It would appear that ever since Eve enticed Adam to eat from the forbidden tree, she has become a subordinate. The truth is, we can’t blame Eve, Adam was in charge and he has only himself to blame. The Hebrew description of a woman is a man with a womb. Just because men do not understand women, it’s not a good enough reason to make them inferior.
1 Peter 3:7 Husbands dwell with your wives according to God’s Word, giving honor unto the weaker vessel, and being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. The Bible refers to women as the weaker vessel, that is referring to physical strength. Just because a woman can’t lift as much as a man does not mean she is a wimp. Men need women and women need men, that is how God created us. After God created Adam He said, it is not good that man should be alone so He created a help mate. The man answers to God and so he needs help in order to measure up. Women see things different than men and sometimes need a different perspective on life. When a man and a woman see eye to eye they together become heirs of God’s grace that empowers things to prosper in all they set their hand to. If one of the mates get cross wise with God’s will they will be disqualified from His grace. The devil is the spirit of division, he targets every agreement of mankind. Most good men love a submissive wife, they can’t seem to do enough for them. 1 Corinthians 14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for its not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also says the law. Thank God we are not under the law but under grace. If you continue to read the rest of the chapter, you will discover that some of the women were talking and asking questions during the preaching of the Rabbi. So the Apostle Paul was telling them to wait until they got home and then discuss the word with their husbands. When Paul closed his letter he reminded the people, let all things be done decently and in order. I think that when a woman asks a question it is because she is interested in what God is saying, and that is never a bad thing. Many many times Miss Gwen would pull me aside and question me about something I said, I always admired her for that. Acts 18:26 Apollos was a baby Christian and when Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they went to him and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly. Apollos would become a mighty man of God but he needed revelation, a man and his wife taught him the Word of God. Women have the same Holy Spirit as men do and God gives them gifts just like He does with men. I would not be where I am today without the women who brought me the Word of God. I was subjected to the gifts of God in them and I grew in faith rapidly. It requires humility to be taught by anyone whether it be a man or a woman. Being a woman is so important some men are transitioning into women, but they are not the real deal. Thank God for women, it’s a much better world when they are around and it’s not so lonely.
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As you are well aware we are in perilous times, men have abandoned God by the droves. Christianity is not a popular class, Christians have become the butt of many jokes and jeers. Christians once held a place of honor but now it is a popular thing to chide people who love God. The sin of committed sinners is at an all time high and expanding, it’s beginning to look a lot like the world before the flood. The world was out of control, Noah preached to them for over a hundred and twenty years and they wouldn’t hear him. People are content to wallow in their sin, they will not even consider the consequences.
Proverbs 9:10 To be wise you must first have reverence for the Lord, if you know the Holy One, you have understanding. If a man does not honor God he will not be wise, he will be a fool. Those who know Jesus have understanding, they can see what the world is all about and they know the end game. The world is not without warning, the prophets in the Bible and the Bible believing Christians have been telling the world what is coming. But they do not take serious what “Bible Thumpers” say, they are too busy enjoying the pleasures of the flesh. If it be possible, the devil has increased the opportunities for temptation. Christians must rely on their faith to resist the plots and plans of the devil, thank God for His armor. Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools (morons). People think they are a whole lot smarter than they are and it shows, but they won’t admit to it. No man can reject a relationship with almighty God and claim to understand the world and it’s pernicious ways. The works of the devil and the works of God are so obvious to a believer but the children of wrath are oblivious. The sinners have a whole repertoire of excuses they keep close at hand just in case they meet up with God. But when they look into His eyes they know their goose is cooked. Early on the condition of the world grew so evil that God determined to destroy all living creatures with a world wide flood. Folks things have come full circle, the wickedness of the human race before the flood has resurfaced. Sin is being recycled. Same devil, same wickedness, just a different time and different people. 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and sorcerers will progress from bad to worse, deceived and deceiving, as they lead people further from the truth. According to this Scripture some folks “woke” up and began to express themselves as experts on human behavior. They appear as being authorities but they all lack one main element, the truth. Jesus said the Father’s Word is the truth, apart from His Word you must fabricate your own brand of truth. But the problem gets worse, there are always people who will assign themselves to these snake oil peddlers. Many will depart from the faith and even seek out these false prophets, ignoring the prophets of God who warned us of their imminent arrival. People are looking for something out of the norm, but rather than choose the Holy Spirit they choose the spirit of the world. It is vitally important you stay close to God, He and He alone has the Word of eternal life. Deception is a choice, choose to never be deceived, walk in the light of God’s love and blessings. Put on all the armor of God and never take it off. When I was a young boy growing up in the Catholic church, I was taught that taking God’s Name in vain would lead to punishment. Of all the commandments, this one stuck with me like gorilla glue. To this day I have never used God’s Name to cuss or curse. According to Exodus chapter twenty verse seven, anyone who uses God’s Name in vain will be punished. There is power in God’s Name. If we treat it as common we devalue that power and excuse ourselves from the benefit.
Mathew 12:32 Anyone who says something against the Son of man can be forgiven; but whoever says something against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. If we use God’s Name in vain He will punish us and then forget it, but if we speak against the Holy Ghost we can never be forgiven. No man can be saved without the Holy Spirit, if a man knowingly speaks against the Holy Ghost he will never see God. Jesus spoke this to the pharisees because they accursed Him of casting out devils by the Spirit of God and so the pharisees were in danger of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Jesus gave these pharisees a stern warning because He loved them. He came to save, not condemn. Well I‘ll be damned - God dam it These phrases are spoken every day by ignorant people, their conscience has been seared with a hot iron. Why are these phrases so grievous? Because they are unauthorized prayers that men speak in ignorance. There was a time when God winked (overlooked) at such ignorance but now He calls all men to repent. We will have what we say, we are taken by the words from our mouths. We will be judged for every idle (useless) word we speak, our only recourse is repentance. Mathew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you being evil speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Every man has convictions, firmly held opinions. These convictions are stored in the heart of a man and they are the basis for what he speaks. If he read opposing truths out of a book of facts, he would not accept them. In order to alter what a man continually says, he must change his view of all circumstances. If a man will read the Bible and allow it to renew his mind, he will come into agreement with God and he will begin to speak what is right. It would be better for a man to not mention God at all than to use His Name in vain. On several occasions I have been with men who were cussing and using God’s Name in vain, I started praising His Name and they stopped cussing. A lot of people are not even cognizant of what comes out of their mouth, to them it’s just a habit. Psalm 145:1-2 I will exalt You, my God, O King, I will bless your Name forever. Every day I will bless You and praise You forever and ever. David knew his Lord and so he had a reason to praise Him all the days of his life, reading the writing of David does not constitute praise on our part. Praising the Lord comes from the heart not off the pages of a book. God wants us to praise Him from our heart. David used his own words and we should do the same, it’s not so much of what we say it’s what we feel and believe. Our testimony is the basis for our praise and love for our Lord, acknowledging His love and power in our lives in praise. God’s Name is Holy and must be revered as Holy, His Name and praise should always appear in the same breath. If a believer has any hope of a successful life they must know how to pray and then pray. Prayer moves the hand of God but we must pray according to God‘s will. Prayer is so important, God had the prayers we are to say recorded in His Holy Bible. Most of the prose I hear people pray does not come from the Bible, it‘s their description of the problem at hand.
Mathew 6:7 When you pray, do not think you will be heard for much speaking. The church has been conditioned to accept long, lofty prayers with little regard for what is actually spoken. There was a man in the Bible who spoke just one or two words when He prayed, and He got every prayer answered, His Name is Jesus. Long windy prayers will always offer a bunch of unneeded information. The Father knows what we need before we ask so we don’t need to read off our list. The Father wants to hear if we believe what He said in His Word, because what He said is our prayer. I have watched Kenneth Copeland, Jerry Savelle and Jesse Duplantis pray for hundreds of people. There was not time or place for long drawn out prayers. 1 John 5:14-15 If we pray anything according to His will He hears us. If we know He hears us then we have the petition we desire of Him. Our faith is not in how we pray, it’s in believing that He will confirm His Word with signs following. Every prayer must be according to His will, if you don’t know His will pray in the Spirit until you know it. One Sunday after church I visited an old friend in a nursing home, he was recovering from a stroke. His wife and family were there as well, I asked them what we are praying for. They all agreed that he would be healed if it was God’s will. Their prayers would be of no effect because they don’t know God’s will. It is not a sin to be ignorant of God’s will. Our ignorance is a hindrance to answered prayer, before I was illuminated I would have said the “rosary”. Ephesians 6:17-18 Take the sword of the spirit which is the Word of God praying with all prayers. God’s Word is His will and it doesn’t require a handbook to pray His will. The whole purpose for praying is to invite God to confirm things into His will. Prayer: the official communication that establishes God‘s will for our life. Prayer is serious business and it must be highly regarded by all believers, if we don’t pray we put ourselves at the mercy of the world. Now the prayer of intercession will require all different aspects of prayer because intercession must be prayed until every sinner comes to repentance. The Lord will have us target a specific need, but the sinner needs to come to the faith. It is God’s will that all men be saved and it all begins with intercession. We take a Scripture the Holy Spirit gives us and we declare it, and then we pray in the spirit because we don’t know how to pray as we ought. Praying in tongues builds us up, when we intercede for someone else, we build them up. When I was a sinner people were interceding for me, my resolve to get saved became more and more real. I would not be here today but God’s people made intercession for me according to God’s will. If you have lived in this present world for any length of time, you have to notice how spiritually ugly it has become. When I was a kid the heathen members of society respected the beliefs of the religious folks. I can remember on many occasions listening to my mom talk about a woman who had conceived. My mom would not use the word “pregnant”, she and her friends would say PG. My mom told me many times that a woman could not have a baby unless she was married. My older brother was a rank sinner because he and his girlfriend had a baby. Now in this present time some girls use abortion as a form of birth control, they call it reproductive health. The reason the world is changing so radically is because the majority of men do not respect God and His Word.
Genesis 6:5 God saw that the wickedness of man was very great and his every thought was evil. God regretted making man on the earth and He was determined to destroy all of them. However, He found one man among all men that would obey Him; that man was Noah. Noah demonstrated his faith by obeying God and he built the great ark, it took him over one hundred years to complete it. When the ark was finished, Noah got his family and all the animals on board and it began to rain. All of those wicked people died in the flood with all the animals. God began an all new creation with Noah’s three sons and their wives. There was one major problem, Noah and his sons still had the fallen nature of their great, great grand father Adam. 1 John 5:19 We know we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness. Adam’s nature survived the flood and Adam’s father the devil will always welcome new recruits. So what we have are two types of people living in this world. We have the children of the devil and the sons of God. Every man can choose his or her father. You will spend eternity with whatever father you choose and evil men are content with the status quo, they have not considered what is waiting for them. For the believer, evil and wickedness are things they hate and by the grace of God they avoid them every day of the world. Hebrews 11:25 By faith Moses chose to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Sinners are reluctant to shun sin because it gives them pleasure in their flesh, but the wages of sin is death. There are three types of death taught in the Bible, the first is spiritual death which is separation from God. The second is physical death that all of us can see. The last one is the second death which is eternity in hell. The wages of death begin with spiritual, then physical, and then the second death and the sinner has no clue because he takes pleasure in sinning. What God calls wickedness and evil, some men call fun and normal! Do you know how sinners deal with the reality of hell? They redescribe it and make it to be not such a bad place to hang out with their friends. The world is full of wickedness and evil, but most people don’t think it’s an issue that warrants their attention. I pray that all men would awake from their slumber and embrace the righteousness Jesus died to give us. Amen. |
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