this evening in your white handouts so turn if you would to Psalm 149 in your
white handouts Psalm 149 in the white handout Psalm 149
let's sing
let them praise his name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with
the temporal and harp for the whole Lord taketh pleasure in his people he will beautify the meek with
salvation let the Saints be in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds let the high praises of God
to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon
they are nobles with fetters of iron to execute upon him the judgment written this honor have all his saints praise he the Lord
amen brother Jacob would you lead us in a word of prayer
amen all right for our next song this evening turn if you would to him number
257 look and live him number 257 look and live
let's sing I have a message from the Lord hallelujah the message unto you I'll give is recorded in his word hallelujah
it is only that you look at my brother look to Jesus now and is recorded in his word hallelujah
it is only that you look and I have a message full of love hallelujah a message oh my friend for you
there's a message from above hallelujah Jesus said it and I know it is true look at my brother
look to Jesus now it is recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you can live life is
offered unto you hallelujah eternal life my soul shall have if you'll only look to him hallelujah
look to Jesus who alone can see my brother look to Jesus now I will tell you how I came hallelujah
to Jesus when he made me was believing on his name hallelujah I trusted and he saved my soul
my brother look to Jesus now it is recorded in his word hallelujah it is only that you look
and amen good singing this evening great singing if you didn't get a bulletin already there's some
on the back cabinet and we have our Romans chapter 8 verse 19 there on the inside we have our service
and so many times as well as our totals I'm gonna go ahead and get a count the best I can I meant to
mention this this morning and I've forgotten but our soul winning marathon that we had yesterday
we had about 45 soul winners show up and we had 61 Salvations and so praise the Lord on that that's
some really good numbers and obviously the Lord blessed us in the afternoon it kind of heated up
and a little bit you know everyone's waking up on Saturday morning but then once we get the
afternoon and it was really a lot of people are getting saved and so praise the Lord for everyone
that showed up participated we really appreciate it and I know brother Jeffrey appreciates us going
to his own backyard and knocking on some doors and so that was great I'm gonna see if there's
any other Salvations report for the last few days and then today was there anything from Friday by
chance anybody what about anything outside of what was reported yesterday was anything by chance okay
what about today you got 12 okay was there anything outside of that for some reason all right praise
the Lord on that 12 today that's great and then if you're not done with soul winning we have an
upcoming event the Texas Oklahoma Easter marathon and so this is gonna be a great opportunity lots
of soul winning Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday hopefully will be times and all over the the state
now I can't promise you exactly it'll be all those times in every area but in at least in the Dallas
fourth area and hopefully some of the other areas like Houston and stuff will have times like that
but there should be other times even other parts of Texas potentially and we're gonna have to we're
gonna have like an online web web paste or web page with all this information put in there so
then we can kind of point people to that and say hey if you live one of these areas here's a time
if not here's other areas and other times that you can go and we'll just try to do a big push for
Easter also our preaching schedule we have brother Blake Renkin he's gonna be preaching March 14th I
have other people scheduled I wanted to just give you an idea it's not necessarily in the bulletin
but the following week John Carter brother John Carter from stronghold Baptist Church he's gonna
be coming out here and preaching both services and he's really excited about that pastor Burzins is
really excited about him coming out here the following after that brother Duncan or bannock
he's come down here several times his father lives out here he's gonna be coming with his
wife RG and then also the Easter Sunday we'll have the local guys brother Nick and Travis and
he'll be doing the Lord's Supper that following ending our Easter marathon so that's exciting the
11th we have brother Jesse Michael coming back down here he's gonna be preaching 18th again we
have brother Nick and brother Brandon so hopefully you know he'll get back bring some Bellamy to the
to the table and then the 25th brother Nick neary he's gonna be coming out here again and preaching
for you so that's really exciting lots of great preachers coming out here no reason not to come
to church and on the right we have the announcement about Bellamy Blake Darnell now this isn't this is
a unique name because I mean it was like Dallas Dakota I mean they're just DD all the way down
the line and then just Bellamy out of nowhere and so obviously you know it's kind of like in Luke
whenever they were talking about how they're gonna name him Zacharias and then all of a sudden his
dad's like it's John and everybody's like whoa you know what's gonna what's gonna happen with
his baby you know that we're also waiting for a D name and they're like Bellamy just out of nowhere
and so you know this must be a special child and so we're really excited about that he was born
March 1st 5 30 a.m. weighing 8 pounds and 8 ounces and he took his time to get here but he's here and
so that's exciting also please be in prayer for all our expecting ladies just seems like we just
cycle everyone through every once in a while and so that's that's great great news it's great to
have a church with lots of ladies that are being blessed and so let's keep them in prayer also if
you have any other prayer requests throughout the week please submit those to us and we would love
to get them to you just because we're gonna be heading back I'm gonna try and leave almost like
right after the service just FYI but I really appreciate getting to see all of you guys and
so let's go to our third song 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus brother Hall's gonna lead for us 261
all right 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus 261 turn your eyes upon Jesus 261
let's sing
turn your eyes upon Jesus look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth will
grow through death into life everlasting he passed and we follow him there over us
no man young for more than conquerors we
your eyes upon Jesus wonderful
face and the things of earth will grow strangely in the light of his glory and praise his word
shall not fail you he promised believe him and all will be well then go to a world that is
this perfect salvation
your eyes upon Jesus wonderful
and
in the light of his glory and praise
amen that's a really cool him I like that one while the offering plates are being passed around
turn if you would to Proverbs chapter 31 Proverbs chapter number 31 and we'll read that chapter as
is our custom brother mo will you read for us all right Proverbs chapter number 31 let me give
it there myself Proverbs chapter 31 starting in verse 1 the words of King Linwell the prophecy
that his mother taught him what my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows
give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroy of Kings it is not for Kings
o let me well it 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 wine unto those that be heavy of hearts let him drink and forget his poverty and
remember his misery no more open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed
to destruction open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy who can
find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies the heart of her husband does safely trust
in her so that she shall have no need of spoil she will do him good and not evil all the days
of her life she seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands she is like the merchants
ships she bringeth forth her food from afar she rise the thought so while it is yet night and
giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens she consider it the field and buyeth it
with the fruit of her hands she planted the vineyard she girdeth her loins with strength
and strengtheneth her arms she perceiveth that her merchandise is good her candle goeth out not
by night she layeth her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff she stretches forth her
hand to the poor yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy she is not afraid of the snow for a
household for all her household are clothed with scarlet she maketh herself coverings of tapestry
her clothing is silk and purple her husband is known at the gates and when he said and when he
sitteth among the elders of the land she maketh fine linen and selleth it and delivereth girdles
unto the merchants strength and honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come
she openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness she looketh well
to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness her children to rise up and call
her blessed her husband also and he praises her many daughters have done virtuously but thou
excelest them all favor is defeat favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that
feared the Lord she shall be praised give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works
praise her in the gates let's close in prayer your father God thank you for this day thank you for
gathering us here today the title of my sermon this evening is a little bit different a little
bit different type of sermon but I'm really excited to preach this I think it'll be a help
to people by the time my sermon is this women cooking at home women cooking at home and I have
a few different points that I want to explain to you this evening but I've basically three
categories that I've broken the sermon into and look back at verse number 11 where the Bible read
the heart of her husband does safely trust in her so that she shall have nose so that he shall have
no need of spoil and according to the Bible you know one of the qualities or attributes of a
godly woman or the virtuous woman or as people would refer to as the Proverbs 31 woman is that
she's very frugal now frugal is my first point frugal just means that she is wise with money
she's not spending money frivolously or just for no reason that she's considering the cost of all
the things that she's purchasing and so to be frugal is one that's good with money not spending
it excessively and is a good steward of finances and notice very clearly the Bible saying that this
woman her husband can trust her with finances trust her with money trust her with decisions
to the point where he's not going to need any spoil now spoil would be a picture of extra money
or extra goods or extra income and so the Bible is basically saying that you know he can trust the
fact that whatever he provides her with when it comes to finances she's not going to come back
and say oh I need more or oh there's this mistake or oh I spent it all or oh there's a hole in my
pocket or oops here's a credit card bill or you know it's just it's not gonna come back with all
these extra expenses that weren't anticipated she's not gonna make him need spoil now obviously this
isn't to say you know don't take this as like oh sweet I never need to get spoiled okay never read
the Bible as you know thinking of the fact that your wife's gonna be this great person that you
don't need to try you don't need to do effort you don't need to do anything extra really the way I
look at a good marriage is that both are kind of going across the aisle in a sense as to where you
know the husband's gonna go above and beyond what he needs to do and the wife's gonna go above and
beyond what she's going to and then you're gonna have this really happy blissful marriage marriages
that are not very good or having a lot of problems is when neither are willing to come across the
aisle they're hoping the other one will though they're kind of expecting the other one to do
more than is even necessary and they're always trying to get the other spouse to do more than
they need now why would I put frugal or this verse in connection with women cooking at home
well just because practically speaking eating out is very expensive okay and I looked up a couple
articles and I looked at some numbers and I think these are pretty reasonable I think that they are
pretty similar now obviously eating out you have a wide array of options and all kinds of prices
that are attached to that but just generally speaking I think these numbers are somewhat
accurate and give us an idea according to this article they say that eating a meal prepared at
home ranges from about two dollars and fifty cents to five dollars per person okay whereas eating the
exact same type of meal that was already prepared but just store-bought so this is like a store kit
so basically they made the meal but it's just either frozen or in the in the refrigerator
section all you have to do is like pop it in the oven you know they have already rate ready to bake
meals that would cost about ten dollars per person and eating out the same meal would be twenty
dollars per person now they're factoring in all costs so tip tax everything that's kind of
associated with that so they're saying that you know eating out could be as much as you know ten
times or four times it's more expensive than eating a meal cooked at home and you know I
basically what I did is I took those numbers and I said okay what if someone goes out to eat let's
say five times a week let's say five times a week but you know it's not that unreasonable a lot of
people do eat out even more than that because you got to think you eat three times a day okay
sometimes people eat four times a day all right and you're eating three or four times a day
potentially seven days a week that's a lot of opportunity to eat out sometimes you eat out two
or three times a day you know and so five times a week is not unreal you know unreasonable a lot of
people do this some people do more some people do less but I'm just giving you some numbers to think
about okay if someone ate out five times a week that would be about 20 times a month okay and
that's not perfect math we understand that a month is sometimes more than four weeks or you know a
little bit different but just we're just Jen we're just throwing out some general numbers let's say
you ate about 20 times out per month okay well if you had not eaten out at all so we're going to
just kind of an extreme here that would be a difference of about $600 because $20 for two
people and we're only factoring in the dolts we're not we're ignoring kids we're going real
conservative here just two people just two people are going out to eat on a regular basis husband
and wife okay that'd be a $800 they're spending a month on eating out versus about $200 to make
those meals at home okay so it's about a $600 a month difference or $7,200 a year okay so that
ends up pretty quick now I also looked at it okay what if you just made the you bought the the ready
kit meals okay like ready to cook or whatever it was about three thousand three hundred and sixty
dollars a year different and just by buying the meals that were already there you're still cooking
from home but you know save you a little bit of time because you didn't have to do as much meal
prep you didn't have to put as many things together so obviously there is a cost associated to eating
out now don't hear my sermon wrong I believe that men should take their wives out to eat on occasion
and you figure out what your budget is but what I am saying is that if you're forcing your family
to eat out because you're not willing to cook at home or you're not making meals at home it could
end up being a very costly decision it's not necessarily an equitable decision because the
more you're eating out the more you're literally spending money on something that frankly speaking
is fleeting you know who cares what you ate a year ago who cares what you ate two years ago
the only thing that really matters is it was healthy or not and let me give you another sad
reality eating out is not as healthy as eating meals cooked from home so it's really a double
lose because you lost all that money that was associated with all the meals that you had and
then on top of that it's not usually as healthy of an option now again you know eating out can
be special it can be fun it can be romantic it can be other things and so you need that part of
your life and I think that you know men should try their best to take their wives out or cook
for them or do something extra but that's not necessary it's just of them going across the
aisle again okay and having a good marriage but the title of the sermon is women cooking at home
okay so we're focusing more on that aspect and look at verse number 12 look what the Bible says
she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life so you know what'd be a good thing you
know making meals at home is a good thing verse number 13 she seeketh wool and flax and worketh
willingly with her hands you say well I text up a storm every single day that's not the working
that's talking about you know it's not talking about all the social media posts and all the
different things that you searched on your phone look the Bible teaches that a woman that's godly
would be willing to work and work on a regular basis you know if the man's going off and working
40 50 60 sometimes even 80 hours a week why does it make sense that a woman also would not work 40
50 60 maybe even 80 hours a week depending on all the circumstances in their schedule you know women
should be busy working as well as men while their work is not necessarily going to be the same and
you know the Bible teaches that women should be working in the home it's still work and you know
what would be part of that work meals you know making meals is a great way to save money and
there's a lot of other things associated with it but when we're talking about point number one
being frugal you know the way that you cut down food costs is by doing the work yourself as you
make the store about you buy the store-bought meals well it's gonna cost more you let someone
else prepare your food it's gonna cost more and the more that you can do yourself the more you
put the effort and energy into you're gonna reap those benefits of that labor that you're putting
into those meals now look at verse number 14 she's like the merchant ships she bringeth her
food from afar not only is she putting in the effort energy to make the meals but also she's
considering you know all the different options that are available and as the Bible is telling
here you know her foods coming from afar sometimes getting the best deals on food takes a little bit
of extra effort going to a little bit further store you know some ways to save on money is
maybe buying in bulk or buying at a very particular store or going to multiple stores and being price
conscious and thinking about all the different options that are out there considering those
different options and being frugal with the money that you're spending not just going to one store
that's super close and we'll all just take that or let's just go with all the online options
sometimes the online options are double or triple what it is in person because they know that people
are too lazy to actually go out you know some people are just too lazy to do anything they
want everything just delivered and just given to them I mean people have McDonald's delivered to
them and I'm just thinking like how is that that's not even good you know like McDonald's is only
good the first five minutes of inhaling it you know I mean it's like wears on this experience
you know some good restaurants not McDonald's they they won't even sell you food that won't
last like if you like Chick-fil-a they cater you can't cater their fries because they realize that
fries don't really work in a catering environment you know they're only good like hot and and ready
because if they sit in even a container and they're hot they'll like get steamy and wet and it's just
like what is this you know and so they realize that that foods not gonna last McDonald's food
just is not good after a while okay especially after you just jest it but you know at the end of
the day when you're thinking about all these different options that are available the proverbs
31 woman is thinking about the price she's thinking about the deal she's thinking about
how can I buy things in bulk and what are what are all the numbers that are associated with it
she's sensitive to money and budget and she's shopping around she could win prices right you
know what I mean whenever they're asking you know how much does this cost she knows how much that
cost because she's a frugal person she's not worried about needing more money because she's
gonna make sure she's taking care of that situation you know another thing you could look
at this is she's also getting unique stuff right if she's bringing in stuff from afar it's not
always just the same thing it's just like well we have beans again and then beans the next meal then
be and look if that's all you can afford and that's your life then go for it you know the proverbs
31 woman's also seeing what are some unique things that I can bring to the table what are all the
different options out there thinking about the meals and look at verse number 16 I'll show you
another thing about how this is correlated but it says she consider it the field and buyeth it
with the fruit of her hand she planted the vineyard so so here we have a verse where we actually see
into the mind of this woman she's considering a field what is she considering well when you're
gonna buy something what do you consider the price the location the quality a lot of different
factors go into making a purchasing decision and we see that this woman is capable of making good
purchasing decisions she's considering it she's thinking about it and you know when you go to the
store not all food is created equal you know when you go to the produce aisle not all produce is
good you know apples can be mealy watermelons can be of all types of you know good quality or bad
quality certain meats certain vegetables all kinds of different things have different varying levels
of quality you know if you just have the you know the five dollar an hour personal shopper they're
just like throwing crap in the car and they don't even care if it's good ma you know it's got mold
on it they're like I can probably wash that off you know I mean they don't care at all bruised
bananas and bruised apples and just what they're just gonna just throw junk in the cart and just
hand it to you and obviously with kovat this thing's been exaggerated right all this personal
shopping and all the you know drive up to the store and wait and they bring out your food and
everything you know there's a cost associated with that type of convenience there's an extra
cost and obviously they're not thinking about your family's best interests and they're not
always gonna be the best shoppers for you and I'm not saying you can never do this I'm not saying
it's a sin to do this what I am saying is that the proverbs 31 woman she's price conscious she's
considering things she's thinking about things she's going out she's bringing in her food and
even in this case she's also considering doing everything local having her own vineyard having
her own produce having her own garden having her own resources you know some people do a farmers
market or they plant their own vineyard they plant their own garden they make their own food because
making your own food can be very cheap I mean you could play in a garden for very little amount of
money and you could produce a lot of tomato people do tomatoes or cucumbers or green beans or squash
or all kinds of different things and notice this woman's looking for different ways to do what to
get to the same goal but cheaper or better or higher quality or you know whatever the the
picture is you know this woman is doing everything that she possibly can to make their life better
easier of higher quality and I want to show you a couple more verses look at Song of Solomon just
flip to the right we'll come back to Proverbs eventually go to Song of Solomon chapter number
one and we see a picture of a husband and a wife and you know women in the Bible are associated
with cooking now I'm not saying that men can't cook and we see examples of men cooking the Bible
but the primary cooks and bakers and chefs and the people that are making the meals the bio makes it
clear it's the women okay and I'll show you a verse here in verse a Song of Solomon chapter
one verse six it says look not upon me because I am black because the Sun hath looked upon me
my mother's children were angry with me they made me the keeper of the vineyards but mine own vineyard
have I not kept so with this woman's talking about her job what's one of the job responsibilities
they gave her the vineyard she's working in the vineyard and what are the vineyard you know the
produce grapes you can produce raisins you're producing drink that's mingled with grapes so
it'd be like juice and different beverages like that but notice she's hard-working I mean this
woman's very hard progress 31 woman very hard-working I mean this woman is working harder
than you can even imagine most men in this world do not work nearly as hard as the Proverbs 31
woman okay her job is very difficult and when I think of a Proverbs 31 woman I think of this as
being an ideal just like a husband supposed to be like Christ the wife is supposed to be like
Proverbs 31 and so you know as a husband as a father as a man you shouldn't if you want to be
compared to Christ then compare your wife to Proverbs 31 okay really we're supposed to look
to Christ and be like wow we need to improve and you know obviously you're for a woman she can look
to the Proverbs 31 woman and see areas of improvement I don't think you're gonna meet
people that reach these idyllic levels okay it's just something to shoot for something to think
about and no one no one starts as the Proverbs 31 woman because she's already in a mature position
she's already in a developed position where she already has children she's already doing all these
different things you know this is like kind of building up to a particular process you're not
gonna find the Proverbs 31 woman because she's already married and has kids okay she's off she's
off the market you know we're talking about someone developing you know it's like Adam and
Eve Adam and Eve were created mature in the garden we're looking at a mature person okay as an
example not where you start out it's where you grow into that role and grow into that type of
position and when it comes to women cooking at home this may not be something that people that
are early married just are automatically good at takes a lot of effort takes a lot of practice
takes a lot of experience it's tough growing into that role as a woman now go to Psalms 128 Psalms
128 it's interesting that this woman says she's in the vineyard we see that the Proverbs 31 woman
also buys a vineyard and works in the vineyard and look at the language that the Bible uses in Psalms
128 verse number three Psalm 128 look at verse number three the Bible reads by wife shall be as
a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house thy children like all of plants round about thy table
so not only is she a worker in the vineyard she's like a literal vineyard and she's a worker in the
vineyard also with children you know and and bringing up the children and so there's lots of
different parallels here and when it comes to this woman having lots of kids the more kids you have
the more mouths you have to feed as they say and the more mouths you have to feed the more the
expenses go up remember my example that was two people now imagine you have a family of ten those
numbers grow exponentially and teenagers I've heard can eat food you know I don't know if
anybody knows this but they can eat a lot of food young men they can eat until you know they're like
a dog they never they don't stop eating until you move the food away from them okay and for some
reason they can stay thin because they're just so young and their metabolism is so high and you
know what that costs money it costs money to eat food and so it's important to understand look the
more meals that you could make at home the more you're gonna save money the more that you're gonna
be able to accommodate this type of lifestyle because could I really take ten kids out to eat
20 times a month and you know all these are no you can't do this type of stuff and so you have
to learn how to be frugal and other ways to save on money go to Leviticus chapter 26 Leviticus
chapter 26 now I'm going to show you all kinds of different versions in the Bible some of them have
a very unique context that isn't really a part of our sermon but I'm just taking different things
out and kind of using it in our context so this next example it's it's a negative portion of
scripture it's talking about curse it's talking about how the children of Israel are gonna
eventually reject God and want nothing with the Lord and some of the punishments that come upon
them but I do want to take this concept out and then I'll kind of put it into our sermon look what
it says Leviticus 26 verse 26 and when I have broken the staff of your bread ten women shall
bake your bread in one oven and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight and ye shall eat
and not be satisfied now what this is saying is that eventually God's gonna break their stay of
bread in the sense that they can no longer rely on this bread and another way you could look at
this their staff okay staff or stay is kind of a similar word being about a staff what does the
staff do a staff kind of holds you up it's kind of like something that's just kind of getting you
through right you're going through the wilderness is there to support you it's something that kind
of holds you up and food is the same way food kind of keeps you supported it kind of keeps you up it
gives you strength and so somewhere to break your staff now you have no longer that support
that strength something helping you and so God's saying I'm gonna break the staff of food you're
no longer gonna be able to rely on bread as something to support you to strengthen you and
so it was a curse put upon them and he's saying ten women can bake in one oven now typically you
don't want to bake a lot of pieces of bread in an oven that's gonna cause problems you know with
the way it rises or the heat being applied appropriately so the fact that they can bake
ten pieces in one oven illustrates that their breads really small I mean this is like crackers
or something they're able to fit ten pieces and notice that they're having to weigh it okay it's
saying that they have to weigh your bread and they deliver it to you and it's still not enough you
can't be satisfied with these little crackers or whatever go to Ezekiel chapter 4 just so you can
compare these two verses it'll make a little more sense in your mind but why would you point out
this verse you know what is the point of this verse well here's the point of this verse when
things get tough when the finances get tight sometimes you have to really think about all of
the budget you have to really think about the food and that's coming into play because notice
they can't just eat willy-nilly they can't just eat however they want they have to measure it by
weight and have to be very careful because if they eat too much too quickly they'll just
completely run out of food and the reality is sometimes in life you go through a down spot you
go through a rough spot where you just have to really think about your budget to think about
your food and you know a Proverbs 31 woman even if she's going through a rough spot she's gonna
be able to you know what measure and calculate and think about these things because the opposite
option would just be let's just eat you know carelessly let's not think about tomorrow well
those people are gonna end up eating their children later okay they're gonna end up having
no food and becoming so hungry to the point where they literally eat their own children so just a
natural inclination would be when you're having a tough time you start thinking about calculating
and measuring your food and really you don't want to waste food you know why would you want to
imagine you made a meal for a hundred people for just you and your spouse what's gonna happen you're
gonna end up throwing lots of food away and it's gonna be you know a wasteful of money so you want
to think about the portions you want to think about the sizes of the meals you want to make
sure it's being used appropriately and effectively why just to be frugal what was point of one being
frugal women cooking at home can be frugal they can think about these things look at Ezekiel
chapter 4 verse 16 the Bible says moreover he said unto me son of man behold I will break the
bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with care and they shall drink water
by measure and with astonishment that they may want bread and water and be a stony one with
another and consume away for their iniquity now why would I point of verses like this I'm gonna
point out verses like this because in America it's kind of a foreign concept to us to eat limited
portions of food because we live in so much abundance I mean our country just throws away
so much food and if you don't eat stuff it's normal to just throw it away but if you go to
other countries they would be so offended that you threw any food away they would be horrified
that you threw food away they'd be horrified by our portions they'd be horrified by the fact that
we just don't even care I mean we just make food just like it's just nothing you know we don't even
care and when you're rich and it doesn't matter you don't have to care that's another thing you
don't realize you know obviously there's bigger fish to fry at sometimes but there could be coming
a day in America where finances are tight for a lot of people for the majority of people and then
you have to start thinking about portion control and you know what the wise woman will the wise
woman will measure and weigh and be careful and make good decisions and you know what if you're
already in the habit of making good decisions it's gonna be even easier when the hard times
come than the people that have just been eating carelessly not caring about it not used to it
they're just ready for all their food to be delivered to them hand and foot hand and toe
you know the Bible warns there's gonna be famines you know who escaped the famine were the people
that were measuring their food and and being careful with their food and careful the finances
and being studious and a good steward of the things that God has blessed them with now go
through the first Kings chapter number 17 let me show you an example of this first Kings chapter
number 17 let me show you a clear example of this but being frugal is a good thing you know why would
God want to bless people that are just being wasteful of everything they're given anyways oh
here's all this money and here's all this food and all this exuberance and you're just like sure I'll
just waste everything you give me and and who cares you know it actually makes me feel bad
when I waste food and you know I do waste food my family waste food from time to time but you know
what it shouldn't be something that you feel good about it should be something you think about you
consider and try to perfect and get better at making sure you're not just wasting things and
being a bad steward of the things you've been given now one thing that's really hard is to
prepare all the food or think about how much food you need for a soul-winding marathon that nobody
RSVPs to you know it's like just guess you know it's like it's really hard so you have to think
about I mean I think really hard about who's coming I think about who says coming you know how
how likely is the person that said they're gonna come actually gonna come how many people you know
how much do they really eat you know I have to think about all the things I don't like tell
people like I know you're not coming and you're gonna eat way too much and you don't care about
other people and like I don't tell people that but I think about it why because I want to be
really good with the finances and I want to make sure that we do a pretty good job and it comes out
pretty close and you know I try to as the church you know go a little above I'd rather have just a
tad bit more than just kind of like someone didn't get lunch or something but again I want it to be
about as close as possible you know I don't want to just waste a bunch of money I don't want to
waste a bunch of of the church's resources then why would God want to keep giving me money and
keep blessing our church and keep allowing us to have these type of events and fellowships look at
first Kings chapter 17 verse number 10 now this is Elijah fleeing in a famine it says in verse 10
so he rose and went to Zarephath and when he came to the gate of the city behold the widow woman
was there gathering of sticks and he called her and said fetch me I pray the little water in a
vessel that I may drink and as she was going to fetch it he called to her and said bring me I
pray thee a marshal of bread in thine hand and as and she said as the Lord thy God liveth I have
not a cake but a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil and a cruise and behold I am gathering
two sticks that I may go in and dress it for me and my son they may eat it and die and Eliza said
in her fear not go and do as thou has said but make me there of a little cake first and bring it
unto me and after make for thee and for thy son for thus saith the Lord God of Israel the barrel
of meal shall not waste neither shall the cruise of oil fail until the day that the Lord sendeth
rain upon the earth and she went and did according to the saying of Elijah and she and he and her
house did eat many days so notice you know even if you are living and kind of an austere life God
can supernaturally or miraculously provide for you but notice it wasn't like something fancy it
wasn't something necessarily you know over the top they didn't have all the grapes and all the
dates and the danishes and all the fancy foods and everything because it was a tough time and you
want America could potentially go through a tough time you know what she was careful in the way that
she presented her food and she had saved it all the way down to the last meal literally think
about that you don't like accidentally stumble across the last meal I mean she had been carefully
you know keeping this but eventually it just got to the point where you know this is our last meal
literally but she's still you know what I'm gonna have faith in God and she trusted in the Lord and
she did that which was right and the man of God you know ends up eating and she ends up eating for
a long period of time and I believe it's part and due the fact that she's frugal you know why would
God pick this woman because she's a frugal person and you know it doesn't say you know there's other
stories that are kind of similar but in this one it doesn't say that she necessarily knew that it
was gonna keep she's just measuring up the same portion just every single day and it just never
stops first by some miracle of the Lord that she just keeps doing the same thing and the Lord
blesses her and blesses Elijah in this example go back to Proverbs 31 Proverbs 31 so point number
one women cooking at home why would women do that because it's frugal I feel like I showed plenty of
verses I only need one to believe anything in the Bible but I've shown lots of examples of why a
woman you know the Proverbs 31 one should be frugal and how eating out you know you're just
lying to yourself if you think that not cooking at home is being more frugal now obviously you
could take anything to an extreme yeah if I eat McDonald Happy Meal versus buying organic Colby
beef online and cooking at home yeah it could be I could flip those odds or whatever we're just
generically speaking here okay about the same type of meal same quality it's always gonna be
cheaper when you're putting the effort the energy into that process Proverbs 31 look at verse 15
she rises also wild as yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens so
point number one why women should cook at home because it's frugal point number two because
they're supposed to serve others it's serving cooking at home is literally serving other people
but notice the Proverbs 31 she's rising early this is before the Sun has even come up why
so that she can make sure that the food for a household has been provided everyone around and
she goes beyond her household to her maidens she's getting up and making sure she's providing all of
the food for her family why because she wants to serve them and she wants to feed everyone why is
it important that she feeds people well food is for your strength if you don't have food if you're
you know going on a hungry stomach sometimes you cannot perform as well I remember in school they
hammered this on test day they're like you need to eat a breakfast you need to get lots of sleep
you know you get drink water and stuff and as a kid you're just like I don't care at all you know
but like as an adult you can kind of see like oh yeah sleeping and eating and drinking actually
has an effect on my brain on my attitude and all kinds of attributes that are important while
taking a test or learning or anything like that and so this woman knows these things and she wants
her family to have strength for the day keep your finger here real quick and go to Ecclesiastes 10
let me show you verse on that we say why do you eat well one of the main reasons we should eat
is literally for strength and you know what McDonald's is not gonna make you that strong
now why do I eat McDonald's because it's convenient nothing else is open and tastes good okay but it's
not for strength you know it's just enough strength to get home or something it's just
enough strength to last for another day but you know there's better foods that will give you even
more strength and look what it says in Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 17 blessed art thou land when thy
king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength and not for drunkenness
so the Bible says it's good when leaders the purpose of them eating is for strength not just
self-indulge not just to go and enjoy and to just oh man I just love food ah you know Tony Hudson
type preaching okay where he just can't stop talking about every kind of food and how much
he enjoys it's like we can tell buddy you enjoy food all right and the reality is you know I like
food just as much as the next guy but the prince should realize my life is not here to just consume
food it's to do work and you know what I need food so I can do that work well you know what
that's not my purpose my purpose is to preach the gospel and to win people to Christ go back to
Proverbs 31 and look at verse 27 it says this she looketh well to the ways of her household and
eateth not the bread of idleness so again rising up early that's hard work you know it's not being
lazy and she's looking well because what she's here to serve other people the Proverbs 31 woman
is a servant she works super hard and it's gonna be easy to you know give her praise when you read
all the characteristics that she has I mean why would you not want to praise the person that's
constantly serving you I mean in America it's not even hard when you go to a restaurant and
and the service is exceptional it's easy for you to be like thank you that was great you did a
really good job when the service is terrible you you kind of feel bad about even giving you a tip
you're like you know my tip is get better you know my tip is coming around every once in a
while my tip is get my order right you know all the different things but the person that's just
serving you hand and foot you don't even know the person and you're like thanks you did great that
was awesome it's not even hard and look your spouse that's just serving you hand and foot and
just doing everything you could possibly want and wish and making home-cooked meals that are the
best meals you've ever had I mean you're just like that's great it's not hard to be appreciative of
those qualities and attributes in a person everyone does it okay go to it to Genesis chapter number
18 go to Genesis chapter number 18 and a woman's job is to serve and you say oh I wish I was a man
then well guess what his job is to serve too okay it's not like you know serving the Lord or serving
your boss at work is just so much easier than serving your husband or something it's just
different okay and in many cases serving your boss is way worse than serving your spouse I mean
I would rather serve my wife than serve some random dude that doesn't like me that's in some
atheist or some Karen some lesbian Karen that's the manager now the middle-tier manager why would
I don't even like that person you know I don't want to be around that person I don't want to say
yes sir and yes ma'am to that thing you know I want to tell it to go to hell but at the end of
the day you know why is it so bad to serve a husband to serve you know for a wife to serve
her man you know it makes perfect sense and in fact it's a great job now Genesis chapter 18 I'm
going to show you a couple other ways that to serve you know one person that you can serve is
your spouse your children but the Bible also teaches that you know a pastor or a deacon these
type of people they're supposed to be given to hospitality and a pastor deacon well some people
may never be that it's an example of what all Christians are supposed to be like and one of
those attributes is just given to hospitality in general so just being kind and hospitable to guest
and helping other people and you're gonna run into guests in the Bible and let's see what the godly
I mean one of the godliest women in the Bible is called Sarah okay let's see what she was like
Genesis chapter 18 look at verse number 4 Genesis chapter number 18 look at verse number 4 let a
little water I pray you be fetch and wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree so this
is Abraham talking to the Lord and the two angels and I will fetch a morsel of bread and comfort
your hearts after that you shall pass on for therefore are you come to your servant and they
said so do as thou said an Abraham hastened in the tent on a sarin said make ready quickly three
measures of fine meal need it and make cakes upon the earth and she said why can't they go to
McDonald's on the corner you know why don't they make their own food why are you telling me what
to do no no she did it no it wasn't hard for her to just obey her husband and just say okay
and notice she wasn't expecting guests but you know what she's ready just make stuff on the fly
and she's prepared and you know sometimes you need to just make stuff on the scratch you know
make stuff from scratch or be able to do things on the fly and you know notice what it says a few
measures of meal right three measures of fine meal need it and make cakes upon the earth she
has all the raw ingredients she's just ready to make anything just on command on wish and you know
the greatest kitchens the greatest restaurants they can make food the foods ready to order and
I don't know why that phrase makes no sense to me but basically what that means is you just tell
them exactly you want it and then they just make it you know or they just have the ingredients and
they can just make whatever you want just whatever you're just thinking just right off the spot and
you know what if you want to be one of the best cooks you should be able to make things from
scratch even not only from a frugal perspective just from a serving perspective you know better
quality better taste better you know made exactly how they want it and this woman's just ready to
make stuff go if you would to first see him at 25 go to first him I'm showing you a few examples
here first the animal 25 but if your job and your role is to serve then you know you should be ready
to help other people you know people show up I'm ready to make them some cakes I'm ready to make
them some food you know I can whip something up real quick she's ready to go she's not saying well
I don't know how to cook cooking what's that you know meal I don't even know what you're talking
about she's ready to make something and she has the skill set to do it you know you can test that
on your husband right first day I'm at 25 look at verse 18 then Abigail made haste and took 200 loaves
and two bottles of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched corn and
a hundred clusters of raisin and 200 cakes of figs and laid them on asses now this is an interesting
story okay because David he comes in a ball and he's basically asking to be requited for all of
the protection that his men had provided them from evil and they were like a wall under them
as the Bible says and they didn't do any harm to them and so he's basically just asking for some
food at asking for some substance and a ball refuses and rails on David well Abigail his wife
understands that Dave is going to come and destroy not only a navel but everyone just the entire
household and an effort to preserve her family she's gonna end up providing that food but notice
how much food she has ready to go just right on the bat I mean this is incredible 200 loaves
two bottles of wine five sheep ready dressed five measures of parched corn and a hundred clusters of
raisins and 200 cakes of figs and later my look this is not a kind of woman who's just surprised
by making food you don't have that much food ready that quickly you know and that type of
magnitude and scale I mean this must have been a daily operation for someone like her she's
providing for not only her household but what her maidens right they're used to providing food for
lots of different people and taking care of lots of different people and she's a servant and she
comes on to David humbly and she's there to serve David a man she's never even met and then God ends
up killing her reprobate husband and she marries David so you know it works out really good for her
but he didn't pick the woman that's like I don't even know what food is you know I don't even know
how to cook you know what's this world no he found the woman who had 200 loaves of bread ready
I mean that's a lot of food that sounds good I bet it was good food too you know and you think
about jail go to Proverbs 14 go to Proverbs chapter 14 jail in the book of Judges you know
the Bible talks about evil wicked guy coming under her he asked for water and she gave him
milk and butter in a lordly dish you know the great women of the Bible are always great cooks
you know they always have all this food they can make things from scratch first no sorry
Proverbs chapter 14 look at verse number one the Bible says every wise woman buildeth her house but
the foolish plucketh it down with her hands and you know a wise woman she's gonna care about her
household she's gonna build it up go backwards to chapter number nine chapter nine I read that verse
because it's saying that the wise woman's building her house and then in Proverbs 9 it talks
about wisdom and it personifies it as a woman but I believe you could take Proverbs 9 and
interpret it as a instructions for a wife instructions for a woman based on the
personification and the application wisdom hath builded her house so notice the wise
woman builds her house wisdom itself builds his house she hath hewn out her seven pillars
she hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also furnished a table you
know I like about her sue what's for dinner beef beef she's killing her beasts and maybe
it's chicken okay but at least it's meat it's not gonna be a vegetarian option you know there
is no vegetarian option with her because she's killed her beasts you know and look this that
takes some strength I mean killing an animal takes it I mean you got to hold that thing down
you got to get a knife I mean you got a saw through skin you got a saw through all kinds
of muscle and all kinds of different things I mean this takes a lot of effort a lot of energy
she killed it she can kill the beast she also mingled her wine mingled is just a very synonymous
word mixed okay now some people think that wine always means an alcoholic beverage but wine could
be an alcoholic beverage it could also just be the juice of vine of the vine okay or the juice
of fruit and so when it's talking about mixing this why does it say mixed well if you understand
juice at all like you know anything about juice you realize that it's almost never drinking straight
it's never just only the juice from a vet from the fruit it's mixed with water and you know you
buy a great concentrate at the store you buy these type of things it's mixed with water to produce
some kind of juice a hundred percent juice is so strong it has such a high potency that most people
wouldn't even enjoy it and even if you did it's kind of a waste because you could mix it and water
it down still make a very good beverage but it would last a lot longer you know I'd go a lot
further and so it's talking about mingling her wine it's talking about she's made really good
beverages she's making these really good fruit cocktails these juice drinks and so she don't
really thinks about just the meal she thinks about the juice she thinks about the drinks she thinks
about everything that goes along with the meal I mean you're enjoying a really five-star course meal
with this woman she's furnished her table all the side dishes it's just all ready to go I mean this
is a course that you want to enjoy verse three she has sent forth her maiden she cried upon the
highest places of the city who so as simple let him turn hither as for him that wanted the
understanding she say at them come eat of my bread and drink of the wine which I have mingled now
this attitude to me just sounds like someone that's given hospitality right I mean she just
she's ready to just allow people to come and eat of her bread and in order to be her bread it sounds
like she made it how come every woman's is making good bread I mean I feel like I feel like I'm
seeing a theme here in the Bible right you know what my wife's rolls her to die for okay so I
really like the bread and I have that personal anecdote to connect with these stories all right
but I mean I love some really good bread and the Bible makes it clear that you know a woman's there
to serve she's there to serve not only her husband serve her family but even in cases like this guess
other people she's very hospitable she's willing to serve other people's not above her go to Genesis
chapter 27 Genesis chapter 27 I'll show you another point in serving and you know when it
comes to meals I like for my wife to ask me about those things you know ask me about what kind of
foods I like or what kind of spices and you know when you go to a restaurant that's how it always
is right you go to the restaurant how do you want it cooked what you tell them what vegetables you
want on it do you want that dry you want mustard you want mayonnaise never put mayonnaise on it
okay ketchup do you want you know some a1 with your steak no that's an abomination you know you
know whatever it is you're gonna tell them all the different things hey don't put salt on it do
put this dressing on the side no tomatoes add tomatoes add cucumber I mean whatever it is I
mean you sit there and you tell them up and down what you're gonna want on the meal so why would
it be so crazy for you to have that same communication with your wife and say hey I like
it like this I want to cook this way I like this stuff in it you know these type of things and you
say well why would a wife do that because the goal is to please her husband because the goal
is how does my husband like it not how the the recipe is not however the next guy over wants it
not all the neighbor wants it not how the dog wants it how does the husband want it right well
do you have a biblical text on that yeah I do actually look at Genesis chapter 27 and look at
verse number two and he said behold now I'm old I know not the day of my death now therefore take
I pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and thy bow and go out to the field and take me some venison
and make me savour meat such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat that my soul may bless thee
before I die so Jacob is going to bless his son Esau I'm sorry Isaac Isaac is gonna bless Esau and
he's telling Esau he wants a very specific meal sounds like he knows what he likes and it says in
verse 5 and Rebecca when when Rebecca heard when Isaac spake Esau's son and Esau went to the field
to hunt for venison and to bring it and Rebecca spake unto Jacob her son saying behold I heard
thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying bring me venison and make me savoury meat that
I may eat and bless thee before the Lord before my death now therefore my son obey my
voice according to that which I command thee go now to the flock and fetch me from thence two
good kids of the goats and I will make them savour meat for thy father such as he loveth
now how could she how could Rebecca make a statement like that if she has no idea what
her husband likes no she knows exactly what her husband likes and she's gonna make a meal exactly
like he likes it now you can say oh this is just a story this is what happens yeah but if you
understand the spiritual picture here you know what this is Isaac is God the Father and Rebecca
is Jesus Christ and we the Gentiles are Jacob and Esau is the Jews okay and really what happens is
she's gonna end up making the offering that he's going to bring that's gonna end up making him
accepted with the Father okay and who's that sacrifice it's Jesus Christ and he knows the
type of offering that God the Father likes the only kind of offering that he's going to accept
which is a son so if you're gonna say this is a bad example that's to say that Jesus Christ's
offering was a bad example and that's we know is not true okay so this is a good example and what
I'm telling you is if you want your husband to be pleased with you make him that savoury meat that
he likes and notice savoury and notice meat okay both of these are really good qualities in food
all right go over with Esther chapter 5 Esther chapter 5 think about the palette of your husband
think about what he likes and make the food that he likes because ultimately that should be the
only thing that matters anyways you know who cares what other people like if he likes it you
just make it like he likes it Esther chapter 5 verse number 3 the Bible says then said the
king under her what wilt thou Queen Esther and what is thy request it shall be given even given
thee to the half of thy kingdom and Esther answered if it seemed good unto the king let
the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him now this is
interesting he says I'll give you whatever you want what do you want come to the meal that I
made for you that doesn't even seem like it was a hard decision it was like hey I've made this
really great meal for you will you come to it it's like yeah and not only him she invites Haman
she's inviting others she's making this banquet she makes a whole banquet just to then ask him
a question and you know if you really want your husband to please with you if you're really
thinking about something you want to ask for him why don't you make a really good meal before you
ask him all right so there you go there's your tip now go to first to me chapter 5 I'm almost
finished but point number two is why should women cook at home because their goal is to serve their
goal is to serve they are a servant and if you're gonna be a servant then you have to serve in some
way what's one of the best ways to serve for a woman cooking at home point was being frugal
point two is being a servant and I'm gonna give you my third point of why women cooking at home
is something that's biblical or what they why they should do it is because it's a good example
a good example and look what it says in verse Timothy chapter 5 verse 14 I will therefore that
the younger women marry bear children guide the house so it's actually a commandment that women
should guide the house now what's one of the affairs of the household is food you know one
of the aspects of guiding the house go if you would to Titus chapter 2 Titus chapter 2 I'll
show you another verse here that's very similar Titus chapter 2 and look at verse number 5 this
is about what women are supposed to be like to be discreet chase keepers at home and you know when
we read about the progress 31 woman what are all the things she's doing things at home she's the
cooking the cleaning she's doing the you know the purchasing stuff that's about the house she's
taking care of the people that are in the house she's taking care of the kids that are at the
house the kids are at the table we constantly see every you know godly woman in the Bible they're
making bread they're making meals they're making food it just it's perfectly fitting in with what
the Bible is teaching commanding women to do but we understand about Titus chapter number 2 is not
only is this a commandment it's kind of an indirect commandment because the primary application is
that women are actually teaching other women by being a good example look what it says in verse
number 3 the aged women likewise that they be in behavior as become a holiness not false accusers
not given too much wine teachers of good things now here's the thing what's the essence of Titus
chapter 2 verse 3 that women be in behavior okay now if you're in a good behavior if you have a
good behavior good attributes good character you're doing good things what are going to be
the results of that what does that look like well it looks like someone that's not a false
accuser if a woman's a false accuser she's not in good behavior okay if she's given too much wine
she's not a good behavior if she's not teaching good things then she would be not in behavior so
someone that's in good behavior it's gonna end up doing what teaching good things you know I believe
the best way for women to teach other women is by a good example is by being a good example by
being in good behavior it's gonna end up teaching them good things verse 4 that they may teach the
young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chase keepers
at home good obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed he asked me a
pastor Shelley how are women supposed to teach other women to love their husbands what's the best
way should they have like a tip sheet you know it's the best way for them to just love their
husband and just be a really good example of what it looks like to love their husband because
whenever you see the older women you see your mother you see your aunt's you see the women
that you look up to loving their husband and all the things they do because look love is too
complicated to give you a task list to give you a sheet to give you an instruction manual to give
you instruction booklet you know it's something that you see and love can be observed a mile away
and love can be observed in every little nuance the way someone speaks the words they use the
tone that they use the way they sit the way they hold themselves the way they they touch or don't
touch or the way that they provide for things the way they dress though the looks that they give I
mean you can look at a couple and never speak to them and tell if they're in love or not you can
tell by how close they sit to each other how much they touch the way they look the way they talk to
each other just all their hours first I mean I've seen it you've seen couples where the guys are
clueless as a puppy and the wife is mad as a bulldog and you're just thinking like that guy
has no idea what's going on but you know what I can tell I can see what's going on and so you know
well how could a woman be teaching all these other women you know it sounds like she needs to get up
behind the pulpit you know no you're not that's you know how she does it she just loves her
husband and when she's doing good and she's having a meek and quiet spirit you know other
women can see that and say you know what I should be like her you teach a lot better by example
oftentimes than by your words than by the things that you say and when you love your husband you're
loving your children you're a keeper at home you're gonna end up teaching other women to do
the exact same thing and here's the most important women and another woman's life is their children
if a wife does not cook for her family why would you expect your daughter to then cook for her
family and here's the reality oftentimes children will not exceed the bar set by the parents
let me say that again oftentimes children will not exceed the bar set by the parents
hey if the parents were you know kind of involved in church usually kids are gonna be there at the
kinder or low now obviously there's exceptions to everything but what I'm saying is just generally
speaking most people don't even live up to the bar of their parents and so the bar that a parent
sets for their children is so important the things that they do and you know if you don't teach your
children how to do these things right and how to be a good example you know if you don't set a high
bar for your children how can you expect them to do right train up a child the way should go and
when he's old he will not depart from it it doesn't say do nothing and expect them to do
better no you need to do that you need to learn for yourself so then you can teach your children
you need to learn how to you know make good decisions financially so that your children
can make good decisions financially you show your kids hey this is why I'm buying this one
and not this one because this one's gonna be molded soon or this has a bad expiration date
or this one is more expensive this one's cheaper or did you see the ingredients here and you start
teaching and training your children all the decisions why you're making decisions that
you're making how to cook certain meals you know when it comes to cooking cooking is is an art man
you can give somebody all the instructions on paper and they can screw everything up because
it just takes so much experience it takes so much you know creativity it takes a lot of things
involved it takes just knowing things knowing exactly okay this burner is gonna be a little
too hot or this oven you've got to make sure it works this way and you got it here's a trick and
here's a tip and you want to put a little salt in it and there's just all these little nuances that
come to cooking they just don't come naturally they come through experience they come through
doing it and doing the work you know no one's automatically a good cook you're a good cook
because you do it all the time you're good at a lot of things because you do them all the time
go go to Proverbs 23 Proverbs 23 I only have two more verses and we'll be finished this evening but
it's a little bit different kind of sermon but at the end of the day I think it's very biblical and
it'll really help people if they employ these tactics into their lives and you know it's a
Baptist Church so we need to have good food in the future okay FYI all right I get to enjoy some
of these delicacies every once in a while and so you know I'm just trying to make the food even
better at our fellowships right but look at Proverbs 23 and look at verse number 20 Proverbs 23
look at verse number 20 the Bible reads be not among wine bibbers among riotous eaters of flesh
for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe the man with
rags here's another point that I want to make is by being a good example by making a lot of meals
at home you can affect portion control and you know unfortunately people don't you know hold
themselves accountable for a lot of things and when you go out to eat I mean the portion sizes
when you have to eat very so much some restaurants they give small portions most restaurants give
huge portions why because America by and large is very self-indulgent they don't exercise any
self-control and so the amount I mean you talk about the food sizes it's like I want to you know
supersize that and I want eight patties on the burger and I want you know eight sides and I want
you know everything everything's just in excess you know and the portion size only get bigger and
bigger and bigger over time I mean it just becomes like the triple and the quadruple and I mean I
think it at Wendy's they have like a quadruple stack burger or something like that I mean it's
just like you know it's insane how portion control just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger
and you know what parents should end up teaching their kids good portion control healthy eating
habits and these you know things that they should create because notice the right is either flesh
is somebody nice was me around according the Bible meaning what they don't even care they just eat
and just eat and eat and they just have no self-control go if you would to first Peter
chapter number three first Peter chapter number three and not only just when it comes to the
quantity even the quality some people just have no self-control when it comes to quality I mean
they'll just eat Twinkies for every meal you know they'll just eat just junk food and they don't
think about if it's even gonna sustain them for the day you know they eat junk food that only
lasts like a few hours and then they're wondering why they're hungry again and they're wondering why
you know that didn't satisfy them I mean if I just eat M&Ms and Skittles you know it's not gonna last
me very long it's just gonna give me a sugar high and then I'm gonna crash hard and need even more
sugar that's why people can eat these type of foods you know what there are certain foods I
could give you you couldn't just keep eating them I mean things that are high in fiber I mean if I
just gave you a bunch of carrots you're gonna stop eating the carrots pretty soon I mean you're not
just gonna be like oh I can't get enough of these carrots right but if I give you like M&Ms and I
give you a coke and I give you all these things I mean you can just consume that until you die I
mean it's just like why because it's engineered to be able to be consumed in high quantities now
if you're gonna create a company and you're gonna try and sell a food and the goal is to make money
do you want to sell a food that people can consume just as much as they want and never be satisfied
or do you want to produce a food that they could eat a little of and be very satisfied hmm I wonder
what you see at all the convenience stores it's the carrots right there's the celery and the
broccoli and potatoes or is it just sugar why because sugar is just processed so quickly and
it just goes in your blood your bloodstream it tastes good and everything like that and so it's
important to realize the things that you're eating and look I love chocolate okay I love candy I love
all these things but we just have to realize you know it's not necessarily gonna be beneficial if
that's all you consume if that's all you type if that's all you eat we want to be a good example
unto our children now here's my last verse and it's kind of a concluding verse let me cook you
know why should they cook at home well number one it's frugal okay number two because they're
supposed to serve and number three it's to be a good example okay all three of those are very
biblical concepts and you say well I don't know if I want to serve my husband I mean what's what's
the point of that what's the point of being a good example what's the point of being frugal
and all these things you know my husband doesn't even appreciate me my husband doesn't even love
me very much or my husband doesn't deserve it or any of these things or I wish he was better well
by being a good example and following all these things that I showed you you can actually improve
your relationship look what it says in 1st Peter chapter 3 verse 1 this second epistle beloved I
now write unto you and both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance I'm reading 2nd
Peter I don't know why I need like a big 2 on the page or something so I realize we're at 1st
Peter chapter 3 verse 1 likewise he wise being subjection to your own husbands that if any obey
not the word they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wise while they
behold your chase conversation coupled with fear you know the Bible says a wife being godly a wife
having a good lifestyle and a good you know attributes about her can actually win her
husband over now obviously cooking is only one aspect of this okay I'm not saying that cooking
is the only application here it's essentially saying all areas of life but it's a major area
of life and you know what men you know if you want to win a man's heart is through a stomach in many
cases I mean if you're making some of the best meals and you're serving them hand and foot I
guarantee it's gonna make a vast improvement in your relationship and it's something that we have
to do multiple times a day is eat I mean most people eat most a couple times a day and so why
not do it the best that you possibly can and save some money you know be a good servant while you're
at it and be a good example unto those that are around you let's go in prayer thank you father so
much for your word thank you for giving us just clear instruction all areas of life and I pray
that people would instead of worrying about you know how good or bad they are that they would just
think about something that could improve on they would just think about okay what's an area that I
could work on what's an area that I can improve on and what's some of your instruction what are
the things that you're teaching and telling me and I pray that you would just bless the women in this
church do you bless the marriages in this church and that we would all strive to serve you in Jesus
name we pray amen her last song we're gonna sing four hundred and seventy two brother hauls gonna
lead for us again four hundred seventy two this is my father's world all right the last hymn this
evening four hundred seventy two this is my father's world four seventy two four hundred
seventy two let's sing this is my father's world and to my listening ears all nature sings and
rounds be rings this is my father's world I rest me in the thought of rocks and trees of skies and
seas and wonders brought this is my father's world the hoppers their carols raise the morning
like me he shines in all that's fair in the rustling grass everywhere this is my father's
oh let me forget that the wrong see him so strong is the ruler yet this is my father's
world the battle is Jesus who died shall be satisfied amen with that you are dismissed
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