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The Jason DeMars Podcast
The Jason DeMars Podcast
A Meaningful Marriage Part 2
Discover the surprising impact of modern societal shifts on traditional family dynamics through a biblical perspective. Can the feminist movement and contemporary lifestyle choices like career orientation and no-fault divorce truly threaten the sacred institution of marriage? We navigate these questions with insights from Brother William Marion Branham, exploring how such changes challenge the foundational roles of men and women as depicted in the Bible.
Journey with us as we dissect Ephesians 5:23-33, unraveling the intricacies of marital authority and the delicate dance of love and respect between husbands and wives. By examining the husband's role as a leader akin to Christ's headship over the church, we emphasize the importance of leadership infused with sacrificial love. We share the profound biblical principle that calls for husbands to lead with kindness and for wives to submit with reverence, highlighting how these virtues create a harmonious marital union.
Explore the scriptural principles that define the roles of men and women in a divinely ordained marriage. Through passages from Numbers 30 and 1 Timothy 2, we discuss the final decision-making authority of men and the significance of modesty and societal roles for women. Reflect on the creation story from Genesis and the divine purpose behind marriage, as we highlight the unique responsibilities of husbands and wives within this sacred partnership. This episode promises to provide a deeper understanding and appreciation of the biblical blueprint for marriage, offering guidance through scriptural revelation.
As we're looking at marriage and establishing the proper roles of the husband and wife. It's critical we understand that the feminist movement that started just before the Civil War with women like Susan B Anthony, took this attack onto a new level to destroy the family. Number one women getting the vote. Number two women abandoning modesty. Number three no-fault divorce. Number four women becoming career-oriented instead of home-oriented. Number five birth control and legalized abortion. For Christians, we know a woman's place is in the home. It's under the headship of her husband. Voting is a family affair, not an individual one. Divorce is not an option for those in covenant with God, birth control and abortion are leaving. The proper purpose of sex and modesty is for the guarding of what is proper and right. Without a proper understanding of these things, then, the truth is abandoned, the family is exposed to the attack of the enemy and the devil runs roughshod through our minds and homes and lives.
Speaker 1:Greetings Bible believers and followers of the End Time Message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason DeMars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, jason DeMars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If your host, jason DeMars, it's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word, if it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place Today. Brothers and sisters, we delve into the Scripture guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10-7 and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasondemarscom.
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Speaker 1:Everyone Thankful to be back on part two of this podcast on meaningful marriage. I just want to speak with everyone. This will be coming out just a few days from when I'm recording it and a few days after I record it I'm going to be traveling. I've got some travel coming up this month. I'll be going to Hagerstown, indiana, midweek, so by the time this is released I'll already have been there and then I'll be in Pennsylvania preaching there and then back home for a bit. Then I'll be out to Phoenix to preach and once I get back from Phoenix then I'll be going on a missions trip to Cambodia. So please remember me and the missions work in prayer. Greatly appreciate everyone standing with me and praying for me through all of these things. So also just want to mention you to those for the who review uh, have reviewed the podcast on apple podcasts. I saw that there are 21 five-star reviews. To those who are regular listeners on apple podcasts, please give me a review, give me your feedback, tell me what you appreciate, tell me what you don't appreciate. But it all helps with the algorithms and getting the podcast more widely known, also to those watching on YouTube. Please comment, please like, please subscribe. We greatly appreciate that. With that said, let's get into our podcast On.
Speaker 1:This time we're going to be looking as we've done before, but maybe from a different perspective, not merely a family perspective, but a marriage perspective, the order of the home and the order of the family. So first scripture we want to look at is Ephesians 5, 23. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Savior of the body, the church and he is the Savior of the body. Now, as Bible believers, we're not seeking to take culture and adjust the Bible to our culture, but rather we're seeking to adjust the culture to the Bible, our personal culture as individuals and our family culture, which then in large part has the impact upon the society as a whole.
Speaker 1:So husband is the head of the wife. This word head is kephale in Greek. It says metaphorically anything supreme, chief, prominent of persons, master, lord of a husband in relation to his wife, of Christ, the Lord of the husband and of the church. So the Bible makes it clear that the husband is the authority over his wife. God's first government that he has established is not a political government, it is a family government, and there is an order and there is an authority structure in the home. So the chief, the ruler, the lord of the family is the husband. He is again Christ is the head of the man, the man is the head. The husband is the head of the wife. So we can understand then that the authority of Christ is to come to the family through the husband, and so the husband is superior in position over the wife. Now, man and woman are equal in value in the sight of God, but in positionally, the man is superior over his wife. The wife is inferior in rank to her husband.
Speaker 1:Ephesians 5.24 says, therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. So it's not just in spiritual matters, but it is in everything, according to the Word of God. So this word subject is hupotaso In the Thayer's definition. It means to arrange under, to subordinate, to subject, put in subjection, to subject oneself, obey, to submit to one's control, to yield to one's admonition or advice, to obey and be subject. We see then, obviously, that the wife is inferior in rank to her husband. She's therefore to be subordinate to him, to submit to his leadership, admonition and advice. A key ingredient, then, in the woman's obedience, the wife's obedience to the Lord, is her obedience to her husband. If she does not obey her husband when her husband is exercising scriptural authority over her now, if he's telling her to go contrary to the Bible, she doesn't need to listen to what he says. But if he is exercising authority as her husband, then she is to obey and submit, as the scripture says. She's to submit in everything. She's to submit in everything. Let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Ephesians 5.25,.
Speaker 1:Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it. So husband is given the charge from God to love, or agapao, his wife. This is the same love that God has for us. Many times it's spoken of as divine love. It goes far beyond emotion, far beyond eros. It isn't lust, it isn't mere feeling, it is demonstrative love. Agapao means to show love, to demonstrate love, to take pleasure in, to love based upon its regarded value. So this love is having a true understanding of the value in the sight of God that your wife holds. Then, from there, it's understanding what love is which is demonstrated by Christ. How are we supposed to love our wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it? So there is a love that's demonstrated in such a way that you live for the benefit of your wife and you're willing to provide, protect and care for her, even unto death. So husbands are commanded to be the benefactors of the spiritual leaders, of the protectors and the providers for their wife. This is the command. It's all-encompassing. Christ loved and provided for his bride. Christ corrected his bride. Christ paid the price with his life for his bride. So it's not merely providing physical protection, but it's also providing emotional protection and spiritual protection for the wife.
Speaker 1:Wives are then called upon to obey and be subject to their husbands, just as the bride. The church is subject unto Christ, and so, as we look at this, I believe that these two things actually address exactly what the curse upon the woman speaks of in Genesis 3.16. Genesis 3.16 shows us that a woman will have the desire to rebel against her husband's authority. She will want to control her husband, and, on the other hand, it shows that a man, that a husband, will rule over his wife with harshness. Now the gospel brings redemption and puts these things in proper order.
Speaker 1:Husbands, love your wives. Don't rule over them with rigor. Wives submit to your husbands. Don't rebel against their authority. All right, then. Ephesians 5.33,. Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular, so love his wife as himself.
Speaker 1:So, again, this is speaking to what answers to the heart of a woman. Love your wife. That will meet the need that she has, even as your own self. And the wife, see that she reverence her husband. Husbands to love, provide all good things for his wife provide food, clothing, marital faithfulness in the marriage, bed, connection with her heart, to know her and to know how to meet her needs. How do you know how to meet someone's needs if you don't know them? Then, secondarily, for the wife, she's to submit to the leadership of her husband. This is how she will express her love to her husband with respect and reverence. So men spell love with respect, women spell love with love. And so then we can now begin in the marriage relationship. Then we can now begin in the marriage relationship, look back to the original creation and understand and find our purpose in life.
Speaker 1:Again, each of us have an individual calling within the body of Christ and an individual gifting in order how to function and provide in life. But at the broader sense, we know that he made man for a purpose and he made woman for a purpose, and these are similar but distinct purposes. Let's read Genesis 1, 26 through 28. And God said let us make man in our image and after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God created he him male and female, created he them. And within this we go forward to what the Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians, chapter 11, and he says that man is the image and glory of God and woman is the glory of man, and we'll see that later when Genesis 2 goes into the details of creation.
Speaker 1:The woman was taken out of the man, all right. So, however, both man and woman share in the image of God. But the woman is the glory of the man. She's taken out of man. So man is the reflection of God. Woman is to be the reflection of her husband, so she reflects his vision, his purpose, his character. Man reflects the vision, purpose and character of God. So the first purpose is over all of creation you have man and woman.
Speaker 1:Just because woman is under the headship of a man, under his leadership, doesn't lessen the fact that she is also to take dominion over all of the earth. She is the vice regent of a man, he is the king. She is the vice regent, she is the prime minister over all of creation Genesis 1.28,. Minister over all of creation Genesis 1.28,. And God blessed them and God said unto them Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. Again, it is not just a natural dominion, a political dominion, but it is both a spiritual and civil and and both a spiritual and civil and redemptional dominion over the earth that both man and woman are to take within the confines of the family. And the leadership in church and civil government and the family is all committed to men, and the woman is to reflect the leadership that is coming down from God into humanity. And so the twofold purpose of man is dominion and multiplication. So we see that right within this, god's purpose is a family, but a family submitted to the dominion of God, spread abroad upon the earth.
Speaker 1:And so Genesis 2.15, we find that the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden to dress it and to keep it. To dress means to work, to labor, keep it means to hedge about. That is to guard generally, to protect and to attend to. So the function of a man is to work and to guard. That's his purpose, that's his stated purpose. Then we go through that and it says it's not good for man to be alone, I'll make him and help meet. So he puts Adam to sleep, does the first surgery, takes a rib out. From that rib, creates Eve, takes that feminine spirit, puts it within her. Her purpose is to help the man in his purpose. So her purpose becomes a function of helping the man in his purpose to work and to guard. So she is his helper in this purpose. But further than that, she is called woman because she's taken out of man. Secondarily, he names her Eve because she's the mother of all living. Hava is Eve. That means living life giver. So she is to take the seed of man and to be the bedding grounds of the seed of man and multiply the man. So her purpose is all centered around the home and child bearing and rearing. This is the function of the woman. She is to be the man's helper Secondarily.
Speaker 1:Numbers chapter 30, when we find functionally in headship. The Bible shows this. I'm going to read just a few verses Numbers 30, verse 3,. Then all her vows shall stand and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand. But if her father disallow her, in the day that he heareth not any of her vows or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound, her soul shall stand and the Lord shall forgive her because her father shall disallow her. And if she had it all in husband when she vowed, or uttered out of her lips, where she hath bound her soul, and her husband heard it and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it, then her vow shall stand and her bonds, wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand. But if her husband does allow her on the day that he heard it, then he shall make her vow which he vowed and that which he uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect, and the Lord shall forgive her. But every vow of a widow or of hership is that the decision-making factor in a family, and over both a daughter and a wife, is the husband or father. And so we can understand, as we look at this, that it is a man's role to be the final decision maker. He is not to, even if he submits the decision to his wife or daughter. Ultimately God is looking at his. He didn't say anything, so her vow stands, and this is not only vows unto the Lord, but this is decisions in both public and private affairs, and this is critical that this be understood properly. All right Now.
Speaker 1:1 Timothy 2, 9 through 15, in like manner that women all adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety. Modest apparel the word apparel is the word katastole. It's a twofold word that means letting down and also dress. So when it's speaking of modest apparel it's speaking of a modest long dress. And we can find from the Old Testament word katastole that this is always something that goes down below the knees and sometimes down to the ankles. So a modest long dress always goes below the knees and it's to be characterized by shamefacedness and sobriety. Shamefacedness speaks of shyness, sobriety speaks of modesty. Not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array. This is speaking of a very specific mode of dress, mode of doing their hair. They would weave gold and pearls within their hair to show off their wealth. Perfectly fine for sisters to braid their hair, but Paul is saying don't do it so ostentatiously. But Paul is saying don't do it so ostentatiously, verse 10, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works? Her clothing and her outward appearance should be what accompanies godliness.
Speaker 1:Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection. But I suffer, not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. So a woman should not take authority over the man in the home, in the church or in civil society, in politics. For Adam was first formed, then Eve, and the Bible even says that a curse upon a nation is when children and women rule over them. For Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Speaker 1:So Paul says the reason why a woman is not to lead is twofold because of creation and because of the fall. Because of the nature of a woman, she is more easily deceived than a man. Therefore she should not be in a position of leadership. She is designed to be led. She's designed with the purpose of 1 Peter 3 says that what God wants to see in a woman is a meek and quiet spirit. Meek does not mean weak. Meek means that she is able to be led by another. So God designed the woman to be in a position. An expression of the feminine ideal that God created is meekness. All right. So creation order demands that the man is the leader and, further than that, god's design for the woman is meekness and therefore she is more easily deceived and therefore should not be in a position of leadership Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Speaker 1:Again, man, woman, just as man, is saved by grace, through faith. That not of ourselves, but it's the gift of god, not of works, lest any man should boast. But then it goes on, for we are his workmanship, created in christ jesus, unto good works which god hath before ordained that we should walk in them. One of the good works that a woman is ordained to is childbearing, and her design and her purpose is in the whole process of childbearing and childrearing. So what the apostle is saying if she lives a godly life and she follows after what she's created to do, if she continues in faith and charity and holiness, she'll be saved. Now, that's not what saves her, but that is the outward adorning of her salvation. So again, the twofold reason why a woman should be under headship Adam was first form.
Speaker 1:Secondarily, a woman is more easily deceived, and this implication is not just on Eve, it's on every other woman to follow. That is based on her designed nature by God. She is to be meek. God desires for her to be meek and for her to be quiet. It doesn't mean she can't talk. It doesn't mean she can't give her husband feedback. A wise man would take the female understanding and approach to things and process her desire for empathy and equality and fairness. Man should take the female thought and not just process it directly and go to the female way. This is what liberal-minded people do. No, he should take what she says with a male understanding so that he can lead and have a vision for things properly to function by the goodness and by truth. Titus 2, 3-5,.
Speaker 1:The aged women likewise. That they be in behaviors that cometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet chaste keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. That the word of God be not blasphemed. So this is the instructions. Aged women and mothers need to be instructors. They need to be teachers of Christian living specific to their sphere at home. Children should be taught basic Bible stories and ABCs of the Bible at home by their mother as a helper to the father Cannot be fully surrendered to the mother to teach the children.
Speaker 1:Ephesians 6.4 shows it's the first duty of the father. It's clear a woman should never teach a man in doctrine and thus taking authority over him. 1 Peter 3, 1-2 shows that the wives should win their husbands without the word, using her conduct and character, how she lives as a believer. 1 Timothy 5, 14 says I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. So we find, then, that a woman's place is in the home. Her place is surrounding the home atmosphere.
Speaker 1:I do believe that the very best thing for a home and for a family is for a mother to be homeschooling the children, not just in some school curriculum, but teaching them what their function is in life from the Bible. Teaching the Bible, teaching them how to read. This is the function of the home. In fact, fathers are directly told in Deuteronomy 6 and Ephesians 6.4 that instruction is for them to do for their families, and of course the wife is the helper in this process. So education is never to be submitted to the state. It is to be a family affair. Raise up your children in the way that they should go. Train up the child in the way they should go when they're old they'll not depart from it. It's not only spiritual things, but it's natural things as well, and we have to get back to the home being this sphere for the woman.
Speaker 1:Career, women and women going after a career is totally unscriptural thing. It is totally outside of the realms of scripture. We should not be in a position where we're pushing our young girls towards a career. We should be pushing them towards being a wife, being a mother, being in the home. This is her sphere. And if she wants to have some kind of work that doesn't interfere with the home life and that is out of the home, this is ideal.
Speaker 1:But women working outside of the home Brother Branham says that he's not a big advocate of that and I can testify myself that it totally changes the atmosphere. When I was younger and didn't understand things fully, my wife was working in a bank and the atmosphere that was around her admittedly by her was very different than what it is now being a housewife. And this should be our vision, this should be our direction. As young men, you should be working with all your might to set things up so that your wife or future wife will not have to work outside of the home anymore. Her place is in the home. This is biblical. When we're training our kids, we should follow what the Apostle Paul says and what he instructs even Titus to instruct the aged women Bear children, be a keeper at home. Younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, and when we get out of order, it gives occasion for the adversary to speak reproachfully. Now, as we look at this, we looked at Genesis 1, 26 through 28,.
Speaker 1:God's purpose for marriage is to be a direct reflection of his purpose and nature, and not only that, but to multiply that purpose and nature. Husband and wife together are the expression of the invisible God and his nature. So in our original creation we find our original purpose Be image bearers, be fruitful and multiply that image. Take dominion over everything. And then we can find what the function of the family and the primary mission of the family is, not merely to go on trips together, watch Netflix together, be entertained together. It's about spreading and multiplying the dominion of Christ to all the world, and I believe that family is the primary means. Having a fruitful marriage means bearing children and raising them in a way that they are growing into image bearers and dominion spreaders as well. That's our first and primary mission is taking dominion over the earth. We are set over that and in turn multiplying ourselves so that image spreads out over the face of the earth. Husband's duty is to be the teacher of the family so that image continues, not just merely an outward image, but the nature from within is expressing and manifesting the invisible God.
Speaker 1:The primary role of husbands is not merely physically fathering children visible God. The primary role of husbands is not merely physically fathering children, but also to train them in the ways of God. And what a very functional Christian life is. Boys are raised to be heads of homes, daughters are raised to be the homemaker and the helper of a man in a home. Genesis 2, 23 and 24, and we see then that dominion and multiplication are at the center of the marriage relationship.
Speaker 1:If we try to separate the purpose of God for marriage into just a relationship of two people, we miss the biblical vision. This is the primary relationship within the family. Now God places within us a desire and a delight in the oneness we can have in our body, in our spirit, in our soul, as a man and a woman. It is a Christian faith oneness, it is a mental and emotional oneness, but it's also a physical, sexual oneness that we share, and that oneness. Then out of that oneness we are to produce children who are growing and prepared to reflect that same purpose in their lives. In doing that, we're fruitful, multiplying and taking dominion.
Speaker 1:Now, it's not merely by war, colonialism, sending missionaries off to preach the gospel that this dominion spreads. Of course it does, but its primary means is through Christian families multiplying themselves. The preaching saves them, establishes them, and some go forth into the world. But we cannot lose track of the fact that God is seeking to create godly families that multiply from this work, and men need to be trained and taught to lead their families properly. It's not just an individual affair, but it is a marriage and family affair. So then, what is the purpose of God for marriage? It's oneness. Oneness, multiplying and taking dominion. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. God's purpose is oneness. God's plan for marriage is multiplying that oneness. Once we realize this purpose and this plan, then we can see its direct connection to the gospel mandate Dominion must spread, dominion must spread.
Speaker 1:And when we look at scripture, it says even in a marriage where the wife or the husband is not a believer. Just one of them is a believer. It says, even under that condition, that the children are holy. So even in that place, there's a promise to the children that he'll save you and your household. And so when we look at this, of course they need to come to faith and they need to come to water, baptism and they need to come to the new birth. God has no grandchildren, but those within the function of a Christian household are growing up under a covenant relationship that's being modeled and the atmosphere is one where the seed of God in the soul can be quickened to life. So when we realize, the function of oneness in a marriage produces fruitfulness right. So a man that's properly leading and loving his wife, a wife that's properly submitting and reverencing her husband, will produce a beautiful multiplication that takes place Now and then.
Speaker 1:Within that, of course there's functions within marriage, and Scripture in the very beginning shows that the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden and there he put the man whom he had formed, and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads, and the name of the first is pison, that which, that is, it which can pass at the whole land of havela, where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good and there is Bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon. The same is it that which compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hidikel, that is it which goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
Speaker 1:And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. So we see, the man was created first. He was given a commission. He was to dress and to keep the garden, he was to work and guard it. So working and guarding are the primary functions of men. Then he is immediately told there's a danger, and that's the tree of knowledge. This command is given for Adam to begin his work of guarding Verse 18,.
Speaker 1:And the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him and help meet for him. And out of the ground, the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, it was the name thereof, and Adam gave names to all the cattle and to the fowl of the air and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found and help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept and he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man made he a woman and brought her unto the man. Adam said this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore, shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and they both were naked, and the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. So out of all of creation, we find that man was alone and that it was not good. This was the only thing that was not good, and this was illustrating a point Man's aloneness was not good. So God then says I will make a helper suitable for him. He creates the animals. Then God brings the animals before Adam to name them. Naming power clearly gives him dominion over them.
Speaker 1:God then performs the first surgery, opens up Adam's side, takes out the rib, makes the woman. Woman is taken out of the man, out the rib, makes the woman. Woman is taken out of the man. Woman's source is the man. She was not taken out of his head to rule over him. She was not taken out of his feet to be trampled by him. She's taken out of his side. Why? To demonstrate she is to be next to him. She is to be his helper and his companion.
Speaker 1:Then Adam names the woman. Naming gives authority over. So Adam has authority over and primacy over that which he names. In this case it is the woman. Ish is man, isha out of man is woman. So God in the beginning demonstrates that woman is the companion of man. Esha, out of man is woman. So God in the beginning demonstrates that woman is the companion of man, but that she is also under his authority and she is to be his helper. They're both naked, not ashamed. They're walking in oneness and it's God who is the originator of marriage. God made the covenant they shall be one flesh. But then, after the fall, adam names Eve again, genesis 3.20,.
Speaker 1:Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was the mother of all living. So two things express God's function for the woman. So two things express God's function for the woman she's taken out of man companion under authority, and she is the mother of all living. So then we find man is to guard and to keep, woman is to help, she is to be his companion under his authority and she is to be the bedding grounds of the seed of life. So then we find man is the decision maker in the family and his wife is his companion and his chief advisor, his lover and his best friend. But he must be the decision maker.
Speaker 1:A father and a husband has the right to disallow any decisions his wife or daughter make, even a promise to God that she makes as an individual, a husband or a father, can invalidate that. So man is the head, the leader, the decision maker for his companion and for his children. Decision maker for his companion and for his children. Woman is the helper, companion, child bearer and nurturer. In this relationship and as we read in Titus 2, 4, and 5, a woman is to be, she's to love her husband and children, she is to bear children, she is to live a life of holiness and modesty and she is to be a keeper of the house. God's function and plan for men is to love and lead their wife, train their children for the godly function in life and to protect their family. God's purpose for marriage is oneness. God's plan for marriage is multiplied dominion. The functions within marriage are different between husband and wife for carrying out of this plan.
Speaker 1:And as I look at this, I have to comment and understand much of the modern material that is produced about marriage in the denominations, whether it be James Dobson, whether it be family, life is a modified egalitarianism. It is operating out of the function that men and women have equal roles. Though they give lip service to the headship of man, they do not give the proper biblical function to manhood. The fact is within modern Christianity today, we have three different viewpoints. We have a patriarchy, patriarchal viewpoint, we have a complementarian viewpoint and we have an egalitarian viewpoint. And I believe that the complementarian is seeking to find a balance between the Bible and modern culture, and it's an error. The Bible presents a very clear patriarchy, but it is a patriarchy of love. It's a patriarchy of the man as a benefactor.
Speaker 1:There is no place within the Scripture that we see that the normal function of a civil society would have a woman as a leader. In all places in Scripture we see that men are to be the leaders in the home, in the church and in the government. And so, of course, there's two exceptional circumstances that put Deborah and the woman that was advising Joab not to destroy a city in Israel. And so these are exceptional cases, and we even find in Scripture I believe it's in the book of Isaiah that God says that it is a curse over a country or a city or a state to have women or children ruling over them. So, yes, in exceptional circumstances a woman could be a ruler. Another place where you find, if it's a hereditary monarchy and there is no sons in the family, you could have a queen that marries a man and he becomes the prince of the country, but she is the ruler you could find under these exceptional circumstances. We find that even in the Bible as well, but it's only under exceptional circumstances. Under normal circumstances you would have, and especially if there's a situation where there's voting that takes place under some form of democracy or republic or parliamentary system, men should be the ones that are ruling over the country and voting should be a family affair, not and it should be and even if we find those that own property that have a say in how the function of society should work, this is the biblical way.
Speaker 1:Having access to legalized abortion, legalized chemical-based birth control, having no-fault divorce these things are a curse upon society. The Bible does not allow for no-fault divorce. The Bible shows clearly that there's only one case of divorce that can be done. Of course, we understand also adultery, abandonment. Paul speaks about willful abandonment, and willful abandonment and adultery are the only occasions for divorce in the Bible. At one time in American history you had to demonstrate who was at fault and you had to prove that in fact a sin allowing for divorce had taken place.
Speaker 1:Birth control is an evil. You're seeking to have sexual relations without the consequences of sexual relations outside of the marriage covenant. Sex outside of a God-ordained marriage covenant is a sin. That is only an act for a husband and wife after they've been joined together in a covenant before Almighty God. Anything outside of that is a perversion. And to take and abort, they call it abortion, but it's murder. To murder an unborn baby is a grievous sin. Both the doctor and the woman who performs this should be punished for murder. And for a man that fathers a child and doesn't take responsibility, he should also be punished for fornication. If he's had sex outside of marriage, there is a punishment for this. He must take financial responsibility for that woman, for that child. According to the Bible, he must be required to marry her unless the father refuses to allow her to be married.
Speaker 1:But in a just society we would follow the word of God in these circumstances. In these situations and as husbands, as preachers, we aren't required merely to follow the law of the land. We must follow the moral law. Now, of course we can't mete out corporal punishment, we can't run our own jails and so forth. So, of course, within the confines of what we're allowed to do, but as men and as people in the church, we should require that God's word be followed and we should have no shame about that.
Speaker 1:The Bible shows forth a patriarchal society and, as men of God, we're the first line of government for our families to make sure that things are being followed and, whether it be in courtship and marriage and meeting out the proper biblical punishment and consequences within our family, we must take the authority to do that. To do that, paul shames the Corinthian church for not judging in even small matters regarding defrauding one another. He says we should do that as Christians. And so, as we're looking at marriage, we understand that this is the first line of government. The husband is the leader and the wife is the helper and chief advisor, companion, best friend and lover of the man. And it's a patriarchal functionary, but not within the realm of manipulation, control, anger, beating, threats. No, this is weakness, but leadership, headship, authority, love taking the proper place. And I've found for myself, once I learned the scriptural mandates to be a decision maker for my home and to look at my home, that I need to be the benefactor and provider for all good things for my wife and children. It totally changed our relationship, totally changed the atmosphere of our home. I believe it'll do the same for you.
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