Welcome to Steadfast Baptist Church.
We can go ahead and find our seats.
We will get started.
And for tonight's first song,
we will go to song number 180.
There will never be a sweeter story.
Song number 180.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Song number 180.
Just ask that you fill this room with your spirit and bless the service and it's in Jesus name. We pray. Amen
All right for our next song. Let's go song number 15
Song number 15
Lead me to Calvary song number 15
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Just one housekeeping thing I wanted to bring up as well.
We do allow our sanctuary to be open in between services on Sunday,
and we have no problem with that,
but we've noticed that, unfortunately, for several weeks now,
a lot of times kids or somebody come in here and they just make messes in between the services,
and it kind of causes an issue where people can't then, like, sit in parts of the sanctuary and stuff.
For some how, water got spilled over the entire back row over here,
and people are spilling water in cups and just doing all kinds of crazy stuff,
and it just...
It's not something our cleaning crew or anybody can really take care of in between services.
So if you can, if you are going to use our sanctuary, we please respect it to just not
let your kids run around or spill cups or please clean up after yourself.
It just really makes a big difference for us and we just don't want that to be an issue.
So please, please, if you do use it, make sure you're watching your kids or if you make
a mess, please make sure you're cleaning up as best you can.
even spilling water everywhere, we can't always just clean that up right away either, so
you might watch them limit their ability to do things like that. So if you please just help
us with that, that would be a big, big help. We're going to go ahead and sing our Psalm of the Week,
Psalm 146, Psalm 146.
Alright, that was Psalm 146, Psalm 146, let's all sing it out together.
passed around. Go ahead and open your Bibles to Genesis chapter 1. That's the book of Genesis chapter number 1.
Genesis chapter 1 the Bible says in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
and the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep
and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
and God said let there be light and there was light
and God saw the light that it was good.
And God divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness he called night and
The evening and the morning were the first day and God said let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and
Let it divide the waters from the waters and God made the firmament and divided the waters
Which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so
God called the firmament heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day and
God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together until one place and let the dry land appear and
It was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering together of the waters called
He sees and God saw that it was good and
God said let the earth bring forth grass the herb yielding seed and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind
Whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so and the earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed after his kind and
The tree yielding fruit whose seed was in itself after his kind and God saw that it was good and the evening and the morning were the third day
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 and the morning were the fourth day.
And God said,
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
God created great whales and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and
Every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good
And God blessed them saying be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas and let fowl
Multiply in the earth and the evening and the morning were the fifth day
And God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,
cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind.
And it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,
and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind.
And God saw that it was good.
God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the
cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he
and God blessed them and God said unto them,
be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth
and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea
and over the fowl of the air
and over every living thing that moveeth upon the earth.
And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed
which is upon the face of all the earth.
In every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for
meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth
upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat.
And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Let us pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day.
Thank you for the souls that were saved.
Thank you for the word of God.
And I ask you to bless Pastor Shelley.
Please give him wisdom to preach just now.
In Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
I want to look at verse number 14.
The Bible says in 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 heaven.
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.
So in the book of Genesis, we get a lot of great doctrine
and this morning I preached a sermon about
how men are the king of the castle.
Well, if men are the king of the castle,
that would make women the queen of the castle.
And the Bible uses this carnal picture of a sun and a moon to picture the husband-wife relationship.
Where the sun is likened to the husband, who shines real bright and he's the greater light,
and then the moon is a lesser light.
But we understand properties of the sun and moon are different.
The sun is an actual light source.
It emanates light from itself.
It's generating light.
The moon itself is not a light in the sense
that it generates its own light.
It simply only reflects the light of the sun.
Of course, this is evident from the fact
that we can actually see the moon cause eclipses
If the moon was actually a light source, then you could never have that.
You would never have the shadows on the moon.
You never see a shadow on the sun.
The sun can be blocked, but the sun itself doesn't have any shadow
or any casting on it because it's an actual light source, it's emanating light.
But the moon, it's a special material that is highly reflective.
The moon's surface and the dust of the moon is highly reflective so that it can shine very bright
to where it looks like a legitimate light source. It looks almost as if it was a flashlight in the
sky or something emanate great light, but it's only reflective.
Now we know that because we went to the moon folks. Okay. All right. Now. I know you don't like that, but that's that's what I believe
Here's the thing though that we can know for sure is that the moon
Obviously is a light source like a light it brings light, but it's not a light source. It's simply reflective and
I think in the same way we could learn truths from this about how a wife is to be
A wife is not to be a light source,
but they're simply there to simply reflect
the husband's light.
They're there to just reflect the husband's wishes,
reflect what the husband wants.
And so I have three simple points this evening is,
as the queen of the castle,
your primary job is simply to reflect
the light of your husband,
to reflect the glory of your husband.
The last point that I brought on my sermon,
the king of the castle,
The husband has got a program and the wife is supposed to get on his program.
So in a sense, that's the reflecting.
You're just simply getting on his program and you're reflecting his wishes and what
he wants to happen in the household.
And that's the only thing you reflect.
You're not reflecting your own light.
It's not about your wishes, your wants, what you desire.
Now, Jesus Christ is our example as Christians.
He's an example to men, he's an example to children,
he's also an example to women.
One of the greatest ways that Jesus Christ is an example for women
is that when he said to the Father,
not my will be done, but thine.
And in the same way, wives should say,
not my will be done, but my husbands.
And that's where they're reflecting the will of their husband.
Now, notice, though, what it said here in verse 16,
and God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night.
The lesser light is still a ruler.
And a wife is still a ruler, it's still a position of authority.
And we don't look at the wife as being like a slave girl or only a servant, she's a queen.
She's a second-place ruler in the household.
In the same way, you know, God has this type of top-down authority structure.
And we see this in all the different institutions he created.
That's what's successful. You don't want to have a committee deciding things.
In fact, successful companies are run by a CEO.
There's a guy in charge. We, as a country, are run by a president.
There's a guy in charge. And when you have successful things, you have a guy in charge.
Even in the home, though, you need a guy in charge.
But when he's not there, who's in charge?
The queen.
You have a queen that's in charge and is the ruler
and is to be respected as a ruler.
In the house of God, I as the pastor of this church,
I am the overseer of the church.
It's possible, maybe even God willing,
in the future if our church continues to grow
and we had more and more people,
I can end up having an assistant pastor.
But here's the thing, the assistant pastor
would not be the guy in charge.
He'd be the second guy in charge.
But in the same way wouldn't you show a lot of respect to the assistant pastor?
Even if he's not the main guy, even if he's not the senior pastor,
wouldn't you still look at him as having a lot of respect and authority
and treating him well and when the main guy's not there?
That guy's the top dog, he's in charge of your respect. In the same way
children need to respect their mother.
as if you would respect the assistant pastor in that context.
It's still the ruler, it's still the one in charge.
Children do not have any power over their mother.
Children are in complete subjection under the mother
and she is the queen of the castle
and she has been respected
and she is the ruler that demands authority for that position
and children need to give that to this woman.
I feel like there's this attitude that somehow women are beneath all men or something like
that or even young men might get this idea that they can talk down to their mothers,
but you're wrong.
Your mother is the authority over you and children are not in control in the household
and young men do not usurp the authority of their mother.
And they only rule, if you think about it,
the moon only rules when the sun is not out.
And it's kind of like 50-50.
You kind of have 50% of the time the sun's ruling,
50% of the time the moon's ruling.
and in a traditional, typical, ideal household,
the man goes off to work and then comes home,
and so the man's kind of like a half ruler,
and the wife's kind of like a half ruler.
Half the day, the wife's ruling,
half the day, the husband's ruling.
When the husband's there,
you can barely even see the sun,
or so you see the moon, I'm sorry.
If the sun's out, you can't even really see the moon hardly,
because that's what's really ruling,
that's what's dominating.
is the glory of the Son in a sense when the husband's there he's the one ruling and he's
the one taking care of everything. So as a wife it's important for you to reflect
your husband's program. Go to Esther chapter five, go to Esther chapter five and to an extreme.
Now as a queen that doesn't mean that you don't serve
As a king, it doesn't mean that we don't serve.
We still serve.
They're still serving.
We shouldn't get this high and lofty attitude of,
well, I'm a king or I'm a queen,
so therefore I don't have to do anything.
No, as kings and queens, we still serve.
But obviously, what should the queen do?
She should be serving her husband
and she should be serving him
and reflecting his wishes and his wants.
Look at Esther chapter five, verse one.
Now it came to pass on the third day that Esther put on a royal apparel and stood in the inner court of the king's house
over against the king's house and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house over against the gate of the house
And it was so when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court that she obtained favor in his sight
Now don't let this don't let this verse just pass you by
Queen Esther has said absolutely nothing
and yet the king already had some favor towards her.
Based on one thing, just looking at her.
Now again, she put on her royal apparel.
So she was looking good, you know what I mean?
She was looking good and that caused
The husband caused the king to give favor unto his wife.
You know, as a queen, you should dress to please the king.
And again, the moon emanates the light of the sun.
So in the same way, you know, whatever the king wants you to wear,
or the way the king wants you to present yourself, should be how you present yourself.
Notice it's the royal apparel who makes that decision, the king.
The king is like, I like the way, I like you to look a certain way.
And so you should then reflect that.
Whatever the husband wants, you do that.
Whatever hairstyle he likes, you have that hairstyle.
Whatever kind of makeup decisions he likes, no, yes, whatever, you do whatever he likes.
Whatever kind of outfits and whatever kind of things, like, you just, you should just emanate
whatever your husband wishes are, and look, you're going to obtain favor in his sight.
So you're just reflecting what the husband wishes and you're going to obtain favor in his sight.
It says, the king held out to Esther, the golden scepter that was in his hand.
So Esther drew near and touched the top of the scepter.
Maybe I didn't get a scepter in my house. That's that's been my problem
right
Says then said the said the king under her what will thou Queen Esther and what is thy request?
It shall be given thee to the half of the kingdom now
I think this is an interesting verse. There's other verses like it. Herod kind of says something similar
It's almost like the king
Can't give all of the kingdom because he all he still has to have at least 50% or more
To show that he's the ruler, but he can give up to half
So like the wife is still gonna rule stuff, but you know what you as the king you still have to make sure there's still things that you
Have that you're in control of that you're ruling over but hey
He's willing to still give her think about this half of an entire kingdom that she could rule
That would be under her direct authority as the queen
And, you know, as a king, we often will give or outsource authority, outsource activities, outsource things unto our wives and say,
hey, this is your domain, this is what you get.
You get this stuff.
And he's saying, hey, what do you want?
You can have up to the half of the kingdom.
You can even pick here.
Like, what do you like?
And Esther answered it,
if it seemed good unto the king,
let the king and Haman come this day
unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
This is crazy.
It's like, what do you want?
Anything you want up to half the kingdom?
She's like, I just want to make you a meal.
I show you this story,
and we know this story, we've read it a lot.
I just show you to make the one point.
As a queen, you can still make meals.
Right?
I mean, it's not like even the queen is exempt.
preparing food just like the most basic rudimentary wife duty just making a
meal but you know what even the Queen prepares banquets even the Queen prepares
meals and serves meals so you know don't don't allow medial tasks to to feel
like you're downgraded in position like oh I only make meals well the Queen
And the queen was given and offered the position to rule over literally half a kingdom.
It's like 127 provinces of the entire earth.
Basically, she can rule over half of the earth and she's still making sandwiches.
You know what I mean?
She's still just serving in the house, so don't don't think like oh, I just make meals
You know there's any people that put down home making they act like home making is somehow a
demeaning job title or it's not worthy of being brought up or mentioned. No, no, it's a super important job
She's asking if she can prepare this meal and of course they come into the banquet if you skip the chapter 7 brings up again
So the King at Haman came to banquet with Queen Esther with Esther the Queen and the King said again and Esther on the second day
At the banquet of wine. What is thy petition Queen Esther and it shall be granted Dean?
What is thy request it shall be reformed even to the half of the kingdom?
Then Esther the queen answered and said if I found favor in Icyto king and if it pleased the king
Let my life be given me at my petition and my people my request for we are sold
I and my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish
But if we had been sold for bond men and bond women, I had held my tongue
That's crazy
But it's biblical. She's saying look even if I was gonna be a literal slave
would have not said anything. I would have just done it. Oh, why didn't she just
leave? Right? I mean, if you were being asked, as you ladies in here think your
life's so bad, if you're being asked to be a literal slave, would you be like,
no problem? Because Esther's saying, if I and my entire group of people were gonna
be slaves, I would have done nothing about it. I would have just done it.
My limit was physical death. I just didn't want to be killed.
So again, is there limits? Yeah.
Obviously, if your husband is trying to literally murder you when he's drunk,
you can like, you know, evade the attack, right?
The Bible's not saying don't evade the attack,
but it's like how many women are even being enforced to be a slave literally?
But what is the Bible's answer? She would have done it anyways.
Esther would have still done it anyways.
But notice it says,
although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
Don't miss this verse.
If they had been made slaves,
it would have really hurt the king.
Counter veil means to essentially make up for
or counteract in a sense.
So by saying the enemy could not counter veil in the sense of what if you took away all the Jews and you
Cause them and I'll be slaves. There's gonna be damage to the empire of the kingdom
You're gonna basically hurt the kingdom. You're gonna hurt the the society you're gonna hurt the economy
You're gonna cause all these problems and this enemy is not capable of countervailing that making up for it
It's like hey, why don't we just fire half the company and it's like okay, but who's gonna didn't do their job
Who's gonna make all the parts who's gonna do all this stuff and it's like
The enemy wasn't able to actually make up that payment because if you understand the story of Esther Haman had actually offered to pay money
To kill the Jews, but the amount of money that he would have paid would have not actually counteracted the damage
economically
Financially and everything what happened from enslaving these people. Why is that an important point?
She's saying, even though this is a stupid idea,
even though this is a dumb idea,
even though you would have hurt yourself financially,
even though it devastated the country,
even though it devastated your kingdom,
even though you would have damaged yourself,
I was still going to be on board.
Telling me what, sometimes wives say,
hey, I'm going to submit to you even if it's a stupid idea.
But just not to death.
Why? Because she's just simply wanting to reflect her husband.
She's just the queen.
She's going to do what the king wants.
She's on the king's program.
It's just it crossed a huge threshold,
physical death for her and her entire group of people.
And yeah, that's a big deal.
Usually people aren't coming to me with these issues.
People aren't saying like,
hey, Pastor Shelley, what should I do
if my husband wants to kill me and my entire family?
It's usually never come to that.
You know what I mean?
So, you know what you should do?
Just submit.
Just reflect and get on his program and then reflect and be as bright a moon as you can
possibly be.
Just be the brightest moon.
Just reflect his program and his plan as brightly as you can and just show everybody how awesome
your husband is.
Go to 1st Timothy chapter 5.
You know, really all the moon is doing is just showing us how awesome the sun is.
You know, the best thing you can do as a wife is just constantly praise your husband.
The worst thing you can do as a wife is go around and just talk negatively about your husband,
trash him, make fun of him, put him down.
Or, you know, some women will do that with their mouth.
They do that with their body language.
They're just constantly rolling their eyes in public.
Their husband will say like, hey, will you take the baby?
Hey, do you want to go get this sir me?
They just sit there. It's like
Yeah, we all see you hun
That's not reflecting the Sun very great is it won't you just put a smile on your face?
Okay, you know you if you worked at Wells Fargo you'd have to put a smile on your face
They just fire you and you would
Girls can be fake I know
Why don't you fake it until you make it with your husband, right? Just smile and act like you like him until you like him
and
At the end of the day, you know
Be the best moon that you can possibly be don't just sit here and have just a sour puss attitude
just constantly have a droopy face, you know, get happy about something and be
the best moon that you can be and just reflect his life. Now here's the second
thing you need to do it. Not only you need to reflect, you need to rule because
we saw that that light rules. As a queen, you need to be a queen. You need to
actually rule. You're not, you don't have an unimportant job. You have a super
You can't see, you can't accomplish things, it's damaging.
And in the same way, if the household doesn't have the wife ruling,
well then there's going to be all kinds of problems.
As a wife, you need to get to work and start ruling.
What does it say in 1 Timothy 5 verse 14?
I will therefore that the young woman, Mary, bare children, notice this.
Guide the house.
Women, guide the house.
They're the ruler.
You know, it's not like it's not like being a a wife is somehow a
Responsilist job. No, you have great responsibilities
You have all kinds of things that you need to be doing taking care of stuff
Overseeing all kinds of different things you're gonna be in charge of a lot
there's a lot to do and someone needs to do it and the husband can't do it all.
The wife needs to do it. The wife needs to rule, especially when he's gone. When
he's gone, she needs to get in there and rule that house with authority because
she's in charge. Go to Proverbs 9. Let's look at some examples of this.
Proverbs chapter number 9. And I don't know jumping around a little bit here but
I just want to kind of establish these points and then show you some clear
Now, we have some great examples of women in the Bible.
We also have some proverbs that kind of give us a picture of what a woman would look like
in her role, ideally.
Proverbs 9 brings up the idea of wisdom, but it personifies wisdom as a female, and you
kind of get the picture of this being a woman in the home.
She huned out her seven pillars.
Now, this is metaphoric language,
but I believe it's really referring to,
if you think about it, bearing children.
I will therefore that the younger women bear children.
Think about it, building her house.
In many ways, when we talk about Acts chapter 16, chapter 30 and 31, you know,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house, right?
Who's the house there? The house is the family and she's building them out.
Think about hewing a pillar. That's a lot of work. That's a lot of effort.
That's a lot of back and, you know, next sweat equity.
And think about literally giving birth, I mean, getting pregnant and giving birth to a child
feeding it. That is some serious labor. And it's almost like giving this idea, this woman
that's hewing out seven pillars, it's like she's hewing out seven children. They're
going to be pillars of the faith. They're going to be pillars in the Christian community,
right? It says in verse two, she had killed her beasts. Yeah, women can kill animals.
You know, you should like a woman that's going to ring the neck of that chicken so you can
She have mingled their wine. She had also furnished her table. You know mingling the wine
this is the idea of
making a fruit beverage now again people just are ignorant of history. They think that
great juice or fruit juice didn't exist in the
past or something. It's false. Of course it did. It just took a lot of effort. It
took a lot of energy because you had to store fruits throughout the year. You
either had to boil them and and you could create like kind of like a sap or
something that could then be used later or you could store it in a cooler or
some kind of a cool area. Often you know people don't realize this. They even had
a form of refrigeration.
Because you have springs, you have cool springs that are underneath the earth and what sometimes
people would do is they'd have like this ice house or they'd have this place that's
like underwater or underground a little bit that's near a spring and they could package
items and put them in cool spring water and it would act like refrigeration where it would
keep it at 30 degrees or 40 degrees or whatever.
I've been, who's been camping where they store stuff in the river to keep it cool?
Yeah, I went I remember going camping and I was a kid
So I'm not doing anything and someone's like do you want a soda?
And I was like sure and they just hand me this like ice-cold coke and I'm thinking like where the heck did you get this in the
middle of the woods
And then they showed me there was this part of the spring that was super cold
And they just tied everything up and just dropped it down in this cool spring and so we kept everything refrigerated
For breakfast, we had bacon and eggs, we're having cokes, we're having sodas,
and I'm just thinking like, man, this is kind of cool,
because I'm more of a glamper anyways, you know what I mean?
Sorry if you don't like that.
I'm not gonna get on a raft and just see if I can catch a squirrel to survive or something, you know?
If you can hand me a soda when I'm out there, I'm willing to do that, okay?
But at the end of the day, like, when it talks about mingling her wine,
This is not something that just the normal lazy chick is going to be able to serve to her family
This is the one that's taken the diligence the time and the effort to store this this
Wine making process to then mix it with water
So then you can have fruit juice because if you realize like almost all fruit juice is like 90 something percent water
It's just a little bit of juice that's end up mixing in there. So they store that
Whatever, however, they want to do it. There's multiple ways to do it. They store their fruit and then they mix it a little bit
So they've mingled their wine. That's what it's talking about. They're mixing in a little bit
So instead of just getting water
You get a fruit beverage. So it's saying she's going above and beyond and she's giving this for beverage
Not only that
It says she's furnished her table. She has sent forth her maidens
Now that's what I really wanted to emphasize was not only she's serving. She's ruling
She's ruling. She's overseeing other people. She's taking care of all kinds of different things
And she's got servants of her own not just children
She's got maidens, and she's got other servants
And you know what a lot of ladies in here have to manage all kinds of different things manage different people
Manage different services. Hey, they're managing dry cleaning people or they're managing food people or they're managing
laundry services or
cleaning services or all kinds of different stuff.
I guarantee most of the women in this room
probably have to manage other people or services
or acquire things and they're taking care
of their maidens as well.
They're taking care of their underlings,
not just their children.
And then sometimes the children become the maidens too, right?
Obviously the children can get in there
and they have to manage them, oversee them,
make sure that they're doing things properly.
It says, she cried under the highest places of the city, who so is simple, let him turn
and hither, as for him that wandeth understanding, she sayeth him, come, eat of my bread and
drink of the wine which I have mingled."
She's not only just preparing food for her family, she's preparing food for other people,
for people that are stupid, people that are not smart, people that are uneducated, and
she's providing food and meals for them, taking care of them.
You know, praise God, we have so many women in this church that are willing to make meals
for other ladies sometimes, you know, whether they get pregnant or they're sickness or
there's whatever, there's meal trains and people are not only willing to just take care
of themselves, they take care of other people, other families, other things.
You know, without someone ruling and taking charge, the job doesn't get done.
Without someone taking charge, the homemade bread doesn't make itself.
The homemade cooked meals. And this stuff is super important.
Food is very important.
The house is very important.
Guiding the children is very important.
Guiding the maidens, all this stuff.
I mean, our house to us is so much more important than our job.
And you're guarding our children, you're guarding our home,
you're guarding our food.
This stuff is so important to us as men,
and we're entrusting that unto these queens,
and these queens need to rule.
Go to Proverbs 31, go to Proverbs 31.
And the more you make your husband a king, the more he'll make you a queen, I guarantee it.
Proverbs 31, look at verse 15.
She rises also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens
So she's not only considering her family directly. She's taking care of the maidens. She's ruling over
You know the Bible talks about her verse 16
She considered the field and by it that with the fruit of her hand she planted the vineyard
This is someone that's ruling a lot of stuff
Managing a lot of stuff and you know what there's nothing wrong with women
ruling and managing and having servants and having children and running all kinds of different stuff.
In fact, if it was wrong, why would the king offer her to rule literally half of his kingdom?
You know, she's the queen, she's put in charge, and she's given authority,
but it's not authority that she wields on her own, she's granted that authority.
Just like the moon without the sun is nothing, the queen is nothing without the king.
And so we get on the husband's program, and we reflect his program, and she rules according to his program.
Go away to Genesis chapter 16, go to Genesis chapter number 16.
Everything I'm saying is counterintuitive to what the world will tell you.
What the world tells you is, you know, you go girl, you follow your dreams, you be a
career woman, you don't limit yourself to some man, you don't go serve some man.
You know, what if we told that to the moon?
Hey, you moon, you go moon, you go do your moon stuff.
You don't need no sun.
What's that sun?
Why don't you go some other solar system, some other galaxy and do your own thing?
But you know what? The moon would be nothing without the sun
It's great at reflecting. It's terrible at admitting
It does not admit its own light and let me tell you something women are great at reflecting and they're terrible at admitting
You know these boss babes these women gurus these women pastors they suck
They're terrible
They don't they're not good at admitting light. They're good at reflecting light
And, you know, no matter what position you find yourself in, you need to just submit
under the authorities that God's put in your life.
And some people think like, how, how would God want me to be in a difficult situation?
But let's just not ask that question.
Let's just ask if the by whatever have us do that, if God would ever have us do it.
The old thy maid is in thy hand, do to her as it pleaseth thee.
And when Sarah dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.
Abram says, hey, you can do whatever you want.
Honestly, I feel like most men do this.
They tell their wives to do whatever they want in lots
of categories.
It's like, hey, you got the house?
You go, girl.
We give them that you go, girl, but it's in a context,
isn't it?
You know what color do you want the drapes you go girl, you know, it's like I don't care
Right, it's like hey. What are you gonna make for dinner? It's like I don't know make whatever make tacos as long as it's beef
Right, it's what's for dinner. Okay beef. It's was it's like hey within the parameters of killing the beast
You're good. You know whether it's tacos or steak or burgers or whatever
You know hey go
If I come home and it's only pancakes, it's like no make me a burger
Some people say give me the pancakes or the burger. I say give me the burger or the pancakes. You know what I mean?
Actually this stuff both. Okay, that's what I would say
but
this woman
Hagar is their servant in a sense even though she's also kind of Abraham's wife and
She's treating her hardly what the Bible says she dealt hardly with her
Says in verse 7 an angel the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness
By the fountain in the way to sure and he said hey gar Sarah's maid
Wins came us now and with her willed I'll go
And she said I flee from the face of my mistress Sarah and the angel the Lord said under her
Yeah, do whatever you want
You're a volunteer
Nope, what is a return to thy mistress and submit thyself under her hands
Like she's like I left because it was abusive
And then what does God say? Go back.
That's just the, that's not my opinion.
That's the angel of the Lord.
That's God just saying, hey, go back, submit,
do whatever she said.
Oh, I don't think God would ever want a woman
to be in an abusive relationship.
Well, this is an abusive relationship.
This is just her boss, right?
This is just Sarah.
You think that men are harsh, women can be real harsh.
And, look, I'm not trying to minimize abuse, I'm not trying to minimize, you know, people
being rude or bad, but at the end of the day, we're just saying, okay, what do you do if
you're in that situation, you just submit.
Now as a leader, as a ruler, I don't think you should be harsh, I don't think you should be rude,
I don't think you should treat people poorly.
The Bible gives commandments in the law that we shouldn't, you know, deal with rigor with our servants.
If we had servants, we shouldn't deal with them with rigor and give them hard labor.
But at the end of the day, you know what?
She's dealing hardly with her mistress and God said just go back and submit yourself
because that's going to be her fault, her problem.
I don't know, Sarah has some issues in the Bible.
She's also praised the Bible for calling Abraham Lord,
but she also has some issues.
She ends up dying before Abraham,
and Abraham ends up marrying Ketura.
She gets replaced by Ketura.
You kind of wonder sometimes, you know,
maybe it's because she was told Abraham
to have this other relationship,
then she dealt harshly with her,
she had her own sin issues, she had her own problems here,
and she ended up dying before Abraham.
So, again, it's important to submit, but here's another thing.
It's also important for Sarah to just rule.
She has people that she has to rule.
I don't think she should have ruled harshly, but it's still her job to rule.
And you know what?
As the Queen of the Castle, you need to rule.
But here's obviously the gotcha.
You should rule kindness, right?
You should rule with some grace as well.
Obviously, you're a ruler.
If you want your husband to give you grace,
you should probably give grace to the underlings.
Don't we have examples in the Bible
where this guy gets forgiven this big debt?
But then he goes and strangles the guy that owes him,
just grabs him by the neck and throws him in prison.
So it's like, hey, if you want your husband
to show you a lot of grace and be kind unto you,
you should probably be kind unto your servants.
and the people that are under your authority and your children.
Go over to Exodus chapter 20, go to Exodus chapter 20.
So point one, as the queen of the castles, you need to reflect your husband.
Point number two, you need to rule, and point number three is that
you need to use the rod and reproof for your children that are under your authority.
And look, children, you need to obey mom.
Don't think like oh, well, I obey dad because he's scary. You'll be mom
And as men we should back up our wives and we should support our wives
Be very careful to not undermine your wife's authority
Sometimes you have to overrule her but you should be very careful in how you do it
And you don't want to undermine the authority of the wife in front of the children
If it's not a major issue. I just I just basically back my wife
It's just like
Hey, whatever she said, whatever she wanted, that's right, you do what mom said.
I do this in pretty much all leadership.
And people that have ever served under me can attest that this is like when I privately
disagree with somebody under my authority, like one of my leaders or whatever, I usually
tell them in private, but publicly I just say, yeah, amen, whatever they said, because
And you know what?
As a husband, we don't want to undermine or undercut our wives' authority or make it
seem like she doesn't have much power.
No, she has lots of power.
She's second in charge.
She's the queen.
You do what mom said.
You say, yes, mom.
You say, yes, ma'am.
You treat her with respect.
You thank her.
We need to reinforce that to our children and remind them of who's really in charge.
It's mom.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days will be long upon the land with the Lord thy God giveeth thee.
Children, if you want to live a long life, you have to obey both mom and dad.
In your respect, both lights, both rulers, both of them.
Look at chapter 21 verse 15.
And he that smideth his father as mother shall be surely put to death.
You fight your parents, the Bible says death penalty.
Death penalty.
You better never raise a hand to your mom or your dad.
Young men sometimes in our society and culture will threaten their mom or raise a fist to their mom.
God says you should be put to death for doing that.
Verse 17,
And he that curseth his father or his mother should surely be put to death.
Hey, you just wish evil on your parents?
Death.
That's what the Bible says some people are like hey, let's share this video of a kid cursing his parents
What does the Bible say the guy supposed to be put the death? That's what the Bible says and again like you know
You think of all the parents in the world
That my friend pastor Stephen Anderson is the worst dad I
Mean that people want to share videos of this kind of stuff. I'm thinking like man
If he is a bad dad, then you're just basically damning like 99% of men in this world.
Come on, right?
But then people just share videos of his kids cursing him and attacking him.
That's evil.
That's wicked.
And you know what?
Also, not just him, his wife.
Them cursing their mom, calling their mom a reprobate.
Who would want to sit there and share a video of that and talk about that and act like oh, I believe the children
What you believe that
What are you even agreeing to here? What does the Bible say the Bible says hey you curse your father or mother?
You're put to death. Oh people constantly calling CPS on their parents
Making false reports so they can be institutionalized
How can a child falsely institutionalize their parent?
As wicked as hell and let me tell you something. God doesn't treat it kindly
Go to Leviticus chapter 19
I want to look at a lot of verses on this you children need to fear your mom and dad and even if you could get one over on
Your mom and dad God will come down on you
Your days are numbered
You want to live a long life you better obey mom and dad and you better talk nicely to your mom
You better be sweet to your mom and you better look at her as they ruler
Leviticus chapter 19 verse 3 you shall fear every man his mother
You children should be afraid of mom. Why because she brings the rod and reproof
And his father and keep my Sabbaths
I am the Lord your God God is the Lord you better fear mom and respect mom and obey mom
Well, I don't think we should rule fear. Well, God disagrees with you
God says you should be afraid of mom
Good little video is 20 verse 3
Or 20 verse 9. I'm sorry. Yeah, you better fear mom. Hey, my mom when my brother was acting a fool
She brought out the 2x4
Sounds scary good
Praise God, and you know what the two by four was the least of the consequences for my brother sins in his life
I've seen so many horrible things like you know
Some people think like that's bad. No committing sins that these people get into and the direction of their life is way worse
You probably need more two by four
And I'm not recommending that, I'm just saying that I don't stand in judgment of that, okay?
Reference this morning's sermon.
Leviticus 20 verse 9, for everyone that cursed his father, his mother, shall surely be put
to death.
He hath cursed his father, his mother, his blood shall be upon him.
Bible.
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 5, Deuteronomy chapter number 5.
And so watered down that we don't have God's word, you know, thundering forth in our laws.
But in times past, in America, it was the law that if your child was disrespecting its parents and it was 15 years or older, it was put to death.
In America.
Not Sharia.
Not Afghanistan.
Not Islam.
America.
You know what, built America?
Law is like that.
You know why you have such a great country, not Islam, laws that are saying,
hey, you cursed your father and mother, death.
What?
Yeah.
Now we have a society where kids are just running amok, destroying our civilization,
destroying our country.
Why?
Because we don't have laws like that, because we don't have respect on the God's word.
We're allowing Islam to be in our country.
When America was great, Islam couldn't exist.
Don't tell me you know why we have Islam people get mad at Islam
You know what when you're one of these feminist guys, you're the reason why we have Islam
You get so mad at Islam. It's you're preaching that's causing Islam
Not the word of God if you hate Islam so much then bring back the Bible on these issues
Do you don't want to be chapter 5 verse 16?
Honor thy father thy mother as the Lord thy God of command of thee that thy days may be prolonged
and that it may go well with thee, and the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
I mean, how many times is God going to bring this up?
A lot.
Go to June 9, 21.
Hey, you better obey mom and dad.
Your life depends on it.
And I don't think, like, it's not like these commandments.
This is what you have to understand about the Bible.
They're not limited to Christians.
Whenever you meet an old person you pretty much can just just guarantee they probably obeyed their parents and respect their parents
There's probably a few exceptions, but it's gonna be few in society
Most of the old people that are out there those 80 90 hundred year old people. I guarantee they honor their father and their mother
That's why they're so old
That's why God's kept them up even if they're Catholic and
I mean you look at societies like what society let's just be honest for a second
What society has the highest age of their countries?
It's Asian countries.
And what countries have the highest respect
rate for their parents?
Asian countries.
You think that that's a coincidence?
And then it's like, OK, you thought that was spicy.
Let's play the reverse game.
What countries have the lowest?
You fact-checked me on this.
I would assume it's Africa.
and which countries seem to have the least respect for their parents?
What communities in America seem to have the least respect for their parents
and which communities are dying the youngest
and having all kinds of problems?
Look, God is not mocked.
For once a man's soul, that should also reap.
You want to be disrespectful to your parents?
Just realize you're just taking days off your life.
Just find a calendar and just start marking days, marking years, marking months off of your life for disobeying mom and dad.
And you know what? That's why the mom brings the rod, is to keep you alive.
Keep you alive longer and we're proving you.
And you know what, do it around 21, look at verse 18.
If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them, then shall his father, his mother, lay hold on him and bring him out unto the elders of his city and unto the gate of his place."
So the Bible is saying is, hey, you got a 16-year-old, if you go to the laws of Connecticut in 1673, you have a 16-year-old that you spanked.
He doesn't say, oh, now he's going to have to have wrath towards his parents and turn back.
No, no, you spanked him and he didn't obey?
Now it's his death.
How many kids do you think will respond to spankings at that point?
What does he say in verse number 20?
In verse 19,
Hey, you don't like mom and dad?
Tough luck.
The Bible says you are to be put to death when you go against your parents.
That's what the Bible brings up. Go to June 27. I have a lot of verses here
That I want to still cover
Children you think it's cool to disobey mom and dad every day you're gonna die young
You think it's okay to just not do what mom and dad says?
Hey, there's a punishment coming don't think that you can just disobey mom and dad and go against their wishes and do whatever
You want and God doesn't see God sees and God knows
Yeah, he's very long suffering. He's very merciful, but you know what? You better obey mom and dad
27 look at verse 16 cursed be he that said of light by his father or his mother and all the people so say
Amen
Don't allow someone to set light by their parents.
Don't agree with children attacking their parents.
Don't side with kids hurting their parents.
No, no, no.
Cursed is the person that does that.
Say, like, how dare you curse people?
Well, you know what?
All the people should say amen.
That's what the Bible says.
Hey, you're cursed, buddy.
Hey, quit cursing your parents because you're cursing yourself.
Ah, there's this whole church praying for me.
Yeah, well, you know what?
Get right.
Cause otherwise you're cursed.
Proverbs chapter one, go to Proverbs chapter one.
Why would you not?
As the whole congregation say, amen, do you want your kids to rebel against your authority?
Do you want your kids to curse you?
Do you want your kids to smite you?
Whenever a child is going against a parent, we should all rally together and say, hey, the parents are right, you're wrong, submit, or you're cursed.
And all the people should say, amen, because it's not just one person, it's all of us, that stand against child rebellion.
We should be against child rebellion period not just for their sake for everyone's sake
For everybody's sake for your kid's sake so that you hear and the children fear and the evil is put away from among you
Whenever we prop up rebellious children, you know, you're just saying all the kids can rebel when you prop up
Why is your belly all the wise can rebel? That's the whole point of Esther one
Hey, we can't just let Vashti do whatever she wants then everybody's doomed
We can't just let the kids do whatever they want, then everybody's doomed.
Look, foolishness is bound in the heart of a child,
but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
We need to make sure that we're not enabling rebellion,
that we're not supporting rebellion,
that we're not giving thousand dollar checks to rebellion.
How could you sit here and give thousand dollar checks for that?
How could you give thousand dollar checks from the church's money from God's money?
What verse show me that verse in the Bible?
That is evil
Proverbs 1 verse 8 my son hear the instruction of thy father and
Forsake not the law of thy mother. Hey mom needs to put down some law
And you know what you're not allowed to forsake it
Whatever mom says needs to stick with you. You need to do what mom said. Go to Proverbs 6
You know what my mom told me? You need to wear a belt and pull your pants up
And I'm not gonna forsake that law
Hey, do what mom said and pull up your pants kid and get a belt
You know what my mom would say she would say John
Kids or guys that have their pants hanging down are trying to advertise that they're a faggot in prison
And they want you to do stuff to them
She says you are not like that you put on a belt and you pull up your pants
Praise God for hard-preaching moms
It said don't let your pants sag down like a faggot
You're straight put your pants on right
Buckle it tight
It's an exit only.
Proverbs 6, look at verse 20.
My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother.
He's repeating the same thing.
Look at chapter 15 verse 20.
Proverbs 15 verse 20.
Let's just take a journey through Proverbs here, get some good wisdom.
Proverbs 15 verse 20, a wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish man despises his
mother.
You know what?
It's a bad attitude to hate your mom.
I've heard. I don't know if it's true. I guess I heard there was a preacher that was like trashing his mom one time in a sermon and
I haven't heard it myself. I
Partly believe it, but let me just say this that is super evil
That is super evil to be trashing your mom
Look as preachers and you know, please please take this advice
I don't like what the old IB does. Don't trash your wife behind the pulpit. Don't trash your parents behind the pulpit
Don't trash people buying the pulpit, okay?
I mean, I've been in a lot of old IB sermons where they're constantly razzing their wife
and I'm just thinking, like, that is weird.
I'm uncomfortable, you know.
Talk positively about your wife, okay?
You know, the harsh truths of the Bible are enough to get in enough fights from marriage,
okay?
You don't need to then add on to that, you know, about how she does things that aren't
right, like burning the cookies or something, like, don't bring that up, okay?
Buried. Don't ever bring it up.
Proverbs 15 verse 20, don't despise your mom. Go to chapter 19 and look at verse 26.
The Bible also brings up that you shouldn't despise her when she gets old either.
And we should just always love her mom. Hey, reminder, Mother's Day coming up guys.
Mother's Day, this is your warning, all right?
Proverbs 19, look at verse 26.
He that wasted this father and chases the way his mother is a son that caused the shame and bring another approach
Don't chase away your mom
Don't hate on your mom don't attack your mom don't try to get your mom away from you
Proverbs 20 verse 20
Who so curses his father or his mother his lamp shall be put out into obscure darkness
Proverbs 30 verse 11, you know this is what I want to ask
When we see a public display of a bunch of children cursing their parents and then let's just say
They don't repent and then in a few years they die. How many people are gonna say it was a coincidence?
Like somebody stealing a bunch of money and then getting a one in 17 trillion skin disease and then they say oh, it's a coincidence
Just sit it in your mind like hey when this thing happens, I'm not gonna say it was a coincidence
I'm not gonna take away what God said
You know, hopefully people will repent and get right and God's merciful.
But at the end of the day, like, if you're on a crash course, you should be afraid, very, very afraid.
Proverbs 30 verse 11, there is a generation that cursed their father and does not bless their mother.
That's sad.
There can be times where just like a whole group of people are just bad.
And there's not really anything we can do about it.
But you know what? That's going to be their fault.
Look at verse 17 the eye that mocketh that this father and despises to obey his mother the ravens of the valley shall pick it out
And the young eagle shall eat it
God doesn't sound like he's messing around with this at all. I
Mean, I don't want birds to come out of nowhere and literally rip my eye out of its socket
That's what it's saying when you just despise to obey your mom
Hey, we have a little child in the Bible
cursing the man of God and making fun of the man of God for no reason and then she bears come out of the woods and just eat them
We have little kids getting their eyes ripped out by birds for despising nobody mom
You know, we always read stories
In the news or on Twitter or on Facebook about little kids getting hurt
And we just like as a society always just think like oh that poor little kid. We don't always know
What that kid was really like
We don't always really know if that kid is super innocent as presumed
I think we should always give people the presumption of innocence, but I'm also saying God is not booked
And boy you mock your mom and dad you despise your mom and dad something really bad could happen to you
You should be really afraid of God
Now, again, look at chapter 29 verse 15, this is what the wives need to do, the queens need to do.
The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
As the queen, you have subjects, your children are your subjects.
You need to bring the rod and the reproof. You need to correct your children.
Not only should you reflect your husband's wishes on the home and
Rule you need to make sure you're bringing that rod. Don't be a mom that says I just can't spank them. You spanked them
Spank the fire out of them
They should be afraid of mom
Afraid of mom's law you approve them you correct them
Proverbs 31 verse 1 the words of the Lord. I'm sorry the words of King Limeal the prophecy that his mother taught him
What my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows?
Man, you could just see that mom
You get in trouble and she's just like what is up with you?
Whose kid are you?
Are you my kid?
Are you a Shelley?
What is this? You know you see like this is like what she's like
She's like what are you the son of my womb? Are you the son of my vows? What are you doing?
Who are you?
Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways so that was destroyed the king
He went on a date with a whore and she's just like what
What are you doing?
Dude my mom was like this man my brother had some shady girls come over the house sometime and she just threw a fit
You know what? Praise God for a mom like that that says who are you bringing around here?
Don't give your strength unto women
Nor the ways that which notice this destroy it kinks. She's mad because she doesn't want you to destroy yourself
It is not for Kings Olemiel is not for Kings to drink wine nor for Prince's strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and
Pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish
And whining to those that be of heavy hearts.
Look, the guy that's ready to die isn't really threatened with death anymore.
So she's saying, hey, the reason why people would drink is they just want to die.
So hey, you want to kill yourself? You want to die? That's the type of people that should drink.
And again, she's not saying this as like a recommendation. She's saying it as a sarcastic way.
I like this woman. She's sarcastic and she's yelling and whatever, right?
She's just calling it like it is, whores and drinking and all kinds of stuff.
Let him drink and forget his poverty. Remember his misery no more. Hey people that drink are losers people that drink are poor
How dare you just categorize a whole group of people
That's what she's doing
She's just like bam and then she gives a whole
Dissertation on the type of woman he should be looking for on the type of woman that he should marry
You know moms you should be constantly talking your kids about hey, this is the kind of person you should marry
This is the person you should not marry
These are the cut. These are bad friends. These are good friends. These are good actions
These are bad actions
You should bring out that rod and you should approve and you should be a queen and you should rule and you should reflect
And you know what? We need queens to be queens today. Someone needs to rule our children
and not some feminist dyke in the public school system
to rot their brain with propaganda.
We need God fearing queens with the rod of God's word
and the reproof of God's wisdom
to actually correct their children
and raise seven pillars of the Christian community.
We need some queens around here.
Don't be lazy.
Don't be someone that doesn't rule.
You know, as kings we need to rule
and as queens we need to rule.
The worst thing that we can have is men and women that won't work.
You need to get to work, and we need to have the rod and the proof.
What does it say in verse 30 of this chapter, favor is deceitful and beauty is vain, but
a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Hey, you want all that respect and honor and glory?
If you do the right thing and you work really hard in due time, you'll get that praise report.
You say, oh man, people aren't constantly praising me.
Is there anything to praise?
That's the real question.
Hey, if you work really hard, if you love your children and you sow into those kids
and you sow into your husband, it's just a guarantee in the long run eventually you'll
get that praise.
We're having raised them.
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 14.
You know, the Bible tells us that children are supposed to obey their parents.
The wife is the queen.
So here's a question I have.
What does that make children then?
You're lower than both mom and dad.
You're subject unto mom and you're subject unto dad.
You are not a ruler.
So I want you to play this logic with me for a second.
First Corinthians chapter 14, look at verse 33.
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace
as in all churches of the saints.
Let your women keep silence in the churches
for it is not permitted unto them to speak.
But they are commanded to be under obedience
as also say at the law.
And if they will learn anything,
let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame
for women to speak in the church.
supposed to be speaking, and they're not supposed to be teaching in the house of God,
then how much more should children not be speaking or doing this kind of activity in church?
Now again, in our church, we take this to a level and say,
look, I don't believe women should say amen in the service.
Now obviously if we have a visitor, we have somebody, I'm not going to probably do anything.
We have a lot of loud strong men. So, you know, I'm sure a woman could sneak in there and amen every once in a while
I wouldn't even know
But women shouldn't be saying amen, I don't think they should I don't approve of it
I don't like it if there was some loud obnoxious woman in our church. She would be dealt with for sure
But then here's the thing if women shouldn't say amen
Then children should not say amen either
ever in the service
If your mom can't, you can't.
She's above you, she's over you.
I don't care if you're a boy, you're still a boy.
Men say amen in the service, okay?
And you know what, parents,
if you don't want to sit by your kids and correct them,
if they're gonna do this, then I'll correct them for you.
But I'll just let you know,
children should not be saying amen in the service.
Women shouldn't be saying amen in the service.
And you know what, as the queen of the castle, you are in a position of authority over your
children.
Look, it's not to be demeaning to women, it's just saying, look, this is the proper
roles.
Hey, when you can start paying your bills, men, then you can start saying amen.
When your mom is paying your bills and she can't say amen, you can't say amen.
Go to Ephesians chapter six, go to Ephesians chapter number six.
You're so misogynistic.
Call me whatever you want.
I don't really care.
I'm leaving.
Good.
We have more space.
I've been trying hard to make some space here.
You know what I mean?
Ephesians chapter six, look at verse one.
Children, obey your parents and the Lord for this is right.
Honor thy father and mother,
which is the first commandment with promise
that it may be well with thee
that thou mayest live long on the earth.
We need to empower our wives to be the queen of the castle and we need children to respect and obey both mom and dad and
You're gonna get a lot of respect
Ladies when you make your husband a king and you allow him to make you his queen
You're going to have a lot more respect when you get on dad's program and you reinforce
and you reflect his program, you reflect his wishes, and you can constantly say, hey,
you need to do what I'm saying because that's what dad's saying.
And that's what the Bible's saying.
And you reflect the authority that's given.
Look, I can get up and say, hey, you're supposed to be me because that's what God said.
The wife says, you're supposed to be me because that's what dad said and that's what God said.
Right, it's a it's a tear down. It's a hierarchy and we just follow the chain of command and
As wise you need to also rule you need to you need to
Flex your muscles a little bit here
You got some stuff to do you're in charge
Take ownership of that. You got the home. You're guiding the house. You're doing this
You know, don't look at your job as some menial task
You have a great opportunity to do a lot of work and accomplish a lot of things children are so important
Yeah, in so many ways your job is just as important or more important than many of us
and
Then you need to bring the rod and reproof because children are not gonna be good on their own
You need to make sure dad can't be there for at least half the time
Someone's got to spank the fire out of these kids
Someone's got to put these kids in fear.
Someone's got to teach these kids things.
That's you. Please do it.
Please, please do it.
You as a mom need to be spanking your kids.
And you know, we already have a really great crop,
but let's not just be complacent
being better than the world.
Let us continue to improve.
Let us continue to get better.
Moms, you need to constantly
be training your children,
not just at church, at home.
Constantly bringing the rod and reproof.
Probably need to do like a whole sermon on that again.
But you need to spank them and you need to correct them and you need to be that queen a queen rules
You well you constantly sit here and think like I want to be in charge of stuff. You're in charge go
Do something
You're that be the boss babe at home
And let's let us make sure that you know as men that we're backing up and supporting our wives
The Sun's not withholding any of its light on the moon
It's just all it's just given all its glory under that moon and it likes the moon
You know occasionally there's an eclipse
But let it be an occasional, you know situation for the most part. We're just backing up the moon, aren't we?
And let us be as kings
You know giving honor under the weaker vessel the wife, you know, she's she's not just a servant
She's not a bondmaid. She's a queen treat her like a queen. Let's close in prayer. Thank you, Heavenly Father so much for your word
Thank you for giving us these examples and these carnal truths so that we could understand how to operate
I pray that you would just help empower the women today to be queens
You'd help them reflect their husbands. You'd help them to rule their houses and guide their houses
I pray they'd also help them to bring the rod and reproof and I pray that you'd help put fear
into our children, fear into our wives, fear into our households,
fear into men's hearts to fear the word of God, that we would rejoice with trembling.
And I pray that we would just, we would get on your program. We would respect the authority
structure that you've given us, and not only would we respect it, we would just enact it and do it.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, in closing, let's go to song number 69.
Speaking of shining song number 69 we shall shine as the stars
Song number 69, let's all sing it out together
this evening. Ms. Daisy is coming for baptism. Have you trusted Christ as your savior? Then I
baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Buried in likeness of His death,
raised to walk in newness of life. Make sure to congratulate our baptism. God bless your dismissed.