Making Womanhood Great Again

The home is either being built or quietly torn down, and Proverbs 14:1 refuses to let us stay neutral. I pick up our series on biblical womanhood with a direct claim: God is not demoting women, He is restoring them to their throne in the home, where faith, peace, and character are formed. We work through what Scripture actually says about womanhood, Christian marriage, modesty, and why a wise woman’s work is central to the strength of a family and the stability of a culture.

I also trace a biblical critique of the feminist movement and the long trail of changes it celebrates: breaking the oneness of the household, erasing gender roles, normalising immodesty, and weakening permanence through divorce culture and sexual autonomy. I connect that cultural story to the Bible’s warnings about the contentious spirit, the desire to control, and the way rebellion inside the home doesn’t stay private but shapes sons and daughters for the next generation.

From there we turn to a constructive vision grounded in Proverbs 31: a virtuous wife who works hard, plans ahead, manages resources, teaches with kindness, and fears the Lord. I talk about practical, home-centred ways a woman can be industrious without surrendering her primary stewardship of children and household life, including modern options for a home business. If you care about biblical womanhood, Christian family values, and restoring God’s order in the end time message lens I preach from, this is a focused place to start.

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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 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 jasondemars.com. With that said, let's get into today's podcast. Welcome to the Jason Demars Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. We're going to continue on our subject, looking at Biblical Womanhood. And I'm going to title today's Making Womanhood Great Again. I got some feedback last time and greatly appreciate that. I'm always welcoming feedback, whether it be positive or negative. I appreciate it both ways. And I I think the the glorious the glorious truth of womanhood is a very important thing for us to understand. We live in a time where you're comparing things because the world does things a certain way, and Christians do are according to the Bible, should do things differently. And so it becomes a little bit of a confusion when people are seeing the correction made. They think we're demoting or uh putting women down or or something to that effect. And the reality is much, it's actually uh we're putting woman back on her throne and and demoting her from her fallen condition and promoting her uh back to her true kingdom, which is in the home. Proverbs 14:1 says this every wise woman buildeth her house. That's the first part, first half, and I want to emphasize that portion. That's gonna be we're gonna go into history and comparing the truth with error, but that's what I want that to be my focus. Every wise woman buildeth her house, and that's wonderful because that's where her domain is, is her home. And this idea that woman doesn't work, that's not scriptural. It's very clear that a woman works, but the scripture makes it clear that her sphere is in the home with her serving her husband, being his helper, leading and directing the household leading and teaching and establishing the character of Christ in the hearts of her children. So every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands is the last part. So the foolish woman tears her own house down with her own hands, and we see that today, women trying to be a mother and to be a boss babe or working in the office, whatever she's trying to do outside of the home. As much as she's trying to build it up, she's actually plucking it down because she's not, she's refusing to be in the position and place that God has ordained for her. C.S. Lewis says this in one of his personal letters. I think I can understand that feeling about a housewife's work being like that of Sisyphus, who is the stone rolling gentleman. But it is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government, etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? As Dr. Johnson said, to be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. First, to be happy, to prepare for being happy in our own real home hereafter. Second, in the meantime, to be happy in our houses. We wage war in order to have peace. We work in order to have leisure, we produce food in order to eat it. So your job is the one for which all others exist. So a woman's job is to produce food, to have a peaceful, to produce, to, to make a peaceful home, to feed her family, to make a home, and so that all the other jobs exist so the housewife can do her job. And so we look at this, and really when when we can can find just the core of it, is God designed a woman and her sphere to be uh in the home, and her work is surrounding the home. And so feminism is the history of the destruction of the feminine spirit, not the uplifting and the building of the feminine spirit, but the tearing down of the feminine spirit. So, in in the feminist movement, in a very real way, is anti-feminine. The feminist movement has wanted to make women more like men, of which they're unfit to be. So it's been a slow process of degrading, uh, starting with the original feminist movement. We're gonna look at that a little bit. You're gonna say, We've looked at this so many times, Brother Jason. We're gonna continue to look at it and continue to teach. That's what teaching does, is it slowly, step by step, establishes the word in your heart. So feminism attacked the foundation of society, that the female was designed to be under the headship and protection of the male, and that her sphere was in and over the home. The first feminist framed it that it's wrong for a woman to be the property of a man, and that must change. It's wrong for women to not be able to own property. It said it's wrong for women to not have the right to vote. And these very things began the erosion of Western society. When a woman received the right to vote, it meant no more that husband and wife were one, it meant husband and wife were two. See, originally it wasn't about suppressing women, it was about the household having a vote. And if you go back even further in American society, it was it was designed that the head of household, male head of household voted, and he had to be a property owner. And so this is was kind of the foundation of society, and when that was taken away, uh the rest of society fell fell with it because it destroyed the oneness in marriage and in family. So the these eroded Western Christian society. Next, then they went to the fight for equal rights and free sexual expression. Now they are fighting for the right to erase all gender roles whatsoever and to redefine what gender is, but looking like society has not accepted that as a whole. And though you have some massive corporations that have stayed that way, the federal government isn't going that way under Trump. And most of society is saying this is not common sense. This is insane. However, we're far, far away from being restored to Christian values. The nation ceased to follow Christian values long ago, and it's the champion of anti-Christian values, sets up a whole society built upon the foundation of destroying God's order. Now the woman has a right to vote. She has a right to work outside the home. She's got a right to wear bikinis and yoga pants. She's got a right to go to the health club and work out right next to men. She's got a right to cut her hair, to wear makeup. She's got a right to go to the same schools as a man. It used to be that there were specific spheres meant for a man. When man wanted to go swimming, he went swimming. There was no women around. When a woman wanted to go swimming, she went swimming, there was no men around. Now we have mixed bathing everywhere, you can't get around it. It used to be that a young man unmarried woman could not be in the presence of a young man without chaperone. Polite society designated it that way because of Christian values. It used to be where a man knew his job was to protect his wife and daughters, and a woman knew it was her job to take care of her husband and her family. But now all respect and honor, modesty, and wisdom of the ages past has been thrown in the trash can, and as a result, we have a pornographic, violent, dishonorable, dangerous, and evil culture that's reached the place where they're saying women who are joining the pornography industry, they're saying women are empowered by joining the porn industry. What a perversion. Woe unto them that call evil good and good evil. It's the breakdown of the family unit started with the feminist movement. The feminists sought to transform society from a community of families to a focus on individualism. And this started with an open attack on the Word of God by women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Women that are spoken of as heroes. I believe that they're the opposite of that. When women understand, this is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions, the Bible says otherwise, that Bibles, prayer books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man. So this was the start of feminism. It started as an attack openly against the Word of God. And this began with working towards giving getting women the right to vote, the right to own property, and instead of voting being a family affair, it then went to be an individual affair. And the rise of progressivism and liberalism is directly attached to women getting the vote. The backbone of the progressive movement is women and then men who submit themselves to those women. Once woman had the vote, she had the autonomy to throw away male headship and also the protection of male headship as the deciding factor in her life. From there, the next realm of attack was on personal modesty and the rise of new Hollywood celebrities modeling new fashions like cropping the hair, wearing makeup, and wearing pants. That slowly became the norm through Hollywood and through the entertainment industry. Then after that, feminists sought to allow for no fault divorce. It was once in every Christian country that adultery, abuse, or abandonment had to be proven and fault had to be laid at one party in order for it to be allowed. When this was torn away, then divorce rates skyrocket rocketed. At one time in Christian nations, in America, in Britain, in Germany, if you wanted to divorce your spouse and you said it's just uh we don't get along anymore, the judge would say, Get out of here, work, go and work it out. All right. So next thing to come on was the birth control pill, which destroys the proper function of the female body, and then leads to, of course, sex without consequences, which by the way is a very unhealthy thing, and it leads to many other mental and physical disorders, just so you can defile your body with any man that comes your way. Absolutely disgusting. It also bypasses God's purpose and function for marriage. Instead of looking at God's will and saying, We'll have as many children as the Lord will guide us to, we now want to keep this number down as much as possible. Then, along with birth control came legalized abortion. Wicked women have always sought to destroy their children in order to not have the consequences of their lewd sexual behavior. But legalizing it and now neither punishing the doctor or the woman, you have perverted a society that votes for someone based on whether they allow you to murder your unborn child or not. Again, this has come to the point where it's the total breakdown of the family unit and the degradation of the feminine purpose that God has assigned for women. Feminism is an open attack against the Christian faith, and it has always leads to liberalization and the degradation of society. It should be treated as an enemy to be fought against by all true believers, preached against by all true gospel ministers, and the truth of the godly family should be upheld, taught, encouraged, and rejoiced in. As we read through the book of Proverbs, we find that sons are encouraged to listen to the teaching of their mother. We find that wisdom is personified as a female, a godly woman of wisdom. She cries out in the streets, and those gathered in the city gates, and calls to the simple ones to listen to her advice and correction. Proverbs is advises, on the other hand, Proverbs advises young men to stay away from a seductive and promiscuous woman. Don't listen to her words, don't stop to speak with her, and never enter into her house. Though the lips of a wicked woman are sweet as honey, in the end she is bitter as poison and dangerous as a double-edged sword. She leads you to the grave. Stay away from the ungodly, immodest girl or woman. And so built into our fallen system is the desire for the woman to rule over the man. This is this is the very function and purpose of feminism is they didn't want equal rights, they wanted to rule over the man. Genesis 3 16 in the NLT says, Then God said to the woman, I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth, and you're you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you. So her desire, her and her innate sinful desire is that she would rule over her husband. As we read before, every wise woman builds her house. So there's a way that she can build her house, and there's a way she can tear down her house. And and Proverbs speaks about it. By her nature and character of wanting to control her husband, she can end up pulling down and destroying her house instead of building it. That's a bad example to her children, to her daughters, to her sons. It creates resentment in the sons because the sons will see right through how she's treating their father, and they will resent her, and this will bring problems in the future in their life. Either they will resent her or they will learn to become good, obedient, passive men. And so there's more to a woman's misbehavior than just her own answering to God, but it goes further than that, and it will be passed on. The daughters will become learn to become controlling women, and the sons will learn to be passive men. So, husbands, it suits us well not to allow our high wives to walk all over us. We need to have boundaries, we need to set boundaries, and we need to say, This kind of behavior is not going to be allowed towards me. You'll treat me with respect, and we will live and walk and lead in such a way that she will respect us. Proverbs 11 22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair m woman which is without discretion. So it's like flipping it backside down back back back backwards is a fair woman without discretion means that sh that the in the important part she's ugly. But in this little small, insignificant part, she's beautiful. A jewel of gold and a swine snout, there's this little thing. Oh, that's pretty, but it's a s it's on a s it's on a dirty old pig. And you can say that a woman without character, that's beautiful. Yeah, it's a it's that's a nice jewel, but it's a nice jewel and a pig. And you say that's that's rude. That's what the Bible says. The main focus would be on her character. It's uh Proverbs twenty-one nine, it's better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than with a brawling woman and a wide house. Proverbs twenty-one nineteen, it's better to dwell in the wilderness than with a contentious and an angry woman. Proverbs twenty-five, twenty-four, it's better to dwell in the corner of the house top than with a brawling woman and a wide house. Proverbs twenty-seven, fifteen and sixteen, a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand which berayeth himself. And then I'm going to read verse sixteen in the NLT. Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind or trying to hold something with greased hands. So things that God doesn't want to see in women. He doesn't want to see her lacking discernment about what is right or right and wrong, and he doesn't want to see her angry or manipulative, always ready to argue with her husband in order to get her own way. Those are things that God does not like, and it's the opposite of the nature that he's calling upon her to have. Very familiar scriptures. We've covered them multiple times in this series, but being that some people will not have listened to this yet, I want to go over them again. Ephesians 5 22 through 24. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 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. Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Colossians three eighteen, wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord. But let it be the hidden man of the heart, let the adornment be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. First Timothy two, eleven and twelve, but 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. First Corinthians fourteen, thirty-four and thirty-five. Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. And if they will learn anything, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is a shame for women to speak in the church. So God calls a woman not to be in a position of authority over the man. She is a pos in a position of authority over the household and over the children, but she is not ever to be in a position of authority over the man. I believe that goes in even into the political sphere, the public sphere, where it's Isaiah chapter 3 says that a nation under God's curse are is ruled by children and by women. And so woman is to be submissive to her own husbands, she's to be subordinate under his authority, and she's to be subject. She's to not adorn herself with a loud and stubborn spirit, but to adorn herself with a meek and quiet spirit. A meek means that she is willing to be led. And qu and quiet speaks of there they're being a gentle. And a kindness, not a loud and boisterous. She's to learn in silence and to be under obedience. So God's desire for a woman is for her to be wise, faithful, modest, companion. She's a she's created as a companion to complete man because the Bible said it's not good that man would be alone. I'll make him and help meat for him. So she's providing companionship to the man. She's discreet. That means she has discernment and she judges critically of what is correct and proper. She's respectful, she's obedient, she's quiet, and she's meek. She's not stubborn, she's not loud, she's not trying to take control of everything. And these are qualities that can be developed through correction, prayer, and the transforming power of the word in the Holy Spirit. And it's not just up to the wife to develop them. As a husband, you have a role to take, to teach and to instruct your wife and to bring correction to her. Brother Branham speaks about that. In the choosing of a bride, Brother Branham says, For me, I'd not take that pretty thing up on top of the hill. I'd take this character down here as a real homemaker, somebody that loved me and stayed with me, somebody that tried to make a home and not bleeding you for everything, for fineries, and somebody that was with you, part of you. Amen. So that's his story about the rich couple that was fussing at each other up on the top of the hill, and that little couple that was living in a train car down by the river, there they they were genuinely loving each other. She was trying to take whatever he brought and make it into a home, and he was trying to do everything he can to meet her need, to try to get her the dress that she wanted and so forth. And the ones up on the top of the hill were fussing and fighting over dancing and parties and so forth. Brother Branham says this, well, everyone thinks about their mother, you know. I think Mother, the good, true mother, is the fifth gospel. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Mother. Mother gets them first. That's the one who brings them up first, is Mother. And in the True Easter Seal, Brother Branham says, They're little treasures that God has given you the responsibility of raising. And I've always said and made this kind of a saying to mothers. We know written of four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, but there is a fifth gospel unwritten, that's mother. She gets them before Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John's teachings get them. So the responsibility is placed upon you mothers and you fathers to raise these children for the kingdom of God, and I'm sure that's your heart's desire. So a mother is to be an expression of the Word of God to her children. She is to be teaching them and instructing them in character. There's as children grow, as they're toddlers, as they're little, they're learning boundaries. They're learning what's good and acceptable behavior and false and wrong behavior. And so, in that correction, many times either father's outside of the home or he's he's outworking and he's not there. And mother's there to have to correct the children when they're when they're having outbursts of anger or when they're not listening to instructions, when there's times for uh spankings and uh correction like this, mother is taking the time to instruct them and teach them on good behavior, uh, on speaking good words and positive words and creating that right atmosphere in the relationship, the atmosphere of instruction and overseership of the children. And so her her character molds the character of the children. And so this is this is an incredible purpose and plan that God has for women. Literally, every every preacher in the message was raised by a godly mom. I guess there could be exceptions to that, but literally every one of every man that's ever amounted to anything, he was raised by a mother who ra took care of him, provided for his needs, and he as a result would have nothing but the utmost respect for women because of his mother. Proverbs 31. And again, any of this absolutely none of this is speaking down on women or tearing them down or or putting them in a position where they're not of value and of honor. Real men honor their wives and mothers and daughters, and they they create an atmosphere for their wives and daughters where they can thrive as much as is possible within their human ability, that they can literally thrive and fulfill the God-given purpose that they have. Proverbs 31, 10. I want to take some time to dwell on Proverbs 31. And I'm gonna be reading from the NLT. Many times the NLT helps me to understand Proverbs when it can be a little bit difficult to grasp what's being said. So we're just gonna go from that. Though I prefer the King James Version, this just helps me to get uh get to the depths uh more quickly. Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies, huh? So placing a great value. So a good wife, you wouldn't want to take her for granted. You don't take for granted precious rubies. You know, people go and they dig deep in the earth and they they they make great bulwarks and and dig deep and bring down all kinds of equipment to find rubies. And so this is how we should view that. You know, if you're not if you're a young man looking for a wife, this is how you should treat it. You should you not just any cute girl that comes by, but finding a virtuous and capable wife. She's prepared to be a wife, she's prepared to take care of a home, and she's virtuous, she's godly. She's modest, she's feeding on the word of God. She speaks about godly things, she has godly boundaries, she's she's f taking care of the the three sacred trusts in her life. Verse 11 her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life. Amen. So she's going to multiply what he brings to her. So the husband's working and he's pro he's the provider. As we we saw Genesis 2.15, the duties of man are to work and to guard, and so he's guarding her and he's working to supply her with the needs she has in the home so she can enrich him. So he can trust her because she's she's a wise woman. She's wise, she's faithful, she loves the Lord with all her heart. She wants to put Christ first no matter what, so the husband can trust her. She brings him, verse 12, she brings him good, not harm all the days of her life. So this is a woman who is, she's not being selfish. She's not looking and seeing, this is all the things that I'm missing in my life, and my husband's a good for nothing, blah, blah, blah. She's re- recognizing that her husband is working hard for her to provide for her needs and to enable her to be at home. So she she brings him good. She she cooks for him, she cleans for him, she does his laundry, she she desires him, she expresses that desire towards him, and she gives him a place of peace when he comes home, not a place of nagging. She finds wool and flax and busily spins it. See, she's working. What is she where is she working? At home. She finds wool and flax and busily spins it. She is like a merchant's ship bringing her food from afar. She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plans the day's work for her servants' girl. So it's scriptural for a woman to get up early and to make breakfast for her house and plan the day's work for her servants' girl. So this is a woman who is in charge of a household. So she's over the maids, she's over the the the she's over the function of the house. So she's making sure it's cleaned, she's making sure the fireplaces are are taken care of. She's overseeing the people that are doing the work. So she's got a she's got a house cleaner. Nothing wrong, brothers, with hiring a house cleaner to help your wife. She's energetic, she goes to inspect a field and buys it with her earnings. She plants a vineyard. So her husband gives her the direction go look at this field over here, see if we want to buy it. She inspects it. It's a good field. Uh she buys it. And sh with with her earnings, what are her earnings from? From wool and flax, spinning wool and flax. Right? With her earnings, she she plants a vineyard. So this is this is a home business. This is a home farm. She's working, she's a part of it. This looks like she's a vice president of a family corporation. She is energetic and strong, a hard worker. Hmm. Amen. She's a hard worker. She's just not at home eating bonbons and relaxing and watching movies and reading romantic novels. No, she's a hard worker. When she's at home, she's working hard, overseeing the business of the household. She makes sure her dealings are profitable. Her lamp burns late into the night. Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber. She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy. She has no fear of winter for her household, for everyone has warm clothes. She makes her own bedspreads. She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns. Her husband is well known in the city gates where he sits with the other civic leaders. She makes belted linen garments and sashes to sell to the merchants. Excuse me. So she has a home business. She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. Why? Because she prepares for it and she has faith in the God who's in the future, who knows the future. When she speaks, her words are wise. How can she speak and her words are wise? Why she's she's feeding on the word. She's feeding on the word. She's reading the scripture. Her husband is taking time. They're discussing it and talking about the word. And she gives instructions with kindness. So she instructs her servant girls and she instructs her children with kindness, not with annoyance, not with bluster, not with boldness, not with loudness. With a meek and quiet spirit, she gives instructions with kindness. She carefully watches over everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. Amen. The Bible says this is the expression of what Paul is meaning when he says that women should be keepers at home. Now you could say, how in the world am I going to do this? I've got homeschooling to do, and I've got all the personal responsibilities, and now I need to start a home business. Well, understand this this was living in an era where this is a family that has a farm. They have flax, they're growing flax, and she's uh making uh linen garments out of that flax. She has a vineyard, no doubt. They have animals around. So this is a what we would call uh land-owning farmers, and so they own the land and they're farming and they're involved in the entire process of production at that place, and it always was this way. Now we have it such where men are working in offices and wives are at home. I would say this: when the children are young, focus your time, focus your time on raising the children, doing homeschool with the children, getting them involved, you know, getting them involved in music and in also in physical activities that are godly so that your your children are very involved. As they grow and they need less involvement, start a home business. Start sourcing clothes from the goodwill and selling them on eBay and Poshmark. Start a baking business, start a catering business, do something out of your home, but have it centered around the home and don't let it be something where it takes away from your responsibility with your over your uh children, your household, and your husband. She carefully watches over everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness. Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her. There are many virtuous women and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all. She's under the headship of her husband. She is obedient and submissive to him, but she has a job and she has a purpose and she has a function in her home. Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last, but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised. We reward her for all she has done, let her deeds publicly declare her praise. So this is a working woman, but not a working woman outside of the home. Working woman whose work revolves around the home. She's a hard worker, she rises up early, makes prepares breakfast and prepares meals for her home. She plans ahead and makes sure that her pantry is full. She looks forward from season to season to make sure that her family has the proper bedding, that has the proper clothing for each season. And she watches over everything in the household. She makes sure that it's in a good condition. As a husband, you would, with all your heart, desire to provide her with the proper budget to get everything she needs to get done as she as she manages the household. Right. So this is a glorious work and a glorious place that God calls the woman to. A woman is designed to be under authority. She was taken out of man. She was named twice by Adam, woman and then Eve, taken out of man and life giver. The Bible says she's is saved in childbearing. She's this is doesn't mean that she's not saved if she doesn't have children. It means that one part of the outworking of her salvation is bearing, nursing, and raising children. So one part of her outworking of her salvation is become becoming a godly woman. The attributes of a godly, gentle, kind, nurturing, self-sacrificing woman. A true mother is willing to impart her very own life to her children. As they grow in her womb, nutrients that she takes in go to the baby, and then the byproduct, those no those nutrients go out into the mother for her to get rid of. Her body grows and changes shape because of her children, and even though it's hard, she wouldn't change anything for the world. She serves her husband, respects him, and honors him. And when that baby is born, she goes through great pain and her body is changed forever. She then begins to nurse, coming forth from her very body. She feeds your children, she loves on them, she cares for them, she feeds them, she teaches them, she protects them. A real man would see that, and it would be in his heart to take care of his companion, his best friend, and his sweetheart. She is his responsibility. He knows he must guide her by the word and the leadership of the Holy Spirit, lovingly correcting and listening to and hearing her heart. He's the stronger vessel, she the weaker, but together they complete the image and likeness of God, manifesting both Christ and his bride, him through love, provision, and protection, and her through submission, nurturing, and reverence. Out of this beautiful union, the gospel of Jesus Christ is manifested, and new life is brought forth into the kingdom of God to be later quickened to life by the new birth. A modest, kind, holy, godly, meek, quiet woman is the crown of her husband. And even we can say she's the crown of creation. She was made last to crown all of creation. A man is made to rule, be strong, love, and provide and care for those under his authority. The true godly family is the pinnacle of creation. God delights in that family. God is not designed woman to be a doormat. She is designed to be delicate, tender, quiet, meek, gentle, kind, and under authority as a helper in the home. She's designed to work and to have her sphere of work surrounding the home. It's not that she has to do all the work, but that she's made to oversee the work surrounding keeping the house clean, ensuring the family has meals prepared, providing clothes for every season and ensuring all are well kept. She's to instruct her family in the matters of life, surrounding the home and surrounding godly character. She's to submit to her husband as he submits to Christ. She's to respect him and honor him and make the home into a peaceful place for him. She should prepare his meals and wash his clothes. She's his helper. He's to provide the finances and the materials to make a home and to make meals and to provide clothing. This glorious and beautiful role is given to the woman by God. She is made specifically to fill this position, and no one else can do that. Men are not designed for it. Women are designed for it. It's not a demotion, it is a promotion. It's her highest calling. And truly, whatever men do is in order that she might fulfill her high calling. And when she fulfills her high calling, then a man can fulfill his high calling. And then we can multiply the image of God in the form of children that can see and understand proper roles in a family. Well, that's the end of the podcast. Thank you all for listening in. I trust this was a blessing. I welcome your feedback. Please go to my website, jasondemars.org, and send me contact me from there. I would appreciate to hear from you or on whatever social media or podcast you're on. It would be great to have your feedback if you're listening to Apple Podcasts. Please just take a minute to review the podcast. Give me a five star review. I would love that, or whatever you review. You think you should give me if you think it's a terrible podcast? Give me a one-star review and tell me why. I love that feedback as well, because I want to make it better. So appreciate you. May the Lord richly bless you and hope you have a wonderful week ahead.