- Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
Great to see everybody here this morning.
If we can go ahead and find our seats,
we'll get started with our first song,
song number 83 in your hymnals.
Number 83, everybody let's open up the service now
with a word of praise.
Lord, we love you.
Thank you so much for this awesome church.
Thank you for your word.
Thank you for the awesome hymnals you provided.
We love you and we just ask that you help us sing out
this morning unto you.
Fill this room with your spirit
and just ask all these things in Jesus' name, amen.
Our next song, go to handouts.
Should be a black binder near you inside.
Guess about halfway through,
you should be about be thou my vision, thou vision.
- Thank you so much for coming to Set Fast Baptist Church.
If you didn't already get a bulletin and you would like one,
just lift up your hand nice and high.
One of our ushers can come by and get you guys a bulletin.
And on the front we have a new Bible memory passage,
Psalm 53.
So anybody that can quote the entire passage
can receive a prize, as well as any child 18 and under
that can quote the verse of the week
can get an ice cream treat on Wednesday night.
On the inside we have our service and soul winning times.
Also down below is our church stats.
Keep up the great work on our soul winning
and everything that we're doing there.
Wright has a list of expecting ladies.
Several to be in prayer for, please do pray for them.
Upcoming events, so today is our fall swap.
We've had a lot of ladies helping set up here
just in our backyard area.
Honestly, it looks like there was a lot of donations,
just a lot of things.
Everything is completely free.
Even if you are just visiting with us today,
even if you're not a member,
you're more than welcome after the service.
You would like to just head out there.
There is just tons of different items
and they're all for free.
No questions asked.
You just take anything that you would like
'cause everything that is not taken
is gonna be donated anyways.
So it's just a free swap.
If you see something out there that you would like,
you can use, it's yours.
Just don't fight anybody for it, all right?
Texas Chili Cook-Off, October 31st.
So we have a special event that evening
where we're gonna have a Texas Chili Cook-Off.
So it's a competition.
That means there will be winners and losers.
So don't enter the chili competition
unless you can handle it.
The only real rules is it's a Texas-style.
So that means there's no fillers.
That would be no pasta, no beans, no rice,
no any of those things.
I love beans, rice, and pasta.
Okay, I just don't want it in the Texas-style
Chili Cook-Off, all right?
I also like chocolate.
I don't put it in the chili, all right?
I think my wife put in our group chat
some additional instructions
and I'm not going to necessarily remember all those,
but try to have it before 6 p.m.
so that way we can have them already.
We will have some judges do that.
Some women-less men can help us judge
the Chili Cook-Off, all right?
FWC, or FWBC's Missions Conference
is November 5th through the 9th,
and I was invited to go out there and preach.
It's just a great opportunity
to just hear about missions, trips,
and zeal that people have to go into foreign countries
and preach the gospel.
I get the opportunity to present
about our trip to the Bahamas,
and I'm really excited about it.
I've preached a sermon in the past about the Bahamas,
but I'm looking forward to revisiting that subject
and talking about some of the differences
and some of the unique things that happen.
And because we went on the radio show,
it could even get like a spicy little bit of a sermon.
So, you know, I never think that you would give
a spicy sermon at a missions conference,
but if you invite me,
you never know what you're gonna get, all right?
Choir practice, this is our kids' choir.
So we did this at the beginning of the year
for our Easter services.
We had a kids' choir special.
We're gonna do the same thing
with basically the same two groups,
kind of the younger group and the older group.
And we're gonna start choir practice November 9th.
Now, in times past, we did this in between services.
We've decided to adjust this
to where it's just gonna be practice
after the evening service.
So it's just gonna be immediately following
the evening service.
I think it's five practices until the actual performance.
There's like one week where we may skip,
but pretty much it's just pretty much every Sunday evening.
So if you'd like to have your kids participate in that,
we would love for you to have them.
And then the actual service,
I think is gonna be December 23rd, 21st.
It's the Sunday before Christmas.
So whatever that Sunday is,
December 21st I believe is what I was being told.
Also November 23rd.
So that's the one we're gonna skip.
I'll be in Oklahoma City for their one year anniversary,
Anchor Baptist Church.
I got the opportunity to go out there and preach for them.
Also we have a turkey bowl.
So if you'd like to play some flag football with us,
November 29th, burn off some of that turkey
or brisket really, if you have,
you can have brisket on Thanksgiving too.
Ladies Christmas party, December 5th.
All ladies are invited.
Everything's completely free.
It's just a free opportunity to have dinner with us.
It's usually a nice dinner, a nice catered dinner
and we just hang out, fellowship.
So all ladies are invited to attend that
and you can even bring friends if you'd like.
Christmas caroling is December 8th.
So we just go out and basically just sing a couple hymns
in the neighborhoods.
It's honestly a lot of fun.
Our children's choir, yeah, there it is.
I'm sorry, it's in the bulletin.
I just had to read it further ahead.
December 21st is gonna be when
those kids' choirs are gonna perform.
We have a cookie bake-off that same day, December 21st.
Christmas candlelight service, December 24th.
Men's preaching and pizza, December 31st.
So, lots of events there.
On the back is our prayer list.
And then down below is a baby shower announcement.
And the shower is gonna be for the Villarills
and the Kempisies.
They are both registered on Amazon.
If you'd like to get them a gift,
if you'd like to bring a dessert or a side dish, you can.
And it's nursing's only preferred.
It's gonna be on November 8th.
So, that's pretty much all I have
as far as announcements are concerned.
We'll go ahead and sing our Psalm of the week, Psalm 67.
So, if you keep out your black binders,
it's gonna be Psalm 67.
- Psalm 67?
67, let's all sing that out together this morning.
Offering plates are being passed around.
Open your Bibles to the book of 1 Timothy,
chapter number two.
That is 1 Timothy, chapter number two.
- 1 Timothy two, the Bible reads,
first of all, applications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks be made for all men,
for kings and for all that are in authority,
that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
For this is good and acceptable
in the sight of God our savior,
who will have to be saved
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
who gave himself a ransom for all
to be testified in due time.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle,
I speak the truth in Christ and lie not,
a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere,
lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting,
and like men are also that women adorn themselves
in modest apparel with shame-facedness and sobriety,
not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array,
but which becomeeth women professing godliness
with good works.
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection,
but I suffer not a woman to teach
nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence,
for Adam was first formed then Eve,
and Adam was not deceived,
but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved and childbearing
if they continue in faith and charity
and holiness with sobriety.
Let's pray.
Father God, I pray that you bless the sermon this morning
and fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit.
Help us to be edified by the preaching of your word
by minimizing distractions of the room
and giving us ears to hear Lord God and soften hearts
so we can apply this sermon to our lives.
We love you and in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
- Amen.
I wanna look at verse number nine again.
The Bible says in like manner also
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel.
Now, this particular passage is talking about men and women.
In the latter half of the chapter, it's bringing up women.
And I wanna talk about this morning
just what the Bible says for women to do,
how they're supposed to behave, how they're supposed to act.
The title of my sermon is Instructions for Women.
Instructions for Women.
And I'm gonna use the Bible as my basis
for every point that I'm gonna make this morning.
But women today are being told a lot of different messages
from a lot of different people.
And a lot of it's very satanic, it's very ungodly.
And you know, people have strong opinions about, you know, the instructions for women or what you should say about women in general, things that women should do.
You know, in this particular passage, did you notice what it said in verse number 14?
"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression."
That's pointing back to Genesis. That's pointing back to the Garden of Eden.
That's pointing back to the devil coming and basically tricking the woman,
deceiving the woman, lying to the woman, and causing the woman to eat of the tree
which she was not supposed to eat from.
So according to the Bible, the woman was deceived, the man was not deceived.
So there is a difference between men and women.
There is a difference between Adam and Eve.
And really what I would say is the devil didn't even attack Adam.
He attacked Eve and, you know, women are under attack.
Women are under satanic attack.
The devil knows that they're someone that can be targeted.
And of course, there's going to be more messaging, more things that are going against women in this world.
And they're going to be against men in many cases.
And so it's important to get a biblical perspective.
Now, again, I don't hate women.
I love women.
I like women.
Yeah, I married one.
All right.
And my wife is the greatest person on the planet.
She's my best friend.
I love her.
She's awesome.
You know, and so I'm not against women, but unfortunately, our society is just inundated
with so much feminism today and so many satanic agendas that when you just preach what the
Bible says, people get very offended.
People get very upset.
People have a lot of messages and a lot of ideas that they want to tell women.
But I think we should just emphasize whatever the Bible says.
Whatever the Bible says, we should be able to say and we should be able to thunder forth
from the pulpit what the Bible says on these issues.
And really, you know, if you're a woman today, I really want you to just think really hard.
What is the Bible saying?
Let the verses just ring into your mind, into your heart and allow God's word to tell you
what's right and wrong.
Just because I say it really loudly doesn't matter.
Just listen to what the verses are saying, okay?
Because I promise you that what I'm going to do this morning is I'm going to really
go through the Bible.
We're going to really just look, what does the Bible say?
What is the Bible emphasizing for women?
What is the message God has for women?
What are the instructions God wants women to do?
Well, here in verse number nine, he wants women to adorn themselves in modest apparel.
What does that mean?
It means that they're not dressing like harlots and hookers.
And today, culture has denigrated itself so much that just your common average girl today
is dressed more immodestly than prostitutes would have 50 years ago.
Prostitutes, hookers, harlots of 50 years ago would be embarrassed to wear the outfits
and to wear virtually very little clothing that women are wearing today in the mall,
in the public school, even at churches today.
I mean, just the clothing decisions of our culture are just so immodest and they're
not conservative.
They're revealing all kinds of parts of the woman's body.
They're causing so much attraction and it's causing major problems in society.
It noticed what it says, "With shame-facedness and sobriety."
Meaning what?
That you should be embarrassed to flaunt off your naked body in public.
I mean, it's just weird how women today, they wear clothing that will literally show off
not only their whole leg, even their buttocks, literally, in public.
Not only that, they're flaunting off all their body, they're flaunting off their belly,
wearing some kind of a midriff or halter top, just revealing every inch with spandex.
I mean, there's nothing left of the imagination anymore.
And you know, what is the Bible saying?
Women should adorn themselves in modest apparel.
Oh, you think women should dress a certain way.
No, God thinks you should dress a certain way.
God is the one saying that women should dress themselves in modest apparel, that they should
have some shame today.
And you know what?
Oh, how dare you call a woman a hooker or a prostitute?
So how dare they dress like it?
You know, there should be shame in our culture.
Public shame is not the problem.
Women dressing inappropriately is the problem.
You know, if someone ever looked down upon a woman for dressing like a hooker or a harlot
or wearing inappropriate clothing, they're not the problem.
If the woman dressing inappropriate, that's the problem.
You know, and of course today, you know, this is offensive, you know, to people.
But at the end of the day, this is what the Bible says, know that it says with not with
broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array, but which would come if women professing godliness
with good work.
So what is the Bible saying?
Women should not be obsessed with fashion.
Now look, everything I'm going to say this morning is pretty much the antithesis of what
the world is saying women should be like.
It's pretty much the antithesis of what the world puts out as the image of what women
should be like.
What do they want women to be like?
Dressed half naked and just obsessed, just obsessed with hair, obsessed with gold and
jewelry, obsessed with pearls, obsessed with costly array.
They're just obsessed with fashion, they're just obsessed with clothes, they're just obsessed
with all these things.
I mean you go to the mall today and it's mostly just stores for women.
Have you noticed that?
I've noticed it.
You go to the department store and it's 75% of the store is for women.
You walk in and it's all kinds of jewelry and gold and necklaces.
Now look, I get that there's some guys out there that wear lots of bling, you know the
rappers and whatever, but let's just be honest, in society men really don't care about wearing
very much jewelry.
Who cares about wearing jewelry?
It's women.
It's women that care to have all the different earrings and all the different necklaces
and all the different bracelets and all the different ornaments that they can decorate
themselves with.
And you know, let me tell you a little secret, they're just rocks.
Did you realize it's just a rock?
And look, I'm not against these things, the Bible's not against these things.
But what the Bible's against is women being obsessed with jewelry and obsessed with their
hair and just obsessed with clothing and just obsessed with all the manicures and pedicures
and the makeup and just all the outward adorning.
The Bible is saying don't worry about adorning yourself and all of these different items
and all these different things, you should care more about just working.
But you know what, when you're shopping, when you're putting on makeup, when you're doing
your hair, when you're putting on all these clothes, you know what you're not doing?
Working.
And let's just be honest, when you doll yourself up and you put all the makeup and you get
your nails done, you do all this stuff, you're going to want to work less than if you just
went and did some work.
And what is the Bible saying?
Which becometh women professing godliness with good works.
Women should be working, not just obsessed and consumed with the fashion of this world,
the culture of this world with just all the clothing and all the jewels and all
the hair and all the whatever and you know it's so funny to me how women just
obsess about things that are just kind of just stupid in my mind okay and what
I mean by stupid is like all the women that have straight hair want curly hair
and all the women that curly hair want straight hair you know it's not like
everybody wants curly hair it's not like everybody wants straight hair it's
whoever has curly hair wants straight hair and whoever has straight hair wants
curlier and it's just like I like my wife straight hair she doesn't have to
curl it and if she had curly hair I'd probably like curlier you know guys
really don't care you know in the locker room we were never like man you see the
curls on that girl I kind of like this girl but that hair is a little too
straight you know what I mean man like it's that's what I'm saying it's kind of
stupid to obsess with something that like God gave you either beautiful curly
hair or beautiful straight hair or whatever even the fro hey I don't really
care God gave that to you why are you spending so much time trying to not
look the way that God even made you I'm fearfully and wonderfully made is what
the Bible says isn't it and they just obsess about these things and you got to
think like who even cares but you know what the Bible is saying you should care
about having work doing some work you know if I come home it's not like I'm
thinking you know I don't want the the house to be clean and I don't want
there to be food I just want to make sure that my wife spent four hours on
her hair you think I care you think I give a rip you think any guy really
gives a rip whatsoever I mean we don't we can't even tell the difference half
of the time you get your hair done and they're getting mad because you didn't
notice they're like do you notice anything hmm and you're like yeah it's
kind of dirty over here you know yeah what's for dinner you know like and then
they just get mad at you you know and you're just sitting you're thinking like
I didn't care about the hair you know like I just want you to have it right
I mean at the end of the day we want you to still have the hair right it's this
this is what the Bible is saying now in verse 11 it says let the woman learn in
silence with all subjection this I would agree that this verse is primarily in
the context of church that's what the Bible is bringing up in this you know
particular idea it says in verse 12 but I suffer not a woman to teach nor you
serve authority over the man but to be in silence what is the silence referred
to keep your finger here go to 1st Corinthians chapter 14 go to 1st
Corinthians chapter 14 what is the Bible emphasizing it's emphasizing the fact
that when you come to church we should allow a man to get up and preach the
Bible you know men should be the ones leading men should be the one preaching
men should be the one teaching we shouldn't allow women to usurp the
authority over men and to be the teachers and be the leaders in church
1st Corinthians chapter 14 it says in verse 34 for God is not the author of
confusion I'm sorry I was reading verse 33 but a peace as in all churches of the
Saints verse 34 let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not
permitted under them to speak but their command to be under obedience as also
saith the law and if they will learn anything let them ask their husbands at
home for is this shame for women to speak in the church what is the Bible
saying it's saying in the congregation in God's people's gathering when is it
okay to gather God's people together and have a woman teach God's people the
Bible just says not now look I believe this is obviously church this is the
main emphasis but I also I just personally am not interested and women's
Bible studies women's cell groups women's online you know a little Bible
podcasts or whatever these things are exploding these things are popular you
have people like Ali Beth Stuckey with her relatable where she's going on
interviewing different Christian guests there's these two girls I don't know
anything about them but it's like girls with the Bible or something who knows
what I'm talking about someone can help me with the name of it what is it
called girls gone Bible Wow we all know we all know the emphasis on that one
right and again it's like these things are just not commonly they're not
suitable they're not appropriate it doesn't make sense to gather God's
people together it says hey if a woman really wants to learn the Bible who does
she go to what does the Bible say let them ask their husbands at home that is
that not what it says I mean the text is explicitly saying when they want to
learn the Bible they should learn it from their husband now again does this
mean that women can't learn anything from any other person no but I think
husbands should be the gatekeeper on the knowledge and the information going to
their spouse and that wives should respect their husband's opinion and say
hey I want to learn this I want to understand this and they can either give
them the instruction themselves or point them in the right direction but I
guarantee husbands are not gonna say go listen to girls gone Bible they're not
gonna say go listen to Joyce Meyer they're not gonna go say go get gently
led over here by this woman pastor I was like pastor's wife whatever it's the
same difference for some of them right you know they're not supposed to be the
teacher and you know in America today we have so many churches where there's a
woman pastor literally where she's literally preaching the Word of God I
looked up just online denominations that have this as a as being very prevalent
United Methodists Episcopal the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
the Presbyterians some people call them the Lesbiterians that's another way to
refer to them Assemblies of God United Church of Christ the Disciples of Christ
the Anglican Communion you know King James is rolling over in his grave with
women preachers under the name of Anglican Communion Church of the
Brethren isn't that a funny name it's Church of the Brethren with women
preachers right Mennonites and Quakers so now I'm not saying it's limited to
these groups I'm not saying there couldn't be an exception within those
groups where they don't have a woman preacher I'm just saying these are
prevalent in these groups in these denominations in these type of churches
a lot of women preachers hey there's Southern Baptist churches and non-denom
churches also that allow women to preach get up and speak do these kind of
things and you know this is what I have to ask this question like what has that
given us what has women preachers given America like what has been the benefit
you know if you look at these denominations they're the worst
denominations they're the ones that are the most LGBTQ affirming they're the
ones that have the most heresy they're teaching the most feminism there's no
art preaching they're not clear on salvation they don't have converts they
don't have miss I mean with the last time you knocked on a door and they're
like yeah salvation is by grace through faith Beth Moore taught me that Joyce
Meyer got told me that the Lesbiterian down at the United Methodist is the one
that explained to me how to get saved I've never met a single person in my
entire life that said they got saved from a woman preacher what's the fruit
what's the fruit of the women preaching I mean look if they're so great if God
wants to use them then why is it that they have no fruit they're preaching all
kinds of heresy bringing literally demons into their own church I mean we
can see the obvious fruit of women preachers is trash it's bringing in that
forbidden fruit bringing in that fruit off the tree that's not supposed to come
into church that's what it's doing you know who are some of the most famous
ones Joyce Meyer, Beth Moore, Paula White. Joyce Meyer is divorced and remarried
Paula White's on her third marriage and you wonder why the church is that these
people are going to you go to Paula White's church you go to Joyce Meyer's
church you go to one of these church where they're at and everybody's
divorced and remarried everybody's swapping husbands and swapping wives and
you go girl whatever it's because it's being modeled by these women and at the
end of the day what man wants to be married to a woman preacher what guy
wants to sit in the congregation and have his wife rip on him I mean talk
about just a limp wrist and wet noodle that has to sit there and allow his wife
to get up and rip face while he's sitting there doing what I mean look I'm
not thinking that women couldn't preach good I'm not saying women couldn't
preach right things because I'm sure that they could but at the end of the
day you know what it's embarrassing that the man can't get up and do it it's
embarrassing that we don't have the man leading and guiding and thundering his
voice out and preaching the Bible and saying what needs to be said but you
know what Adam was first form and then Eve that's what the Bible says we have
the creation order man was created first therefore we should let men be the
leaders men should be in this role men should be doing this work look and extend
this beyond the church house just women in government in general what does that
ever accomplished what great woman leader have we ever had in history like
what great woman governor woman president woman prime minister I mean and
you think about it like even the women that get in these really prominent
positions like Kamala Harris became the vice president of America what did she
accomplish like what were her accomplishments what did she do to get
in to the White House oh yeah be a whore that's what she did the one thing that
she can do that's that's successful is just being a literal whore and just
sleeping her way up to the top that's that's the type of women that we should
elevate in our society you know Kamala Harris what do women in government
advocate for abortion more taxes they're a bunch of fag hags they advocate for
women's rights fag marriage I mean everything that they're doing in
government is destroying our country destroying America destroying
Christianity look women and government is always bad I will not vote for a
woman Republican for a woman conservative there's no such thing as a
woman conservative in politics because a conservative woman is in the kitchen
serving her husband a woman conservative wouldn't run for office a
woman conservative like they mix these labels up so much because they've
everybody's gone so far left that now conservative is a joke it's not even
real anymore why cuz feminism has just driven us off of a cliff culturally
spiritually our policies you know women in government women on the Supreme Court
you know anytime we've had one of these controversial Supreme Court rulings have
you ever noticed how the women voted on them how do the women vote on Lawrence
versus Texas in the Supreme Court decision to outlaw you know or make it
where being a homosexual is not a crime anymore all the women seem to always go
in the pro-abortion pro-sodomite marriage pro-sodomite rights I mean look
what if we had no women judges no women governors what if women weren't even
allowed to vote would we even have abortion in our country would we even
have these type of things and look oh you hate women no I love women I want to
protect them from themselves you know I want to protect children from themselves
as well go if you would to go back to 1st timothy chapter number two go back
to 1st timothy chapter number two say oh you don't really like women look I love
women but at the end of the day we have to just identify what the Bible's saying
about them Eve was deceived should Adam have allowed his wife to just eat off of
the tree and just I mean the Bible says that she gave the fruit under husband
that was with her he was there just letting her talk to snakes you know
that's kind of weird should probably shut that down right listen to the snake
podcast or whatever and you know just taking the fruit off the tree he's not
deceived the Bible says he wasn't he realized they shouldn't do it and he's
allowing her to try it out allowing her to do it's wrong Bible says in verse
number 14 and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing if they
continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety so here in the
Bible it's saying that women are gonna be saved now what is the saved here the
saved is obviously not going to heaven okay it's not talking about you have to
get give a child you have to give birth or something to go to heaven what is it
saying it's saying they're saved from something though what they're saved from
the transgression they're saved from transgressing against God for going
against God's commandments but what do they need to do they need to continue in
faith charity holiness with sobriety what is faith it's trusting in God's
word look what I'm saying this morning is not politically correct it's not
culturally correct it's not socially correct nobody in our culture would like
the message that I'm saying right now so how would you decide that you want to do
this we have to believe God's word you have to say hey I like what the Bible
said on this you know women should be subservient to their husbands they
should not be consumed with all the fashion of this world they should have
good works and of course giving birth they're the only ones that can give
birth and notice this they say and charity what is charity loving other
people look dolling yourself up putting makeup on putting the hair on putting
the clothes on putting the jewelry on is not helping anybody else it's not
loving other people it's not doing anything for anybody else you know what
is the Bible emphasizing women should be what they should be bearing their
children guiding the house make meals teaching their children all the things
that they're doing is selfless it's for other people it's the blessed other
people the all the things that the modern woman is doing today is treating
herself blessing herself taking care of herself showing no charity no real
charity charity is loving others what are most women today they're selfish not
having kids because they're selfish not raising their kids because they're
selfish not making meals for their kids because they're selfish not serving
their husband because they're selfish that's what it is let's just call what
the modern woman is today she's selfish she is not showing charity charity would
be loving other people it says this in holiness of sobriety what does sobriety
mean serious many women today are just not serious they lack seriousness and of
course holiness is keeping God's commandments so they're serious about
keeping God's commandments but what is the opposite well again keep your finger
we're coming back but go to 2nd Timothy just flip a page 2nd Timothy chapter
3 look at verse 6 it's talking about false prophets it says we're of this
sort are they talking about false prophets which creep into houses and
notice this lead captive silly women laden with sins so on one side you have
holiness with sobriety on the other side you have silly women laden with sins so
one side the women are not keeping God's commandments because they're not serious
they're not having good judgment they don't have common sense the other side
is keeping God's commandments because they are serious they're taking their
life seriously and they're taking God's commandments seriously so what does the
godly woman do she takes the Bible seriously she takes God's commandments
seriously she cares about the decisions that she makes what is the silly women
do she's she doesn't care she's foolish she doesn't know anything and she just
commits whatever kind of sins she's laden with sins this is the contrast of
these two women and really if you think about it what is this woman that's
being described here it's a dumb bimbo what's a dumb bimbo well again the
bimbo is kind of like a woman that's appealing you know with through her body
and through her fashion or whatever and the dumb means that she's stupid okay
silly silly women laden with sins is a dumb bimbo now again what is the dumb
bimbo of society it's Barbie I mean Barbie is the dumb bimbo of society that
The Bible is warning against, and what is Barbie?
Oh, math is hard, let's go shopping.
What does Barbie assess with?
The hair accessories, right?
All the hair accessories and all the clothes.
And you know what you never notice
Barbie ever doing?
Working.
Barbie's not getting pregnant.
Barbie's not having children.
Barbie's not at home.
Barbie's not cooking her husband a meal.
Barbie's not following God's commandments.
Barbie is what?
She's a loudmouth, stubborn, stupid, dumb bimbo,
and that's what the world wants women to be.
Why?
Because dumb bimbos are easily deceived.
Easily led astray.
Just love to take the stupid fruit off of the tree
and eat it.
They're a bunch of fag hags.
They love listening to the serpent.
They're pro-abortion because they don't want anything
to get in the way of their selfishness.
I don't like this.
Well, I'm just telling you what the Bible says.
Society wants you to be a dumb bimbo.
God wants you to be a serious, smart, godly woman who works.
I mean, that's the contrast that the Bible is giving here.
This is what the Bible's emphasizing.
Barbie's obsessed with fashion, clothes, and shopping.
You say, well, I'm obsessed with fashion, clothes,
and shopping, change.
Take your life seriously.
Stop just wasting your life on vanity and nonsense
and things that nobody wants.
And look, men hate it.
Men are not like, oh, can we get some more fashion
and more clothes and more shopping
and more time at the mall.
I hate the mall.
It is just, it is just like so frustrating.
It's just weird.
It's gross.
I don't like the stores.
Everything's overpriced.
I mean, it's like, you just walk in,
you're like, I could buy this for, you know,
a third of the price on Amazon right now.
Yeah, but it's about the experience.
It's in the lights, you know.
You know, it's like, look, the mall is an illusion.
The mall is the forbidden tree that, of course,
the devil wants you to go and just waste all your time,
waste all of your life, waste all your money.
And like, I'm not saying you can never go to a mall.
Okay, someone's gonna be like Pastor Shelley
thinks all malls are bad.
Obviously, sometimes I sneak in there and sneak out.
You know, it's a covert operation.
I gotta buy a certain item.
You go to the mall and you just get in there,
you get out, right?
But I'm just saying, like, I just don't wanna
just walk around the mall and just hang out.
It's not that cool.
You know, well, it's owned by Silverstein.
Have you noticed?
It's like, it's all a bunch of diamond stores,
which again, you know who owns all the diamonds?
You know, Jews.
You know that diamonds have a 5,000% markup at minimum?
5,000% markup.
You know what other items have that kind of a markup?
Like nothing.
It is the most overpriced nonsense in the world, okay?
Now again, I'm not against diamonds.
Someone's gonna say that I'm against diamonds.
I'm just saying like people are chasing
the wrong things constantly.
And the Jews are laughing all the way to the bank on this.
What is the point?
Women should be sober.
And again, we're talking about serious.
Let's skip down, look at chapter three verse 11.
First Timothy chapter three verse 11.
Even so, Mr. Wise, be grave.
What is grave?
It's serious again.
What does the Bible want?
It wants women that are serious.
Notice this, not slanderers, not slanderers.
What's a slander?
It's to lie about someone.
According to the dictionary,
it's damaging someone's reputation through false statements.
And you know, something that's important to understand
about slander and libel is the only thing
that really matters is truth.
You know, Kyle Rittenhouse is a young man
that was at some kind of a BLM event
or something that was going on.
And he was like attacked by people
and he kind of defended himself.
He shot and killed a few different people,
but in self-defense.
Yet when it first came out,
the news media and CNN and all these people,
they like told this false narrative
about him committing murder
and doing all these crazy things.
Well, after he was exonerated,
you know what he's capable of doing?
Suing all of those companies for having slandered him
and saying all kinds of terrible things about him.
There's another guy named Nick Sandman.
He's like some young guy that was wearing
like a Trump hat or something at some rally.
And basically the news media just called this guy
like a white supremacist and all kinds of crazy things.
And just totally like ruined his life
and just caused him all kinds of problems.
So he ended up suing all these people.
I think he took a lawsuit against CNN for $275 million.
Now it was settled out of court.
I don't know what the number was.
But look, slander is a real thing
that happens in society that's really dangerous.
And what's dangerous is when you make
damaging false statements about people,
when they're proven wrong,
they can come after you legally.
And the Bible is saying, wives of a deacon,
wives of a pastor should never be a slanderer.
Meaning what?
You shouldn't just hear something from someone,
hear some hearsay, hear some gossip,
and then just repeat it to anyone and everyone
because you could just be repeating lies.
You could just be repeating things that are not even true
and just slandering people and lying about people.
Wives getting up and calling people,
child abusing lunatics.
Look, if that's not true, that's slander.
And if that's slander,
not only are you guilty here in the Bible,
you could face legal consequences from this.
And how dare we as a society hold media responsible
for making slanderous comments,
but we won't hold a pastor's wife accountable.
We won't hold deacons' wives accountable.
We won't hold women accountable.
Look, this church holds people accountable for slander,
for railing, for lying about people.
You can't just go around
and just damage everybody's reputation
and lie about people and make false statements
about people just with impunity.
That's not the way we should handle ourselves.
And the Bible is saying women should not be slanderous.
Why?
Because it's so easy for our culture
and for women to just blow their mouth off about people.
It's probably one of their biggest temptations
is women to slander people.
And again, I don't even know
that it's necessarily always on purpose.
I think it's just, they hear a lot of gossip.
They hear a lot of hearsay.
They hear a lot of things and they just, they exaggerate.
They take it over the top.
They just repeat things.
And they end up just slandering people all the time.
That's why it's so important to, you know what?
Just keep your mouth shut.
Don't say things that aren't true.
Don't say things that are speculation.
Don't just run your mouth out about people.
Don't be a slanderer.
And if you're a slanderer, you'll get kicked out of church.
You'll be thrown out of church for slandering people.
When in doubt, don't say it.
You should be, notice this, sober.
Same thing again.
You should take your life seriously.
Faithful in all things.
This is the instructions of the Bible for a wife.
Look at chapter five, verse 13.
We're only in one book of the Bible, folks.
This is, there's a lot of instructions here.
First Timothy chapter five, look at verse 13.
And with all they learned to be idle,
wandering about from house to house and not only idle.
Now this is an important point.
Notice the phrase and not only idle.
What is a problem for women?
What is something women are not supposed to do?
They're not supposed to be idle.
What is the Bible?
What is the painted picture?
What does idleness look like for a woman?
What does it say?
Wandering about from house to house.
So she's not home, she's somewhere else.
She's just going to other people's houses,
just always going out, always shopping
with Barbie, always shopping, and always going out,
always doing these things, and she's not home, she's idle.
Look, you're not accomplishing anything at the mall.
You're not accomplishing anything by just hanging out
with your friends.
And look, your husband is not going to work eight, nine,
10 hours a day so you can just go to some lady's house
and just have coffee time all day every day,
and just go and just have hearsay day every day,
and just to be idle.
What does the Bible say?
It says they're not supposed to be idle,
wandering about from house to house.
And what happens when you go from house to house?
You just hear all the gossip and all the busybody
and all the different things that are going on.
Well, cheer about this person to see what this person said,
see what this person wore, and see the blah, blah, blah.
And it's just, you know what?
It's not causing anything good.
It's bad, it's wrong.
Women should be working in their house.
Oh, I don't like this opinion.
This is the Bible's opinion.
Notice this, but tattlers also in busybodies.
So not only are they idle,
not only are they wandering about from house to house,
they're also tattlers and also busybodies.
What's a tattler?
Telling things that are true
that they just shouldn't tell.
Secrets that they shouldn't be revealing.
Busybodies, getting involved in other people's drama,
other people's households, other people's marriages,
other people's parenting, other people's workplace,
other people's intimacy.
Look, you should not be sharing your intimate details
with other people.
There's a reason why there's a lock on the bedroom door.
You know, they say, like, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
You know, what happens in the marriage bedroom
stays in the marriage bedroom.
You're not going to help anybody by going out and just blabbing
and telling all this stuff.
And you know what?
You don't dig for details.
You don't dig for what's going on.
I hear all the time people make these statements,
and it's just that little hook in the water.
It's like, well, if you knew what I knew, well, if-- you know,
I've heard these things.
Well, I've seen this.
Well, you know, if you knew what was going on,
I'm just like, why don't?
I don't want to know.
Well, I haven't seen it, and I don't want to see it.
Well, I haven't heard, and I don't want to hear it.
I'm just not interested.
But you know, lots of people are just like, oh, what details?
Oh, what information?
Oh, what are they saying?
You know, this is a bad attitude.
You're going to lead yourself down into being a busybody,
and being a tattler, and being a gossip,
and probably even a slanderer.
Just stay far away from it.
And look, without social media, without social media
and technology, how did women learn to gossip?
How did they learn the things that are going on?
They had to literally go to someone else's house.
I mean, they couldn't just look on the wall.
There wasn't anything going on, you know?
They didn't have tablets, they didn't have phones,
they didn't have whatever.
So they had to literally get out of the house,
and go to so-and-so's house, and talk, and hear,
and they had to do all these visits.
Today, it's never been easier to gossip,
and be a busybody, and a tattler.
You don't even have to leave your recliner.
You don't have to leave your bed.
You don't have to leave your sofa.
You can literally just lay back, and do nothing,
and just hear everybody's gossip,
and everybody's busybody, and everybody's, you know,
whatever, and all kinds of group chats, and what--
I mean, just spending your whole day wandering from house
to house without even moving.
Let's go to this household, and hear what's going on with them,
and we'll go to this household, and we'll go to this household,
and we'll go to this household, and we'll go to this household.
And it's like, honey, what'd you do in our house?
Oh, I just wandered from house to house to house to house to house,
just idle and a tattler and a busybody.
You know what house I want my wife to be concerned with?
The Shelley house.
What's going on in the Shelley house?
What's for dinner at the Shelley house?
That's what I want to know.
I want to know what's going on, you know, in the bedroom at the Shelley house.
Not anybody else's.
Everything should be within our house and be private,
and you shouldn't be going around wandering from house to house
and just so concerned with everybody else and everything else going on.
I don't like this. Well, you know, you don't like the Bible.
Speaking things that's the aught and aught.
You know that you shouldn't say everything.
If you say everything that you hear, you're violating the Bible for sure.
There should be a lot of things that people don't know.
Well, if you know all the things I knew, well, they shouldn't.
No one should know everything you know.
There's lots of things you shouldn't say.
Hey, if someone does something dumb, you don't have to be the tattler.
You don't have to be the busybody.
I will therefore the younger woman, Mary.
Notice this one again. Bear children.
It ties back to what we saw in chapter two. Childbearing.
So they bear children, guide the house, give none occasion
to adversary to speak reproachfully.
So what's the bad woman?
Wandering from house to house.
What's the godly woman?
Guiding her house.
So the Bible says, and when you don't do these things,
what are you doing?
You're turning aside after Satan.
Well, I think this is strong language
of what you're saying, Pastor Shelley,
that you call it satanic.
The Bible's calling it satanic.
The Bible's saying you being lazy is satanic.
The Bible says that you going out house to house,
not staying home is satanic.
The Bible saying you being a tattler and a busybody
is satanic.
That's what the Bible says.
That wasn't my opinion, that's God's opinion.
And he's giving this instruction to a pastor to do what?
To yell at the men and women
and to say these things to them.
It's my job to tell you these things
and to preach these things and to say these things.
So if you just don't like what the Bible has to say,
don't come to church.
But if you want to hear what the Bible has to say,
come to church.
You know, it says guide your house,
not to guide other houses.
Let me say that again.
To guide your house, not to guide other houses.
Some women just feel like it's their calling in life
to guide other houses.
Wrong, you guide your house.
You take care of your house.
That's what you should be so concerned with.
Go to Titus chapter two.
And let me tell you something.
I know the men in here are nervous to say amen,
but they're thinking it, all right?
I don't have Jacob here or something, I would hear it.
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
I'm just doing it for them, okay?
Yep, Titus chapter two, look at verse three.
The aged women likewise did they be in behavior
as becometh holiness.
What is the Bible saying?
Women should have good behavior
And that behavior should be holiness.
What is to be holy?
Set apart.
To make yourself holy is to set yourself apart.
How do you set yourself apart
by following God's commandments?
Look, it wouldn't be hard.
It's not hard to separate yourself from this world.
Look, if you do any of the things I'm saying,
you will separate yourself so fast and so quickly.
And other women will get so mad at you
for doing these things.
Why?
Because they feel guilty about the fact
that they don't do them themselves.
It's not that you're doing anything wrong.
There's nothing wrong with serving your husband.
There's nothing wrong with staying home.
There's nothing wrong with taking care of your house
and your kids and having kids and loving them.
I mean, think about this.
What have I said so far this morning that's bad?
I said, "Hey, dress modest.
"Don't be obsessed with money and fashion.
"Stay home, work, have kids, love them, trust the Bible."
Yet people are gonna lose their minds.
They're like, "Ahh!"
I didn't say that anything radical or anything extreme,
what's extreme?
What the world's doing.
That's extreme, being a dumb bimbo.
That's weird, no one can afford that.
Titus chapter two, look at verse three.
"The age of women likewise,
"that they be in behavior as they become a holiness."
Not false accusers.
Why is it always like the first thing
when it's saying something not to do?
Like if you notice the list for women,
always the first thing not to do
is like slandering, lying, falsely accusing.
Why?
'Cause it's just so common.
And then you point out a woman,
like this woman's been just like a major slanderer,
and they're like, "Nuh-uh."
Well, it's like, look,
if you're not a slanderer, then no one is.
And I'm just thinking like,
why would the Bible constantly warning against the sin
that no one's guilty of?
You know why it's constantly warning against the sin?
Because there's tons of people
that are constantly guilty of this.
Women are constantly falsely accusing.
Women are constantly slandering.
Women are constantly gossiping.
It's a major, major problem in society, in humanity.
It takes a lot, a lot of faith,
and it takes a lot of self-control for a woman
to not constantly be engaged in slandering,
and railing, and gossiping, and lying.
But you know what, the older women need to teach
the younger women this.
Now, you say, "What does that mean?"
We're not gonna have, after the service,
a little get-together with all the older women,
saying like, "Okay, this is how you don't lie."
Let me say this, this is how you don't slander people.
This is how you don't gossip.
No, no, it's saying, they're not gonna lie,
they're not gonna slander, and they're not gonna gossip,
and they're gonna show a good example,
good behavior to the younger women,
so they'll follow their example.
And you know, it's a shame when the eldest woman
at the church, the pastor's wife, is the biggest slanderer,
because then by her behavior, what is she gonna do?
She's gonna encourage all the younger women
to follow her example and be a big slanderer like her.
And in some cases, even worse than their master.
And you see this pattern, it's constantly happening.
Not given to much wine, teachers of good things,
that they may teach the young women, notice this,
to be sober, to love their husbands,
to love their children, to be discreet,
chase keepers at home, good, obedient to their husbands
that the word of God be not blasphemed.
That's a tall order of lists of things to teach.
How are they gonna have the time
to formulate all of these different opinions
and all the different instructions
and all the different lists?
Look, it's not about formal instruction.
It's about behavior.
You know how you teach women to love your husband?
You love your husband.
You know how you teach women to love their children?
You love your children.
You know how you teach women to be sober?
You're sober and you're serious and you're not a gossip
and you're not a realer and you're not a slander
and you're not wandering over to their house,
constantly idle, not doing anything,
constantly obsessed with fashion
and constantly obsessed with just all the shopping
and the wandering around and the whatever.
No, no, no.
You're busy at home taking care of your husband
and your family and doing your things
and that's how you're gonna teach them.
And did you notice that it said in verse three,
the aged women, did it say the pastor's wife?
It said the aged women.
So think about it.
Some people literally go to this pastor and say like,
oh, see, this justifies me as the pastor's wife
having a podcast or a show.
And I'm like, no, no, no, this would say,
if you're right on your interpretation,
it'd mean every single older lady in the church
has to have a podcast.
Would that make sense?
Just every, let's just have like 50 podcasts, right?
Every single older lady in the church
has always have a podcast,
always have formal instruction,
always be teaching.
Because it doesn't say pastor's wife,
it says the aged women.
Or do you think it makes more sense
that every older woman just obeying God's word
and having good behavior?
And that's what's actually the example
under the younger people.
Or do we need to have 50 podcasts?
All the older women, all the aged women have a podcast
and all of them have a show
and all of them have this formal.
Look, it's nonsense, folks.
The Bible's crystal clear on this.
The application is crystal clear.
It doesn't say pastors life, it says the aged women.
And look, without technology,
we have to understand that the Bible,
you know this was written like a long time ago.
There was no such thing as Facebook and podcasts
and YouTube and whatever.
How in the world could an older woman
teach a whole bunch of women 2,000 years ago?
She would have to wander over to their house,
which is totally impractical.
And again, if she did that,
how is she gonna be cleaning the house?
How is she gonna be doing laundry?
How is she gonna be cooking meals?
And look, with modern day technology,
you can literally just put clothes in the laundry machine,
in like the, you know, the washing machine.
You can put the dishes in the dishwasher and stuff
and walk away.
In times past, if you didn't wash the dishes by your hand,
you didn't wash the clothes by your hand and didn't get done.
So by when they were walking away,
they were really not taking care of the house,
not guiding the house, not doing whatever.
Today, it's a little bit easier to try and have it all.
But let me tell you something,
you're still gonna be compromising some way.
You're still gonna be shirking responsibility.
You're still gonna not be getting all the stuff done
that you should be getting done.
That's why you should just avoid this kind of stuff
and focus on your house, on your husband.
There's only so much time in the day.
And you know what?
I want my wife to put all the hours she can into me.
I mean, let's just be honest about a church like ours.
People are coming and going.
I mean, people are coming and going like this.
And most people are very ungrateful.
A lot of people are jerks.
Why would I want my wife to just invest 20, 30, 40 hours
into these women that are gonna just totally burn me,
secular record me, lie about me, and slander me?
I'd rather just spend 20, 30 hours a week on me.
You know what I mean?
I'm just trying to be honest here.
And why would you want your wife
to spend all this time and effort and energy
on all these other people that are just gonna burn you
and treat you like trash?
Why don't you just put all that effort and energy
into their husband and to their kids and whatever, you know?
And again, I'm not saying don't minister to other people.
I'm not saying don't love other people.
I'm not saying that me and my wife don't give tons
of people tons of time and hang out with them
and do whatever.
But let me tell you something.
I want me to be the priority, not just a bunch of randos,
not a bunch of online fans,
not a bunch of just likes on some Instagram
that was probably done by Muhammad and AI.
You don't think like a lot of these social media people,
it's all fake?
I mean, look, you can look at like huge podcasts.
You can go online right now, YouTube, huge podcasts.
They'll have 2 million subscribers
and they'll do a show and it gets like 1500 views.
Why?
Because it's fake.
It's fake.
It's not real.
But they're like, "Oh, look, I got 2 million subscribers."
Yeah, well, you got like 1.5 million bots
or something like that and other bimbos and whatever.
Who cares?
Like, oh, everybody's just chasing fame and fortune
and the easy life and, you know,
or they're just listening to some podcast by some woman
where basically they don't realize it,
but she's just, she's a multi-level marketing sales agent
or something.
Like she's, "Oh, I'm homesteading."
And everything's about some pod or pan
that you can buy on Amazon.
Everything's about some makeup that you can buy.
Everything's about just some product.
And look, Jewish companies are just feeding money
to these women to just go and advertise their products online
and to trick you into thinking everybody's getting it.
So you have to have it.
I have to get the latest clothes and the latest things.
And it's all just a bunch of junk.
Let me give you a tip on shopping.
Identify what you want to buy before you start shopping
and then buy it.
The worst purchases are things
that you didn't realize you needed.
You know why?
Because you didn't need them.
Just you know, when I go to the mall,
it's because I know there's something there
I have to get, right?
If I'm going to the store,
and look, I'm not saying when I go to the grocery store
I don't buy some extra stuff, okay?
I get it.
But I'm just saying sometimes
those aren't the best purchases either, right?
And look, sometimes you go and there's a deal.
Sometimes there's something you weren't expecting.
You're like, I actually did need this.
I didn't realize it was here.
I didn't realize it was on discount.
I didn't realize it and I'm gonna get it.
I'm gonna make wise purchasing decisions.
But let me tell you something.
You know, just avoid all the things you didn't really need.
All the TV infomercials
and all the different podcasting shows
and oh my life would be so much better
if I had a carrot slicer.
You don't even eat carrots.
Why do you need a carrot slicer?
I mean, how many things have women bought
that they've never used?
I'm not trying to shame anybody, but let's just be honest.
It's like they bought the treadmill.
That was real quiet, okay?
(audience laughing)
They bought the sewing machine.
They bought the pizza maker.
They bought the Belgian waffle iron.
You know, they bought whatever.
And it's like, they never even used it a single time.
And you're just thinking like, what's going on?
You know?
I mean, look, why just waste money
and waste effort and energy?
You know, do some work.
This is what the Bible's emphasizing.
Notice to be discreet.
What is discreet?
It's not revealing everything you know.
Keeping information confidential.
You should keep the information
about your spouse confidential.
Don't complain about your husband to anyone.
I don't know how many times I have to say that.
Please stop.
Don't complain about your family.
Don't complain about your kids.
Don't complain about other women.
Don't complain about other things.
Use some discretion.
Be discreet.
That's gonna make a better church.
Chaste.
What is chaste?
Self control.
Keepers at home.
What do you think that means?
All this time in seminary and talking to the professors,
we just couldn't figure out what it means.
You know what keepers at home means?
It means that you stay home.
Can't believe you'd say women should stay home.
That's what the Bible says.
It says to keep her at home.
And just good.
I like this one, just good.
Obedient to their own husbands.
That the word of God be not blaspheme.
What is blaspheme?
To talk badly about God.
When you aren't obedient to your husband,
you know what?
You're talking badly about the Bible.
When you think you don't need to submit,
you don't need to obey, you don't need to stay home,
you don't need to dress right, you don't need to act right,
you know what you're doing?
You're basically saying I don't care what the Bible says.
God's wrong, the Bible's wrong, Barbie's right.
Who wants to side with Barbie over the Bible?
Let's go to another book of the Bible,
go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11.
I could just finish on 1 Timothy, it's enough.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter number 11.
And look, I'm not even gonna go to every instruction
the Bible has for women.
What am I doing?
I'm emphasizing what the Bible's emphasizing
on this subject.
I'm emphasizing what the Bible is emphasizing
on this subject.
The world is gonna tell you the exact opposite
of everything I said.
If you feel like what I'm saying is crazy and weird,
it's because you just heard the world for a long time.
'Cause the world wants you to believe something
completely different than what I'm saying right now.
First Corinthians chapter 11, look at verse five.
"But every woman that prays or prophesies
with her head uncovered dishonor their head,
for that is even all one as if she were shaven."
The Bible says that women should have their heads covered
and specifically, if you look at verse 15,
it tells you what that covering is.
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her
for her hair is given her for a covering.
Now look, some cults and weird false religions,
they make women literally wear hats and bonnets
and a tent in some cases in Islam.
That is not what the Bible's saying.
It's saying women should just have longer hair.
And again, that's what separates men from women.
Men have short hair, women have long hair.
And that's what the Bible says.
That's what men want.
Look, I'm just telling you,
every man wants a woman to have long hair.
Go to Proverbs chapter seven.
And what have the short haired women accomplished
in this world?
What have the Hillary Clintons and all the dykes
and all the lesbians,
what have they accomplished in this world?
Proverbs chapter seven, look at verse 10.
And behold, there met him a woman
with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart.
Will you please just take out the children
either to the mother, baby room or somewhere else, please?
Just want to make sure people can pay attention.
Proverbs chapter seven, look at verse number 10.
And behold, there met him a woman
with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart.
Notice, it's talking about how she's dressed.
You have a positive mention in 1 Timothy chapter number two
that he should be in modest apparel.
Then you have the negative mention here
where a woman's in the attire of a harlot.
And look, some people think like,
how dare you criticize how women dress?
The Bible is saying that women should have standards
in how they dress.
And look, you could go all kinds of places
that are not a fundamental Baptist church
and they have standards how they dress.
When we were in the Bahamas, it was like off season.
It's a lot of the restaurants were closed
and stuff like that.
So I was trying to find a restaurant to go eat
and I went to this one restaurant and I walk in
and I'm like, hey, can we get a reservation
for a table or whatever?
And she just kind of like looking at me weird.
And I was just kind of like,
she's like, how many of you are there?
I was like eight.
And she's like, oh, are they all gonna need a coat?
'Cause I was wearing like a t-shirt and she's like,
we don't allow like t-shirts or whatever in our restaurant.
She's like, we're gonna have to get you like a jacket
or a coat or whatever, 'cause you have to look nicer.
But there's restaurants in this world today
that you can't just walk in dressed like a hillbilly.
I mean, half of the people in our church
wouldn't even be able to get in there to go eat dinner,
but they could just show up at church
dressed like a hillbilly or whatever.
And I'm just saying like, oh man,
how dare you talk about how people dress?
Should we just, we should just protest that restaurant.
You have standards for dress code here at this restaurant.
Look, you go to some golf courses,
you have to have a collar
or they won't let you get on the golf course to play.
Look, you go to most restaurants, most businesses,
even Walmart and you just don't have a shirt on,
they'll be like, hey, you have to at least put a shirt on.
Look, when Walmart has standards, you know it's bad.
And I'm just saying like,
how dare you criticize the Bible
for God having some standards, right?
Saying like women shouldn't be dressed
in the attire of a harlot.
You know, revealing parts of their body
that are off limits.
Showing off their thighs and their buttocks and whatever.
You know, the short mini skirt or the short shorts.
You know, that's inappropriate.
The Bible says it's not modest.
It's the attire of a harlot
and women should not dress like that.
But of course, many women are dressed like that.
Verse 11, she is loud and stubborn.
Her feet abide not in her house.
Oh wow, there's another mention of what?
The woman that's godly is keeping at home.
The woman that's not is not in her where?
Her house.
Look, the house is safe.
Not in the house is not good.
They wander from house to house.
They're not keepers at home.
They're going out.
They're idle.
This woman's loud.
She's stubborn.
And let me just tell you something.
You know what's ugly on a woman is being stubborn.
It's just so annoying to watch a woman be stubborn.
It's so annoying to watch a husband correct his wife
and her to be stubborn about it.
And to just kind of make a face and be icy
and not take it and not receive it, you know what?
That's the ungodly, horace woman.
That's the Barbie.
That's the dumb bimbo that's loud and stubborn.
You have to argue with her.
You have to argue with Hillary Clinton.
You have to argue with AOC.
You have to argue with Ellen Degenerate.
You have to argue with Joyce Meyer.
You have to argue with all of the women.
You know what?
The godly woman just takes the correction
and just takes whatever she's received from her husband
and she's not stubborn about it.
Man, being stubborn is just so annoying.
And you know what?
Every woman agrees with me when it's your children.
Man, you just, it's so funny how women are just like,
I can't stand these kids, they're so stubborn.
So you're just like, yeah, you know, okay.
Yeah, no one likes stubbornness.
You know, bosses hate stubbornness at work, guys.
Boy, it just rubs them the wrong way.
I've seen guys get fired on the job
same day for being stubborn,
for just getting corrected by the boss, being wrong,
and just mouthing off, saying crazy things to the boss.
And then he's just like, "Bye, see you later."
No one wants stubbornness.
God hates stubbornness, the boss hates stubbornness,
husbands hate stubbornness,
wives and mothers hate stubbornness.
But you know what?
The dumb bimbo is just so stubborn.
And look, you go to these feminist rallies,
you go where there's these women marches,
you go to Washington DC and you talk to these liberal women,
they're the most stubborn women
you'll ever meet in your life.
You could prove them wrong five times in a row
and they'll still believe they're right.
They'll still say they're right.
They'll still say, "I've never done anything wrong."
They'll still say, "Yeah, but my feelings matter."
No, they don't!
Don't be stubborn.
What does the Bible say in verse 12?
"Now is she without, now in the streets."
She's for the streets, right?
She's always in the street lying, waiting at every corner.
Notice she's not in the house.
She's in the streets.
She's everywhere.
Keep your finger, I'm gonna come right back.
Go to 1 Peter chapter number three,
go to 1 Peter chapter number three.
What are the instructions for the women
according to the Bible?
You know, not being loud.
Didn't we see that, that the ungodly woman is loud?
So what's the opposite of this?
What's the opposite of loud, folks?
Quiet, wow.
I know we're just doing really hard words today, right?
And look, you know, this kind of preaching,
you have to understand it's for carnal Christians.
Some people will be like, oh, how dare you preach this?
You know, won't carnal Christians be offended?
Yeah, but the non-carnal Christians don't even care.
They already agree.
They don't need this kind of preaching.
The godly woman's sitting there just agreeing.
She's like, yep, yep, yep, amen.
She's just Jacob in her mind.
Yep, yep.
You know, it's the carnal woman.
It's the backslidden woman.
It's the feminist woman that's super offended.
And you know who's usually more offended than that?
Her husband, you know, 'cause she's gonna tell him
that he needs to be very offended after the sermon, all right?
1 Peter chapter number three, look at verse one.
Likewise, ye wives.
You know what the word likewise means?
In the same way, in the same way.
So something that was just said
is supposed to be the exact same way
that wives are supposed to be.
What was just said?
Let's back up.
Verse 18, servants be subject to your masters
with all fear, not only to the good and gentle,
but also to the foward.
What does the Bible say?
Guys, obey your boss at work, even if he's a bad boss,
is a foward boss, is always against you,
is always contrary, is always negative.
What does the Bible say?
Men are supposed to be subject to them with fear
and not only the good and gentle, but also the foward.
So you're supposed to just respect all authority as a man,
period, it doesn't matter, just obey,
just say yes or just move on.
And then what does the Bible say?
Likewise, ye wives.
What does that mean?
Don't obey your husband only if he's good and gentle,
obey your husband even if he's foward.
That's what the Bible says.
And you know, so much preaching like,
we need to emphasize what the Bible's emphasizing.
It's emphasizing women obeying a disobedient husband.
That's what the Bible's emphasizing.
I didn't say that, the Bible said that.
Let's keep reading.
Likewise, you guys be in subjection to your own husbands
that if any obey not the word.
What's the context?
A bad husband, a disobedient husband, a froward husband.
What does the Bible say?
That they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of the wives
while they behold your chaste conversation couple of year.
And you know, this is what's sad to me.
I grew up in a non-denominational, very liberal church,
Trinity Fellowship Church.
It's basically what founded Gateway.
So if that gives you any idea of what it was like.
In the summer, we just watched Hollywood movies
for the service, okay?
I mean, it was bad, okay?
My pastor, Jimmy Evans, would constantly get up
and he would say, "Hey, if your husband commits adultery,
is abusive, is mean, is terrible,
you know what you wives need to do?
You need to just be kind and just make him his favorite meal
and just do whatever he says and whatever he wants."
That was in a liberal, non-denom church.
And then you have fundamental Baptist churches today
where they're like, "She can leave."
I'm like, "Bro, you're not even as strong-willed
as the non-denominational guy."
The non-King James, why?
And look, you know where he would go
when he would make that point?
First Peter, chapter number three.
It's sad when evangelicals believe they're ESV
more than fundamental Baptist, they're King James Bible.
And we need to emphasize what the Bible's emphasizing.
The Bible's emphasizing wives to win their husbands over
by being a godly wife.
That's what the Bible says.
Even when they're a bad husband.
And look, I'm not saying there isn't bad situations.
I'm not saying there couldn't be a rare, rare exception,
but by and large, I do not believe the men in this church
are these just wife abusing, selfish, just jerks,
cutting fentanyl, cutting fentanyl on the side
and involved in drugs and all kinds of side prostitution
and whatever that you're happy to submit to.
I don't even believe that's real, okay,
for any of the men in our church.
But look, if you were, just obey 'em, sorry.
I mean, look, if Hosea is told to stay with Gomer,
who is just having children out of wedlock, bastard kids,
how can I get up and not say wives
should just submit to their husbands, even if he's a jerk,
even if he's a loser, even if he's a drug dealer or whatever?
And look, do I think drug dealing is cool?
No.
Do I think prostitution's good?
No.
Should that guy be screamed at?
I mean, you'd think a guy coming to our church
involved in drugs and prostitution
isn't gonna feel uncomfortable in the preaching.
Like, come on.
Like, that's insane.
That's insane, these kind of strawman arguments
that people put out there.
But look, what is the Bible saying?
Wives should be chaste, self-control.
They should be coupled with fear.
They should just be good to their husbands, period.
Verse three, "Who's adorning,
"let it not be the outward adorning of the plating of hair
"and the wearing of gold or the putting on of apparel,
"but let it be the hidden man of the heart
"and that which is not corruptible,
"even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit
"which is in the sight of God a great price."
You know what God thinks?
God thinks that women who are quiet are beautiful.
And he thinks women that are loud are ugly.
He thinks women that are meek are beautiful.
And he thinks women that are stubborn are ugly.
That's what God thinks.
And he thinks they're of a great price when they do so.
What is meekness?
Being quiet, being gentle, easy to impose on.
Easy to impose on.
Does that describe you?
Submissive.
You know, if your husband offers a correction,
is it easy for him to do so?
Or is he afraid to do so?
You know, I want to have a culture at my workplace,
'cause I have lots of jobs.
I have lots of jobs.
I'm the double, triple, quadruple duper,
whatever you want to call me.
But here's the thing.
I make it clear to my bosses, and I've always done this,
that I want as much feedback and as much criticism
and as much correction as they can possibly give me.
I always want it.
I want the feedback.
And you know, if I acted all icy and cold
and didn't want to do the task
and having a bad attitude every time he corrected me,
you know what he would do?
He would withhold correction from me.
He'd be afraid to, or he'd just fire me.
Obviously, you know, it just kind of depends
on the situation, but you know what?
I want that correction.
I want that feedback.
And you know what, if you want to be a great wife,
you need to allow yourself to be easily imposed on,
easily improved, easily corrected.
You're always wanting that.
And look, I'm telling you, you know,
if you just take correction easily,
you probably will get less than if you don't.
It's weird to think about, but it is kind of how it is.
And a lot of times the corrections will come
with gentleness and kindness and goodness.
But boy, when you just, you just buckle and you just (growling)
you know, don't be like the cat, okay?
It's real.
What does it say in verse five?
"For after this manner in the old time,
the holy women also trusted in God,
adoring themselves,
being in subjection to their own husbands."
You know, it's funny, go back to Proverbs 9 if you would,
it's funny that somebody brought up this scenario
and said like, "Oh, you don't have to, you know,
submit to your husband or call him Lord
if he had like a side chick or something
or had another wife."
It's like Abraham literally had another wife
and Sarah called him Lord.
"Oh, Pastor Selly thinks she should have a second wife."
No, I'd never said that.
"Pastor Selly think it's cool to have another woman."
Wrong, that's wicked, that's evil.
I mean, the Bible is so clear on that particular issue.
Marriage is honorable and all and the bed undefiled,
but whoremongers and adulterers, God will judge.
So the Bible says, the Bible says a man
that's an adulterer, God's gonna judge,
God's gonna take the task.
And look, every guy that was involved
with multiple women in the Bible suffered
horrible consequences, all kinds of problems,
all kinds of issues.
Look, don't tell me that that's a good lifestyle,
it's a bad lifestyle.
And let's just be honest, most men never engage in this
because I'll tell you a little secret,
there's about 50% men and 50% women.
You can't have, every guy can't have a second woman.
It's mathematically impossible.
You know what kind of guys had other women?
The kings, the nobles, the rich guys, that's it, only them.
The poor beggar did not get multiple wives.
And you know, there's a good thing about being poor and ugly, you know that your wife actually
loves you.
Look, I'm being rich and good looking, you could have thousands of women in your life
and none of them ever love you.
Look at Solomon, how he felt.
Look how David felt with all his wives, he said he didn't have anybody as close to him
as his friend.
Look, you think that, oh, being super attractive and super athletic and rich is a blessing,
it could be, but you know what, you may never have the same kind of relationship as the
ugly guy.
Because I'm telling you, if you're ugly and poor and a woman marries you, she loves you,
man.
She must really love you.
You better treasure that wife.
Treasure that woman.
I'm just telling you how it is.
Look at Proverbs chapter 9, look at verse 1.
"Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars, she hath killed
her beasts, she hath mingled her wine, she hath furnished her table, she hath sent forth
her maidens, she cried upon the highest places of the city, 'Who's so simple?
Let him turn and hither.'
As for the one with understanding, she said to them, 'Come, eat of my bread, and drink
of the wine which I have mingled.'
Forsake the foolish."
Look, this woman's at home preparing a meal.
The godly woman that's personified here, she's personifying wisdom.
Wisdoms are personified as a woman here.
What does she look like?
She's at home making a meal.
Look at verse 13, "A foolish woman is clamorous."
What is that, loud?
Boy, I just keep seeing the same thing.
Bad women, loud, stubborn, out of their house.
But as the godly woman, meek, quiet, in her house.
I mean, this is what the Bible says.
"She is simple, meaning she's stupid, and knoweth nothing.
For she set it at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
to call passengers who go right on their ways.
'Who's so simple?
Let them turn it nether.'
And as for him that wanders the understanding, she sayeth to him, 'Stolen waters are sweet,
and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.'
She's too lazy to even make a meal, she has to steal meals.
She didn't even make the meal, she just went and robbed KFC or something, you know.
She just got biscuits that she stole or ripped off from somebody.
And yet she wants the whole world to come here and speak.
She has nothing to say, she's stupid, she's an idiot, but she just wants everyone to listen
to her.
And look, isn't that just TikTok culture, isn't that Instagram culture?
Just all these dumb women that have this huge platform and tons of people follow them and
they have literally nothing to say, they don't know anything, they're completely ignorant.
I mean there's all these other videos of guys exposing this, they'll like go up to women,
they'll ask them like simple questions, like name three states near Canada.
And they're like Zimbabwe, you know, Texas and America.
What?
They're asking them to do like simple math equations, they're asking them to just do
like little itty bitty things, they can't even do it, they don't know anything.
And it's like, this is the person that gets 10 million followers on Instagram or TikTok
or whatever.
And all of her food is just stuff she stole.
Go to Proverbs 31, we'll finish Proverbs 31.
What is the godly woman like again, verse 11, her heart, the heart of her husband to
safely trust in her so that he shall have no need to spoil.
You know what this means is that she doesn't look at her husband as an ATM.
Her husband doesn't, her husband knows this, I can be poor for the rest of my life and
my wife would never leave me.
I could struggle financially.
I could lose the house, I could lose the car, we could just have nothing.
I could go bankrupt, I could lose the business, I could lose, my truck could get repoed, I
could have to have a foreclosure and you know what, my wife will never leave me because
she's not looking at me as an ATM.
What an awesome woman.
What a ride or die wife, you know.
She's not, she's there for the low times, for richer or for poor, not just richer or
richer or richer.
She will do them good and not evil all the days of her life.
Every day she only does good to her husband, verse 13, worketh willingly with her hands.
She rises while it is yet night, verse 15, and giveth meat to her household.
She's always concerned with feeding everybody, you know.
I mean, I'm not going to read this whole passage, but verse 20, she stretches out her hand to
the poor.
You know, she's more concerned with helping poor people than getting her hair done.
That's quiet, man.
Her husband's known in the gates.
Strength and honor are her clothing.
It's not about clothing for her, it's about being a godly woman that works hard.
She opened up her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
When you talk to this woman, she's only ever kind.
Some women, they're only ever gossiping, slandering, evil.
Their mouth is like a sepulcher.
The power of life and death is in the tongue and there's just some women that only use
their mouth for evil and death and destruction and slander and lying and railing.
This woman only opens her mouth with kindness.
What a pleasant, I mean, who doesn't want to be around this woman?
She's always kind.
She has the law of kindness, meaning she has rules for herself where she won't speak with
rude, mean, condescending, constantly criticizing.
She has a law.
I'm only going to speak kindly.
She looks as well the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.
She doesn't eat the Wonder Bread.
She makes her own bread.
Look, the store-bought bread is the bread of idleness.
You have to eat, you have to eat the garbage fast food because she won't work.
You have to eat the garbage, just discount bread that nobody wants to eat because she's
not willing to make it, she's not willing to labor, she's not willing to do anything.
You just, hey, what's for dinner?
It's another Wonder Bread with just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
That's all you get, that's all you're going to ever have.
I'm never going to put any labor, I'm never going to put any effort, I'm not going to
make anything.
Why?
Because I spend all day wandering from house to house and I'm constantly shopping and
when I can't be shopping in person I'm shopping online and I'm shopping in my head and that's
all I do is I'm just concerned with fashion and nails and hair and shopping and houses
I don't have and cars I don't have and purses I don't have and this matching outfit and
that's all I think about is just clothes and money and jewels and fashion.
What is the godly wife thinking about?
I can't wait to make this awesome bread for my husband.
I can't wait to furnish the table for my guests.
I can't wait to open up my mouth with kindness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also, he prays with her.
Why?
Verse 30, "Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that fears the Lord she
should be praised."
Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Why is the husband coming home and praising the proverbial woman?
He's not coming home and saying she's beautiful.
I'm not saying he doesn't, but I'm saying that's not what's emphasized here.
You know what he's saying?
"Wow, look at all the work you did today.
Wow, look at the meal that you prepared.
Wow, look at the things that you've done.
I'm gonna praise your works."
And look, some women, they're just like,
"Oh, my husband never praises me.
My husband's not complimenting me."
Okay, just riddle me this.
Try this, okay, try this.
One week, every single time he comes home,
the house is perfectly clean,
you've made a home-cooked meal from scratch,
you never criticize him a single time,
you only say things that are kind.
Do that for a whole week and see if he never compliments you.
See if he never praises you.
Oh, I just want him to come home
and just say I'm pretty no matter what.
Okay, well, he probably will, but at the end of the day,
it's like if you just, you come home and it's a train wreck
and you're nagging him and screaming,
and like, go get me KFC, you know,
and let's get the Wonder Bread out or whatever,
and then he's not praising you.
Hey, I wanna buy more nails and more hair and more,
let's go to the mall.
It's like, ah.
What have we learned this morning?
I'm gonna recap.
What does the godly woman, she dresses modestly,
not in the attire of a harlot.
The godly woman's not into vanity and money,
she's into good works.
She's working and she's not idle.
She's childbearing, she's not on birth control.
She's silent and not a slanderer.
She's serious and not silly.
She's discreet and not a tattler.
She's wise and not simple.
She's submissive and not stubborn.
She's subject and not leading.
She's quiet and not loud.
She's meek and not mouthy.
She has charity, not cattiness.
She's in good behavior, not a busybody.
She's home, not going from house to house.
She has long hair, not short hair.
She's busy, not focused on beauty.
And boy, you think about this application.
What about the boober women of today?
And look, there's exceptions to this,
but if you look at the boomers as a whole,
they're dressed like a man in a short haircut.
They're lazy, on birth control.
They're a bunch of gossips that are stupid and stubborn,
loud, mouthy, catty, and busybodies.
And what has that done for society?
What has that done for America?
What has the Hillary Clintons done for America?
What has the Ellen DeGeneres done for America?
What has the Kamala Harris' done for America?
What have the women preachers done for America?
You know, I don't hate women.
I'm sure people will think that I do.
I love women.
God made them on purpose to be a help meat
suitable under their husband.
That's when they thrive.
They thrive in the home.
They thrive raising kids.
They thrive making meals.
They don't thrive in the boss suit.
They don't thrive in the workplace
telling everybody what to do.
They don't thrive wandering around gossiping
and railing and slandering.
They don't thrive in these environments.
They don't thrive being a whore.
You know, whores get used up and discarded
like a dirty, you know, minstrel cloth.
Whereas a chase virgin that's working hard in the home,
she's prized all the way to the bitter end.
And you know, you might be mad about what I'm saying.
You probably need to hear the sermon.
Just go back home and listen to the sermon again.
Listen to the sermon until you like it.
'Cause I'm just telling you,
I know I extrapolated a little bit,
but I'm just telling you what the Bible said over and over.
And I emphasize what the Bible said.
And whether your husband's gonna say amen or not,
let Jacob say amen for you.
'Cause every man wants a woman like this.
And every man does not want, what's the opposite?
A woman that's just a whore, that's only chasing money.
Her husband cannot safely trust his heart in her.
That's just stubborn and can always argue with him.
Nobody wants that woman.
And there's never a bad time to change.
But we need women to care what the Bible says
and trust in the Lord and say,
"Hey, that's the kind of woman I wanna be."
And let me tell you something,
if you do what God says, you will be praised for your work.
So let's go to some prayer.
Thank you, Father, so much for giving us these instructions,
for giving us just so many clear examples
and so many clear ideas.
I pray that women today would not be offended
by the word of God, but rather they would trust in it.
I pray that you would help women to not be deceived
by all the lies and the deception
and the fake trash that's out there.
Rather, they would realize that they are very important,
that they have a specific role in life.
They have a very important job.
Pray that you would help encourage women
to be submissive wives, to not argue,
and not be stubborn, not be rude,
but to be kind, to work hard,
to not be concerned with all the gossip,
not be concerned with outside their house,
but to start guiding the house,
to love their children, to love their husband.
I pray that you would help us, you know,
men to appreciate the wives that we have
and as they make good steps in the right direction,
that we praise them, that we love them,
that we cherish them.
And I pray that you'd help us to be an example
under this just crazy world that we live in.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
- All right, for our last song this morning,
let's go to song number 411.
Song number 411, fort.