PREFACE
- I taught the lesson, "From Adam to Ahab - Men's
Weaknesses", first so that I could teach this lesson.
I made the men mad while the women gloated. Now the
women will get mad while the men gloat. Actually the
purpose is to help both men and women. You should not
gloat but try to learn about the other sex. I have
learned a lot by listening to Earline talk about
herself and women in general, and by us ministering to
many women. Women should teach the men and men should
teach the women about each other.
It appears that the
main weaknesses of women are their feelings of
insecurity, inferiority and inadequacy, the little
"i". The main reason women are in this condition is
because the men have failed as fathers, husbands,
sons, grandfathers and men in general. The burden of
responsibility is on the men, not the women. Men have
the weakness of the big "I": pride, ego and vanity.
A term I coined for
Earline and myself is God's Little Trouble Makers. We
have made spiritual trouble for a lot of religious
people by teaching deliverance. We get these lessons
from working with thousands of Christians and their
problems. As engineer and school teacher, we are
problem solvers; as deliverance ministers, we also are
problem solvers. I don't have anything against women
or women ministers. Earline ministers with me as an
equal. She submits to my leadership and I do the dirty
work of casting out demons in mass deliverance.
OLD
TESTAMENT - EVE TO JEZEBEL
Gen. 3:1-5 Adds to
God's words, looks for good things, wants to be wise,
wants husband to approve.
16:1-3 Used a
substitute wife - trying to help God out.
18:9-15 Laughed at
God's promise of a child - not believing God.
19:26 Lot's wife
disobeyed the angels and became a pillar of salt -
curiosity.
21:9 Could not stand
mocking or competition for son - jealousy,
overprotection of male child.
27:6-10 Played the
Jezebel - interfered with God's plans.
27:46 Lied to Isaac
- deceiving husband.
30:1-3 Gave maid to
husband to wife for childbirth - trying to keep
husbands affections, competition, envy.
30:9 Leah gave maid
to husband - competition with sister.
31:19, 34-35 Rachel
stole images and lied about them - greed.
38:14-16 Tamar took
matters into her on hands - trying to get
justification.
39:7 Lust for a man
not her husband - harlotry.
Num. 12:1-2 Desire
of women to rule - inferiority complex.
30:2-5 Woman not
bound by her vow - God holds man responsible.
Duet. 25:11-12 The
immodest woman - source of many problems.
Jud.
16:4-6,10,13,15-16 Delilah entices Samson.
Ruth 1:14-15 Natural
tendency of woman to stay with her gods.
I Sam. 1:4-6 Women
are jealous and provoke each other.
29:9 Women enter
into witchcraft for money and power.
II Sam. 6:16, 20, 23
Michal despised David and became childless.
11:2 Bathsheba
exposed herself - common problem.
I Kings 19:2 Jezebel
threatened Elijah - Jezebelic women threaten pastors.
21:5-14 Jezebel
connived to kill Naboth - helping husband.
II Kings 9:30-37
Proud Jezebel is eaten by dogs - end of Jezebel.
OLD
TESTAMENT - REMAINING CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN
II Kings 11:1,
Athaliah took matters into her own hands and ended up
slain. Some women are calloused enough to have others
put to death or even to kill.
Job 2:9-10, Job's
wife acted foolishly. Some women ask or demand that
their husbands do foolish things.
Proverbs 6:24-26,
The mischief's of whoredom. Evil women use flattery
and their alluring eyes to take men into whoredom.
Proverbs 7:10-21,
The cunning of a whore. The characteristics of a whore
are attire of a harlot, subtle of heart, loud and
stubborn, does not stay at home, lies in wait for men,
has an impudent face, offers gifts, decorated bed for
sex, has an enticing speech and flattering lips.
Eze. 8:13-14, Women
weeping for Tammuz. Women today who practice
Valentine's Day are worshiping Tammuz, Nimrod and
Semiramis.
NEW
TESTAMENT - CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN
Matt. 19:3-9, There
is only one right before God to put away your mate -
fornication or adultery. Christian women are
frequently looking for some scriptural reason to
divorce the husbands that they fell mistreat them.
Probably if these women would truly live the life that
the Bible outlines, the husbands would want to treat
them right and to be like them.
Matt. 25:1-13, The
parable of the ten virgins talks about the five
foolish virgins. You could say that these are women
who do not find out what the Bible teaches them to do
as daughters, wives, mothers, grandmothers and women
in all walks of life, and then follow the
instructions.
Mark 6:17-28, Women
get inward grudges against others and go to great
lengths to retaliate even unto death. The daughter was
probably dancing sensuously to entice the king.
John 4:16-20, When
confronted of her sin of adultery, she changed the
subject from herself to where to worship. Few women
can face themselves and their problems.
James 1:5-8, A woman
wavers back and forth between choices of what she
should do or not do considering and reconsidering.
Women will think of many ideas but not be able to
evaluate them. Here again, the natural tendency of a
woman is to follow rather than lead. The husband needs
to listen to his wife and discuss the alternates. If
the wife and husband can not agree, it is the duty of
the husband to make the final decision. The husband
then must take the consequences of his decision and
not to blame the wife if things do not go as
anticipated.
I Cor. 7 and 7:28,
The duties of the married state are discussed in this
chapter. Verse 28 states "Nevertheless such shall have
trouble in the flesh". There is no way to be married
and raise a family without having troubles and
everyone needs to realize this.
Eph. 5:22-33, The
duties of wives and husbands are mentioned in these
verses. It is very hard for the modern woman to accept
the Bible and to follow its directions of submitting
in everything and reverencing her husband.
I Tim. 5:3-16, The
qualifications of widows to receive help are listed.
Note that a divorcee is not a widow! The church today
treats the divorcees as widows and neglects true
widows. Some weaknesses of women are being idle,
wandering about, gossiping and nosing into others
affairs.
I Peter 3:1-7, The
duties of wives and husbands are further mentioned in
these verses. The key to winning the lost husband is
your conduct not preaching and beating the man over
the head with the Bible.
STUDY OF SCRIPTURES
- The basic nature of man and woman can be seen by a
study of the scriptures and observing human nature.
Adam and Eve are good examples to study since they
were created without sin. You can study how they were
created and how they fell into sin. Another list of
weaknesses of women is the opposite of the godly
characteristics listed in the Bible.
Women want to be
equal with men and to do everything that men do. They
want to be admired and for others to think they are
spiritual. They want to have the wisdom God gives to a
Godly man or be like God. They have spiritual pride
and want to be looked up to as one who hears from God.
They enter into false gifts to be noticed. Because a
woman is programmed by God to follow a man, she will
tend to stay in a bad situation. She will tend to
follow the gods of her husband.
The Bible tells us
what are the responsibilities of the man and the
woman. They are not the same. We get into trouble when
the man acts like a woman and the woman acts like a
man. The woman is not capable of doing all of the jobs
that the man can do. Many times when she tries to do
the job of a man, she breaks down somewhere and falls
back on using womanly wiles (witchcraft) to get the
job done.
TREATMENT OF WOMEN
BY MEN - I Peter 3:7 and Col. 3:19 - The woman is the
weaker vessel. Husband must have knowledge of his
wife's weaknesses. He should understand the basic
nature of the woman as God made her. He should honor
his wife and help her overcome her weaknesses. Husband
must not be bitter against his wife.
The husband is the
king and the wife is the queen of the household. The
children are to stand between the two strong parents
who will protect them until they leave home. The man
is not a dictator or tyrant. The woman is not a slave,
a dog or inferior. She does not walk ahead of him and
lead the family. She does not walk behind him as a
servant. She walks with him, side by side, to guard
the family and be a help mate to him in what God has
called him to do.
We compiled a lesson
called "Perfect Family With A Perfect Relationship To
God". This twenty-page lesson outlines what the Bible
says about the family. If you believe the Bible and
can see what God says about the family, then you will
try to follow the instructions. Col. 3:18-21, A
summary of the perfect family before God states,
"Husbands love your wives." and "Wives submit to your
husbands."
AHAB AND JEZEBEL -
It is very interesting to study the scriptures about
Ahab and Jezebel. We have two excellent tracts that we
give to people: The Curse of Ahab and The Curse of
Jezebel. We have used this teaching to help many
people. Everyone has problems in this area and we can
trace our problems back to our ancestors, Adam and
Eve.
Women scheme and
connive to get their way. They want to control others.
Women get into witchcraft so that they can manipulate
others for their benefit. Some women despise their
husbands when they become priest of the home and the
woman is no longer the spiritual head.
Women use their
bodies to sensuously attract men and to get their way.
Women entice men with their words and exposure of
their bodies. Women are afraid that other women will
steal their husbands.
THE WOMAN QUESTION -
This is a very sensitive area with the women; it is
dynamite. Most pastors will not touch this issue with
a ten-foot pole; they are afraid of losing their
church, congregation and money. We don't have a church
to lose and we are not interested in controlling you
or your money! I am going to pose the following as
questions for you to think about:
1. Part of our
calling is to minister to pastors, and other Christian
leaders and their families. As we have ministered to
this class of people, there have been a lot of
questions formed in our minds.
2. The Bible says
that the woman is the "weaker vessel" (I Peter 3:7).
What does that mean to you? How is the man the
stronger vessel?
3. Let's say that
the woman is weaker physically and spiritually than
the man. How can she be used in the ministry? How did
women minister in the Bible?
4. The Bible says
that the man is "priest and head of the home" (I Cor.
11:3 & Prov. 1:8). How should he minister to,
provide for, and protect the wife and children?
5. Suppose a man
will not be priest and head of the home. Why does a
woman then try to manipulate or be a Jezebelic woman
to get the things that she and the children need in
the spiritual and physical realms?
6. Suppose a woman
is married and her husband will not provide spiritual
protection. Can she shift this responsibility to her
pastor or to any man other than her husband to be her
protective covering? What is the "covering" of the
woman (I Cor. 11:3-16)?
7. We have
ministered to many women without their husbands
present when the husbands were not saved or did not
believe in deliverance. What is the frequent result of
only ministering to the woman without her husband
present?
8. There are many
woman's meetings in the land today. Why do women like
to meet without their husbands?
9. Consider the
basic way a woman thinks. What happens to a woman in
her mind when she has no male leadership?
10. Should a man
minister to a woman alone in deliverance? Should a
woman minister to a man alone in deliverance? What is
the possible happening?
11. The Bible talks
about "Priscilla and Aquila" (I Cor. 16:19). Is this a
husband and wife team?
12. We minister as a
husband and wife team. What are the advantages of this
method? What about protection from sex traps laid by
Satan?
13. What
characteristics are taken on by women who minister
full time? Do they try to emulate or copy men?
14. God sent men out
"two and two" (Luke 10:1). Did He send out any women
one and one, or two and two? Was God discriminating
against women?
15. Assume a woman
minister travels with another woman. What are the
pitfalls?
16. Assume a woman
who ministers by herself is either married or
unmarried. What are the pitfalls?
17. Assume a woman
who ministers is married and her husband is unsaved or
saved, and will not travel with her. What are the
pitfalls?
18. In the Bible the
family is considered as an institution (Gen. 2:24) and
was created even before the church. What happens when
the family is separated by occupations, ministry or
the church? How can the church help to destroy the
family by having too many meetings for different
members of the family? What is gained by keeping the
family together as a unit in work, play and church?
19. What does the
Bible say about the duties of a woman about being
wife, mother, Christian and minister?