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Beloved, let's go ahead and turn back to the book of Proverbs, chapter 31. The book of Proverbs, chapter 31.
I'm going to read through verses 10 through 31 again, and continue our subject from last, the previous
Lord's Day, about godly motherhood. Proverbs 31, chapter 31, verse 10.
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 to 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, she shall be praised. Give to her from the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
This is God's word, amen. So as I mentioned, there's so much here that I didn't want to leave out.
I thought it would be good to continue this message about godly motherhood.
And so previously, we saw that a godly mother is many things, or grandmother by extension as well.
They are many things. A godly mother is also a godly daughter, a godly wife, a godly woman, a godly
Christian, as in terms of the most basic foundational building blocks of what makes a godly mother.
Because godly motherhood is a continuation of these prior feminine creation identities, roles, and relationships.
Not all of them are specifically feminine, but they are all still fundamental and necessary to being a godly mother.
We saw also how God's word in this passage celebrates and praises the godly woman of strength and excellence.
She is praised by her children, her husband, by God, who embraces, because she embraces and lives out all of her feminine roles with love and faithfulness according to God.
All of her God -ordained roles. Now, last, previous
Lord's Day, I touched, I covered how a godly mother is both a godly daughter and a godly wife.
So, I want to pick up on the next two to continue the message today.
Now, but I need to clarify something before I get to that, because we live, sadly, in a very sinful, dysfunctional, and worldly society that has also infiltrated and affected many churches today.
And this world has distorted the roles and identities of men and women, such that many, even those who are in churches, or that are influenced by feminism, often mock and dismiss
God's order, God's order, according to his word, his institution, his commands.
For men, women, children, and families, they mock
God's word and commands as toxic patriarchy. You might have heard that before.
That's a buzzword today in our society. Oh, there's this toxic patriarchy from the past, when men were in charge.
And things were, frankly, much better than they are today. But it's a distortion of history and of the truth of God's order.
It's also referred to as, it's mocked as chauvinism, or as machismo, or as targeting men as the problem for all the ills of the world.
Because when men are in charge, they are the problem. And that is the sad state in which we live in, that's been drowning and, oh, flooded by feminism.
Now that's not to say that men are not responsible for many sins, and for affecting their wives and their children, because they are the leaders.
And the leaders are held accountable to a higher standard, according to God's word. But because of these things, it sometimes requires further clarifying what
God's word actually teaches, and to refute the misrepresentations and those who contradict sound doctrine, according to Titus 1 .9
and many other places. So God is very clear, like I closed in the previous sermon.
One of the most important traits of a godly wife is that she is submissive to her own husband and acknowledges him as the head.
However, there's a however here, because this does not mean that she should tolerate abuse, violence, or any of those kinds of things, especially in situations where law enforcement may need to step in to intervene.
Okay, when people's lives are at stake and things like that, we need to be very careful not to cover it up or to try to handle it ourselves.
It's important to call the authorities in those situations and let them intervene and step in, and hopefully
God can use that to restore the marriage. That may not be grounds for divorce, but it may be grounds for separation.
It may be necessary for the man, and it's not always the man who's abusive, by the way.
But whoever the abusive one is may need to be removed and put in jail or whatever the case may be.
So it's important to clarify these things because there's so much dysfunction today. People are not used to God's order and God's norm, normality.
So this brings us to the next major heading of this thesis, and that is that a godly mother is a godly woman.
A godly mother is a godly woman. Again, in our society, people don't know what a woman or a man is anymore.
They try to say, well, then what's the difference? What does it matter? And that is just simple foolishness and sinful absurdity.
Again, it is to mock and undermine God's creation order and roles for men and women.
That is one of the most foundational differences and aspects of humanity, of mankind.
Male and female, he created them. Amen. So this is what we have to uphold in the church.
When the world may say otherwise and just blaspheme and mock and distort everything, we have to draw the line where God draws it.
So back in Proverbs 31, verse 10, we will see many verses that speak to this godly woman, the godly mother as a godly woman as well, foundationally.
Proverbs 31, verse 10, I'm going to read from the Amplified. It's got some helpful commentary here. An excellent woman, an excellent woman, it says, one who is spiritual, capable, intelligent, and virtuous, wise.
Who is he who can find her? Her value is more precious than jewels, and her worth is far above rubies or pearls.
Amen. Verses 13 through 14, she looks for wool and flax and works with willing hands in delight.
She is like the merchant ships, abounding with treasure. She brings her household's food from far away.
Verses 16 through 20, she considers a field before she buys or accepts it, expanding her business prudently.
With her profits, she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. She is industrial. Let me skip that part.
I'll save that for later. Verse 17, she equips herself with strength, with strength, spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her
God -given tasks and makes her arms strong. She sees that her gain is good because it blesses her home.
Her lamp does not go out, but it burns continually through the night. She is prepared for whatever lies ahead.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold a spindle as she spins wool into thread for clothing.
She opens and extends her hand to the poor, and she reaches out her filled hands to the needy.
Amen. And it was interesting because I found out when I was studying for this semester sermon that the word distaff, which it's a tool for spindling wool and thread for clothing, for making clothes.
The word distaff is often used to describe the feminine side of the family, the womanly side.
And the male side of the family is referred to as the spear, the hunter, the provider, the spear, and the woman who makes clothing.
She provides for her home with basically like what the husband brings her. He brings home the bacon, so to speak, and the wife makes it.
She cooks it. She makes it. She makes it good for her family. Now continuing on in Proverbs 31, verse 22, she makes for herself coverlets, coverlets, coverings.
Her clothing is linen, pure and fine, and purple wool, purple wool.
In other words, what is this telling us? What is this showing us? She does not neglect herself.
She does not neglect herself. She takes care of herself. She does not let herself go, like many women often do when they get overwhelmed, and they just kind of let themselves go and end up not taking care of themselves and affecting their own health.
Because she understands when your health is affected, it affects your ability to provide for or care for your home, your husband, your children.
So she does not neglect to take good care of herself. She balances her time to care for both her family as well as herself.
Amen? This is the balance that you ladies, you sisters, you mothers, and women are called to have and need to learn.
Because you are responsible for more than just yourself, obviously. And going back here,
I wanted to take note of a few other things here in the previous verses.
It says in verse 16 that she considers a field before she buys or accepts it.
With her profits, she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. So what is that showing us? She is industrious.
She is entrepreneurial, not merely for her own personal gain, but for her husband's and family's gain, for her household.
She is a go -getter. She gets things done. And she is prudent, industrious, and entrepreneurial.
From her home to focus on providing for her home what she wants to provide for them, to bless them, and make her household a loving environment, a blessed home.
She makes her arms strong. She makes her arms strong. She equips herself with strength.
She prepares and equips herself for her roles and responsibilities.
But to do what? To care for her home, primarily.
Her primary focus is her home. She sees that her gain is good because it blesses her home and because she has the discernment, the knowledge, the wisdom to know what is good and what is not good for her home.
Right? She knows. She sees. Her lamp does not go out at night.
She is prepared for whatever lies ahead. She is diligent, persistent, and consistent. She gets things done.
She doesn't leave things unresolved or unattended. She gets things done.
Amen. This is the excellent woman of God. And she knows what is good for her home.
And when she sees something that is not good for her home, she makes adjustments because she monitors her home.
It says, like it says here in this passage, she watches over her home. So, amen.
This is really good stuff that the Lord is showing us here about godly motherhood and womanhood.
Now, and she does not neglect herself. In verses 24 through 27, oh, before I get to that, verse 20, she opens and extends her hand to the poor.
And she reaches out with filled hands to the needy. She knows how to work with her hands to care for not even just her family, but she extends it outside of her home to her neighbors in need as well, to the poor.
That's a godly woman, a virtuous woman. She is naturally a caregiver, a caretaker, a nurturer.
And verse, so continuing on in verse 24, she makes fine linen garments and sells them and supplies sashes to the merchants.
Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure. A woman of godly character, confident, virtuous womanhood.
Because who does she trust in, beloved? Who does she trust in? She trusts in the
Lord. And I love this phrase. I love this. This is one of my favorite verses.
And she smiles at the future. She looks at the future and smiles.
Even in our day, when war is impending with Iran and with all these problems with Israel and foreign nations and all of this chaos and gas prices and everything going up, she looks at the future and smiles.
She is anxious for nothing because she knows that who is in control? Her sovereign father and Lord is in control.
She knows that she and her family are prepared. She also has made her own preparations for her family, with her family and with her husband for what lies ahead.
Because she's exercising that discernment with her family. Much like in Egypt when there was a famine, a drought, and you prepared.
They prepared ahead of time in advance because of Joseph's leadership to stock up the wheat.
To get through the famine, the drought. So, amen.
She smiles at the future. She opens her mouth in what?
In skillful and godly wisdom. She is wise because she knows
God's word. She knows God's word and she knows how to apply it righteously, wisely.
And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. The teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Now, to clarify here, this doesn't mean that she's using her knowledge of the word to teach other men or to usurp authority over men.
This is talking about her home, okay? This is talking about blessing her home and her young women.
The young women, okay? Keep that in mind. The teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Verse 27 in the Legacy Standard, I like how it says it. She watches over the ways of her household.
This is what I was saying earlier. She watches over the ways of her household.
The Amplified says she looks well to how things go in her household because she exercises careful discernment over her family, observing how things affect her home, her husband, her children.
And she watches what's going on and she makes preparations accordingly and does not eat the bread of idleness.
She is the opposite of idle. She is diligent like the ant, like the ant in the other passage in Proverbs, diligent, productive.
She redeems the time. Even at night, she redeems the time, like according to Ephesians 5, 16, redeeming the time, always, all the days of her life being good to her husband and her household.
Verses 30 to 31, charm and grace are deceptive and superficial beauty is vain.
But a woman, a woman who fears the
Lord, Yahweh, a godly woman, reverently worshiping, obeying, serving, and trusting
Him with awe -filled respect, with awe -filled respect, she shall be praised.
She shall be praised. Give her of the product of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates of the city.
Amen. Amen. This is what godly womanhood looks like.
This is what you mothers, you women, you daughters, you wives, this is your model.
This is who to look up to. This is who to aspire to, to become. And by God's grace, you will get there.
It may take time. Some of us didn't have the blessing of a godly home when we grew up or whatever.
We may have struggles, unresolved issues that we need to work out, but by God's grace and means of grace, He will sanctify you in your life to gradually attain these, fulfill these roles, these identities, these responsibilities according to God's word.
Now, feminism, however, on the other hand, teaches women, not just women though, and children and men, to believe that the best thing for a woman, the highest good for a woman is to be independent.
It is to have her own career, her own finances, to make her own living outside of a man.
That is what feminism teaches is the highest good.
It teaches women to attain that goal, to not depend on a man.
Is that what God said? Or is that the opposite, the exact opposite of what
God teaches us in His word? Feminism even promotes, and the feminism is just another worldly spirit.
It's a spirit of the age, right? It's the spirit of the world, the flesh, and the devil. That's all it is.
But it is one of the most pervasive spirits in our day. And it even teaches women and encourages women to have what's called reproductive freedom, right?
Reproductive freedom, which means the freedom to abort, to murder your unborn children, or even after they're born.
We're not far from that. We are not too far away from that. And it's happened before, sadly.
It is vicious, vile, and wicked, perverse murder to be willing to murder your own children, your own blood, flesh and blood, if she chooses to, if she chooses to.
So that's what it's all about, to not depend on a man for anything, for anything.
Which, by the way, this is why I was saying, to be a godly mother, you need to be a godly woman, wife, daughter.
It presupposes all these things. Because if you believe that you shouldn't depend on a man for anything, how are you going to depend on God, your father, in heaven?
People don't realize the connection there. That's going to affect your relationship with God, the father.
You're not going to want to depend on him, because he is masculine. He is
Father God, if you believe in him. But feminism is the opposite, to not depend on a man for anything, and to not be bound by children, by your own children, if she decides not to keep them.
Now, does this sound familiar, beloved? I want to read quickly from, you don't have to turn there, but I want to read quickly here from 2
Timothy chapter 3, regarding these last and evil days that we live in.
But know this, that in the last days, difficult times will come. Why? Because men and women will be lovers of self, lovers of themselves.
That's the first sin listed, notice that. Lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self -control, without gentleness, without love for good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure, rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, but having denied its power, because they reject, they don't believe.
That's hypocrisy, in other words, hypocrites. Keep away from such men as these, for among the, notice, pay attention here, for among them are those who enter into households, they enter into households and take captive weak women, not virtuous women, not women of strength, but weak women, who are spiritually uncovered.
They are uncovered, they're not covered by a man, by a father or a husband, or they have rejected, they have refused the covering of a man, like feminism teaches, and uncovering themselves, they expose themselves to be weak women, weighed down with sins and being led on by various desires, by various desires, lusts, and emotions, because they are uncovered, spiritually uncovered.
They are led by their emotions, rather than by what? The truth,
God's word. Always learning, always learning, and yet never able to come to the what?
The full knowledge of the truth, of the truth, beloved.
Just as Janice and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose what?
They oppose the truth. They oppose the truth. Notice, to oppose
Moses back in his day was to oppose the truth, because Moses was God's mouthpiece for God's word.
That's right in line with what I was preaching before on 1st John. Men of depraved mind, disqualified in regard to the faith, they are not believers, they are disqualified, even though they may claim to be, and they may claim to be pastors and teachers, and creep into weak women, weak women's houses, but they will not make further progress, for their folly will be obvious to all, just as theirs was also.
Amen. Now, what does this describe, beloved, among many other things like social media?
What else does it describe? Does this not describe feminism from F to M, to a
T as they say? Starting with the love of self, over and above everyone else, including and especially men, including and especially the men that God placed over you to be a covering for you, like a father or a husband, primarily.
Wow, if we can't say amen, you ought to say ouch. This is the foul breath of the serpent.
It spews out false teaching like feminism. That's what it is.
That's antichrist. It is satanic. To love yourself as a woman above everyone else, even at the expense of murdering your own children, that is like one of the most satanic and perverse manifestations of self -love, all because you don't want to be inconvenienced, which is what most of these abortions are about.
They're not because of difficult situations like rape or incest or whatever, even though it's still murder in those situations.
The vast majority is the sin of convenience, the altar of Moloch, to worship yourself as God.
Now, ironically, this is very important, brings me to an important public service announcement.
Ironically, feminism is the opposite of what it claims to give you.
It is toxically anti -women. It is anti -woman.
The most destructive satanic antichrist agenda and influence in the entire world, not just in women, but in men, in children, in families, in societies, in governments, even in churches, even in conservative churches, in nations, in the entire world.
This is what we need to be looking out for, beloved. This is what we need to be looking out for.
Sadly, many men and women, though, we need to keep this in mind, many men and women become feminists or fall prey to feminism as an ungodly reaction to weak and derelict men, to unbiblical manhood, to sinful family dysfunction and trauma.
They rebel against God because they rebel against the trauma, their dysfunction, or the abuse that they witness or experience in the home.
So we also need to keep that in mind. Feminism, in many ways, is a reaction to what happened with Jezebel.
Who was Jezebel married to? A weak, pathetic Ahab. Agag, Ahab, I'm sorry,
Ahab. That was another wretched man. But Ahab was weak and he let
Jezebel take over the kingdom of God, Israel, and murder, become a murderous, treacherous woman, murdering men, women, just murdering everybody.
That's the spirit of feminism. It leads to steal, kill, and destroy, to murder.
Now, a very important foundational axiom here. This is very important to understand.
In contrast to feminism and these ungodly influences, a godly woman, on the other hand, does not willingly seek independence or freedom or liberation from biblical masculine patriarchy.
She does not do that, nor from men, nor from the church, nor from her children, nor from God.
Nor does she believe that independence is even a good thing.
She recognizes that independence is not a good thing. That's what leads to all sorts of sins and to becoming a weak woman.
To not recognize your need for other people in your life, including those whom
God has ordained over you. A godly woman does not willingly seek independence or freedom or liberation, quote unquote, from biblical masculine patriarchy, nor from men, nor from the church, nor from her children, nor from God.
She does not, because she does not believe that independence from any of these things is a good thing.
She recognizes that it is evil. A godly woman, therefore, is anti -feminist against feminism in all its forms.
Whether it's the first wave, or the second wave, or the third wave, or the fourth wave, it doesn't matter. All of these waves of feminism that affected our country were grounded in Satanism, in the occult, and in rebellion, and in a desire to tear down the hierarchy that God has instituted in creation.
That's what egalitarianism means, to be equal in every respect, not have any order according to God.
It is fundamentally anti -God and anti -Christ. Rather, now wait, now again, we need to clarify.
I don't want you to misunderstand this. A godly woman, she may still be a widow, or even a divorced woman, or a single mother, but she does not seek to be free or independent of godly relationships with her father, or with other men, or a potential future husband.
If she is qualified or able to remarry, or her children, or her church, she does not seek independence from those relationships that God has placed over her life.
She recognizes her need for God and God's order in her life.
Rather, she embraces biblical authority and order and law according to God's word, including masculine authority in all of the divinely sanctioned spheres of her life, all of them.
Now, I'm not saying that a woman is supposed to submit to every man. That's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says she's to submit to her father, and then when she gets married to who?
Her own husband, her own husband. And then if there is no husband anymore, she submits to who?
God, her father, her father, who is a father to the fatherless and a protector of the widows, right?
There's order there. Now turn with me, beloved, to 1
Corinthians 11. 1 Corinthians 11, very important passage about God's order, very neglected passage today.
So 1 Corinthians 11 verse 3, I'm going to read from the
New King James. I like how it phrases it here. But I want you to know that the head of every man is
Christ, and the head of woman is who? Man. And the head of Christ is
God. Amen. Verse 7. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God.
But the woman is the glory of man. The woman is the glory of man.
For man is not from woman, but woman from man.
Because God pulled fashion Eve out of Adam's rib. She came from man.
Man was first, in other words. Nor was man created for the woman, but the woman, but who?
The woman was created for who? For the man. The woman was created for the man.
If you start shouting this from the rooftops today, what kind of reaction do you think you would get, beloved? This is, our society is so anti -Christ these days that they would revile, mock, and spit at you, and probably worse things if you were to be public about these things.
But such is the, that's what God's word says. The woman was created for the man.
To be a help, a helper suitable for the man. That's God's order.
Not the other way around. Notice the emphasis.
Woman did not, man did not come from woman. Woman came from man because man was first.
And the woman then was not created, the man was not created for the woman. But the woman for the man.
The emphasis is clear. For this reason, the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels.
This is so important, beloved, to honor God's order in our lives because an uncovered woman invites spiritual discord and the devil to come into the, into your life as a woman.
It uncovers you as a weak woman. And it exposes you to satanic influences.
Not surprisingly, that's why feminism is so prominent in women like these who reject
God's authority over their life. Masculine authority. So then there not only is independence from everything that makes a woman a true woman, according to God, not only is that evil, it is destructive to her, to herself as a woman and to society and to humanity as a whole.
If we have a bunch of women running around that don't want to be women, according to God's order, that's going to destroy, that destroys nations, that destroys families, nations, societies.
But by and large, that's often a reaction to weak, weak men. That's what we also have to bear in mind.
Men also need to step it up and lead themselves and start in the home, their families, their wives, their children.
The strong man protects his house from these ungodly influences. And the woman, the virtuous woman, likewise, she discerns these ungodly spirits and protects her children from them.
She shields her children from them, knowing that they are not good for her or her children and for herself.
And her husband does, too. So I want to read from a book that I was reading about, about this.
This is shocking. This may be shocking because this information does not, is not promoted because of what it exposes about feminism and what our society promotes as important.
This is the truth regarding delayed marriage and motherhood. If you are a healthy 30 -year -old woman, you have about a 20 % chance per month to get pregnant.
20%, okay? By age 40, however, your chance is only about 5 % per month.
5%, okay? At age 39, at age 39, the chance of a live birth after an
IVF, that's in vitro fertilization, is about 8%. By age 44, it falls to 3%.
Now, in vitro fertilization, that's artificial insemination, which is also very evil because it usually produces many eggs, fertilized eggs.
And you discard, they often discard them. That's an abortion, beloved. IVF, a byproduct of IVF is an abortion.
So we need to be careful not to participate in these ungodly things, okay? And it often doesn't even work.
It doesn't work, especially when the woman is older in age. The actual rate for a successful birth using frozen eggs is closer to 2 .5%.
2 .5%. If a woman conceives at age 38, the possibility of miscarriage has tripled.
The rate of stillbirth has doubled. And the risk of genetic abnormality is six times greater.
Additionally, the pregnancy is more likely to be complicated by high blood pressure and or diabetes, gestational diabetes, and the baby is more likely to be premature or low birth weight.
Women treated for infertility suffer from anxiety and depression as severely as patients who have been diagnosed with cancer or cardiac disease.
So this is the fruit of what feminism teaches. Delay marriage. Delay being chained or bound by another man.
Delay childbearing and marriage. Don't seek after those things because they're going to weigh you down.
And yet later on in life, these women oftentimes, they are alone. They are lonely because they're independent.
They bought the lie of the feminism spirit and now they're lonely.
So now they want a family. But sadly, in a lot of these cases, it may be too late. They waited too long.
That's not, again, that's not to say that you should rush into marriage or getting with an ungodly man.
We need to be careful in these life -altering decisions, obviously.
And speaking of cancer, getting an abortion increases your likelihood of breast cancer astronomically.
And nobody tells you this. But getting an abortion increases your likelihood of cancer exponentially because your body, when a woman's body is pregnant, she starts to become ready to feed the child and care for the child.
But an abortion short -circuits that process and it leads to dying cells, breast cancer cells.
It produces breast cancer cells. This is the evil of and the fruit of what feminism has taught us, many of us.
Let it not be so in God's church, beloved. Amen. A godly woman then acknowledges her proper place in her family, her marriage, her own family, her church, her society, and respects the boundaries of each sphere, that the
God -ordained boundaries of each sphere. A godly woman does not usurp or take authority or assert herself over other men.
A godly woman does not seek to do that. A godly woman is a daughter of Sarah, remember?
She is a quiet, meek, and gentle spirit. Men are equipped and called by God to rule, not women.
Men are equipped by God to rule, not women. In the home, in the church, even in society.
We have to be careful, beloved. Feminism is a vile, debilitating disease that masquerades itself as female empowerment and a breeding distrust in men.
You don't need a man. You don't need a husband. You don't need children to fulfill yourself, right? That's all you hear.
That's all the shows, that's what they're all about. Women empowerment. Women can do everything men can. But at what cost, beloved?
At what cost? Which is not even true. That itself is not true. But even when they try to, at what cost?
Your own life. Your own soul, potentially, as a woman. It encourages women to not get married or to delay it as much as possible.
Go live your life first before you get weighed down or shackled by a man. To not trust or depend on a man.
That's what they encourage. Because he might divorce you or leave you stranded, right?
But don't get it twisted. Again, we have to ask ourselves, who initiates divorces more, men or women?
The numbers are pretty shocking. But well, in a sense, they're not shocking. And it shouldn't be surprising that women initiate divorce more than men by about 70%.
70 % of divorces in the U .S. are filed by women.
And this trend is similar in other areas, other countries. Like in the U .K., where women petitioned for 62 % of divorces as of 2019.
So in the U .K., divorce was extremely uncommon before 1914. This is not that long ago.
Prior to 1914, one divorce in 450 marriages happened in the first decade of the 20th century.
Now, more than 100 ,000 couples in the U .K. get divorced every year. It exponentially increased.
And in the U .S., around half of marriages end in divorce. It's a travesty.
It is a travesty because of these ungodly spirits and influences that we have allowed to rule our lives as women and as men.
But God has a way out of all of this wickedness. And that is
His order, His law, His roles, His identities that He has given us.
This is a sad abandonment and twisting of the biblical model for godly womanhood. Do not let this deceive you, beloved.
A godly woman does not make important life -altering decisions independently.
She does not make important life -altering decisions independently, including and especially getting married without first seeking godly counsel, including male authority in her life, without seeking godly counsel first.
Her father, her mother, her parents, her heavenly father, her church, the older, wiser women in her church, the male leadership in her church, premarital counseling, etc.
That's the whole thing. These feminists, well, you might get a divorce.
You might end up in a bad situation. It's like, well, that's because you're making independent decisions. Having these safeguards allows you to make a wise decision as a woman and marry the right man and be prosperous for the rest of your life.
Not saying that it always, that things, sin doesn't happen. Yes, sin can still happen and divorce can still happen, sure.
But the church is there for you. The church is there for the widows. God calls the church to step in at that point and to help the widows.
That doesn't mean we should cast it away from our lives completely. You could be depriving yourself of the biggest blessings in your life.
So that's, that is what so much of our world and even churches have failed to do, to renounce the spirit of feminism.
This is what we need to bear in mind, beloved, and I didn't get to finish the rest of this, but I would like to finish this, the next
Lord's Day, and to finish the series on what a godly mother is composed of, all of these things.
She is also a godly woman. A godly mother is a godly woman, beloved.
Amen. Let us not be deceived by the world, by the flesh, by the devil, by the spirit of the age.
Let us be under the influence of nothing but the Holy Spirit, like the
Word of God says. Amen. Let's bow our heads in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you,
Lord, for these precious, amazing truths and promises and blessings. Lord, thank you for equipping us with discernment and the knowledge to know good from evil, especially regarding the most basic aspects of our humanity, of our nature as men and women.
Help us, Lord, to identify with your identities and roles and responsibilities for our lives,
Lord, as men and as women, as godly women for our sisters and mothers.
Father, help us all to embrace this godly, the order that you have instituted, that you have commanded, the law that you have given us regarding your order in the family, in the home, in society, and in the church.
Father, help us to not be swayed by the ways of the world, to take a firm stand, because that, we know that that is what blesses us,
Lord. Being, living in light of your word and your will is what brings, is what blesses us.
In spite of any trials or persecutions, we have peace with you, Father, because you have given us everything by your means of grace and by your word of truth,
Lord. We thank you for these things and we ask this in Jesus' precious name. Amen. Thank you for listening to the sermons of Thorn Crown Covenant Baptist Church, where the
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