Am I as good, what? What's so good about that? It's just pure. Amen. There ain't no show. There ain't no jiving. There ain't nothing going on. It's just singing from the heart. And you talk about that's just good. And that's just good. Amen. God can get in on that. And so we are thankful for that tonight. Thank you, Brother Jay. Thanks, Sister Caitlin, for that special as well. And I appreciate y'all singing like that. And y'all keep on doing stuff like that. We're going to say Brother George who? Well, if you have your Bibles tonight, turn back to Ephesians chapter 5, and we'll read verse 33. Of course, this morning we didn't get to the very end of what we were talking about concerning God's purpose for women, but tonight we might get there if we can have the help of the Lord. And so here in chapter 5, verse 33, as I said this morning, this is the summary of what it's all about, being a man and being a woman. and concerning what God has given purpose for. He says in chapter 5 and verse 33, Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. Let's pray. Father, we come to you in Jesus' name. We do thank you, Lord, that you give us a Bible and, God, that you give us the truth. And, Lord, I pray, Father, that we would desire with all that we have within us, God, to obey you and to follow the truth of God's Word. I pray, Lord, that you move in every heart and every home tonight. Pray, Father, that we might be drawn unto thee. Pray, Father, that the Word of God may bring conviction, but yet it may bring comfort. God, I pray tonight, God, that the Spirit of God would bring hope into our homes and lives and marriages. Father, the Bible says where there's breath, there's hope. And Father, I pray tonight, God, that we don't give up. Pray, Father, that we'll keep striving and keep moving in the direction, dear God, of what you'd have us to be and do. Father, take your Word tonight now. God, I pray, Father, that you'd use it. And, Father, I pray that you'd help me tonight to preach in the power and demonstration of the Holy Ghost of God. Pray you'll help me, Lord. Guard my lips and my mind. But, Father, that I say the only things that are true, the only things tonight, God, that comes from God's Word. And, Father, we don't need my opinion. We don't need, dear God, my thoughts, and we don't need tonight my feelings. Father, we just need your word. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. And amen. You may be seated. And so this morning we talked about this, what God's purpose was for a woman. And we began there in that verse, and we see that the Bible says to that woman that she reverence her husband. Again, that is a summary. That is ultimately what that woman is to do and what women should do, must do. There is absolutely no room for you not to do this. There is no options tonight. You'll say, what should I do with my husband? And there's one word tonight that you are required and commanded to do, and that is reverence. We must keep that before us, dear women of God, that God has called you, that God has made you and brought purpose in your life, that man that you have in your home called your husband tonight, you're to reverence him. Now, we talked about how did we get there, though. Why would God say to you tonight to reverence your husband? Why didn't He say to care for your husband? Why didn't He say to love your husband? Why didn't He say to comfort your husband? Why didn't He say that? Why didn't He say reverence? Well, tonight I hope that we might get to that answer. But if we go back to Genesis, we always have to go back to Genesis because that's where it all began. We find in chapter 2, And verse 18 it says the Lord God said it is not good that man should be alone. I will make him a help meet for him. Verse 20 and Adam gave names to all cattle and the fowl of the air to every beast in the field. FOR ADAM THERE WAS NOT FOUND AND HELP MEET FOR HIM. NUMBER ONE TONIGHT WE FIND THAT THE WOMAN'S PURPOSE, AS WE GO BACK JUST A TAD, THERE'S SOME FOLKS IN HERE TONIGHT THAT WASN'T HERE THIS MORNING AND JUST WANT TO GIVE THEM AN UPDATE, AMEN? AND I KNOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO GO OVER IT AGAIN, BUT MAYBE YOU'LL FIND SOME MERCY TONIGHT TOWARDS US IN DOING THAT. AND NUMBER ONE TONIGHT, THE PURPOSE OF A WOMAN TONIGHT IS TO BE THE SAVIOR OF THE MAN. We found that out to be true because of the word of help. The word help means easier. The word Ezer, if you find that in the Hebrew, means deliver or protect or even rescue. In other words, save. Now that word tonight is 21 times in the Old Testament, two times for women, three times for Israel, 16 times for God. Now we gave you several verses, four verses that brought forth how God is Ezer. and how He would compare Himself to women being Ezra as He is Ezra. For example, Psalms 33 20, Our soul waiteth for the Lord, He is our help. That word help there is Ezra, and it's the Lord that is the help, as well as the woman being the Savior, amen, or being the help. We find Psalms 121 1, I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. same as what the woman is called in the way of being purpose is to be a help. We find in chapter 121 verse 2, My help cometh from the Lord who made heaven and earth. We find that Ezra again is God, but he has compared it to woman there in these passages. Hosea 13, 9, O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thine help. So we found that the Savior of man is Ezra, which is help. Amen. And I tell you tonight, man needs help. If man was honest with man, tonight we would scream out to God and say, help. And God said, I gave you help. Well, who? Woman. Amen? Well, that woman tonight will deliver us from the loneliness. We found that in verse 18, said the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone. And so we find that this woman that God has brought in our lives will be the one who will deliver us from this separation or to be by ourselves or apart from. THREE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT. NUMBER ONE, THAT SHE WOULD BE A COMPANION. MAKE SURE, WOMAN, YOU'RE A COMPANION TO YOUR HUSBAND. THAT WORD COMPANION IS A BOND THAT IS MADE WITH THE HUSBAND. AND WE FIND THAT GOD HAS BROUGHT PURPOSE INTO YOUR LIFE, THAT YOU ON PURPOSE WILL BE A COMPANION TO YOUR HUSBAND, NOT THAT HE'LL BE A COMPANION TO YOU. but you'll be a companion to him, amen? Number two, also in the way of conversation and the way of talking, the way that you would have and laughing and just having a conversation, just having a time where you can talk and laugh and have fun and enjoy each other. God has put that upon you as the woman to be that conversational piece. Now it's kind of odd with that because most women just talk. Most women have this thing about talking, about just, it happens in every household, the man will go home, the man comes home, the man's tired, he's laying in the bed, he gets to bed, he takes a shower and all, he gets in bed and the wife wants to talk, right? Or when he get into the car, it's usually not the man who's have conversation, it's the woman who has conversation. Amen? And it's like this too, when you ask a woman, This is not bad, okay, don't take it negative tonight. I know a lot of times when you say something like that, immediately it's negative. And so, it's not a negative thing, it's a positive thing, because God said to you to have conversation with your husband, and you're doing it, amen? And so, the fact is, the way that women are created and made, I give this illustration a lot, I'll give it to you again, but if you ask a man, hey, when you went to H-E-B, what happened? And he would say something like this, I went to H-E-B, I went and got a gallon of milk, and I went up there to the lady to pay, I paid, and I left, and I came on home. That's what happened. You ask a woman, hey, when you went to H-E-B and you bought a gallon of mint, what happened? And she'll say something like this. You know what? When I was going down to H-E-B, there was a wreck. And in that wreck, I had to sit behind, I had to go around, detour here, detour here. And finally, I got to the H-E-B. And when I got to H-E-B, I was going to go get a buggy. And can you believe this? Somebody got the buggy right before me. And then I finally got the buggy, and I'm going down the aisle. When I get to the aisle, just so happened three people needed milk like me. Finally, I got the milk and put it in my buggy. And when I get down there, and I'm waiting in line, and I'm looking around, there's everybody out there in line. And I waited, I don't know how long, and all I had was one gallon of milk. I should have went to the self-pay, right? But I didn't. I stayed right here. And when I'm standing there, here's a lady. She says, how you doing? You say, I'm doing fine. Well, where are you from? Well, I'm from Stafford. Well, how long have you been in Stafford? Oh, I've been here a little while. Are you married? Yeah. How many children you got? This lady here was just like a friendly lady and asked me all kinds of questions. I get up to the lady to pay for the milk and she says, how are you doing today? I'm doing fine. Okay, well, that's good. When I get out, I go and get my milk, and I go to the car, and I get to the car, and there was somebody over there just kind of staring at me. I kind of got a little scared, so I got in my car real fast and shut the doors and locked the doors. The man went and got the same gallon of milk. Do you see the difference? Am I right or wrong? Thank you. Sometimes I feel like I'm guilty for something. But God made you that way. And boy, God has used that in the way that He's made you to help man. Because man needs conversation. You know what man's conversation with man is? What's up, bro? Oh man, everything's good. That's good, I'll talk to you later. Alright, bye. That's conversation with men. That's it. I mean, we're not cutting, we're cutting to the chase. We're not asking no more questions. We're not asking anything else. I want to know what's going on. I want to know what's happening. I don't need anything else. Tell me right now. And we're gone. Get to the point. Tell me exactly what you want and let me move on. But that's not the way women is. And thank God. Because men need conversation from their wives. Talk to your husband. Laugh with your husband. Be jokeful with your husband. Make your husband feel comfortable with you. We find thirdly that there was another way of delivering from loneliness is to be a confidant or someone which you can tell secrets and tell stories and tell the heart and down deep in the soul and that you might just tell them that and that they would keep it forever. They would not use it against you in the days ahead. They would not tell their parents. They would not tell their children. They'll not tell their sisters or their brothers or their aunts or their uncles. They would come to the church and say, let me tell you what my husband said. Now don't tell nobody. If you tell somebody, I'm going to tell them you lied. Friend, listen, a man needs to be able to tell somebody. Some things that are really down, burdensome upon their hearts. And God has made you that person. You have, whenever he tells you something that is down deep in the heart of a man, he's done it because God made him that way. But then God made you that way that you would listen and hold it and keep it and don't tell nobody. And when you tell somebody or when you use it against them, you don't cut your throat. You done cut your throat. There's no way that man is gonna trust you anymore. And you're wondering all the time about your man. I wonder what he's thinking. I wonder what's on his mind. He don't ever tell me nothing. He don't ever just explain about what's going on and where we're going and how we're doing. He don't ever talk about the future and what's going on. I'm gonna tell you why. Because there was one time when he gave to you in the way of confidence and you gave it up. So now he has no trust in you no more. That man's hurt. How God made that man, it now has nowhere to go. Nowhere to go. But friend, we find tonight, he'll find somebody. He'll find somebody to tell them secrets to. because he's made to tell that secret. It might be his pastor. It might be his mom or dad. It might be maybe even a child. It might be somebody at church. It might be somebody at work. But listen, you're made for that, but he's made to tell that. Amen? We find tonight in that Savior of the woman, we've seen as well that she is to be a comrade I didn't say that this morning, but I'm telling you tonight. She's being a comrade. What does that mean? That means that she's to be a person to share one's activities with. That's what it would be tonight in the way of loneliness. She wants to share activities, or he wants to share activities with you. You say, well, I don't like fishing. Learn. I don't like hunting. Put your Put your, what is it, fatigues? What is it called? Fatigues? Put your camouflage on. I don't like camouflage. Get over it. Begin to love it. If you've got a hunter, he's a husband, camouflage up, man. I mean, get some paint on your face and get all decked out and say, honey, let's go hunting. He might just have a heart attack right there. Hey, if he likes a fishin', if he likes a car racin', get you a car racin' jacket. I mean, get you a, he likes the Astros, get you an Astro hat. Oh, he likes the Texans, get you a jersey. He likes whatever it is tonight. He might like maybe workin' in the garden for him. Well, get your old garden clothes on. Get you one tool in one hand and other hand. Hey, honey, we're gonna garden today. Boy, you're gonna find somebody loving you. Amen. Comrade. God is saying, this man's lonely, and this man cannot be lonely, and I have found him a one that will save him from loneliness, from deliver him from loneliness. And a comrade would be that. Listen, listen, wife. Listen, mom. Listen, woman. You're the one to do activities with him. He said, go get somebody else. You're asking for trouble, amen? I don't like this door open. And so we find tonight that God says I got a way to deliver and a way tonight to help this man. So I'm going to deliver him from loneliness with a woman. Am I right? Tonight, I know that we don't think of these many times, and as women, you might get tired, or as women, you might not feel like it. As women, you might say, you know what, it's just too much. Or as women, you might say, you know what, I don't like those kind of things. Well, guess what, woman? You don't have choice. God didn't make you and say, hey, listen, I want to do what you want to do. No, God said, I made you and you do what I want you to do. What do you want me to do, Lord? I want you to be a comrade to your husband. I want you to deliver him from loneliness. And whatever activities it is, you do it with him. Amen. Amen. I mean, every woman in here should say, amen. OK, I heard one. We find here, secondly, that women rescues from man's incompleteness. We find that the word meet there means that she's going to be a help meet. The word meet means a front or a part opposite or a counterpart. She completes him. She finishes him. She fulfills him. She's the perfect fit. She's the compliment. She brings in perfection in his life. And she is the suitable for him. No other one is suitable for him but her. She is the match correctly and she is the attached permanently. And we find tonight that she is that one that will bring you to a whole, that one that will bring you into a complete. You're half and she's half. One half plus one half equals one whole. Amen? And so until you get that other half, and we always say the better half, us men, amen? We say better half because we better say it. And so we say better half, and I believe it's true tonight, that she brings a completion in our lives. My, what a job that is for a woman, amen? You know what, if I wasn't a man, I'd want to be a woman. Is there any other choices? No. Because how important I would be. Amen? I'm telling you tonight, every woman in here ought to keep your head up. And you ought to say unto God, God, thank you for making me a woman, that I could save my man and I can rescue my man. Number three, a woman protects man from emptiness. We find that in verse 24. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh. Without the woman tonight, he would have a home that's empty. He would have a family that's empty. He would have children that's empty. He would have happiness that's empty. In other words, he would have none of those. without this woman. There would be no reason to leave his mother and father's house if it wasn't for the woman. There'd be absolutely no purpose for him to even have a home. Who wants to have a home and live by yourself? I mean, that's difficult, I understand. As you heard my mother say amen there, that she was married, I don't know, she was married like 600 years, and then dad passed, and now she lives alone, and she chooses that, and that's where she wants to be in her life, and that's okay, that's fine. But loneliness is tough. And we find tonight that the other half of her is gone, that makes her incomplete. And then she feels empty. A man tonight will be empty without a woman. Thank God He made woman. Not only tonight is she the Savior of the man, but she's the strength of the man. We found that in the word help in verse 18 and verse 20, that not only does it mean tonight in the way of a, as we spoke of, but it also means strength and warrior and fighter. And women are strength, and women are warriors, and they are fighters. Women tonight is the force of a man. The woman is a power of a man, and the woman is a might of a man. She's the enforcer, she's the encourager, and she's the engager. It is her that motivates him. It is her that moves him. And it is her that makes him. What you have tonight as a husband, You've made him. And so you say, I don't like him. Well, you made it. Well, I don't appreciate him. You made it. Well, he does that. You made it. You got to take full responsibility tonight and accountability of who you made. And that's who you made. I knew I wouldn't get much on that. Because some of y'all just don't believe that. You just don't believe tonight that that man that you live with, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, that he's different than when you married him. And the reason why he's different is because he married you. If he would have never married you, he would probably be different than he is. But because he married you, Now, he's different. And you made him. Whoo! Woman are created warriors. We know the power and influence and persuasion that she has upon her man. Let me say that again. The power and the influence and the persuasion that she has upon her man is unmatched to any other thing in all the world. There'd be nobody and nothing that would persuade him or motivate him or influence or empower him more than a woman tonight. You know, as much as that's true tonight, it's the downfall of man as well. All through the Bible tonight we find that men have fallen due to women. Women tonight can be troubling for men. But friend, this woman we're talking of tonight, the purpose of her is not only to save her man and tonight to bring a strength to her man, but thirdly to supply her man. We find tonight that the supply is of her home or of his home. We find tonight in that home there is a maker of the home. And this is where we stop this morning, so yeah, we're doing great. Turn in your Bibles to Proverbs 14, and let's look at this verse here. And we talked about it a little bit about this morning, but this is where we ended. Proverbs 14, look in verse 1. The Bible says, every wise woman Buildeth her house. But the foolish, talking about a foolish woman, plucketh it down with her hands. The word plucketh it down tonight, that means to pull down in pieces. A foolish woman doesn't bring down her house all at one time. A foolish woman brings down her house a little bit at a time. a year after year after year after year. And then next thing you know, it is plucked up and plucked away. But as a wise woman, the Bible says every wise woman, not just a few, not just some, but every wise woman buildeth her house. Can I say tonight that the supply of a woman tonight for the man is a home? A man wants a home. A man in his heart is wanting a home. A man comes out as a boy and looking for a home. He has been in a home, but he wants his own home. I would say tonight for every man or every boy that turns into a man, they would desire tonight a home. That's what a man would want. That's why God made him and God built him that way, is he wants a home. Now, in order to have a home tonight, he's gonna have to have a wife, a woman. And in that woman tonight, she's gonna have to supply for that home. And what will she supply? She'll supply the home by making the home. Now, it takes three things in order to build a home. Number one, it takes a blueprint. Am I right? It's going to take somebody who's going to draw this out. It's done made a blueprint. It's an architect has done made all the details and you're going to have to follow this blueprint tonight. And so as a woman tonight, before you get married or if you are married, you're going to say, I'm the one who's going to build a home and I'm going to build a home because my husband wants a home. And in building that home, I've got to know in the way of being wise is I got to thank What is going to be the blueprint of my home? And the Bible is the blueprint. Amen? It's not your mom and daddy's home. That's not the blueprint. Many a times your mom and daddy homes are disastrous. Many times your mom and daddy's marriages are dysfunctional. Many times tonight we all come from broken homes and we come from places tonight where daddy was an alcoholic or mama was a drug addict or whatever. And we find tonight in many occasions that is just a bad example of what a marriage is tonight. And so the blueprint of a wise woman that builds her house is the Word of God. Number two, if you have a blueprint, the second thing that you're gonna have in building your home is a foundation. Every home has a foundation, and that foundation is Jesus. So a wise woman would get the blueprint, the Word of God, and she would begin to study upon that Word of God. She'll begin to get that Word of God and begin to know what God's Word would have her to know, what kind of blueprint of a home that is to have, and she would be studious in that. And then she would take Jesus tonight to be the foundation of all that home. Amen. And then upon that foundation is structure, is framing and forming. And that structure tonight is the Holy Ghost of God. A wise woman tonight would be one who's indwelt by the Spirit of God. and being indwelt by the Spirit of God, she would build her home according to the Spirit of God tonight. And so we notice three things about a home tonight. That's the responsibility and accountability of that woman. Number one is the very joyfulness of that home. Because when you build a structure, you look back and you say, wow, that's a beautiful structure. That's a beautiful building. And so if I denied is your building that you built, dear woman, tonight in your home, is it a joyful home? That joyful home depends purely upon the woman of the home. She will bring the joy. She'll bring the rejoicing. She'll bring the excitement. She will bring tonight the very rejoicing of the home, not the man, the woman. She will build the home. Number two, now is there a joyfulness in that home? Is that the woman will bring that joy, but she'll bring the warmth of the home. She'll bring the welcoming of the home. She'll bring the temperature of the home. If the home is a place that's a battlefield, it's going to be upon her. If the home is a cold dungeon, it would be upon her. Whenever you get to the home, and boy, when you get there, there's a welcome, there's a kiss, there is a sweet kind word, there is a forgiveness, there is a pardoning, there is an overlooking, there is a letting go. And boy, there is a warmth at home. And when the man goes to work and has a hard day at work, it's so joyful to come home to a joyful wife and then come home to a wife that's warm. She's the one who builds the house. Number three, attitude. In building the house, there's an attitude in the house. If the attitude is, Always angry, she built that. The attitude is always dysfunction or dislike or complaints or murmurings or never satisfied. If the husband is saying, I can never satisfy that woman, the woman has created that home. Amen. Or the home could be a home that has the attitude of satisfaction, content. When that man gets to the home that she has built, he will have comfort. He will have rest. There'll be no war. There'll be no battle. There'll be nothing to fight over, because she is the builder of the home, and she's brought joy, and she's brought warmth, and she's brought attitude. Amen. And tonight, you ask family members, hey, tell me about my home. They say, boy, every time we get over there, man, there's attitude. That's a woman's fault. Well, I tell you, when I get over there, man, I don't feel no warmth at all. It just seems like I can't do nothing. I can't step. Don't touch that. Pick that up right there. I mean, when you get done with that, you do this. I mean, it just seems like everything's on edge. That's a woman. Amen? Amen, Brother Larry. I know you don't have to believe that tonight, but Proverbs chapter 14, verse 1 says, a wise woman built a third house. And a foolish woman will pluck it down. And what she'll do is she'll take that architect or she'll take that blueprint tonight and just remove it. She'll take that Word of God and just place it somewhere else. She'll not build her house on that foundation of Jesus. That's a foolish woman. And then I tell you something else she'll do, she'll reject the Spirit of God and she'll begin to do it according to flesh. That's a foolish woman. And I believe many homes tonight is ran by flesh. And it's ran by the own architect, which is the woman who thinks this is how it ought to run. And then the foundation of that is how she feels and what she thinks. That's a home of disaster. That's a home of dysfunction. That's a home of death. And that eventually will end in divorce. Because that's not what the man and that's not what the woman should be supplying. We find tonight that the maker of the home is the woman, and she'll supply that for her man. Number two, turn your Bibles to 1 Timothy 5. 1 Timothy 5, verse 14, there's the manager of the home. Now, this home tonight is a home in which this man has provided for her, and yet in the home, she's the maker of it. and then she's the manager of it. We see in 1 Timothy 5 and verse 14, the Bible says, Now any of this tonight is not done according to the scripture, then we have now gave our adversary, which is the devil, and he'll have something to say. Is that right? If you want to give the devil something to do or something to say tonight, then go ahead and not guide the house. Woman, you're to guide the house. What does it mean to guide the house? It means to manage the house. That word guide there means head or master of the home. The head or master of the home. Do you know tonight, dear woman, that you are the head of the home? Do you know that you're the master of the home? Do you know tonight that you're the one who's full responsible of the home? Do you know tonight in that way of home is that you are to manage your home? And you are to manage your home in the way in which you have built that home, and that is on the blueprint of the Word of God, and that is on the foundation of Jesus Christ, and that is on the structure of the Spirit of God. And in doing that tonight, you're now the very head or you're the very manager of that home. For example, tonight, what will you do within that home? Now, can I say this tonight? There is no greater business of your husband than his home. There's no greater mission in all the world for you, dear woman, than your husband's home. Tonight you can go outside the home and you can work and you can make 50, 75, $100, $100,000 a year tonight and it will be futile to you. The only home that matters tonight and the only home tonight that will do what God would made you do and cause you to be here for and the purpose in which he made you tonight is for you to manage your home. Tonight, that's what the purpose is for you tonight. To manage your home. How do I do that? Well, you do it by organization. You organize your home. If we go to your house tonight, and we see your house tonight as a crazy, messed up, everything everywhere, it's disastrous. Tonight, that's the manager. I know what you'll say. You'll say, well, the kids did that. Well, that's because they don't have no management. Well, you know what? The way that that is right there is because there's nobody supervising nobody. For example, like meals. Many do this. They say to their husband, hey, what would you like to eat? Why do you ask that question? That's not even his business. Amen? Whose business is that? Who? Woman. Yeah, woman. She's the one who puts order. She's the one who puts organization. She's the one who occupies. If you put on that table spam and eggs, And when that man gets home, he'll eat Spam and eggs and say, thank you. But while you're trying to figure out what does my man want, and you're asking him 16 million times, and you even complain and say, I need some help in menus. I need to know what you want to eat. You know what a man thinks? I'm a man. I don't care. You think I care about what I'm going to eat? No. Because the manager makes that determination. You say, brothers, it's a small thing. Yeah, it is a small thing, but you got to manage it. Amen? I mean, it's like this. The kids get up in the morning and you know they're going to be hungry. You know that they're going to want something to eat. And this is what you tell them. Go make you some cereal. What kind of manager is that? Am I right? Won't you tell them, won't you make you some bacon and eggs and put some biscuits in the oven as well? Won't you tell them that? Oh, because they can't do that. But what they can do is they can go to the cabinets and pull out his bowl and put some Cheerios or whatever they put in there, snowflakes or whatever it is, and you put some water in it, 2%, I guess, the milk it would be. It would be more healthier than the whole milk. And you put, because you care for your children, and so you put the 2% milk in there, and they're eating their milk while you're up setting up in bed like a hot roll. You're sitting on the couch as if you're some soft taco. And you're managing the home from the phone and sitting on the couch or yelling from the bed. And you ask questions like this as a manager. Are you hungry? Really? You know what a manager would do? If she would get up before her children get up, and she would get in there and have their food ready, she wouldn't ask them, do you want eggs, or do you want bacon, or do you want biscuits, or do you want cereal, do you want oatmeal, do you want grits? That's not what matters. Let me ask you a question today. Anybody who's ever worked any limited time, did the manager, the boss, The supervisor come up to you and say, what would you like to do today? And what do you think as a woman tonight in the home? Why are you asking questions? You are to manage. Manage the meals. You are to manage the clothes. It's not your husband's responsibility to go in there and wash his underwear. It's not his responsibility to go there after you done washed and dried them and put them in the bucket or bag or whatever it is, the basket. He gets up by the shower, hey honey bunny, I need some underwear. And you're up in the bed like you're tired. It's over there in the basket. Okay, I get it. You're going to have to if you're going to want some underwear. Or you're going to have to go to work without underwear. And then she's up in the bed saying, he's so lazy. He came and go over there to the bucket or to the basket and get his own underwear. Man, I tell you what, what's wrong with him? No, what's wrong is you. You should go to the washer and dryer and wash and fold and take those underwear and put it into his drawer where the drawer ought to be so that when you manage the home, we shouldn't have to be looking for clothes. We shouldn't have to be figuring out whether we got dirty or dry or we got wet tonight. Listen, you're the manager. How about the cleaning of the house? managing the cleaning of the house. I tell you what, I'm going to delegate that daughter, I'm going to delegate that to here. I'm going to tell you my boys are going to empty the trash, and my girls are going to wash the dishes, and they're going to sweep the floor, and they're going to do this, and they're going to do that, and you're over there, and they're not really getting it done, and the way they're doing it is not that good because they're not really interested in doing it, and they're just going to do it so they won't get in trouble. It's about a halfway job anyway, and so what you're doing, you go there, you yell at them. What's the matter with you? I told you to clean that up and you ain't clean that up. I want you to get it done right now or you're gonna be grounded for the rest of your life. Does that sound like a manager to you? A manager would have that house clean. Spick and span. That house would be in order. Clothes will be closed, we'll go. Dishes will be dishes, we'll go. The beds will be made. Let me tell you about the bed making. I'm on a roll. I've seen people who make beds. And man, you just know tonight that they're the manager. I know we're talking about really simple things tonight, but brother, they mean a lot. The point I'm trying to make is very important tonight about you being the manager. The bed comes unmade, right? That's what happens when you get in it. So this is somebody who really is a manager. They take that bed and they take that sheet. You know you have the fitted sheet and then you got the other sheet. Y'all have beds like that? I didn't know if I'm kind of weird about that. Then on top of the sheet, I've got a blanket or a comforter or something like that. Right? That's pretty much all I got. Now you might have something more. The manager of the home, that's the real manager of the home, they'll go over there and they'll go at the end of that bed and they will pull that seat so that up in the front, you know it's thicker, it's like this, right? Am I right? I'm not no bed authority so y'all need to help me. So up at the grave where you put your head, there is a, like the fold over, there you go, fold over, right? About four inches. It goes up by your head. So you pull that up and you make it straight across. You go down at the feet and you tuck it in. Am I right so far? You tuck it in and you go to the side Tuck it in, and you get that straight, you get that pillow, shake it up a little bit, put it on top of there, and then pull that blanket or pull that comforter where it's even on that side, even on this side, it's not hanging over the front, and it's not up on the top, and it's just sitting there like it ought to be sitting there, even in every way, and nice and neat. If you got a little pillow or something like that that people put on beds, you put a little pillow there. That's a manager. Now here's what not a manager is. The bed's messed up. Go over there, take that sheet, pull it up, take that comforter, throw it on top, put the pillow on top of that, and get the pillow and throw it there. It's not tucked in. It's not straight on the top. You got 12 inches on one side, six inches on the other side. Amen, brother. That's a manager. Amen? A manager says, we're eating at the table. And we're going to eat on paper plates. Yes, ma'am. You're the manager. We're going to eat tonight on fine China. Yes, ma'am. Tonight, we're going to have sandwiches and barbecue chips. Yes, ma'am. Tomorrow night we're gonna have chicken and rice and green beans. Yes, ma'am. Food, cleaning, clothes. Tonight, you're the manager of the home. If your home's a wreck tonight, cause you're a wreck. If your home is dirty tonight, cause you're dirty. If your home tonight is not organized and in order tonight, it's because you're not organized and you're disorder. Am I right? Stop blaming your husband. Stop blaming your children. And stop blaming anyone and everything. Get off the phone. Get out of the TV. Stop talking and looking at social media and all the other junk that's on that TV and on that phone tonight. And get up and be the manager of the home. Amen! Let me ask you something tonight. Wouldn't you think that God who made that purpose for you to manage that home, that that husband would be pretty excited about that? I would believe tonight that every man in this room that's married wants their wife to decide what we're going to eat. Can we tell you something tonight? A woman who's not a manager makes disastrous asking her what you want to eat. Where do you want to go? I don't know. Where do you want to go? I want to go to Red Lobster. I don't want to go there. You decide where we're going to go. No, I don't want to decide. You decide. All right, then let's go down here to Papa's. Oh, I don't know. Papa's has too much. You've got to wait too long. All right, tell me where you want to go then. I don't want to make that decision. You make it. You surprise me. OK, let's go on down here to the pizza place. Oh, I don't want no pizza. What do you want? Well, I really want Chinese. What did you say? Is that right? It drives a man crazy. You want to put a man in a bad mood, you let the woman of the home be unmanaged. Listen woman, if you want to really get a man who's really going to do what God asked him to do for you tonight, then you got to be a manager of your home. When do you got to start doing it? Tonight. Tonight, I don't care if it's midnight. Get it. My man wants a clean house. Does any man in here wants a dirty house? I know I'm getting down and personal right now. Does anybody in here tonight care that your underwear is over in a bucket somewhere when you need to put it on? Do you think any man in this room is saying, hallelujah, glory to God? I got a winner for a wife. Do you think tonight that every time you come home there's nothing fixed? And she says, the reason you don't have nothing fixed is I didn't know what to fix you. Please. What's wrong with the house? Why is it such a wreck? The children. They're out of control. I need you to get your children, your children in control. No, you're the manager of the home. If you're a mother tonight and you have to wait till your husband gets home to very discipline your children, you already have created a problem. You need to take the paddle, you need to take the discipline, and you need to do it when daddy's not home. And when daddy gets home, they get a double whammy. You get a double whammy a few times, friend, and every child in this room will learn, don't mess with mama. Don't let your children run all over you, the manager of the home. Amen? Because, listen, if you keep mismanaging your home, one day you get fired. How about that? What are you saying, Brother Larry? I'm saying that God has made you for the purpose of managing your home, and if you don't, He'll fire you. Number three, not only tonight are you the maker of the home, talking about the supply of the home, you're the manager of the home, but I want you to look again, not only in the way of being a head or a master of the home, the manager, but I want you to notice in Titus chapter two and verse five with me, the Bible says that not only are you the guide, the house, but the Bible says to be discreet chaste keepers at home. Keepers at home. What does that mean? That word keeper means a stayer. It means a dweller. It means a guard. It means a caretaker of the house. Tonight, you're not only a manager tonight, but you're one tonight that is a stayer of the home. Now I know that this is very controversial to many a people tonight. It's not controversial to God. God says you're to be the keeper of the home. That means you're going to be the stayer of the home. You're going to be the keeper of the home. You're going to be the guard of the home. You're going to be the one who takes care of the home. You're there. The husband gets up. The husband goes to work. The husband does what he does as a husband and comes home. You stay home. That's where you belong. I don't like that, Brother Larry. Well, too bad. God said that you'd be a stayer at home. I didn't say it. If we're going to do what God would have us to do, and you're going to be what God would have you to be, the purpose of you is to stay at home. It's just been recently, in the last probably 50 years, 60 years or something, that women have decided that they want to be careers. And they want to go out and above and beyond and go to work and go outside the home. And friend, it's contrary tonight that a woman would have a boss that would tell her what to do and she would submit to her boss who's a man tonight. That's anti-Bible. Many homes tonight have been divided because the woman has went out and been seduced and been finding herself in a sexual relationship with a boss or with somebody else tonight and out and yonder out there and then bring back in the home and the home ended in destruction and ruin because she was out there amongst men. You're talking about danger tonight. The fact of the matter is the Bible says in Titus chapter 2 verse 5, the stayer. the dweller, the one who's guard the home. Men, you got to make sure tonight that your wife knows what her purpose is, and that is to guard the home. Amen? It's not the babysitter. It's not the daycare. And I know tonight that we have some single moms in here. I understand you don't have a husband. I understand that well tonight. But it just makes my case though. It just makes my case. It just makes God's word to be more true. Can I say thirdly tonight, not only is she to bring supplier of the man and the maker of the home and the manager of the home, but the man of the home. She's to supply the man and the home. Turn back to Genesis with me, chapter three and verse 16. Genesis 3, verse 16. The Bible says, thy desire, talking about the woman. The desire of the woman shall be to thy husband. That word desire there means to seek. And God has said to you, dear woman, that you are to desire your man. That means tonight, that word desire means to run after. Run after your man. If you've gotten too sophisticated or you've gotten too spiritual or you've gotten too fleshly and you got in your mind and you got in your heart, listen, He ran after me and if I'm gonna have anything to do with Him, He's still gonna have to run after me. I'm telling you tonight, that'll never work in a home of God. The home that God's in tonight is a wife that is running after her husband. running after her husband. Running after her husband, that's what it means. The word desire. To run after. It also means to stretch out. To stretch out. He ought to get so tired of your love. He ought to get so weary with you always just coming after him and stretching out for him. Now I'm going to tell you something tonight, men won't be that way. They'll enjoy that. Most men don't get it. Most men have to run after their wife. Most men have to stretch out to their wives. That's contrary to scripture here tonight, by the way. The man shouldn't have to come and run after you or stretch after you, dear woman. You should have to be stretching and running after him. Is that right? I mean, when he gets home tonight, you're not sitting up there like a sack of potatoes, hearing that door open. Who is it? It's just me. Oh, okay. The food is in the microwave. When did you cook it? Two o'clock. I guess the microwave is the perfect place for it, so all I got to do is hit two in the button for two minutes. I'll be there in a minute. Hey, I'm done eating. Where you at? Oh, I'm watching my show. I'm on the phone, I got a social meeting going on. I'm on this Facebook and man, I'm finding out everything about everybody. I'm the busy, busy bee. I'm figuring out what people are doing. Tonight, you're not running after Him at all. And you wonder what's wrong with your man. You wonder why your man don't want to be with you, or you wonder why your man's not being, like, flirty. Wonder why. Because you ain't ran after Him all week. Now, you ran your mouth. You complained and murmured about a lot of things. You told him how bad he was and how ugly he is and how he needs to get it better. And you know what? He just needs to get his act together. You said all that. But you ain't ran after him just not yet. And you wonder why he's cold. You wonder why he's far away. You wonder why he don't want nothing to do with you. You wonder why that whenever it's just that time, it just don't mean much my Wayne Moore. Don't talk about that time. You ain't run after him yet. I tell you tonight, run after him. What'd I say? Run after him tonight. Run him out of the house. Stretch after him. And I'm going to tell you tonight, I'm going to see how it works out for you. You think God knows what he's doing? Bible says, the desire, your desire tonight shall be to thy husband. run after him. It means to stretch out. It means to long after. To seek her man. That's what God said. God made you a purpose and that purpose is to seek your man. Isn't that good? Isn't that good? So hey, listen guys. When your wife is seeking after you, man, I'm talking about running after you and stretching out for you and longing after you tonight. Don't be afraid. Don't be scared. Don't be calling, don't be calling nobody. Say, please, help! Ah, help! God sent you help. She's Ezra. The help is right there. What can I say here secondly? None to seek her man. How about the man of the hole? Has this been good? It gets gooder and gooder. Now, you're not going to like this. I said that on purpose because the next one's going to be more difficult, I think, or more, at least, not likable. Not only to seek her man, but to submit to her man. Now, that Bible says, right here in verse 16, it says, He shall rule over her, or over thee. Do you know tonight you've got a ruler? Tonight, that word rule there, it means to have dominion. Do you know tonight that the man that you live with has dominion over you? What? We're equal in the eyes of God. You are. In Jesus Christ tonight, whether you're a Gentile, whether you're a Jew, whether you're a Barbanian, whether you're a Sinton, we're all in one with Jesus. You are. Whatever you want to tell me tonight, okay. But there's something you need to know. He has dominion over you. A little dominion? No. All dominion. Your husband tonight, according to Scripture here, he has dominion over you. He's going to rule you. That word rule means reign. He reigns over you. It means governed. He governs you. Yeah, but I'm the manager of the house. That's right. And you're the manager of His house. And He's the governor. He's tonight the one who rules you. Stop fighting it. Stop arguing with God. Stop trying to think that you are going to win this battle. God's already declared it. It's already said and done. He has dominion over you. Swallow. It's so. It's not a bad thing. You act like it's negative. You think God's going to give you more than you handle? You think God's going to make you something that's going to be harmful? No, you don't realize that the man having dominion over you, the man having reigning over you, the man that has the governing over you is what's best for you. It's what makes the marriage go. Let's turn here tonight real quick. I got like two minutes to Ephesians chapter 5. A well-known passage. This is probably the best description of the Bible tonight on this subject. But the Bible talks about this in here and it says that there in verse Verse 22 of chapter 5 Ephesians, it says, Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Now the word submit tonight is a military word. It means that you arrange under His rule ship. You arrange under His rule ship. In other words, He don't make you, you do it voluntarily. Because that's what God would have you to do. Not what your man wants, but what God wants. Let's not get that confused tonight. It ain't the man's choice, it ain't the man's decision that he rules you. It's God's choice, He rules you. Okay? Then it says, there in this verse, verse 23, For the husband is the head. The head. The husband is the head. of the wife. You know what that means tonight? That word head there means master. Don't get bent out of shape, dear woman. God said this, that He'll be your master. You know what that word also means, head? It means Lord. Little l though, not big. There's only one Lord, that's Jesus, but little El. Now is this hard to even accept? That God had said that he is the master, he's the Lord, he's the rule, he's the reign, he's the one who governs. And God's not, it's not negotiable with him. This isn't something God's gonna come to you and say, okay, I'll work it out with you. So what are you to do with this? Verse 33. Reverence your husband. Reverence him. That's the purpose of the woman. Now what does reverence mean tonight? Well, this is what it means and we'll close. Reverence in 1828 Webster's Dictionary. I want to tell you, I didn't make this up. This is from 1828. It says this, The highest degree of respect and reverence, mingled with some degree of awe, a feeling or sentiment excited by the dignity and the superiority of the person, or by the sacredness of his character, and with regard to place by its concentration, Tonight, the reason why you would reverence your husband is the very fact because he holds that superior position. It's not a position that he desired. It's not a position in which he reached far. It's a position that God has placed him in there. And he said, for this man, he needs a savior. He needs God. He needs a strength. He needs a supplier. And in that supplier, this man needs his wife to reverence him. God made the majority of every man that I know complaint. I don't get no respect. Man is made To require respect. That's why God would tell you, the woman, to reference. He holds that position. He has that place. He is one tonight that is the head of the woman and you to reference Him. You to pray for Him. You to praise Him. And you are to pardon Him. The priority he holds in your life is to be reverenced. The significance he has is to be respected. The respect that he gets is due to the awe that you see in him. Reverence. Woman's purpose tonight is to save her man, to strengthen her man, and to supply her man. This is your purpose tonight. Are you meeting the purpose tonight of God? Are you reverencing your husband? Respecting him with all as if he's Lord, Master and Dominion? I'm telling you, dear women, if you would do this towards your husband, you would find a new husband. In most minds of women tonight, it's this thought process and it's flesh. When He changes, I respect Him. Am I right? Until He gets His act together, I will not respect that. But God don't work in those terms. He says tonight to you, dear women, I have gave you purpose, reverence your husband. He doesn't tell you whether he deserves it, or whether he's earned it, or whether he's worthy of it. Does he? He says, reverence. Stand in awe. He's Lord, Master. He's reign, dominion, governor. I'm going to tell you something tonight. if the President of this United States of America would walk in them back doors. I don't believe any of us tonight would say, what's up, Trump? The owner of a business that you work for tonight will walk into your office. They say, what's up, Bob? Let me give you five. What's up, Bob? Call him Bob. Hey, Bob. None of us do that. An officer come to your house. Hey bro, what kind of gun you got on your side? You know why? Because naturally anyone in positions of authority and any who has power tonight, we respect and we show reverence toward. Amen? Dear women of God, the man in your home must, has to have, required and commanded by you, reference. And it's got to start tonight. Amen? I know what you're saying. I can't wait till next Sunday. Let's get on these guys. Tonight, we're not there. We're here. I would pray tonight you would consider what was being said tonight. Let's stand our feet, our heads are bowed, our eyes are closed. Again, tonight, what will we pray? What will be the invitation tonight? Well, I think three things tonight would be a consideration to why you would come to the altar tonight. Number one, if you're a woman, I would come to the altar and ask God that I would fulfill my purpose. by being the Savior, the strength, and the supplier of my man. If I was a husband tonight, I would come to the altar and pray for my dear wife and ask God to help my dear wife to become the Savior, the strength, and the supply for me. If I was a saved woman or man in this room, I would come to the altar and pray for women, pray for women that God would give them the ability to become that woman of purpose. That's what I would do. If there's any reason why you need to come to the altar, those are three reasons. Christians are begging God, oh God, take our women. and let them know their purpose and fulfill that purpose. Husbands, God, take my wife. Let her be the purpose and wives say, no, God, I want to have that purpose. It all equals tonight that God will reach down and touch our homes and our marriages. And you that are not married, you now know what to expect. And you that are married tonight, You now know about what God has brought purpose to woman. And you tonight that have been married and divorced, you now know what may have been and what you need to do next time. Oh, there's hope tonight in God's Word. This is not negative tonight, this is positive. God bless tonight. Move. Move in hearts of women and homes tonight. Oh, God, give help. With all the ability I had tonight and all the strength that I could gather, God, I gave unto these people the Word of God. And I pray tonight, Lord, they would make a difference in every home and in every life. Oh, God, heal. Oh, how we praise you. How we honor you, Lord. How we give you the glory, give you the honor. Thank you for taking sinners and become one flesh tonight. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, God, that we can make change and we can have forgiveness with each other. Thank you, Lord, that you make us start over again and give us chance after chance. Lord, I thank you tonight, Lord, that you Hear our prayers and you'll meet the needs of our lives. Thank you for the word, dear God, tonight to give us understanding and clarity about a woman and the purpose that you made her for. Thank you for the positive of it. I'm excited tonight to know this. Oh God, we beg you tonight for help. I'll pray and we'll be dismissed. I come to you in Jesus' name tonight. Lord, you know how I need help as a husband. You know tonight, dear God, how I need help as a man. And yet tonight, Lord, I know that all of us tonight need help, whether a man or a woman. And yet the emphasis to stay, dear God, was on women. And I pray tonight, Lord, that you have touched every woman in this place. God, then every woman tonight, Lord, would not rebel or be angry or refuse tonight, but God, they would receive what you have given them tonight. God, that they might go over in the scripture in which we preach tonight, Lord, to find confirmation. God, that this is really what you want them to be and do. I pray they take seriously tonight their role as a wife, as a woman tonight. Lord, that this day on, this day forward, God, that they would fulfill that purpose in which they've been created. I thank you for the high calling that you have given them. Me as a man tonight, Lord, I need a woman. And I'm grateful tonight, Lord, for all the women that you have brought and that you have given. I pray tonight, Lord, that you would guide and lead us as we go home. Father, as we no doubt discuss this message tonight between each other, Father, that we might find a joy and find a peace and a rest. And Father, may this be a start of a fresh and a new of our marriage and of our home. Father, thank you tonight, Lord, that we always can start again. We thank you tonight, Lord, for the forgiveness of how we failed you. Lord, leading God, as we go our way, keep us safe, and I know the weather this week will be bad, and I pray, Lord, that you'll keep us safe there, too. I pray, Lord, that you give us an ability to come back on Wednesday night to have church. That's our heart's desire. I pray, Father, that you let us do that in spite of the weather. Father, leading God, as we go home tonight, Father, may every home tonight be full of joy. and rest and peace. In Jesus' precious holy name I pray. Amen and amen. God bless you church.