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Alright. So, we we talked last
time about the Trinity. We went pretty in depth on that
and and now, we're going to talk about one of the implications
of that doctrine because it does matter. It's not just, you know,
the weird little checkbox that we all have in in a good Christian
church. Do you you know, it's not, you know,
it's not just a philosophical checkbox. It's a it's an important
basis for so much of our other doctrine. I mean, it really comes
out in whether or not Jesus was a valid sacrifice for us for
one thing because if you dig deeply into his humanity, you
have to ask questions like, If he can't sin at all, what's
he really giving up? You know, I mean, is he, is that
fair? You know, I mean, if somebody did sin, obviously that's not
a good enough sacrifice to save us. You did need somebody sinless,
but if it's God himself, it's like, I don't know, is that a
good enough sacrifice? And that, you know, those things
get answered as you go through trinity doctrines. And I'm not
going to get into that one right now. That's a fun one though.
It's called hypostatic evening, if you ever want to look it up.
No, today I'm going to talk about the way that God imprinted himself,
I would say, on the universe. When he designed the universe,
and particularly when he designed human beings, he made it a bit
like him. Not in the sense of being omnipotent,
or omniscient, or any of those. You know what the omnis are,
right? You know what that means? Everybody's an omni? Oh, good,
okay. Not in that sense, but in the
sense that we mirror some of his attributes, some of his characteristics. Sometimes in a fallen world,
we don't mirror them all that well. You look at it and you're
sort of like, well, I can see a hint of what it's supposed
to be, but boy, this thing's messed up. So it's sort of like seeing a
crashed car, really nice car, but it's been smashed to pieces. It got in between two semis. And, you know, you're like, well,
yeah, I guess technically I could tell that was a 944, but it's
not. Well, no, it's junk now. Yeah, that's that's really what
the image of God kind of looks like in calling men. But he stamped
his internal relationships on the universe in some way. see
a lot of that in John because John talks a lot about Jesus
being, you know, having a relationship with the father. He talks to
him as if he's somebody else. He prays to him as if, you know,
the father is not the same person that the son is and we believe
he's not the same person. They're just both God. Oh, it's
gonna be a dry day. Sorry. I'm gonna be like you
last week and not be able to talk and everybody says, So let's get into the big ugly
P word today, patriarchy. Everybody hates patriarchy, right? Terrible. What's patriarchy? Define it, somebody, anybody.
And you could define either patriarchy in general or the patriarchy,
the way the world calls it, or whatever. Just speak right up if you have
any idea. You gotta hear about this all
the time from some people. I mean, it's a buzzword. It's
a buzzword. It's kind of falling into one. So what's in a buzzword form?
Men. Men. They take over. Societal
organization. Yeah. Oh, that's really good. You're heading my direction here.
Yeah, yeah. Societal organization. One kind
of societal organization. And that kind is what you were
just saying. Moon, in charge. Again, you know what happens
when men are in charge. You know, I mean, that's kind
of, that's the implication. And I would say that that's true
in a species sense. When mankind is in charge, absolutely. I agree because man's fallen.
That happens. But, you know, no, there's a
tendency, especially in our world in the state it's in right now,
to, to blame males for everything, you know? And again, we share
a lot of blame. Sometimes we are jerks. There's
no question of it, you know? I mean, yeah, bad men do bad
things and they just roll over everybody and that is absolutely
true. And they're more capable of it than most people because
they're men, you know? Upper body strength, ambition
to do something. I mean, they've already got us
all. Like I'm not one. Okay. Yeah, so, yeah, you're right,
it has become a buzzword. I'm glad you mentioned that,
yeah. Patriarchy in general would just
be, like, what's the opposite of a patriarchy? Matriarchy. Matriarchy, which means? Women. Women are doing that, yeah. So
when does that happen? I don't know, like the nuns. Nuns? Yeah, isn't there like a main
nun and then all the other nuns follow the nun? No, I mean, you
know, you're right in that, you know, they're, their little authority structure
in a convent, in a particular convent, is all women, all the
way to the top, but above her is every man in the hierarchy
above her in Catholicism, which is, oh yeah, definitely, the
local priest, the bishop, the archdiocese, the pope, you know,
it goes up. I skipped a few, but yeah. I mean, well, then there's always
a man in charge eventually, so then there's no such thing as
matriarchy. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding.
Actually, that's not in my book. Well, you know, that a lot of
people would then argue that. But, you know, what about, I
mean, has matriarchy ever existed? Well, first of all, maybe we
should turn to the animal world. What? Oh, what was that? Praying
mantises? Praying mantises. She eats them. What about lions? Well, yeah, I mean, I don't know
if I would necessarily call it matriarchy when in one couple
the woman dominates the man. And praying mantises as a whole,
they're not, they don't have herd instinct. You know, they're
not, I don't think they travel in groups. Sure, that's what they do. Yeah, they sort of form around
a female who, it's hard to say whether or not somebody's in
charge of me and looking at her, because it's not like you can
hear them barking orders. But honestly, they do seem to
follow her around. I mean, she's defining sometimes
the limits of the hunting ground. Interestingly enough, She doesn't
really decide who's the alpha male and who isn't. What does
decide that? Isn't there a fight? A fight
between potential alpha males, you know? You know, the incumbent,
the old guy, and the new young upstart who wants to take his
spot. You know, but and she doesn't
seem to have any I mean, it's just she she just sends up sort
of going along with whatever happens It's like oh, yeah, you
drove him out. I guess Yes, you're the man now
All right, so, um Yeah, it's a little pieces of
the matriarch in there they're not I mean, you know, it's just
really sort of a ascended family really You know it's it's there's
a few lines in there who are not genetically connected to
everybody else could have big problems in the future But you
know they sort of it's like there's a central family around that
Queen and everybody else just sort of You know the Lions the
other lines sort of come up become a part of things and then make
it or don't You know, that's how genetics moves down the line
in lions, and I guess it worked pretty well for them. You know,
you don't hear much about lion mutants or anything. Yeah, so in a small scale, yeah,
obviously it happens in the animal world. Where else? What else?
Ants. Ants. Ants. I was hoping somebody
would say ants. Because yeah, ants is a really
obvious one. You have, I mean, who's the most
important in the colony? The Queen, of course, yes. What
does the Queen do? She just eats eggs all day. Largely. Anything else? So she's like Peg Bundy, she
just sort of sits around and eats bonbons and has kids or
what? Honestly, she doesn't do much
more than that. She does secrete pheromones that cause things. You know, there's a ripple effect
from her to the other ants. But interestingly enough, she
does not make a lot of the decisions of the colony. That's not her
job. It's the, what? Oh, wow. Oh, sorry, that's stuck on it. Right, ants. Yeah, worker ants,
actually, decide when to move the colony, what its boundaries
are, and when it's going to go. They're the ones out there. The
scouts, basically, are the ones who say, yeah, we can't stay
here. Get her out of that nest and
let's go. Yeah. It largely like that, too. Yeah, yeah. Because again, the
queen bee, she doesn't leave the comb unless it's time to
migrate. And she doesn't migrate quickly.
She's huge, too. Congratulations. But yeah, interestingly enough,
she looks dominant to us because so many of the things she does
impact her, or in this case, the hello. Yeah, they impact
the herd, or not the herd. We don't have herds of bugs.
What do we have? Colony. Colony. Yeah. Yeah, so they impact the colony.
But it's sort of not like she's telling them what to do. She's
telling them what she needs. And herd. Survival and thriving
is a big priority for the colony because she's having all the
babies, right? We're talking about bees or ants
or something. And because that's very important. It's a nice colony here. It's like she's not really in
charge of it. She's the heart of it that has to be protected
and taken care of, oddly enough. And she's taken care of by, you
know, hundreds or thousands of workers and drones and various,
you know, traits. Yeah. Anything else? Any others? Actually, let's just flip over
to human history. Matriarchies in human history. The woman's in charge. Her name
slipped me, but in Egypt. Cleopatra. Cleopatra, yeah. Yeah,
you know that is a funny one. She's a queen. Does she count? What? You're going so fast. What?
She's a queen. Does she count? A queen is actually ruling. That
would count, yes. I mean, if she's the central
authority figure for the whole land, absolutely. That's a tough one for me. I
don't know. I mean, knowing what I know about good fashion, it's
like she's a political dealer. I mean, she's just constantly
She's the one who winds up, you know, kind of playing both sides
of this war with Rome and throwing her lot in with the loser, Marc
Andini. You know, so, but, yeah, so it's,
I guess she technically was the ruler. It was sort of matriarchal
for a little time. It's interesting enough, though,
that hierarchy doesn't really go below her. In all the families,
women were in charge. You know, she is that, she's
the sole female authority, and in every other strata of Egyptian
society, in the two, three, 400 years leading up to Christ's
birth, in every other strata of Egyptian society, it's men
were in charge everywhere under her. So, it's like, yeah, it's
a matriarchy in the sense that there is a woman ruling, but
it's not a matriarchy in the sense that that's normal. or
that follows, you know, it's not something that really, it
doesn't really have a hierarchical impact, I guess you'd say, really.
You know, all the women weren't supposed to be like Cleopatra.
I don't think men would have been happy if they were, because
Cleopatra was kind of a scanty. Anyway. But anything else in history?
Similar to that, there's times in England when there are queens.
Oh, golly, yeah, yeah. Elizabeth I, I mean, who can
deny, you know, a virgin queen of England? Maybe. Nobody knows
for sure. You hear things, but you know.
Yeah, but she, you know, she never marries, doesn't have any
royal offspring. And she rules, but once again,
doesn't go below her level. It's still, you know, when the
colonies are being formed in America, from England, who's
running all of them? Men, men, men, men, men, men.
Even, you know, even the secular ones like Jamestown. You know, the women are there,
they're helping, can't really make it without them. But, you
know, you almost never see women rising to the top of leadership
unless went through, or the Native Americans
came along and shot up everybody because they sold their land,
which, yeah, that's legit. I can see them having a problem
with that, absolutely. Anything else? Actually, there is one, but go
ahead. Anybody? Candace, who are you named after? I don't know. Okay. Alright.
Do you know the historical impact of your name? No. Oh, interesting. You might find this very interesting
because the only matriarchy that survived for any length of time
in history, I mean, multiple generations and sort of had an
impact on the strata below it in terms of women being more
in charge than men is Candace who was in Kush. That's sort of southern
Egypt. Or part of Ethiopia now. Yeah, Candace, for a thousand
years almost, I think, their society lasted and you know now
the fact is she's always allied herself with men to do the work
and you know even the hard work of government but she is the
one who makes the decisions that is the only exception to the
rule i found in history Unless there's some deep, dark, far
eastern thing that I don't know about. Because honestly, I'm
not all that great on South Pacific or Eastern Asian history. I need to get better, but who
has the time? But that's one case. I mean,
so there's one. My queen, congratulations. Your parents had high hopes for
you, apparently. I hope you're accomplishing your
goals. All right. But that's the exception. Honestly,
there isn't another one in history. They're all men. It's always men running the play.
What in the world? I would say the definition of
patriarchy, at least the way most people in history would
have said it, not necessarily in the Bonnejour version, but
the idea is, and you can laugh about this or not, the idea is
that older, wiser men, not wiser than women, but the older, wiser
of the men, rule. And all of the rest submit to
their authority. And it's a hierarchy of leaders
and followers, leaders and followers, all the way down, The intermediate
followers are usually themselves leaders of the next level and
so on and so on and so forth and the pattern keeps re-emerging
as you move. So and then they are typically
married or allied closely to nurturers and base establishers.
They're the center of the life of the Which again, that sounds
like the Ant Queen and the Bee Queen. It sounds like a lot of
these people. To be honest, Candace kind of
has a leg in both worlds in her because she's definitely the
base establisher of that kingdom in history. But whenever there's
a war or fight, she's not out on the front with a chariot.
Oh no. And that means that people, they
talk about Candace of Ethiopia, but they don't actually, Think
of her in terms of, she won that war. No, it's her general war. Anyway, so there is a hierarchy
there. First of all, the idea of hierarchy
at all. Anarchy, which a lot of people
lately have gotten excited about again for some strange reason,
but I think has to do with Bitcoin. Yeah, cryptocurrency. Anyway,
no. There is a, yeah, there's a sort
of a modern turn toward, you know, why don't you just leave
us alone and we can do whatever we want? Why does it not work? Because people are evil. Oh,
but if they're staying to themselves. you can't trust people who have
no rules in their society not to decide that they also are
not going to have any rules when they take over your society because
honestly Yeah, that's the tendency of
men. People are not basically good. I hope everybody got this
out of their Bible reading at some point. People are not essentially
down deep good people. People stink. People, you know,
it's not just that they make mistakes. People are awful to
each other. They sin. The wonder, and this is something
everybody needs to always kind of keep in the back of their
mind when they're thinking about almost anything. The wonder is not that
Hitler's a rise. The wonder is that everybody
isn't one. God is restraining sin in most people in most ways. He's the one, even when they're
an unbeliever, he's the one who's holding all that stuff back and
keeping it from just flooding the world, which is kind of literally
didn't notice, you know, because that's a time when he did sort
of let the constraints open And anything was happening, you know,
angels are out here having kids, and it's just nuts in the world,
you know? Everything's going crazy, seriously. And I do believe
that. I'll talk to you if you want
to hear about that. But, yeah. Okay, so. I keep getting lost
here. Why do I keep getting lost? Oh,
well. This idea of hierarchy, it's
really kind of stamped itself. into the universe a little bit.
You know, the animal kingdom works that way. Humans tend to
work that way. I mean, you know, if you think
that everybody can just be nice to each other and be respectful
and have boundaries, well, you just haven't met the guy who
doesn't believe in your boundaries yet. And when you do meet him,
you're going to be in trouble if you're not ready for him.
In some way. Whatever way that is. I personally
don't own a firearm. So I'm not that guy exactly. I do believe in the right to
firearms in the Constitution. But I'm not personally nuts about
it. Not just because I couldn't even
get a .22 Marley open. I have no upper body strength.
Oh, no. I'm announcing my femininity.
No, I'm not. All right. So God put a hierarchy into place
according to the Bible, and it works as follows. It's fairly
straightforward. There's civil authority. What
do we mean by civil? Not polite, the other meaning
of the word. Yeah, yeah, it's basically official
government. It's, you know, the official
standing government of any was the Roman Empire with Nero
at the top. Yikes. In our day, the civil
authority is the United States government, theoretically elected
by us, and with currently President Joe Biden at the top. Yeah, so
that's, and you know, Paul said that pray for your rulers, remember? So, you know, Paul is like, you
know, you need to pray for those people. And in his day, you know,
if you think, I don't think that means I have to pray for Biden,
then I would want to point out to you that in Paul's day, that
meant praying for Nero. Biden is weird sometimes and
not always the greatest, but he has not been burning Christian
torches at his garden parties. So, just so you know. So, yeah, God set up civil authority. He did. You can sort of derive
it because he said a couple of times in Genesis that by, you
know, if a man sheds another man's blood, then by man, that
blood shall be shed. God is saying, the front thing,
God's clearly pro-capital punishment, but we'll leave that for a moment.
But it's saying that, okay, if you do something, I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry.
If you do something wrong, you need to pay restitution for that
in some way. You need to be punished. I mean,
you know, killing a killer doesn't necessarily do anything for the
victim, because they're dead. But there's two things it does
do. It's a deterrent from anybody
else who thinks they're going to kill somebody. it gives justice and we actually
kind of like justice because that's one of those attributes
of God that we're kind of all for, you know? Yeah, justice. Let's see here. So, God kind
of called for civil authority and later on, he sets it up in
his own, you know, chosen people of Israel. And again, he doesn't
set it aside in the first century even when you know, and when
history suddenly stops being all about Israel, Israel is a
big player, but they're not necessarily the biggest thing going on, you
know, from then on, because honestly, you know, God decided to let
the Jews reject him and he took gospel to the Judas house for
a while. We're still in that while. for us um so uh yeah god established
this thing so civil authority is god at the top and his word
is either with him or just beneath him however you want to look
at it his word is how we find out what he wants now okay in
the old days sometimes you have a prophet shall i can tell you
or yeah like moses who you know explained all this stuff to everybody
at some point in israel But you have prophets come along and
say, oh, actually, this guy's the king. No, he's not the king
anymore, this guy is now. So all day, you know. But now that we have a complete
Word of God, God doesn't make himself known. His will and his
authority known through what we would normally think of as
prophets, like the Old Testament had, anymore. And there's not
apostles, They're all dead because the apostles are the ones who
saw him and got their authority directly from him. We don't have
that either. Yeah, but we do have something. We establish our own civil authorities. And so whatever that looks like
in any place, God is giving authority to the national government. The
national government almost never can handle any sized nation at
all, so they in turn delegate authority to lower governments. In our case, the state, the local
city, the county, you know, whatever, the township if you have those,
you know, whatever. And then under that, you know,
theoretically there isn't a really I can't get my notes to do the
right thing here. I don't know, that theoretically would be the
end of civil authority, but the fact is, it still ends up going
then from there to the heads of household, because they're
responsible for things like, you know, paying the taxes. You
know, people want to know who's the head of household. Why do
they always want to know that? Because they want the money.
That's the only reason anybody ever wants to know who the head
of a household is, because we need to know who we can squeeze. So authority actually delegates
all the way down to the level of families or individuals if
they don't have a family. And then that means that from
fathers, usually, if they're in charge of the family, it goes
from them to everybody else in the family. And that's civil
authority. But there's other kinds of authority too. When
you grew up, who's in charge of your house? You can be honest. You know, I mean eat yourselves,
you know, when you're five years old, did you run the place basically?
Come on people. My dad. Oh, your dad? Yeah, yeah,
I've met your dad. Your dad definitely ruled his
house. Yeah, good question. Is that
true for everybody here? Pretty much? I'm seeing a bunch
of nods. Okay, well, a lot of people either
didn't have a dad in the picture or mom pretty much dominated him.
You know, what mom said really whacked. We joke about that stuff
now. Oh, happy wife, happy life. You
know, I mean, you know, you know, the man's in charge, but he better
do what his wife wants. There's some truth to that, honestly. You know, she's usually smarter
than you in certain ways, and it's a good thing to ask to talk
to her, but God's thoughts about authority in the family is, again,
God, then his word, then fathers, then their wives, the mothers,
and then the children. So he definitely does not see
mothers and fathers on the same level. He says fathers are in
charge. What do you do when you've got
the situation where the person in charge isn't necessarily the
smartest person in the group? What? I was just like thinking about
like back in the day when we had to do group projects And
then like you just have to sit there and listen to the stupid
person just ramble on You don't know what you're talking about,
you don't know what you're doing, your slides are all wrong, your
information is all wrong And then I have to sit there and
fix it because the dumbest person Decided that they were gonna
be in charge and then everybody just looks at them and then arguments
start because they're wrong and they're in charge so it's like
And educationally speaking, you don't usually want the dumbest
person in the room in charge of that. I'll be honest, yeah,
I agree with that, I do. But, you know, in a family, as
in a government, the smart people aren't always good leaders, oddly
enough. No, that's so true, they don't
know how to talk to people at all. Right, yeah, I mean, you know,
the leaders think that they're up on Mount Sinai, they've talked
to the burning bush, and they know everything, and everybody
should just listen to them, because we're clever! And it turns out they're terrible
at it. They don't care about people.
They don't know people. They don't want to shepherd them.
They don't want to watch out for them. They don't know how
to mount a defense for them. Because they're little ivory
tower academics. Meet the Democratic Party, everybody.
Sorry, I had to say that. Honestly, that's how they operate. Their biggest problem with the
guy who's going to be president next time is that he sounds dumb. Yeah, he kind of does. I mean,
I, you know, I cringe every time I see that. What did we do this
time? You know, and you thought Kofifi
was bad. You didn't remember that. Yeah, no. But honestly, I don't know. You know, the best leaders sometimes
aren't the most intelligent. They need intelligence near them. They need to be counseled by
intelligence. But intelligent people don't
always have the gift of leadership. You can't make the smart people
automatically be up front. Leadership means more than that.
And it can't always be the strongest one either. That sounds good
after you've thrown intelligence out the window, but obviously,
mine doesn't make sense. I mean, we all kind of know that,
right? You all didn't need the Magna
Carta to explain this to you, I hope. If you don't know what
the Magna Carta is, I don't know. We can do English history at
some point, too. But yeah, so what you have to do if you're
not the smartest person in the room, but you're the leader,
you just have to be a really, really good leader, a consensus
builder, someone who gathers the opinions of the people who
would know and then makes the decision and is responsible to
stick with it, but has enough humility to say, all right, I
was goofy, let's do something else. You know, that's real leadership,
honestly, I think. So that's in the family. Yeah,
we're almost out of time here. So, and I'll just go through
real quick. There's two other authority structures
that God's sort of put into society. There's a religious authority
over your life. Who's got that? Who do you answer to for your
spiritual life? That's always safe, he's always
at the, I hope he's at the top of every one of these little
triangles here we're drawing, but anybody else? Anybody between
him and us? The answer is no. We know that
because, you know, Peter looked at the religious and civil governments
of his time in Acts 4 and said, we must obey God rather than
men. when they ordered him to do something
that was against his mission from God, and it was against,
you know, they usurped the authority that God had over them and said,
no, we'll tell you, shut up about Jesus. And Peter's response is,
ha ha, I'm sorry, but, you know, again, I'm on a mission from
God. Of course, we're brothers. Anyway. and then we have the religious
authority in a church. Now, is that the same as religious
authority over your own spiritual life? Are you the one who's ultimately
in charge of what you do in the church? Do you have to answer to anybody
in the church? I know it's not me. Nobody answers to me. Yes or no or who? Hmm. What? I'll tell you enough. Maybe in our church a little
bit but the fact is, we don't actually do leadership with biblical
names for things. Um the deacons are not supposed
to be rulers of any kind. We've kind of fallen into it
in this church just because of history and stuff but the fact
is, yeah, we get You know, the congregation can
always overrule us. So, you know, in these weird
congregational places, the congregation ultimately decides what's important,
perhaps. And is that right? Is that a
good thing? You know, if you have a million
people in a group, and I don't know, I mean, are they smarter
than one person? Are they better rulers than one person? You just
can't answer that automatically. You don't know, you don't know.
It varies. God did put a direct authority
hierarchy into the church. Elders, which is not what deacons
are, not in this church, I'm not an elder. We have one elder, who is he?
Papa. Well, you know, not my papa,
who? What's his name? Robert. Robert? Gotcha, not your dad.
your grandfather, right? Pastor Bob Ignatius is the authority
that God placed over this church. If he had more elders, and we
think he should, but God hasn't given them to us for some reason,
I'm really hoping in the next couple of years we pick up one
or two more, but if God gave us more elders, then they would
join with him and together they would all lead the church. Now, we're still congregational,
But they're the ones basically, they're navigating, they're looking
ahead, they're figuring out what's coming up. They're deciding sort
of the vision for the church. And the congregation still votes
on it with us because in the end, this has to do a little
bit with our spiritual individuality, doesn't it? I mean, if you're
gonna be here, we can't make you do anything. Being a member
of our church doesn't mean that we get to hold a gun to your
head or paddle you if you get mad or anything. You know, I
can't tax you more heavily or make you tithe more if you, you
know, don't do something. I don't know. You know, the authority
is almost meaningless as far as the fist goes, as far as making
you do something, enforcement. But we're supposed to submit
to our elders because God just told us so. I mean, that's a
rule in the New Testament. Submit to your elders. If you
don't go to church, by the way, you can't keep that commandment.
You are disobeying God because you don't have an elder. That's
an important point to make. If you're not going to a church,
you are sinning at least because of that. There's more reasons,
but that's a big deal. You need his leadership because
honestly, he's not supposed to be a ruler with a king. He's
not a scepter holder, a crowned man. The pastor, pastor, that
word comes from the word for shepherd, and that's what he
is. He's responsible for you, and
that means that sometimes, yeah, he will say, as a group, we're
not doing this, we're doing that. You know, he's guarding the sheepfold.
He's keeping you within the walls for your protection and for your
good in the future. He's trying to keep the poisonous
stuff doing that he can say that he
you know about certain things I think he can make that distinction
and he can say if you don't agree with me that doesn't mean you're
not a brother in the Lord but it does mean you're kind of leaving
us you know this is a this is a dividing wall we have to agree
on some things we're really hardcore about some people really not
you'd be surprised anyway so that's a Yeah. That's a religious
authority in church largely. Yeah. I mean, the the he's a
shepherd. We treat him like a shepherd.
He's good about that stuff. Um in our case, he is. We got
a good shepherd. Uh he's been working really hard
and I would like him to have some backup. So, if anybody wants
to be an elder and feel like you're called to it, let's talk. You know, because that's something
you can grow into. You know, an angel doesn't come
down and tell you It's just, you feel it, you know
it, but it's only men. Because men are hierarchically
the only people who can be in charge of a church. Because it's
not about feminine characteristics. It's not about making a base.
It's not about providing. It's not about even intelligently
seeing from the side what's really going on. It's about leadership. It's about saying, this is the
direction Let's go. That's what men do. Men are always
like that. You know, this is not the big
joke is with it in a marriage, you know, the woman is telling
you all her problems, but not because she wants you to fix
them. It's because she wants you to listen. But what does
the man do almost? And he's like, what do you mean?
I gave you so many solutions to this problem. Yeah, they're different, okay?
They're really different. And when you need a solution,
you gotta have a man in charge. But you know, sometimes, I don't
know. Anyway, but the thing is, you
don't want someone who just wants people to listen but who can't
make a good decision, who can't make a decision and can't lead
people, they can't be in charge. And generally speaking, God has
made men in one way and women in another. They're different. And we as Christians are the
only people who can ever make distinctions. We own it. We gotta go, people. But just
remember that. We own distinctions. Nobody else
knows how to make them. I will talk about that as much
as anybody wants to because that is fascinating to me. That's
what we're going to pick up next time.
Hierarchy and Patriarchy
Series The Christian Worldview
| Sermon ID | 11252440317352 |
| Duration | 44:36 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Language | English |
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