Slides: Additional Presentation (not covered in video)
Christ restored women to partnership.
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives and treat them with respect as the weaker (delicate) partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hider your prayers.
If you are mistreating your wife God is not listening to your prayers!
1 Peter 3:7
Male / Female Needs
Male
Power of Position
Respect
Companionship
Sex
Source / Vision / Leader
Foundation – bears the weight of the entire system
Female
Power of Influence
Loved / Cherished
Conversation
Affection
Receiver / Incubator / Multiplier (neutral function)
Rests on his strength
Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33
Male / Female Differences
Male
Logical (first response)
Thinking
Visual
Compartmentalize / File
Facts
Job – ext. personality
Nomadic
Female
Emotional
Feeling
Auditory
Global / exhaustive
Intuition
Home – ext. personality
Security / roots
Women’s Provision
Submission and Headship
Man did not come from woman, but woman from man.
1 Corinthians 11:8
The Source Is Responsible For The Product
God has designed things so the female can receive earthly provision through the male
Ford responsible for it’s trucks.
Man responsible for the woman because she came from him
Able to go to her source for whatever she needs
Jesus told us “I am the vine, you are the branches, which receive nourishment from the vine” John 15: 4-8
Christ submitted to John the Baptist and to God (angels, God’s protection tied to submission…chain of command…submission activates heaven)
Gave his life for us. Servant leader
Man is to submit to Christ
4 Types of Love
Philio – Brotherly
Eros – Fleshly. Sex doesn’t equal love
Sterego – Friendship
Agape – Diving “Even while we were yet sinners, he died for us.
In the believer not in the world
Only Agape makes permeant relationships possible
Love is not emotions
Emotions are chemicals. Change every 5 seconds.
Fall in love on adrenaline / excitement / infatuation…will fall out of love
Love is an act of the will
Love is a choice
Response to understand the value of another thing
Value is measured by what you’re willing to spend for something
What did God pay to get you? Give up for you?
Love is a commandment
Love is a debt
Love is a Law. Law’s have no feelings.
Myles Munroe
A new commandment I give to you. Love one another.
John 13: 34 - 35
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellow man has fulfilled the law.
Romans 13:8
Women as Leaders
And Joint Heirs to the kingdom
Single Women
Perfectly capable of ruling her own kingdom
Landowner – squatters, sharecroppers, absentee landowners
If you’re not thinking your thoughts, who is
If you’re not minding your kingdom, who is
Dethroned
Expand and protect her kingdom, improve station
Dating = data (vision, goals, plans, gifts)
Attraction, chemistry, money (swipe right)