WEBVTT 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:39.440 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:41.360 Mahler. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:41.520 And 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.800 I'm Wo. 00:00:43.360 --> 00:00:47.840 Today's episode of Stone Choir as well as next week's episode will 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:52.720 both be dealing with the subject of feminism, of women's liberation, of 00:00:52.720 --> 00:00:56.560 the role and nature of the woman in the Christian life, in 00:00:56.560 --> 00:00:59.760 the life of the world and the life of the family, and 00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:04.960 what it means both for Christians and civilizationally when these things are 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:08.000 usurped from outside of the church. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.520 Uh initially we had hoped to do this all as one episode, 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:15.040 uh the way we did with slavery last week, but as we 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.000 were sort of talking and discussing and just thinking through what we 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.320 wanted to say, we realized that even speed running just the scriptural 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:25.520 part of this was probably gonna take you know i even going 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:28.480 at a fast clip, yeah, we'll probably blow past ninety minutes today. 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:31.520 So re Rather than trying to shoehorn it onto one, I think 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.000 we're just gonna decide up front to split it into two. 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:39.920 So today's episode is going to specifically focus on the scriptural basis 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.080 for the ontological difference between man and woman and what and what 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:47.760 God intends by making one of each. 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:49.120 Why are we different? 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:50.240 How are we different? 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:54.800 What was the purpose of our being created differently and unequally? 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:57.920 And once we establish that this week, next week's episode is going 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:02.320 to specifically deal almost entirely with what has happened really in the 00:02:02.320 --> 00:02:04.000 West since the Enlightenment. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.440 It's interesting you can go read through the Wikipedia article on like 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.200 women's liberation, you know, the the role the evolution of women in 00:02:11.200 --> 00:02:16.160 society and everything in the West, there's stuff that happened in Greece 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:20.480 and Rome, and then there's not really any updates until the Enlightenment. 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:24.480 And the reason for that is that when the last of the 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:32.160 pagan kingdoms, which were really in uh Scandinavia, finally adopted Christianity, feminism 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:36.000 as we know it today in any form, died in the West. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:40.960 And there was really a homogeneity in the way that Christendom dealt 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.600 with and viewed women vis-a-vis men. 00:02:43.600 --> 00:02:46.480 And that only began to change after the Enlightenment. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:49.040 And so that you find this a lot when you're I I 00:02:49.040 --> 00:02:54.240 actually recommend reading Wikipedia articles on these things because they're slanted in 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:57.760 the liberal direction, they're going to be bragging about what they've done. 00:02:57.760 --> 00:03:00.720 So they're actually very informative in terms of the timeline. 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:03.760 And what you'll find in a lot of these sociological so called 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.840 subjects, the reason we're talking about is it's not sociological, it's theological. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:10.720 But what you'll find is that you'll have stuff two thousand years 00:03:10.720 --> 00:03:13.520 ago and then there's a gap and then in the eighteen hundreds 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.440 it picks up again in the West. 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:19.840 And that's the reason why is that morality changed a couple hundred 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:23.360 years ago as the West began to abandon Christianity. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.560 So this first episode about feminism is going to specifically discuss Christianity, 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:29.920 what scripture says about it. 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:32.960 And then next next week we'll talk about the destruction that has 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:37.520 been done to the Christian doctrine by the adoption of notions of 00:03:37.520 --> 00:03:42.000 feminism, whether it's first, second, or third wave, the notion of the 00:03:42.320 --> 00:03:46.160 brand new sin of misogyny for which men are now being excommunicated 00:03:46.160 --> 00:03:48.880 from our churches, uh that's a pretty big deal that we have 00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:53.200 new doctrine that is damning men that for literally six thousand years 00:03:53.200 --> 00:03:57.440 of Christian history minus what has happened since the Enlightenment. 00:03:57.440 --> 00:03:58.960 Everyone believed the same thing. 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:02.080 It's a recurring theme on Stone Choir because it is one of 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.680 the fundamental issue issues facing the entire church. 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.560 So as we get in dig into scripture, we're going to begin 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:10.800 at the very beginning with Genesis two. 00:04:10.880 --> 00:04:11.040 I 00:04:11.040 --> 00:04:14.480 think I may actually begin with Genesis one because it is then 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:17.040 echoed in Genesis 2. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:22.880 But because obviously of course we have two narratives, not different narratives, 00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:26.000 but two narratives, the second being an expanded of the first of 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.680 the creation of man. 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:31.280 And so I'll start with Genesis one verse twenty six. 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:35.120 Then God said, Let us make man in our image after our 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.560 likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.840 and over the birds of the heavens, and over the livestock, and 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:45.200 over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:45.920 the earth. 00:04:46.400 --> 00:04:50.560 So God created man in his own image, in the image of 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:55.760 God he created him, male and female he created them, and God 00:04:55.760 --> 00:04:59.680 blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.880 fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish 00:05:02.880 --> 00:05:05.600 of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:08.640 every living thing that moves on the earth. 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:11.920 Now of course it's tempting to turn this into a lecture on 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.680 Genesis, but that's not our goal today. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:19.920 We're going to f focus specifically on how scripture treats the interplay 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.120 between men and women, the nature of woman, and things like that 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:27.520 And so I want to start here because it is worth pointing 00:05:27.520 --> 00:05:33.520 out, contrary to what so many argue today, this does not actually 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:37.440 say that God created woman in his own image. 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:42.560 This says that God created man in his own image, because it 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:48.560 says God created man in his own image, that is singular, masculine 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:51.040 there. And then it says in the image of God he created 00:05:51.840 --> 00:05:56.560 him. Again, that is singular masculine. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:00.800 And so of course then we have the expanded narration of the 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:07.360 creation of mankind in Genesis two, starting with verse fifteen. 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.240 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden 00:06:10.240 --> 00:06:13.200 of Eden to work it and keep it, and the Lord God 00:06:13.200 --> 00:06:16.560 commanded the man saying, You may surely eat of every tree of 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:19.120 the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.240 evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.800 of it you shall surely die. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:28.560 Then the Lord God said, It is not good that man should 00:06:28.560 --> 00:06:31.680 be alone, I will make him a helper fit for him. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:34.480 Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.360 of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brought them 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:40.560 to the man, to see what he would call them, and whatever 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:44.160 the man called every living creature, that was its name. 00:06:44.160 --> 00:06:47.440 The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:51.040 the heavens, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:53.440 there was not found a helper fit for him. 00:06:53.440 --> 00:06:56.480 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.920 man, and while he slept took one of his ribs enclosed of 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:01.760 its place with flesh. 00:07:01.760 --> 00:07:04.560 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.520 he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 00:07:07.520 --> 00:07:11.920 Then the man said, This at last is bone of my bones, 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:13.760 and flesh of my flesh. 00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:17.680 She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.880 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and hold 00:07:20.880 --> 00:07:25.600 fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:28.800 There are a number of things we need to pull out of 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.040 this passage. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:32.080 First it is worth noting 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.560 who named Adam. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:38.480 God named Adam. 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:44.960 Naming is an exercise of ownership, of possession, of authority over someone 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:46.400 or something. 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:49.200 That's why parents name their children. 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:53.840 That's why some people name inanimate objects, but why most people name 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:54.800 their pets. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.800 It is an exercise of ownership and exercise of dominance Of dominion, 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:04.160 and so God brings the animals to Adam, Adam names them, because 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.080 Adam is the steward of creation, he is given dominion over all 00:08:08.080 --> 00:08:09.920 of these things. 00:08:09.920 --> 00:08:12.080 This is a demonstration of the dominion 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.480 of Adam over creation, and that includes woman, because you will note 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:22.240 that Adam calls her woman. 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.680 Later on he also names her Eve, but here he calls her 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:29.120 woman. There's some word play here which actually works pretty well in 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:33.920 the English, merely as a quirk of historical etymology, but because the 00:08:33.920 --> 00:08:36.720 word that is used here, as opposed to earlier were the generic 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.400 term for man is Adam, in fact the name of Adam is 00:08:40.400 --> 00:08:42.400 both man and Adam. 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:46.800 Here it's Ish and Isha, so it's a play on words there 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:50.320 that does come through, thankfully, in the English. 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:55.760 But we note that woman is created out of man, as opposed 00:08:55.760 --> 00:08:59.840 to man who was created from the earth. 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.400 There is a theological point there. 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:07.280 Woman is from man, man names woman, man is the head of 00:09:07.280 --> 00:09:10.960 woman, and we'll see that of course later, more explicitly in other 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:12.880 parts of Scripture. 00:09:12.880 --> 00:09:15.440 But man and woman also come back together. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:20.080 They were from one flesh, Eve having been created from Adam, they 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.280 come back together as one flesh, as man and wife, and that 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:27.840 is how the blessings of God to be fruitful and multiply are 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:33.280 retained to humanity by that one flesh union which we call marriage. 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:36.800 I'm glad that you you jump back to Genesis one to point 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:39.600 to the discussion of the image of God. 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:42.400 That's reiterated actually in Genesis five. 00:09:42.400 --> 00:09:46.000 It reads When God created man he made him in the likeness 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:49.920 of God, male and female he created them, and he blessed them 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:53.040 and named them man when they were created. 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:56.000 This is why we are called mankind. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:00.800 This is why linguistically, for example in in languages like Latin, if 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:05.200 there was a single man in a group, the masculine form would 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:07.360 be used to describe the group. 00:10:07.360 --> 00:10:10.880 The only time you would have a the feminine in Latin would 00:10:10.880 --> 00:10:14.560 be if everyone that you're referring to was female. 00:10:14.560 --> 00:10:14.880 So 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.120 this has always been baked into creation. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.360 It's been baked into previous languages. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:25.360 It was baked into the English language until really the last thirty 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:32.560 years or so when suddenly the masculine form of language as generic 00:10:32.560 --> 00:10:36.240 is no longer permissible, but it's it's called gendered language. 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:40.080 In fact, we have even church bodies like Wells going so far 00:10:40.080 --> 00:10:45.040 as to change the the creeds to remove the so-called gendered language 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:49.120 to say that Christ Christ was m created human and not created 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.720 man, which is vulgar on multiple levels. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.760 But that's that's the reason that we're pointing to this stuff is 00:10:55.760 --> 00:11:00.160 that these small, small details that can seem like they're picky and 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:02.320 you know, why are these guys being defensive? 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:03.440 Why does anyone care? 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.400 Well, I think the real question is why do people care when 00:11:06.400 --> 00:11:08.480 they're pushing in the opposite direction? 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:11.920 When someone wants to talk about what the image of God meant 00:11:11.920 --> 00:11:15.920 at creation, let's listen to what God actually said. 00:11:15.920 --> 00:11:19.360 And he said, man was created in his image. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:23.200 And when you look at the passage in Genesis 127 or so, 00:11:23.200 --> 00:11:24.720 it's verbally awkward. 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:27.760 It would have been much easier to not say male and female 00:11:28.400 --> 00:11:31.760 he created them while ignoring the image part. 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:35.360 If the image were obviously to apply to both, it was simply 00:11:35.360 --> 00:11:36.000 said so. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:41.440 And so that re repetition with exclusion has to be significant. 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:42.480 And it's repeated. 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.440 It's repeated not only in in Genesis, it's also repeated in the 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.080 New Testament. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.480 I think we'll get to one of those passages later. 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.480 But uh you'd also mention naming as is an act of authority. 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.200 In one of the early episodes we did a name no man 00:11:55.200 --> 00:11:58.720 knows, we spent some time talking about that, about the authority of 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.440 being able to name something, about the reason that pseudonymity and anonymity 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:08.320 make some people so angry because they want to exercise authority over 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.160 someone and they don't know their name. 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:11.600 And that is limiting. 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.880 When you don't know, for example, my name, there's only so much 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:15.840 you can do to me. 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:18.240 Once you do know my name, there's more stuff you can do 00:12:18.240 --> 00:12:19.120 to me. 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.640 And when someone wants to do harm to someone, when someone wants 00:12:22.640 --> 00:12:26.320 to they will claim exercise authority in a godly fashion, but we'll 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.560 see what the results of those will be and they're not going 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:32.560 to be godly, uh but the the results will speak for themselves. 00:12:32.560 --> 00:12:34.400 Naming has authority. 00:12:34.400 --> 00:12:38.640 And when Adam named Eve, just as Adam named all the other 00:12:38.640 --> 00:12:42.480 creatures, as you said, that was an exercise of dominion. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:47.200 And as we discussed last week when we were talking about slavery, 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:54.480 dominion has come to mean ruling mercilessly, or authoritarianism in the negative 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.400 sense of the word, where if you rule, if you have dominion, 00:12:58.400 --> 00:13:00.480 that's it's the worst thing you can do. 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:04.320 it's inherently an act of cruelty in our minds today. 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:07.040 And that's not godly. 00:13:07.040 --> 00:13:09.200 God has dominion over us. 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:10.400 Is that cruelty? 00:13:10.400 --> 00:13:13.920 Well, that is absolutely what Satan wants us to believe. 00:13:13.920 --> 00:13:16.880 That was the pitch that the Satan gave to Eve. 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:20.320 In essence, that God was cruel by not letting them eat the 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.880 fruit. And he said, Look how delicious it is, and you'll be 00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:23.920 like God. 00:13:23.920 --> 00:13:26.320 And so she fell for it. 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.640 And that's always the pitch. 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:32.240 The if someone is over you, they're ruthless. 00:13:32.560 --> 00:13:33.360 they're heartless. 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:36.160 They're doing something to you that's bad. 00:13:36.160 --> 00:13:39.280 And the only way for you to escape this evil that you 00:13:39.280 --> 00:13:44.320 just realized is to fight the patriarchy, to fight the headship, to 00:13:44.320 --> 00:13:47.680 subvert the rule over you. 00:13:47.680 --> 00:13:52.160 That's the essence of everything that's happened since the Enlightenment. 00:13:52.160 --> 00:13:54.240 In a nutshell, that's what's been happening. 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:55.120 One by one. 00:13:55.120 --> 00:14:00.800 No gods, no masters, no masters and slaves, no man over woman. 00:14:00.800 --> 00:14:03.840 You can go right through Galatians 320A, you can go right down 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.840 the entire high hierarchy of headship, and you'll find that the world 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:11.200 today and the morality that all of us have been taught to 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.040 hold is fundamentally at odds with created order. 00:14:15.040 --> 00:14:17.840 And one of the reasons that we're starting in Genesis is not 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:22.240 only that it's the beginning, but as we establish that God's headship 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:27.040 beginning with woman being created from man and as a helper, I 00:14:27.040 --> 00:14:30.800 think we're I'm gonna refer back to Genesis two eighteen repeatedly that 00:14:30.880 --> 00:14:34.960 the the passage then the Lord God said, It is not good 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.560 that man should be alone, I will milk make a helper fit 00:14:38.560 --> 00:14:39.440 for him. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:42.720 That's the essence of everything that we're going to say here today 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:44.720 in both Old and New Testament. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:46.560 Because this is before the fall. 00:14:46.560 --> 00:14:48.880 This is before there was any sin in the world. 00:14:48.880 --> 00:14:52.000 This was before there was the curse against either Adam or Eve, 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.800 which obviously applies to every man and to every woman in turn. 00:14:56.800 --> 00:15:01.040 Before there was any evil, God said, It's not good for man 00:15:01.040 --> 00:15:01.840 to be alone. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:03.200 I'm gonna give him a woman. 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:07.840 I'm gonna give him a helper fit for him. 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.800 The reason that that's going to be important throughout this episode and 00:15:10.800 --> 00:15:15.120 throughout the second part of the subsequent episode is that 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:19.520 helper inherently has a help E. 00:15:19.520 --> 00:15:22.240 So Adam he existed by himself. 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.880 He was able to do what he needed to do. 00:15:24.880 --> 00:15:27.280 But God said, That's not, I'm not done. 00:15:27.280 --> 00:15:28.400 Adam needs more. 00:15:28.400 --> 00:15:29.760 He needs a helper. 00:15:29.760 --> 00:15:34.080 Eve, on the other hand, was created to be a helper. 00:15:34.080 --> 00:15:39.280 In other words, her definition is pointed directly at Adam. 00:15:39.280 --> 00:15:42.240 Her purpose is to be a helper. 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:46.160 Absent someone to help, she has no purpose. 00:15:46.160 --> 00:15:50.320 And that's fundamentally the root of what we see feminism doing in 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.160 the hearts and minds of those who adopt it by any measure 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.240 is the notion that a woman can be strong and independent and 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.640 oh that's great and you go girl. 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:06.720 And what it does is it fundamentally uproots a woman from the 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.160 only task to which God has created her and the only thing 00:16:10.160 --> 00:16:12.480 that's ultimately going to make her happy. 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.720 So when we discuss these things like slavery, like headship, like the 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:20.480 roles of men and women, it is never in the pursuit of 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:25.280 subjugation or cruelty or saying you are less than, you need to 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:25.920 be ruled. 00:16:25.920 --> 00:16:26.960 That's not the point. 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.640 The point is that if God has ordained a certain order and 00:16:30.640 --> 00:16:34.880 we try to break it and subvert it, what's gonna happen? 00:16:34.880 --> 00:16:39.120 The punishment for sin, the temporal punishment, and there is temporal punishment 00:16:39.120 --> 00:16:40.000 for every sin. 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.200 Every time you do something wrong, God paid for it on the 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.080 cross, but you're still going to pay the price in this life 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.600 somehow. And the the punishments for these sins are usually baked right 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:51.040 into the sin. 00:16:51.040 --> 00:16:55.760 If you know, if someone decides to assert self identity and they 00:16:55.760 --> 00:16:57.760 say, I was born a man, but I'm I want to be 00:16:57.760 --> 00:17:00.400 a woman now, well the first things they do is they change 00:17:00.400 --> 00:17:01.120 their name. 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:04.480 As we said in the name No Man Knows episode, that is 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.720 an assertion of self ownership. 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:11.120 Trannies are throwing off the shackles of God and saying, I am 00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:12.320 my own maker. 00:17:12.320 --> 00:17:16.320 I am remaking by naming myself and I'm going to remake my 00:17:16.320 --> 00:17:19.680 body. What do they do when they destroy their bodies and they 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:24.080 destroy their minds by injecting hormones that do not belong in them? 00:17:24.320 --> 00:17:25.280 Complete destruction. 00:17:25.280 --> 00:17:26.480 It leads to madness. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.480 It leads to despair. 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.600 They consume their own bodies in their sin. 00:17:31.600 --> 00:17:35.920 And because they're given over to that delusion, it's all consuming. 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.360 And in in many cases, there's no way for them to get 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:42.880 back out of it because they go down this path of destruction. 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.800 So the sin was believing that God had made them wrong, which 00:17:46.800 --> 00:17:48.640 is itself high-handed sin. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.240 But the further they go down that path, the more destruction that 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.200 sin causes in their lives. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:58.720 And so when we talk about the order of creation and how 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:04.160 God has made each of us, it's ultimately serving and obeying God 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.920 and saying, if God made me for this purpose, I can't just 00:18:08.560 --> 00:18:09.680 veto that. 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.880 I can't find a workaround and say I'm gonna ignore it. 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:16.720 Because try as we might, our nature is immutable. 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.200 If God made you a man, you are a man. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.520 And if he made you a woman, you are a woman. 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.520 You don't get a vote. 00:18:23.520 --> 00:18:27.120 And if some days you feel a little weird about it, pray 00:18:27.120 --> 00:18:27.760 for help. 00:18:27.760 --> 00:18:30.480 And if you need to talk to someone, seek help. 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:35.440 But to believe that God made a mistake is apostasy. 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.320 It's to say that God is not God because God cannot make 00:18:38.320 --> 00:18:42.320 mistakes. If you believe that God made a mistake to either make 00:18:42.320 --> 00:18:45.520 you a woman or to you know, maybe you admit that he 00:18:45.520 --> 00:18:47.280 made you a woman, but you're gonna say, Well, I don't I 00:18:47.280 --> 00:18:48.480 don't like the role he gave me. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.680 I want a different role. 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.280 I want to be in charge. 00:18:51.280 --> 00:18:54.640 That is rebellion against the very God who has given you the 00:18:54.640 --> 00:18:57.280 gifts of whatever your station is. 00:18:57.280 --> 00:19:00.800 And so these conversations are important again, not 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:07.040 because we are men who are seeking dominion over other races or 00:19:07.040 --> 00:19:08.960 over the weaker sex. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:10.800 There's nothing of the sort. 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:12.480 It's all of us saying 00:19:13.360 --> 00:19:17.040 God is our head, He has ordained order among us. 00:19:17.040 --> 00:19:20.160 The further we stray from that, the worse we make everything. 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:23.040 And what we see around us in the world today is everything 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:27.040 being made worse by us, ceasing to believe that God actually meant 00:19:27.040 --> 00:19:29.440 what he did and meant what he said. 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.400 And so when he says these things in scripture, it's imperative for 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:33.360 us to listen. 00:19:33.760 --> 00:19:38.080 When I say dominion, I just think lordship. 00:19:38.080 --> 00:19:42.960 And when I use either of those terms, from my perspective, they're 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.320 entirely neutral because I know the etymology and what they mean. 00:19:46.320 --> 00:19:50.720 For most people, yes, they're going to have imbibed the implications 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.160 the world infuses into those terms, and that of course is negative 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.920 because it is a rejection on the part of the world of 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:02.800 rightful hierarchy, authority, etc. 00:20:03.280 --> 00:20:08.880 But dominion just comes from dominus in Latin which just means Lord. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:14.640 I have dominion over my property, I have dominion over my dog. 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:18.240 Parents have dominion over their children. 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.960 This is a neutral term. 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:25.120 How you exercise it is what makes it good or bad, good 00:20:25.120 --> 00:20:26.400 or evil. 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:29.040 And so dominion in and of itself 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.160 is more or less morally neutral. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:35.600 It's good in so far as it is part of God's design 00:20:35.600 --> 00:20:40.480 for creation, but how it is exercised is what gives it its 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.680 moral character 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:43.840 The reason it's under 00:20:43.840 --> 00:20:49.200 assault. The reason it's under assault is precisely because Satan doesn't want 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:50.480 God to be Lord. 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:52.560 He doesn't want Jesus Christ to be Lord. 00:20:52.560 --> 00:20:56.080 All of this is fundamentally rooted in upending God's headship in his 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:59.520 orders. And that that's why it's becoming a dirty word. 00:20:59.520 --> 00:21:01.520 And most people today think it is a dirty word. 00:21:01.520 --> 00:21:01.920 You're right. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:06.080 And that's we're talking about this head on precisely because this is 00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:07.440 a satanic attack. 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.840 Feminism is a satanic attack on God and on the church, just 00:21:11.840 --> 00:21:17.680 as the abolition of slavery as a notion is a satanic attack. 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:21.600 It is saying we are all equal, we are completely horizontal. 00:21:21.600 --> 00:21:23.040 There's no differences among men. 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:25.760 There's no difference between man and woman. 00:21:25.760 --> 00:21:30.240 When God when Satan uses Galatians three twenty-eight as a template for 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.600 undoing creation, we need to pay attention and then we need to 00:21:33.600 --> 00:21:34.080 fight 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:34.640 back. 00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:37.120 Satan was the first rebel. 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:40.000 Alinsky did get that right. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.320 And 00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:48.000 the whole goal of rebels in this sort of area is to 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.160 overthrow rightful authority. 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:54.240 It's not saying that rebels are always wrong, because of course someone 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:59.120 could rebel against unlawful or wicked uses of authority, and that's a 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:02.320 different matter for a different time Perhaps we'll eventually get around to 00:22:02.320 --> 00:22:05.760 an episode on Magnabird and related things. 00:22:05.760 --> 00:22:11.120 But Satan's entire goal is to subvert the right ordering of creation 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.560 because he wants to be God. 00:22:14.800 --> 00:22:17.520 But of course, you may notice the irony there. 00:22:17.520 --> 00:22:20.160 He doesn't want to get rid of hierarchy, he just wants to 00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:21.680 be at the top of it. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.200 And that is the same thing that he tries to get his 00:22:25.200 --> 00:22:26.560 children to do. 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:29.200 And so feminism fundamentally is an attempt 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:34.000 by women to replace men at the top of the hierarchy. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.040 They don't want equality. 00:22:35.040 --> 00:22:36.080 They never want equality. 00:22:36.080 --> 00:22:37.680 That's not the goal. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:39.760 Satan's goal wasn't equality with God. 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:42.080 Satan's goal was to be God. 00:22:42.080 --> 00:22:46.160 The goal of feminists is to supplant men and be in charge 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:48.240 in the place of men. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.320 Some of them go so far as say they want to get 00:22:50.320 --> 00:22:51.360 rid of men. 00:22:51.360 --> 00:22:54.320 I don't know how that's going to work out, but 00:22:55.840 --> 00:22:57.440 they want to be in control. 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:01.520 They want to take that role of headship and leadership that God 00:23:01.520 --> 00:23:05.520 gave to man and make that their own. 00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:06.320 And I think that's a good 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.600 transition into the fall. 00:23:09.600 --> 00:23:13.360 We could talk more about teleology because that was touched on, but 00:23:13.360 --> 00:23:16.720 I think we'll save that for later in the episode or possibly 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:19.600 the next episode. 00:23:19.760 --> 00:23:23.120 Instead of just reading through Genesis 3, and I recommend you go 00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:28.800 and do that, we'll talk through what happens in the fall, what 00:23:28.800 --> 00:23:33.520 the fall is, and the nature of the curses that flow from 00:23:33.520 --> 00:23:34.240 the fall. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:38.560 And so of course we all know the narrative of the fall. 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:43.680 The serpent deceives the woman, the woman takes the fruit, eats, and 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:45.520 gives it to her husband. 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:50.320 Now, Scripture is very clear, and this also comes up in the 00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:53.840 New Testament it is the woman who was deceived, it is the 00:23:53.840 --> 00:23:59.360 weaker vessel who was deceived by the serpent, and became a transgressor. 00:23:59.360 --> 00:24:04.800 However, her husband is standing there while she does this. 00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:09.520 And so we could debate almost endlessly as to which sin was 00:24:09.520 --> 00:24:11.840 the first sin. 00:24:11.840 --> 00:24:16.080 In the garden, anyway, because obviously Satan has already fallen at this 00:24:16.080 --> 00:24:21.120 point, he is the deceiver, he is bringing sin into the world. 00:24:21.120 --> 00:24:25.760 You have the sin of Eve because she listens to the serpent 00:24:25.760 --> 00:24:29.360 instead of asking her husband, which is what she should have done. 00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:30.400 He's standing there. 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:31.440 He is her head. 00:24:31.440 --> 00:24:33.520 He is the one who should make the decision. 00:24:33.520 --> 00:24:36.240 But you also have the sin of Adam, who Adam who as 00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:40.400 the head is standing there, passively observing. 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:44.880 When he should have interjected, he should be the one, either talking 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:49.680 to or rejecting the serpent, instead of sitting back and seeing what 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.720 happens with his wife. 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:58.080 And so then we have the curses that flow from this. 00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:59.840 I'll just read through 00:25:00.800 --> 00:25:04.800 Already the the fullness of the curses, the Lord God said to 00:25:04.800 --> 00:25:08.400 the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you above all 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:12.240 livestock, and above all beasts of the field, on your belly you 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:15.280 shall go, and dust you shall eat, all the days of your 00:25:15.280 --> 00:25:19.680 life, I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between 00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:21.840 your offspring and her offspring. 00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:25.520 He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:29.200 To the woman he said, I will surely multiply your pain in 00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:32.560 childbearing. In pain you shall bring forth children. 00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:36.560 Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule 00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:37.200 over you. 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:40.400 I'll pause for a second there because the word The word your 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:43.920 desire shall be contrary to your husband can also be translated your 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.200 desire shall be for your husband or against your husband. 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:49.600 We'll get more into that into discussion. 00:25:50.080 --> 00:25:54.080 It's important to note there that the ESV that's a complete mistranslation. 00:25:54.080 --> 00:25:56.720 That is not an and, that is a but. 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:00.400 And that's really crucial because one of the things that some feminists 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.120 have tried to do with this verse when they s when it 00:26:03.120 --> 00:26:06.960 says, Your desire shall be contrary to your husband or shall be 00:26:07.600 --> 00:26:11.680 for your husband, but he shall rule over you, which is false. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:14.400 It's trying to set those in opposition to say, well, maybe one 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:16.080 of those isn't quite a curse. 00:26:16.080 --> 00:26:18.240 When as we get as you get through the rest of what 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:23.280 is said of Adam, every single phrase here in this passage is 00:26:23.280 --> 00:26:26.400 a direct curse against the recipient. 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:30.400 You shall do your desire shall be contrary to your husband, is 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:34.880 a curse, full stop, and he shall rule over you is also 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:35.840 a curse. 00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:38.240 Now we'll get to that in a minute, but I just want 00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:42.320 to note that when EFC V says but they're lying. 00:26:42.320 --> 00:26:47.520 It's a blatant mistranslation specifically to try to to in in interject 00:26:47.520 --> 00:26:51.520 doubt into whether this entire thing is a curse. 00:26:51.520 --> 00:26:53.600 As I said, when when you read through what it says about 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:56.240 Adam, every part of it is terrible news. 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:01.360 Even the proto evangelium Which is delivered to Satan, which is good 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:04.240 news for us, is a complete curse against Satan. 00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:08.240 The promise of a Messiah in Genesis 315 is a curse. 00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:10.800 That is the worst possible news for Satan. 00:27:10.800 --> 00:27:12.000 It's all bad news. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:15.280 It just so happens that the curse against Satan is the best 00:27:15.280 --> 00:27:17.120 possible news for us. 00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:20.720 So every word of this is evil in the proper sense. 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:25.040 Every word of this is being delivered as punishment for evil. 00:27:25.120 --> 00:27:25.360 Yes, 00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:28.960 and the the underlying Greek here the word that the ESV translates 00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.440 as but is chi, which is and 00:27:33.040 --> 00:27:37.600 so the curse on Adam then, and to Adam he said, Because 00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:39.920 you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.680 of the tree, of which I commanded you, you shall not eat 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:44.400 of it. 00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:46.560 Cursed is the ground because of you. 00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:48.880 In pain you shall eat of it all the days of your 00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.400 life, thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, and you 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.280 shall eat the plants of the field, by the sweat of your 00:27:55.280 --> 00:27:58.960 face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:02.080 out of it you were taken, for you are dust, and to 00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:04.080 dust you shall return. 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.560 And then I'll read the the next verse as well because we 00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:11.760 touched on it earlier, but it's good to also read the verse 00:28:11.760 --> 00:28:15.760 itself. The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the 00:28:15.760 --> 00:28:19.440 mother of all living, and so again we see that exercise of 00:28:19.440 --> 00:28:23.920 dominion of headship by Adam over his wife. 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:26.400 He names her Eve. 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:30.480 And so to turn back to the curses, the serpent is dealt 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:32.800 with somewhat summarily. 00:28:32.800 --> 00:28:36.160 It's just cursed are you above all livestock. 00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:39.120 And then of course we get the Proto Evangelian, which is bad 00:28:39.120 --> 00:28:42.960 news as stated for Satan, even if it is good news, of 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:44.720 course, for us. 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:49.040 But the curse for the woman and the man will focus on 00:28:49.040 --> 00:28:50.880 those two. 00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:54.720 You will note first that the nature of the curse goes to 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:58.640 the core of the nature of the of the one who is 00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:05.200 cursed. And so Adam is cursed with regard to his work. 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:09.920 He is cursed with regard to the work of being a gardener, 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:14.560 a man of the soil, a husbandman, because that is what man 00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:16.000 was made to do. 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:18.960 We have that in Genesis when man was made he was placed 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.520 in the garden to work and to keep it. 00:29:21.520 --> 00:29:25.440 That is the purpose for which God made man originally. 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:28.880 And here we see that now it will only be by the 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:34.320 sweat of his face, by labor, toil, suffering, and pain, that work 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.400 that originally would not have included these things, would not have entailed 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:41.840 these, it would have been a joyful thing to do this work 00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:43.760 in the garden. 00:29:43.760 --> 00:29:48.240 Now it is toil, now it is labor, not simply work. 00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:52.640 And so for the woman, the curse also goes to the core 00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:56.880 of her nature, because in her nature she is a wife and 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:01.120 a mother, and so it is her pain in childbearing that God 00:30:01.120 --> 00:30:07.120 multiplies, because that goes to her nature as wife, because she can't 00:30:07.120 --> 00:30:11.360 have children without a husband, without a man, and mother, because obviously 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.720 she has the children by burying them, and that is where the 00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:17.840 pain enters as part of this curse. 00:30:17.840 --> 00:30:24.080 But additionally, she is cursed in that her submission to her husband 00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:25.040 will no longer be 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:30.160 natural as it was before the fall. 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:34.880 Before the fall, woman submitting to man is simply the order of 00:30:34.880 --> 00:30:39.840 things. It is the nature of things now that rests less easily 00:30:39.840 --> 00:30:40.960 upon woman. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:44.000 Now it is in her nature to want to rebel. 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:48.320 This is sort of a solidifying of what she did in the 00:30:48.320 --> 00:30:52.800 fall, because in the fall she listened to the serpent. 00:30:52.800 --> 00:30:56.960 She decided for herself she acted as the head instead of asking 00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:59.600 her husband, instead of letting him be the head. 00:30:59.600 --> 00:31:03.120 Yes he should have stepped up and done it himself, but she 00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:07.520 also should have submitted instead of what she did, and so she 00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:11.760 is confirmed in this after a fashion, and now her desires are 00:31:11.760 --> 00:31:16.000 contrary to her husband, which is to say, she wants to be 00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.760 in the place of headship. 00:31:17.760 --> 00:31:20.240 She wants to rule, she wants to be the head. 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:23.280 But her desire is also for her husband. 00:31:23.280 --> 00:31:27.840 Because woman still has some of that desire to be in the 00:31:27.840 --> 00:31:29.680 proper hierarchy. 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:32.320 To properly submit to her husband. 00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:35.280 It does not come as easily as it would have prior to 00:31:35.280 --> 00:31:38.240 the fall, but it is still there. 00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:42.320 And of course, man shall still rule over woman. 00:31:42.320 --> 00:31:44.160 This is both a reaffirmation 00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:49.440 of the nature of things of the order created by God prior 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:54.240 to the fall, and a statement of how things will continue to 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:56.880 operate after the fall. 00:31:57.040 --> 00:32:02.160 But of course this is now rule over the woman, which is 00:32:02.320 --> 00:32:08.320 a more active and less agreeable matter than would have been the 00:32:08.320 --> 00:32:11.520 sort of headship exercised before the fall. 00:32:11.840 --> 00:32:12.080 And 00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:16.400 it's important to note with the word that's translated desire here, that 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.960 only appears two other times in scripture. 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:23.440 And the most immediate one is again in Genesis 4.7, just a 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.200 few, you know, less than a page later after this curse. 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.920 So I'm gonna read what what was said to Eve first and 00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:32.960 then immediately what was said about Cain to Eve. 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:36.960 Your desire shall be contrary to your husband and he shall rule 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:38.000 over you. 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:41.520 And then so Cain was very angry and his face fell. 00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:44.400 The Lord said to Cain, Why are you so angry and why 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:45.680 has your face fallen? 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.000 If you do well, will you not be accepted? 00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:51.120 And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the 00:32:51.120 --> 00:32:52.800 door. Its desire is contrary to 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.640 you, but you must rule over it. 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.640 I think it's really important to read these two passages in light 00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:04.240 of each other, because when we try to imagine what desire might 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.280 be, well it's not talking about the sort of you know lust 00:33:07.280 --> 00:33:10.240 or any sort of desire that is referred to in the New 00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:16.320 Testament. It's specifically referring to the type of desire that Cain's sin 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.840 had against him. 00:33:17.840 --> 00:33:20.960 Again it says sin is crouching at the door. 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:25.520 It's desire, sin's desire is contrary to you, but you must rule 00:33:25.520 --> 00:33:26.080 over it. 00:33:26.080 --> 00:33:29.680 Now that almost perfectly mirrors the second half of this curse against 00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.480 Eve. So the notion that 00:33:33.360 --> 00:33:38.960 the desire is almost an operant force outside of the self. 00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:43.680 if a sin can have a desire and Eve's desire both are 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:48.000 contrary to the good thing, which is the husband, or in Cain's 00:33:48.000 --> 00:33:52.400 case, against himself, who was own his own sinful nature. 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.520 I think that when you read those passages together it makes very 00:33:55.520 --> 00:33:59.360 clear the nature of what the woman every woman has to struggle 00:33:59.360 --> 00:34:03.520 against. And one thing that's frankly it's really missing from our our 00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:07.520 pastor's preaching and it needs to come back, women are cursed. 00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:12.240 God has cursed women to struggle against their husbands and against their 00:34:12.240 --> 00:34:13.520 fathers before that. 00:34:13.520 --> 00:34:16.880 And now with the advent of feminism, and many of our pastors 00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.880 today are feminists, it's not only a an egregious sin among women. 00:34:21.040 --> 00:34:23.920 It feminism is normal in our society. 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.200 As I said, you will be excommunicated from the LCMS if you 00:34:27.200 --> 00:34:29.600 are a quote unquote misogynist. 00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:31.920 That is the religion of feminism. 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:34.960 So it's not a small deal to point out that 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:40.080 the woman is cursed in such a way that causes what she 00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:44.000 wants to be contrary to what God desires, to the order that 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:46.240 God has established. 00:34:46.240 --> 00:34:51.920 And anyone who's who's read dating advice or marriage advice, or just 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:55.440 if you if if you're a man and you've been around women 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:58.160 for any length of time in a relationship, you know that that 00:34:58.240 --> 00:35:01.840 sort of struggle and pushback, you know, that's called a a certain 00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:03.920 type of testing, if you're familiar with the term, I'm not going 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:06.480 to mention it here, but it never goes away. 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:10.080 It's something that is always there and it's a test. 00:35:10.080 --> 00:35:13.360 It's a constant prodding and poking just to see are you still 00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:14.000 the man? 00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:15.840 Are you still my head? 00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:20.240 Because a woman knows the second that a man abdicates his headship, 00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:23.280 whether he gets tired of it or he's too weak for it, 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:26.880 or he just you know, whatever excuse he has, if he fails 00:35:26.880 --> 00:35:29.760 to be the head, she will come roaring right back just as 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:30.960 Eve did. 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:34.720 And earlier Corey had mentioned the the order of sins. 00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:38.560 I just wanna reiterate the first part of that curse. 00:35:38.560 --> 00:35:42.480 And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:45.680 of your wife, that was his first sin, that was Adam's first 00:35:45.680 --> 00:35:48.240 sin. And we inherit Adam's sin. 00:35:48.240 --> 00:35:51.840 We don't simply inherit the sin that he disobeyed God by eating 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.640 the fruit. 00:35:52.640 --> 00:35:56.960 We inherit the first sin that he listened to his wife. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:57.280 And 00:35:58.160 --> 00:36:02.400 listen is is another term that has a few different common connotations. 00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.280 It's used it this it's a common word in the Hebrew word 00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:09.920 that's used, but one of the common connotations is heed or obey. 00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:12.960 And I just I highlighted that here because this is also echoed 00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:16.320 a bit later in Genesis in chapter 16. 00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:20.000 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.760 She had a female Egyptian slave whose name was Hagar, and Sarai 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.520 said to Abram, Behold now the Lord has prevented me from bearing 00:36:27.520 --> 00:36:30.800 children. Go into my slave, it may be that I shall obtain 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.440 children by her, and Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:39.680 So twice in Genesis we have two major pivotal moments where a 00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:43.680 husband listens and heeds his wife's evil advice. 00:36:43.680 --> 00:36:47.200 Eve Eve had disobeyed God, she had disbelieved God, and she had 00:36:47.200 --> 00:36:48.720 listened to the voice of Satan. 00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:51.360 And here in Genesis sixteen, what is Sarai doing? 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:54.160 She's saying God's keeping me from getting pregnant. 00:36:54.160 --> 00:36:56.160 He told me that I was going to have a son, and 00:36:56.160 --> 00:36:58.160 now it's years later and nothing's happening. 00:36:58.160 --> 00:37:01.280 You need to go have sex with my slave so that I 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:02.320 can have an heir. 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.800 It was open disobedience and did Abram correct her as Adam failed 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:07.600 to correct Eve? 00:37:07.600 --> 00:37:08.640 No. He listened to her. 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:10.880 And what is the result of that sin? 00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:12.720 We have Muslims. 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:17.040 The punishment for all of humanity is a Muslims exist because Abram 00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:18.880 listened to the voice of his wife. 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:20.480 That's a bad punishment. 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:24.480 That is a huge deal that has left a permanent scar on 00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:29.280 humanity, on the face of the earth, on so many nations, it's 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:30.720 impossible to name them. 00:37:30.720 --> 00:37:35.200 We don't understand what the human timeline would be like if not 00:37:35.520 --> 00:37:40.240 for this one sin resulting in the birth of the Arab race 00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:43.120 and the Muslims that rose among them. 00:37:43.120 --> 00:37:49.200 So temporal punishment for sin sometimes has little far reaching consequences. 00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:51.120 Abram listened to his wife. 00:37:51.120 --> 00:37:54.320 He did not push back against her curse. 00:37:54.320 --> 00:37:57.200 She was pushing him, just as God had cursed her to be 00:37:57.360 --> 00:38:00.800 to push, not that God caused her to sin, but part of 00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:04.160 her curse was to suffer under the delusion that she would know 00:38:04.160 --> 00:38:06.480 better than her husband what to do. 00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:06.800 And 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:11.040 again, as we talk in the in the next episode about the 00:38:11.040 --> 00:38:14.400 genesis and the root of feminism, it's the very opposite of that. 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:18.080 It celebrates the idea that women would be freed from the shackles 00:38:18.080 --> 00:38:21.280 of the bondage to men and to having to listen to what 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:24.800 men tell them to do, to be freed from mansplaining. 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:27.280 You know the the t the fact that there's a term for 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.520 a man explaining something that's so derogatory and dismissive, he'll you always 00:38:31.520 --> 00:38:34.000 laugh at it today, but that's a big deal. 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.560 The idea that a man would explain something to a woman has 00:38:36.560 --> 00:38:38.240 now become a caricature. 00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:41.440 Well that's literally the order that God created. 00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:45.280 And we've gone so far down this path of destruction of godly 00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.200 order that things that God ordained are now punchlines. 00:38:49.680 --> 00:38:54.640 And scripture is very clear to expand on the issue of the 00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:57.120 Arabs and Islam. 00:38:57.120 --> 00:39:01.680 In Genesis 16, later in that chapter, he shall be a wild 00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:05.840 donkey of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:10.080 him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen. 00:39:10.080 --> 00:39:15.360 God tells us exactly the nature of the nations that will flow 00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:17.440 from Ishmael, who of course is the son 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:22.400 born to Abraham by Ahar. 00:39:22.400 --> 00:39:25.440 And I really, in a to return to the curse, in a 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:29.120 very real way, most of the curse falls on man, which is 00:39:29.200 --> 00:39:33.440 of course appropriate, because as the head, man is responsible. 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:36.880 And so the fact that woman rebels, yes, it's a curse on 00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:41.440 woman, it is something with which she has to struggle, but it 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:44.320 really is a curse on man as well. 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.360 Because now as 00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:49.600 a father you have to deal with rebellious daughters. 00:39:49.600 --> 00:39:53.520 As a husband, you have to deal with a rebellious wife. 00:39:53.520 --> 00:39:59.360 This is just a fact of the fallen nature of mankind. 00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.440 We don't get around it by ignoring it. 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.240 We have to deal with it. 00:40:02.240 --> 00:40:05.920 And as was mentioned, pastors need to preach these things. 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:10.000 These things need to be said to Christians, they are in Scripture. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:11.920 Christians need to hear them. 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:15.040 You are supposed to teach the full counsel of God, not just 00:40:15.040 --> 00:40:18.880 the parts that don't make you uncomfortable, and don't make the women 00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:21.840 angry with you later on in the Bible study. 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.920 This is what Scripture says. 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.640 This is what Christians need to say. 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:28.720 And it has explanatory power. 00:40:28.720 --> 00:40:31.440 It's not simply a condemnation of sin. 00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.200 I mean, the fact that women are cursed, we're not going near 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:36.240 neaner boo-boo. 00:40:36.240 --> 00:40:36.480 Look at you. 00:40:36.720 --> 00:40:40.880 Like it's not it's not meant to be insulting. 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.920 It's a fact. 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:43.120 Women are cursed. 00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:44.880 Everyone knows that men are cursed. 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:48.640 You know, men die earlier because our bodies typically are beaten up 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.800 and even guys who do mi you know work with their minds, 00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:56.560 the stress of those jobs typically causes men to die younger. 00:40:56.560 --> 00:40:59.600 We get beaten up and worn out as part of the curse. 00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:00.880 And everybody knows it. 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:03.280 And you know, the joke is that well, women live longer because 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:04.320 they're more sensible. 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.080 Well, maybe they live longer because they're not cursed for their work 00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:09.360 to be cursed. 00:41:09.360 --> 00:41:13.120 The curse of the woman is to to be ornry, to to 00:41:13.120 --> 00:41:16.480 be oppity, to to cause problems for her husband. 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.920 And it's not malicious. 00:41:18.080 --> 00:41:21.360 And that's why that's the reason that pastors need to talk about 00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:23.920 I mean, malicious not might not be the right word. 00:41:24.240 --> 00:41:27.920 It's inherent, but It's not inexorable. 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.960 See, if you've been in a relationship where a man understands these 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:34.080 things, the man will know that he can tamp it down, and 00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:35.920 then the woman will be happy again. 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:39.520 It's only when these things are permitted to run wild where the 00:41:39.520 --> 00:41:42.400 where a girl is permitted to continue to push and push and 00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:46.320 push and never get any pushback, that the true disaster in a 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:50.320 relationship and ultimately at a civilizational scale occurs. 00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:53.280 If a man knows, because you know in the case of Christians, 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:54.720 a pastor will tell him. 00:41:54.720 --> 00:41:57.600 Men who are not Christians have learned these things from places like 00:41:57.600 --> 00:42:01.280 the Manosphere where you're getting some advice that's good and some advice 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:02.800 that's absolutely wicked. 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:06.720 Our pastors are they're only dealing with the other half of the 00:42:06.720 --> 00:42:10.160 baby. they're dealing with the part that's not wicked, but they're ignoring 00:42:10.160 --> 00:42:12.080 the part that God has made clear. 00:42:12.080 --> 00:42:15.280 So these are matters of wisdom, not only condemnation. 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.680 If pastors are telling their flocks, both men and women, look, women, 00:42:19.680 --> 00:42:23.920 you're going to inherently want to fight your husband or your father. 00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:25.920 And you need to be aware of it. 00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:27.600 You need to catch yourself. 00:42:27.600 --> 00:42:30.400 And husbands need to be aware of the fact that their wives 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:31.920 are going to do this. 00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:36.880 And the solution for the husband is not to capitulate, not to 00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:40.160 say yes, dear, just you know, I mean, there are obviously times 00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:43.760 where you have to use sound judgment, but when a woman is 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.840 being rebellious against God's order, a man needs to have the wisdom 00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.000 to understand the difference between she's doing something she shouldn't do and 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.120 I'm just being lazy or I don't want to hear it, but 00:42:55.120 --> 00:42:56.960 there's n she's not doing anything wrong. 00:42:56.960 --> 00:43:00.640 Like it's not we're not putting everything on one side or the 00:43:00.640 --> 00:43:04.240 other. But the fact that this curse is absent from preaching and 00:43:04.240 --> 00:43:09.920 from discussion among most Christians is a crisis because the result, again, 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.040 is writ large at a civilizational level. 00:43:13.040 --> 00:43:18.400 Because this test of woman against man has scaled up through feminism, 00:43:18.400 --> 00:43:21.040 through the franchise being given to women. 00:43:21.040 --> 00:43:22.640 It's gone far beyond the household. 00:43:23.040 --> 00:43:28.240 It's gone far beyond the wife to husband relationship, where now as 00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:34.560 voters, these tests are being applied civilizationally, and the disastrous results are 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.880 exponentially more severe. 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:40.240 It's not just one unhappy husband with a nagging wife. 00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:45.200 It's an entire civilization with women seeking things that they should not 00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:48.560 seek and men not saying, No, you can't do that. 00:43:48.560 --> 00:43:53.120 I am the head, we are the heads, you must obey us. 00:43:53.120 --> 00:43:56.560 Now it's it sounds offensive to our modern ears to even hear 00:43:56.560 --> 00:43:59.520 language like that, and the point of us talking about these things 00:43:59.520 --> 00:44:02.720 is to highlight that that's a godly way to talk. 00:44:02.720 --> 00:44:04.480 It's not automatically right. 00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:07.840 Like a man could say those things and be completely wrong, which 00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:10.400 is why there's the onus is on the man as to as 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.760 the head to get these things right, to study the word of 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:18.160 God, to be serious about his duties and to obey God and 00:44:18.160 --> 00:44:21.040 to take care of those under his dominion. 00:44:21.600 --> 00:44:25.600 as Sarah's Lord, and this there's another passage I think in first 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:29.600 Peter we're going to get to towards the end, where she's specifically 00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:32.160 commended for calling Abraham her Lord. 00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:35.760 That is the view, the proper godly view that a woman should 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:37.600 have to her husband. 00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:42.400 And if we don't return to that sort of relationship in families 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.400 and then civilizationally where men are in charge of these things and 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:50.000 women are not, things will continue to get worse. 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.520 And the fact that there's a correlation that is in fact causative 00:44:53.520 --> 00:44:57.520 between the advent of these things that we called feminism and the 00:44:57.520 --> 00:45:01.360 wholesale destruction of Christendom, it's not coincidence. 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:04.880 It is absolutely causal in relationship. 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.360 To expand just a little bit on your comments with regard to 00:45:09.360 --> 00:45:15.040 the word desire in the curse on the woman, any Christian, when 00:45:15.040 --> 00:45:19.600 reading that section of the curse in Genesis three 00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:25.280 should call to mind Romans seven. 00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:27.920 So I find it to be a law that when I want 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:31.680 to do right, evil lies close at hand, for I delight in 00:45:31.680 --> 00:45:34.560 the law of God and my inner being, but I see in 00:45:34.560 --> 00:45:38.560 my members another law waging war against the law of my mind, 00:45:38.560 --> 00:45:41.600 and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in 00:45:41.600 --> 00:45:43.360 my members. 00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:47.680 And so that sin that dwells in your members of which Paul 00:45:47.680 --> 00:45:52.240 is speaking here in Romans, that's that desire of women that is 00:45:52.240 --> 00:45:56.160 contrary to their husbands, that desire to rule, to be the head, 00:45:56.160 --> 00:45:57.920 to usurp. 00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:03.040 That's That is not an inherent part of the nature of woman. 00:46:03.040 --> 00:46:07.360 That is a corruption of the nature of woman, because it is 00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:12.640 part of sin, it is that corruption of sin that is transmitted 00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:17.680 as original sin down through the generations. 00:46:17.680 --> 00:46:20.240 And so that is the law of sin. 00:46:20.240 --> 00:46:22.560 And we have to resist that as Christians. 00:46:22.560 --> 00:46:26.480 And so again, pastors need to cover this, need to be preaching 00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:30.000 this, because it's not just that men have to do their duty 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:33.920 and rule over women, although yes, men have to do that, and 00:46:33.920 --> 00:46:38.160 most modern men are not doing it as they should, but women 00:46:38.160 --> 00:46:42.800 also have to struggle against this sin that is particular to the 00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:47.760 nature of woman, because a wife should submit to her husband. 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:52.880 She shouldn't just submit to her husband because he rules over her. 00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:56.320 She should submit to her husband because that is her duty as 00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:58.160 his wife. 00:46:58.160 --> 00:47:01.440 And Christian women need to hear that from the pulpit. 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:04.880 They need to hear that from pastors just as much as Christian 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:09.280 men need to hear that they are to rule over their wives. 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:12.320 Yes, you are to love your wives as Christ loved the church, 00:47:12.320 --> 00:47:14.800 but you are also to rule over them. 00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:20.080 That is the duty, that is the position that God gave you. 00:47:20.080 --> 00:47:23.440 And if you are not doing the things God gave you to 00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:28.240 do, you are not doing what Christians are supposed to do. 00:47:28.240 --> 00:47:33.200 Because yes, Christianity is a matter of faith in Christ. 00:47:33.200 --> 00:47:35.760 Yes, it is by grace through faith. 00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:36.320 We know that. 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:40.160 That's not the point of the things we are addressing typically on 00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:41.840 this podcast. 00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:47.920 Because no one, at least no Protestant, disagrees with that. 00:47:47.920 --> 00:47:51.760 We are addressing the matters that have been neglected that so many 00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:56.640 do not touch on, the parts of Scripture that make men uncomfortable 00:47:57.040 --> 00:47:59.520 because they don't want to deal with it, because the modern world 00:47:59.520 --> 00:48:04.720 says these aren't the things that really matter anymore, it's just love. 00:48:04.720 --> 00:48:07.120 No, that's not the point here. 00:48:07.120 --> 00:48:11.840 There are works that are supposed to flow from a living faith. 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:16.960 For husbands, that is right management of the household, that is dominion 00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:21.200 over the household, that is ruling over wife and children, that is 00:48:21.200 --> 00:48:25.200 loving your wife and children as Christ loves the church, but there 00:48:25.200 --> 00:48:29.840 are duties for the other members of the household as well. 00:48:29.840 --> 00:48:34.480 Slaves are to submit to their masters, are to serve their masters 00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:39.200 well, not just because they are afraid of punishment, but because as 00:48:39.200 --> 00:48:41.680 Christians you are supposed to do your duty. 00:48:41.680 --> 00:48:45.280 Children are supposed to submit to their parents, are to obey their 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:48.160 parents the fourth commandment is very clear. 00:48:48.160 --> 00:48:52.640 Wives are to submit to their husbands in all things. 00:48:52.640 --> 00:48:54.080 That's a quote from Scripture. 00:48:54.080 --> 00:48:58.240 That is literally what Scripture says about wives submitting to their husbands. 00:48:58.240 --> 00:49:02.240 We'll get to that later and read The context is well, the 00:49:02.240 --> 00:49:06.240 context doesn't change it, that's what it says. 00:49:06.240 --> 00:49:10.320 The full counsel of God is what is supposed to be proclaimed, 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:14.320 from pulpits and Bible studies, from anyone who wants to be or 00:49:14.320 --> 00:49:17.520 stands up to be, has been called to be, a teacher in 00:49:17.520 --> 00:49:18.640 the church. 00:49:18.640 --> 00:49:22.720 And we have far too few to day who are actually addressing 00:49:22.720 --> 00:49:24.480 what Scripture says. 00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:29.520 We have most men, who are pretending to be pastors, they will 00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:33.200 receive a pastor's judgment, the stricter judgment of a teacher, because they 00:49:33.200 --> 00:49:36.800 had the role, whether or not they fulfilled it. 00:49:36.800 --> 00:49:40.480 They're not proclaiming the full counsel of God, they are simply parroting 00:49:40.480 --> 00:49:41.760 the world. 00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:47.520 And the world is today almost diametrically opposed to the things of 00:49:47.520 --> 00:49:52.640 God, to what Scripture actually says about these issues And that is 00:49:52.640 --> 00:49:54.880 why we are going over these issues. 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:59.840 We are going over them because it is vitally important for Christians 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:04.240 to actually believe what God says. 00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:08.080 Not what the world says, not what the world said Christians should 00:50:08.080 --> 00:50:13.680 believe, but what God says is true, because God's word is eternally 00:50:13.680 --> 00:50:18.160 true. Everything contained in Scripture is true today. 00:50:18.160 --> 00:50:18.640 It was true 00:50:19.520 --> 00:50:21.120 when it was written. 00:50:21.120 --> 00:50:23.200 It was true before it was written. 00:50:23.200 --> 00:50:26.640 It has always been true because it is God's eternal will. 00:50:26.640 --> 00:50:29.040 The law is God's eternal will. 00:50:29.040 --> 00:50:32.560 It does not pass away because we now have the gospel, and 00:50:32.560 --> 00:50:36.880 we have the proto-evangelian here in Genesis. 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:41.120 It didn't do away with the law, because the law again is 00:50:41.120 --> 00:50:46.000 God's eternal will, and it is vital for Christians to order their 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.960 lives according to that will. 00:50:49.200 --> 00:50:53.760 In Ephesians five, the Holy Spirit through Paul writes, wives, submit to 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:57.040 your husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head 00:50:57.040 --> 00:51:00.240 of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, 00:51:00.240 --> 00:51:03.040 his body, and is himself its Savior. 00:51:03.040 --> 00:51:06.640 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit 00:51:06.640 --> 00:51:10.000 in everything to their husbands, which is what you just you just 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:14.560 cited. In this one brief passage, it says twice, wife submit to 00:51:14.560 --> 00:51:16.960 your husbands, at the beginning and at the end. 00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:18.800 So Paul's not stuttering here. 00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:22.320 He's reiterating something that's very important. 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:26.720 And I want to highlight this passage as a specific refutation of 00:51:26.800 --> 00:51:31.200 the heresy that's very common today among many pastors to discuss this 00:51:31.200 --> 00:51:34.880 concept of what they call mutual submission. 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:38.400 They want you to think that, oh well, sure, wives have to 00:51:38.400 --> 00:51:41.840 submit to their husbands, but husbands have to submit to their wives 00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:48.560 too. If that were true doctrine, then necessarily by implication, they would 00:51:48.640 --> 00:51:52.960 they would be saying that Christ must submit to the church. 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.360 When you read go read Ephesians two five yourself, you'll see in 00:51:57.360 --> 00:51:59.840 in the other passages we're gonna cite, in every one of 'em 00:51:59.920 --> 00:52:04.640 where it talks about wives submitting to their husbands as as husbands 00:52:04.640 --> 00:52:09.120 submit to Christ and as the church submits to Christ, the notion 00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:13.120 that that polarity could be reversed is heresy. 00:52:13.120 --> 00:52:14.560 It's absolutely false. 00:52:14.560 --> 00:52:17.760 There is no submission of Christ to the church. 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:23.200 Now, Christ submitted himself on the cross on behalf of the church. 00:52:23.200 --> 00:52:27.280 And as I was listening to the slavery episode from last week, 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.400 I realized that I said something I sorta misspoke a little bit 00:52:30.560 --> 00:52:34.240 when I was talking about masters having a duty to their slaves, 00:52:34.240 --> 00:52:37.840 I said something to the effect that s masters were slaves to 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:38.800 their slaves. 00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:41.520 I I didn't really s state that clearly what I meant was 00:52:41.520 --> 00:52:44.560 that there's always a hierarchy, which is something that we cite in 00:52:44.560 --> 00:52:46.000 scripture God makes clear. 00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:50.080 Masters you two have a master in heaven, so don't mistreat your 00:52:50.080 --> 00:52:54.640 slaves. A master is a slave to God, just as the slave 00:52:54.640 --> 00:52:57.600 is a slave to his master. 00:52:57.600 --> 00:53:03.760 The master's slavery to God involves a duty to his own slaves. 00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:08.400 So it's not that there's mutual submission of master and slave, it's 00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:13.120 that the master himself, in obedience to God, in slavery to God, 00:53:13.120 --> 00:53:15.680 has a duty of care to those under him. 00:53:15.680 --> 00:53:18.800 Whether it's a master to a slave, whether it's a husband to 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:23.440 a wife, whether it's parents to children, the duty flows from top 00:53:23.440 --> 00:53:27.760 to bottom, from the head through the intermediary to the recipient. 00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:31.360 And there's not an inversion there, but the duty is always flowing 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.120 upward. Children have a duty to their parents, wives have a duty 00:53:35.120 --> 00:53:38.800 to their husbands, husbands have a duty to God, and so the 00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:42.480 care flows in one direction, the duty flows in the other. 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:42.800 So 00:53:43.680 --> 00:53:47.760 the term mutual submission is patently offensive and it's a sign you're 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:50.720 dealing with a weak, if not a false teacher. 00:53:50.720 --> 00:53:53.280 No Christian pastor should ever be talking that way. 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:56.960 It's become very common precisely because everyone wants to flee from these 00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:01.360 passages. As we've talked about on a bunch of episodes, this is 00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:04.640 about Satan inverting Galatians 3.28. 00:54:04.640 --> 00:54:09.280 It's about there's no slave nor free, there's no male and female. 00:54:09.280 --> 00:54:14.880 Satan wants those categories to be eliminated, wants hierarchy to be eliminated. 00:54:14.880 --> 00:54:18.480 And so what happened with the attack on slavery and what's happening 00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:22.880 in feminism with the attack on what they call patriarchy is knocking 00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:27.440 out that middle support in the three in the tripartite system. 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.960 So at the bottom you have the one in the greatest position 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:34.480 of submission, but also the one to who the greatest amount of 00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:35.680 duty flows. 00:54:35.680 --> 00:54:39.280 In the middle you have the parent, or you have the husband, 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:44.080 to whom a duty flows from God through him to his wife, 00:54:44.080 --> 00:54:45.440 to his children. 00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:49.200 He is has dominion over those beneath him in the middle, but 00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:50.400 he has a duty to them. 00:54:50.640 --> 00:54:53.360 So he has dominion over them and duty to them at the 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:54.160 same time. 00:54:54.160 --> 00:54:58.960 The dominion flows down from him in his household, but the duty 00:54:58.960 --> 00:55:01.200 flows from God through him. 00:55:01.200 --> 00:55:05.680 And so the inversion in the destruction of Galatians 3.28 is about 00:55:05.680 --> 00:55:07.120 knocking out that middle. 00:55:07.120 --> 00:55:10.560 It's about saying there's we're going to smash the patriarchy, we're going 00:55:10.560 --> 00:55:11.840 to end all masters. 00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:13.760 You can't even use that word anymore. 00:55:13.760 --> 00:55:17.600 Reddit actually broke last week because they pushed a software update that 00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:20.880 eliminated master from some of their code and it broke everything. 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:24.880 Like these people have become so obsessed with making sure that master 00:55:24.880 --> 00:55:28.480 can't even exist in the English language that they're willing to break 00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:30.240 their own systems to do it. 00:55:30.240 --> 00:55:32.880 Satan's doing that to civilization too. 00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:36.800 He's eliminating the possibility for us to think in terms of master 00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:41.920 and slave, of dominion and dominated, and to think that dominated means 00:55:42.560 --> 00:55:47.680 something terrible, when a child who's in dominion of a faithful father, 00:55:47.680 --> 00:55:51.680 or a wife who is in the dominion of a faithful husband, 00:55:51.680 --> 00:55:55.600 are being served by God through that man. 00:55:55.600 --> 00:56:00.160 And so smashing the patriarchy is essentially knocking God's hands out of 00:56:00.160 --> 00:56:01.040 the system. 00:56:01.040 --> 00:56:03.440 And it's it's no gods, no masters. 00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:06.960 The one follows right after the other for a reason. 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:08.800 And so the idea that 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:14.160 the man must submit to the woman is is really telling you 00:56:14.160 --> 00:56:18.720 that Christ must submit to the church, which is evil on its 00:56:18.720 --> 00:56:20.800 face, that never has and never will happen. 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:21.520 It cannot happen. 00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:24.640 it's ontologically impossible because of headship. 00:56:24.640 --> 00:56:27.840 Because Christ is the head of the church, just as man is 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:31.040 the head of woman, just as God is the head of us 00:56:31.040 --> 00:56:33.520 all. So you have the head and you have the body. 00:56:33.520 --> 00:56:36.800 The body can only act in accord with the will of the 00:56:36.800 --> 00:56:40.400 head, and it's the duty of the head to act faithfully. 00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:44.720 So when we advocate these things, we are advocating on behalf of 00:56:44.720 --> 00:56:46.320 faithful headship. 00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:49.680 Not just headship for its own sake, of ruling for the sake 00:56:49.680 --> 00:56:52.000 of ruling and doing whatever you want. 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.840 Only a weak and depraved man would think about being in a 00:56:55.840 --> 00:56:59.440 position of authority and have his mind go immediately to all man 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.000 I'm gonna get away with so much Mao. 00:57:02.320 --> 00:57:05.200 No man who's ever actually had authority would think that way. 00:57:05.200 --> 00:57:08.480 If you've been in a position of authority where you've been responsible 00:57:08.480 --> 00:57:12.080 for a lot of people underneath you, or responsible for some great 00:57:12.080 --> 00:57:15.680 duty, you understand the burden of command. 00:57:15.680 --> 00:57:19.200 You understand that the burden you have to those beneath you flows 00:57:19.200 --> 00:57:22.880 from the from the duty that has been given to you from 00:57:22.880 --> 00:57:26.720 above, wherever the above is, whether it's God giving you a vocation 00:57:26.720 --> 00:57:31.120 or it's a commander giving you an assignment, or it's just it's 00:57:31.120 --> 00:57:33.680 your boss giving you a task. 00:57:33.680 --> 00:57:37.280 Duty is neutral, as Corey said. 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:40.000 It can well duty should always be good, you know, we think 00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:44.480 of that in positive terms, but how a man exercises dominion is 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:46.000 a function of his character. 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:48.240 And so if there's a man who tells you that any time 00:57:48.240 --> 00:57:51.280 you see dominion you should flee, that's a man you should be 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:54.400 afraid of, because as a man who is weak and perverted in 00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:57.280 his soul, and he's telling you, if I ever get a chance 00:57:57.280 --> 00:57:58.880 to do anything, I'm gonna do it. 00:57:59.200 --> 00:58:00.080 that's terrifying. 00:58:00.080 --> 00:58:01.520 That is not Christian. 00:58:01.520 --> 00:58:03.600 We're talking about the opposite of that. 00:58:03.600 --> 00:58:06.880 When we talk about rule and dominion, we're talking about doing it 00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:11.360 in a gracious and merciful but firm way, in a way that 00:58:11.360 --> 00:58:14.800 does not relent to being pushed back on by those who are 00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:18.080 weaker, who don't understand, who wish to do evil. 00:58:18.160 --> 00:58:21.200 You start you begin with a gentle correction and then you step 00:58:21.200 --> 00:58:22.800 it up if you need to. 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:25.920 Because if someone's going to persist in error, whether it's a wife 00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:28.400 or it's a civilization, at some point you have to put your 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:30.720 foot down and say it's not going to happen anymore. 00:58:30.720 --> 00:58:34.400 Now obviously the way that manifests will depend on the situation and 00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:37.440 the scale, but at the end of the day, the only thing 00:58:37.440 --> 00:58:42.480 that will reverse the decline and destruction of Christendom is for faithful 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:46.800 men to reassert ourselves in in the hierarchy. 00:58:46.800 --> 00:58:48.800 And some will be lower and some will be higher. 00:58:48.800 --> 00:58:51.520 And we have to get used to wherever that is and serve 00:58:51.520 --> 00:58:53.120 that position faithfully. 00:58:53.120 --> 00:58:57.040 Because all of that service in duty is ultimately to God. 00:58:57.120 --> 00:58:57.280 I 00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:00.000 was hoping that you would get to that point about headship, because 00:59:00.000 --> 00:59:04.880 that is a a key point here, and it's very obvious that 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:06.880 it's important point. 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:10.400 If you just look at how much it is hated by the 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:14.640 enemy, by feminists and others. 00:59:14.640 --> 00:59:19.920 And to emphasize that point, we'll turn to first Corinthians eleven. 00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:23.440 Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain 00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:27.200 the traditions even as I delivered them to you, but I want 00:59:27.200 --> 00:59:30.880 you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:33.920 the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of 00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:37.440 Christ is God. 00:59:37.440 --> 00:59:42.720 And so the principle of headship is vitally important because 00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:48.240 there are those who can look at submission and duty and all 00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:50.880 these things and attempt to corrupt those terms. 00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:55.360 They have very clear meanings, they teach clearly if you know what 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:58.560 they mean, but headship is 00:59:59.600 --> 01:00:02.400 the clearest of the terms, there is no way to look at 01:00:02.400 --> 01:00:06.320 the term headship and not understand what is meant. 01:00:06.320 --> 01:00:08.400 Just look at the word. 01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:11.120 The head is in control. 01:00:11.120 --> 01:00:16.480 Period. Your foot doesn't tell you what to do. 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:19.600 That's not to say your your foot can't lodge a complaint. 01:00:19.600 --> 01:00:21.280 Your foot can certainly make a request. 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:25.680 If you step on something sharp, you're going to know that immediately. 01:00:25.680 --> 01:00:29.360 But you as the head The head are in control of your 01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:34.640 body. And so the husband is in control of the wife, she 01:00:34.640 --> 01:00:37.280 is the body, he is the head. 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:39.920 Christ is in control of the church. 01:00:39.920 --> 01:00:43.120 She is the body, he is the head. 01:00:43.120 --> 01:00:44.880 That is right authority. 01:00:44.880 --> 01:00:47.440 That is the right order of things. 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:50.400 That is how hierarchy is supposed to work. 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:54.320 And so headship is a vitally important term. 01:00:54.880 --> 01:01:00.160 Because people intuitively grasp what is meant by headship, because we all 01:01:00.160 --> 01:01:04.000 know that the head is in control, that the body does not, 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.040 in fact, tell us what we have to do. 01:01:07.040 --> 01:01:10.800 Yes, the body can make demands, yes, we have duties to our 01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:13.280 body. We are supposed to take care of our body, it is 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.920 a gift from God, and so you don't starve yourself or otherwise 01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:20.160 abuse your body. 01:01:20.160 --> 01:01:21.920 But ultimately, the head is 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:26.640 in control, and there are other verses that speak of disciplining the 01:01:26.640 --> 01:01:31.440 body to keep it in line, which is a related matter, not 01:01:31.680 --> 01:01:34.480 directly here, so don't read too much into that. 01:01:34.640 --> 01:01:38.240 But it is a related issue of the head maintaining co right 01:01:38.240 --> 01:01:40.800 relationship to the body and control. 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:47.840 I'd like to read the rest of the first that first Corinthians 01:01:47.920 --> 01:01:51.440 11 passage because it mirrors directly the points that we were making 01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:54.640 at the beginning from Genesis 2 and 3. 01:01:56.240 --> 01:02:00.080 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his 01:02:00.080 --> 01:02:04.080 head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered 01:02:04.240 --> 01:02:08.480 dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head 01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:09.440 were shaven. 01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:12.240 For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should 01:02:12.240 --> 01:02:15.440 cut her hair short, but since it is disgraceful for a wife 01:02:15.440 --> 01:02:18.000 to cut off her hair or to shave her head, let her 01:02:18.000 --> 01:02:21.600 cover her head, for a man ought not to cover his head, 01:02:21.600 --> 01:02:25.360 since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is 01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:29.440 the glory of man, for man was not made from woman, but 01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:34.400 woman from man, neither was man created for woman, but woman for 01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:37.280 man. That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of 01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:40.640 authority on her head because of the angels. 01:02:40.640 --> 01:02:45.600 And this is a passage that we mentioned in the uh Forgotten 01:02:45.600 --> 01:02:46.800 Doctrines episode early on. 01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:49.440 We did kind of grab bagger, we included head covering. 01:02:49.680 --> 01:02:52.400 I wanna begin at the end here where it just mentions because 01:02:52.640 --> 01:02:56.320 of the angels, because that's something that we don't really know what 01:02:56.320 --> 01:02:56.960 it means. 01:02:56.960 --> 01:03:01.760 There's some speculation, but I highlight it specifically to make the point, 01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:03.760 it doesn't matter what it means. 01:03:03.760 --> 01:03:08.320 Because when the Holy Spirit says because of the angels, that's not 01:03:08.320 --> 01:03:12.480 justifying the doctrine that a woman should be in submission with her 01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:13.600 head covered. 01:03:13.600 --> 01:03:15.280 He's providing an explanation 01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:19.120 of some other ontological fact. 01:03:19.120 --> 01:03:21.760 Even if we don't understand what it means, it doesn't change the 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:23.360 or the command. 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:25.520 And furthermore, what do we know about angels? 01:03:25.520 --> 01:03:27.120 Even if we don't know what this means. 01:03:27.120 --> 01:03:29.360 We know that angels are immortal beings. 01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:30.560 They're unchanging. 01:03:30.560 --> 01:03:33.680 Once they're created, they remain created for all time. 01:03:33.680 --> 01:03:35.600 Their nature does not change. 01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:39.840 So whatever was true two thousand years ago was true six thousand 01:03:39.840 --> 01:03:41.600 years ago and it's still true today. 01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:44.640 All we need to know about this passage, even if you want 01:03:44.640 --> 01:03:46.880 to try to use, oh well, I don't know what that means, 01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:47.920 so it can't count. 01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.800 No. What it means is that God has given a command and 01:03:50.800 --> 01:03:52.720 we don't get to obey it. 01:03:52.720 --> 01:03:56.720 And all the surrounding discussion where it talks about he is the 01:03:56.720 --> 01:03:59.520 image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man. 01:03:59.520 --> 01:04:02.880 Woman was not made from man, but man was made from woman. 01:04:02.880 --> 01:04:06.880 Woman was not made man was not made for woman, but woman 01:04:06.880 --> 01:04:08.720 was made for man. 01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:13.680 These are direct mirrors of what is said in Genesis before before 01:04:13.680 --> 01:04:14.720 the fall. 01:04:14.720 --> 01:04:18.880 These are matters of God's eternal will. 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:22.400 So a lot of times when you have people come along pushing 01:04:22.640 --> 01:04:28.720 the feminist agenda, the anti-patriarchal agenda, when these passages come up, they 01:04:28.720 --> 01:04:30.640 want to say, Oh, that was just Paul. 01:04:30.640 --> 01:04:32.240 That was about Corinth. 01:04:32.240 --> 01:04:33.520 That was situational. 01:04:33.520 --> 01:04:34.560 It was cultural. 01:04:34.560 --> 01:04:35.760 Doesn't apply to us. 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:37.040 We're free in Christ now. 01:04:37.040 --> 01:04:38.880 Well, weren't they free in Christ? 01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.160 No. Paul is not talking about Corinth. 01:04:42.160 --> 01:04:44.320 He's not talking about two thousand years ago. 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:46.400 He's talking about eternity. 01:04:46.400 --> 01:04:50.640 He's talking about male and female as God created them in the 01:04:50.640 --> 01:04:52.400 garden before the fall. 01:04:52.400 --> 01:04:55.680 Woman was in submission to man before the fall. 01:04:55.680 --> 01:04:59.920 As we discussed in the nature of the curse, woman's submission to 01:04:59.920 --> 01:05:02.080 man is not a product of the fall. 01:05:02.080 --> 01:05:06.480 The fact that woman bridles under that submission is the product of 01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:07.200 the fall. 01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:09.600 So the only thing that changed in the fall was not the 01:05:09.600 --> 01:05:12.720 submission, but the fact that it was no longer willing, that it 01:05:12.720 --> 01:05:15.200 then became unwilling submission. 01:05:15.200 --> 01:05:18.480 Which is somewhat i ironic because when you look at the very 01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:23.280 happiest relationships today between men and women, it's the ones where the 01:05:23.280 --> 01:05:26.800 man is dominant and the woman is submissive, where she is happily 01:05:26.800 --> 01:05:30.400 submissive. She's happy to have a head, to not have to worry 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:32.320 about the things that he worries about. 01:05:32.320 --> 01:05:36.240 And she can completely and profoundly appreciate the things that he does 01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:39.760 and the things that he sacrificed for for her sake and for 01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:42.240 the sake of their children, so that she doesn't have to deal 01:05:42.240 --> 01:05:42.880 with it. 01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:46.960 What these feminists, whether they're men or women, what they're fundamentally doing 01:05:47.120 --> 01:05:50.480 by cutting men out of the picture and pushing women forward is 01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:51.760 destroying women. 01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:54.880 It's putting them in a position to do things God didn't equip 01:05:54.880 --> 01:05:58.160 them to do, that they're not permitted to do, that they shouldn't 01:05:58.160 --> 01:05:58.800 be doing. 01:05:58.800 --> 01:06:02.240 And then when they fail, everyone gets hurt. 01:06:02.240 --> 01:06:05.680 And it's one of the problems that we have when we're discussing 01:06:05.680 --> 01:06:09.200 these as sociological issues today, because one of the things that men 01:06:09.200 --> 01:06:12.080 want to complain about and say, Oh, well, these these women are 01:06:12.080 --> 01:06:16.400 doing things wrong, whether it's in the church or in civil society. 01:06:16.400 --> 01:06:18.400 Yeah Yes, they are doing things wrong. 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:20.000 You know what we did wrong first? 01:06:20.000 --> 01:06:22.720 We put them in a position where they would be making incorrect 01:06:22.720 --> 01:06:24.560 decisions outside of their domain. 01:06:24.560 --> 01:06:26.640 And we'll get to a minute what the woman's domain is. 01:06:26.640 --> 01:06:28.240 She the woman has a domain. 01:06:28.240 --> 01:06:30.880 It's not that they're women have nothing to do. 01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:33.200 Women have a great deal to do. 01:06:33.200 --> 01:06:36.320 To be Adam's helper is profound. 01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:40.160 Creation wasn't finished until God gave Adam a helper. 01:06:40.160 --> 01:06:46.000 There's no version of human civilization without women. 01:06:46.000 --> 01:06:49.680 The problem is that women have been removed from their sphere where 01:06:49.680 --> 01:06:53.840 God ordained them to act, and we as men have rebelled against 01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:56.480 God and shoved them into other spheres where they don't belong, where 01:06:56.480 --> 01:07:00.640 they're not equipped, where they perform poorly, and we all suffer as 01:07:00.640 --> 01:07:01.600 a result. 01:07:01.600 --> 01:07:06.080 And so the only way to undo all of these myriad problems, 01:07:06.080 --> 01:07:09.680 all these layers of failures, is to undo them all at once. 01:07:10.000 --> 01:07:13.760 It's not enough just to end women's suffrage. 01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:15.840 It's we have to go back further than that. 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:17.840 We have to go back to the point where we realize that 01:07:17.840 --> 01:07:20.800 women should not have been put in a position to be forced 01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:22.640 to make those decisions in the first place. 01:07:22.640 --> 01:07:26.240 We'll talk about this more next week, but if women's suffrage had 01:07:26.240 --> 01:07:28.960 been put to a vote for women at the time, it would 01:07:28.960 --> 01:07:29.680 have failed. 01:07:29.680 --> 01:07:34.000 It was men who put forward women to be given the franchise 01:07:34.160 --> 01:07:37.280 when the majority of women didn't want it, they knew better. 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:39.760 They knew it was a raw deal, that it was outside of 01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:42.480 their sphere, that it was a rebellion against God, and it was 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:44.240 going to make everything worse. 01:07:44.240 --> 01:07:47.600 But because they didn't have the vote, ironically, they then got the 01:07:47.600 --> 01:07:49.760 vote and we were off to the races. 01:07:49.760 --> 01:07:52.160 But all of those changes were not godly. 01:07:52.160 --> 01:07:54.880 But we can't just pinpoint one moment in time and say, Well, 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:57.680 roll back to eighteen fifty or w roll back to at whatever 01:07:57.680 --> 01:07:58.640 particular date. 01:07:58.640 --> 01:08:01.200 What we need to roll back is the false doctrines that have 01:08:01.200 --> 01:08:04.080 permitted us to get to the point where we're making all of 01:08:04.080 --> 01:08:07.360 these errors and they're mutually reinforcing errors. 01:08:07.360 --> 01:08:08.960 It's not just one mistake. 01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:15.040 It's dozens and dozens of mistakes that are all interlocking, interconnected facets 01:08:15.040 --> 01:08:15.680 of this 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:17.920 this diamond. 01:08:18.160 --> 01:08:21.840 there's a hardness to it that's you can't crack it because there's 01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:25.680 such strength in the way it fits together, but it doesn't fit 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:27.120 together the way God wanted it to. 01:08:27.120 --> 01:08:30.080 It's the interlocking rebellion against God. 01:08:30.080 --> 01:08:32.560 And so what we have to do is just remove the entire 01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:33.600 thing at once. 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:37.360 And so as we're discussing all of these myriad issues, it's for 01:08:37.360 --> 01:08:38.080 that reason. 01:08:38.080 --> 01:08:41.600 It's that there's not just one problem civilizationally to solve. 01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.400 It's all these problems that have to be solved together. 01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:49.200 And that begins with the headship of man, over creation, over other 01:08:49.200 --> 01:08:51.600 men, over women, over family. 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:55.440 As long as there's not a man in charge of a household, 01:08:55.440 --> 01:08:58.880 as long as there's not a man in charge of a country, 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:03.200 things will happen that are evil, guaranteed, because it's how God ordered 01:09:03.200 --> 01:09:07.920 things and any rebellion against that order is inherently inherently fraught with 01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:10.960 the wages of sin. 01:09:11.040 --> 01:09:13.360 So the next passage I'm going to look at is from 1 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:16.480 Peter 3, the mirror some of the others, but this also the 01:09:16.480 --> 01:09:19.280 fact that Peter wrote this instead of Paul gives lie to the 01:09:19.280 --> 01:09:21.280 notion that oh well this was just that was that was Paul 01:09:21.280 --> 01:09:22.480 being a misogynist. 01:09:22.480 --> 01:09:24.880 Well, then Peter is a misogynist too. 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:28.160 In saying either of those says that the Holy Spirit is misogynist, 01:09:28.160 --> 01:09:31.840 which by modern standards, yes, God is a misogynist, which is the 01:09:31.840 --> 01:09:35.200 reason that evil men see that as a sin, because in their 01:09:35.200 --> 01:09:38.640 service to Satan they must uphold their false religion. 01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:44.080 So here's what Peter says Likewives, wives, be in subjection to your 01:09:44.080 --> 01:09:47.440 own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, 01:09:47.440 --> 01:09:50.560 they may be one without a word by the conduct of their 01:09:50.560 --> 01:09:54.400 wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct, do not let 01:09:54.400 --> 01:09:57.280 your adorning be external, the braiding of hair and the putting on 01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:01.200 of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear, but let your adorning 01:10:01.200 --> 01:10:04.400 be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of 01:10:04.400 --> 01:10:09.040 a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 01:10:09.040 --> 01:10:12.400 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used 01:10:12.400 --> 01:10:16.880 to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah, who 01:10:16.880 --> 01:10:21.680 obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord, and you are her children if you 01:10:21.680 --> 01:10:25.040 do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. 01:10:25.200 --> 01:10:29.200 As I mentioned, God sees the woman who is submissive to her 01:10:29.200 --> 01:10:31.600 husband as very precious. 01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:33.280 That's substantial. 01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:35.440 That is a profound thing for God to say that when a 01:10:35.440 --> 01:10:38.800 woman is submissive to her husband, even in the case where the 01:10:38.800 --> 01:10:42.800 husband maybe isn't doing what he should be doing, which is one 01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:47.760 of the attacks of feminism on a husband and on patriarchy, is 01:10:47.760 --> 01:10:50.240 the notion, well, what if the husband isn't a good husband? 01:10:50.560 --> 01:10:51.280 What then? 01:10:51.280 --> 01:10:54.080 Well, the same as what if a slave master isn't a good 01:10:54.080 --> 01:10:55.040 slave master? 01:10:55.040 --> 01:11:00.560 Slaves should obey anyway, because they're ultimately serving their duty to God. 01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:04.400 And when that is done, God sees it as very precious. 01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:08.640 It's not simply obedience to him, it is to God God's glory 01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:10.400 that we obey him. 01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:14.240 This the obedience to God that we are pointing out, it's not 01:11:14.240 --> 01:11:16.960 for earning salvation, which is something we always say. 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:19.920 There are those who actually think that that this podcast is all 01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:22.320 law and then we're trying to say if you don't do these 01:11:22.320 --> 01:11:24.480 things, you can't save yourself. 01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:25.840 It's just a lie. 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:27.280 It's a flat out lie. 01:11:27.280 --> 01:11:31.920 We continuously point to God's sacrifice and his love for us. 01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:34.720 This is about the hand then of the Christian life. 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:37.200 Now that we are Christians, how do we live? 01:11:37.200 --> 01:11:40.160 Knowing that nothing we can do can save ourselves. 01:11:40.160 --> 01:11:44.560 What do we then do in knowledge and recognition and through the 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:47.520 gift of the Holy Spirit to sanctify our hearts? 01:11:47.520 --> 01:11:49.040 What do we do now? 01:11:49.040 --> 01:11:50.560 We obey God. 01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:54.000 Even when it stinks, even when a wife doesn't have a good 01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:58.000 husband, she should still obey him, because he is her head. 01:11:58.000 --> 01:12:02.080 Even if a master is evil, the slave should still obey him. 01:12:02.080 --> 01:12:04.000 That's the hard teaching of this. 01:12:04.000 --> 01:12:06.880 It's that things don't always work out, and that's the reason that 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:10.400 so much ink is spilled in scripture where the Holy Spirit gives 01:12:10.400 --> 01:12:13.440 duties to masters and gives duties to husbands. 01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:17.280 We are not picking on slaves and we're not picking on wives 01:12:17.280 --> 01:12:19.280 to bully or to belittle. 01:12:19.280 --> 01:12:23.440 It's to point out that the so-called liberation of those who are 01:12:23.440 --> 01:12:27.920 in lower states is the very destruction of everything that's good and 01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:33.360 holy. It's not liberation to take someone away from their godly role 01:12:33.360 --> 01:12:38.160 and set them free is O freedom is some sort of nebulous 01:12:38.160 --> 01:12:42.000 thing. That's like being thrown into space. 01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:45.920 It's being launched into the vacuum of space where you have nothing. 01:12:45.920 --> 01:12:48.720 The only way that a slave can be rooted is through his 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:50.800 master in duty to God. 01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:52.400 The same is true of a woman. 01:12:52.400 --> 01:12:56.400 As a as a as a daughter and as a wife, her 01:12:56.400 --> 01:13:02.160 submission to her husband is her anchor to God's subjugation of her 01:13:02.320 --> 01:13:06.080 in the best and most holy sense, and God's response to that 01:13:06.160 --> 01:13:09.760 when it's done faithfully is to view it as very precious. 01:13:10.160 --> 01:13:15.280 Before we turn to the last two sections of scripture for this 01:13:15.280 --> 01:13:20.160 episode, I want to reiterate my recommendation that you read Genesis three, 01:13:20.160 --> 01:13:23.520 but actually go ahead and read one through three. 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:24.160 But when you read 01:13:25.040 --> 01:13:30.640 that, focus on the wording of what God says about woman and 01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:33.120 about man. 01:13:33.120 --> 01:13:37.920 Because we don't want anyone to take away the wrong understanding, the 01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:40.480 wrong view from this episode. 01:13:40.480 --> 01:13:45.200 Yes, wives are to submit to their husbands in all things, as 01:13:45.200 --> 01:13:48.080 scripture says. 01:13:48.080 --> 01:13:53.120 But it is vitally important to note the nature of woman, what 01:13:53.120 --> 01:13:57.200 woman is in relation to man, because 01:13:58.160 --> 01:14:02.640 Adam walked with God in the garden, Adam spoke with God, Adam 01:14:02.640 --> 01:14:08.400 knew God face to face, and God still said it is not 01:14:08.400 --> 01:14:11.200 good for man to be alone. 01:14:11.200 --> 01:14:15.600 That is the nature of the gift that is woman. 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:19.920 It is the greatest gift, other than of course salvation, which at 01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:24.080 the time Adam did not need, but it is the greatest gift 01:14:24.080 --> 01:14:26.400 that God made for man. 01:14:26.400 --> 01:14:31.840 Woman was made for man as a gift by God. 01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:33.040 And again 01:14:34.320 --> 01:14:40.000 to state what Scripture says that is a gift from God 01:14:41.040 --> 01:14:45.840 to Adam who at the time walked with God and spoke to 01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:52.800 him face to face, it would be difficult to overstate the nature 01:14:52.800 --> 01:14:56.400 of the gift God gave to man here. 01:14:56.400 --> 01:15:00.640 Yes, there is corruption because of the fall, but the good nature 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:02.720 is not erased by the fall. 01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:05.360 Original sin is not man's nature. 01:15:05.360 --> 01:15:08.800 Original sin is a corruption of man's nature. 01:15:08.800 --> 01:15:11.680 And so I just wanted to say that to emphasize 01:15:13.280 --> 01:15:17.600 what scripture actually says in Genesis and what we are and are 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:21.600 not saying in this episode about woman and the relationship of man 01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:22.080 and woman 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:29.280 It is fundamentally a question of pointing back to what is said 01:15:29.280 --> 01:15:30.720 in Genesis two. 01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:33.200 It is not good that a man should be alone, I will 01:15:33.200 --> 01:15:34.960 make a helper fit for him. 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:38.560 And that is precisely what God did when he made woman. 01:15:38.560 --> 01:15:41.680 He made a helper fit for man. 01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:46.800 And what has been done societally with the false idol of equality, 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:51.680 with the demon of feminism, is to eliminate the category of helper, 01:15:51.680 --> 01:15:53.200 to say, I'm not helping anyone. 01:15:53.200 --> 01:15:54.320 I'm a I'm a free woman. 01:15:54.320 --> 01:15:54.800 I'm strong. 01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:55.760 I'm independent. 01:15:55.760 --> 01:15:56.400 I have a job. 01:15:56.400 --> 01:15:57.280 I have income. 01:15:57.280 --> 01:15:59.120 I don't need to help anybody. 01:15:59.120 --> 01:16:02.880 And then suddenly she's a forty five year old wine aunt with 01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:06.880 you know two week vacations where she fornicates with half a dozen 01:16:06.880 --> 01:16:11.760 guys halfway around the world, and her medicine cabinet is antibiotics and 01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:15.600 antidepressants and birth control pills. 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:18.880 And she realizes that the only thing she has left in 01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:24.080 yeah. And she realized that there's nothing in her future except for 01:16:24.080 --> 01:16:30.160 despair. And no amount of makeup and Botox and filters on Instagram 01:16:30.160 --> 01:16:33.440 are going to take away that despair because what she lost was 01:16:33.440 --> 01:16:37.520 being a helper fit for a man by not having a man, 01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:41.440 by not being a proper one flesh union with a man, she 01:16:41.440 --> 01:16:42.480 has no children. 01:16:42.480 --> 01:16:47.200 She has nothing except for memories of sin and disobedience to God, 01:16:47.200 --> 01:16:50.080 which is why you see such despair in that set. 01:16:50.080 --> 01:16:52.400 Again, the punishment for sin is built into it. 01:16:52.960 --> 01:16:56.000 If you try not to have kids, you'll succeed. 01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:57.360 You won't have kids. 01:16:57.360 --> 01:16:58.400 And then guess what? 01:16:58.400 --> 01:17:01.120 You're stuck with the punishment of for that forever. 01:17:01.120 --> 01:17:04.480 The punishment of not just disobeying God and not having kids is 01:17:04.480 --> 01:17:05.840 you don't have kids. 01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:07.760 There's not going to be anybody there to take care of you 01:17:07.760 --> 01:17:08.640 when you're old. 01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:12.080 There's no one for you to raise up as God commands you 01:17:12.080 --> 01:17:14.240 to. The punishment's built in. 01:17:14.240 --> 01:17:16.960 And when we talk about these things and say obey God, it's 01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:18.240 not to save yourselves. 01:17:18.240 --> 01:17:19.040 It's to 01:17:20.480 --> 01:17:23.680 have the life that God wishes for us to have, even in 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.440 this fallen world, even with the fall, even with the corruption of 01:17:27.440 --> 01:17:32.480 sin and the devil prowling as a roaring lion, if we focus 01:17:32.480 --> 01:17:36.720 on scripture and we obey God, we can restore these gifts because 01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:38.880 they're they're built into creation. 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:42.560 When you do the things that are obedience to God, the gifts 01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:44.960 come naturally, even to unbelievers. 01:17:45.200 --> 01:17:46.080 the unbeliever who 01:17:47.440 --> 01:17:51.360 behaves faithfully in his marriage is going to be blessed with lots 01:17:51.360 --> 01:17:52.320 of children. 01:17:52.320 --> 01:17:54.800 He's not going to go to heaven because of it, but the 01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:59.360 temporal blessing is there through the obedience to God's order, even absent 01:17:59.360 --> 01:17:59.600 knowledge 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.000 that God, the true God, commanded it. 01:18:04.000 --> 01:18:09.360 And so the this is about restoring the helper relationship in all 01:18:09.360 --> 01:18:11.200 cases, not just in some cases. 01:18:11.200 --> 01:18:12.480 It's not optional. 01:18:12.480 --> 01:18:14.720 Uh the second and last passage we're gonna read here is from 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:17.920 Titus two, which a week or two ago I I misreferred to 01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:19.680 as Titus five, which of course doesn't exist. 01:18:20.000 --> 01:18:24.960 Before we move to Titus, I just want to add two things 01:18:25.040 --> 01:18:26.000 real quick. 01:18:26.000 --> 01:18:29.920 I know we'll get into this more next week, but what we're 01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:35.200 speaking about here is teleology, about talos, the end of things. 01:18:35.200 --> 01:18:40.560 Not end in the sense of end versus beginning, but end in 01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:45.440 the sense of that toward which you should properly be aimed. 01:18:45.440 --> 01:18:49.360 Your purpose would be a a good way to summarize it. 01:18:49.920 --> 01:18:56.160 The purpose of woman is as helper fit for a man, for 01:18:56.160 --> 01:18:58.800 her husband. 01:18:58.800 --> 01:19:02.640 And that's why we are earnest about this and why we treat 01:19:02.640 --> 01:19:04.800 it as an urgent matter. 01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:09.360 As men, this is less urgent for us. 01:19:09.360 --> 01:19:13.440 There's earnestness there still with regard to men, but the urgency is 01:19:13.440 --> 01:19:15.120 not the same. 01:19:15.120 --> 01:19:20.480 Because for a woman there is a narrow window within which she 01:19:20.480 --> 01:19:24.640 can do these things that God has commanded her to do and 01:19:24.640 --> 01:19:27.760 be blessed for doing them. 01:19:27.760 --> 01:19:32.080 If a woman waits until she is fifty years old to marry, 01:19:32.080 --> 01:19:34.880 she will probably not be blessed with children. 01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:37.680 She's no longer within the window where she can have them. 01:19:37.680 --> 01:19:40.480 That is just a fact of biology. 01:19:40.480 --> 01:19:44.800 Unless you happen to be Sarah and God specifically blesses you to 01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:49.840 have a child in your old age, which is very unlikely. 01:19:49.840 --> 01:19:52.960 But that is the reason we treat this as such an urgent 01:19:52.960 --> 01:19:59.120 matter, because when teachers, pastors, and others lie to young women about 01:19:59.120 --> 01:20:03.520 these things, when their parents tell them no wait to have children 01:20:03.520 --> 01:20:07.680 until you get your master's degree, until you're established in your career, 01:20:07.680 --> 01:20:09.200 until X, Y, and Z 01:20:11.040 --> 01:20:16.080 You are stealing, they are stealing from these young women any chance 01:20:16.320 --> 01:20:20.560 of having the blessings that God would give them if they were 01:20:20.560 --> 01:20:25.680 faithful. Because that window is narrow. 01:20:25.680 --> 01:20:29.360 There are only so many years during which a woman can have 01:20:29.360 --> 01:20:33.280 children. You are not going to be young forever. 01:20:33.280 --> 01:20:35.920 That's true for men as well, and it is better if you 01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:41.600 have children relatively young, but for men thirties and forties is fine. 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:45.600 For women it really needs to be in their twenties. 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:48.960 And so that is why we treat this matter as again such 01:20:48.960 --> 01:20:51.680 an urgent matter. 01:20:51.680 --> 01:20:54.320 Because this is not something you can put off. 01:20:54.320 --> 01:20:57.120 This is not something where you get a do over. 01:20:57.120 --> 01:21:01.200 You do it right the first time, or you're done. 01:21:01.200 --> 01:21:07.840 Because the consequences, the temporal consequences, once you have them, that's it. 01:21:07.840 --> 01:21:11.040 You cannot go back, you cannot do it over, you cannot say, 01:21:11.040 --> 01:21:14.560 well, now that I have my master's degree and I'm established in 01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:16.640 my job, now I'll have children. 01:21:16.640 --> 01:21:18.800 It's too late. 01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:21.520 Biologically, you can no longer have that family. 01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:25.200 You can no longer reap the benefits of being faithful to God. 01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:29.040 You could be faithful to God still, in so far as you 01:21:29.040 --> 01:21:32.560 are able to do so at that stage in life, but the 01:21:32.560 --> 01:21:36.960 benefits will no longer be there, because the benefits attend to being 01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.040 faithful at the time when God tells you to be faithful, not 01:21:41.040 --> 01:21:43.760 when you feel like getting around to doing 01:21:43.760 --> 01:21:46.720 it. 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:51.120 And of course referring to it as biological as simply the scientific 01:21:51.120 --> 01:21:53.440 explanation for God's created order. 01:21:53.440 --> 01:21:55.200 That's how God built women. 01:21:55.280 --> 01:21:58.160 Uh, we talked of in I think the first episode uh we 01:21:58.160 --> 01:22:01.360 were talking about DNA about the fact that a girl in the 01:22:01.360 --> 01:22:04.800 w in her mot Mother's womb has what will be all of 01:22:04.800 --> 01:22:07.040 the eggs she'll ever have in her entire life. 01:22:07.040 --> 01:22:09.840 And they begin to be to die and to be cast off. 01:22:09.840 --> 01:22:13.200 And by the time she reaches menopause, she's out. 01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:15.120 that is a fixed timer. 01:22:15.120 --> 01:22:18.400 It is like grains of sand passing through an hourglass. 01:22:18.400 --> 01:22:22.480 That is how God designed a woman differently than a man. 01:22:22.480 --> 01:22:27.200 Men can continue to procreate much later, decades later than women, and 01:22:27.200 --> 01:22:29.120 to have healthy offspring. 01:22:29.120 --> 01:22:32.560 It does fall off over time, but as you said, the window 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.360 is much narrower for women and it's much earlier. 01:22:35.360 --> 01:22:38.080 And so every lie that is told in our churches and our 01:22:38.080 --> 01:22:42.400 schools and our society that pushes girls away from 01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:47.120 pairing off to with a good faithful man early and starting families 01:22:47.360 --> 01:22:52.320 is ultimately destructive to their own ends, which dovetails well with Titus 01:22:52.480 --> 01:22:56.080 too. It begins older women, which you know in this case would 01:22:56.080 --> 01:22:58.160 have basically amounted to menopause. 01:22:58.160 --> 01:23:00.640 Once you've stopped having children, once your children are out of the 01:23:00.640 --> 01:23:02.240 home, what is your duty? 01:23:02.240 --> 01:23:06.160 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or 01:23:06.160 --> 01:23:09.120 slaves to much wine, their duty are to teach what is good, 01:23:09.120 --> 01:23:12.800 and so train the young woman to love their husbands and children, 01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:17.760 to be self controlled, pure, working at home, kind and submissive to 01:23:17.760 --> 01:23:22.240 their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. 01:23:22.080 --> 01:23:27.680 That's a short passions, but there's a ton of theological depth there. 01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:31.680 One, it makes clear that older women do have a place for 01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:33.040 teaching in the church. 01:23:33.040 --> 01:23:36.000 It is teaching younger women these things. 01:23:36.000 --> 01:23:39.440 This is the only time the women are ever told in scripture 01:23:39.440 --> 01:23:43.440 that they have something to teach, apart from their own young children. 01:23:43.440 --> 01:23:45.920 If you are an older woman in the church, you should be 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:47.680 teaching the younger women, what? 01:23:48.000 --> 01:23:51.840 To obey and love your husbands and your children, to be submissive 01:23:51.840 --> 01:23:53.280 to your husbands. 01:23:53.280 --> 01:23:56.640 And what do we see in the church when this is disobeyed? 01:23:56.640 --> 01:24:00.560 And this is radically despised, even in Lutheranism. 01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:04.000 we see far more faithfulness to this in some of the other 01:24:04.000 --> 01:24:08.400 adjacent Protestant denominations than we see among any Lutherans in this day. 01:24:08.400 --> 01:24:10.560 And the reason for that is that the Word of God is 01:24:10.560 --> 01:24:12.480 indeed reviled among us. 01:24:12.480 --> 01:24:16.320 This passage is despised by the LCMS today. 01:24:16.320 --> 01:24:18.560 You'll be excommunicated if you believe this. 01:24:18.560 --> 01:24:21.840 If you say that w the wives should be submissive to their 01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:25.360 husbands with no asterisk, that's misogyny. 01:24:25.360 --> 01:24:27.040 That's absolute misogyny. 01:24:27.040 --> 01:24:31.840 You will be declared damned by the LCMS Corporation. 01:24:31.840 --> 01:24:32.160 So 01:24:33.200 --> 01:24:38.960 these are not inconsequential matters not only for civilization, not only for 01:24:38.960 --> 01:24:42.480 order in the home, but in the church, they are matters of 01:24:42.480 --> 01:24:46.800 whether or not our church bodies are apostate or remain Christian. 01:24:46.800 --> 01:24:50.480 And they're church bodies that are absolutely embracing apostasy. 01:24:50.480 --> 01:24:54.320 Why? So that So that they can remain friends with MSNBC, so 01:24:54.320 --> 01:24:58.320 that they can remain friends with Rolling Stone and with Occupy D 01:24:58.480 --> 01:25:03.120 Democrats. Those are the people who today celebrate the actions of some 01:25:03.120 --> 01:25:04.480 of our church bodies. 01:25:04.480 --> 01:25:06.640 That's not the company you want to keep. 01:25:06.640 --> 01:25:09.440 Because if you keep that company in this life, you're going to 01:25:09.440 --> 01:25:12.000 be cum keeping that company in eternity. 01:25:12.080 --> 01:25:15.920 One of the best ways that a woman can achieve this status 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:19.360 of being a respected older woman in the congregation and having And 01:25:19.360 --> 01:25:23.920 having younger women actually listen to her is simply being faithful in 01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:26.560 her own marriage, which of course is what she is supposed to 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:32.640 train the younger women to be, because if you are a grandmother 01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:34.640 or a great grandmother. 01:25:34.640 --> 01:25:39.440 If you have a hundred grandchildren and great grandchildren, the younger women 01:25:39.440 --> 01:25:42.800 in your congregation are going to be more likely to listen to 01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:47.040 you than if you are a spinster with fifteen cats. 01:25:47.040 --> 01:25:48.720 That is simply the reality of it. 01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:50.480 And that's how it should be. 01:25:50.480 --> 01:25:55.200 Because if you are the latter, most likely the advice you have 01:25:55.200 --> 01:25:57.120 is simply do not be like me. 01:25:57.120 --> 01:26:00.080 That's the best advice you could offer to the younger women. 01:26:00.080 --> 01:26:04.480 If you are the grandmother, the great grandmother, who has been blessed 01:26:04.480 --> 01:26:09.760 by God for your faithfulness, and you have dozens of grandchildren, you 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:11.840 can tell them Imitate me. 01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:16.000 I can tell you what to do in your lives because I 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:19.520 have already done it, and God blessed me because I did it. 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:22.320 I did what He told me to do, and look at the 01:26:22.320 --> 01:26:23.920 blessings I have. 01:26:24.080 --> 01:26:29.680 When you can give that concrete example of your life and show 01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:33.360 people, this is what God will do for you, because this is 01:26:33.360 --> 01:26:34.560 what it says in scripture. 01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:36.640 This is how He made creation. 01:26:36.640 --> 01:26:40.160 This is simply the natural consequences, not in the negative sense of 01:26:40.160 --> 01:26:43.360 the term, but just in the neutral, in this case positive sense 01:26:43.360 --> 01:26:47.360 of the term, if you are obedient, these are the consequences. 01:26:47.360 --> 01:26:51.200 If you are faithful in your marriage to your husband, God will 01:26:51.200 --> 01:26:52.720 give you children. 01:26:52.720 --> 01:26:57.040 If you are faithful in raising up those children, they will pursue 01:26:57.040 --> 01:26:59.760 the same sort of life that you had, and they will also 01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:02.480 be blessed in their marriages with children. 01:27:02.480 --> 01:27:06.640 If you have six children, and each one of those children has 01:27:06.640 --> 01:27:11.600 six children, you have thirty six grandchildren. 01:27:11.600 --> 01:27:15.120 This is exponential one generation to the next. 01:27:15.120 --> 01:27:18.640 You can, over not as many generations as you may think, if 01:27:18.640 --> 01:27:24.640 you're not particularly mathematically inclined, build your own nation if you are 01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:29.200 simply faithful to God, which, of course, in this case very clearly 01:27:29.200 --> 01:27:32.720 means not practicing birth control. 01:27:32.720 --> 01:27:38.720 But a faithful Christian woman, barring of course medical issues and such, 01:27:38.720 --> 01:27:42.080 there's always the caveat, even if we don't mention it. 01:27:42.080 --> 01:27:45.840 But barring those things, a faithful Christian woman should probably be a 01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:49.760 grandmother by about fifty. 01:27:49.760 --> 01:27:52.880 Many times over by sixty. 01:27:52.880 --> 01:27:56.800 That is the natural course of things when husbands and wives 01:27:57.680 --> 01:28:02.400 are faithful to God in their marriages, that is simply how it 01:28:02.400 --> 01:28:04.960 works because that is how God designed it. 01:28:04.960 --> 01:28:08.880 And so the older women, who have been faithful for decades in 01:28:08.880 --> 01:28:12.880 their marriages, in their lives, should be teaching the younger women to 01:28:12.880 --> 01:28:14.400 do the same. 01:28:14.400 --> 01:28:17.040 Because that is how we relay these things. 01:28:17.040 --> 01:28:22.880 Yes, we teach from the Scriptures, yes we attend the services on 01:28:22.880 --> 01:28:24.800 Sunday, etc. 01:28:24.800 --> 01:28:29.920 But it is also vitally important that one generation relay this information 01:28:29.920 --> 01:28:34.400 to the next with the concrete examples of look at these individuals 01:28:34.400 --> 01:28:36.720 who were faithful and how God blessed them. 01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.160 That is vitally important when training up children in the way they 01:28:40.160 --> 01:28:43.040 are supposed to go, so that when they are old they will 01:28:43.040 --> 01:28:44.240 not depart from it. 01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:51.920 Mathematically, it is entirely realistic for one couple to end up 01:28:51.920 --> 01:28:56.240 with a thousand living descendants in their lifetimes. 01:28:56.240 --> 01:28:58.640 If you have ten kids, they have ten kids, they have ten 01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:02.480 kids, it's entirely possible if you were blessed with long life for 01:29:02.480 --> 01:29:04.160 you to be alive to see all of them. 01:29:04.160 --> 01:29:06.400 And of course, some of the first are gonna be having, you 01:29:06.400 --> 01:29:08.000 know, another generation. 01:29:08.000 --> 01:29:10.960 So you might not see an entire generation, but you're gonna see 01:29:10.960 --> 01:29:12.480 multiple iterations. 01:29:12.480 --> 01:29:17.040 It it's literally possible, again, with God's blessing, uh both long life 01:29:17.040 --> 01:29:20.960 and fecundity of all of your descendants, for you to have a 01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:24.640 thousand descendants alive in your lifetime. 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:28.320 The reason we don't see that anymore is that we are ashamed 01:29:28.400 --> 01:29:31.600 and we revile God's word and we despise him. 01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:33.520 That's the sole reason for it. 01:29:33.520 --> 01:29:38.400 As we see faithful husbands and wives returning to true godly living, 01:29:38.400 --> 01:29:41.040 we see family sizes like that again for the first time in 01:29:41.040 --> 01:29:44.240 generations. And it is a blessing. 01:29:44.400 --> 01:29:46.480 The last thing that we want to focus on is something that's 01:29:46.480 --> 01:29:51.120 referenced here within the description of the Titus II wim woman, which 01:29:51.440 --> 01:29:55.520 harkens back to the very beginning, the a helper fit for Adam. 01:29:55.520 --> 01:30:00.240 Wives are not merely vessels for producing children. 01:30:00.240 --> 01:30:04.000 That is one of their most important roles, but that is it 01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:05.280 is part of the role. 01:30:05.280 --> 01:30:09.040 Is as Corey mentioned, the curse of Eve touches on both of 01:30:09.040 --> 01:30:15.200 'em. It touches on her relationship with her husband and on childbearing. 01:30:15.200 --> 01:30:17.680 So we talked a lot about childbearing, but we're going to end 01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:19.920 with what does the helper part mean? 01:30:19.920 --> 01:30:23.120 Because in the middle of this, in Titus 2, it says they're 01:30:23.040 --> 01:30:26.960 to teach the younger women to work at home. 01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:30.560 Now, there's it's been discussion in the past on this podcast and 01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:35.600 online and elsewhere about where is it permissible for women to work. 01:30:35.600 --> 01:30:38.480 And so we're going to end in Proverbs 31. 01:30:38.480 --> 01:30:41.120 You probably heard of the Proverbs 31 woman before. 01:30:41.120 --> 01:30:45.680 It's It's a verse that's used very often as a proto-feminist verse 01:30:45.760 --> 01:30:48.800 to say, well, go girl, here's all the stuff you can do. 01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:52.000 The reason that we've presented all of this and save that for 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:56.880 last is to frame the nature of the work that the Proverbs 01:30:57.040 --> 01:31:01.280 thirty one woman does in view of her role as a helper 01:31:01.280 --> 01:31:04.320 for her husband, and in view of her role, as Titus II 01:31:04.480 --> 01:31:06.720 says, of working at home 01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:08.240 And 01:31:08.240 --> 01:31:13.840 so reading from Proverbs thirty one An excellent wife who can find 01:31:14.080 --> 01:31:17.760 she is far more precious than jewels, the heart of her husband 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.040 trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. 01:31:21.120 --> 01:31:24.640 She does him good and not harm all the days of her 01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:29.200 life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 01:31:29.200 --> 01:31:32.320 She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food 01:31:32.320 --> 01:31:33.360 from afar. 01:31:33.360 --> 01:31:36.960 She rises while it is yet night, and provides food for her 01:31:36.960 --> 01:31:39.920 household, and portions for her maidens. 01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:42.080 She considers a field and buys it. 01:31:42.080 --> 01:31:44.800 With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:48.800 She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong. 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:51.680 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. 01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:54.000 Her lamp does not go out at night. 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:57.360 She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the 01:31:57.360 --> 01:32:01.440 spindle. She opens her hands to the poor, and reaches out her 01:32:01.440 --> 01:32:02.800 hands to the needy. 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:06.080 She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her 01:32:06.080 --> 01:32:08.240 household are clothed in scarlet. 01:32:08.240 --> 01:32:12.320 She makes bed coverings for herself, her clothing is fine linen and 01:32:12.320 --> 01:32:16.240 purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among 01:32:16.240 --> 01:32:17.920 the elders of the land. 01:32:17.920 --> 01:32:22.000 She makes linen garments and sells them, she delivers sashes to the 01:32:22.000 --> 01:32:26.240 merchant, strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the 01:32:26.240 --> 01:32:27.280 time to come. 01:32:27.280 --> 01:32:30.880 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:31.920 on her tongue. 01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:34.960 She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:36.720 eat the bread of idleness. 01:32:36.720 --> 01:32:40.720 Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and 01:32:40.720 --> 01:32:42.000 he praises her. 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:46.320 Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all. 01:32:46.320 --> 01:32:50.480 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears 01:32:50.480 --> 01:32:52.480 the Lord is to be praised. 01:32:52.480 --> 01:32:55.520 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works 01:32:55.520 --> 01:32:57.200 praise her in the gates. 01:32:57.680 --> 01:33:01.840 I think that when you view Proverbs thirty-one in light of everything 01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:05.280 else that have we've cited here, which of course you must because 01:33:05.280 --> 01:33:06.320 scripture is one. 01:33:06.320 --> 01:33:10.000 There's no there's no setting these passages in opposition. 01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.160 This is a beautiful exposition of the nature of a woman, of 01:33:14.160 --> 01:33:17.040 a wife as a helper to a man. 01:33:17.040 --> 01:33:20.720 And I think if you re the nature of the tasks that 01:33:20.720 --> 01:33:24.400 she's performing here, they're all household tasks. 01:33:24.400 --> 01:33:27.440 Now it doesn't literally mean that she stays inside all day. 01:33:27.440 --> 01:33:33.280 We're that's not that's not the nature of the relationship between husband 01:33:33.280 --> 01:33:37.280 and wife that we think is part of the Christian religion. 01:33:37.280 --> 01:33:40.320 The point is that what she does is in service to her 01:33:40.320 --> 01:33:41.600 husband as a helper. 01:33:41.600 --> 01:33:45.200 And that includes producing wealth in some cases, if it is a 01:33:45.200 --> 01:33:48.560 part of his household, and there are things that she can do 01:33:48.560 --> 01:33:51.920 that builds up the household. 01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:56.400 But what is absent from this and is not simply temporally bound 01:33:56.480 --> 01:34:00.240 is that she's not going off far away and doing something totally 01:34:00.240 --> 01:34:02.800 unrelated and bringing home the bacon. 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:04.240 That's not the purpose of this. 01:34:04.240 --> 01:34:07.360 Even when it talks about her producing things and taking them to 01:34:07.360 --> 01:34:10.800 the markets, she's selling them to vendors to sell things. 01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:13.520 Now it's a small point, but I mean I I would think 01:34:13.520 --> 01:34:16.640 that today this would be akin to to a wife having an 01:34:16.640 --> 01:34:20.880 Etsy storefront and producing things and then selling them. 01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:23.280 You know, if it's something that's good, if it's something that's not, 01:34:23.280 --> 01:34:26.640 you know, shameful or pornographic, that's great. 01:34:26.640 --> 01:34:31.040 And there there are absolutely ways that women can do more than 01:34:31.200 --> 01:34:35.600 cook and clean and make babies and raise them that are also 01:34:35.920 --> 01:34:40.560 godly. And that's one of the caricatures that's set up in opposition 01:34:40.560 --> 01:34:46.000 by the religion of feminism against what Christianity says about the womanly 01:34:46.000 --> 01:34:50.720 role. A wife's role isn't just one thing, it's multifaceted. 01:34:50.720 --> 01:34:53.040 And this is the this is how Proverbs ends. 01:34:53.040 --> 01:34:55.360 And it's one of the few places in Proverbs where it goes 01:34:55.360 --> 01:35:00.000 on and on about these a single topic at length. 01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:03.760 And because this is wisdom being passed from a father to son 01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.800 and of course from God to all of us, we should take 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:08.800 particular care to pay attention. 01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:11.440 If you have a wife who is capable of these things, you 01:35:11.440 --> 01:35:14.640 know, who's who's physically capable of doing things around the house? 01:35:14.640 --> 01:35:17.040 Like if if your wife and your wife is weaker than you, 01:35:17.040 --> 01:35:20.560 obviously, because you're a man, you're you know you're much stronger than 01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:25.280 her, but that doesn't mean that her own weakness is necessarily something 01:35:25.280 --> 01:35:26.080 to be celebrated. 01:35:26.080 --> 01:35:28.560 She should be as strong as she can be, as strong as 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:29.680 she needs to be. 01:35:29.680 --> 01:35:32.880 Yeah, it's not saying your wife needs to be a crossfitter. 01:35:32.880 --> 01:35:37.200 I think that produces some some questionable results sometimes. 01:35:37.200 --> 01:35:40.480 But the point is that these things are godly and they're not 01:35:40.480 --> 01:35:44.560 in opposition to the nature of a woman being a helper, and 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:48.560 they're not in opposition to Titus making clear the the epistle to 01:35:48.560 --> 01:35:51.920 Titus that these are things that happen within the home. 01:35:51.920 --> 01:35:55.120 All of this fits together to say that there is much that 01:35:55.120 --> 01:36:00.240 a woman can do that doesn't require any of the women's liberation 01:36:00.400 --> 01:36:03.280 that we've been sold in the last couple hundred years. 01:36:03.280 --> 01:36:05.840 None of that is required for the godly life. 01:36:05.840 --> 01:36:09.200 All of these things are obedience to God, and they're a blessing 01:36:09.200 --> 01:36:10.080 to the household. 01:36:10.080 --> 01:36:12.080 They're obviously a blessing to the husband. 01:36:12.720 --> 01:36:15.120 In Proverbs 31, the husband's proud. 01:36:15.120 --> 01:36:17.280 He's grateful to have such a wonderful wife. 01:36:17.280 --> 01:36:20.000 Who wouldn't be proud and grateful to have a wife like that? 01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:23.760 The question is, do you need the lies of feminism to come 01:36:23.760 --> 01:36:26.320 along and say, oh, well, this is a proof text to say 01:36:26.480 --> 01:36:28.160 you can do so much more? 01:36:28.160 --> 01:36:30.960 Think about how much richer you could be if you had even 01:36:30.960 --> 01:36:34.560 more wealth, if you did even more outside the home, if you 01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:39.600 left the household and pursued greater wealth, because that is when the 01:36:39.600 --> 01:36:42.320 she has ceased to be a helper and is seeking to be 01:36:42.320 --> 01:36:43.280 an equal. 01:36:43.280 --> 01:36:45.600 And that is when these things get upended. 01:36:45.600 --> 01:36:47.680 And it happens by a matter of degrees. 01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:49.600 It's not an on off switch. 01:36:50.000 --> 01:36:53.360 there are small degrees by which something may be permissible that by 01:36:53.360 --> 01:36:56.000 a large degree suddenly becomes a usurpation. 01:36:56.000 --> 01:36:59.600 And it's a matter of godly wisdom for a faithful husband to 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:03.360 know the difference, to be able to say this far and no 01:37:03.360 --> 01:37:05.440 further and everyone wins. 01:37:05.440 --> 01:37:08.560 And so as we talk about these things, it is ultimately about 01:37:08.560 --> 01:37:11.840 upholding everything that God says, but not shying away from this. 01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:14.240 Part of why we say this for last again is that this 01:37:14.240 --> 01:37:17.360 is sort of seen by by some who are trying to pretend 01:37:17.360 --> 01:37:20.880 that that they're trad and conservative, that it it's actually an anthem 01:37:21.040 --> 01:37:23.120 for feminism, if you read it rightly. 01:37:23.120 --> 01:37:25.200 Well, I think if you read in light of everything else that 01:37:25.520 --> 01:37:28.720 we've cited, it's clearly not an anthem for feminism. 01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:32.960 It's an anthem for a helper who is a godly helpmeet, one 01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:36.640 who works within the home, as Titus describes, and is the proud 01:37:36.720 --> 01:37:39.520 of her husband and the joy of his life. 01:37:39.520 --> 01:37:42.640 And that's the sort of God blessing the sort of blessings God 01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:46.400 gives us when we obey him in all of our vocations as 01:37:46.400 --> 01:37:50.320 husband, as wife, whatever task you have, do it faithfully and you 01:37:50.320 --> 01:37:53.760 will be blessed, as Proverbs thirty one describes. 01:37:53.760 --> 01:37:58.560 In this entire issue, what we're really focusing on is a simple 01:37:58.640 --> 01:38:01.120 foundational truth. 01:38:01.120 --> 01:38:05.360 You will You will never be happier than when you are obeying 01:38:05.360 --> 01:38:09.680 God. That doesn't mean that there won't be trials, that there won't 01:38:09.600 --> 01:38:13.440 be challenges, that there won't be sorrow and pain in life, because 01:38:13.440 --> 01:38:15.600 we live in a fallen world. 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:20.160 But the best possible life you can lead is a life of 01:38:20.160 --> 01:38:23.120 obedience to God. 01:38:23.120 --> 01:38:28.960 Now that doesn't mean that there isn't pleasure and enjoyment, amusement, whatever 01:38:28.960 --> 01:38:32.960 else you may find, in a life of rebellion to God, you 01:38:32.960 --> 01:38:35.040 may find that for a time. 01:38:35.040 --> 01:38:39.440 And so the woman who goes off to college and is promiscuous 01:38:39.760 --> 01:38:44.880 and generally does whatever comes to mind with no regard for the 01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:49.440 things of God or what she should be doing, may very well 01:38:49.440 --> 01:38:55.120 have an enjoyable ten years, fifteen, maybe twenty if she's lucky. 01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:58.880 But she will have destroyed the rest of her life in the 01:38:58.880 --> 01:39:05.520 process, and not only hers, because she destroyed any potential life that 01:39:05.520 --> 01:39:09.120 she would have brought into the world had she been a faithful 01:39:09.120 --> 01:39:14.400 wife, instead of what she chose to become. 01:39:14.400 --> 01:39:14.880 And so 01:39:17.280 --> 01:39:21.360 the point that we are making, of course, the point is always 01:39:21.360 --> 01:39:24.880 the truth of Scripture and that all of Scripture matters, but the 01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:28.720 point that we are making is that as Christians, we must live 01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:32.400 the sort of life that God tells us to live, and believe 01:39:32.400 --> 01:39:36.000 that God will bless us when we do so, because Scripture does 01:39:36.000 --> 01:39:41.760 not just speak of eternal blessings, of crowns in heaven, of such 01:39:41.760 --> 01:39:42.640 things as that. 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:45.200 Scripture speaks of temporal blessings. 01:39:45.200 --> 01:39:47.760 I believe that I will look on the goodness of the Lord 01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:49.600 in the land of the living. 01:39:49.600 --> 01:39:54.160 Scripture is very clear that when you are true to God, God 01:39:54.160 --> 01:39:54.960 will bless you. 01:39:54.960 --> 01:39:58.960 Again, that does not mean that your life will be perfect, that 01:39:58.960 --> 01:40:03.280 there will be no trials, that there will be no challenges. 01:40:03.280 --> 01:40:05.040 That is not what Scripture promises. 01:40:05.040 --> 01:40:07.920 Scripture in fact promises that there will be trials, there will be 01:40:07.920 --> 01:40:10.480 tribulations, there will be challenges. 01:40:10.480 --> 01:40:13.600 But God will see you through them. 01:40:14.320 --> 01:40:19.600 And for women, the way that you are faithful to God is 01:40:19.600 --> 01:40:23.840 to fulfill your role as a helper. 01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:26.320 That is what God made you. 01:40:26.320 --> 01:40:29.200 That is what you are. 01:40:29.200 --> 01:40:34.880 And as a creature, which this applies to man and woman equally, 01:40:34.880 --> 01:40:37.040 we are both creatures of God. 01:40:37.040 --> 01:40:43.440 As a creature, the Creator made us for various purposes. 01:40:43.440 --> 01:40:47.760 If we rebel against those purposes, we are going against our true 01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:52.640 nature, we are going against our true end, our telos, and we 01:40:52.640 --> 01:40:54.800 will suffer for it. 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:59.280 If we rebel against the Creator, rebel against His order, rebel against 01:40:59.280 --> 01:41:03.520 what He designed for us, because what He designed for us is 01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:07.040 good, because He is good. 01:41:07.040 --> 01:41:14.160 And so as creatures, that for which we should strive is a 01:41:14.160 --> 01:41:19.360 life lived according to our nature, according to the role for which 01:41:19.360 --> 01:41:24.240 God designed us, the role into which He placed us. 01:41:24.240 --> 01:41:28.640 For men, that of course is all the various things that God 01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:32.800 assigns to the realm of men, chief among them of course being 01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:39.520 husband, leader, father, all of those various roles of headship, and the 01:41:39.520 --> 01:41:43.920 roles to which God assigned women, chief among them of course being 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:49.040 wife, and what flows naturally from that mother. 01:41:49.040 --> 01:41:53.520 If we fulfill our roles, as we are supposed to fulfill them, 01:41:53.520 --> 01:41:58.000 as God assigned them to us, then he will bless us. 01:41:58.000 --> 01:42:01.680 If we look at the state of our society currently, we can 01:42:01.680 --> 01:42:05.680 very clearly tell that we are not blessed by God. 01:42:05.680 --> 01:42:08.080 And the reason for that should be clear. 01:42:08.640 --> 01:42:13.120 We are not blessed by God because we do not obey God. 01:42:13.120 --> 01:42:15.920 Our women rebel against God. 01:42:15.920 --> 01:42:20.320 Instead of being wives and mothers, they go off to university and 01:42:20.320 --> 01:42:24.720 become professors and corporate leadership. 01:42:24.720 --> 01:42:28.160 That is not the role for which God made woman. 01:42:28.160 --> 01:42:33.280 God made woman to be a helper for man. 01:42:33.280 --> 01:42:37.040 That is the role in which she is happiest. 01:42:37.040 --> 01:42:41.440 That is the role in which she fulfills the end for which 01:42:41.440 --> 01:42:42.880 God made her. 01:42:43.280 --> 01:42:47.600 That is the only role in which humanity continues 01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:52.400 in such a way that we will be blessed by God, because 01:42:52.400 --> 01:42:57.680 everything breaks down when the family breaks down, and the family breaks 01:42:57.680 --> 01:43:03.440 down when Satan comes in and suggests feminism, and men and women 01:43:03.440 --> 01:43:05.120 both adopt it. 01:43:05.120 --> 01:43:09.840 Women adopt it because we go back to that curse in Genesis, 01:43:09.840 --> 01:43:12.240 the desire to rebel to become the head. 01:43:12.240 --> 01:43:15.440 That is why women go in for feminism. 01:43:15.440 --> 01:43:19.280 And men go in for it because it's easier. 01:43:19.280 --> 01:43:21.440 Because being the head is hard. 01:43:21.440 --> 01:43:24.160 Because being the head requires work. 01:43:24.160 --> 01:43:27.440 Because being the head means you will answer to God for what 01:43:27.440 --> 01:43:30.000 you did and what you failed to do. 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:34.000 And so it seems easier if, like Adam in the garden, you 01:43:34.000 --> 01:43:37.040 stand back and just watch the snake talk to the woman. 01:43:37.040 --> 01:43:39.680 Well, I don't have to be head, I can just stand here 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:42.800 and do nothing. 01:43:42.800 --> 01:43:46.800 But that doesn't work, because as a man God made you the 01:43:46.800 --> 01:43:50.400 head, and it is your duty to fulfil that role that He 01:43:50.400 --> 01:43:55.280 gave you And as a woman, God made you a helper, and 01:43:55.280 --> 01:44:00.080 it is your duty to fulfill that role that He gave you. 01:44:00.080 --> 01:44:05.280 And so it is incumbent on Christian women to be wives and 01:44:05.280 --> 01:44:09.840 mothers, and it is incumbent on those Christian women who fulfilled that 01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:13.120 role over a course of decades, and are now the older women 01:44:13.120 --> 01:44:17.360 described in Scripture, to teach the younger women to do the same. 01:44:17.520 --> 01:44:22.240 If we return to God, as it says so many times throughout 01:44:22.240 --> 01:44:27.040 Scripture, then He will surely turn to us and bless us. 01:44:27.040 --> 01:44:33.120 If we continue to rebel against God, there is no floor. 01:44:33.120 --> 01:44:42.080 Things can always get worse.