Warning Against Women
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I know of only one minster of the word in the last century who came to that conclusion - albeit that he states that the Scripture does not explicitly state that meaning - yet he does cite Ephesians 4:29
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. Ephesians 4:22-30
That meaning predicates to Genesis 2 and speaks to Adam naming the female taken from his body - woman. It tells us why Adam who was not deceived listened to his wife and it explains why the burden in the New Testament and a New Covenant expressly likens the husband loving his own body - is a picture of Christ loving His body. So we cannot escape its meaning and neither will any husband escape if he does not love his wife - as Christ loves His body. And as Paul says it is a mystery and difficult to understand.
Just as it may be difficult for a daughter to understand when she is angry with her own husband because her father caused her to stumble because he did not love his own wife. Or a son is cast into a Jezebelic effect when his mother was an abusive woman and crushed him when he was a child because she was herself crushed by her husband or her father or mother. There are many outcomes and they falter into increasing dark circles that by the end of it a child may be born who is cast into darkness from his mothers womb and never did see any light - neither the love of his mother or the good standing of his father. So whilst he may be fearfully restrained to honour his mother and father he may for all that know nothing of natural love that speaks to the love of God - and so he knows first the love of the Father when he is first drawn from the fire for a purpose of God and only then can he understand his father or mother.
The sad truth is that these things were understood from the beginning - and there are libraries of books and learning that speak into its meaning - and now at this hour there is no more time to separate out the woman for teaching in the churches until first the man learns himself and begins to obey God - thankful that he was born first of his mothers womb and that he is one flesh with his wife and the father of his children from his wives body.
Only the cross and the love of the Father in Christ will remove that idolatry of loving oneself which came to bear in Eden - which is to say in a semblance of meaning - loving ones wife - which is to love ones own body. Vanity is the sickness and idolatry is the outworking so that the woman becomes an object and always tends to being on show both for himself and in a boast to others - when in truth only obedience should be visible to others outside the home and in a perfect desire in the home also - both men and women - and the children are become the visible fruit.
Yet if by some means we are doubtful of these natural things because we have scarily yet caught sing of them in our own experience such has been the distress of life - then the Lord tells us plainly that we must love Him above all things - and in that meaning we may find that we are cast into a bed of lamentation until the Lord raises up His prophets to tear down that effect in our time. So lets go back to the assembly having repented of our own conduct in the home in a fearful regard to its effect on our wives and our husbands or our children and trust God in the assembly of His people and receive the deliverance of our obedience from our own flesh - by humbling ourselves to the many members who are equipped to serving us - and when we receive so let us give in peace also.
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless. So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body. Ephesians 4:22-30
That meaning predicates to Genesis 2 and speaks to Adam naming the female taken from his body - woman. It tells us why Adam who was not deceived listened to his wife and it explains why the burden in the New Testament and a New Covenant expressly likens the husband loving his own body - is a picture of Christ loving His body. So we cannot escape its meaning and neither will any husband escape if he does not love his wife - as Christ loves His body. And as Paul says it is a mystery and difficult to understand.
Just as it may be difficult for a daughter to understand when she is angry with her own husband because her father caused her to stumble because he did not love his own wife. Or a son is cast into a Jezebelic effect when his mother was an abusive woman and crushed him when he was a child because she was herself crushed by her husband or her father or mother. There are many outcomes and they falter into increasing dark circles that by the end of it a child may be born who is cast into darkness from his mothers womb and never did see any light - neither the love of his mother or the good standing of his father. So whilst he may be fearfully restrained to honour his mother and father he may for all that know nothing of natural love that speaks to the love of God - and so he knows first the love of the Father when he is first drawn from the fire for a purpose of God and only then can he understand his father or mother.
The sad truth is that these things were understood from the beginning - and there are libraries of books and learning that speak into its meaning - and now at this hour there is no more time to separate out the woman for teaching in the churches until first the man learns himself and begins to obey God - thankful that he was born first of his mothers womb and that he is one flesh with his wife and the father of his children from his wives body.
Only the cross and the love of the Father in Christ will remove that idolatry of loving oneself which came to bear in Eden - which is to say in a semblance of meaning - loving ones wife - which is to love ones own body. Vanity is the sickness and idolatry is the outworking so that the woman becomes an object and always tends to being on show both for himself and in a boast to others - when in truth only obedience should be visible to others outside the home and in a perfect desire in the home also - both men and women - and the children are become the visible fruit.
Yet if by some means we are doubtful of these natural things because we have scarily yet caught sing of them in our own experience such has been the distress of life - then the Lord tells us plainly that we must love Him above all things - and in that meaning we may find that we are cast into a bed of lamentation until the Lord raises up His prophets to tear down that effect in our time. So lets go back to the assembly having repented of our own conduct in the home in a fearful regard to its effect on our wives and our husbands or our children and trust God in the assembly of His people and receive the deliverance of our obedience from our own flesh - by humbling ourselves to the many members who are equipped to serving us - and when we receive so let us give in peace also.
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