Title Become a grain of wheat!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: 1 Timothy 2:8-15
Title: Become a grain of wheat!
Looking back on history, it seems that there has never been a time when women's activities were as active as they are today. Today's women's activities, not to mention politics and economics, can now be seen freely participating in specialized fields that only strong men could do. As women are actively participating in all fields, gender discrimination is disappearing and it is gradually becoming a society of gender equality. From the point of view of women who have been discriminated against, it is truly a joy to see.
However, it is also true that the position of men is narrowing to that extent due to women's active social activities. So these days, it is rumored that the number of full-time housewives husbands, whose wives are working and earn money, and whose husbands sit at home instead, are increasing. There is no problem at all if we interpret these phenomena as the logic that there is no difference between men and women in order to make a living. However, if we interpret the Bible as saying that a man should be the head of a woman, this leads to a great contradiction.
Of course, unbelievers will welcome women's entry into society because they do not know God's will, but believers are well aware that if they violate God's providence, they will inevitably suffer the consequences. The biggest reason God judged Sodom and Gomorrah was that they lived against the providence of God. This is because women at that time also tried to dominate men at the time with lewdness, a weapon of women, as the balance of gender equality was broken in the affluent life like today.
When God first created man, he took a man's rib, made a woman, and gave it to Adam as a helper to help his husbands. However, women forget this fact and cry for gender equality as society develops or try to achieve equality with men, ultimately revealing their hidden desires. The expression of men as yang and women as yin is not just a word. If a man is strong on the outside, a woman is strong on the inside. So, it means that women are more sloppy than men. The word sloppy means, after all, that an unclean spirit is in control of him.
This is not to say that women today are all wrong. It is said that if women can keep their place and perform their duties well, they can be ten times and 100 times better than men who are cocky. But that's a problem because you can't find such women. If you look inside the church today, more than 80% of the female members are compared to the male members. The fact that there are so many women is proof that God has given special grace to women who are bound to be vulnerable to Satan.
Then, why did he give more grace to the top men and lead them to lead a religious life, and to give more grace to the lesser women to start a religious life? There are good reasons for all of this. We Gentiles are different from Jews, so we are corrupt in our inner man. Therefore, if we do not heal our inner person in our religious life, no matter how long we go to church and do all kinds of faithfulness and service, we are nothing but bright apricots. In other words, it is impossible to achieve eternal life.
And in order to heal the inner person of man, if we cannot correct women before men, even the strongest men cannot break the stubbornness of women, so God gave women more grace and made them begin their religious lives first. In doing so, women who have received grace from God consider themselves to be a grain of wheat and assume the role of a bridge leading their husbands to God. When an unbelieving husband comes to God through the devoted efforts of his wife, who has become a grain of wheat, God grants him various graces and makes him his minister.
Today, many people know that if they go to church, they will meet God, but it is not coming to meet God, but only knowing that God is alive. When we were unbelievers, we did not know that God exists, but only after believing in the name of Jesus who came to the land of Israel and receiving the Holy Spirit did we come to know that God lives. Likewise, we cannot reach full faith by simply knowing that God lives. Only when we encounter the living God can we reach full faith.
However, the Bible defines that it is impossible for us to meet the living God except through the Son. So, where should I go to meet my son? According to the Bible, it is said that Christ comes like a thief (unknowingly) before the spiritual people (Christians today), so we must meet Him who came like a thief. Judging from the example of the Bible, when the Son of God comes, it seems that he will appear before women more than men. This is because women will first receive grace from the Lord, become a grain of wheat, die and die, and lead their husbands and families to the Lord.
- You virtuous women! Be a grain of wheat to humble yourself and make your husbands head!-