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Boss Babe vs Woman of God (5 Major Differences) · Off The Kirb Ministries

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If you haven't yet heard her message to all women, you're
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missing out. I was raised by a single mother,
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I went to college, I got my degree in statistics which is a
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male dominated field, I got my job at Visa and at the age of 24
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I bought my home in the Bay Area which is an expensive market to
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purchase a home. It just proves to you that I
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worked my butt off to get what I had.
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After I bought my home, I proceeded to remodel the home
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with my own two hands using YouTube tutorials.
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So like literally I did not need a man, I did the manly work.
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I scraped to popcorn ceiling, I put in a full laminate floor.
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I learned how to use a table saw and not cut off all 10 fingers,
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right. So like I proved it.
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I did the thing. I proved that I can live this
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life without a man. And I'm telling you it is not
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fulfilling because at the end of the day, I was sitting in an
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empty home absolutely miserable that I was alone.
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So I need a man to fulfill my greatest potential in life,
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which is to become a mother. There is nothing that's better
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than becoming a mother and having that legacy.
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And when you find the right man who wants to have that legacy as
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well, you will want to submit to him.
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A couple of weeks ago, I made a video on five major differences
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between an alpha male and a man of God.
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And in the video I said, listen guys, I've done these videos in
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the past and I'm perhaps not the best person in the world to talk
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about these things. I kind of have a picture of mind
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of certain Christian men that I think, oh, they do a great
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message on this. And I think, is this really my
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calling? But I did it anyway.
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And I said I might even delete the video at the end, but all of
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you said don't delete the video. And then I asked you, would you
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like me to do a video about what we should be looking for in the
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Bible of what a woman of God is, who is a woman of God as the
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scripture describes it. And I kind of regret making that
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statement because the comments section was basically unanimous.
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And please make this video, Joe. So I have done it today.
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This is I've done some studying. But again, I'm just a little bit
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wary thinking, I hope what I'm saying doesn't get
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misunderstood. And it's very difficult to, to
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pitch it to Christians because on one side you've got this idea
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of in Christianity of the trad wife, you know, the traditional
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wife who stays at home, looks after her children.
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That's one side. But then on the other side, at
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the other extreme, you've got the Christian women who like
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what we're talking about the the boss girl, the boss babe who is
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very independent and she does all of this and she has her own
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ways. So let's get to work, shall we?
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Now, if you've never been on this channel before, this is my
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coffee channel. It's very different to my main
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channel, Off the Curve Ministries.
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And we just basically drink coffee together and look at
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Bible verses. It's really that simple.
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And some of you might have noticed in both the channels
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I've got these new mugs, I have to keep emphasizing this.
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I know you trust me anyway, but this isn't a money making
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scheme. It's literally just a way so
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that, you know, you can remember to pray for the ministry and
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just kind of, I just think it's kind of cool because some
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friends made this for me and people are asking can I get one
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of them? So we are actually selling them
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at the moment if you want to get a copy.
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And we've also asked people if you want to take a picture of
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yourself with the mug. I'll send you an e-mail once you
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buy the mug. If you take a picture of it,
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we'll put you up here in the channel.
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And one brother even did a very short video.
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So even if you do a video, we'll put you here at this moment now
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on the channel. Hey, Joe, I got your cup.
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Coffee day is pretty good in this cup.
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OK, have you got your coffee or your hot beverage ready?
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Well, let's talk about it now. Just before I come to the first
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difference, I think it is important for you all to know.
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Again, please don't misunderstand me when we're
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talking about a boss babe, a boss girl, an alpha female,
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somebody who's very independent. They have their own business.
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They they run things themselves. They're kind of like, I don't
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need any man. I can do everything myself.
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Just please do know I am by no way saying that Christian women
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cannot work. Here's a little secret for you.
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For many years, Emma funded my ministry when I was just doing
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St. preaching and working at churches.
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We didn't have enough money to to bring home the bacon if you
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like. And Emma, you know, worked very
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hard in a school and provided for us if you like.
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Even though I did have a salary, it just wasn't enough to to
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cover everything. So please don't ever think that
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that's what I'm trying to say. You know, this is 1 where you
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know, there is a stereotype we get in our heads.
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And actually I'm going to share some verses of you of women of
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women who worked in the Bible. If you've got a Bible there, you
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will need Proverbs 31 open because we're looking at that an
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awful lot today. Proverbs 31, verse 16, it says
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she considers a field and buys it from her prophets.
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She plants a vineyard. And then verse 24, it says she
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makes linen garments and sells them and supplies sashes for the
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merchants. So in other words, this woman
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has got a business. She's an entrepreneur, if you
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like. She's very industrious.
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She is making money, you know, and she's providing for a
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family. We've also got Lydia in the
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Bible who was a seller of purple cloth which was very expensive.
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So yes, women can work. Hope that's clear.
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And me and Emma have even chatted about if there comes
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another point in my ministry, would she go back to work?
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And we both say of course. And there's some women who are
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listening to me right now who are struggling massively.
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Perhaps you are a single parent or you know your husband's not
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well or all kinds of different things and you're working hard.
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I want you to know you are doing a wonderful work for the Lord
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God and He is pleased all of your labours.
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OK difference #1 The difference from the worldly woman, the boss
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girl, the alpha female versus the the godly woman is there is
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a real emphasis on the external. Again, let's look at Proverbs 31
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verse 30. If there are any men listening
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to me right now, which I expect there will be, you need to
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memorise this verse. If you're single and you haven't
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got a wife yet, this should be your verse that you should dwell
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on. Charm is deceitful and beauty is
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passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
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So here the Proverbs is saying charm is deceitful.
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You know, there there are women of the world out there who are
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charming, they're funny, they can capture, but it's all the
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front. You know that once they've got
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you where they want, once they've got you wrapped around
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their finger, they soon change. And then there are also women
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who are very beautiful. It says here beauty is passing,
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meaning it's fleeting. It's here today, but it's gone
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tomorrow. You know, all of us, men and
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women alike, we look in the mirror and every day we're
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getting deeper wrinkles. If you're a man, you're losing
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more hair. The greys are coming through.
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You know, we're just, we're drooping.
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We're all getting older, aren't we?
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Let's be honest. You know, I remember hearing a
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comedian, an older comedian saying when he walks down the
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stairs, it's like a musical instrument.
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It's like, you know, all the creaks and everything that you
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can hear as you're going down. We're all getting older, aren't?
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We're all winding down. But I actually heard somewhere,
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and again, I should have looked at the original Hebrew before I
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got on video, but I think the word might be hebel.
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Hebel, or the word that means common, it's vain.
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The original word, in other words, it's beauties everywhere.
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And it's kind of true, isn't it? You know, everywhere you look
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because of makeup, because of filters on, on, on Snapchats or
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on Instagram, because of all the technology and all the things we
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can do right now, beauty is really common.
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You know, it's it's not like it was 100 years ago where you you
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had one woman and she you know, she turned heads now now
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everyone can be beautiful. Every man can be, you know, in
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one sense beautiful and you're handsome and you're saying,
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well, Joe, come on, tell me what the secrets are.
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I don't know how to be and I don't know the secrets ever, as
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you can see right before you. But the point is this, the Bible
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saying, don't focus on those things.
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It says, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
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That's what the godly woman does.
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She fears God. She doesn't fear man.
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She doesn't fear the approval of of those men who will say, oh,
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you look great today, or those other women at work that she
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might be trying to be competitive with her at school.
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She doesn't worry about all of that, She fears God.
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My greatest priority is to know God deeply, inwardly, and to
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fear him as my maker. Now I know exactly what some of
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you are thinking you're saying, Joe, it's all very easy for you
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to say that. But here I am as a single woman
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and I'm trying to attract another man.
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I'm trying to meet the right man.
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But it does seem like all these Christian men is all they care
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about is looks. You know, some of them, I go on
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their Instagram and I see who they're following and it's it's
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just all worldly women. Well, if that's you, sister, I
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just want to say this. They're not the men that you
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want to to find. Do you know something that I
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think a godly Christian man would find very attractive?
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I think he'd look at your Bible and you'd see how well worn is
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your Bible. Some people are a bit sensitive
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about this, but I personally quite like it when there's lots
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of highlighters in the Bible where you've highlighted
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passages or there's a passage that's well thumbed or there's
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notes and you scribbling those. I think that's something that
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women should be concentrating more on is how how many notes,
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how much time are they spending in the words rather how much
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time do they have to spend looking in the mirror?
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I think, you know, this verse is coming on any topic about beauty
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and it's one Peter chapter 3, One Peter chapter 3, verses 3 to
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4. Do not let your adornment be
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merely outward arranging the hair, wearing gold or putting on
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fine apparel. Rather, let it be the hidden
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person of the heart with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle
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and quiet spirit which is very precious in the sight of God.
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So hear the Bible saying, you know, don't worry about your
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outward appearance and your hair and how you're arranging things
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and your jewellery, but concentrate on a gentle and
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quiet spirit. Now again, this could be so
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easily misinterpreted. You know, it is the Bible saying
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here, women cannot have opinions.
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Women must just be silent. They must never speak.
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They must be docile and passive. No, it's not saying that, but it
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is given when we look at the Proverbs and we look at
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Scripture in the whole weight of it, it's saying the woman of
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God, she isn't chaotic, she isn't loud and outspoken.
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She she isn't wild and unruly, just shouting all the time.
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She's got a gentleness about her.
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She cares. And I'm sure we can all think of
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examples of that. Perhaps a mother, a grandmother,
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a lady at church who's just, they're gentle, they're quiet,
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they've still got a mouth, they're still very well spoken.
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Some of them very confident, confident not in themselves
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though, confident in God, but they're so used, so precious by
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the Lord God. But again, I just want to before
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we move on, I just do want to emphasize this again, I know
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some of you'll be saying, but these Christian men is, it's all
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they seem to care about is, is the outward appearance.
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Well, I could be wrong about this, but from my friends and
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from myself, I'll admit, I think when you are a younger man in
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your early 20's, the first thing you do look for is looks.
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I'm not saying it's right, it's just that the way men think
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sometimes, and I do believe you've got to be attracted to
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every, the whole part of if you're a man or a woman, you
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want to be attracted to your spouse.
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But I do believe as you get older and the right men and the
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right men, even as young men will see the biggest thing is
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godly character that just shines through when there is a woman
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who truly knows the Lord, when there is a woman who prays, you
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know, a woman who prays to the Lord Jesus and knows Jesus
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intimately. That can't be faked that that
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that is more precious than Ruby's, more precious than
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whoever is Miss Universe. It is so beautiful to see a
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woman who who loves the Lord. And even in older women, you see
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it, don't you, as those women in prayer meetings and they pray to
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God. It's, it's a beautiful thing
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that just speaks volumes to all of God's people #2 the boss
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girl, the alpha female, she's very loud.
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Now I want to talk about this a bit more, just so that you
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understood where I was coming from when I read 1 Peter chapter
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3. So I've got another proverb
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here. As I said, when you look at the
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whole of Scripture, it all, it all matches together.
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It all marries together. So Proverbs 7 verse 11, she was
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loud and rebellious. Her feet would not stay at home.
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You see here we see in the Bible, it's talking about a
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woman who is a very sinful woman.
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If you read all the Proverbs 7 and it says she's loud, she's
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unruly, her feet are never at home, she's always out of the
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house. There's a restlessness there.
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You know, that's what the women of the world, they, they, they
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can't stay at home. They don't want to be at home.
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They don't want to build a home and a family.
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They want to get out. They want to have fun.
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They want everyone to hear their opinions and, and what they've
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got to say. I think that's what it's trying
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to say. Also, when it says loud, I think
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it implies she's angry as well. She has no restraint over a
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spirit. And again, if you read Proverbs
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7, she's lacking self-control in one area.
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You'll often find somebody's lacking self-control in other
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areas, whether that is with their temper or whether it is
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with, you know, gossip or even, you know, greed.
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It shows us that as men and women, we really must be
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disciplined. Just tell me in the comments
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section if I'm sharing too many Bible verses with you.
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But I just these, these have all just come to me.
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So just look at Proverbs 11 verse 22, because this is
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something that I really do want to share with you as a ring of
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gold in a swine snout. So is a lovely woman who lacks
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discretion. Now that is one of the most, I
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don't know what to say, feisty Bible verses out there.
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And when I was younger, I asked my dad, what does it mean?
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I don't understand what it means.
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You know, just like a jewel in a pig snout is so a beautiful
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woman without discretion. And he said, now I'm not going
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to name the name because I don't think that's the best thing, but
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there was a judge on Britain's Got Talent and he said, you
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know, on the outer appearance, she's very, very beautiful.
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But the way she speaks to those contestants, it's just not kind
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at all. She can say some really mean,
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some really cruel things, and that's what the Scripture's
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saying here. You know, you've got this
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beautiful jewel, this beautiful Pearl, this loveliness, and you
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put it on a pig snout. And that's what the Bible's
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saying is if God has graced a woman with physical beauty, but
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she doesn't have that inner discretion, that inner kindness,
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that inner love, that peace. It's just like that picture just
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so it's so I'm fitting. It doesn't look right.
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It shouldn't be there at this point.
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I would like to share this with you, my wife.
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As I said, this isn't about women not having opinions
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because I am abundantly grateful for my wife's strong opinions.
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You know, anyone who's met my wife will know she's a confident
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woman. And I'm not in any way saying
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you can't be confident in a woman of God.
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That's not my message at all here, as I think you've been
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able to see as we're looking at Scripture.
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But my wife's opinions have helped me so, so much.
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You know, when they say behind every great man is an even
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better woman or whatever the phrase is.
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I'm not saying I'm a great man in any way.
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But you know, some of the graces that you might see in me have
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definitely come from Emma. And we're on, we're at this
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stage in our marriage now after 10 years where we can kind of we
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know exactly what each other are thinking.
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So last Sunday I was preaching at church and I said my first,
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my first head in my first sort of section of my message.
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I said, Emma, well, she gave me her opinion.
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She said, Yep, you rushed that too much, Joe.
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You were worrying about something and you had your hands
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in your pockets too much. And I'm like, these are all the
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exact same things I was thinking in my own head.
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And she just knew. And many times she's just helped
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me in various ways where I've had maybe a dispute or an
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argument or a situation. She said, Joe, no, you cannot
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say that. Or Joe, you cannot do this with
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my YouTube channel. Joe, you need you.
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You can't put that online. She has helped me and put sense
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into me where I've needed the most.
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And I'd like to think hopefully I've been able to do the same
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for her. That's why it's so beautiful
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when you're married. You've got to help me.
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Who? Who helps you?
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But I will say this, there is something I do say to Emma
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sometimes when we're in an argument.
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Emma will have some really good points, really good points where
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it's like she's flattened me. You know, I've got nothing to
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say here. You were 100% right.
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But I will end up arguing back with her because I'll say this,
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Emma, it's not what you said that's wrong, but it's the way
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you say it. And I don't know if you're
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married or if you're single, but you live at home or whatever.
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Just just bear that in mind. We love men, love to hear their
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wives opinions. I really do think most men would
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agree. Hit the like button or let me
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know in the comments section if you've been helped by your wife.
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But it's knowing the way you speak.
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Be gentle, be gracious, have discretion when you share these
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things and listen as as it could be easily applied before we get
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a woman right in the comments section.
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Of course, it could be the opposite way round.
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Men, you might have a great opinion, you might have a great
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pointer to your wife or to someone in your work, but it's
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the way you say it. Let that be a lesson for us all
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#3 the worldly woman promotes sin.
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The woman of gods is very different to the worldly woman.
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She isn't interested in getting involved with gossip.
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But the worldly woman says, come on, what is the gossip?
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Tell us, have a bit of fun. The the woman of gods.
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She doesn't let bitterness eat her up.
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Someone wronged her all those years ago.
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She, it may still be painful to her, but she slowly learns to
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forgive the woman of God. She doesn't lose her temper.
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She doesn't fly off the handle over the slightest thing, but
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she knows to how to hold her tongue.
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She knows how to control her spirit and doesn't get angry.
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The woman of God, she's modest. She understands.
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OK, yes, when men look, it is their responsibility.
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Men shouldn't be looking. Men shouldn't be.
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Men should be careful with their eyes.
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But she also knows that woe to the ones by which the sin comes.
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Woe if I've made anyone to stumble by the way I've dressed
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The woman of God. She doesn't lie.
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She doesn't let her friends, you know, like, tell her, come on,
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it doesn't matter. Your husband will never know
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where you've been tonight. Just just come out with us.
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But the worldly woman does. The worldly woman's jealous.
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She's competitive. She always wants to be the best,
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to be the top dog, the alpha female.
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But the woman of God says, no, I'm happy as long as God is
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happy with me. I've only got my eyes on the
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judge. We're back in Proverbs.
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Proverbs 7, verse 21. With her enticing speech, she
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caused him to yield. With her flattering lips, she
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seduced him. Now, when I talk about the
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worldly woman promoting sin, this is actually very different
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from the the whole kind of boss girl mentality.
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I'm thinking of a particular kind of woman.
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And actually I've got a very specific example, but I'm not
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going to name her. If you know she is, you know she
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is. If you don't, I'd rather protect
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you from knowing about this woman.
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And I wouldn't want to give her any more exposure, even though
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she's got way more viewers than than me.
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But there is a woman online, maybe in the last 12 months, but
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particularly the last few months, who's gone very viral
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and she's just making great ghosts of sin where she, she
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literally is the, the, the modern day picture of this woman
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in Proverbs 7 who, who her feet lead down to death.
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You know, she, she has many guests there and they eat and
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dine with her. And those guests were strong
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men. But those men are going down to
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Sheol. They're going down to the grave.
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And this woman, she'll post things online about her ventures
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of how she's done this and she promotes sin as if saying we're
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now in 2025, this is what the modern woman should be like.
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We've got freedom now. No more judgement.
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All this, you know, all this tolerance, it's wonderful.
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And I can be who I want to be and I can make lots of money and
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I can make all of these men, you know, leave their their their
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wives, leave their girlfriends, you know, make a shame of their
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children, make a shame inside their hearts.
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And she makes it all seem like it's fun, but she doesn't
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realise that she will reap what she sows and she does.
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She doesn't realise that God is watching old friends.
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Maybe, just maybe there's an unbeliever listening to me right
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now. And you may have some of that
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mindset. Just know God will not be
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mocked. And if I could challenge all of
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us, you know, if you're a young man and you're attracted to
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these things, or if you're a young woman and you are tempted
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by these things, please read Proverbs 7 and know a woman of
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God. She's the one who will be
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praised. She's the one who will leave a
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lasting impression because this woman and the women of this
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world who promote sin, they'll soon be forgotten.
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As we said, beauty is fleeting. What will this woman be like in
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30 years time when there's a younger model on the scene?
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Even 10 years time when all these men have?
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I don't want to speak. It's shameful to speak of these
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things publicly, but you understand what I'm trying to
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say. We're all ticking by, but the
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soul lives on and on and on. And that's why you'd be very
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wise to honour Jesus with your youth #4 the boss girl, the boss
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babe. Her identity is built in her
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possessions, her car, her designer handbag, her money, the
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holiday she goes on the vacation, she goes on the
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people. And she spends time with the,
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the boyfriend that she has who's also, you know, a trophy really
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muscly. And he's got lots of money.
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That's often what these women of the world build themselves into.
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That's what they they hold highly in great esteem is their
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identity is in wealth and and possessions.
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But let's contrast that with the woman of God.
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Look at Proverbs and 14 verse one with me.
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The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish pulls it down
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with her hands. I find that and very, very
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challenging verse there. So here you are.
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You've got this wise woman and she builds a house.
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She cares about her children. You know, you marry it together
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with Proverbs 31. She dresses her children in the
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finest clothing. She cares for them.
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You know, for those of you who homeschool your children, I
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could get emotional when I think of this, but mothers who, who,
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who, who spend time teaching their children, educating them,
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you know, teaching them how to learn and write, You know,
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mothers who nurse their own children with their, with their
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breasts. They, they feed their own
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children. They, they love them.
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They, they just build that house.
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They care for their husband. They, they, they look at what
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meals are going to be the best meals that the husband's going
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to like, but also he's going to nourish his body.
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These are women that, that, that literally make the world go
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round and they, they do a wonderful job and they build the
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home. But then you've got this, this
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woman on the flip side, who tears it down.
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Perhaps she's got a home, but she's always nagging and she's
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always getting angry at her husband.
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Or perhaps you know, her children.
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She doesn't spend time with her children.
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She just sends them off or puts them in front of their iPad or
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on a phone and doesn't doesn't do her responsibility.
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She's always out of the house or she causes so much friction or
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arguments. If she's not married in the
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home, she tears it down with her own hands.
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That's what the woman of the world does.
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But the woman of God, she, she builds that home and the woman
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of God, she doesn't need her identity and possessions and
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money and success and how it looks, you know, keeping up with
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the Joneses having this beautiful house.
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Well, let's look at Proverbs 31 and verse 28.
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Well, firstly, just remember this as we're turning there.
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Proverbs 31 verse 28, Just know her identity isn't in the Lord
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Jesus Christ. As that song goes, I am who you
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say I am and we believe that who who does Jesus say I am?
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He says I'm forgiven, I'm restored, I'm loved, I'm special
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because Christ died for me. I'm made in the image of God and
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the woman of God finds her identity in those things.
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OK, Proverbs 31, verse 28, it says her children rise up and
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call her blessed. Her husband also and he praises
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her. There's so much I could say on
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this. The woman of God, her children,
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that is her reward at the end. If you're a mother, if you're a
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wife, when you've inputted into those children, when the rest of
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the world have been going on fancy holidays, when the rest of
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the world have been living for themselves.
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This boss girl's built her business and she's made herself
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amazing. And she said I don't need any
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man, I don't need any any children.
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I'm just going to be for myself. OK, that might be her reward.
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But the woman of God, the mother of God, she's her reward is her
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children. When they say, mum, thank you
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for raising me in a godly home, thank you for telling me about
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Jesus. Thank you for setting a godly
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example to me. And the husband, he praises her.
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He realises what a gem he's got in, in his wife who really does
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honour him and love him and support him and helps him to be
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the best man that he could be. But if you are a husband and you
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have got a great wife or you know, you've got a wife who
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loves you, you know, I think we, we'd all say none of us are
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great husbands. None of us are great wives.
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We, we're, you know, we've all, none of us are perfect.
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But you know you, if your wife loves you and she's doing her
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best, tell her, praise her like this verse says, if you're a
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child and, and you've grown up, or if you are just a young
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person listening and your mother looks after you, she's loved
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you. She's helped you as much as she
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could. Tell her, bless her, praise her,
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thank God for her in your prayers and and let her know
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that you care. It's very sad when we grow up,
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we go to university and then we lose touch of our parents.
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I think one of the most precious things is when you can become
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best friends with your parents. As you get older, don't forget
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your parents who imputed so much into you, made such great
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sacrifices. They could have done so many
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things, made so much more money, set up so many side businesses,
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but they sacrificed so much because you mattered to them.
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Make sure that's the same. I would like to just apologize
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at this point before we get to #5 I do know that this has been
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very lopsided. It's been very aimed at mothers
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and wives, and I'm sorry about that.
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I will have to try and do another message, particularly
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for single women, but we are going to come to that just right
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now in #5 So the fifth thing, the 5th difference between the
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woman of God and the boss babe is self-reliance.
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It's this idea. It's me first.
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No one else is going to care about me.
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So I'm going to look after myself.
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It's all about me, me, me. Let me turn to second Timothy
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chapter 3, Second Timothy chapter 3, and verses one to
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two. Now, this is aimed at both men
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and women. So we know the context, but know
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this, that in the last days, perilous times will come, for
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men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
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boasters, proud. You see, there is a generation,
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and I think we've all seen it before, of people who are lovers
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of themselves. They're lovers of selfie.
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They're always taking pictures of themselves.
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They love the way they look in the mirror or they stare at
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themselves in the mirror and they're so vain.
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And the Bible says that this is going to come in the end times.
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We're going to see more and more people who love themselves.
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And that's really what the boss babe epitomizes.
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It's about me. Look at me.
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I love myself. It's about me and my Kingdom.
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But the woman of God isn't like that.
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The one of God isn't always taking selfies, isn't always
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looking in the mirror. And again, just no, it's,
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there's nothing wrong with taking the odd selfie.
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I'm not saying that, you know, it's OK to to take pictures of
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yourself, but just make sure there's balance there.
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Make sure that you are making sure that God is on the throne
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and you're not trying to to build your own Kingdom.
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And also there's something that I think we've also got from the
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world. And it's this sense of I'm going
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to love myself first. I can't love anyone unless I
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love myself first. What absolute nonsense.
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Where, where have we got that from?
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That's nowhere in the, in the Scripture.
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The Bible tells us to deny ourselves.
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The Bible tells us to to that we are to to lay down our lives
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just as Christ laid down his life.
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We're told to to, you know, to take up our cross.
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Daily we see that the perfect act of love when the Lord Jesus
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Christ didn't love himself first.
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No, he he'd made himself nothing and went to the cross.
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That's what real love looks like.
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So don't think you have to love yourselves to to be able to love
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other people. No, women, let me just sort of
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finish with this final verse and we are going to have to finish
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in Proverbs 31. As you can see, it's just such a
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precious, precious chapter of Scripture.
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Proverbs 31 verse 29. Many daughters have done well,
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but you excel them or you see whether you're single or not.
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I said I was going to try and share a little bit more with
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single women. Whether you're single or not,
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you're a daughter. You had a mother, you had a
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father. Perhaps you don't know your
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mother or your father, but you are a daughter and if you're
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saved, you're a daughter of the most high God.
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And the question needs to be asked, are you excelling?
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Are you excelling for the Lord Jesus?
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Are you in the word? Are you praying?
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Are you using your gifts that God has given you not to advance
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your own Kingdom, but to advance his Kingdom?
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That's what's so vital. And just to say again, if there
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is anyone who's single listening, I actually do get the
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whole idea of being a boss babe in one reality, because some of
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you, you've had fathers who I've just not acted like fathers in
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any way, shape or form. You maybe have been orphans.
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You've had no parents or you've had men who you trusted.
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You trusted them with everything.
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You couldn't have given them more.
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You tried this whole way of of being this, you know, gentle and
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dare I say submissive woman. You tried all of these things
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and yet where did it get you? He went off with another woman
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or he left you and you think, well, I'm just going to serve
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myself because that's all you can trust at the end of the day.
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If that's you, please hear me. I understand.
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I don't want to diminish from the pain you're going through
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and and know this. There is absolutely nothing
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wrong with being single and saying the Lord is the only man
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for me, the Lord Jesus, he is the only man for me.
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There is nothing wrong with that.
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That's a wonderful thing. So you can give yourself, what I
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am saying is be that daughter who excels, that daughter who
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gives herself up for the church, who spreads the gospel, who
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reads the Word, who is caring, who uses her gifts not for
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herself, but to extend the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That's the message here. Come on then tell me how I did.
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Did I make a complete mess of it?
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One person actually in the previous video said why is it
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always men who are giving messages on how a woman of God
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should be? And I completely understand that
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and that's why I was very hesitant to do this message
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today. But tell me, what did you think?
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Again, as I've said with with any video, if I get it wrong
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because I'm just a man with clay feet, all men have clay feet, I
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am more than happy to to delete the video.
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So if enough of you tell me this was nonsense, Joe, you missed
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the mark here. I'm okay with that.
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I know some of you say, oh, you're hiding away from the
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truth for you. I'm just saying, I'm saying I
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can get things wrong and I know that for a fact, mainly because
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of my wife showing me things and just older godly men showing me
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things. So anyway, it's just lovely to
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be accountable. It's lovely to have these
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coffees with you. And I would just very briefly as
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a little diversion, I really would value a little bit of
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prayer at the moment, just feeling a bit the whole thing
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with our daughter Anna, as you know, who was sadly lost in in
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February. It's kind of caught with me a
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little bit in a different way. And I'm just, I did a lot of, if
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you've seen my off the curb channel, I did a lot of videos
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kind of finding relief in activity.
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And now I'm just getting a bit tired and struggling with
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motivation. I'm feeling resources are, are
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wearing out time and yeah, other things.
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I'm just looking at what's going to happen in the future and
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those kind of things. So just please do pray for us.
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Please pray for this ministry. And you know, I was meant to do
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Zoom meetings every month with a newsletter.
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And I'm sorry, just because of time.
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It's, it's, I'm really struggling to find that time.
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And then on top of that to do Evangelism St. evangelism every
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week. I do that every week.
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And that's a big priority. And then we've got, of course,
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we've got this coffee channel, we've got the off the Curb
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channel shorts, we've got a Spanish channel that we try to
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oversee. There's a lot going on and a lot
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of it is me kind of doing it all in the background.
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So just pray for me, pray for my family, especially because I
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want to be there and be a man of gods and support my wife and my
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children through this time. And just, yeah, I just value
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your prayers. I really do need them.
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And if anyone else has got some prayer requests, just leave it
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in the comments section. Thank you so much.
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I really did enjoy this coffee. God bless you all.