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)