Christian women have been duped as easily as Eve was in the Garden of Eden. As a group we are guilty of allowing ungodly, worldly ideals of gaining status, wealth, and all the trappings of these to supercede God's Word in our lives. Most of two entire generations of women have sacrificed their children on the altar of women's rights, false security and peer acceptance.
In all the Bible studies we have gone to why have so few had the courage to pursue a biblical view of women in the home? Maybe we like the mall too much? Or our wardrobes? What are we putting in place of our number one responsibility of rearing children who love the Lord and can impact the world for Christ? When I was single I overhead a co-worker justify dropping her baby off at daycare every day with this statement: "She deserves to ride in a BMW." Now really! Who thinks who deserves to ride in the BMW? I think it is mom or dad, here; maybe both.
Now the children of these moms have grown up and elected a President of the United States who has never been in charge of anything of significance; whose birth certificate has not been released; who will also not release a long list of personal records; and, finally, who is systematically dismantling the strongest economy in the world. And he is doing this because he cleverly marketed himself to a shallow population more interested in the inside workings of reality TV shows than the brain work of analyzing of candidates throughout a long and complicated political process of electing a president.
How can we fight back at this point? By fighting for our children's souls , and warring against the powerful, insidious influences of media, the culture of self-absorption if nowhere else but in our own homes.
Let's return to Deuteronomy 6:
"1. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
2. so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
3. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
5. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
7. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
9. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
10. When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you--a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,
11. houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant--then when you eat and are satisfied,
12. be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
13. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name."
By "planning" our families are we not violating Genesis 1:28 where He clearly commands,
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
By seeking careers over domestic responsibilities are we not violating Titus 2:5-6 "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed . "
Furthermore, if we look at the rest of this chapter we can see why the evangelical church has failed to impact the world since it is so clear that so called Bible believing churches and families are failing to pass their faith on to their children. Church programs and busy-ness at a church building cannot replace families training their children.
The public schools are training them in secular humanism, gay rights, anti-American liberal politics, feminism, and the psyhco-babble of living a life of naval-gazing emotionalism. Hence, we have the "teen-age angst" and peer dependency issues which lead eternal childhood, eternal play time, eternal purposeless, and, sadly, eternal regret. Absolute truth leads to peace while relativistic secular humanists so often commit suicide in the end. Secular humanism leads to despair, not fulfilment as it purports.
Certainly, men are commanded to lead their families and rise to the task of discipling their children as well. But as one author and speaker attested, " then I met a women with high standards." Submissive women need to be strongly submissive and committed to God's standards and they can influence men to do the same. Being submissive in marriage does not mean being a doormat or shirking our God-given responsibilities.
Contrary to the usual idea of taking the kids to church, real Christian education and training is this: consistently filling young hearts and minds with sound doctrine, modeling character, guiding and directing in godly living through a God-, not man-centered worldview. Academic achievement alone should not be the ultimate goal.
Christian women, tell the public schools they can no longer indoctrinate your children in the ways of secular humanism, the gay agenda, sex education, and twisted versions of history. Take charge of what is yours and yours alone. Stop listening to Oprah and Dr. Phil. Read your Bibles and get smart. Only this can save our culture and give our children a faith that will stand. Your husband will cheer you if He truly loves God and wants his children to come to saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was thirty years old when he began his earthly ministry. So the weak and transparent idea that we should send our little five year olds into the public schools as "salt" and "light" has no real merit. Have the results of that thinking worked? No. Given the number of American citizens who claim to be Christians I say proof is in the current political disaster looming before us.
Feminism drives us to a confused, high-stress, self-centered life lacking in real purpose.
Mary Magdalene, a lowly nearly outcast woman in her time, was the first to be allowed to see her resurrected Lord! When she washed her Lord's feet with the costly perfume, she understood who Jesus was, while others could not.
In all the Bible studies we have gone to why have so few had the courage to pursue a biblical view of women in the home? Maybe we like the mall too much? Or our wardrobes? What are we putting in place of our number one responsibility of rearing children who love the Lord and can impact the world for Christ? When I was single I overhead a co-worker justify dropping her baby off at daycare every day with this statement: "She deserves to ride in a BMW." Now really! Who thinks who deserves to ride in the BMW? I think it is mom or dad, here; maybe both.
Now the children of these moms have grown up and elected a President of the United States who has never been in charge of anything of significance; whose birth certificate has not been released; who will also not release a long list of personal records; and, finally, who is systematically dismantling the strongest economy in the world. And he is doing this because he cleverly marketed himself to a shallow population more interested in the inside workings of reality TV shows than the brain work of analyzing of candidates throughout a long and complicated political process of electing a president.
How can we fight back at this point? By fighting for our children's souls , and warring against the powerful, insidious influences of media, the culture of self-absorption if nowhere else but in our own homes.
Let's return to Deuteronomy 6:
"1. These are the commands, decrees and laws the LORD your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess,
2. so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the LORD your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life.
3. Hear, O Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, promised you.
4. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.
5. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
6. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
7. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
8. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
9. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
10. When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you--a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build,
11. houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant--then when you eat and are satisfied,
12. be careful that you do not forget the Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
13. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name."
By "planning" our families are we not violating Genesis 1:28 where He clearly commands,
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."
By seeking careers over domestic responsibilities are we not violating Titus 2:5-6 "To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed . "
Furthermore, if we look at the rest of this chapter we can see why the evangelical church has failed to impact the world since it is so clear that so called Bible believing churches and families are failing to pass their faith on to their children. Church programs and busy-ness at a church building cannot replace families training their children.
The public schools are training them in secular humanism, gay rights, anti-American liberal politics, feminism, and the psyhco-babble of living a life of naval-gazing emotionalism. Hence, we have the "teen-age angst" and peer dependency issues which lead eternal childhood, eternal play time, eternal purposeless, and, sadly, eternal regret. Absolute truth leads to peace while relativistic secular humanists so often commit suicide in the end. Secular humanism leads to despair, not fulfilment as it purports.
Certainly, men are commanded to lead their families and rise to the task of discipling their children as well. But as one author and speaker attested, " then I met a women with high standards." Submissive women need to be strongly submissive and committed to God's standards and they can influence men to do the same. Being submissive in marriage does not mean being a doormat or shirking our God-given responsibilities.
Contrary to the usual idea of taking the kids to church, real Christian education and training is this: consistently filling young hearts and minds with sound doctrine, modeling character, guiding and directing in godly living through a God-, not man-centered worldview. Academic achievement alone should not be the ultimate goal.
Christian women, tell the public schools they can no longer indoctrinate your children in the ways of secular humanism, the gay agenda, sex education, and twisted versions of history. Take charge of what is yours and yours alone. Stop listening to Oprah and Dr. Phil. Read your Bibles and get smart. Only this can save our culture and give our children a faith that will stand. Your husband will cheer you if He truly loves God and wants his children to come to saving faith in Jesus Christ.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was thirty years old when he began his earthly ministry. So the weak and transparent idea that we should send our little five year olds into the public schools as "salt" and "light" has no real merit. Have the results of that thinking worked? No. Given the number of American citizens who claim to be Christians I say proof is in the current political disaster looming before us.
Feminism drives us to a confused, high-stress, self-centered life lacking in real purpose.
Mary Magdalene, a lowly nearly outcast woman in her time, was the first to be allowed to see her resurrected Lord! When she washed her Lord's feet with the costly perfume, she understood who Jesus was, while others could not.
"The LORD God is a sun and shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them who walk uprightly." Psalm 84:11
Jesus Christ alone lifts women up. He is the Good Shepherd who gently leads us to still waters.
I'll get off my soapbox now. :-)
I'll get off my soapbox now. :-)
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