Recovering Biblical Womanhood

Sharing what Scripture teaches about womanhood, our design, purpose and duties (Titus 2:3-5). It involves wading through the lies we have believed and getting b

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She is boisterous and rebellious; Her feet do not remain at home. -Proverbs 7:11
The book of Proverbs gives a great picture of the difference between a godly woman and a wicked woman. One of the characteristics of the godly woman is that she "looks well to the ways of her household." (Proverbs 31:27) A godly woman's primary focus is homeward. It is not that she is a slave to the kitchen or always cooped up in a house, but her primary focus is to the home. The industrious work that she does as a helper to her husband is in care of the household. She is a quiet, submissive, and diligent woman so that her husband can trust her while he is away taking dominion over the earth.
The wicked woman is not so. She is boisterous. She is rebellious and she does everything she can to be away from the home. Her focus is outward even if she makes a big show of being homeward focused. She is given to malicious gossip, scorn for authority, and superstition. (Titus is supposed to instruct the older women to avoid these things and teach the younger to be workers at home. Titus 2). Her husband should not trust her.
Now we are all aware of the blatant ways that our culture has encouraged woman to place their focus anywhere but the home. But even for women who are not pursuing the career ladder there is a temptation to not have their feet remain at home.
Years ago that temptation was through day-time soap operas. Women could leave the home without ever leaving the home. They could get caught up in the manufactured drama, gossip and rebellion of the Bold and the Beautiful. They could live vicariously "Young and Restless" rebellion through the Days of their Lives. But now Day Time Soaps ratings are plunging. Some media outlets have called Soap Operas "a dying genre." Why is that?
Well, why watch manufactured drama when you can be a part of real drama on social media? You can keep your feet far from home while sitting in your living room on your cell phone. Some women can make a big show about being at home, while spending all their time on facebook spreading malicious gossip, creating facebook pages mocking pastors, older women, and other leaders and going from comment thread to comment thread blasting anyone who they disagree with. You can be a boisterous and rebellious regiment with your feet far from home on the internet. You can live the young and restless for real. That is the way, however, of the wicked.
The wise woman can use social media in a way that maintains her gentle, quiet, and diligent spirit. She can show respect to and for authority. She can use social media in a way that honors God and causes her husband to say “Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all.” She can use social media in a way that does not result in her feet constantly on the roam.
-Joseph Spurgeon

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WOMEN CANNOT be a "Pastor". There is not ONE SINGLE verse that gives qualifications for anyone except MEN to assume the role of a Pastor (Bishop) & Deacon. This is a complete abomination to God and His perfect structure of His Body and His Church. This is nothing less than Satan at work to destroy souls.
God is NOT confused about gender roles, church order, or spiritual authority. The Lord established His Church with divine order and specific qualifications for leadership. Scripture NEVER gives the office of Pastor, Bishop, or Deacon to women.
1 Timothy 3:1-2 KJV
“This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife...”
1 Timothy 3:12 KJV
“Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife...”
The qualification is MALE leadership.
Strong’s Concordance:
“Husband” = Greek anēr = a man, male, husband.
God also explicitly forbids women from exercising spiritual authority over men in the Church.
1 Timothy 2:11-14 KJV
“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. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.”
This command was NOT based on culture but on CREATION ORDER itself.
God created men and women equal in VALUE before Him, but DIFFERENT in roles and authority. Satan has always attacked God’s order from the beginning.
1 Corinthians 14:33-34 KJV
“For God is not the author of confusion...
Let your women keep silence in the churches...”
Strong’s Concordance:
“Confusion” = Greek akatastasia = disorder, instability, disturbance.
There is NOT ONE biblical example of a woman serving as a Pastor, Bishop, or elder over a congregation. The Apostles appointed MEN as elders in the churches.
Titus 1:5-6 KJV
“Ordain elders in every city... If any be blameless, the husband of one wife...”
Women absolutely CAN serve God, teach children and other women, witness, pray, help the saints, and proclaim the Truth of the gospel personally, but NEVER by overturning God’s ordained authority structure within the Church.
Titus 2:3-5 KJV
“The aged women likewise...
That they may teach the young women...”
The modern rebellion against biblical roles is not “progress.” It is open rebellion against the Word of God and His created order.
Romans 16:17 KJV
“Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”
The Church belongs to JESUS CHRIST, not modern culture. God’s structure is PERFECT, holy, and for His glory.
- Jerry Hatcher

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Loving your husband, children, and others even in trying circumstances is a manifestation of God’s grace in your heart.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness"—2 Corinthians 12:9

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What Does Loving Your Spouse Mean Biblically? I Paul Washer
Loving our neighbors is the 2nd greatest commandment that Jesus taught us. I believe we ought to learn and try to practice it in our daily walk. Our spouse is our closest neighbor, and he ought to be loved first.
To all single ladies, if a man says he loves you, make sure he knows the true meaning of the word "love."
"love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails; - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Teach the younger women to love their husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed . - Titus 2:5

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What are the two reasons why women are not permitted to be teachers to men in the churches or have authority over men?

Adam was formed first, then Eve. (1 Timothy 2:13)
Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, fell into transgression. (1 Timothy 2:14)

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If there were more keepers at home, wives and mothers, this world would be a better place.

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“The woman whose life does not center around her home and the well-being of her family and who is constantly darting from one place and one activity to another is more vulnerable to becoming entangled in immoral relationships and is more likely to entice men who are vulnerable themselves. The greatest spiritual, moral, and emotional protection a woman will ever experience is found when she is content to stay within her God-appointed sphere.”- Nancy Leigh DeMoss

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Sensuality is a public advertisement of the condition of the heart. It proceeds from a wicked heart. Mark -23 for from within out of the heart of man proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, SENSUALITY, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. Sensuality is a deed of the flesh in Galatians the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are immorality, impurity, sensuality. A woman can properly be called beautiful; a woman can be properly called elegant, but a woman who is sensual has an evil heart. - Paul Washer

Sisters, flee from sensuality, impurity, and immorality, and educate your children on the same thing. A woman who is redeemed by Christ is no longer a slave to sin but a slave of righteousness.

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A Christian woman who loves and fears the Lord is sober-minded: she is not a drunkard, not intoxicated, not irrational, not impulsive in her actions, not tempestuous, not wild, and not visionary or heated with passion. Because she knows without discipline and a sound mind, she can’t walk after the Spirit and obey God's commandments. She can’t do her Christian duties as a mother, a wife, a friend, a neighbor, or a member of the church and society with love and wisdom if she is not sober-minded.

-Teach the young women to be SOBER. - Titus 2:4
-Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: -1 Peter 5:8
-Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; -1 Peter 1:13
-Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;-Titus 2:12
-Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. - 1 Thessalonians 5:6
-But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. - 1 Peter 4:7
-But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. - 1 Thessalonians 5:8
-If ye love me, keep my commandments. - John 14:15
-Love your neighbor as yourself. ’- Matthew 22:39

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A woman who fears the Lord dresses herself modestly because she knows that her body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and that her actions affect other people. She doesn't want others to stumble because of her. She dresses not out of pride or wanting to get the attention of men, but rather she dresses to glorify the One who created her.
-Women should adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. - 1 Timothy 2:9-10
-You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery.' But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery WITH her in his heart. - Matthew 5:27-28

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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given, rather than to complain about what is not. One or the other becomes a habit of life. - Elisabeth Elliot

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Godly womanhood... the very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other type of woman: beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career women, talented women, and divorced women. But so seldom do we hear of a godly woman—or of a godly man either, for that matter. We believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else. It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth. It is a far, far better thing in the realms of morals to be old-fashioned than to be ultra-modern. The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct. - Peter Marshall

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A woman who fears the Lord is not like the rest of the world. She does not chase after empty applause, nor does she build her identity on the fragile opinions of people who change their minds with the wind. She does not measure her worth by beauty, wealth, success, or power. She knows that all these things will fade, that everything the world glorifies is temporary. Instead, her life is dedicated to pursuing character, wisdom, truth, and holiness. She fixes her eyes on what is eternal, on the God who created her, who loves her, and calls her His own. Because she knows that when she stands before God, she will not be judged by how well she impressed the world but by how faithfully she lived for Christ.

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A woman who fears the Lord watches what she says. She doesn't engage in foolish talk or crude joking, gossip, or tattle or say idle or filthy words. Instead, she uses her tongue to impart wisdom, kindness, truth, and love, which edifies and builds others up. Because she knows that she will give an account for every careless word that she says on the day she faces Christ.

-But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned. - Matthew 12:36–37

-Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. – Ephesians 5:4

-not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. – 1 Timothy

-A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. - Proverbs

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"After years of society belittling the calling of motherhood, something wonderful is happening – something wonderfully counter-cultural! In the midst of the anti-life, anti-motherhood philosophies which pervade the culture, there is a new generation of young ladies emerging whose priorities are not determined by the world’s expectations of them. They have grown up in homes where fathers shepherd them, where children are not merely welcome, but where they are deeply loved. Some of these women have been home educated, which means that many of them have grown up around babies and their mothers. They have learned to see motherhood as a joy and a high calling, because their parents see it that way. And when asked about their future, these girls know their own minds. These are the future mothers of the Church. Young women who are not afraid to say that the goal of all of their education and training is to equip them to pursue the highest calling of womanhood, the office of wife and mother."

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What did God mean when He told Eve (and wives in general) that 'your desire will be for your husband'? Some have misinterpreted this as a reference to a wife's physical desire for her husband. But there's nothing wrong with sexual attraction and marital love—both are blessings and part of God's design from before the Fall (cf. Genesis 1:28). The desire mentioned here is part of the curse. It is a desire that stems from the corruption of sin, and it leads to conflict. It compels the woman's husband to rule over her. The same expression is used again in Genesis 4:7, when God speaks to Cain, warning him that 'sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it.' Comparing the two parallel texts, we can see that the desire mentioned in Genesis 3:16 is an urge for the woman to dominate. God is saying, in effect, 'You will have a sinful desire to dominate your husband, and he is going to be forced to exercise his authority over you.'"
-John MacArthur

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Is it loving to leave your kids in daycare or with others for 9 to 10 hours per day, five days a week? Will you leave Jesus in the care of others if God gives you the chance to be His mother in order to pursue your career or material wealth and achievement? Mother, your unique love for your children is what stands out from strangers. Loving your children means nourishing them with good food; keeping an eye on them like the shepherd that ABIDES with the field to watch his flocks (Luke 2:8); guarding them like a fully armed man who guards his palace and what's inside it in peace (Luke 11:21); and preserving them from danger and sin, just like Jesus does to His people (John 17:12). That is how important your presence is to your children. That's why God commands you to love them and be keepers of your home (Titus 2:4-5).

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Ladies, if a man tells you he loves you and then attempts to sleep with you, he doesn’t love you. True love is never aligned with wrongdoing and will never lead you to sin. If he truly loves you, he will ask you to marry him.