F4F | Judah Smith: Was Jesus a Feminist?

Fighting for the Faith

Subscribe

Download

Share

00

00:15

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Rosebro. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

00:22

This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now, warning up front.

00:28

Go ahead and, you know, like the video, subscribe, ring the bell, all those, you know, YouTubey thingies.

00:35

But here's the warning. This episode of Fighting for the

00:40

Faith will cause weeping and gnashing of teeth for particular ideological people who are buying into feminism in one form or another.

00:49

And what I'm about to say is just gonna make me seem like the most backwoods, misogynistic, hate -filled hick of all times.

01:01

Yeah. So if you, if your response is that you are a misogynist, woman -hating, he -man, woman -hater club, dude,

01:12

I hate you, go ahead and watch our ad hominem video. Just get it over with now so that we can actually discuss what the biblical texts say.

01:21

Because what I'm gonna say is going to address the issue of, you know, should women be pastors?

01:27

What's the reason why they shouldn't? And it's not what a lot of people say. And what

01:32

I'm about to say, it's what the Bible says. So I know you're gonna want to shoot the messenger.

01:38

I get it. Been there, done that. I've had feelings like that too. But what I would recommend doing, do not listen with an open mind.

01:46

Don't watch this with an open mind. Listen with an open Bible. And thankfully I'll have the biblical text in front of us so that we can work through this.

01:54

All I can say is that I'm gonna show just how unwoke

02:00

I am. And for some of you that's just gonna be a deal -breaker. If he's not woke and in with the latest feminist thingy and stage -four cancerous feminist ideological stuff and stuff, well then he's just, he shouldn't be allowed to breathe, let alone voice his opinions in public and stuff.

02:23

Okay, yeah, if that's what you think, fine. I actually still live in a country where, you know, we have what's something called freedom of speech and also freedom of religion.

02:32

If you don't like what I say, hey, you don't have to approve, you don't have to agree. If you're a Christian, though, I would note that we

02:39

Christians are bound by what the Word of God says. People who are outside the Christian faith, you don't want to believe that, you go right ahead.

02:46

Okay, but if you're a Christian, yeah, we're actually bound by the Scripture because that's where we hear the voice of God.

02:52

It's in the biblical text. So all that being said, what we're gonna do is we're going to, well, we're gonna watch part of a video put out by Judah Smith.

03:02

Yeah, Judah Smith, the vision casting leader up there in Seattle and, you know, like this guy who's, oh man, he's the bee's knees and, oh, he's so popular in evangelicalism and stuff and he's gonna ask, he's gonna answer the question, was

03:15

Jesus a feminist? This is part of his Facebook video series called Burning Questions and he's gonna say something about why there was a biblical prohibition for women being pastors that we're gonna take issue with and we're gonna compare that to the

03:34

Word of God. Like I said, this will be controversial. If you're gonna attack me personally, watch our ad hominem video first.

03:40

Let's engage with the biblical text, shall we? But in order to set this up, let me open up the desktop here and we'll listen to Judah Smith explain whether or not

03:50

Jesus was a feminist. Here we go. I like this one. Uh -oh. A little controversial.

03:57

Yes. Do you think Jesus was a feminist? Define feminist.

04:04

Okay, smart move, because that that word doesn't exactly have a fixed meaning nowadays.

04:10

So my hesitation is I think feminism has become synonymous with politics and policymaking and Jesus spoke to the government structures and constructs of his day.

04:20

He was very disruptive. Very disruptive. Okay.

04:26

All right. Yes, he was disruptive, but the way you're talking sounds really kind of like postmodern -ish stuff.

04:36

Crossed cultures that you weren't supposed to. Yeah. And befriended women, children.

04:42

Yeah. And broken, paralyzed, lame, deaf people.

04:49

Yeah. Who were seen as non -people in antiquity. So to answer your question, generally speaking, well of course

04:54

Jesus was for women more than anyone who has ever lived.

05:00

He made women. Women was God's idea. It's God's idea. Women are just extreme.

05:07

That was a creepy look on his part. I'm just saying, you know, if Judah Smith were to like drive up in my neighborhood and in like a, you know, like a minivan or something like that, dress the way he is,

05:22

I'd be calling the neighborhood watch, maybe the police going, there's a creepy dude out here. He just, he always kind of throws that vibe for me, but it's probably just me.

05:32

Ordinary. I can't imagine where the movement of Christianity would be without women.

05:38

I can't imagine where the movement of Christianity isn't a movement, by the way. It's not a movement. The church is not a movement.

05:45

Yeah. It's an institution created by Christ. It should be noted that Jesus entire earthly ministry for three and a half years was almost exclusively funded by women.

05:54

Well, I don't know if that's exactly true, but yes, he was funded by prominent women.

05:59

The scriptures do say that, which is such an ironic turn of ancient events that the

06:06

God of heaven and earth who puts on skin and bone, he is financially supplied for by women.

06:12

For people not familiar with that time. So women were not allowed to be educated.

06:19

That's why there was actually a problem in Paul's missionary work and church building, church planting. Paul has some writings where he's like, hey, women need to be quiet in church.

06:28

People totally misunderstand that. What that actually means is because women were not allowed to be educated and women sat on one side of the room, men sat on the other side of the room, women in attempt to understand what was being taught would literally have to lean over and try to ask their husband or friend, what does that mean?

06:46

And so Paul's like, hey, please explain it after the gathering because it's disruptive. But the only reason it was disruptive was because of the horrific marginalization of women in that culture in that time.

06:58

Okay, now that's the thing we're gonna fact -check. Is the reason why Paul says that women should be silent in the church, well, because they weren't allowed to be educated, and then asking questions in the church service was disruptive.

07:13

I would note that probably asking questions during the church service is disruptive, but is that the reason why

07:20

Scripture says and reveals that women are to be silent in the church and ultimately cannot be pastors, biblically?

07:30

Again, I know, I know. What a backwoods hick you are! You must be a misogynist, he -man, woman -hater!

07:35

No, again, watch the ad hominem video. So let's fact -check this with Scripture.

07:44

Say that ten times fast. And so let me do this, let me pull up my Bible, and we're gonna take a look at several passages.

07:52

We're gonna begin with the one talking, you know, kind of about this here, and see what the

07:59

Apostle Paul really says. This is 1st Corinthians chapter 14, and this is partway through verse 33, and we'll pay attention, we're gonna do exegesis here, work our way through the biblical text, and we're gonna pay attention to the words here, because there's an actual reason why women cannot be pastors and have authority over men in the church, and should remain silent during the church service.

08:24

And it's not because the ancient world didn't permit them to be educated, that's not the reason why. So here it is, as in all the churches of the saints, and so you're gonna note here, all.

08:37

Yeah, pas means all. Yeah, the Greek there means all.

08:43

Yeah, as in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches, and during the church service, for they are not permitted to speak, but should also be in submission.

08:57

Now, we'll talk about the submission part coming up here. Yeah, you're just a hate -filled patriarch,

09:02

Rose, bro! Yeah, go watch the ad hominem video, would you? Anyway, so it says that women are to be in submission, as the law also says.

09:13

Now, we gotta figure out what's going on here. Now, when in the New Testament, the Greek word namas shows up, sometimes it's understood in a wide sense, and the wide sense is that it's referring to what was known in the

09:30

Old Testament as the Torah. Okay, so if you can put the word Torah in and substitute it when law shows up, there's a good chance, not a hundred percent chance, but a good chance that that's what's being meant there.

09:43

It's a wide understanding, so according to the Torah. Now, sometimes namas shows up, and it's referring to a specific commandment.

09:53

Now, just throw this out there, I'll ask the question, where in the

09:58

Old Testament, you know, whether in the writings or the prophets, does it say women are to remain silent in the church or in the synagogue?

10:08

Answer? There is no commandment that says it in that many words.

10:14

So we're not talking about namas in the narrow sense, we're talking about namas in the wide sense, the

10:21

Torah. So watch how this works, and so you know Paul is making his argument not based on women not being educated, but he's basing his argument based upon the

10:32

Torah. So watch what he says, for they are not permitted to speak but should be in submission.

10:38

Now, where in the Bible does it talk about women being in submission? I'll talk to you about that in a minute, as the Torah also says.

10:44

So we're gonna be looking for this somewhere in the first five books in the Bible, because I think namas here is in the wide sense.

10:51

So if there's anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home, for it's shameful for a woman to speak in church.

10:58

Now again, note the limitation is during the church service. And then he continues, and watch what he says, or was it from you that the

11:05

Word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached? If anyone thinks that he is a prophet or is spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things

11:15

I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

11:25

In other words, the command here for women to be in submission and remain silent in the church isn't coming from Paul.

11:32

So you can sit there and say, Paul was a he -man woman hater, he was a misogynist patriarchy kind of guy.

11:38

Yet he's not the one making the command. According to Paul, this is a command that comes directly from God.

11:46

Directly. That being the case, your issue is with Jesus, not

11:52

Paul. And so note then that Paul says, if anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

12:02

So if you don't recognize this, you come to me and say, you guys need to have women pastors.

12:10

I don't need to recognize you. In fact, I'm told not to recognize you because the Lord has commanded, not

12:15

Paul, the Lord has commanded that women in church should be under submission. We'll talk about that more, and that's found in the

12:22

Torah, by the way. So our cross -reference then for this is 1st Timothy chapter 2.

12:28

1st Timothy chapter 2, I'll start at verse 8 and watch what Paul says. So I desire then that in every place that men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling, likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel with modesty, self -control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness with good works.

12:54

So let a woman, and now we're coming back to the context of what we're talking about, let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

13:03

So here is the second appearance of submissiveness and note that in 1st Corinthians 14,

13:08

Paul talked about that submissiveness actually being a command of the Lord, and it has somewhat thing to do with the

13:15

Torah. Now watch what he says. So I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, rather she is to remain quiet.

13:23

Why? For Adam was formed first, then Eve. Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

13:34

So you'll note there's our Torah reference. So the reason why is order of creation, man first.

13:40

By the way, this is the reason why humanity is called mankind, because Adam was formed first,

13:47

Adam doesn't have a mommy, he's the Son of God. Again, read the genealogies if you're not familiar with this of Jesus, you'll see it explicitly there, that he's the

13:56

Son of God and he doesn't have a mom, alright? So where does Eve come from?

14:01

She is fashioned from man, and so you'll note that all of humanity has its origin in a man.

14:09

Humanity is a patriarchy, not a matriarchy, that's the way

14:14

God made it. And then second reason then goes to the fact that it was the woman who was deceived, not the man, which is then invoking the curses that are currently in place until Christ returns.

14:27

And let me explain it to you from the Old Testament. So in the Old Testament, we're gonna go back to how

14:33

Adam and Eve were formed, I referenced it, I want to show you it in the Old Testament, and then I want you to see what happens with the fall of man and the impact it has on all of us.

14:43

Separate and interconnected impacts and curses, but divvied out differently based upon whether you are male or female.

14:53

So let me explain. In Genesis chapter 218, it says, "...then Yahweh Elohim said, it is not good that the man should be alone.

15:03

I will make for him a helper fit for him." Now, a little bit of a note, the

15:08

Hebrew here, ezer ke negado, basically means a helper who is his physical opposite counterpart.

15:20

Mm -hmm. Yeah, see, when God made us male and female, he did not make us interchangeable. We're not.

15:26

That would be like saying that, you know, all puzzle pieces in a jigsaw puzzle are interchangeable with each other.

15:33

They're not. And so you'll note then, when God says, I'll make a helper fit for him, ezer ke negado literally is teaching that we are physical opposites, counterparts, think jigsaw puzzle pieces, okay?

15:52

So the plumbing has everything to do with this. This is why when children are born today, the doctor says, it's a boy!

16:01

Or it's a girl! And you sit there and go, how do you know? Because I have eyeballs!

16:09

You know, you see, this is how God made us. He made us physical opposite counterparts.

16:15

So the man said, God said, it's not good the man should be alone, I will make a ezer ke negado,

16:21

I will make for him a physical opposite counterpart. Now out of the ground, Yahweh Elohim had formed every beast of the field, every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name, and the man gave names to all the livestock, to all the birds of the heavens, to every beast of the field.

16:42

But for Adam, there was not found a helper, and here it is again, ezer ke negado, a helper physical opposite counterpart.

16:53

Yeah, that's what it says. So Yahweh Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, while he slept took one of his ribs, closed up in its place with the flesh, and the rib that Yahweh Elohim had taken from the man he made into a woman, and brought her to the man, and then the man said, this at last is bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh, she shall be called

17:17

Eshah, because she was taken out of Esh. She will be called woman, because she was taken out of man.

17:25

So God created us, male and female, and note the order of creation in play here. Adam first, and then from Adam comes the woman, and so this is the order of creation, and then 24 says, therefore a man shall leave his father and mother, hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh, and the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

17:49

Now, here comes the fall of man. Now remember what Paul said in 2nd

17:55

Timothy 2. Adam was formed first, then Eve, we just covered that. Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, and became a transgressor.

18:03

This plays then into why a woman is to be in submissiveness, and we'll actually get to the actual command of the

18:11

Lord regarding submissiveness, and it's again found in Genesis chapter 3. Now, we'll go to the whole scene of the crime here, because it's good to remember how humanity came to be in the state that it's in, which is utterly miserable and awful, and that is a result of our first parents' sin.

18:29

And by the way, Jesus believed in Adam and Eve, and he even quotes Genesis chapter 2 verse 24 as being authoritative.

18:39

Yeah, so he's a firm believer in the fact that Adam and Eve were real human beings in real human history, the first one that God created, and then the second that was fashioned from the rib of the first.

18:51

Yeah, and by the way, Jesus was the one doing the surgery anyway, he was the God who was there.

18:57

Just saying. All right, so Genesis chapter 3, 1, it said, now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that Yahweh Elohim had made.

19:06

He said to the woman, did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

19:12

Kind of my paraphrase, is it true that God's not letting you guys eat? Yeah, because here the devil is totally slandering

19:18

God for the purpose of deceiving. So the woman said to the serpent, well, we may eat of the fruit of the trees that's in the garden, but God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that's in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it lest you die.

19:30

But the serpent said to the woman, you will not surely die, for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, you'll be like God knowing good and evil.

19:38

In other words, God flat -out lied to you guys, I'm telling you the truth, the serpent said. Uh -huh.

19:45

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

20:02

Uh -huh. And the eyes of both were open, they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

20:09

Let me again come back to 2nd Timothy 2, Adam was formed first, yep, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor, this is the reason why

20:19

Paul says in 1st Corinthians 14 that that the women is not permitted to speak in church but should be in submission, as the

20:29

Torah also says, and so we're looking at the Torah here, and this is exactly what's going on. So we continue then.

20:36

So, the eyes were open, they were naked, they sewed fig leaves together, made themselves loincloths, they heard the sound of Yahweh Elohim walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh Elohim among the trees of the garden, but Yahweh Elohim called to the man and said to him,

20:56

Where are you? And he said, I heard the sound of you in the garden, I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.

21:02

He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat? The man said,

21:07

The woman, the woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate. And note here that Adam's actually blaming

21:15

God, the woman that you gave to me, you know, it's your fault God, you gave this to me, this woman. She gave me the fruit of the tree and I ate.

21:20

So then Yahweh Elohim said to the woman, What is this that you've done? The woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

21:29

So the woman was not deceived, Adam was, I'm sorry, Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived, not

21:35

Adam. All right, so now we're gonna get to the curses. Pay attention, because this is where the command for submissiveness is.

21:44

So Yahweh Elohim said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all the beasts of the field, and on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

21:58

I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and her offspring.

22:04

He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. This last part is what's called the

22:09

Proto -Ewangelion, it's the first gospel, first prophecy regarding Christ, that he would be the seed of the woman, not the seed of a man and a woman.

22:18

This is even prophesying the virgin birth, and that he would crush the head of the serpent, and that in so doing he would have his heel bruised.

22:26

Now then, to the woman he said, and watch where this goes, to the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing, in pain you shall bring forth children.

22:39

And then the second part, your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.

22:48

So, first part of the curse that women experience, and notice we're cursed differently.

22:55

Women now, as a result of this, have multiplied child pain, a during childbearing, and all the women said, yeah, that's most certainly true, and we thank

23:06

God for the gift of the epidurals. Okay, but the second part of the curse is in play here, and that's the part where this doesn't happen automatically, at least part of it.

23:16

Notice it says, your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.

23:22

In other words, under the curse then, you know, not creation, but under the curse,

23:29

God has willed that women be submissive to their husbands, that the husbands then would be the head and that they would rule over their wives.

23:41

This is a result of the curse, and so God wills for women to be submissive to their husbands, and he'll fix what's broken regarding our relationships with each other when

23:55

Jesus returns in glory to judge the living and the dead. But in the meantime, a woman is to be submissive.

24:01

That's the command of the Lord. The next part of it, then, is Genesis 13, 7, so Adam, he said, because you've listened to the voice of your wife and you've eaten of the tree of which

24:10

I commanded you, you shall not eat of it. Cursed is the ground because of you in pain, shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

24:17

Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field by the sweat of your face.

24:22

You shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken, for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

24:30

So, you know, each of us receives a curse, and men and women are cursed differently, alright?

24:36

So that being the case, under the curse, God wills that women, well, be, and this is gonna sound really terrible, but it's just how it works, you know, that their husbands would be their heads and would be lords over them.

24:53

You sit there and go, you don't expect me to...this is what the Scriptures say.

24:58

So this is the reason why Paul says that a woman should keep silent in the churches, they're not permitted to speak, but should be in submission as the

25:09

Torah says. Where does it say it in the Torah? That the women's desire will be contrary to the husbands, and their husbands will rule over them.

25:17

They are to be in submission, and this is a command of the Lord. This is not about whether or not women were educated in the ancient world or not.

25:25

And there's even further kind of evidence along these lines, and let me show you this. And I'll show you two texts, because I want to make sure that you men out there who are married to your wives, you're not sitting there going, alright man,

25:36

I'm gonna tell my wife, she needs to submit. You better just keep your traps shut, woman, and you just better submit.

25:44

No, there's a way in which Christian men are told to be over their wives, but I'll get to that in the second text that I'm gonna read here in a second.

25:54

But I want you to see this in 1st Peter chapter 3, and see how it accords then exactly with what

26:00

God said in Genesis 3 itself. So likewise, wives, so Peter writing to Christians, likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands.

26:11

Why? Genesis 3. That's the reason why. So that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

26:25

Do not let your adorning be external, the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold and jewelry or clothing, but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

26:44

Again, why should a woman be in submission and have a gentle and quiet spirit rather than cantankerous and constantly bickering and fighting against her husband?

26:55

Because this is precious in God's sight. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves.

27:01

By what? Submitting to their own husbands. And where does it say that in Scripture?

27:07

Genesis 3. As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, and you are her children if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

27:18

Now likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

27:31

So you're gonna note here that there is a very specific way in which Scripture tells

27:36

Christian husbands how they are to be the head of their family and how they are to, well, you know, lead their wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, and since they are heirs together with you of the grace, you know, of the grace of life, and so that your prayers may not be hindered.

28:00

Now a good cross -reference then to this is found in Ephesians chapter 5. Ephesians chapter 5 says, wives submit to your own husbands as to the

28:10

Lord. Okay, so note again the command of submissiveness is again a part of the curse, it goes back to Genesis 3, your desire will be contrary to your husband but he will rule over you, so under the curse this is a very specific command, that Christian wives are to honor the command of the

28:30

Lord and submit to their own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its

28:40

Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands, and then here again here's the command on how husbands are to how to lead their wives, husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

29:00

So the idea then is is that although God has commanded women to submit to their husbands, Christian husbands are to lead their families as the head of their families with Jesus himself as the example of what that leadership looks like, and Jesus's leadership is one of love, kindness, gentleness, and sacrificial love, it is not self -serving love or domineering love, there's no such thing as domineering love anyway, so if you are being harsh and domineering to your wife and saying, wife you need to submit, you're not being

29:47

Christ -like at all, and so a husband is to be the head of his family and the head of his wife, and the model for your leadership is

29:57

Jesus, so husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church, gave himself up for her that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with word so that he might present the church to himself in splendor without spot or wrinkle or any such thing so that she might be holy without blemish, so in the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies, he who loves his wife loves himself, for no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes it and cherishes it just as Christ does the church because we are members of his body.

30:29

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

30:35

Now this mystery is profound and I'm saying it refers to Christ in the church, however let each one of you love his wife as himself and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

30:46

So this idea of submission, again found in the Torah all the way back in Genesis 3, and then you can find all the data points then in pointing to how we are to conduct ourselves as Christians in our own households, in relations to husbands and wives, and then ultimately this plays out then during the church service in church where wives are to remain in submission and this is a command of Christ, not of Paul, not of Chris, not of the evil, down with the patriarchy, no, it's the command of the

31:19

Lord himself and if you have a problem with it take it up with God. Now furthermore, now in case you're sitting there going yeah but there's a, we have women pastors at my megachurch.

31:32

You shouldn't, okay, because all of the texts I've said said that this is a command of the

31:38

Lord and if somebody doesn't recognize that they shouldn't be recognized. So let me throw this on just to kind of, you know, put the the cherry on the whipped cream if you would, and here's what

31:49

Paul says in in 1st Timothy chapter 3 regarding the qualifications for a pastor.

31:55

So this saying is trustworthy. If anyone aspires to the office of the overseer, he desires a noble task, therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife.

32:08

Yeah, pastors are to be husbands. You'll note that this is, all the pronouns and everything here is describing men, and this should be expected, especially given

32:19

Genesis chapter 3. So a husband must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober minded, self -controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.

32:33

He must manage his own household well with all dignity, keeping his children submissive, for someone does not know how to manage his own household.

32:40

How will he care for God's Church? He must not be a recent convert. He, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the temptation of the devil.

32:49

Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.

32:57

I mean, these are the clearest texts on this, and just to kind of throw in one more, Titus chapter 1 makes the same point.

33:05

So Paul says to Titus, he says, this is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put remain in order and appoint elders in every town as I directed you.

33:13

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

33:21

For an overseer's God steward must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick -tempered or a drunkard or violent or grieved for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self - controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

33:34

He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may give, that may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and to rebuke those who contradict it.

33:44

So there you have it. As politically incorrect as it is, and now the pitchforks will come out from the stage four cancerous feminists, and they will demand my head on a pike for daring to read out what the

33:57

Scriptures say in this manner, and so we'll note Judah Smith is wrong. His wife, by the way, preaches and teaches, and she's considered a pastor at their church, but the reason why the prohibition for women to, you know, to be heads in the church or to be pastors is not due to their education level in the ancient world, it's due to the current will of God regarding women to be submissive as a result of humanity's fall into sin.

34:27

So women, when you are submissive to your husbands, you are obeying the

34:32

Lord, and this is considered precious in a sight, and husbands, when you are loving your wives and leading them sacrificially the way

34:42

Christ loved his church, then you are leading them properly. Any other kind of leadership is not the leadership that Christ has called men to be in, or to exercise over their wives.

34:53

To exercise any other kind of leadership is to engage in self -serving leadership rather than self -sacrificial service and love towards your wife.

35:01

Keep that in mind. Now, hopefully you found this helpful. Controversial, I'm sure, but if so, if you found this helpful, please feel free to share the video.

35:10

All the information on how you can share the video is down below in the description, and as always,

35:15

I like to remind you that we are supported by the people whom we serve, and that's you, so if you don't already support us financially, all the information on how you can support us financially, all the links are down below.

35:25

You can join our crew, send in a one -time contribution, things like that, and it makes it possible for us to keep doing the things we're doing.

35:32

So until next time, may God richly bless you in the grace and mercy won by Jesus Christ and His vicarious death on the cross for all of your sins.