They which leave the curse caused the to err.

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So it's the same when when, you know, Adam Harkin to the voice of Eve.

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She caused him to err.

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And that's what I want to really touch upon today is when women, you know, they can have opinions, they can have, you know, their own perspective.

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And the man is able to, you know, go, hey, that's a good idea.

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Like I did with my wife, she said, hey, preach the sermon.

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I said, that's a good idea.

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I was able to listen.

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But the thing is, you know, man has that veto power.

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She's bringing up something and she's trying to cause you to urge, she's trying to cause you to sin.

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That's when, you know, the man should have veto power and say, hey, we're not going to do that.

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And it says, and destroy the ways of thy paths.

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These are things that can actually destroy your life.

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And we see, you know, Adam harkening to the voice of evil

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is really destructive.

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And God says, oh my people, it's like grieving God

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when he sees this, you know, feminist movement.

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It's grieving God when women are ruling over the man.

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You know, we shouldn't fall for the feminist agenda of today.

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You know, we see it today, probably like really promoted, but we see it that it was not.

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There's nothing new under the sun.

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It's something that's been happening.

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And I believe as Christians, we should know what God's perspective is about this.

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Turn to James 3 verse 4, James 3 verse 4.

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And if this upsets anybody today, I just hope it doesn't.

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Because if I preach against the men like I have already,

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I preached against them not being bitter,

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that they're not allowed to be bitter with their wives.

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And when we preach about men having to love their wives,

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it shouldn't be something that a man listens of,

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when the preaching, hey, love your wives and you know.

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and be sacrificial. I don't think men are going to get all upset about that, but unfortunately I

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find when people preach on the subject of biblical authority, there are people that get upset about

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it. So in the same way, men don't get upset when we speak about what they're commanded to do.

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I believe the women also should just listen to the word of God and just take it from God,

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because God wrote the word.

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So something that I want to encourage, because I believe it can bless our families as well.

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James 3 verse 4.

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And believe me, not all women cringe at this topic.

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My wife loves preaching,

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hard preaching against, you know, feminism and all these things.

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And they are women that actually love God.

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It's like not all women are going to have that bitter attitude.

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They actually love God.

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They love the Bible and they understand and they're trying their best.

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You know, my wife would say, you know, the Bible says

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she's saying that she would like to try Excel, Sarah, you know,

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as it says, whose daughters you are, you know, taking Sarah as an example.

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It's like those godly women in the past, you know, who are

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who adorn themselves being in subjection

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unto their own husbands,

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whose daughters ye are saying, hey,

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in the book of Peter, saying, hey,

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if you wanna be children of Sarah,

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is daughters of Sarah, which say you are,

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do the works of Sarah.

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And I love that there are women in our movement

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and in our Baptist churches that actually are desiring

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to be faithful to God and actually wanna have

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the adornment of a meek and quiet spirit,

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which is in the sight of God of great price,

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the Bible says.

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Bible says in James 3 verse 4, James 3 verse 4,

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behold also the ships which though they be great

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and are driven of fierce winds,

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yet they are turned about by a very small helm,

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whatsoever the governor listeth.

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So husbands, fathers, you're the captains.

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We see that the governor gets to control that rudder,

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which direction it's gonna go, that's the governor.

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And if the governor is the woman

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who's ruling over the man.

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That's going to be able to control the way of that family.

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You know, and that's why the governor, the captain, it ought to be the father,

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it ought to be the person who biblically God's given veto power to.

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Right. And what turns the rudder?

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It's the wheel. It's like, you know, you're able to control things that are happening in your household.

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First Timothy 2 verse 12, First Timothy 2, First Timothy 2 verse 12.

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No, it shouldn't be your children that are your oppressors.

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It shouldn't be women that are ruling over you.

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These days I see some children that actually they're oppressing their parents.

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You just see them in the line of like fast food restaurants.

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You just see their parents just getting so oppressed.

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They're not chasing their children.

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They don't love their children.

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And they just, you know, it's just a nightmare.

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And some people see families with a lot of children and they're like, how are you able to do this?

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Because they're like, I have one and it's like, it's destroying me. But you know, you see families

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that are able to have many children and the children are able to, you know, be in subjection

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to their parents. And it's great to see. First Timothy two verse 12, first Timothy two verse 12,

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but I suffer not a woman to teach nor assert authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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So we see here that the woman's not meant to be at the wheel. You know, woman pastors

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shouldn't be happening, right?

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And you see today in Pentecostal churches,

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you see all these women pastors,

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you know, they're at the wheel,

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they're the ones teaching,

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they're the ones preaching,

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shouldn't be happening.

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It says here,

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nor to assert authority over the man,

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meaning to just like,

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I'm gonna rule over him,

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I'm gonna be above him.

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The Bible doesn't want that to happen.

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And we see that Timothy, he says,

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I suffer not, meaning I just,

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I'm not gonna put up with it,

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I'm not gonna handle it.

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Don't try to take that steering wheel.

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That should be something that,

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there's the governor, he's already there.

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It's like imagine someone's commanding a ship

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and then it's like someone else is trying to jump inside,

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jump and take that wheel from the governor,

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from the captain.

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It's the same way when a woman is trying to

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rise up above biblical authority,

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that's what she's doing pretty much.

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Genesis 2 verse 18, Genesis 2 verse 18.

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God, the reason God gave us wives as men is because God actually wanted us to reach our

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full potential, to be able to do great things for the Lord, to raise up Godly children,

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how the Bible says raising Godly seed and the woman is given for the man, because God

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obviously wants us to have families and God has actually said in Genesis 2 verse 18, let's

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look at that, it says, and the Lord God said it is not good for man to be alone.

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God doesn't want men to be alone and that's why the Bible says, hear that finder for wife

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find it a good thing and obtain a favor from the Lord.

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It's not a bad thing, it's a good thing.

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And it says, I will make him and help me to him.

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God actually wants to bring somebody in our lives

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that's actually gonna be a help to us.

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Somebody that's gonna be there to support us,

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someone's there that's gonna help,

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bless our families, raise our children

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in the fear of the Lord.

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And let's look at what the modern Bible versions say.

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I actually heard this from a woman that got up and was preaching.

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And she's from Bethel Church, Jane Johnson.

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She's a preacher.

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She's exactly what the Bible says.

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Hey, you should be in silence.

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She's not in silence.

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And look what she says.

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She goes, I really like this in a specific version.

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And I don't even know what the modern version was.

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But listen to what that modern version says.

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Instead of saying, I will make to him and help me for him,

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The Bible says...

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their Bible says, their perversion of the Bible says,

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I will make him an authority corresponding to him.

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I think it's from the international standard version, if I'm not mistaken.

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So she's just like, I love how this renders in this translation.

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She's just bringing up a translation that fits her perspective.

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And it says there, I'll make him an authority corresponding to him.

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It's just crazy.

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Pretty much like an equal authority, pretty much equal with him, corresponding to him.

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The Bible doesn't say that.

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The Bible says it's a help me.

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You know, we shouldn't be obeying the feminist versions of the Bible and obey God's word.

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We're a King James Bible church. The Bible is super clear on what the Bible says about

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biblical authority. And this type of preaching, when you preach this type of things, you're

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going to get evil spoken of. People don't like it. Society doesn't like it.

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but we ought to be obeying the Bible. And men need to rule. And where does that start?

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It even starts from when you're single. Turn to Proverbs, actually you don't have to turn there,

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but Proverbs 16 verse 32 says, he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty,

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and he that ruleeth his spirit, than he that taketh the city. So before you get a chance to

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rule over a wife or even as you're married, be a man that has rule over his own spirit,

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because you're even mightier than them that take the city. And that can start from when you're single,

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when you know when you

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you're wanting to find a spouse,

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have rule over your own spirit as a man.

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It's very important.

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Let's turn to James 1 verse 19, James 1 verse 19.

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You're actually showing strength as well,

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this proverb is saying when you're slow to anger.

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When you're actually a person that's merciful.

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The Bible says with the merciful,

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God is gonna show himself merciful.

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If you're a person that always wants to bring down the hammer

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at every little thing,

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you're not able to just show mercy.

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It says it's a glory of a man to pass over at transgression.

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Sometimes you don't have to right every single wrong.

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If there's things that you realize, okay, look.

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I understand this, I'm going to be merciful in this situation.

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You know, you have the right to do that.

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You have the right also to be slow to anger,

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where you're not just erupting over everything that happens, you know.

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That's what God actually wants men to be slow to anger.

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It's not a cool thing if you're just going out there and every little thing, you're just ready to fight at the drop of a hat.

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According to the Bible, that's not really manliness. It's actually more manly if you're slow to anger.

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You're able to have control of your own spirit.

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James 1 verse 19.

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The Bible says, we're for my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak and slow to wrath.

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So it's something that, you know, wrath shouldn't be something that you just you're just jumping to.

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You actually slow to it, meaning it's something that it takes a lot to push you over the edge, right?

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You're not just blowing up at every situation. You're slow to wrath and you're slow to anger.

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The Bible says in verse 20, for the wrath of man, worketh not the righteousness of God.

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You know, God's righteousness can't be seen if you're just a wrathful man and you're angry

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and you're just ready to, you know, blow up about every little thing.

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You know, it's definitely something that we should be avoiding if the Bible says that

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in the wrath of man, worketh not the righteousness of God. Something that we shouldn't be doing and,

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you know,

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God willing, we're going to grow in wisdom and patience,

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and it's going to help us make better decisions.

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And, you know, I like to see when people have that desire to,

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you know, grow in patience.

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That was something that I really desired.

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I had a, you know, that was one of my prayer requests.

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I was really struggling with patience.

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And, you know, God really helped me with that.

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So it's something that it's good to identify,

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you know, weak areas in your life and actually pray for them,

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you know, try to seek to improve in those areas.

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And again, don't be a weak man.

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Now have control over your spirit, rule over your vessel.

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You know, you have one vessel.

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You know, every man shall, you know,

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able to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor.

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That's something that you get control over your vessel.

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You get to control your actions and what you do.

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Let's look at point number two,

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but to correct is loving, to correct is loving.

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You know, when you're chasing your child,

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the world will say, you know, that's not loving.

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But the Bible says that he, that spirit is wrong,

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hated his son.

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So it's completely again, opposite to what the world says.

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You know, people have free will, you know, in this life.

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Wives have free will, children have free will,

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but at least speak up, at least, you know,

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try and have an action as a man to try and stop, you know,

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certain things from happening.

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We see Adam, he wasn't able to do that.

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Adam was a person that, you know,

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just kind of left his wife alone,

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let her do her own thing, and she got into trouble.

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Let's look at Abraham. We actually see him as a man who was actually leading his family

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God was actually pleased with his leading when he was actually able to lead his family

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And you know, that's that's how you know

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Someone becomes the friend of God in James chapter 2 speaks about how you know, he added to his works yet added to his faith

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He added works to his faith and we see that there's a lot of things that you know, Adam Abraham was a real

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Man of faith, you know, he's the father of faith. There's a person who

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Bible tells us that he actually not just not just was it really a faithful man to towards the things of God

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But he also was you know a great a great father and a great leader as well

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But then he also had shortcomings because he also harkened to his wife in something that was really bad for him

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And we're gonna look at that later on. Let's look at Genesis 18 verse 17 Genesis 18 verse 17

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And why do men need to be in charge?

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Because God is expecting them to lead.

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God has that expectation on every single husband

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and is expecting him to lead.

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Genesis 18 verse 17, the Bible says,

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and the Lord said, shall I hide from Abraham

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the thing which I do, seeing that Abraham

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shall surely become a great and mighty nation

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and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

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for I know him that he will command his children and his household after him,

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and they shall keep the way of the Lord, and to do justice and judgment.

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that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he had spoken of him.

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You know, so we see here that Abraham was a person that was able to command his children

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and his family after him and his household. We see that that was something that God is really pleased

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with a man that's able to, you know, say, hey, look, I'm gonna, my family's gonna go to church,

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my family's gonna serve God, you know, I'm gonna care about the things of God, I'm gonna put God first.

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And we see him that he had that he's gonna do justice and judgment.

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So how could you do this if you're never gonna be chastening your children,

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if you're never gonna be correcting your wife?

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And that's why the point is correction is loving.

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It's something that's loving.

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It's not something that people should look at and say,

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hey, this person is just like a tyrant.

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It's something that you're trying to correct.

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You're trying to lead your family with justice.

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And a lot of men as well, they don't, you know, it's actually loving to not send your wife to work,

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for instance. You know, a lot of people think, you know, hey, why are you stopping her from,

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you know, having a career and getting out there and, you know, living her dreams. It's like,

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it's actually loving to actually not want your wife to work. You know, I knew a lady from my

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old church who, you know, her husband got her to work and she was working as a cleaner. And then

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the chemicals from the cleaning completely destroyed her body pretty much. Just, it was just horrible.

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she was in hospital and I was thinking,

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I wasn't very loving of that man

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to be sending that lady to work.

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Another lady, she was picking up boxes

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and she went to work at a box place,

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which was like a small frail woman

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and she ended up destroying her back

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because of all the boxes that she was lifting up.

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Again, that wasn't a very loving thing to do to be sending your wife off to work.

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Another lady was working and standing up for a long period of time and then she had really bad

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leg problems from her work. She had a leg and a brace and I just didn't think that that was a

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very loving thing to do for a husband to be sending her to work.

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And you probably know women that have health related issues because of the workplace.

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And it's something that could be avoided. And someone might say, it's not very loving of you

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to keep your wife oppressed and at home. But it's actually, I believe it is loving because

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you're actually caring about her wellbeing and you're trying to take care of her.

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And not to mention if she's a mother considering,

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you know, that your children can be with their mom

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and they're not having to be at daycare

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or don't care pretty much, you know, we call it,

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or at the public full system, you know,

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they can actually be cared for by their mom.

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And then people obviously can criticize us and say,

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hey, why are you guys keeping your wives at home?

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Why are you doing this?

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Well, you know, I believe we're showing love

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to our wife through that.

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You know, we don't see Adam, you know, stopping his wife from sin.

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And I don't think that was very loving.

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Turn to 1 Kings 21 verse 1.

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You know, men today remind me of Ahab.

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You know, Ahab was a person who's weak, very weak man, like a very weak person.

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And if you don't rule over your wife,

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it just proves you don't care about her.

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And we see Ahab being a person

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who's really consumed with his own thing,

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but not really consumed with the care for his wife.

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And because of that, the same way Eve went off

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and ended up getting beguiled by the devil,

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I heard Pastor Shelley brought up a really good point.

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He's like, if you know that there's only one tree,

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you're not allowed to touch.

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And, you know, why wouldn't you just like build a big wall in front of it?

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Like, do your best so you can protect your wife from it.

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You know, you just see Adam just, you know, letting her wonder.

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It's like this this precautions, you know, like preventatives you can take.

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So that wouldn't happen.

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And we see that, you know, there's a lot of men that kind of don't care, have that like really

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relaxed, you know, attitude where they're busy with their own thing. They're not really worried

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about, you know, the dangers and their wife being beguiled by the devil.

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First Kings 21, First Kings 21. We see Ahab here, he's like really, really busy with other things.

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He's not really worried about what his wife's doing and his wife was doing horrible things in

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in the kingdom.

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1 Kings 21 verse 1, and it came to pass after these things that Naboth the Jesuit had a vineyard,

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which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. And Ahab spoke unto Naboth,

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saying, Give me thy vineyard, and that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to

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my house, and I will give thee for it better vineyard than it.

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If it seemed good to thee, I'll give thee the worth of it in money."

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So we see here he wants to have a garden of herbs.

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He just, he's got like, you know, people don't have, didn't have video games back then.

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They didn't have things that they could, you know, fiddle with and hobbies,

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but they had like vineyards. They had something that, you know, they wanted to grow that vineyard.

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And he's just so passionate about this and he just gets so mad

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that he just wasn't able to, you know, just enjoy his hobby by himself.

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And it's just a lot of kids that can't play the video games and they just get mad.

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And let's look at verse four. Verse four. It's like when someone says,

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oh someone took my PlayStation controller or something.

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And they just get super mad and they're just upset.

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This is what happens with him. He can't grow his vignette.

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He can't extend his vignette and he just gets really upset.

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Let's look at verse four and it says,

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and Ahab came into the house heavy and displeased

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because of the word which Naboth the Jesuit light

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had spoken unto him.

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Cause he's saying, look, I'm not gonna give that to you

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cause it's the inheritance of my father's.

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And it says, for he had said, I will not give the inheritance of my father's.

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And he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face and would not eat.

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He's just like, huh?

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You know, he's just like mad.

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He's just doesn't want he's just cranky.

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Someone's taking his hobby.

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Someone's taking his games away.

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He's just he's really cranky.

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And he says that he would eat no bread.

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And Jezebel, his wife came to him and said unto him,

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why is thy spirit so sad and why eatest thou no bread?

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And he said unto her, because I spake unto Naboth the Jezrelai,

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and said unto him, give me thy vineyard for money,

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or else if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it.

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And he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

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So he's saying, look, I'm not going to give you this.

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So it's like, you know, this guy wants to take his hobby to the next level.

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And someone's saying, look, I'm not going to do that for you.

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you

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And Jezebel his wife said unto him,

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does thou not govern the kingdom of Israel?

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Arise and eat bread and let thine heart be merry,

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and I'll give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezrelaite.

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So we see here that Jezebel really supports his hobbies.

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And sometimes a lot of women,

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they don't have a problem with what their husband's doing.

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Because they're getting up to their own wickedness.

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And she didn't care because she was able to just

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run amok pretty much in the kingdom of Israel.

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And Abolf is just so concerned about a vineyard.

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And this could be one of the reasons, you know, your life's falling apart.

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You know, you're just taking hobbies overboard.

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You just, you know, instead of it being something that you do

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when you have some free time, if you like to,

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but you're just taking your hobbies overboard.

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You're not concerned about your wife. You're not loving your wife, you know,

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and it just shows, again, a lack of love for your wife.

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And we see him not doing this.

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In Ephesians 5 verse 25, Ephesians 5 verse 25,

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You know, instead of being careless, he should have been caring about his wife actually, you know, going and doing really wicked things.

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And he ends up harkening to the voice of his wife where she says,

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look, I'm going to give this to you.

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And he's like, great.

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You know, he's not, he's not, she's not stopping her from the weekend that she wants to do.

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And, you know, she ends up getting killed and thrown off, you know, from the, from, from a high.

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She ends up getting licked by the dogs.

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Her blood gets licked by the dogs, but also Ahab dies and his blood gets licked up by dogs too.

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So, you know, there was consequences for what he did.

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and not, you know, like refraining and correcting his wife from the wickedness

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that she was doing. Ephesians 5 verse 25, the Bible says, husbands love your wives,

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even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and

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cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself,

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a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle.

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or any such thing, but it might be holy and without blemish.

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So that was the goal of where a man should be thinking about

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washing his wife with the word, showing her these verses.

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That's what we're trying to, when we come to church

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and we're preaching from the Bible, we're just trying to take away the spots

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and the blemishes from the congregation.

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That's what Jesus wants to do.

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And that's why he's gave us his word, to correct us, to instruct us.

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And this is what a man ought to be doing.

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This is a loving thing for a man to do, to instruct his wife.

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and to cleanse her with the word.

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Not to be a person that's just hearkening

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to the voice of his wife.

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Even if she instructs him to do evil,

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he should be instructing her and telling her,

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hey, this is not the right thing to be doing.

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And it's like I said, it's not loving when you fail to wash those blemishes away.

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If you just ignore her, let her do what she wants, you're just focused on your hobbies.

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You're focused on your next work promotion or whatever.

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You're not really concerned about what she's going through.

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You know, the Bible tells us to be teaching our wives.

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You know watch their bad ideas and their wrong doctrines away with the word of god

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And that's how we can love our wives. You know, obviously people think by loving your wife

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It's just by you know doing everything she says that's that's that's what the world will tell you

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You know, just pretty much happy life happy wife happy life

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Just do whatever they want and then that's showing love

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But according to bible it's saying you show love when you're actually trying to correct so correction correcting your wife is loving

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Point number three, woman that provoked to sin.

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So we're going to see through the Bible,

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there's some women that actually provoked their husbands.

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Eve provoked her husband.

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We're going to see other people,

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other women that provoked their husbands to sin.

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You know, people love to direct others. People love to give advice.

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People love to, you know, give their opinions on things.

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And unfortunately, there's a lot of women that, you know, have ideas,

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but then they want to bring those ideas and they don't line up with the word of God.

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And they want to bring them forth to their husbands.

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And then the husbands could get into a lot of trouble.

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And that's why God makes it clear. And, you know, he's telling Adam.

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About his consequences and why does he says it says because Adam Harkin's because that has Harkin

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That's the title of my sermon because that's Harkin's to the voice of my wife. So God's not happy about that

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Let's look at um

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Let's look

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Yeah, let's look at Genesis three again. Let's look at Genesis three quickly. Just look at that where you know, eve's able to tell her husband

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Hey, you know eat of this eat of this fruit, you know, she's already falling into a transgression

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She's trying to get her husband to transgress as well

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And then he harkens to her voice genesis three verse one

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Says now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made

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And he said unto the woman yea hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden

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And the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the tree

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of the garden, but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God had

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said ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die." So she's actually

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able to understand what the Bible says. She knows what the Bible says, but then she gets

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beguiled. So she, you know, because she's alone, because she's, you know, she's in

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a situation where she's susceptible because her husband's not protecting her.

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She ends up falling to the deception.

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Verse four, then the serpent said unto the woman,

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you shall not surely die,

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for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,

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then your eyes shall be open

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and you shall be as God's knowing good and evil.

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So that's, the devil's just lying to her

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because they did pretty much death entered into the world

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by sin.

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You know, the woman's already deceived by this lie.

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In verse six it says,

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and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food

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and that it was pleasant to the eyes,

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the tree to be desired to make one wise,

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she took all the fruit thereof and did eat

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and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat.

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So we see both of them getting confronted by God and then God gets really mad in verse 16

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And then there's the curses there and it says and unto woman said I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception

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In sorrow thou shall eat bring forth children thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee

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So pretty much because you were deceived because you know, dev was able to get a real easy loophole in your life

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You know the husband needs to rule over you now, you know

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And that's why a woman's not permitted to teach nor to assert authority over the man because why because it wasn't a man

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man that was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into the transgression.

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So just because you think, I think I'm right about this, you know, you should

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consider am I being deceived right now?

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You know, is my thoughts aligning with the word of God, even as a woman, you

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should be thinking about these things because you might make a decision or push

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your husband into a decision and we'll see even Abraham was pushed into a really

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bad decision and you know, the woman regretted it afterwards, but you should

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consider that, you know, before you, you know, try to get your husband to do

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something that's not good.

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Let's look at Genesis 16, Genesis 16 verse 1.

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And then obviously 17, you don't have to read it, but in verse 17 says,

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because thou hast hearken to the voice of thy wife, and hast heed of the tree which

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I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it.

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Curses is the ground for thy sake, and sorrow shall thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

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So, you know, we're going to see that even Abraham, the same thing, he hearkened to the voice of his

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wife. First, Adam hearkens to the voice of his wife and, you know, he gets all these curses.

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Then also Abraham as well. Abraham in verse 16 verse 1, the Bible says, Now, Sarah, Abraham's wife,

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Sarah, Abraham's wife, bear him no children. And she said, She had in handmaid an Egyptian whose

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name was Hagar. And Sarah said unto Abraham, Behold now the Lord has restrained me from bearing. I

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I pray the going to my maid.

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may be that I may obtain children by her and Abraham harken to the voice of Sarai.

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So see she's bringing, she's obviously like thinking about something, it's not

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a good thing to do, she's like look this is what I think, this is my opinion, I

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think we should go down this road. It's obviously a wicked thing that she's

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saying but look her husband harken to her voice. We see there he harken to the

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voice of Sarai and it says in verse 3 and Sarai, Abraham's wife took Hagar

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Sarah Abraham's wife took Hagar, her maid, the Egyptian, after Abraham had dwelt 10 years.

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in the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband, Abram, to be his wife.

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So obviously he could have vetoed that decision, but he hearkened to the voice of his wife.

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You know, he was in charge of his family. He could have said, look, that's not going to happen,

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but he ends up hearkening because why, you know, unfortunately, us men, there's going to be times

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when we just kind of don't want to fight those battles where, you know, you might have a really

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dumb idea and, you know, you might even be persistent.

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You see that in the Bible about Delilah, she was just so persistent and the man just couldn't be bothered.

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He just couldn't be bothered with it. He just told her...

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all that was in his heart, told her the secret.

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Because if you're just gonna continually nag your husband constantly,

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you know, if, you know, I heard a guy preaching about this,

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it was a great point because he was saying that, you know,

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this person was a really strong person, you know, a Samson was really strong.

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And even him, you know, a woman was able to just nag him to death,

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pretty much, he's like vexed unto death.

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It's like how much more us who, you know, we go to work,

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we're trying to provide, we're trying to care for our wives.

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It's like, if we just constantly get nagged and nagged,

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it's like we're gonna end up giving in.

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sometimes and we're gonna harken to the voice of our wives,

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even in things that aren't good.

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And that's why it's just really important

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that a woman understands this and actually realizes,

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hey, you know, I might regret my decision.

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I gotta be really, I really gotta consider

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if my husband's saying,

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I don't think that's a good decision.

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I've got to consider that, you know, and see, okay,

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does that line with the Bible?

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Not just keep pressing, keep pressing the person,

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you know, constantly until he gives in.

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But you know, we see here that Abraham was able to give in to his wife and then she ended up regretting it.

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And it says here in verse 4, and he went into Hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived

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Her mistress was despised in the eyes.

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So she's like seeing it actually happening.

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She's like, oh, I want the baby with Hagar.

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She's seeing it happen and now she's like getting mad.

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She's just like, I hate her now.

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She's getting probably super envious about it.

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It's like, wow, you know, someone else now had it.

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Like her dumb decision ends up backfiring on her

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and she's just like getting, she's despising.

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And then in verse five, it says,

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and Sarai said unto Abraham, my wrong be upon thee.

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It's like saying like, I messed up, you know.

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I made the wrong decision.

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And it's like, well, he harkened unto her voice,

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but now she's like, she's regretting that decision.

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I have given my maid unto thy bosom.

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And when she had saw that she had conceived,

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I was despised in her eyes

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and the Lord judged between me and thee.

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Obviously she's assuming that Hagar's despising her

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because obviously she couldn't have children,

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but Hagar is.

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And obviously Hagar is with Abraham.

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And she's just obviously regretting that decision.

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So there's times you could regret,

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I'm sure Eve regretted that decision of the fruit.

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But I think it's a wise thing if a wife has an idea

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and brings something forth to her husband

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and her husband wants to veto that decision,

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I think it's very important for that wife

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to actually look at the Word of God and be like,

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am I right here?

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Is this something that God wants me to be doing?

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Or is it something that, like, should I even persist in this?

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Or am I gonna end up regretting my decision?

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Let's look at 1 Timothy, 1st Book of Timothy 2 verse 11.

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We see that Sarah was unhappy after her husband harkened to her voice.

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She's just like saying, hey, that was a foolish decision I made.

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It was a foolish thought. I don't even know what type of woman would ever consider something like that, right?

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She's got the promise from God that she's going to have a child, and then she's just kind of...

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She's just like impatient, she's lacking patience and then she's just like,

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hey let me think of this idea. It's just like a really foolish idea where it wasn't part of

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God's plan and you know sometimes we go out of God's plan, we go out of the word of God

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because we're just impatient or we're just you know we're not able to just trust God at His word.

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1st Timothy 2 verse 11

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The Bible says, let the woman learn in silence with all subjection,

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but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to absorb authority over the man, but to be in silence.

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For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

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And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

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We see that Adam wasn't the person getting deceived. He just, you know, he just kind of

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harkened to the voice of his wife, but he wasn't deceived by the serpent. So obviously the serpent's

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going to be going to the wife. Expect that to happen. You know, it's like, you're going to see

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that in your life. It's like always, it's the same rule book, same game plan for the devil.

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It just goes after the wife, tries to deceive the wife to get to the man.

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Bible says she's not permitted to teach in 1st Corinthians 11 verse 7.

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Let's look at 11, uh, 1st Corinthians 11 verse 7.

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So the Bible is really clear about this, you know, I don't think this is a difficult subject to understand,

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but I know it's a difficult thing probably to do.

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You know, there's things in the Bible that are probably difficult to understand.

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But this one's not difficult to understand, just difficult to do.

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First Corinthians 11 verse seven.

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For a man indeed ought not to cover his head for as much as he is the image and glory of God,

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but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

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Neither was the man created for the woman, but the woman for the man." My wife, you know, she was

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just kind of talking to me about this. She's like, you know, this is really something that really

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helped me kind of understand my role.

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when I saw that, hey, I'm not created.

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And she said, look, my flesh didn't like it at the beginning,

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but then I just, it's, God said it, you know,

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I was created for my husband.

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He wasn't created for me.

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You know, it's not happy wife, happy life.

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It's actually, it's, I was created to be a helping to him.

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You know, that's, I was there to be a blessing to him.

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And obviously society is not going to say that.

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Society is like, all women are pretty much saying,

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what can I get out of this?

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You know, what's it for me?

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And you just realize that God's words

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completely contrary to that.

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First Kings 21 verse 25, you don't have to turn there.

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But there was actually, you know, a man can get, you know, stirred by his wife and end up doing really wicked things.

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We see that Abraham did something wicked, Adam did something wicked, and in 1 Kings 21 verse 25, you don't have to turn there, but it says,

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But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

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You know, these men are getting stirred to do evil things against the Lord.

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And that, you know, that's that, I believe it's like that Jezebel spirit that's just like trying

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to teach, trying to stir up that man to end up doing things that are contrary to God's word.

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Revelation 2 verse 20, Revelation 2 verse 20. You know, if you're provoking your husband to

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disobey God's word, you know, I believe that's just, it's just like that, that spirit of Jezebel

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is trying to stir up your husband to, to wickedness, to disobey God. It's just a wicked thing to do.

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The Bible says here in Revelation 2 verse 20,

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notwithstanding I have a few things against thee because that sufferers that woman Jezebel,

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which call herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication

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and to teach and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. So

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Remember when Paul said I suffer not a woman to teach you see here

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It's like you suffer that woman just about to teach she's that's what she's doing. She's teaching people

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It's like I can't believe you're letting somebody get up in church that woman pastor or whatever it is

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And she's getting up there and she's teaching people, you know

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And a woman is to learn in silence

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But what says if they're gonna learn anything let them ask their husbands at home

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So God doesn't want women to be teaching God doesn't want women to be you know getting out there and you know being

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overly opinionated and trying to like trying to

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you know, lead the church potentially.

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Says in verse 21,

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cause this is what she was trying to do.

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Says, and I gave her space to repent of a fornication

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and she repented not.

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So God gives you no space

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for people that aren't doing the right thing.

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God actually is long suffering,

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even with this lady who's doing really evil things.

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God's given us space and he's judging the church

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cause they're not, he's pretty much saying,

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I'm gonna judge her severely.

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Verse 22 says, behold, I will cast her into a bed,

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and then that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of the deeds.

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So people that are getting like swayed by this lady, you know, unless they repent, you know,

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God's gonna, God's gonna really bring down the hammer on them. And it says, I'll kill her children

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with death. And all the churches shall know that I'm he that searched the reins and hearts,

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and I'll give to everyone according to their work. So obviously, you know, this is that was for that

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situation. But also it's for us to harken to, to realize that God is, you know, Jesus is,

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is also a consuming fire. He's not just, you know, this, this like person that, you know,

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the society is bringing forth.

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you know, this long haired hippie that just, you know,

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he's just like ready to bring peace.

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I remember there was, when the Pope was,

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when the Pope was ordained,

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this Pope that's from the American,

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he's an American Pope,

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I remember him getting up and he just starts saying,

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and like everyone's like crying, they're all emotional,

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and he just starts saying, peace to everyone,

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peace to your family, you know?

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And I just remember like just kind of laughing about.

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Just bringing that, it's just a lie.

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Jesus is actually really serious about sin.

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And there's these people that get up behind the pulpit

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and they're just like.

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It's all good. God loves you. You're fine. Keep doing what you're doing.

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You see Jesus is just not playing games here. He's really serious.

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And he gives people space to repent, but he will give to everyone according to his deeds.

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And we ought to be fearing God. The Bible says, but rather fear him.

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We're not meant to be fearing man. We're meant to be fearing God.

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And it's a really serious thing. And that's why when these verses get read out to you

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and you hear them, I think it's important to just realize that God's really scary.

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Even in the book of Job, you have Job, who is the most righteous man on earth.

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God comes up to him and he's just like, who's this that speaketh without knowledge?

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And he just starts telling Job, who are you?

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Pretty much he's telling him, can you do what I do?

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And then Job's just like, I repent.

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And if God's going to be speaking to even Job that way,

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who's the most righteous man on the planet,

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and he's trying to tell him, hey, just get back in your...

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you're lame, who do you think you are?

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It's like you just realize that God's very serious

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and he's to be feared.

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And that's what it says here,

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and I'll kill her children with death

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and all the churches shall know that I am he

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that searches the reins and hearts

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and I'll give to everyone according to your works.

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Proverbs 14 verse 1, Proverbs 14 verse 1. So you know the Bible says,

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whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. He's going to chasten people when they're doing the wrong thing.

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So it's something that you know even with wives in this church should be realizing, hey God, because you're a child of God,

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God will chasten you for you know for when you disobey the Word of God.

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Bible says in Proverbs 14 verse 1, every wise woman buildeth her house.

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but the foolish plucketh it down with her own, with her hands. So it says like, you know, if you're,

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if you're a wise woman, you're going to be trying to lift up your husband, you're going to try and

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be a help me to him. You're going to try and be in support of him, you know, you're going to actually

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care about the household. And I just see a lot of women today and it's really heartbreaking that are

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just, you know, plucking down their houses with their own hands. And I'm sure we all know people,

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but it's just, it's just a tragedy and just shows like, it's just a signs of a foolish woman.

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not a wise woman that does that.

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No, it's about building.

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It says she built at the house.

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She's caring about things being better,

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you know, things improving.

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She's not trying to take down,

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it's pluck that house with her hands.

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And it's just a woman has to be really careful

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because they do have a tremendous influence.

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If Eve was able to get Adam to sin,

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if Sarah was able to get Abraham to sin,

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if Jezebel was able to store up Ahab's heart,

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it's like women have tremendous influence.

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They can actually be a real blessing.

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They can encourage their husbands

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and to do good things as well.

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And it's not about criticizing.

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It's not about harming.

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And a lot of women as well today,

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They're gonna be criticizing the man of God as well for things that aren't even in the Bible

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Let's look at numbers 12 s 1 numbers 12 s 1 we see Miriam

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If you probably know Miriam the sister of Moses

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She was criticizing Moses for something that wasn't even in the Bible

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And this is something that you're gonna see as well in the nfb movement a lot where people are criticizing people like pastor

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Anderson for things that you're not gonna even find in the Bible

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things that are not in the Bible, they're going to be criticizing him and speaking up against him.

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And I just think it's a good rule of thumb if something's not in the Bible,

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it's kind of good to just leave people to their own discretion and just not criticize them if it's

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not a biblical thing that they're crossing.

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You know, I think it's just important to think about that. Numbers 12 verse 1, it says,

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And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married,

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for he had married an Ethiopian woman. So why are they speaking up against him for something

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that's not in the Bible?

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And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses and hath not spoken also by us?

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And the Lord heard it. Numbers 9 verse 9 says, And the anger of the Lord was kindled against them,

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and he departed, and the cloud departed off the tabernacle. And behold, Miriam became leprous,

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white as snow, and Aaron looked upon Miriam. And behold, she was leprous. And Aaron said unto

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Moses, Alas, my Lord, I beseech thee, lay not this sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly,

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and wherein we have sinned.

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her not be as one dead of whom the flesh is half consumed when cometh out of his mother's womb."

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So we see Aaron is pleading and saying like, hey please be merciful unto Miriam.

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She's speaking up against him. Why? Because of something that's not even in the Bible.

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something that's not even a sin in the Bible. It's like, let's speak against him. Let's make a podcast and speak against him.

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Let's make articles or whatever have you and it's like you see the consequences of Miriam just

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extremely severe.

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She just gets hit with leprosy and Aaron's the one that's actually pleading for her.

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And Miriam is so stubborn because you don't really see her coming to you know, to Moses and apologizing and trying to make things right.

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It's someone else pleading in her place. It's her brother pleading in her place.

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Verse 13 it says, and Moses cried unto the Lord saying,

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Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.

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And the Lord said unto Moses,

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if her father had but spit in her face,

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should she be not ashamed seven days?

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Let her be shut out of the camp seven days,

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and after that, let her be received in again.

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And Miriam was shut out of the camp seven days,

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and the people journeyed not

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till Miriam was brought in again.

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So we see Moses actually hearkening,

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leprosy would have just killed her pretty much.

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But because Moses is there, he's pleading for her.

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her, you know, pretty much she gets put to shame. Everyone has

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to just hold seven days to have to just, you know, look upon

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that, you know.

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kind of realize hey the reason we're not moving forward is because this woman needs to be judged

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by God and it's just something that you know we see that God only really punishes Miriam in this

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situation and she had no right to talk and judge something that's not in the Bible and I don't

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think we have a right to make a real big case of something that's not found in the Bible you don't

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have any Bible backing for it you shouldn't you know make it as a as gospel as doctrine

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And it was probably her idea, you never know.

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This is probably her idea where she's kind of like getting Aaron on her side and saying,

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hey, you know, this guy married an Ethiopian woman, you know, who's he think he is, you know,

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we don't really agree what he's doing.

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So this probably was her idea because we see God really judging her.

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Miriam gets humbled and this is what needed to happen.

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In the same way Eve got humbled because God said to her,

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because you did this, your husband's going to rule over you.

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It's like, hey, you're going to be humbled.

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Someone else is going to be your authority because you ended up getting deceived.

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You ended up going doing what you wanted to do.

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So based on the punishment, we see that.

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I believe that it was something that was shameful that Miriam did speaking against Moses.

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And a woman has no right to try bring down the reputation of the man of God.

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You know, it's something that God takes seriously.

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And these type of verses should be something that, you know, put people in fear.

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Even as a woman that, you know, wants to, you know, bring her ideas across,

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where she's really, you know, it's probably getting mad at the man of God,

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something that's not even in the Bible.

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I believe, you know, God takes women coming against men very seriously.

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Let's look at Deuteronomy 25 verse 11.

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So imagine your husband's in a fight and then you as a woman you just want to back up your husband

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Like you're going to see what god thinks about it and you're going to realize

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Yeah, god doesn't want women to get involved in matters of men. Just don't don't get involved

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It's actually a really serious thing and

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You know, you can either harken to the word of god or not care about it. But again, you know miriam got severe consequences

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for what she said against the man of God for things that aren't in the Bible.

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Deuteronomy 25 verse 11, when men strive together one with another and the wife of one draweth near

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to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteeth him and put it forth the hand

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and taketh him by the secrets. So pretty much she's giving him a cheap shot. She's just doing

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something that you know she knows that this is really going to help.

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her husband get out of that situation.

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Her husband's just fighting someone else.

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She just wants to step in and, you know,

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do something that's like a really like cheap shot.

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And look what the Bible says in verse 12.

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Then thou shall cut off her hand,

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thine eye shall not pity her.

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It's like so severe.

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for trying to butt into your husband's issues and you're going to have your say.

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It's like God takes it so severe saying don't even pity and imagine there was women having

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to walk around without a hand because of what they did. Like getting involved, something that's,

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this is a pretty scary thing, realizing hey women should just sit in their place, they should be in

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silence as the Bible says, they shouldn't be getting up there, being super opinionated,

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starting podcasts, starting to try to sway all these people.

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You know, it's like they try to be that oracle, you know, like they have the they have the the they've kind of understood the truth

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You know you have people like Candice Owens online is a Candice Owens. Yeah, the lady

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Just like she's not she's got an opinion on everything, you know, she's able to you know, she thinks she's like an oracle

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She's able to know everything and she's she's hurting other women that are listening to her and they're becoming you know

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Like people that are that that's incredibly opinionated. They have opinions on everything

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and super destructive and they're just going down that road like Miriam.

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They're just, hey, they're trying to sway other men of God against the leader.

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God doesn't allow this. You see, there's severe consequences for women that are trying to back

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up their husbands in situations. Let's look at Exodus 32 verse 1. Exodus 32 verse 1.

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You know, Miriam was not in a position to talk.

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And God is really strict with what she did.

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What about Aaron? You know Aaron's trying to talk and he's bringing up the same type of thing to

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Moses and you're thinking like what wait a minute Aaron like you're the one in a position to talk

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let's look at Exodus 32 you know Aaron had his own faults Aaron had some serious issues and the

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Bible says in verse 1 and when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down off the mount the people

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gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him up make us gods which shall go before us

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as for as for this Moses

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the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt,

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we want not what is become of him.

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And Aaron said unto them,

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break off the golden earrings which are in your ears,

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of your wives and of your sons and of your daughters,

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and bring them unto me.

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And all the people break off the earrings which were in their ears

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and brought them unto Aaron,

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and he received them at his hand and fashioned it.

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with a graving tool after he had made a molten calf they said these be thy gods are Israel which

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brought the out of the land of Egypt. So you know we see Aaron messing up here we see him making

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that mistake and saying hey look this is how you do it so Aaron's first hearkening to the voice of

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the Israelites so I wouldn't be that surprised if he's hearkening to the voice of Miriam when she's

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trying to sway him and you know hey bring bring bring like a an accusation against Moses for

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for some that's not even in the Bible.

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It's just like it just shows a weak character from Aaron.

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In Judeo-Torahmene 9 verse 19, you don't have to turn there, but the Bible says,

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And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him, and I prayed for Aaron also the

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same time. So you see, Moses is actually caring about Aaron, doesn't want him to die. Aaron should

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be put to death for what he did with the molten calf. And then that same Aaron is going to call out.

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Moses, for some that's not even in the Bible, it's just madness, right?

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Just see people do some really dumb things.

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And you know, there's really severe consequences, but you know, Aaron had the right attitude where he was actually humble enough to say, hey, please, you know,

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you don't, you don't, God doesn't have to judge me this time. It's like, just be merciful to Miriam. And you know, they're able to understand, hey, this is the man of God, we shouldn't be just like, willy nilly, just, you know, bringing up all these accusations and things, crazy things, you know, like,

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You're like Pastor Anderson, you must be for wife beating.

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I'm not sure if you guys have heard that.

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You just must be for wife beating.

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It just sounds like the voice of a woman

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that came up with that dumb statement, right?

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We see also Job's wife, she tries to influence Job against God. Let's look at Job 2 verse 5. Job 2

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verse 5 and obviously you know you can kind of understand Job's wife a little bit because she

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had lost 10 children. She lost all her belongings like she was really you know kind of broken I'm

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sure and she she wanted to you know persuade her husband to sin but he doesn't harken to her voice.

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Job 2 verse 5, Job 2 verse 5,

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Then said his wife unto him, so that she's trying to bring up some, some, some, you know, she's bringing up her ideas.

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Doth thou still retain thine integrity, curse God and die?

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So she's pretty much telling him, hey, do this, sin against God.

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But he said unto her, thou speakest as one of the foolish woman speaketh, what shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?

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In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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When you're correcting your wife and saying,

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hey, we should be receiving also the evil.

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God's been so favorable to us.

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Things have gone so good.

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Even if there are some things

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that are going negative in our life now,

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we should be...

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You know receiving that as well because God's already blessed us and he's saying look

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I'm not gonna do what you told me to do and it says that joke didn't sin

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So when you correct your wife, you're not sinning when you're trying to say hey, you're speaking as one of the foolish woman speaking

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That's that's something that God's not saying hey, that's a sin, you know, that's not very loving of you to say

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Hey, you're just telling your wife. Hey, you know, you're not speaking wisely right now

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And we see that that he says touch his bone and I believe that's talking about

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It's just my opinion, I believe he's talking about his wife.

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Like that's what Satan went after his wife.

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He touched, you know, the woman is bone of my bone.

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That's what the Bible is saying about Eve.

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That was bone of Adam's bone.

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We see that Job didn't hearken to the voice of his wife.

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Let's look at Genesis 39 verse 11.

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Genesis 39 verse 11.

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We see another man that did not hearken

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to the voice of a woman.

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And it was Joseph, he didn't hearken to part of his wife, he was nagging him, he says, I think it was daily.

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She's just daily trying to get him to sin, and he didn't hearken to her voice.

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And that's again another great example of a man that has rule over his own spirit.

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You know, he's able to, even though temptations come his way, and there's alluring and things,

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he's just like, hey, I'm not gonna, I'm not hearkening to that.

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Genesis 39 verse 11 says, and it came to pass about this time that Joseph went into the house

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to do business and there was none of the men of the house there within and she caught him by his

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garment saying lie with me and he left his garment in her hand and fled and got him out.

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In verse 19 and it came to pass when his master heard the words of his wife which she spake unto him.

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saying after this manna did die sermon unto me that his wrath was kindled. So again, he didn't do diligent inquiry to inquisition to see, okay

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Is it true?

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You know, he's just pretty much he just harkens to the voice of his wife and ends up just getting mad.

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It says, and Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, into the prison,

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the palace where the king's prisoners were bound and he was there in the prison.

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So we see that, you know, the husband harkens to the voice of his wife,

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but Joseph doesn't harken unto her voice.

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You know, he falsely persecutes and prosecutes an innocent man.

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And you know, I believe that he has the greatest sin.

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He doesn't have the greatest sin.

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It's the wife that falsely accused.

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It's like the Romans, they had a sin,

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but the Jews had the greatest sin

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for actually putting Jesus Christ to death.

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In the same way Potiphar as well with his wife.

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Point number four, last point.

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Women that provoke to good works.

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Women that provoke to good works.

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There's also negative examples in the Bible,

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but there's also positive examples of women

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that actually were really good

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in provoking their husbands to good things.

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Let's look at 2 Kings 5 verse 2.

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to 2 Kings 5 verse 2.

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You know, Naaman the Syrian, for those that know the story,

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he had leprosy.

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There was actually a woman that actually said something really wise.

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And because he hearkened to the voice of this young maiden,

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he was able to get healed from his leprosy.

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Second Kings five, verse two, the Bible says,

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and the Syrians had gone out of the out by the companies

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and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel, a little maid.

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And she waited on Naaman's wife.

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And she said unto her mistress, would God my Lord with the prophets that is in Samaria,

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for he would recover him of his leprosy. It's like saying like I just wish that you know he would

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he would be with a prophet because things could go well. She's pretty much like it's good picture

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of soul winning here where she's able to say hey you know if only you would hear the truth you're

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going to recover. So it's like it's like somebody wanting to bring somebody to someone that's a

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soul winner here and saying look you know you have this problem you're not sure you go into heaven

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you're not 100% sure.

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If only you would speak to, you know,

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if only you'd listen to a by the way to heaven presentation,

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then you could recover, you could actually get well.

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And it says here in verse four,

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and one went in and told his Lord saying,

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thus and thus said the maid of the land of Israel.

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So we see that name in Harkens to a voice

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and he's actually blessed because of this.

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His skin becomes again like the skin of a baby,

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which is that great picture of being born again.

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You become like a child again.

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And as soon as he just obeyed the voice of the Lord,

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and it was simple, he didn't have to do something difficult.

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He just did something easy.

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It's a great picture of salvation there

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that it was just by just harkening to the voice.

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the Lord, you know, God just told him to do that and he did that and you know, his faith actually

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made him whole. What about provoking your husband to love and to good works? You don't have to turn

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there but the Bible says, and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,

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you know, when a wife is able to, you know, provoke her husband instead of provoking him to evil,

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she can provoke him to serve God more, to do greater things for God. Let's look at 2 Kings 4

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four of us eights and kings vote four of us eight.

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How about being a woman that provokes your husband to do something for the man of God?

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That's something that you see here in 2 Kings 4 verse 8.

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So we see that the husband hearkens unto the voice of his wife.

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So it can be for negative things, but it can also be for positive.

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2 Kings 4 verse 8, the Bible says,

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And it fell on a day that Elisha passed to Shudim,

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where was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread.

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And so it was that as oft as he passed by, he turned in hither to eat bread.

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So it just reminds you of, you know, in the Bible where if a good work that a woman can have is if she's watched the saints feet, if she's lodged strangers, you know, things that can really accompany things about a woman.

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And she's actually saying, hey, let's care about the needs of this man of God. And she's she's doing this already for him.

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And it says, and she said unto her husband in verse nine, Behold now I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passes by us continually.

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Let us make a little change.

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came by, pray thee on the wall,

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and let us set for him there a bed and a table

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and a stool and a candlestick,

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and it shall be when it cometh to us

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that he shall turn in here."

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They're saying, look, let's just build something for him.

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So every time, you know, he's gonna be around,

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that he has somewhere to stay.

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So she's actually, you know, trying to provoke her husband

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to love and to good works.

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It says in verse 11, and it fell on the day that he came in dither and he turned into the chamber and lay there

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So he's actually you know

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He was actually really delighted by this by what the woman actually you know decided to do because he actually you know

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Needed a place to rest need a place to refresh himself and it says and the shunammite woman, you know

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Was able to provoke her husband to this

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Now, how about a woman that helps her husband to achieve great things for God?

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How about a woman that, you know, is actually thinking, hey, how can we support the work of God?

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How can we support, you know, the things of, you know, or the ministry?

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You know, maybe it's going to, hey, how about we, you know, invest some of our money for the things of God?

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Because that's what she's saying. Hey, let's build these things.

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That's that that would have cost something that would have cost the man time, money,

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resources, but she's actually saying, hey, let's use some of our money for the things of God.

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You know, and I believe that's that's her doing something.

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and provoking her husband to love and to good works.

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You've got Elizabeth in the Bible.

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Look at Luke 1 verse 5, Luke 1 verse 5.

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You have Elizabeth in the Bible as well.

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She's a woman that's a great woman of character

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who actually loves God.

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She's a woman that her and her husband,

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the Bible considers, speaks about them very highly.

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Luke 1 verse 5, and I'm sure Elizabeth wasn't a woman

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that was provoking her husband to evil.

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It says in Luke 1 verse 5, there was in the days of Herod the king of Judea, a certain priest named

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Zacharias of the course of Abaya and his wife was the daughter of Aaron. So it's good to see,

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you know, like someone from that same lineage and her name was Elizabeth.

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and they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

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You know, this is not something where it's just a man that's righteous.

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It's just a man that is a soul winner. It's just a man that, you know, really loves the Bible, loves the Lord.

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It's like, no, it's like both of them.

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You know women can't use this excuse of saying look i'm just i'm a woman

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You're kind of the the spiritual guy. You're the person that can be spiritual

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But i'm a woman and I get like a you know, I I get like a pass to just disobey god's commandments

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You know because at the end of the day I can I can play my woman card

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Well, she's not playing any woman card as she's saying

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The bible says that both of them were walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the lord blameless

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So you can be a woman that also fears god cares cares about the things of god and god could say this about

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you. How about jail? You know, if you know the story of jail,

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let's look at Judges 4 verse 17. Judges 4 verse 17. You know,

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jail was a woman who evil was coming into her house and she

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destroyed that evil. You know, women, the Bible says that

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there to be keepers at home. And, you know, you see that

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whatever came into her house, she was able to take, take,

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take good care of it, you know, and in a, in a very destructive

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way.

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Let's look at Judges 4 verse 17. It says,

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and when she had turned in unto her into the tent she covered him with a mantle.

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And he said unto her, give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.

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And she opened the bottle of milk and gave him drink and covered him.

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So she's actually been really sly here. You know, I'm not sure.

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I mean, all your parents know that if a baby has a bit of milk, he starts getting a little sleepy.

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And it says that, you know, water kind of can refresh you, but like milk can make you feel a

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little bit sleepy. In verse 21, it says, and Jail Haber's wife took a nail of the tent and took a

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hammer in her hand and went softly unto him and smoke.

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him.

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Smoked the nail into his temple. So he's pretty much sleeping. She grabs, you know, like a like a tent peg

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Pretty much that you're gonna have to you know

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Put your tent down and that's supporting the tent this man's sleeping because she's giving him some milk and then she's going really softly

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Because he's completely he's knocked out rise

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He's he's really tired from the battle and she goes and gets that, you know

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The temple he has pretty much like it's it's you die right away and she puts that

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She puts that peg there and she just hammers it down and just kills him pretty much

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instantly, it's just a great example of a woman that's able to destroy the evils

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that come into her house, right? She's able to be a woman who's actually taking

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care and be like, hey, this is really destructive for our family, let's

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destroy this, let's destroy this evil out of our house. And it says here...

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that she smote the nail into his temples and fastened it to the ground for he was fast asleep and weary.

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So he died. And it says in verse 22,

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And behold, as Berak pursued Sisera,

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Jeho came out to meet him and said unto him,

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Come, I will show thee the man whom thou seekest.

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And when he came into her tent, Sisera lay dead.

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The nail was in his temples.

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It would have been an unbelievable sight to see, but you just see great courage from Jeho.

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You know, women that were just great.

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women of God that were able to have courage to destroy the evil that comes into their family.

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Crush that evil that comes into your house.

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Be a person that sees danger to your children

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and you're able to destroy that danger.

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You can do that.

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You have that ability to be righteous as well.

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You have the same hatred as your husband

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for the reprobates.

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Like realize, hey, this is really destructive

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and we need to get these people far away from us.

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Cut ties with people you need to cut ties with

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if it helps protect your family as a woman.

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Why did God give us women? It's to be help meets.

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The Bible even speaks about Jail that she was blessed, more blessed above women.

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And they sang, I think they sang about her, or they spoke about her saying that she's blessed

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above women in tents and Deborah and Barak said that about her. So they're saying,

01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:10.360
hey, this woman is great. Because of what she did, she's blessed above women.

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You know, I'm sure Heba as her husband was also blessed to have a wife like Jail, right?

01:22:19.300 --> 01:22:22.840
Let's look at Proverbs 12 verse 4.

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We're considered in the Bible as the bride of Christ

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and we're the helpmate of Christ on this earth.

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We're the ones that help achieve great things for the Lord.

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We're the soul winners.

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We're the people that go out and preach the gospel,

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get people saved.

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We're the ones, people say,

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they liken it to the hands and feet of Jesus Christ.

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We're there to be a helpmate.

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As well it says in Proverbs 12 s4 a virtuous woman is the crown is a crown to her husband

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But she that maketh ashamed is as rawness to his bones

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It's like, you know same with people that just you know, Jesus can be so ashamed of so many people so many Christians today

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that they're just not going out soul-winning, they're not caring about the things of God,

01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:10.680
and he says, if you're ashamed of me, I'll be ashamed of you as well. So I'm sure there's a lot

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of people, the Bible says that they're gonna stand before the judgment seat of Christ, they're gonna

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be ashamed, and we shouldn't be that, you know. But it says a virtuous woman is the crown to a husband.

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You know, we're ambassadors of Christ as well, and we should be, you know, that...

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We should be that crown to Jesus Christ.

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You know, we should be that great helpmate to Jesus Christ on this earth.

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Let's look at Esther 1 verse 15.

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Esther 1 verse 15.

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You know, you make your husband look bad

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when you disobey your husband's authority.

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And you know, people can see it.

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It's something that, it can be really destructive as well.

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And that's why I want to have a church

01:23:53.720 --> 01:23:55.200
that has good families.

01:23:55.200 --> 01:23:58.120
You know, women that actually care about their husbands,

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that good help meets their husband.

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Because it's gonna influence other women

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in the church as well.

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It's the one verse 15, it's the one verse 15.

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The Bible says, what shall we do unto Queen Vashti according to the law because she had not

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performed the commandment of King Ahasuerus by the chamberlains. So saying like what should we do

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because she didn't want to hearken. So he's actually telling her to do something. She's saying,

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I'm not going to do what you want me to do. And look what the Bible says in verse 16.

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And Memucan answered before the king of the princes, Vashti the queen have not done wrong to the king only.

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but also to all the princes and to all the people that are in all the province of King Ahasuerus,

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for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their

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husbands in their eyes when it shall be reported." It's like when people hear authority, that

01:24:51.660 --> 01:24:55.580
authority is actually doing the wrong thing and women are doing the wrong thing in authority,

01:24:55.580 --> 01:25:00.540
it's like this gets set abroad and other women get that idea. And unfortunately,

01:25:00.540 --> 01:25:03.100
this is what happens today. A lot of women are, you know,

01:25:03.500 --> 01:25:05.060
obeying their husbands, not caring about

01:25:05.060 --> 01:25:06.420
what their husbands have to say,

01:25:06.420 --> 01:25:07.960
and you know what, they're able to start influencing

01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:09.900
other people, other women in the church.

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Where the Bible continues in verse 17,

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the king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

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He's just saying, hey, can you come here? She's like, no, she just wants to be rebellious.

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She's stubborn. She doesn't want to listen to him. Verse 20, and when the kings decree,

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which shall be made, shall be punished throughout, published throughout all his empire, for it is

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great, all the wives shall give to their husbands honor, both great and small.

01:25:37.000 --> 01:25:41.640
And the saying pleased the king and the princes and the king did according to the word of a mummucan

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For he sent letters unto the king unto all the king's province into every province according to

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the writing thereof and to every people about their language to that every man should bear rule in

01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:58.520
his own house you know the bible says that the man shall rule over her right and he is saying

01:25:58.520 --> 01:26:02.920
pretty much you're going to make a decree that every man has to be in charge in his family

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You know, this can't happen.

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As soon as people hear about this,

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then they're gonna just also despise

01:26:09.040 --> 01:26:10.480
their husbands in their heart.

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And it's something that can be very contagious.

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And it's, you know, I think it comes down

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to women not teaching by example.

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You know, when women are not meant to teach

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by verbally speaking to people,

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they're actually meant to be an example.

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Let's look at Titus 2 verse 3, Titus 2 verse 3.

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You know, women that see certain things can also be tempted to do bad things.

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And that's what's really important at our church, that whatever women come into this church,

01:26:39.480 --> 01:26:42.640
they actually see great examples of women and the women are going to be teaching them

01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:46.080
the right thing. So we don't want to be teaching women the wrong thing.

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And women get to teach by example.

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Queen Vashti was teaching by example, just by what she did.

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That was already teaching a lot of women to do likewise.

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Let's look at Titus two verse three.

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the age of women.

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Likewise, that they be in behavior as become of holiness, not false accusers, not given

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to much wine, teachers of good things, that they may teach the younger women to be sober,

01:27:08.040 --> 01:27:13.560
to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,

01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:18.000
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

01:27:18.000 --> 01:27:23.320
That's something that God wants women to teach other younger women, hey, be a keeper at home,

01:27:23.320 --> 01:27:24.480
hey, obey your husband.

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Why? Because the Word of God can get blasphemed.

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And I understand this temptation.

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My wife and I went soul-winning yesterday.

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We saw a Muslim lady come to the door

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and she was really, really like, she was very like, you know, she was...

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I can say like very in subjection to her husband.

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She said I have to go call my husband.

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She went and called her husband.

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Her husband was very confident.

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And you know what?

01:27:43.460 --> 01:27:45.540
A lot of Muslims, they kind of like mock and say,

01:27:45.540 --> 01:27:48.180
oh, you Christians, you guys, your women don't even listen to you.

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But look at our women, they listen to us, you know,

01:27:50.260 --> 01:27:53.620
and they have that kind of, you know, aura about them where like,

01:27:53.620 --> 01:27:56.740
hey, we've kind of, we're the real men here.

01:27:56.740 --> 01:28:00.020
But the Bible says that when a woman fails to, you know,

01:28:00.020 --> 01:28:02.660
be subjection to her husband, fails to obey her husband,

01:28:02.660 --> 01:28:04.100
says the word of God is gonna get.

01:28:04.100 --> 01:28:11.500
So I understand that there's a temptation to Godly saved women today to disobey their husbands because I'm sure the devil wants God's

01:28:11.500 --> 01:28:12.980
Word to be blasphemed, you know

01:28:12.980 --> 01:28:19.060
It's something that yeah, the temptation won't be upon all the Muslims right that temptation is gonna be really strong upon

01:28:19.060 --> 01:28:25.060
You know Christian women because you know that that's gonna cause God's if God's words getting blasphemed because they're not doing the right thing

01:28:25.060 --> 01:28:28.500
They're not a keeper at home. They're not good. They're not obedient to their own husbands

01:28:28.500 --> 01:28:32.100
You know God's Word gets blasphemed by that. So I do understand the temptation

01:28:32.100 --> 01:28:35.440
But that's how we know we need to rise above like like Elizabeth

01:28:35.440 --> 01:28:38.300
She was able to walk into all the commandments of God blamelessly

01:28:38.300 --> 01:28:45.560
I think as a women of God we can actually transcend that and you know, we should be putting the Muslim Muslims the shame when it comes to

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You know women obeying their husbands. Amen

01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:54.360
You know, Queen Vashti was teaching by example.

01:28:54.360 --> 01:28:56.440
This is not, these are all characteristics.

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If you see this, discrete, chaste, keepers at home,

01:28:58.940 --> 01:29:00.640
these are all things that people see.

01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:02.000
These are not things that you have to go

01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:04.840
and a woman has to get behind the pulpit and start teaching.

01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:07.140
These are things that people can see if you're a keep at home.

01:29:07.140 --> 01:29:09.420
People can see if you're obedient to your own husband.

01:29:09.420 --> 01:29:11.480
People can see if you're chaste, if you're discreet.

01:29:11.480 --> 01:29:13.840
If you're just getting out there and just saying everything,

01:29:13.840 --> 01:29:15.320
you're just talking about your spouse,

01:29:15.320 --> 01:29:16.960
you're just talking about everything in your family.

01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:18.220
That's not discreet.

01:29:18.220 --> 01:29:19.200
You're not being discreet.

01:29:19.500 --> 01:29:22.940
And chaste is that purity. People can see if you're living in purity.

01:29:22.940 --> 01:29:27.820
You know, if you're a woman and you're flirting with other men and that's not chaste, that's not pure.

01:29:27.820 --> 01:29:32.060
That's not, you're not set apart for just your spouse. So it's something that people can see all

01:29:32.060 --> 01:29:35.500
those things. You know, and that's why it's so important that a woman does these things,

01:29:35.500 --> 01:29:38.940
not just for herself, but also for the women that are looking at her,

01:29:38.940 --> 01:29:41.420
that she could teach them to do the right thing as well.

01:29:43.700 --> 01:29:45.860
So we see that those things are visible.

01:29:45.860 --> 01:29:49.700
And, you know, people, like I said,

01:29:49.700 --> 01:29:51.500
people can see all these characteristics.

01:29:51.500 --> 01:29:53.620
That's why you don't need to teach them verbally.

01:29:53.620 --> 01:29:58.500
You just teach them by the way you conduct yourself.

01:29:58.500 --> 01:30:00.700
In conclusion, you know, we see in the book of Romans,

01:30:00.700 --> 01:30:03.380
look at Romans 16 verse one, Romans 16 verse one,

01:30:03.380 --> 01:30:05.820
we see a lot of great women in the Bible that had,

01:30:05.820 --> 01:30:08.400
you could say like, you know, they had...

01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:15.080
Apostle Paul actually, you know referring to them as great women of God and it's something that every woman in this church should strive towards

01:30:15.480 --> 01:30:19.800
because you get that opportunity to you know, God can actually speak really well of you and

01:30:20.640 --> 01:30:25.680
You could have you know, if you were back in that time, you could have had your name cemented in the Word of God for eternity

01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:31.800
Let's look at Romans 16 verse 1.

01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:36.800
You realize that when you do good work, you can get remembered for that.

01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:37.800
It says in Romans 16 verse 1,

01:30:37.800 --> 01:30:43.800
I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church, which is at St. Creah.

01:30:44.300 --> 01:30:49.100
that ye receive her in the Lord as become a saint and that ye assist her in what sort of business

01:30:49.100 --> 01:30:54.940
she hath need of for she hath been a succor of many and of myself also probably similar to the

01:30:54.940 --> 01:30:59.500
Shunammite woman you know it's like she's caring about making him food just caring about you know

01:30:59.500 --> 01:31:05.660
hosting you know lodging strangers there's phoebe in verse three as well phoebe in verse three

01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:09.840
There's Phoebe in verse one, like I said, in verse three,

01:31:09.840 --> 01:31:11.360
it says, Greek Priscilla and Aquila,

01:31:11.360 --> 01:31:13.300
my helpers in Christ Jesus.

01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:18.800
who have for my life laid down their own necks these people are willing to even give their lives

01:31:18.800 --> 01:31:24.480
says unto whom not only i give thanks but also all the churches of the gentiles saying like hey

01:31:24.480 --> 01:31:29.680
these people this woman priscilla in verse six it's like this woman is just a great sacrifice you

01:31:29.680 --> 01:31:34.000
know all the churches are really acknowledging her sacrifice and it's in the bible it says in verse

01:31:34.000 --> 01:31:39.760
six greet mary which bestowed much labor upon us again another woman who's just doing so much great

01:31:39.760 --> 01:31:42.000
great works for God, gets her name written.

01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:47.760
you know in the Bible she's able to do this and this is something that every woman can strive to have that you know

01:31:47.760 --> 01:31:49.760
Said about them in the future

01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:51.820
verse

01:31:51.820 --> 01:31:56.020
Verse 12 salute triphena and triphosa who labored in the Lord

01:31:56.700 --> 01:31:58.440
Salute the

01:31:58.440 --> 01:32:04.700
Beloved persons which labored much in the Lord. So we see here this triphena this trifo sets trifo sir and purses

01:32:05.100 --> 01:32:09.100
And verse 15, Philogos and Julia,

01:32:09.100 --> 01:32:11.100
nurses and his sister Olympus,

01:32:11.100 --> 01:32:12.900
and all the saints which are with them.

01:32:12.900 --> 01:32:14.740
So we see here Julia as well,

01:32:14.740 --> 01:32:17.980
and the sister Nerus,

01:32:19.260 --> 01:32:20.740
you know, which is not named.

01:32:20.740 --> 01:32:22.340
You know, it's, you just see,

01:32:22.340 --> 01:32:24.000
you just see all these people.

01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:30.040
be named and his sister, you know, the sister of Nerus. I don't know who that is, but again,

01:32:30.040 --> 01:32:34.360
that was another person who, you know, had a shout out because of the things that they did,

01:32:34.360 --> 01:32:38.200
because of the works that they did. So, you know, and it says all the saints that are with them. So

01:32:38.200 --> 01:32:43.240
he has a call out to everybody specifically, but then he wants to specifically say, hey, these people

01:32:43.240 --> 01:32:48.200
really left an impact. These people are great women of God. And you see their names there cemented in

01:32:48.200 --> 01:32:52.520
Romans chapter 16. And it's something that women today, you know, you have your life as well. You can

01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:57.320
be a person who decides, hey, you know, I'm going to try my best to improve in this.

01:32:57.560 --> 01:32:59.960
And if I'm struggling in this area, you know, I'm going to try and prove

01:33:00.400 --> 01:33:03.040
because, you know, God wants me to, you know, and as a man,

01:33:03.440 --> 01:33:06.080
let's not harken to the voice of our wives when they tell us to sin.

01:33:06.200 --> 01:33:08.960
You know, that's something that we should just be like, hey, that's not going to happen.

01:33:09.840 --> 01:33:12.920
You know, stand firm because they're going to end up regretting those decisions

01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:14.160
that they pushed us into anyway.

01:33:14.900 --> 01:33:17.300
And you know, as a woman you should ask yourself,

01:33:17.300 --> 01:33:19.100
do you build up or are you tearing down?

01:33:19.100 --> 01:33:21.100
You know, are you plucking down your own house with your hands?

01:33:21.100 --> 01:33:23.500
Because you have a great influence over your family.

01:33:24.700 --> 01:33:31.200
And you know, as I believe that they can, women can follow the great footsteps of the women mentioned in Romans chapter 16.

01:33:31.200 --> 01:33:36.700
And obviously the choice is up to us, you know, we have free will, God's given us this one life on this earth.

01:33:36.700 --> 01:33:41.200
And God, like he said in Revelation, He's going to recompense to every man according to his works.

01:33:41.200 --> 01:33:44.200
You know, whether you do good things, God's going to recompense you well.

01:33:44.200 --> 01:33:47.200
Whether you do evil, you know, God's going to chastise the evil.

01:33:47.200 --> 01:33:49.200
So with that, I'd like to close in a word of prayer.

01:33:49.600 --> 01:33:52.640
Father God, thank you so much for these great truths in the Bible, Lord.

01:33:52.640 --> 01:33:56.160
And I just pray that so many Baptist Church of Melbourne will have great families

01:33:56.160 --> 01:34:00.160
and we'd all just harken mostly to your word, Lord God.

01:34:01.360 --> 01:34:05.520
And just, Lord, if our wives, Lord, tell us to do things that are contrary to your word, Lord,

01:34:05.520 --> 01:34:12.560
that we'd have courage and we'd instruct them kindly and just really lead our families as men

01:34:12.560 --> 01:34:14.960
as well. And I pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen.

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343.