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A blessed Mother’s Day to all of my sisters in Christ. It is a shame that I had to pause and struggle a bit before prayerfully deciding how to express my heartfelt Mother’s Day salute. In these days of confusion we now live in, mothers are being invented in all manner of peculiar ways including by way of men who transform themselves into women and become mothers to children in their care. This state of affairs is supported by any number of emotionally charged arguments that defy the will and instruction of humanity’s Creator contained in the Bible; the God and Book not a few in many churches believe are no longer relevant as they serve the god born of their narcissism: self!
Rebels may not want to honor God or His Word, but that does not dismiss them from existence. According to the Word of God, females were designed and created by God to naturally conceive, carry in their wombs, birth, nourish and nurture children who are the next generation of mankind. In so doing, a female indispensably helps to continue human existence on the earth as part of a team with the male, her head and bearer of the seed that initiates their children’s lives (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:18-25). After the original couple’s fall, God’s program remained in place (Genesis 3:20) albeit with many unforeseen consequences that reach right down into the confusion of our day.
Emotional arguments can be very appealing and strong, but also very wrong as plainly demonstrated by Eve when she led herself and her husband to disobey God (Genesis 3:6-11)! Many male pastors have felt very strongly that women equally gifted as men should serve as God has only assigned men. But they have sinned against the Lord and served as His judge by casting aside the Word of instruction in making women pastors, leaders and teachers over men in His house using emotional arguments; saying for example, “God can use who He wants to.” This is true. However, learn in today’s blog why this emotional argument and all others fail before the God of order!
Originally Published April 2011
Beyond the childish arguments lifted up against God's faithful prophets in order to muzzle them (Isaiah 30:8-11; Amos 2:11-12; Micah 2:6), there are the many rebel arguments lifted up against His Word that are rooted purely in emotion. As the Scripture foretells about these evil days, truth and reason have been exiled to a bygone era (Acts 26:24-25; 2 Timothy 4:3-4). Many have gone after the world and left Christ, the living Word (2 Timothy 4:10; 1 John 1:1-3; Revelation 2:4-5)! The Strong Man of God is written with the subtitle, Back To Basics because within its pages men and the churches are called back to the foundational biblical truths which declare God’s program for man.
The Bible as the Word of God is of the most basic and foundational truths that all born again Christians should hold in common. Yet, how many times I have heard professing Christians rebut sound doctrine with the emotional line, “The Bible was written by men.” They miss the flaw in their argument that if it is a reasoned assertion fallen men writing the Bible dismiss the doctrine being rebutted, it also destroys all of Christianity since the faith is built on the Bible. And so it goes; a desire to disobey a certain portion of God’s Word leads to flesh driven emotional arguments that seek to justify it. This is an approach that is straight out of the world controlled by Satan.
In its forceful move away from objective Judeo-Christian truth and morality, our society more and more offers its own truth and morality based on the emotional arguments of what works for the individuals involved. Here are a few examples. Two people should be able to marry based on love regardless of gender. A person should be able to die (commit suicide) with dignity. A woman's rights over her body trump those of her unborn child (spelled tissue). And of course, directly related to my book and the instruction from God's Word that men as husbands are to head their families, this is now not fair and equal treatment of women since they are capable of leading also.
As a Christian Black American, it is offensive to hear the emotional argument that since women are an oppressed minority like blacks, society must eradicate all perceived forms of inequality for them including the bondage of being the kind of wife the Bible describes. The argument has also been expanded to include those that have willfully chosen sexually deviant lifestyles. As it concerns women, we sinful men surely have messed up to whatever extent women have been unfairly and unequally treated by us in disobedience to God’s Word. I apologize for this in my book. However, by no means do the sins of men justify the all out rebellion now underway against God and His Word.
In the book, I hold firmly to and stand on the testimony of Scripture that it is in fact, God breathed and penned by fallen men made holy He chose and empowered for the task (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21). As such, I also in truth and reason point up the right God has as mankind's Creator to set the ground rules for our existence. Every argument lifted up against His program then (no matter how emotional) is of rebellion and sin. For it is written, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1, NKJV). And again, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man…,’” (Genesis 1:26, NKJV). You and I are creatures with a Maker over us (Revelation 4:11)!
The same Creator that gave the universe, galaxies, solar systems and earth order, also gave it to the apex of His creation, man. Man as male and female in marriage is God's orderly program for them to fulfill His purposes in this age. Man the male as the head of his family--even after falling in sin--is so by divine will, design and order (Genesis 3:16b). If the fixed order of day and night that God has established were to be disrupted, chaos on earth would ensue. So it is now with human rebellion against His fixed order of the family. As a consequence in part, God will soon give those who clamor for disorder fully what they desire (Revelation 8:12). The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord’s side?”
Carried along by the Holy Spirit in the spiritual momentum created by what He had led me to write concerning taking the Lord’s side, in this and the next three blogs I stand flat footed in Him to defend against four types of anticipated arguments. The defense against anticipated arguments in the previously published commentaries that have given rise to these blogs also served back then to highlight the biblical worldview of human existence and social organization in this present age I teach in the Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics that was about to be published on June 15, 2011. What I said then is true now because I only repeat what the eternal Word of God says (1 Peter 1:22-25)!
I remain steadfast against every worldly argument lifted up against the biblical worldview of the Lord’s side beginning with the childish argument that I am mad at or hate women. As the apostle Paul queried the Galatians, so, I every professing Christian hatefully angry with me for proclaiming God’s unambiguous Word to you: “Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth,” (Galatians 4:16, NKJV)? In spite of the fact the world is going its rebellious way to foretold destruction, I preach the Gospel so that even now any might be saved that believe. I also call to repentance and exhort to “faith and patience” those “who have fled for refuge” to Christ lest through sharing in the world’s rebellion, they receive its consequences (Hebrews 6:4-20; Jude 20-25, NKJV).
To that latter end, I make the following current statement here in order not to alter the content of the original commentary. It is a corruption of the divinely inspired narrative presented by the New Testament Gospel writers showing the Lord Jesus purposely selecting His twelve male apostles producers Mark Burnett and Roma Downey advance (among many) in their film “Son Of God” and now the television mini-series, “AD: The Bible Continues” that elevates Mary Magdalene into the role of what can only be described as a “thirteenth apostle” due to the character’s overblown involvement and influence with them. This is a clear and unnecessary feminist insertion that contradicts not only the biblical narrative, but the Jewish historical context. Sinners may permit such agenda driven creative license, but not God (Deuteronomy 4:1-2; Proverbs 30:5-6; Revelation 22:18-19).
Originally Published March 2011
It was my great joy to write two chapters teaching on the great woman of God in our soon to be released book, The Strong Man of God: Back To Basics. I did not write thinking about how to balance a book written primarily to men so as not to appear chauvinist or to mask a heart filled with hatred for women. But I wrote as the Lord led to help male and female readers appreciate all the more the awesome greatness of our Creator that purposely designed the great woman to be the perfect counterpart to the strong man of God in this present age (Genesis 2:18-23).
False accusations of male chauvinism and misogyny come just because I have dared to take an uncompromising stand on the Bible’s clear instruction on women and their roles in the home and churches. To harshly and loudly accuse me of these ungodly attitudes is supposed to back me down in shame enough to leave things alone as so many men in and out of the churches have done. However, I cannot help but speak the truth in love and do so at times with great zeal since the living God who called me empowers His messenger to deliver His message (Ezekiel 2-3:11; Ephesians 4:11-16)!
Accusing me of declaring God's Word as it is written out of chauvinism or misogyny reminds me of the childish arguments my children presented me even through their teen years in persistent attempts to have their way. Never mind the righteousness of my stand on their requests, I was still accused of being unfair, insensitive and a few other choice things my ears were not meant to hear. Declaring God's Word as it is written means that He would not tolerate my being a male chauvinist, an attitude of arrogant pride and sin (Proverbs 16:18-19). He also made the woman comparable to the man. Taken out of him, she is equal in person to the man in every way.
I could not hate women or anybody else because Christians are commanded to love foe and brother (Matthew 5:43-48; John 13:34-35). I do not hate women but love God and seek to obey His Word as it is written. This is as it should be for every aspiring strong man of God in the image of Christ. Truly, the Lord Jesus did more than any man in the history of the world to restore God’s original design for how men are to treat women with protective care (Exodus 22:22-24; Luke 7:11-15, 13:10-16; John 19:26-27). Yet, He felt no compulsion to select a female apostle to demonstrate a commitment to equality. No one in his or her right mind today condemns the Lord as a misogynist.
God is revealed to us in Scripture as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; three distinct Persons fully and equally the One, true God. Each Person has His role and responsibilities within the divine unity and is equally God! No complaints are registered anywhere in the Bible by any Person of the triune God about this eternal arrangement. Modeled after the divine unity, God has made no change in the design of human male and female roles in marital unity for this age because they are perfect (Genesis 1:26a). While worldly minded contemporary Christians contend that God's design of male and female roles presented in His Word is flawed due to male headship, it is really the humans called to operate in those roles that are flawed through sin.
Outside of sinful humanity's inability to live out male and female roles as God designed, there is the deceiving and destroying work of our mutual enemy, Satan. He deceitfully stirs humanity to question God's Word (Genesis 3:1) rather than look at ourselves as the real problem. Instead of attempting to shout down God's faithful messengers with childish arguments, professing Christian feminists and their male supporters in the churches should recall this truth. Historically, God sends His faithful prophets to warn and call His people to repentance just before He is about to judge them (2 Chronicles 36:15-21; Matthew 23:29-39; 1 Corinthians 13:11)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, "Who is on the Lord's side?"
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