and welcome to Faithful Word Baptist Church today.
I'd like to welcome you to our services here.
Happy Mother's Day to all you in attendance here.
Take your hymnals, go to hymn number 180
and we'll get started this morning, hymn number 180.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Hymn number 180.
Once you find your place,
sing it out together on that first note.
There will never be a sweeter story.
Hymn number 180, sing it out now.
on the service. We'll have asked for the Jason Furbey. If you would please. Thank you father for
Fifth Ward Baptist Church in the King James Bible. Thank you for the opportunity to continue to
hear your holy, your hallowed, and your sacred word. I ask you to fill past your nation with your
holy spirit. Open our hearts and ears to receive your holy word. I pray this in Jesus' holy name. Amen.
I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus,
hymn number 185.
Sing it out together now.
I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus.
All right, at this time,
we'll go through our announcements together.
If you don't have a bulletin,
lift up your hand nice and high.
We'll get to you with one.
On the inside, we have our service time.
Sunday mornings at 10.30 is our preaching service.
Sunday nights at six.
Wednesday nights at seven is our Bible study.
This week we'll be in Psalm 80.
We've got the soul winning times listed there below,
as well as salvation and baptisms.
Across the page, of course,
Happy Mother's Day to all of our mothers out there.
And for the rest of you, be sure to call your mother
before it's too late.
I haven't called yet, but I'm going to,
and I never forget.
And so make sure that you call mom today.
Wish her happy Mother's Day.
And then below that, we've got the note
about the conference this week in Vancouver, Washington.
We've got the KJV conference.
I'm gonna be preaching on Thursday night.
First, I'm going on the Baptist Bias podcast at five o'clock
and then preaching at the six o'clock service.
Then on Friday, there will be preaching as well from Pastor Bruce Mejia.
I believe he's going to be preaching about the Spanish Bible issue,
and that's going to be also, I think, the same deal, 5 o'clock podcast, 6 o'clock
preaching, and then I'm preaching again on Saturday morning
at 10.30 a.m. and then Pastor
Aaron Thompson's preaching on Sunday night and Pastor Jonathan Shelly
on Sunday morning. So looking forward to that conference
and maybe you can jump in and catch some of the
live stream, so be sure that you're subscribed to Sure Foundation Baptist Church's YouTube channel and then on the back
We've got the Father's Day. I know it's Mother's Day, but you know just give us one minute to talk about Father's Day
We have the Father's Day weekend soul winning and hiking trip
And so if you're interested in this,
you can talk to us for more details.
We'll release a more detailed schedule as it gets closer.
But the basic idea is we're gonna roll out on Friday
in the morning, like later in the morning,
like mid-morning Friday.
We'll roll up to Flagstaff, have lunch together,
spend the entire afternoon on a big soul-winning marathon,
finish up with dinner, spend the night.
That'll kind of let us acclimate to the high elevation
because I wanna say Flagstaff is
7,500 feet somewhere, roughly.
What's that?
Right about 7,000 feet. And when we go up Humphreys, we're going to be starting. I
You know don't quote me on this, but I want to say we start around like 8,500 feet and go up to like
12,633 and so it's a very difficult hike
It should take approximately eight hours to get to the top and back
But if you want to just come and do part of it or do an easier alternative hike
That's okay too, but if you do participate fully
in the Friday Soul Winning,
then we will pay for your lodging
and we will also take care of your transportation
while space is available.
There's a sign-up sheet over there.
So if you want to go, be sure to sign up because space will fill up in the church vans and when
those spots are gone, they're gone, gone, gone. And so again, that is June 13th and 14th. And it's
a Father's Day thing, but really anybody's invited who wants to participate. You don't have to be
a father. You don't even have to be male. You know, you could be a woman and go on this. You
but just realize that the hike is brutal.
But like I said, the hike's optional.
The sole winning's not optional
if you want us to sponsor you.
But if you have to work on Friday
and you just want to just come up on Friday night
or Saturday morning, you're welcome to do that.
You just have to totally take care
of your own transportation lodging
and everything that you need.
But that's totally cool if you want to just get up
at ODark 30 on Saturday morning and meet us up there.
You know, you're going to want to leave at about probably 4 a.m.
And then you could easily make it up there and hike with us.
So that is about it for announcements.
We've got some other guest preaching coming up down at the bottom.
But with that, let's go ahead and sing our next song.
Come lead us.
All right, you should find the answer in front of your hymnal with the hymn
entitled, Holy, Holy, Holy.
If you don't have an answer, please raise your hand.
One of the ushers will get you one.
We'll start on that verse together.
Holy, Holy, Holy.
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, Early in the morning our song shall rise in the morning.
Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy Holy
God
Man, good thing everybody, take our hymnals now and go to hymn number 96, hymn number 96.
God leads us along, hymn number 96.
96 begins in shady green pasture, so rich and so sweet.
God leads his dear children along, hymn number 96.
In shady green pastures, so rich and so seen, God leads his dear children along.
Don't
Thank you very much.
through the fire, but all through the flood.
Sop through great sorrow, but God gives us song
in the light season and all the day long.
Hey, man, good singing this morning.
All right, this time we'll pass the offering plates around.
As the plates go around, let's turn our Bibles
to 1 Timothy chapter five.
As we always do, we'll read the entire chapter beginning in verse number one.
Follow along silently with Brother Corbin Brock as he reads 1 Timothy 5 beginning in verse number one.
Timothy chapter five.
Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren.
The elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters with all purity.
Honor widows that are widows indeed.
But if any widow have children or nephews,
let them learn first to show piety at home
and to requite their parents
for that is good and acceptable before God.
Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate,
trusteth in God, and continueeth in supplications
and prayers night and day.
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
And these things given charge that they may be blameless.
But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied
the faith and is worse than an infidel.
Let not a widow be taken into the number under three score years old, having been the wife
of one man, well reported of for good works.
If she hath brought up children, if she hath lodged strangers, if she hath washed the saints
If she have dizzily followed every good work, but the younger widows refuse, for when they
have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry, having damnation because they
have cast off their first faith.
And with all they learned to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle,
but tatlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none
occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
For some are already turned aside after Satan if any man or woman that believeth have widows
Let them relieve them and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine
For the scripture sayeth thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn and the laborer is worthy of his reward
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses
then that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear.
I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels
that thou observe these things without preferring one another, one before another,
doing nothing by partiality. Lay hand suddenly on no man,
neither be partaker of other men's sins, keep thyself pure.
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment, and some men they follow after.
Likewise, also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.
Father in heaven, we love you. We thank you for this beautiful day that you've given us Lord
We thank you for the godly women that we have in this church Lord
We pray that you'd impart a special blessing to them and that they would know
Indeed how special they are to each one of us. We're thankful for the godly mothers
You've given us and Lord we now ask that you help us turn our hearts towards the word of God
We pray that Pastor Anderson would be filled with the fullness the Holy Spirit to preach on to us things
It would be edifying to us. We ask that all
All this would be done for your glory and honor.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Man, the title of my sermon this morning is Guide the House.
Guide the House, taken from verse 14 here
in 1st Timothy chapter five.
I will therefore, that the younger women
marry bare children, guide the house,
give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully and in this context the word
guide here has to do with ruling, overseeing, running things, managing, taking care of the house
and basically running
the household, and you say, well, you know, I thought the man is the head of the household and
and he's the boss and he's the king of the castle. That's absolutely 100% true.
But the reality of our lives is that men are typically gone for most of the week, right?
We're out at work Monday through Friday, Monday through Saturday, whatever.
out there working eight-hour days, 12-hour days.
And so what ends up happening is, de facto,
the woman is staying at home and she ends up
running the household and being in charge
while her husband is gone.
And that's an important role that women have
in the home to guide the house.
Okay, if you would flip to Genesis chapter number one.
Genesis chapter number one.
And while you're turning there, I'm going to read for you from Proverbs chapter 6,
because Proverbs chapter 6 uses this word, guide, in this way.
It says in verse 6,
Go to the ant thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise,
which having no guide, overseer, or ruler provided her meat in the summer
and gathered her food in the harvest.
And so again, you can see that guide here is used synonymously
with overseer or ruler in this context.
Now, if you look at Genesis chapter 1,
there's a beautiful analogy given in the word of God
for the husband and the wife
and for the man and the woman in the home.
You see, the sun in the sky represents the man
and the moon represents the woman.
Look what the Bible says in Genesis chapter 1, verse 14.
And God said, let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night
and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth, and it was so.
And God made two great lights,
the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also,
and God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth,
and to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness,
and God saw that it was good,
and the evening in the morning,
were the fourth day. Now you have a lot of bozos today
who deny well-known, well-established scientific facts and they will believe in
stupid things like the flat earth or geocentricity, these kind of just absurd
thoughts that have been debunked hundreds or even thousands of years ago
through science and they will make claims about what the Bible says
and one of the claims that they will make is that you know according to the Bible
the moon gives off its own light or the moon is its own source of light.
Now of course the Bible doesn't say that anywhere. Nothing in this passage says
the moon gives off its own light or the moon is its own source of light
and anyone with two brain cells to rub together
can go walk outside and go take a look at the moon and you will see that the moon changes
as the sun falls on it from different angles and you will see that the moon has a shadow on it all
the time because it is not a glowing orb in the sky it is a terrestrial body that is reflecting
The moon does not emit light, the moon reflects the light from the sun, which is why sometimes
it'll just be a little crescent, or sometimes it'll be a completely new moon, it'll just
be a black circle, other times it'll be a full moon, because it really just has to
do with the shadow and the angle of the sun hitting it, and everybody knows that, and
everybody has always known that, and people have known that since the beginning of time.
thousands and thousands and thousands of years ago.
So don't ever get sucked into this weird,
bizarre pseudo-science of keyboard warriors
on YouTube or X or wherever,
promoting the foolishness of geocentricity
or flat earth or other dumb things
that are not scientific.
Go if you would to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.
I'm gonna show you how this works in the Bible
because the Bible does not teach that.
The Bible teaches science correctly.
You know, in any time science conflicts with the Bible,
it is science falsely so-called.
In fact, real science goes beautifully with the Bible,
and in fact, the Bible is ahead of its time, scientifically, always.
But when it comes to just secular science out in the world,
astronomy is probably the most well-established, trustworthy science that there is.
It's really the original science.
thousands and thousands of years ago you have all kinds of wonderful astronomy going on in ancient
Greece, Mesopotamia, the Babylonians, right? The Chinese did all kinds of advanced things with
astronomy and then when you think about in modern times the scientific revolution was sparked by
what? The scientific revolution was sparked by astronomy.
It was sparked by the understanding that the sun is at the center of our solar system
and revisiting those things and understanding those things.
And then we have these brilliant men like Galileo and Isaac Newton coming along
and inventing all of our modern science and mathematics and physics.
And it all started with this understanding that the sun is at the center of our solar system
and how it works and gravity and all of these different things.
Good things.
So just because science sometimes gets out of its lane and tries to tell us about philosophy
or history or these other things, we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bath water and
just reject science.
There's a lot of good science out there.
It's just when science tries to tell us about history, that's science falsely so-called.
That's called history.
That's called archaeology, that's called philosophy when they try to tell us why we're here or where we came from or the beginnings of the universe.
That is out of bounds, but science is pretty good at describing what's going on right now in 2025 and observing and so we don't want to just reject science.
That's why the Bible doesn't warn us about science, it only warns us about science falsely so-called.
things that aren't really science because they're not really things that are being
observed or studied in our present day. They are
surmising and speculation about the past. Now I know you feel like I'm getting way
off topic here because it's supposed to be Mother's Day
and I'm supposed to be talking about guiding the house but I'm telling you I'm laying an
important foundation here about these heavenly bodies because I
think if you're going to understand this illustration about the Sun and the Moon
works because the moon does not give off its own light, the moon reflects the light from
the sun.
Okay?
And the Bible already knows this.
The Bible knows that there are terrestrial bodies up there in the sky and that everything
up there is not a celestial body.
In fact, look what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15 verse 40.
Okay, now, just to make this simpler for you,
celestial means heavenly,
terrestrial means earthly, okay?
And it says, but the glory of the celestial is one,
and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Now, at this point, I need you to understand
that the word glory does not always mean glory
the way we would use it today,
but glory also means brightness.
or shining. Now we only use it metaphorically like if somebody has glory it means they're a big star,
you know, everybody knows who they are, it is hearing about their exploits, so that's a metaphorically,
but the literal meaning of glory in the Bible is brightness or shining. So the apostle Paul here
is saying you look up in the sky and you see all these lights up in the sky, right, and they have
levels of glory, right?
Some things are brighter than others.
Obviously, the brightest thing in the sky is the sun.
The second brightest thing in the sky is the moon.
The third brightest thing in the sky is the planet Venus,
and so forth.
And so you have planets, you have stars,
you have the sun, you have the moon,
and these bodies that we look at,
some of them are celestial bodies,
and some of them are terrestrial bodies,
and the glory of the terrestrial is another, okay?
So what are some terrestrial bodies?
That would be things like the moon, right?
The moon is a big rock, okay?
It is not some kind of a glowing, burning ball of gas
like the sun or like the stars are, right?
The planet Mercury, the planet Venus, the planet Mars,
these are terrestrial bodies, right?
Whereas there are also celestial bodies, which would be like the gas giants, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and also the stars, obviously, right?
And so God already understands this. The Bible already understands this.
The Bible is correct and scientifically accurate to know about terrestrial and celestial bodies in the night sky.
And it says in verse 41, there's one glory of the sun.
and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars for one star different
from another star in glory.
So I think we all understand what the word glory means now,
right?
With that in mind,
let's also go to 1st Corinthians chapter 11.
1st Corinthians chapter number 11.
Does the moon have its own glory?
No, the moon is reflecting the glory from the sun.
It reflects the light from the sun because it is a terrestrial body.
And the Bible says here in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 verse 7,
it says,
The woman is the glory of the man.
So just as the moon reflects the glory from the sun,
the Bible says the woman is the glory of the man.
It says for the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman,
but the woman was created for the man, right?
That's what the Bible is saying here.
And so this illustration is showing us
that the sun represents
the man, and here's the thing, what does the sun do?
He rules, right?
The sun is to rule the day.
And what is the moon supposed to do?
The moon is supposed to rule the night.
Now, when you're a little kid, you think to yourself,
oh, well, the sun is out in the daytime.
and the moon's out at night.
And then you have this really weird moment
at some point in your life,
this kind of cognitive dissonance
when it's in the middle of the daytime one day,
and who knows how old you are when this happens,
but you look up in the sky
and you see the moon in the daytime.
And you have this moment where you're confused,
like, what are you doing here?
You know, you're not supposed to be here.
Because you just think of the moon as being a night thing.
Why?
Because the moon rules the night.
Does the moon rule in the daytime?
No, when the moon's out in the daytime, it is in the background.
If you don't look up at the sky and think about it,
you would never even notice that it's there
unless you're thinking about it.
Now, here's the reality of the situation.
The moon is out just as much in the daytime
as it is at night.
It's not out more at night and less in the daytime.
Hey, it's out 50% of the time in the daytime
and 50% of the time at night.
So it is out just as often in the daytime.
as it is at night the reason that we associate it with the night is because it is ruling the night
and look if you're ever out in the middle of nowhere and it's super dark and then the moon comes up
it really lights things up.
And I remember many times that I've slept outside
just in a sleeping bag, on a camping trip,
under the stars, no tent, and when the moon would come up,
it was like a third quarter, and it rises at midnight.
And it will rise and come up over the horizon,
maybe midnight, one in the morning,
and it will wake you up.
Like you'll be sleeping, and all of a sudden you wake up.
And I was like, whoa, it's bright
If you, you know, I used to, I went through a phase where I was doing a lot of long distance running and a lot of these things are at night.
And, you know, they would typically schedule these things for like a full moon because it could really light up the path and then you don't even need the headlamp.
because the moon will light, but then without the moon you kind of do need a headlamp because the moon is a powerful source of light at night.
But in the daytime it is an insignificant source of light.
And so just as the sun rules the day, the moon rules the night, and the Bible is saying that the woman is supposed to guide the house.
So it's not that the woman has no authority.
It's that when dad is not there, she is the supreme authority.
when dad is not there, right?
Just as when the sun is down,
the moon is the supreme light.
Yeah, you can get a little light from planets
and stars, but what's the big source
of light? The big colossal source of light
is going to be the moon.
The moon has powerful significance,
tremendous importance
at night.
Okay? And so it's the same way in a family, right?
When dad is home, he's the final authority, he's the supreme authority,
and we don't obviously want the wife trying to outstage or out-glory her husband
and try to put him in the background, and she takes the foreground,
and it's like, oh, hi, you know, I'm Mrs. Anderson's husband, you know?
It's like, no, I'm not Mrs. Anderson's husband, I'm Pastor Anderson, and she's my wife.
And that's kind of how it's supposed to be in every relationship.
You know, thank God we've never had a female president yet.
Hopefully the Democrats just keep running females though since they always lose when they do that.
Hopefully they just keep running females.
But here's the thing, and then what are we going to have?
Instead of the first lady, we're going to have like the first husband.
And it's going to be a little awkward for bro, being the first husband.
I wouldn't want to be the first husband.
It's weird.
But the thing is that when the husband's not there,
she's in charge, she's the boss.
And she derives her authority from him, right?
She speaks for him because he leaves her in charge.
Now let's get back into the word of God.
Now that we understand that illustration
and see that that's what it means
when the Bible says guide the house.
Cause you might read the word guide the house
and you don't really know what it means.
That's what it means, manage the house.
Run the house, rule the house, oversee the house, is what that's saying.
Now the household in ancient times, and if you would flip over to Titus chapter 2,
you know, the household obviously can include children, right?
Most people have children.
that the household would include, but also servants are a lot of times going to be part of that household
because a lot of people are running some kind of a farm or a vineyard or a plantation. You know,
you go back in time and like 90% of humans are farmers at one point. So obviously a lot of people
are kind of running an operation in their household and so they're also going to have servants in
The woman is not just telling the kids what to do.
She's also telling the employees what to do.
She's also telling the servants what to do.
And we'll get into that more later.
But the Bible says in Titus chapter two, verse four,
that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children,
to be discreet, chaste.
And then here's the phrase I really want a home man on
because we already saw guide the house.
Now I want to talk about this phrase,
keepers at home.
good, obedient to their own husbands,
that the Word of God be not blaspheme.
Now, what does this word mean?
Keeper.
Right? She's a keeper.
No, that's not what that means.
Keepers at home, what does it mean to keep the home?
We, of course, use this in our everyday vernacular all the time
when we talk about being a homemaker
and doing housekeeping.
Housekeeping.
The idea with the word keep
is to maintain something in a certain state.
That's what it means to keep something, right?
When Adam was put in the Garden of Eden,
he was told to dress and to keep it.
You know, make sure that it's okay.
Guard it, take care of it.
Keep it in the same condition that it was in.
And so when it comes to keeping the house,
the idea here is that through much idleness,
the Bible says, the house dropeth through.
Right if you ignore the house the house will decay if you were to just go on a trip even for six months
Or a year not even a huge amount of time if you came back to your house, and it had just been totally left unattended
Then animals will begin to take over things will begin to rot and decay
I mean sometimes even if you just don't drive your car for a month or a month and a half
You go to start it and it won't even start and the battery is dead
And you know you kind of have to start the car driving around the block every once in a while
Even if it's a car you don't normally drive you got to keep things moving same thing with the house
You got to use the faucets. You got to flush the toilet
You got to live there and use it or else the thing will just decay
and atrophy. Even if you are living in it, it still falls apart, breaks down, decays,
atrophies, animals can take over, bugs can take over, mold or mildew or whatever can come in and
take over and the house just kind of gets reclaimed by nature as it were. Okay. And so it's the woman's job
to not only guide the house, meaning to rule, manage,
tell people what to do, tell the servants what to do,
tell the kids what to do, and things like that,
but it's also her job to maintain the household,
and so that involves things like keeping it clean.
You know, taking care of it, keeping it clean, making it nice, making it pleasant,
and obviously things like cooking meals and taking care of everybody and stuff like that.
So that is the job of a woman. It's a very important job.
and it shouldn't be downplayed or minimized.
We're living in a day where we have the so-called feminists, right?
And really, they should be called masculists because what they're trying to do
is get women to take on masculine roles.
To talk like men, dress like men, act like men, lead like men,
and take positions that they don't belong in
instead of embracing traditional feminine roles.
We should be the feminists.
by saying that women should be in these feminine roles.
But the devil loves to put words on things
that are the exact opposite of what they should be
and what they should mean,
like he calls the most miserable, ungodly, unhappy,
worst people in the world, he calls them gay.
Which should mean like that they're just super cheerful,
happy, lively, when in reality,
they out there killing themselves
because they're so miserable
because they know how disgusting and rough.
Man, this is a Mother's Day sermon, a faithful word.
Go to Proverbs chapter one Proverbs chapter one. This is faithful word beloved
You bring your mom here, she's gonna get something from the Bible
You're gonna get something good. Here's here's the thing. Okay?
women
have authority.
Nobody's trying to take away their power.
No one's trying to strip them of their dignity
or something like that.
No, my friend.
Women do have power in their home.
They guide the house, they're keeping us at home.
That's a great job, that's a powerful job, that's a great responsibility, that's an important job.
Nobody's saying that they can't be in charge of something, it's just we'll put them in charge of the kitchen.
We'll put them in charge of the house, we'll put them in charge of the children,
we'll put them in charge of all your slaves, or we don't have slaves, but you know,
put them in charge of the servants, or you don't have those either.
All your ESA tutors that you've hired.
You know, you're putting them in charge of all those people, all the different, you know, people that come into the house and do stuff and do the lawn or do the pool or whatever.
I don't deal with the pool guy or the lawn guy.
That's all my wife, you know, and she doesn't even speak Spanish and she still figures it out.
But the point is, you know, just working outside the home is not just automatically empowerment, is it?
No, because working outside the home could just be being someone else's servant, doing
some subservient job somewhere, wearing the hair net and the name tag, and doing work
for someone else.
That's not just automatically equal empowerment.
I mean, I feel like the woman who's running her household, who's guiding the house, who's
a keeper at home, who's got all the children doing her bidding, that's empowerment.
You know she's got her own little castle. She's got her own little domain and you say oh, yeah
But she's under the thumb of her husband or her husband's gone 40 hours a week
Husband's gone 60 hours a week and then it's party time. No, I'm just kidding. Anyway, her husband's gone
And she has a lot of authority and here's the thing. What if I were the vice president of some giant corporation?
You'd think like, oh, wow, you know, you're the vice president of that giant company. Wow, you're really important
You're a big deal. Wow. You have all kinds of power and authority. You're just like, oh, yeah, but you're just under the president's thumb
Yeah, but the president tells you what to do. Oh, the CEO tells you what to do. Is that what you'd say?
No, you'd say like being the vice president is a pretty big deal
That's pretty cool. You have a lot of power. Well, guess what? Being the vice president of the home is a big deal, too
That's authority, too. That's empowerment, too
And you know what we ought to be in our God given roles what God's plan is for our life
That's gonna be the most empowerment, right? How about being filled with the Holy Spirit? That's empowerment
And being out there, living a carnal, worldly life, doing things the world's way,
not listening to what the Bible says, not caring about God's plan.
That's not empowerment.
See, the devil promises you liberty.
But you know what?
He himself and his minions are the servants of corruption.
But they promise you liberty, like, oh, women's lib.
That's what they used to call it, right?
They don't call it that anymore.
Now they call it being feminist, but do you remember when it used to be called women's liberation?
Women's lib, okay, and and and here's the thing they promise them liberty
But here's the it's not liberty to clock in and clock out somewhere and here's the thing
You got all kinds of women serving meals to strangers saying here you go sugar. Here you go, sweetie
You know why don't you serve your husband a meal and say here you go sugar. Here you go, sweetie
You know and then you could be super flirtatious, and it'll be fine
There's no issue
You can actually feel good about yourself and not feel weird about what you do for a living
Getting all flirty with a bunch of strangers
Get flirty with your actual husband
But women have authority nobody's trying to say women don't have any authority women rule they guide they oversee the house
They're in a realm. They're in a domain and here's the thing all power on this earth is restricted to a certain domain
You know I'm the pastor of faithful word Baptist Church. I walk out that door and I have no power
Over the city of Tempe. I'm the past. I'm the Bishop of Tempeers and nobody's gonna care
I don't have any power like that. I
Go over to your house, and I have to go buy your rules. You're the boss. I don't have any power inside your home
I don't have any power out here in this city of Tempe or the state of Arizona
You know I go to some other country. I don't show up and I'm just the Bishop from the USA and I have all this power
I don't have that guy everybody's powers limited
You know, my power as a husband and a father ends at my front door.
You know, everybody's got their realm, and women have their realm of leadership.
They have a realm of authority, and it's in the home, and here's another further caveat.
It's in the home when their husband's not there.
You know, when their husband's there, he does overrule them.
He does override them, and they ultimately derive their authority from him.
But again, this does not downplay the significance of being a wife and a mother, just as the
vice president of a powerful company is still a pretty important person.
Think about positions like Joseph had in Egypt.
He's a second of command in Egypt.
Right?
Daniel's the second in command in Babylon.
Nobody sits there and says, oh, well, Daniel wasn't that important because he's second
Oh, Joseph's just the lieutenant of Pharaoh.
He, you know, that's not a big deal.
No, it's a huge deal.
You say, well, my husband's not that important.
What, you know what?
You have a weird attitude.
You should think of your husband as being an important guy.
You know and maybe have some reverence and respect for your husband and here's the thing even if your husband doesn't have some
Super important job. Here's the thing
You know the Bible teaches that everything we do no matter what we do
We do it for the Lord and we do it with all our might and we do it as unto the Lord and not to men
so it doesn't matter if your husband is
cleaning or programming or
Framing or you know plumbing or whatever he's doing
You know what? He needs to be out there doing it with his might and you ought to be respecting
your husband's honest work that he does. You know, those are good honest jobs and whatever
whatever he does, you respect his work and realize that your job is important to hold it down at home.
You know, literally like half the time, right?
Because chances are your husband's going to be gone like half the time,
just like with the moon and the sun.
The sun's gone half the time.
And then that's when the moon rules and takes the forefront.
So in Proverbs, we have all of these scriptures in Proverbs
about a mother giving commandments unto her children
as part of this ruling or guiding the house or keeping the house.
has to do with keeping something in a certain condition,
taking care of something, taking care of the house is housekeeping,
taking care of things, making sure things stay working
and stay clean and stay functioning,
but also it has to do with making sure that the people in the house
do what they're supposed to be doing.
keeping everybody safe, keeping everybody on the right path,
keeping everybody out of trouble,
guarding our families is our job as parents,
guarding them from insidious influences.
And so the Bible says in verse 8 of chapter 1 there in Proverbs,
My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Now look, that's a pretty strong word, their law,
the law of your mother.
This isn't the suggestions of mom.
This is the law of bomb right mother's word is law in the home
For they shall be an ornament of grace under thy head and chains about thy neck."
And I love this term, chains about thy neck, because it's a double meaning, right?
Because a chain around your neck is an ornament or a decoration that people wear that is to
make them look good, right?
They put it on as decor.
They put it on as a status symbol, right?
Hey, look how cool I am.
I got this gold chain or hey, this is expensive or whatever.
binding, right? Being in chains is symbolic of being restricted. And here's the thing,
you could look at the law of your mother as chains about your neck, or you could look
at the law of your mother as chains about your neck.
You could look at it as something that's making you a better, classier, more stylish individual
because you're actually following the good teachings of your mother as a status thing
of I'm a better person because I follow mom's rules, or you could look at it as like, oh,
man, these chains are on my neck, they're just weighing me down, so restrictive.
Life is like that, and bad people, they take all of God's commandments and they try to
Oh, they're so bad, so restrictive.
And even preaching about men's and women's roles,
you know, a lot of women love it.
And then a lot of women hate it.
And it's really just whether they have a good attitude
toward the Bible and God's word,
or whether they just have a bad attitude,
it's whether they view it as chains.
Well, whether they view it as chains.
Okay.
Because here's the thing, you know, every woman would probably love to have some beautiful
chain around her neck today, right?
But she probably doesn't want to have like a chain around her neck.
You know.
It's really just how you look at it.
Look at chapter 6 verse 20, Proverbs chapter 6 verse 20 says, I'll start reading while
you get there.
and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Here's another word for forsake, abandon, right?
Forsake and abandon are synonyms.
You know, don't abandon the rules that your mom taught you.
Don't forsake the law of your mother.
Meaning that yes, of course, while you're living at home,
you have to obey your parents
because they enforce those things.
It's not just optional.
But also, even once you leave the home, you don't want to abandon the teachings that your mom has given you, right?
I got all kinds of wonderful teachings from my parents that I still follow for life.
Not like, oh, I'm out of the house. I can do whatever I want. I'm gonna break every rule. No, I'm not gonna abandon.
I'm not gonna forsake the law of my mother.
I still feel guilty when I have more than four cookies in one sitting, even to this day.
It says, bind them, verse 21, continually upon thine heart and tie them about thine neck.
And again, how do you want to look at this?
You know, oh, it's so binding, I'm so bound up, you know, I don't want to just tie it
around my neck, you know.
Or if you think about a tie around your neck is something that you wear to look more dignified.
You know, it could be a good thing or it could be a bad thing.
It depends on your attitude.
When thou goest it shall lead thee, when thou sleepest it shall keep thee, when thou awakeest it shall talk with thee, for the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life, right?
And this is talking about teachings that you got from mom, rules from mom, to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Go, if you would, to Proverbs 31.
And let's face it, the Bible is not,
you know, I'm not gonna lie to you and say
that the Bible is this like super woman-centric book
because it isn't.
You know, it's mainly about men
and mainly tends to look at things
through the lens of the man.
But, of course, God does care about women, love women.
Women are just as important as men.
They're equal to men in the sense of their value
and dignity and worth in the eyes of God.
And so, chapters like this, Proverbs 31,
are interesting because most of the book
is from a male perspective.
And then we get this wonderful chapter about women.
And it still is from the son's perspective
because it's really a mother teaching her son.
But the first thing I wanna point out
in verse number one here is it says,
the words of King Lemuel,
the prophecy that his mother taught him.
So we see that not only is mom giving out commandments and laws in the book of Proverbs,
but also mother is teaching him prophecy.
Okay, now what does prophecy mean?
A lot of people think that prophecy is only a prediction of the future,
but this chapter is not a prediction about the future.
And the word prophecy in the Bible often simply means preaching.
Okay, so when it talks about prophesying in the New Testament,
it's often just talking about preaching the Word of God.
Now, obviously, preaching the Word of God can often involve predictions about the future.
It could be a prophecy sermon.
But prophecy is not always foretelling.
It is often forth-telling.
Okay, so the pra and prophecy means before.
So, prophecy can mean to say before, the fussy part has to do with speaking.
So, prophecy can be speak beforehand, tell the future, tell about something beforehand.
But prophesy can also just mean to speak forth,
meaning that you're speaking loudly, forcefully, you're proclaiming something, right?
And again, even the word proclaim,
Right? Look at the roots of that word. Pro, again, we're not talking about before or prediction, to proclaim is to cry something forth.
Okay. And the claim part has to do with sound, noise like clamor and so forth.
And so we see that the words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him, meaning that his mother is preaching to him.
You know, and mothers preach to their kids, don't they?
That's not biblical women are to keep silence in the church that'll learn in silence
It's not permitted under them to speak in the house of God
So they don't get up and preach behind the pulpit
But you know what they do preach to their kids don't they and I know my mom preached to me
My wife preaches to my kids. That's just what mothers do. They're teaching their kids prophecy
This is the preaching that she did to her son.
And look what it says in verse two.
What my son?
And what son of my womb?
And what son of my vows?
You know, this sounds pretty preachy to me.
This kind of a wild way to start a conversation, isn't it?
What?
What my son?
What son of my womb?
What the son of my vows?
You know, son of us.
She's just out there just really getting on him
and just like, what?
And here's the thing, a lot of times, you know, mothers can get frustrated with their children,
or they can get animated, or they can get a little flabbergasted.
And I feel like that's what's going on in chapter 2.
This is not a normal way to start a chapter.
Say, what?
You know, that's not really how you start a chapter, typically, in the Bible.
So, it sounds like Mom is speaking with some force here.
What?
The triple what?
And it says in verse 3,
Give not thy strength unto women,
Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
It's not for kings, O Lemuel.
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes strong drinks.
So she's warning them about two pitfalls
in the Christian life for young men,
which is women and alcohol, right?
And these are the same things
that people are dealing with right now.
In 2025, this is what we don't want our teens getting into.
We don't want them getting drunk and we don't want them fornicating and these are the two major
Temptations and maybe today. It's not just alcohol. It's also drugs, but that still falls in the same category
Alcohol and drugs are beckoning to our children
Sleazy women loose women the strange woman are beckoning and the mother needs to preach to her sons, right?
Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyed kings
It is not for kings, O Lemuel.
It is not for kings to drink wine,
nor for princes, strong drinks.
She's saying, look, Lemuel, you're too good for this, man.
Don't waste your potential.
You're a strong young man.
Don't give your strength to women,
like Samson gave it to Delilah.
Who is Lemuel?
We don't know.
Lemuel is probably just an anonymous king
that has been forgotten to history,
because what you have to understand
is that when the Bible used the word king,
he's often the king of a city.
obviously there's thousands of cities, thousands of kings.
It's probably just some random king of a city-state
somewhere in, you know, the region around Israel.
And of course, God spake through this man to give us this teaching.
He's obviously writing this as an adult.
These are the words of King Lemuel.
So he's an adult, he's a successful man, and he is the king,
what my mother said to me.
The first thing she said to me was, what?
And then, you know, he goes through and teaches
all the things that his mother taught him.
Hey, she warned me about women.
She warned me about alcohol.
It's not for kings, O Lemuel, to drink wine,
nor for princes strong drink.
Verse five, lest they drink and forget the law
and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
Look, mothers need to tell their children what not to do.
then they need to tell them why and teach the children why they shouldn't do it and give them the reasons and so she doesn't just say
Just do it, but she says look don't drink. Here's why because if you drink you're gonna forget the law
You're gonna pervert the judgment of the afflicted
Then it says in verse six, give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and whine
unto those that be of heavy hearts, let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember
his misery no more.
It's always hilarious to me when people grab ahold of verses six and seven and try to say
that this is the Bible teaching you to drink.
It's absurd, isn't it?
But that's so true.
They'll say, well, the Bible says, you know, give strong drink, you know, to those that
are of heavy hearts.
Is that what the Bible is teaching?
This is obviously sarcastic.
The idea is you're too good for this.
Here's another way of saying it.
Drinking's for losers.
That's another way of saying this,
which says, hey, it's not for kings to drink.
Give it to the guy who's ready to perish.
Let him drink and forget his poverty.
Remember his misery no more.
She's saying, hey, drinking's for losers
and you're not a loser.
That's another way of saying this.
Now you could make the case that this is a double meaning.
That on the one hand the primary meaning is what I just said sarcasm of hey give it to losers
You're a king you're too good for this you're too important to be wasting your brain on drugs and alcohol
But you know you could say that there's a double meaning that if people are literally dying
Right that let's say you know if I were on some ship
out at sea in the 1700s before narcotics had been invented or something and I had gangrene on my
leg and they have to saw off my leg, you better know I'm going to drink myself into oblivion
before biting down on a stick and getting my legs sought off because otherwise you could just die
from the shock. So I do think that alcohol historically did have some medicinal use.
Before narcotics are invented, then this is a medicinal use to drink yourself into oblivion.
It's probably still going to hurt and you just don't care as much because you're so out of it.
Drink yourself unconscious as a form of anesthesia.
I don't think that would be sinful.
And you say, well, why did God even make alcohol?
Why did God even make these drug substances on this earth?
You know, opium or whatever.
You know what? He made them for our benefit so we could use them medicinally.
For the right reasons you understand what I'm saying like like God has a good use for a lot of these things
But what it's not for is recreational just like would you condone of somebody getting prescription drugs and using them recreationally?
But it doesn't mean you're against prescription drugs, right?
If somebody had surgery, you'd say,
okay, yeah, give them painkillers, they had surgery.
But it wouldn't just be like, hey, I'm in a bad mood,
give me those painkillers.
That's stupid.
It's the same thing with alcohol.
You could make the case that a secondary application
of this passage, if you want to take it literally,
would be that if somebody's literally
getting their legs sawed off or something,
yeah, give them hard liquor and drink them drunk
and they can bite down on a stick
and get through it and survive.
And then she goes on to give her son more instructions.
She says, in verse eight,
open thy mouth for the dumb
in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously,
and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
So first of all, she says, look,
avoid the two major pitfalls of life for young men,
the two temptations that are out there,
fornication and drunkenness, right?
Women and alcohol can be your downfall.
And then she explains to him, why?
Here's the problem, because you'll forget the law.
You'll pervert judgment.
And then she's telling him, in essence, in verses 8 and 9,
not to be selfish and to live a life that is absorbed with self,
but rather to live a life caring about and serving other people.
Right?
And here's the thing, this is what mothers do.
mothers spend their whole lives doing what?
Caring about and serving others.
So they're actually modeling this every day
by cooking for other people,
cleaning for other people,
taking care of other people's needs.
That is their job, okay, of guiding the house.
She is, yes, ruling the house,
but she's doing it for the benefit
of the subjects of the house.
And it says,
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
That means don't just sit back and let bad things happen to other people and just not care
because you're just absorbed with yourself.
No, you should care about other people and think about other people and live for others.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy,
because you know what I would say is the third thing that is destroying young lives in 2025?
Besides drunkenness and drugs, besides fornication and loose women,
what's the third thing that is a major problem amongst young people?
Today, young men that are 18, 19, 20 years old,
and I'll tell you what it is, is depression. They're depressed.
They're miserable, and depressed, and sad, and they're, you know,
everybody's all suicidal, and upset, and sad, and down.
You want to know why?
Because that is a symptom of being selfish.
Because here's the thing, when you're just totally self-absorbed,
and focused on yourself, that's a depressing way to live your life.
Because once you get everything you want, you still have an empty feeling.
And when you're just so focused on yourself and just taking care of yourself,
doing things for yourself, even if you get what you want,
it's still a depressing way to live your life.
Which is why even these celebrities that have all the money and fame and power and riches and wealth,
even somebody like Lemuel, who's the king of a city,
I mean that's a pretty cool position to be in,
hey, he needs to understand, don't live for self, live for other people.
Take care of other people. Look out for others. Look out for the people who need your help.
Spend your life helping people. And I'll tell you why so many people are depressed today in
2025 is because they're obsessed with themselves. They're living for themselves. They only care about themselves.
We're living in the most selfish generation and that's why it's the most depressed generation.
And you know what? If you want to be happy young people, you ought to start thinking about other people.
Start, instead of just thinking, oh man, you know, my parents,
why don't you think about serving your parents?
Serving your siblings, serving the community.
How about winning lost souls to Jesus Christ?
How about getting people saved?
How about getting involved in the work of the Lord?
How about getting involved in the church
and being gung-ho for the church,
helping the church succeed,
helping your siblings succeed,
helping your parents succeed,
helping your friends live for God,
helping your friends succeed,
being a blessing to the people around you
instead of just, my name's Jimmy
and I'll take all you give me
and just everything's about you.
The Bible says, open your mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
He's saying, go to bat for other people.
Think about others.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
You know, it's pretty easy for the king to just say, hey, I got everything I need.
But no, no, no, she's saying, no, think about the poor people.
Think about the needy. Think about other people.
Think about what you can do to help others.
And then, of course, she rolls into the famous passage here that says, you know,
who can find a virtuous woman for a price as far above rubies.
So in the first nine verses, she's warning him about the pitfalls that he's going to run into in life,
which is fornication, drunkenness, and selfishness.
Those are the three things that are going to destroy his life.
And then, when she talks about the virtuous woman, she says in verse 11,
the heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil.
And again, this goes to the idea of the fact that she's in charge while he's gone.
She's ruling the home while he's gone.
And so here's the thing, when you put someone in a position of power, you're trusting them.
So if I'm gonna leave all day to go to work,
maybe even leave for a week on a business trip,
maybe even leave for a month on a business trip,
and throughout history,
men have had to do these kind of things.
They had to go off to war.
or they had to go out on a merchant ship or something.
They had to go to sea or go out and do business trips.
And you know what, I think if we ask for a raise of hands,
we're not going to, but I guarantee you a lot of men in here
have had to be away from their family
either for some kind of a training, military tours of duty,
business trips, you name it.
All the different reasons.
Why, man? And you know what?
They have to safely trust in their wife.
to keep it together while they're gone,
to guide the house, to keep the house.
And you know, I would hate to be on some kind of a business
trip or mission trip or whatever,
and just be constantly nervous and worried,
what is my wife doing to the house and to the household
and it's all falling apart.
I would hate to just have to be on the phone with her
like every day and I don't mean in a good way.
of like, hey, how's it going, you know, I'm not talking about that.
I'm saying like on the phone, like, did you remember to do this?
Did you do this?
What the heck?
I just looked at the banking.
Are you nuts?
You know, you know, I want to just be able to safely trust in her.
Right.
And by the way, this has nothing to do with the sermon,
but I want to say this, it's nice having staff at the church
that I can safely trust in as well.
so that I can go on a mission trip or I can go and do conferences and do different things and
travel and do things and I don't worry about anything you know it's funny and I've traveled with
other pastors they're just like on the phone with the staff the whole time and having to just
give all these instructions that they're just texting the whole time and just having to manage
things and just giving all these instructions and I'm just like not even caring not even thinking
And here's the thing, I remember I went to Palestine and Jordan for like a little less than two weeks or something, maybe about two weeks or however long that trip was.
And I had one phone call with Brother Segura that whole time and this is basically how the phone call went.
Hey man, everything cool, everything good, alright, everything's good, alright, yeah, anything happen, anything bad, no, everything's good.
Alright man, cool, bye. That was pretty much the phone call. That's the kind of phone call you want to have as a leader.
You know, I go, man, we got to deal with all these problems and stuff and look obviously problems are coming up
Are gonna come up and and you know, I need to hear about those things
But it's just it's cool to know that things are okay when you're gone
Right, it's good to be able to go to work as a husband and not have to like have your wife under surveillance or something and
Pulling up the ring camera like what are you doing? What are you up to you know? What's going on? Where are you going now?
You know, why do I keep getting all these notifications from the bank and stuff?
Right you want to be the kind of woman where the heart of your husband can just safely trust in you and this is this is how marriage should look
Right in a perfect world ideally men trusting their wives
wives trusting their husbands
Okay, now look obviously because of sin and because of people's failures as human beings sometimes
People can't be trusted and you do have to have checks about so I'm not I'm not mad at anybody who is checking up on their
Spouse or dealer if that's what has to happen if that's the way life is for you
I'm sorry, you know if your wife has to be micromanaged or whatever
But but the point is though that that's not ideal. Is it?
Ideally you should strive to be the kind of woman where your husband can just kind of trust you and just give you tons of freedom and
Just know that you're not gonna abuse your freedom
And here's the thing, if you abuse your freedom, you lose freedom.
It's just the way life works in the business world, in the family.
And you know, I always want to give my kids and teenagers a lot of freedom.
But here's the thing, when I give them a little bit of freedom and then they abuse it,
then they lose freedom.
And then we have to have new rules and we have to be strict and everything.
You know, we don't want to be strict, but sometimes you have to be strict
when people are abusing the freedom that they're given.
But in a perfect world, right, ideally, what we should be shooting for
is trustworthy wives and trusting husbands.
You know, we were talking about the other day reading the 1001 Arabian Knights.
Who's ever read that before?
Very few people but a few people have read it and here's the thing
You know this is Islamic literature from like a thousand years ago, and it's it's not really very Islamic
It's Arabic and you know every once in a while Allah pops up or Muhammad or something
But it's just it's just a fun book of fairy tales and fiction
But one thing I noticed reading the 2001 Arabian Nights is that there's this like hateful attitude toward women that just permeates this book
And one of the main themes of the 1001 Arabian Nights
is basically if you don't keep your wife under lock and key
she's just basically just going to commit adultery the first chance she gets.
100% of the time she's just ready to commit adultery
anytime and so you gotta keep her locked up and keep her
guarded and stuff which is obviously that's really sad. It's a really sad way to look at the world.
right? And then you got to dress your wife up in some weird ninja suit so that nobody can even
see what she looks like because you're just so freaked out all the time that your wife's going
to commit adultery. You know, that's sad. That's depressing, right? It shouldn't be that way.
It should be that the heart of her husband does safely trust in her. But why is that? It's because
So here's the moral of the story you need to marry a virtuous woman so that you because you're actually gonna have to end up
Trusting or whether you like it or not because you're going to work for eight hours a day
You're deploying in the military for eight months.
You're going to basic training for six weeks.
You know, there are going to be times when you're away
and you don't want to be thinking,
what's my wife up to?
Is she committing adultery?
Is she racking up the credit cards?
Is she just vegging out in front of the TV all day,
eating ice cream directly out of the box,
watching a bunch of smutty, filthy soap operas,
filling her mind with trash?
Or is she, you know,
taking care of things, feeding the kids nutritious meals,
keeping the house in good condition,
keeping things running, keeping all the paperwork going.
You know, when I first married my wife,
my wife asked me, she said,
what am I going to do all day?
Because before we have kids,
because I'm not working, if I'm a stay-at-home wife,
what am I going to do all day?
And I was telling her, you know,
you're going to cook, you're going to clean,
you're going to do these things.
And I said, you're going to make the phone calls.
And she said, what phone calls?
And I was like, you'll see, you'll see.
Because I just remember my mom always being on the phone,
dealing with problems.
And what I mean, like, you know, the bill is wrong.
You know, do I have to explain to you what the phone calls are?
Because I'm not talking about phone calls with your friends.
I'm talking about calling the bank, calling the power company,
calling this person, dealing with all this paperwork and whatever.
And I remember my mom having a little desk in our house
and she had to call and deal with mistakes on this bill.
And there's just a lot of administrative stuff
that goes into running the house, guiding the house.
And you know, it's nice when you can just kind of safely trust in your wife to run things while you're gone.
And I think that's what the Bible is getting at when it says that wives should marry bare children and guide the house.
You know, they're taking care of things. Sort of like what Joseph did for Potiphar.
And Potiphar didn't worry about anything.
All he worried about was the food that was on his plate. How's he going to get it down his throat?
That's the only thing, that's the only thing I have to worry about in my house.
You know, it's just, how am I going to eat all this food?
How am I going to get all this food into my stomach?
That's my biggest worry because I can safely trust in my wife that she's not going to waste
all the money.
And here's the thing, also it says, so that he will have no need of spoil.
The heart of her husband does safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil.
You know what spoil is?
It's extra income.
because the soldier is getting paid a wage to go fight,
but then the spoil is like the extra booty
from, you know, plundering the enemy and you, you know, get these little trinkets and
jewels and money, you know, you basically, after you kill the guy, you take his wallet.
And that's the spoil. But the Bible is saying he doesn't have any need of spoil
because his wife is so economical.
You know and she's getting all the free food and she's clipping the coupons
And she's getting the deals and she's like the merchant ships bringing her food from afar
Meaning that she drives, you know an extra mile to go get the better deal at that other grocery store or whatever
You know and this is the kind of woman that is virtuous
This is the job of a mother and so what we need to do is we need to go back to exalting womanhood and
Being a wife and being a mother
and realizing that this is a high calling.
In fact, it's the highest calling for a woman.
And I realize there are women that are in other life situations,
but realize wife, stay-at-home wife, stay-at-home mother
is the highest calling.
That's a great calling.
That's a beautiful calling.
And it's not a lack of power, it is power.
Run in your own life, run in your own house, is power.
And I don't even make my wife wear a name tag.
I don't make her dress up in that German outfit.
She does that on her own, you know?
I didn't dress her up.
I didn't make her wear the uniform.
She puts that on of her own accord, the dirndl.
You know, and the thing is,
I don't make her wear a hair net, you know?
I just pull the hair out and just keep going,
you know, if it happens.
I'm just kidding, that never has never happened.
No hairnet, no name tag, no CCTV, no time clock, right?
That's empowerment right there.
You go girl.
All right, let's go.
All right, let's have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord.
Thank you for these teachings on motherhood
and being a wife and Lord God.
I pray that we would just take these things to our heart,
let them sink down into ours.
Help us have a biblical worldview.
and apply the teachings of the Bible to our everyday lives
and not get sucked into this feminist weird garbage
that's even being taught
in Independent Fundamental Baptist Churches now, Lord.
Help us to stay with your plan
and your clear teachings from the Word.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen, all right, ladies and gentlemen,
take your hymns, please.
Go to hymn 397, hymn number 397.
Little as much when God is in it.
Begin on that first now in the harvest field now ripened 397 in the harvest field now
ripened there's a word for all to do part the voice of God is calling to the
harvest calling you will as much when God is in it later now
for wealth or fame. There's a crowd that you can win it. If you'll go with Jesus' name,
cause the place you're called to labor stinks so small and little dull. It is great if
God is in it and he'll not.
forget his own. Little is much when God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There's
a crown and you can win it. If you'll go with Jesus' name. Are you late? Aside from service,
body warm from toilet care, you can still.
We'll be in the battle in the sacred place of prayer
Little is much when God is in it
Labor not for wealth or fame
There's a crown that you can win in
If you'll go in Jesus' name
on earth is run to all the faithful welcome home my child well done little
as much when God is in it labor not for wealth or fame there's a crown and you
can win it if you'll go in Jesus name
Man good singing this morning. We are dismissed