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Living Straight In A Crooked World - Part 3c

Jacob’s Family

“Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die!” And Jacob’s anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”” Genesis 30:1-2

I do not deny that women have been wronged and even tortured; but I doubt of they were ever tortured so much as they are tortured now by the absurd modern attempt to make them domestic empresses and competitive clerks at the same time. --- G.K. Chesterton

Why is feminism such a threat?

• The goal of feminism is a genderless society.
  
• Feminism devalues marriage and child rearing.

Declaration of Feminism
Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women... the end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men... we must work to destroy it (marriage).

Timeless truths:

• Male & Female are separate & distinct genders. --- The sexes are different!
  
• God created the two sexes with distinct purposes in mind.
  
• These differences are not a result of cultural conditioning!
• God gave both men and women a divinely imprinted, biologically mandated set of gifts and abilities that enable them to contribute invaluably to the lives of others.
• If you are a married male, then you have been created by God to love and lead your wife, and to provide for and protect your family.
  
• If you are a married female, then you have been created by God to nurture your children and to support your husband.

Ephesians 5:15 ff
Understand what the will of the Lord is!

Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.

The Biblical Role For Men: Servant Leader
How to be a good husband

The Biblical Role For Women: Helper-Lover
How to be a good wife

The family is God's primary institution for achieving a host of vital objectives, the most important one being the nurturing and training of children.

Through the family, children best learn the essence of biblical masculinity and femininity and what it means to be husband, wife, father, and mother.

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Living Straight In A Crooked World - Part 3b
Ezekiel 33:1-6

The Response of the Church

• The family achieves optimum success in nurturing children when a father and a mother willingly embrace clearly defined roles in the home:
  
• the father sacrificially loving, leading and protecting
  
• the mother sacrificially nurturing and caring

• Building up our families
  
• Strengthening our marriages
  
• Clarifying our relational values
  
• Responding to a hurting world

Divine Order
God Ordained Roles

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

“You DO what you believe!”

• Culture is derived from the root word of cult
  
  • <Latin> colere = to cultivate [to worship]
    
  • The sum total of the attainments and learned behavior patterns of any specific period, race or people.
    
• The essence of culture is religion and religion is the dress of culture.
  
  • Morality - “Is”
    
  • Ethics - “Ought”

Created for Community!

• This is Reflected in:
  
  • Unity of God
    
  • Our Unity with God
    
  • Unity in Marriage
    
  • Social Unity from Family Unity
    
• It must be seen in the church as a Christian Community
  
  • A covenantal experience in a consumeristic world.

Four Scriptural Exhortations

• I Samuel 3:10-13
  
• Proverbs 29:15
  
• Matthew 24:12
  
• II Timothy 3:1-5

Timeless truths:

• Male & Female are separate & distinct genders. --- The sexes are different!
  
• God created the two sexes with distinct purposes in mind.
  
• These differences are not a result of cultural conditioning!
• God gave both men and women a divinely imprinted, biologically mandated set of gifts and abilities that enable them to contribute invaluably to the lives of others.
• If you are a married male, then you have been created by God to love and lead your wife, and to provide for and protect your family.
  
• If you are a married female, then you have been created by God to nurture your children and to support your husband.

Ephesians 5:15 ff
Understand what the will of the Lord is!

Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.

The Biblical Role For Men: Servant Leader
How to be a good husband

The Biblical Role For Women: Helper-Lover
How to be a good wife

The family is God's primary institution for achieving a host of vital objectives, the most important one being the nurturing and training of children.

Through the family, children best learn the essence of biblical masculinity and femininity and what it means to be husband, wife, father, and mother.

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Living Straight In A Crooked World - Part 3

Jacob's Family

• Genesis 32:5-8,13-16, 2-23
  
• Genesis 33:1–16
  
• Genesis 49:1,33

• Building up our families
  
• Strengthening our marriages
  
• Clarifying our relational values
  
• Responding to a hurting world

Defining a Family Reformation
The Four Pillars of Family Reformation

• Pillar #1:
  
  • Personal Repentance and Purity
    
• Pillar #2:
  
  • The Sacred Covenant of Marriage
    
• Pillar #3:
  
  • The Sanctity of God-Ordained Roles
    
• Pillar #4:
  
  • A Legacy of Spiritual Vitality for the Next Generation

8 Patterns of Domestic Behavior
in the downward spiral of culture

1. Marriage loses its sacredness and is frequently broken by divorce.
   
2. The traditional meaning of the marriage ceremony is lost.
   
3. Feminist movements abound.
   
4. There is an increased public disrespect for parents and authority in general.
5. Acceleration of juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, and rebellion.
   
6. Refusal of people with traditional marriages to accept family responsibilities.
   
7. Growing desire for and acceptance of adultery.
   
8. Increasing interest in and spread of sexual perversions and sex-related crimes.

Divine Order
God Ordained Roles

And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27

Four Scriptural Exhortations

I Samuel 3:10-13
Proverbs 29:15
Matthew 24:12
II Timothy 3:1-5

Timeless truths:

• Male & Female are separate & distinct genders. --- The sexes are different!
  
• God created the two sexes with distinct purposes in mind.
  
• These differences are not a result of cultural conditioning!
• God gave both men and women a divinely imprinted, biologically mandated set of gifts and abilities that enable them to contribute invaluably to the lives of others.
• If you are a married male, then you have been created by God to love and lead your wife, and to provide for and protect your family.
  
• If you are a married female, then you have been created by God to nurture your children and to support your husband.

Ephesians 5:15 ff
Understand what the will of the Lord is!

Genesis 1:27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.

The Biblical Role For Men: Servant Leader
How to be a good husband

The Biblical Role For Women: Helper-Lover
How to be a good wife

The family is God's primary institution for achieving a host of vital objectives, the most important one being the nurturing and training of children.

Through the family, children best learn the essence of biblical masculinity and femininity and what it means to be husband, wife, father, and mother.

The Response of the Church

• The family achieves optimum success in nurturing children when a father and a mother willingly embrace clearly defined roles in the home:
  
  • the father sacrificially loving, leading and protecting;
    
  • the mother sacrificially nurturing and caring.
    
  • Feminism overturns this equation by demeaning the man's uniqueness and importance and denying woman's invaluable, incomparable role of nurturing mother and helping wife.

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Thy Kingdom Come

Pray, then, in this way: 'Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 'Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Matthew 6:9-10

Old Testament

• Psalm 47:2 "For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth."
  
• Psalm 103:19 "The LORD has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all."
  
• Daniel 4:17

Jesus' Parables

• He said that the kingdom is like a farmer (Matt. 13:24)
  
• Like a seed (Matt. 13:31)
  
• Like a yeast (Matt. 13:33)
  
• Like a treasure (Matt. 13:44)
  
• Like a pearl merchant (Matt. 13:45)
  
• Like a fishnet (Matt. 13:47)
  
• Like an employer (Matt. 20:1)
  
• Like a marriage feast (Matt. 22:2)
  
• Like the ten young women (Matt. 25:1)

Seek The Kingdom

• Matthew 6:33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
  
• Mark 1:14-15 "Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."
  
• Matthew 6:10 "Thy kingdom come"
  
• I Corinthians 16:22 "If anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Maranatha"