God's Description Of Godly Womanhood

open your Bibles with me to proverbs at chapter number 31 I brought my mother's day sermon with me today my mother is going to be with the Lord and I have nowhere to go so for the next 4 and 1/2 hours we will be in Proverbs at chapter 31 now I know you're ready to go you're ready to take your mother out are you ready to go cook for your mother on Mother's Day you go all out and on Father's Day you just throw a piece of meat on the ground and wipe the dust off it and make us eat it but turn with me to proverbs 31 commencing in verse number 10 through verse number 31 who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above rubies the heart of a husband of safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life she seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands she is like the merchants ships she bringeth her food from afar she rides it also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens she consider it the field and by a fit with the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard she girded the loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms she perceived that her merchandise is good a candle goeth not out by night she lay her hands to the spindle and her hands hold a distaff she stretches out her hand to the poor yay she stretches forth her hands to the needy she's not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household are clothed with scarlet she maketh herself coverings of top straight-a clothing is silk and brittle her husband is known indicates when he sitteth among the elders of the land she maketh fine linen and cellophane and delivereth girdles under the merchants strength and honour are her clothing that she shall rejoice in time to come she openeth a mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness she looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness her children arise up and called her blessed her husband also and he praiseth her many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all verse thirteen thirty-one reads favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised give her of the fruit of her hands and let her all works praise her in the gates thank you you may be seated grass withers and the flower fades but the word of our God shall stand forever long reading of this passage sermon for 10 minutes if you missed the reading you missed the message this woman an elementary school teacher was teaching her class about the positive and negative ends of a magnet and she said to them in teaching that magnets pick up things magnets is the job of a magnet it's the force inside a magnet to pick up things magnet the word magnet she taught them has six letters in it a magnet picks up things it's positive and a negative side and the magnet picks up things and so she gave them a test and on the test he just threw a question in there to ask them what has six letters starts with M and picks up things and 50% of the class wrote mother somebody gonna get that on the way to to pompadour she picks up things she's always busy she's always providing she's always making the home sweet she's always making life better she's always she's always doing something for the ones that she loves she's always looking out she's always providing she's always busy there's no such thing as a mother a real mother who is not always concerned about her family concerned about her children making sure that the house runs well making sure that everybody in the family is doing well as a matter of fact sometimes she neglects herself to look out for her husband and her children which is a real godly woman and that's what the text describes God's description of a godly woman there are several things I want to run through real quickly here to describe to us what a godly woman is I wanted I want us to look fresh in verse 10 through verse number 12 as at her standing as a godly woman her standing as a godly woman verse number 10 says in this passage who can find a virtuous woman her price is far above rubies I want you to notice brothers and sisters that the word and the text virtuous does not mean what we have come to make the word virtuous mean the word is not talking about necessarily the virtue that we look at virtue as somebody who is chaste and pure although that is the that is an application of that word but the word virtuous in this text in the Hebrew means far more than the virtue is that we have come to understand the word virtuous in the text means who can find a woman who has the strength of an army she's pretty she's she's dating she's delicate she smells good she's perfumed she's nice she's courteous she's polite but she has the strength of an army she's good-looking but don't cross it she's poised but don't get on the wrong side she's all that goes into what a woman is but she's virtuous in that she has the strength of an army who can find a virtuous woman who can find a woman with the strength of an army her price is far above rubies that kind of woman can't be bought no no trinkets you show her can turn her head no no man no man can buy her when she has the strength of an army because she can walk on way she can take care of herself she's married because she wants to be married but by herself she still has the strength of an army that price is far above rubies her her perfection is in verse number 11 the heart of her husband of safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil this woman is trustworthy she always has the best interests of the one she loves constantly on her mind she wakes up thinking about our loved ones she goes to bed thinking about her loved ones something something is wrong with this with this new kind of mother who has children but they want to look out for themselves you sharp and pretty and dressed up and your children look like something something's wrong with them some somebody helped me preach just a minute are you you got children but you want to find yourself you you want to have some fun your days for fun is over when you have children your days for finding yourself and and for self-discovery is over you should have discovered yourself before you had any children before you had a husband now you got to put yourself on the back burner and give you a whole self to your children because a godly woman is trustworthy SIOC wajal getting right there now we can make this as long as it needs to be and we can make this as short as it needs to be it all depends on your response to this message you need to you need to get off of Facebook and and and and put your face in a book and and stop taking selfies of yourself somebody help me preach it you ain't all that numb oh no you have a different responsibility right now because your family has got to converse because you are trustworthy and then verse 12 rest in looks at her price verse 11 looks at her perfection but verse 12 looks at her plan she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life as a matter of fact this woman is an asset not a liability she is an asset and not a liability because of her price because of her trustworthiness she's an asset to her family she's not looking out for herself God's gonna take care of her but she's looking out for a husband and for her family and when you're doing God's Way God will always see through it that when you look for his blessings you don't have to look far when you are an asset and not a liability the scripture says later on in that text her children will arise and call her blessed a husband will praise her in the gates verse 10 talks about her price breasts 11 talks about her perfection verse 12 talks about her plan verses 10 through 12 gives us God's description of a godly woman in her standing when our verses 14 through 18 move from standing to her sacrifices this godly woman is always making sacrifices she seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands she's like the merchant ships she brings her food from afar she rises up also while it is yet night and give his meat to a household and a portion to her maidens she considers a field and buys it with the fruits of her hand she planted the vineyard she got at the loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms she perceives that her merchandise is good her candle goeth not out by night that's a sacrifice she's always making sacrifices I remember my brother was got married to this girl in California and he came home and he they had some twin girls and the girls had pneumonia and my mother stayed up all night long caring for those babies my sister-in-law had fallen asleep my brother had fallen asleep but my mother stayed up all night caring for those twins she would not go to sleep until their breathing got regular she would not rest until their appetite came back that's a woman who makes sacrifices my mother would not go to sleep at night until every last one of us were in the house and when our foot would touch the porch she knew which one of us was coming on the porch if somebody came in sideways she knew it was Steve if somebody jumped on the porch she knew it was Lee trying to get in late when she told him what his curfew was if somebody came up the steps and stopped awhile she knew it was called because he was always looking around him to see what was going on and if somebody got in through the window she knew it was Bobby because he was always trying to sneak in because he always did something he had no business and if somebody stayed in the house she knew it was me because I wasn't going out at night I didn't party I didn't do a whole lot of young adult stuff I had to do all my sinning in church well I wish I had time to stay right there but she sacrifices with her talents and then she gives her family her time it's getting to be sad now that I weep for these children who have young parents I was I was sitting in lubicz yesterday yesterday evening and this beautiful young family lovely young woman handsome father had two beautiful children sitting at the table and they didn't look at those children one time because they will on their phone watching and texting and do whatever they were doing on their phone because we are so preoccupied with these devices that we are we are present but we're not in the moment we are there but we are absent talk back to me if you can when I was a boy we sat down at the table and we we were served by my mother and they asked us how was our day how are we doing in school what's going on in your life you didn't go in your room and slam the door and bring the food in your room first of all you didn't have a room to bring your food in and if you slam the door my mother would take it off the hinges cuz this is my house I wish I had somebody who was raised like I was ready they made the rules they determined the the conduct in the house because it was not your house but we are alienated from our children because we are so busy instagramming texting facebooking and then our jobs keep us so busy then we have such a busy social life we're in Jack and Jill and then we've got to run to our Weight Watchers meeting and then we got to run to the gym and then we leave the gym and we got to go to our yoga class and we leave yoga and we got to go out with our girlfriends and by the time we get home our children are asleep are in the house doing what they do and we've been in their house with them an entire week and haven't spoken to them but a real godly woman makes sacrifices of her time she's present and in the moment I wish I had time to stay right there but let me rush on away from standing and sacrifice the verses 19 through 25 talks about her service she laid her hands to the spindle and her hands to hold us the distaff she's stripping it she stretches out her hand to the poor she reaches for her hands to the needy she's not afraid of the snow for her household for all our household our clothes with Scarlett she makes herself coverings of tapestry her clothing is silk and purple her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land she makes fine linen and sells it and delivers girdles to the merchants strength and honour or her clothing and she shall rejoice in the time to come a godly woman Labor's she works she doesn't want anybody to give her anything she goes out of her way to give her service growing up as a boy I remember just like it was just a day somebody was sick in our community those old women would go to their house and clean up for them and wash it iron their Clues comb their children's hand cook and make sure that they had everything they needed and then they would leave and come back the next morning a different shift of them would come back the next morning to make sure that they provided for that family because they gave their service not because they have to do it it was a labor of love because when you really godly you go out of your way to help people who can't help you back you missed that last part you go out of your way to help people who can't do anything for you in return she Labor's with a hands strengthen honor or her clothing and she shall rejoice in time to come listen even if she's not rewarded on this side even if she's not appreciated on this side when she gets to heaven God will reward her for going out of her way with her labor and her love that scripture talk about a woman standing a woman sacrificed a woman service and then verse number 26 talks about her speech hmm she ain't cussing everybody every other word out of her mouth it's not she opened her mouth with wisdom then her tongue is the law of kindness she is she is gentle in her speech she guides in her speech she's always giving guidance she's always imparting wisdom that's what a godly woman does she's always sharing wisdom and that wisdom comes from her experience that wisdom comes from walking with the Lord she's gentle because she too has made some mistakes and God has led her around those mistakes so she is wise to give younger women godly counsel when you read the book of Titus Titus says the older women or to teach the younger women I wish I had a Bible reader teach them how to be sober in their speech teach them how to be obedient to their husbands teach them how to keep house how to keep house how to keep house Reid is right it's right in the text oh how to wash how to cook how to be hospitable how to be respectable when you leave your house walk with your head erect look like a woman of God look like that God has filled your life with his spirit and when you walk like that you get respect like that not not not not with a piercing in your tongue and one on your eyebrow and Ray Ray's name on your breasts and and Jojo on your neck or as suppose you married Pookie and you've got JoJo's name on your name y'all might as well come on get with me because it ain't gonna get no better listen I was I was saying this through my daughter and some other young girls that you have to be careful with all of this stuff that you're doing to yourself because people are not hiring you on a job looking like you just got out of a tattoo party I mean people are scared of you I don't want to be in the hospital and have nobody serving me waiting on me giving me medication looking like they just got out of the joint come on help me preach if you can I don't want I don't want you serving me in the restaurant I don't want you doing anything for me if you look like you like like something wrong with you and we have got to train these young people that to get off of all of this social media stuff writing all this stupid stuff on yours on your Facebook page because when you go to apply for a job they ask you about your facebook account and if you neck it with your picture on there come on talk back to me if you can how you going to be a model teaching somebody in a classroom and you got a beer in your hand on your social media page you're looking like a fool trying to give leadership and that's not godly as a woman I'm gonna get to that I'm gonna get to the minute Father's Day but today is Mother's Day and I'm trying to help us to understand that a godly woman guides with her wisdom and she's gentle in her speech brothers and sisters daesil standing her sacrifices her service her speech but verse 27 talks about herself less mess self less nests is right invest the 27 she look at the whale to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness a gardener woman a godly mother watches and she works she watches and she works she's wise as a serpent harmless as a dog that's nothing that escapes her gaze a real mother a real woman has eyes behind her head she watches when you don't think she's watching she sees what you don't think she sees you can't get away with nothing you think of she was born in the 1930s that she don't know nothing but that means she's 60 years smarter than you are I wish I had one or two witnesses here when she used to come on the radio Yolanda Adams was talking about her mother and talking about the kind of relationship you had with her mother and she said her mother was blind in her right eye and she didn't she couldn't see out of that eye and her mother one morning was just after her to get up to get ready for school and she just kept on after and kept on after and Yolanda said she was slow getting up and she was dragging trying to get up and want to do what she wanted to do and she was really disrespectful this certain morning and she said she got on her mother's right side and stuck out her tongue because her mother didn't see on her right side and she said when she woke up with me she woke up she was in fourth period in high school she says she don't know how she got to school she don't know what happened in French second in third period when she woke up it was fourth period cuz her mother hit her with a right cross did y'all see that woman jump on that boy when he was in that riot in Baltimore I was looking at my mama on CNN she jumped on that Negro and turned him every whichaway but Luke we need mothers right now who will walk up to their children and just hit them right in the mouth and say open your mouth one more time I'm undoctored have a got a witness here because if you raise them at home the police won't have to kill them train up a child in the way that he should go and when he's old he will not depart from it and even if he act the food you just get right with it they were they were interviewing that woman and they were asking her why she was tearing his clothes off she said I bought them clue and she said I recognize how he walks he had a mass on this is you say I but I know how he walks that's because a real mother watches somebody ought to help me preach it you can't get away with anything because she knows how you walk even when you got a hoodie on man now those of you who were raised like me those of you who were raised like I was raised if you act a fool in school and they had to get off that job to go see about you I'm I'm I'm trembling right now just remembering how my mother had to come to school and she didn't take me in the bathroom she didn't take me out on the sidewalk I was in mrs. Liu Cox seventh grade English class and she jumped on me right there in the classroom and my friends were saying who man shoot and she said what'd you say he said no man was mean to me I didn't said no because not only did she raise her children she could raise somebody else's children but you said somebody's children around here the parents want to fight with you but we need everybody to help us raise them because we can't be with him all the time spare the rod spoil the child foolishness is bound up in him but the rod of Correction will drive it far from him that woman said she went out there and got with that ball on the street cuz she recognized how he wolde cuz a real mother watches got eyes behind the head can't get away with nothing I never could understand how my mother could whip drive him and we in the backseat and I mean a good whipping I'm not talking about a little pat here man I'm talking about when she got through with you you just went take a nap because they were determined that that you have some sins now if you were going to be a fool you're going to be a fool out of this house but as long as you're under my protecting presence I have a responsibility as a parent to watch over you she is selfless verses 28 and verse 29 talks about her satisfaction her children rise up and call her blessed her husband also and he praises her many daughters have done virtuously but thou Excellus film all a real mother is satisfied today for two reasons her children prese and a husband praises it children who have had good mothers or to have a good sense to say thank you lord somebody loved me enough to teach me right from wrong somebody loved me enough to guide me too to strengthen me to encourage me to make me the man or the woman I am and I would not have had that influence were not for a godly mother who gave her all in sacrifice for me my mother cooked in the cafeteria at the elementary school I went to and I would come through the line and I always had my button my top button buttoned up and I'd pass through the lunch line and she'd unbuttoned that Bell and I was always Ashley because I was kind of dark when I was young and I was kind of hashing and my mother would rub my hand in there cooking oil and and and and get me all shined up and and I can still feel that warm hand on my face right now I can still feel that caress on my cheeks right now as a small boy in the second grade but that same hand that caressed me was the same hand that corrected me parents you ought to have a hand that caresses and corrects never got a witness here and today and almost 56 years old I appreciate both the caressing and the correcting I wouldn't even be in church today if my mother didn't teach me right from wrong and then that's this last word and verses 30 and 31 and I'm through Famer it's deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that fears the Lord she shall be praised give her of the fruit of our hands and let our own words prese in the gates I've told you my outstanding I've told you about her sacrifices I've talked about our service I talked about a speech I talked about our selflessness I talked about our satisfaction now let me give you finally the secret to her godliness the secret is she despises complement it's right here in verse 30 favor complements is deceitful because men will tell you how good you look to get something from you and if you don't have the strength of an army if you're not virtuous with the strength of an army your head can easily be turned by Negro who is favoring you but favor is deceitful and a godly woman says now please you actually think I'm gonna fall for that line really now all you cheering I got and in all the trouble I got you think I'm gonna get another problem by bringing you in here and you ain't working I got 99 problems and a broke man ain't one I wish I had time it's there right there you can't turn her head with compliments her secret is she deplores conceit she hates she'd applause conceited I'm still in verse number 30 and beauty is vain because a real godly woman knows that beauty is more than outward a pillow beauty is more than hips and thighs and breasts and half beauty is deeper than that beauty goes deep down on the inside and it radiates to the outside because here is how it expresses itself a woman who fears the Lord that's what makes a beautiful woman a woman who loves God a woman who's been born again a woman who knows that Christ has been good in her life a woman who raised her children to go to church a woman who knows how to pray that's a beautiful one when you have known sorrow early in life and God has blessed you as a woman there's a beauty that wrinkles can fade as a beauty that time cannot erase and the secret is she is a woman who fears the Lord she loves God she loves Christ she loves the church she loves to live a godly Christian life and when you're doing God's Way God will always let you all works praise you indicates you don't need a man to praise you you don't need a man to compliment you you don't need a man to turn your head Christ is all he has made the difference in your life and you can make it by yourself because a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised

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Published: Tue May 31 2016