Godly Motherhood | Proverbs 31:10-31

Godly Motherhood Cannot Be Considered in Isolation

Okay, Proverbs 31, verse 10. God's word speaks and says, an excellent wife who can find, for her worth is far above pearls. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She deals bountifully with him for good and not evil all the days of her life.

She searches for wool and flax, and works with her hands in delight. She is like merchant ships. She brings her food from afar, and she rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household and a portion to her young women.

She makes plans for a field and buys it. From the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard. She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong. She senses that her gain is good. Her lamp does not go out at night.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold fast the spindle. She extends her hand to the poor, and she stretches out her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She makes coverings for herself. Her clothing is fine linen and purple. Her husband is known in the gates when he sits with the elders of the land. She makes linen garments and sells them, and gives belts to the tradesmen.

Strength and majesty are her clothing, and she smiles at the future. She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the instruction of loving kindness is on her tongue. She watches over the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Her children rise up and bless her. As for her husband, he also praises her, saying, many daughters have done excellently, but you have gone above them all. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised.

Give to her from the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. And this is God's word, amen. So, happy Mother's Day to all our mothers, and aspiring mothers. We are so grateful and blessed to have godly women and mothers in our church.

And in light of that, it's always important to days like these, even though it is Mother's Day, it is primarily, first and foremost, the Lord's Day, but I thought it would be very important for us to go through the subject in God's word of motherhood, of godly motherhood.

And it's a good opportunity to take advantage of, to remind us and to instruct us on the importance of godly motherhood, and what it is, and what it is not. So, this leads me to my first public servant's announcement for today, and that is that motherhood, motherhood cannot be considered in isolation.

Motherhood cannot be considered in isolation. That is unbiblical. You are not just a mother, in other words. You are many other things, and are called to be many other things. Because biblical motherhood necessarily presupposes presupposes other identities, roles, responsibilities, and relationships for a woman.

It's not just about motherhood, in other words. Because motherhood, biblically, and necessarily presupposes other identities, roles, relationships, responsibilities, et cetera. And I was curious to learn this, because as I was studying for this message, I found out that God, in his word, does not directly address women as mothers in the word of God.

He doesn't really say mothers do this, or mothers be this, or that, or anything like that. He doesn't address mothers directly. He does address fathers, right? He does address fathers. I think in 1 John, we covered that passage about fathers, and also in Ephesians 6, he says, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.

Some take that to mean fathers and mothers, parents, but I think even that word there is pateres. It's paternal, it's fathers, primarily. So maybe in an indirect sense, it addresses mothers as well, because she is also a parent, but it's not really directly addressed in Scripture, or they're not really directly addressed in Scripture as mothers.

However, they are addressed in various other ways as mothers, all throughout Scripture, all throughout the pages of Holy Writ. So there's a lot of important passages regarding this all-important subject matter of motherhood, and that is also because God himself has designed, he has instituted a logical, necessary creation order, a creation order to our creation identities and roles as men and women.

That is part of the natural creation that God built us as, natural creation order and identities and roles. So then this brings me to my main thesis for today. A godly mother, therefore, and grandmothers as well, by extension, but it's primarily mother as the basic role there.

A Godly Mother Is a Godly Daughter

A godly mother, therefore, is also a godly daughter. She is also a godly wife. She is also a godly woman. And she is also a godly Christian. She is also a godly Christian. Okay, a godly mother is also a godly daughter, a godly wife, a godly woman, a godly Christian.

In fact, this really fascinated me because this led me to realize, to understand that godly motherhood is the last link in the chain of womanhood. It's the last link in the chain of womanhood. It is, in a sense, the summation of a woman's roles and responsibilities.

It is the logical outflow or the continuation of her prior roles, creation roles, and relationships and responsibilities. So very important to understand that, that godly motherhood is really the final link in this chain of womanhood, which brings me now to my next public service announcement, which you might be able to deduce at this point, and that is that you cannot, you cannot be a godly mother without or apart from also being a godly wife, a godly daughter, a godly woman, a godly Christian.

You cannot be a godly mother apart from also being these roles in a godly way. That is how God designed, ordained, and instituted the family to function in various roles, responsibilities, capacities, relationships.

This also means, then, that as a woman, if you struggle in any of these prior roles, relationships, responsibilities, and identities, you will struggle to be a godly mother as well.

Why?

Because they're all related. They're all interconnected. They're all interdependent, right? There's a logical creation order there. You cannot divorce one from the other. That's simply impossible. We, thus, cannot even begin to understand godly motherhood without first having a foundational biblical understanding of these prior identities, roles, responsibilities, and relationships according to God's word, according to God's word.

Now, some of this might sound a little new, or maybe not I've heard it put quite that way, but the reality is that's what Scripture teaches us. And not surprisingly, not surprisingly, take careful note of how the very last chapter of the book of Proverbs, the very last chapter of the book of Proverbs, the book of God's wisdom, is about all aspects of godly, virtuous womanhood, all of them that I listed.

They encompass, that chapter encompasses the full range of the character and responsibilities of a woman of strength and excellence, like verse one says in that chapter. A woman who embraces and lives out all of her feminine roles lovingly and faithfully, all of them, they're all there.

And we will see more clearly as we continue to unpack that passage. Now, what was the first one that I mentioned? That a godly mother is, a godly mother is a godly daughter. A godly mother is a godly daughter.

She is first a godly daughter. That comes first in order. Before you become a mother as a woman, you first are a daughter yourself and have your own daughters and children. This brings us back to Proverbs 31.

What does Proverbs 31 verse 29 say?

Many what?

Many daughters. Many daughters have done excellently, but you, a mother, a woman of strength, have gone above them all. Amen, right? The Amplified, I like how the Amplified puts it. Many daughters have done nobly and well with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness, but you excel them all.

You excel them all as a godly daughter. And ask yourself anyway, how can you be a godly mother without first being a godly daughter? You can't. It doesn't make any sense because a godly mother knows how to raise a godly daughter.

And that is how we start out ourselves as sons and daughters of our parents. This is, after all, you know, it shouldn't sound strange to us. Sometimes it does because in our modern culture and churches, we tend to disconnect these things, to disconnect these roles.

You know, I can be an independent woman and still be a good mother. Or have a full-time career and still be a godly mother. It's like, well, don't kid yourself. That's pretty difficult to do. There's a reason why Scripture says these things.

Not to mention that being a godly daughter is part of the 10 Commandments, right? It's part of the moral law, the eternal, unchanging moral law of God. What is the fifth commandment? Like the Baptist larger catechism shows us.

The fifth commandment is honor your father and your mother, right? That your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

Amen?

The fifth commandment is to honor our parents as sons and daughters. As daughters for you women, for you sisters. Now, to whom does father and mother refer to in the fifth commandment? This is an important question because some of us, some of you all, ladies, sisters, you may have gotten saved later on in life after you left your parents' home or after your parents may have passed away.

So in those situations, those are exceptions, however, to this order of God, God's order. And even then, you still are called to be a godly daughter, whether you have your parents in this life now or not.

Because being a godly daughter does not just relate to our natural parents. Like the question 114 of the Baptist larger catechism, very helpfully explains to us, to whom does father and mother refer in the fifth commandment?

Father and mother refer not just to our natural parents, our earthly parents, but to all superiors in age and gifts. And that would obviously include our adopted parents if we have adopted parents. And specifically to those whom God has ordained to be over us in positions of authority, whether in our family, in our church, or in our civil government.

It's all three of those fears, right? That's how God, because God is a God of order. There is an order to this. Now, the next question is what kind of honor is owed to those who are over us, who have authority over us, God-sanctioned authority over us?

Those over us deserve respect in our hearts. That's what honor means, respect in our hearts, our words, and our actions. We must pray and give thanks for them, be grateful for them, emulate their gifts and virtues, model them.

In their positive traits, willingly heed to obey their lawful commands and advice, submit to their correction, be faithful to them, and defend and support their persons and authority as is appropriate to their rank and position, as is appropriate.

And as God has called them both to do so, the ones in authority and the ones under authority. We must also, this is very important, we must also tolerate their imperfections and infirmities, their shortcomings, their sins, their faults, and cover them with our love so that we will be an honor to them and to their God-ordained authority, amen.

Amen, right? And this, you'll notice how this is the exact contrary opposite to feminism and to many modern tendencies in our society and even in some churches. It's all about do what thou wilt, the satanic creed.

Do whatever you want, that's the whole of the law. Have no regard for authority or for what a man tells you or for a husband. Be your own woman, be an independent woman. That is satanic and antichrist, beloved.

I hope we all really understand that biblically and are not deceived by those ungodly satanic agendas. That have plagued every aspect of our world, society, everything, as we will see and have seen. If you have eyes to see, it's inevitable.

It's everywhere, it's all around us. So what are the, speaking of feminism, what are the particular sins against those in authority by those under them? The sins of those under authority against those over them are any failure to perform what is required by them, lawfully required by them.

Being envious of, holding in contempt, or rebelling against their person or position or office as reflected in their lawful advice, commands and correction. Cursing at or making fun of them or any kind of stubborn resistance and disgraceful display that brings shame and dishonor to their persons and authority.

Wow, if you can't say amen, you ought to say ouch. That's pretty thorough. And those are very, very appropriate examples of how this happens. That's why we're supposed to discipline our children. We discipline with the rod of reproof.

Spank them accordingly because that's true love. Because children need to learn to respect authority, to respect their fathers and their mothers so that they learn to respect other authorities in their life, pastors, policemen, and all these other things.

Why do you think that most of the men, many of the men, if not most of the men that commit crimes had a dysfunctional home, didn't grow up with their father, it's not a coincidence. A lack of order and authority in the home leads to a lack of order in other areas because this is all interconnected.

Same thing goes for women who tend to become feminists because of the lack of godly parental authority and especially fatherly authority, godly authority. So then, women, mothers, sisters, are you godly daughters in this sense?

In every sense of that word, do you have a godly relationship with your father and mother? Do you strive to have a godly relationship with them and with those who have authority over you in every sphere, in the church, in the home, et cetera, society, government, and so on?

Do you love your mother and father in spite of their faults and their sins and they may not even be believers but you're still called to love them? Do you honor and respect them and those who are in authority over you?

Even those who are evil, many of our politicians are vile, wicked people but we still need to pray for them and yes, we should biblically protest against their wickedness like the prophets and the apostles did.

The church is called to do those things but we need to do them in a decently and orderly fashion, not by outright rebellion because that is to mock or to rebel against God's authority because God has appointed these natural authorities over us.

So our beloved sisters in particular, by God's love and his grace and sanctifying means of grace, you can and will do these things because the Lord lives in you and he will work in you because we are all his workmanship, including you daughters, created in Christ Jesus for good works, you who belong to God by faith alone in Christ alone, which God your father prepared beforehand so that we would all walk in them according to everyone's distinct roles, relationships, responsibilities, identities, including mothers and daughters, amen?

This is what it's all about, Ephesians 2 .10 because godly mothers are also godly daughters of not just earthly parents and authorities but of their heavenly father, amen? You daughter are also a daughter, a child and daughter of our father in heaven, of God himself and this reflects itself.

Our father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. God is our father and this reflects itself in every relationship that a daughter has with those who are in authority over her because true love, as we've seen many times before, many weeks before in the previous sermons and 1 John and the love chapter, the other love chapter of 1 John 4 and 5 and onward, true love is both horizontal and vertical.

True love is both horizontal and vertical. It affects, it guides our horizontal earthly relationships with our friends, family, neighbors, those in authority as well as our father in heaven, as well as even the angels, even the angels and that is why there's no surprise that the woman is to have a covering over her head like 1 Corinthians 11 says because of the angels.

There is godly authority that has been instituted over us and when women rebel against hierarchy, against godly patriarchy and hierarchy, they rebel against God. To rebel against God's order and hierarchy and patriarchy is to rebel against God himself.

Turn with me, beloved, to Psalm 68. Psalm 68, a wonderful promise of God, of God's word and encouragement for all of us, especially to you mothers and ladies and daughters who belong to your heavenly father.

Psalm 68 verse three, I'll read from the amplified version. But let the righteous be glad. Let them be in good spirits before God. Yes, let them rejoice with delight. Sing to God, sing praises to his name.

Lift up a song for him who rides through the desert. His name is the Lord. Be in good spirits before him.

Why?

Because he is a father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows. It's God in his holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely. He leads the prisoners into prosperity. Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Amen.

God is still your father, even though you may have been estranged from your father, your natural father, your earthly father, God is still your father. A father to the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows.

Amen. Amen.

A Godly Mother Is a Godly Wife

Now, so then, a godly mother is a godly daughter. Now, a godly mother is also a godly wife. She is also a godly wife. Proverbs 31 verse 10, the beginning of that section about the exaltation of the woman of strength and of excellence.

The legacy standard version renders it as an excellent wife who can find. An excellent wife, really it's an excellent woman, a woman of strength and excellence who can find.

Why?

For her worth is far above pearls because she is extraordinarily valuable and getting harder and harder to find these days because of this antichrist spirit of feminism. Primarily, the heart of who? Her husband.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, confides in her and he, her husband, will have no lack of gain because she also loves and respects and blesses him with abundance in all her roles and capacities to serve him, her family.

She deals bountifully, abundantly with him, with her husband for good and not for evil. All the days of her life, all the days of her life, all of them, amen. This is the blessing of the excellent woman, the excellent wife.

We're seeing very clearly how Proverbs reveals all of these identities, roles, responsibilities and relationships of the woman who has a virtuous and excellent full life. She has all of these things. And one of the most important is being a godly wife.

Verses 28 and 29 can also say, as for her husband, he also praises her saying, many daughters have done excellently, but you have gone above them all. So those praises are sung by her husband to her. And this is, again, the same question applies.

How can you be a godly mother without first being a godly wife? And this is sadly the dysfunction in many of our families because women have children outside of wedlock, outside of marriage, and that creates dysfunction.

That's a sinful, dysfunctional environment. Now, can God redeem those situations? Yes, but some things just can't, you can't change. You can't change having kids outside of wedlock. And you may not even be married to the parent.

That's because that's sin, that's sinful. But a godly mother is first a godly wife. And seeks the best for her husband. Not to say that it's impossible if there are children outside of wedlock, but it is gonna be difficult.

By God's grace, though, he will get you through it. He can help you and lead you and guide you through all of those difficult circumstances. But a godly mother is graciously, lovingly, consistently good to her husband, and not evil.

Evil all the days of her life, by God's grace. Consistently so. That is why Proverbs 12, four, similarly says, a virtuous and excellent wife, worthy of honor, is the crown of her husband, the crown of her husband, the glory of her husband.

Like Corinthians says, the woman is the glory of man, the crown and glory of her husband. But she who shames him with her foolishness is like rottenness in his bones. Can't say amen, that's a big ouch.

Woman can be, the wife can be a tremendous blessing or a tremendous curse to her husband. So, and sadly, I have seen this in women in churches before. Who may profess Christ and may have appeared to be godly wives, mothers for a time, for a season, at least on the surface, they may appear to have been, because sometimes we don't really know people as well as we think we do.

We have to realize these things. But sometimes these women, they waver and fall away. Turn, why? Because the word of God explains these things to us, such as in Mark chapter four, verse 16. In Mark chapter four, verse 16, we see an explanation as to why these things happen sometimes.

I hope this is making sense, beloved, and that it's a blessing to all of us. Mothers, fathers, men and women, because again, it is a contradiction to say that you are a good mother and yet not a good wife.

Those are really impossible. In God's order and design, that is not possible. You must strive to be good in all of these respects because God has commanded it, first and foremost. Mark chapter four, verse 16, and in a similar way, these are the ones being sown on the rocky places, those who, when hearing the word, immediately receive it with joy.

They appear to bear fruit at first. However, they have no root in themselves. But they are only what? They are only temporary. They don't last. They're not consistent all the days of her life, like the pauper 31 woman is.

They're temporary. They fall away. And then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately, eventually, they fall away. And others are those being sown among the thorns. Those, these are the ones who have heard the word.

They heard the word. They listened to it at first. But the worries of the world, the cares of this life, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for anything else, much like feminism teaches, enter in and choke the word out, and it becomes unfruitful.

They don't bear fruit, godly fruit. And those who are, and those are the ones which were sown on the good soil. They who hear the word, and what? They hear it, understand it, and accept it. They agree with it.

They believe it to be true, and are bearing fruit, 30, 60, 100-fold, for the rest of their lives. For the rest of their lives. Because God works in them. God works in them. Now, we all struggle. We all struggle with sin.

We all struggle with sin daily. But, and wives are no different. And wives have a special task and responsibility to daily submit to a husband who has not been fully redeemed yet. Or sometimes is not a Christian at all.

And that is a cross that a faithful godly wife must bear. We as husbands are called to be godly men, husbands, to our wives, obviously. But that is not always the case. And yet, God gives us grace and strength and hope to live out all of those circumstances.

Not to abandon them, not to leave them, but to persevere. That's what you see God doing. He doesn't call you to quit. He calls you to persevere when the circumstances allow for them. Sometimes they don't.

Sometimes they don't. We have to discern those situations. But godly wives ultimately do not give up and do not lose hope. They do not drown in despair. Even in the face of dysfunctional past and trauma and sin, and past relationships that were harmful.

Or maybe they themselves were just very much feminist Jezebel type women. God can deliver you from all of those things. Because they know, a godly wife knows that her sovereign heavenly father's grace is sufficient for them.

To deliver them, to save them, and to preserve them, to sanctify them to the very end. 2 Corinthians 12 9, let's turn there beloved. 2 Corinthians 12 9 powerfully promises us these things. These hopes and graces and promises from God.

Including wives. 2 Corinthians 12 9, God's word says, and he, God has said to me, my grace is sufficient for you. For my power is perfected in your weakness. Most gladly therefore, I will rather boast in my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Thank you son.

May dwell in me. Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and hardships, even with potentially unbelieving husbands. For the sake of Christ, for when I am weak, then I am what?

Strong in the Lord Almighty. Because a godly wife trusts God her father to always and continuously work in her. And will never abandon her or forsake her. To accomplish all his good purposes in her and in her life.

In her and in her life. Beloved, this brings me to a very important axiom. A very important truth from God's word. And this is so controversial today. But it is one of the most important traits of a godly wife.

One of the most important, according to God himself, is submission.

Okay?

It is that she is submissive to the men in her life. Namely, her father and when she is married, her husband. To her, submissive to her own husband. This has been all but blasphemed and mocked today in our society and even in our churches.

Even in conservative churches. But the truth of God's word is that a godly wife is like, by definition, submissive to her own husband. Believer or unbeliever. And that's not my words. That's not my own words.

That's not my opinion. This is God's command. 1 Peter chapter three, verse one through six. Let's read in God's word what he has to say regarding these things. God's word says and speaks to you wives.

In the same way, you wives, be subject. Be subject. Submit, lovingly submissive to your own husbands.

Why?

So that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, even if they are unbelievers, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives. By the conduct of their wives. As they observe your pure conduct with fear.

As they observe your pure conduct with fear. Your adornment must not be merely external. Braiding the hair and wearing gold jewelry or putting on garments, but let it be the hidden person of the heart.

Your character with the incorruptible quality of a lowly, a meek and quiet spirit. Boy, is that rare today, these days. A meek and lowly and quiet spirit in a woman is a beautiful thing, which is precious in the sight of God.

For in this way, in former times, the holy women, the godly women also, who hoped in God, trusted in him, used to adorn themselves. Not with fancy attire and jewelry, but with faith, character, godliness, good works, being subject to their own husbands.

First and foremost, that is how you find a truly godly wife. Is she submissive to her own husband? Just as who? Just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him what? Lord, Lord, Kurios, the same title that is given to God himself.

You have become her children, her daughters, if you do good, not fearing any intimidation, especially from the world, because the world will tell you the exact opposite. Some churches will tell you the exact opposite.

But a godly, submissive wife makes her a godly daughter of Sarah, and precious in the sight of God, amen. These are the things that godly wives strive to do and be. They submit to their husbands in a godly manner.

And this is something that women also, I've counseled other women before, and they fail to realize this, that, well, they struggle with their unbelieving husbands. Well, he doesn't come to church, and he's okay with me coming to church, but he's not a believer.

And it's like, well, but hold on there. Who gets to be the vessel of grace and mercy in his life? Who is the primary means that God will use in his life, your husband's life, to save him? It's you, wife.

It is you, godly wife. Because even if any of them, of husbands, are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word.

How?

How?

By the conduct of their wives. Remember the previous sermon I preached that how God uses means. God uses human means. And God uses the means of a godly wife to save unbelieving husbands primarily, primarily, as they observe your pure conduct with fear.

Your pure conduct with fear. It's not primarily through other men or, oh, just some, I just need a man or a pastor to rebuke him. So no, it's primarily through you, the wife, by God's grace, he will let you live that out by his grace and means of grace.

And this is also very important. This is controversial in many churches as well because there are pastors who will counsel women to say, if your husband doesn't want you to come to church, you need to come to church anyway.

We have to be careful with that because what happens there? The pastor has usurped the authority and headship of the husband over his wife. We have to be very careful with those things. If a husband does not want his wife to go to church, a wife needs to submit and respect the authority of her husband.

And God knows your situation. He knows you're there. He will meet you where you are. And he will help you and give you the grace to save him through you. Seeing how you submit to him, even in those matters will lead him by God's grace to faith and so that you ultimately one day, Lord willing, both come to church together.

Amen?

That is the cross that a godly wife is called to bear in that circumstance. Now, I wanna close out today, beloved, with Ephesians chapter five. Ephesians chapter five, verse 22. Another very important passage.

Notice how carefully and emphatically God repeatedly emphasizes this trait in a woman, in a wife, submissiveness to her husband. First to her father as a daughter and then to her husband. Ephesians five, 22.

Wives, be subject once again to your own husbands. At what? As to who? As to the Lord himself. As to the Lord himself.

Wow.

You would almost think that was a lie from the pit of hell by some of the teaching you hear from women these days in churches. Submit to your own husbands as to the Lord.

Why?

Because once again, our horizontal relationships are grounded in our vertical relationships. And you cannot claim to be a godly woman or a godly Christian if you have a poor relationship with your husband.

It doesn't make sense because your failure to submit to your own husband is a failure to submit to who? To God himself because God commands it. God commands it.

Why?

For the husband is the head of the wife. The husband is the head of the wife as Christ also likewise is the head of the church. The body, his body. He himself being the savior of the body. But just as the church is subject to Christ, submissive to Christ, so also the wives ought to be subject to their husbands.

In what? In everything. In everything, beloved.

Amen.

Now some of this may have been a little painful today, but it is God's word and God's spirit empowers us, all of us, brothers, sisters, you women, mothers, wives, to live out these things by his grace and his means of grace.

God uses means and he will get you through all of these difficult circumstances that you might be facing. But we are very blessed in our church to have godly mothers, daughters, and wives. And our encouragement to you all is to strive, continue to be faithful to the Lord as daughters, mothers, wives, women, women.

And by God's grace, I hope to continue this message because it is so important. I don't want to skip out on these important, very important attributes regarding godly motherhood next Lord's Day. Let us close out for today in a word of prayer.

Our precious Lord, we thank you so much for your grace, your mercy, your promises, Lord, for all that you've done for us and continue to do for us and will do for us, Father. We ask that you bless the women in our life, our mothers, our wives, our daughters.

Lord, bless them. Help us to model, help the godly women in our churches to model godly womanhood, godly motherhood, godly wifehood, all of the roles and responsibilities that you have ordained for women to be a godly models.

Lord, help us to be salt and light. That is clearly what your word teaches us, salt and light means, to be these things, godly men and women, godly husbands and wives, godly fathers and mothers, godly daughters and sons.

By your grace and your spirit, Lord, we thank you, Father. We ask these things in Jesus' precious, all powerful name, amen. Thank you for listening to the sermons of Thorn Crown Covenant Baptist Church, where the Bible alone and the Bible in its entirety is applied to all of faith and life.

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