Thursday, May 14, 2009
By God's Wisdom, What Should The Actions Of A Man Toward A Woman Be? What Is Feminism?
The Eternal Creator designed and built the human persons as living mortal illustrations of both Himself and the single great treasure of His heart, the Church. He created the male person, which grows to manhood to represent Himself, the female person, which grows to womanhood to represent the Church, or individual Believer. This is the nuts and bolts, or the bottom line foundational premise of the great mystery that the Apostle Paul spoke of in Ephesians 5:22-33. The particular, very wisdom of which is being revealed to truth seekers in these lasts days before the advent of a new era. An era of time which is to happen, but has not yet been entered into, but is forcasted by the Holy Scriptures. (the Millennial Age) But it can not be entered into until both the kingdoms of light and the kingdoms of darkness grow to complete maturity, and the full spectrum and volume of the fruits of each kingdom are demonstrated in the world. In light of the coming of this new age, the culmination of this present age necessitates the Church coming to full maturity. Because of this, I commit this writing to truth seekers who are with honest and loyal hearts seeking to live Yahweh's truth in the world.
What Are, Or Could Be, The Actions Of A Godly Man Toward A Woman? (particularly a wife)
To answer this question we will follow a very simple course of thought and investigation. We will consider how Christ acts toward the Church and then endeavor to mimic His actions within the frame work of our human relationships, (particularly that of marriage). For after all, the male (man) was designed and built with exactly that purpose in mind. To be a living mortal representation of God. The woman was designed for exactly the purpose of being a living mortal representation of the Church (or individual Believer). So therefore, for a man to mimic Christ's (God's) attitudes and actions toward the Church (or individual Believer) is to walk out (flesh out) the life style and person that the Creator designed a man to be. Amen!
The Purposes Of A Woman (wife) In A Godly Man's Manner Of Thought.
She is to be loved and cherished as a great treasure and responsibility that has been given to him by God above. She is to honored, again in that she was given to him by God, and because an extreme amount of his service and response to the Almighty One is bound up in how he treats her. She is to be taught. She is to be encouraged. She is to be prayed for and worried about. She is to be studied, with the hope of doing the best a man can to understand her, in order to lift her up and cause her to blossom and bare the greatest amount of the fruits of productively and righteousness that she can bare. She's to be courted, not only in the beginning of the relationship, but to a degree forever. She's to be looked upon and admired. She's to be teased. For will a man tease a woman he doesn't appreciate? Not likely, generally he'll make a very wide circle around such a woman. She's to be complimented, and praised for many things. Her beauty, her charms, her labors, her intelligence, her understanding, her devotion to duty and what is good and right in life, and in the world. She is good to just at times sit and stare at, and admire, and enjoy. Hey, she's good to hold and touch and tickle and handle and undress and to enjoy passion and pleasure with. Yeah, sex is also a part of the package. She can, and should play the role of a major recipient of a man's love, for there can be a great amount of love in a man's heart. She's meant to partner with. So labor joined to labor, and mind joined to mind, creativity joined to creativity can accomplish tremendous things for the glory of God in the world and the furtherance of His purposes, and the betterment of God's family and the basic family unit. For a two fold cord is not easily broken, and the three fold cord is stronger yet. She's to share the wonder, joy and great sacrifice and adventure of being a parent with. She plays a very basic and important part in the Lord's teaching of man-as to really how the Believer is before him. For in observing the woman the man sees himself before the Lord. And believe me, that is a mixed package.
She's to be served, loved, cherished, lead, taught, guided, prayed for, believed in, shown patience and forbearance, shown gentleness and kindness, shown empathy, sympathy and mercy. She is to be honored, lovingly disciplined and corrected, complimented, encouraged, forgiven, worried over, day dreamed about, thanked, given thanks to God for, protected, desired, nurtured, cultivated, to be delivered in and from all sorts of situations. She's to be fought for, and yes, certainly also she's worthy to be fought over. Perhaps even in the struggle to protect and deliver her she is to die for, as well as for one's children that proceed forth from her. That a man would die for a woman, and/or her children, hasn't this depth of love been demonstrated innumerable times in the history of man? She's to be a partner, a lover, a friend, a confidant.
But this I will say. Of all the many and tremendous things that a man is to do for a woman, the which will even work to accentuate his very person and manhood. There is one thing that a man is never to do in regards to a woman. Never, Never, Never, Never, and Never!
He is not to surrender his headship to a woman. He is not to sit down and either promote or allow her to be his head, so that he follows her in life. This my friend and brothers is confusion before the Almighty Creator. This confusion (sin) fills our nation, and causes extreme hurt, and loss of honor. It is what is called feminism. This confusion is a copy of the very act of usurpation that Satan himself committed before the Eternal God. Feminism is a spirit of usurpation. It is the spirit of Satan. For Satan is the prince of usurpation. For of all the wonders and the excellence of the great grace of Christ shown to the lifting and honoring of the Believer, there is one thing that He has never done, and will never do, and that is to surrender His headship (that of being Lord) to the Church or to anyone else. He is Lord, and in like manner the husband is lord over the wife, also men in general are lord (head) over women in general. (this is called eldership rule) This is the way of truth, it is the way of God, and anything different is confusion and error.
A watchman,
Gregory DeHart
Consider: Genesis chapters 1-3, particularly 3:16, 1 Timothy 2:8-15, 1 Corinthians 11:1-16, Ephesians 5:22-33, 1 Corinthians 14:33-35, 1 Peter 3:1-7
Iowa's Supreme Court “legalized” Same Sex Marriage-Is Homosexuality Godly?-Can Gays Inherit Heaven?
Hey America: Lets talk about Iowa's Supreme Court's decision that “legalized” gay marriages in that state, and about whether homosexuality is godly, and about if such action and manner of life is congruent with the calling of God that our national father's felt in their hearts for this nation.
It was July 4th 1776. The delegates that represented the 13 American colonies had been for some days in committee on behalf of the whole of the American colonies. They were debating the issue of whether to declare independence from Great Briton or not. Why was this issue being discussed? What was the single most basic motivating factor that had moved the hearts of these English men (and the populace they represented) to consider declaring independence from the British Empire? I would say that the answer to that question is quite easily understood by the communication of a very common slogan of that day which went like this: We have no king save Jesus! For a great many reasons (there were 63 grievances submitted with the original Declaration of Independence) our nation's founders had determined that they could not serve King George and King Jesus at the same time. Thus on this day it was voted unanimously to declare independence from England, and establish their own central government, which was meant in their hearts and planning to be a government under God. Where His laws ruled supreme. This is obviously testified to according to the expression of Samuel Adams, who as one of the colonial delegates had participated in voting for the passage of the Declaration of Independence. After the passing of the declaration he is quoted as saying, “We have this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men out to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and .....from the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom come.” 1
Of course, for the original 13 colonies to come to the place where they were willing to vote to cast off the rule of the British Empire was not an over night thing. It had been building for years, having been born of the sentiment of it's people, which for the greater part were God fearing. Which sentiment is echoed in these words that were in 1772 written as a part of a declaration of a small town on the “elbow” of Cape Cod, it's name being Chatham. They held, “civil and religious principles to be the sweetest and essential part of their lives, without which the remainder was scarcely worth preserving.” In like spirit, the men of Marlborough in the year 1773 proclaimed unanimously, “Death is more eligible than slavery. A free born people are not required by the religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties....” 2
Much more recently on Friday the 3rd of April, 2009 Iowa's Supreme Court “legalized” gay marriage in a unanimous and emphatic decision that makes Iowa the third state — and the first in the nation's heartland — to allow same-sex couples to wed. In its decision, the high court upheld a lower court's ruling that found that a state law restricting marriage to only be between a man and woman violated Iowa's constitution. "We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," the Supreme Court wrote in its decision. "The Legislature has excluded a historically disfavored class of persons from a supremely important civil institution without a constitutionally sufficient justification."
America, let's reason together.
Let's start at the beginning. Lets first consider the sentiment of the One that created the world, as is revealed in the Holy Scripture. Now please keep in mind that we can only, for lack of time and space mention a very few Scriptural notations in regards to this subject. In Leviticus chapter 18 a rather elongated list of sexual sins are listed, among which is found a commandment directed toward males, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.” (NIV) A few verse later this statement is made, “Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.” (NIV) So it is clearly seen that homosexuality is in Yahweh's eyes a detestable thing, and that at least in the case of the nations that inhabited the land of Canaan they were destroyed as a people because of the practice of this sin, among others. A New Testament writer named Paul many years after the prophet Moses had delivered the commandments of the law that condemned in them the practice of homosexuality, speaking of irreligious people (like very many in modern America) who grow more and more vile throwing off the knowledge of God described them like this, “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They became filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.” (Romans 1:26-31 NIV)
It is obviously clear to any honest heart that God's word forbids the practice of homosexuality and associates it with every sort of vile and depraved behavior. This is because sin always begets more sin. Even as righteousness and mercy begets more of the same, perversion will always beget more perversion. So we see that homosexuality is hated of God and that it will only serve to breed more and greater perversion, which in the final conclusion if not repented of, will bring the judgment of God to bare upon any person or nation of people.
The Iowa Supreme Court is quoted as saying, “We are firmly convinced the exclusion of gay and lesbian people from the institution of civil marriage does not substantially further any important governmental objective," Let's think about this statement. The Iowa Supreme Court says that to disallow gay and lesbian marriages (homosexuality) does not substantially further any important government objective. Ok, what is the objective of government? I would say that a very basic objective of government is to enforce law that will promote and maintain order and peace among it's people. With this in mind I will remind you of the wisdom of the Apostle Paul as was expressed in Scripture verse that is written above, which undeniably associated the practice of homosexuality with very many numerous vices which are any thing but conducive to peace and order among any people. (in fact, reading the list of these vises is much like reading the news headlines in America today) Therefore, I say to you that this state's Supreme Court by means of its irreligious and unbelieving heart has taken yet another step to encourage and promote the destruction of this nation by aiding the destruction of its moral character.
They are not the first state Supreme Court that has chosen to deny the continuing historical precedent of conservatism (fear of God) that our nation and its courts have held up from this nation's conception to accept and promote that homosexuality is right and therefore should be allowed and promoted by law. The Iowa State Supreme Court, by their very action declared that our national constitution, (which was created by a body of men who by both word and action proved that they both loved and feared the God of the Bible) was designed to include and promote the vice of homosexuality. I say this is a lie from the pit of hell. It is simply the wickedness of their own hearts being expressed through the judicial position that they occupy.
So to the godly of America I will ask, when will you rise up and throw off the tyranny of wickedness that the judges of this nation wish to impose upon you, corrupting your laws and institutions? Our national fathers could not abide the tyranny and corruption of King George. How long can we abide the tyranny and corruption of both the legislative and judicial branches of our state and federal governments?
There remains yet one more question to be answered that was asked in this article's title. Can the homosexual inherit Heaven? I would say that basic reasoning can answer this question very easily. Would you invite some one into your home to live with you that practiced a manner of life that was detestable to you? I think not. In like manner the God of all creation will not invite those who cling to any perversion to spend an eternity abiding in His presence. Simple reason teaches us this. This reasoning is verified by the revelation of the Scripture as is found in Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.” I would not say that this Scripture (or any other) offers any hope for those that practice the abomination of homosexuality to inherit eternal life, other then that they repent, crying out to God for mercy.
Repent America. Let us turn from the wickedness of our indifference. Let us turn from the every aspect of our lives that are not in obedience to the commands of Christ our Lord. Turn again to the faith of your fathers, who proved at the time of the Revolutionary War that they would stake their lives and fortunes to maintain their godliness. For they chose Jesus as their King instead of King George. Will history record that the righteous of this generation firstly cleansed themselves of their own sin, and then beyond that fought for godliness? Or, will history record that the “righteous” of this generation failed to cleansed itself of its own sins, and beyond that failed to stand up and call the sin of homosexuality, and other sins for the perversion that they are?
A Watchman
Footnotes: 1-The Light And The Glory by Perter Marshall and David Manuel, page 309
2-The Light And The Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, page 267.
A Frank Discussion Concerning Murder and Abortion In America
Hey America, Lets talk about ethics, about justice, about judgment to come, about how murder has become common place, and about Yahweh's forgiven.
Having read this article's introduction you understand that an Alaskan woman was found guilty of abandoning her infant in a closet in her parent's home, causing the death of the infant. There it's dead body was found rotting some weeks afterward. A pretty gruesome thing to do eh? Yeah, sounds like something out of a horror story, or maybe you might say it sounds like something straight out of the pit of hell! A mother, abandoning the infant that came forth from her own body, and that was meant by the creator to be nourished at her breasts and cradled in her arms. This mother placed her child in a closet where it was left to misery and death, out of the immediate detection of anyone who could have acted to save it's life, before which she had wrapped it in a plastic bag to enclose the smell of the unavoidable decomposition that her child's body would experience.
A story like this prompts a sane mind to ask a few questions. First of all, how it is that a mother could care so little about her child's life? After that, this question comes to mind. How could she think she could ever get away with it, for sooner or later the remains of the child's body would have to be found? It could not be hidden forever in her parent's spare bedroom closet. Then this question comes to mind. Didn't she think that there would be some sort of punishment for such an action?” Although these are all basic questions that arise in such a story I am not sure we can answer them here and now, and besides that, these questions are offered by this article's author to cause us to focus on an evil much greater in scope than that of the woman against her child.
Ethics
Yes, the woman's actions constitute a cruel and unnatural act of murder. An action perpetrated by the every person that should be a young child's greatest friend and ally in the world. Perpetrated by the very person who was the instrument used by the creator to conceive the life of this child, and then after carrying it's developing person within her womb was enabled by God to deliver the child in the world. Should not this mother, above all people have pity, and a heart full of mercy toward the child of her womb? Yes, something in her heart was obviously very wrong, for it is from the heart that sin proceeds. Which sin includes murder.
America, mother's from among your populace have now “legally” murdered well over 40,000,000 (40 million) of their children by the empowerment of the United States Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision in1973. The act of this woman from Alaska is undoubtedly barbaric in nature, but at least she did not seek to change the law of the land to accomplish her murder. Why did the mothers of these aborted children have no heart? Why did the medical personnel who snuffed their lives out have no heart? Why has our Supreme Court not opened their heart to aide and protect these innocents that have been butchered by the millions? Why as the American Civil Liberties Union not fought for the right of these individuals to live, but rather they (the ACLU) have fought to promote the destruction of these innocents.
It would appear that the ethics of this nation are far from pure, in fact they have every appearance of being barbaric. Much like the barbaric nature of Hitler's Germany.
Justice
The woman received a twenty year prison sentence. Some would say that this sentence is to lenient, other would say it is to harsh. What does the Bible say? Scripture answers this type of situation very clearly and in very simple terms, but admittedly we view our selves as far to “wise and humane” to execute the Biblically prescribed punishment for such sin. (Genesis 9:6KJV) Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man. Pretty straight forward words. Words whose meaning any honest heart can understand, which boil down to capital punishment.
It would seem to me, as I think it would to any rational-honest thinker, that if on one hand we call murder as murder, (such as was done in the case of the woman in this story) then we should call it murder on the other hand. Which is then to say that the murderous deaths of all these innocents whose lives have been snuffed out by abortion by rights out to be accounted for. Now, that is no small element of accounting.
Judgment to come
Our American fathers by the wisdom of their faith (by the way America, in case you have not figured it out, those without faith reason altogether differently then those that live by faith) realized that without law there can be no liberty. For the lack of restraint of law in the actions of one violates the right of the pursuance of life-liberty-and the desire of happiness (fulfillment) in another's life. Therefore, from the beginning, the practice of this nation was meant to be that civil judgment be administered against all law breakers in a quick and expedient manner. So that the innocent among us could have a fair chance at a full life, not suffering by either oppression or death from another. It is very obvious to any thinking person that this judgment has in a very great degree departed from America. We have become a land where crime often has a very small price tag attached to it, and whose punishment can be a very long time in coming.
America, did you think you could hide the sin of abortion from the judge of the earth? It has appeared that you have thought you could hide your sin in the “closet” of the Supreme Court referring to it as “legal”. I say to you America, that you have been found out. The word is out. Your sin is completely apparent before not only God our creator, but before all honest men and women everywhere. Do not allow yourself to be fooled. Whatever a man sows he will later reap. If the powers that are in place in this present time are confused and polluted and will not execute judgment, then rest assured there in One in Heaven who will bring you to judgment. This judge stands completely impartial, and from a point of view that possesses all insight and wisdom, and will judge without mercy every action of every person. These next excepts from the Holy Scripture describe this judgment. (Romans 2:5-11) But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God.----Who will render to every man according to his deeds.---To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life;---But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,---Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and the Gentile:---For there is no respect of persons with God.
Murder has become common place
So tell me America, how can it be right to impose a 20 year prison sentence on this woman when at the same time it is “legal” and held as “prudent” and “ethical” by our very own president, very many of our civil leaders all across this land, very many of our religious leaders all across the country, and by the very highest court in our land to in no less a brutal manner murder children by the process of abortion? Our Supreme Court, which is meant to be comprised of men (and women now a days) of learning and justice, who are supposed to be, beyond all others, able to interpret the actions of our nation in order to maintain the rule of law in our land, how is it that they do not see the insanity of abortion for the murder it is? How can it be that before the point of birth we can murder our children, and even at the point of birth we can murder them, but we can not murder them after they have lived a few weeks time after being born, as is the case of this Alaskan woman whose story I have mentioned? Tell me America. Tell me, how can this be so? Tell me, what is the difference between the life of the child not yet born, or very newly born, then the life of the child who has lived as a birthed individual for a few weeks time? I must admit the difference can not be found in my perception of things. Apparently my mind has been proven to simple and naïve to be able to grasp what must be the complex and higher reasoning that is used by many to justify the actions that have now resulted in the death of 40 million plus individuals since the passing of Roe vs. Wade.
Yahweh's forgiveness
I have good news for some. It is meant for all people, but I fully realize that many will never take it to themselves. This news is that God is to be found in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself. That means in simple terms that there is forgiveness of sin in Christ Jesus. That a holy God, who is absolutely apposed to any and all sin, and in who's presence sin can never abide, has in His great love and mercy provided a way for the forgiveness for any man who will answer the conviction of the Holy Spirit's dealing in his heart, and confess his sin before God, and turn from his sins, clinging by faith to Jesus as the payment for his sins. Any soul of man, no matter how vile he or she has been can be forgiven and find in Christ the Lord a total and complete clear conscience. Thus, resulting in joy and peace that is beyond expression. Amen! There is no one in all the universe other then Jesus who can do this for us! The remission of sin is offered in His name alone.
This forgiveness is for the woman who murdered her child. It is for the abortionists who have murdered the 40 million plus innocents since Roe vs. Wade. It is for the mothers who in their confusion and self-centered desires gave their children over to destruction. It is for our presidents, and our civil leaders, and for our religious leaders who in the blindness of their hearts have voted for the murder of these innocents. It is for you America, it is for all of us who have stood and watched it happen and not spoken a word or lifted a finger to stop it. This forgiveness is for all who have not even bothered to pray for the murder to cease and justice to be served. Yes, this forgiveness is for all who being convicted of their vile state will call upon the name of the Lord, confessing their wrong, and turning from their wickedness. This forgiveness is found in Jesus, and in no other.
A Watchman
Consider: Exodus 20:13, Rev. 21:8, Mk. 7:21, Rev. 20:1-15, Rm. 3:23, Rm. 3:26, Rm. 6:23, Eph. 2:8-9
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