reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

WHAT IS WOMAN? SHE IS THE ADULT FEMALE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, CREATED OF GOD FOR HIS PLEASURE. RV:4:10 THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS FALL DOWN BEFORE HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE, AND WORSHIP HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, AND CAST THEIR CROWNS BEFORE THE THRONE, SAYING . 11. THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, TO RECEIVE GLORY AND HONOUR AND POWER: FOR THOU HAST CREATED ALL THINGS, AND FOR THY PLEASURE THEY ARE AND WERE CREATED. WOMAN WAS CREATED OF GOD TO KEEP MAN FROM BEING LONELY, AND TO BE A HELP MEET FOR HIM. MEN MAY BE HANDSOME, BUT WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL. MEN WERE CREATED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY CAN DO HEAVY WORK, WOMEN WERE CREATED FOR LIGHT WORK. GN:2:18 AND THE LORD GOD SAID , IT IS NOT GOOD THAT MAN SHOULD BE ALONE; I WILL MAKE HIM AN HELP MEET FOR HIM. ADAM THE FIRST MAN, WAS CREATED OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND. THE FIRST WOMAN, EVE, WAS CREATED FROM ADAM’S RIB. GN:2:21 AND THE LORD GOD CAUSED A DEEP SLEEP TO FALL UPON ADAM, AND HE SLEPT: AND HE TOOK ONE OF HIS RIBS, AND CLOSED UP THE FLESH INSTEAD THEREOF; 22. AND THE RIB, WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD TAKEN FROM MAN, MADE HE A WOMAN, AND BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN. 23. AND ADAM SAID, THIS IS NOW BONE OF MY BONES, AND FLESH OF MY FLESH; SHE SHALL BE CALLED WOMAN, BECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN. WHY DID ADAM NAME THE FEMALE OF THE HUMAN SPECIES WOMAN? BECAUSE SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN. ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE, EVE WAS THE LAST CREATURE CREATED. WHERE MEN AND WOMEN CREATED EQUAL ? NO, FOR ANY TWO THINGS TO BE EQUAL THEY MUST BE IDENTICAL, AND MEN, AND WOMEN ARE NOT IDENTICAL. GOD COULD HAVE FORMED, EVERY PERSON AS HE FORMED ADAM, FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND. BUT, IF GOD HAD CREATED ALL MANKIND INDIVIDUALLY AS HE CREATED ADAM, THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN FAMILIES AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY. THE FAMILY IS A WONDERFUL RELATIONSHIP. A GOD FEARING MAN , AND WOMAN; TO SUPPORT AND LOOK AFTER THE CHILDREN. TO BRING THE CHILDREN UP IN THE NURTURE , AND ADMONITION, OF THE LIVING GOD IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. GOD HAD GIVEN ADAM , AND EVE, A COMMANDMENT THAT THEY COULD EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN EXCEPT, THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD , AND EVIL. BUT IN THE DAY THAT THEY EAT OF THAT TREE THEY WOULD SURELY DIE. GN:2:16 AND THE LORD GOD COMMANDED THE MAN, SAYING, OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN THOU MAYEST FREELY EAT: 17. BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, THOU SHALT NOT EAT OF IT: FOR IN THE DAY THAT THOU EATEST THEREOF THOU SHALT SURELY DIE. SATAN, ALL HUMANITY’S MORTAL ENEMY, WAS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, AND SATAN USED A SERPENT, TO DECEIVE EVE, AND CAUSED HER TO TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. SATAN USES THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AS A WEAPON TO DESTROY THE CHILDREN OF GOD. NOTICE THIS, FIRST COMES TEMPTATION, IF A PERSON YIELDS TO TEMPTATION THEN COMES SIN, THEN COMES THE CURSE, AND THEN COMES DESTRUCTION. I WILL USE THE TEMPTATION OF EVE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. GN:3:1 NOW THE SERPENT WAS MORE SUBTIL THAN ANY BEAST OF THE FIELD WHICH THE LORD GOD HAD MADE. AND HE SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, YEA, HATH GOD SAID, YE SHALL NOT EAT OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN? 2. AND THE WOMAN SAID UNTO THE SERPENT, WE MAY EAT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES OF THE GARDEN: 3. BUT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD HATH SAID YE SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, NEITHER SHALL YE TOUCH IT LEST YE DIE. 4. AND THE SERPENT SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE; 5. FOR GOD DOTH KNOW THAT IN THE DAY YE EAT THEREOF , THEN YOUR EYES SHALL BE OPENED, AND YE SHALL BE AS GODS, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. 6. AND WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, AND THAT IT WAS PLEASANT TO THE EYES, AND A TREE TO BE DESIRED TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE TOOK OF THE FRUIT THEREOF, AND DID EAT, AND GAVE ALSO UNTO HER HUSBAND WITH HER; AND HE DID EAT. WHAT IS A CURSE? A CURSE IS A PRAYER OR INVOCATION FOR HARM OR INJURY OR DEATH TO COME UPON SOMEONE. NOTICE THE CURSE THAT GOD PLACED UPON ALL WOMEN. GN:3:13 AND THE LORD GOD SAID UNTO THE WOMAN, WHAT IS THIS THAT THOU HAST DONE? AND THE WOMAN SAID, THE SERPENT BEGUILED ME, AND I DID EAT. 16. UNTO THE WOMAN HE SAID, I WILL GREATLY MULTIPLY THY SORROW AND THY CONCEPTION ; IN SORROW THOU SHALT BRING FORTH CHILDREN; AND THY DESIRE SHALL BE TO THY HUSBAND, AND HE SHALL RULE OVER THEE. THERE WERE THREE PARTS TO THE CURSE THAT GOD PLACED UPON WOMAN. FIRST, THAT GOD WOULD GREATLY MULTIPLY THE WOMAN’S SUFFERING IN PREGNANCY, PANGS OF CHILDBEARING WITH SPASMS OF DISTRESS. NEXT, WOMAN’S DESIRE SHALL BE TO HER HUSBAND, THIRDLY THE WOMAN’S HUSBAND SHALL RULE OVER HER. IS THIS CURSE IN EFFECT TODAY? DOES THE WOMAN STILL HAVE PAIN IN CHILD BIRTH? DID YOU NOTICE THAT PART OF THE CURSE THAT GOD PLACED UPON THE WOMAN WAS THAT HER HUSBAND WOULD RULE OVER HER? A WOMAN CAN REFUSE TO ALLOW HER HUSBAND TO RULE OVER HER, BUT THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES. REMEMBER HOW THAT KING AHASUERUS COMMANDED HIS WIFE, VASHTI THE QUEEN, TO COME TO HIS FEAST, AND SHE REFUSED, AND FOR HER REBELLION, LOST HER ROYAL ESTATE. WHEN A WOMAN RECEIVES THE HOLY GHOST, THE ANOINTING SHE RECEIVES MAKES HER ROYALTY. EST:1:9 IF IT PLEASE THE KING, LET THERE GO A ROYAL COMMANDMENT FROM HIM, AND LET IT BE WRITTEN AMONG THE LAWS OF THE PERSIANS AND THE MEDES, THAT IT BE NOT ALTERED, THAT VASHTI COME NO MORE BEFORE KING AHASUERUS; AND LET THE KING GIVE HER ROYAL ESTATE UNTO ANOTHER THAT IS BETTER THAN SHE. SOME WOMEN REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDS OF GOD, AND PLUCK DOWN THEIR HOUSE WITH THEIR OWN HANDS. PRV:14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE; BUT THE FOOLISH PLUCHETH IT DOWN WITH HER HANDS. EVE WAS DECEIVED SHE BELIEVED THE SERPENT, AND ATE OF THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT THINKING SHE WOULD NOT DIE. BUT ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED HE KNEW THAT HE WAS GOING TO DIE , BUT ATE OF THE FRUIT . BECAUSE EVE, THE FIRST WOMAN, WAS DECEIVED WOMEN ARE FORBIDDEN BY GOD’S COMMANDMENT TO TEACH MEN. 1TM:2:11 LET THE WOMAN LEARN IN SILENCE WITH ALL SUBJECTION. 12. BUT I SUFFER NOT A WOMAN TO TEACH, NOR TO USURP AUTHORITY OVER THE MAN, BUT TO BE IN SILENCE. 13. FOR ADAM WAS FIRST FORMED, THEN EVE. 14. AND ADAM WAS NOT DECEIVED, BUT THE WOMAN BEING DECEIVED WAS IN THE TRANSGRESSION. DOES THIS MEAN THAT WOMEN ARE NOT TO TEACH MEN TODAY? YES, THESE SCRIPTURES WERE TAKEN FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT RECORDED BY THE APOSTLE PAUL. IT IS BY THE APOSTLE PAUL’S GOSPEL THAT WE SHALL BE JUDGED ON JUDGMENT DAY. ROM:2:16 IN THE DAY WHEN GOD SHALL JUDGE THE SECRETS OF MEN BY JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO MY GOSPEL. IN THIS GREAT NATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR A MAN TO RULE OVER HIS FAMILY. BECAUSE OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM IS BASED ON THE VOTE. THOSE IN POWER, REMAIN IN POWER BECAUSE OF THE VOTE. BEFORE WOMEN WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. THE WOMEN HAD LITTLE POWER WITH THE COURTS. BUT, NOW THE WOMEN HAVE MORE POWER WITH THE COURTS THAN DO THE MEN, FOR THERE ARE MORE WOMEN, THAN THERE ARE MEN. THEREFORE, THE WOMEN HAVE MORE VOTES THAN DO THE MEN. IF A WOMAN WITH CHILDREN DECIDES TO DIVORCE HER HUSBAND, THE JUDGE WILL GIVE THE CHILDREN TO THE WIFE. THE CHILDREN NEED A HOME , AND TRANSPORTATION, AND MONEY ; THEREFORE THE JUDGE RULES ACCORDINGLY. IT IS VERY TEMPTING FOR A WOMAN TO LEAVE HER HUSBAND, WHICH IS A TRICK OF THE DEVIL. FOR IF A WOMAN LEAVES HER HUSBAND ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF GOD, SHE MUST REMAIN UNMARRIED OR SHE SHALL BE AND ADULTERESS. ROM:7:1 KNOW YE NOT, BRETHREN, ( FOR I SPEAK TO THEM THAT KNOW THE LAW,) HOW THAT THE LAW HATH DOMINION OVER A MAN AS LONG AS HE LIVETH? 2. FOR THE WOMAN WHICH HATH AN HUSBAND IS BOUND BY THE LAW TO HER HUSBAND SO LONG AS HE LIVETH; BUT IF THE HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS LOOSED FROM THE LAW OF HER HUSBAND. 3. SO THEN IF , WHILE HER HUSBAND LIVETH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN, SHE SHALL BE CALLED AND ADULTERESS; BUT IF HER HUSBAND BE DEAD, SHE IS FREE FROM THAT LAW; SO THAT SHE IS NO ADULTERESS , THOUGH SHE BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN. WHAT DOES ADULTERY DO TO THE SOUL? ADULTERY DESTROYS THE SOUL. PRV:6:32 BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL. WHEN GOD CREATED MAN, GOD MADE MAN A TRINITY IN UNITY, BODY , SOUL, AND SPIRIT. THE BODY CAN DIE, AND THE SOUL LIVE ON, OR THE SOUL CAN DIE, AND THE BODY LIVE ON. WHEN THE SPIRIT LEAVES THE BODY, THE BODY DIES. THE OUTWARD BODY OF FLESH, AND BLOOD SHALL PERISH, IT IS THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL THAT SHALL LIVE IN ETERNITY. FOR THE INWARD MAN THE SOUL IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. 2:COR:4:16 FOR WHICH CAUSE WE FAINT NOT; BUT THOUGH OUR OUTWARD MAN PERISH, YET THE INWARD MAN IS RENEWED DAY BY DAY. THERE IS A WORD USED SEVENTY FIVE TIMES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT SPELLED “ S.E.L.A.H. SELAH, WHICH MEANS PAUSE, AND THINK ON WHAT YOU JUST READ. BEFORE YOU, BORN AGAIN SAINT OF GOD THAT HAS COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, COMMIT THE SIN OF ADULTERY, OR FORNICATION, PAUSE AND THINK ON WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO DO. FOR THE PRICE OF THESE SINS ARE VERY HIGH. THE PRICE IS YOU SHALL NOT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE, NEITHER SHALL YOU RECEIVE THE IMMORTAL BODY, NEITHER SHALL YOU LIVE IN THE HEAVENLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM. GAL:5:19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, 20. IDOLATRY , WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH , STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, 21. ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE; OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. HOLY CHILDREN, IGNORANCE MAY BE AN ACCEPTABLE DEFENSE WHEN YOU STAND BEFORE GOD, ON JUDGMENT DAY, BUT DO NOT PLACE YOUR FAITH, AND HOPE ON IT. FOR GOD HAS SAID. HOS;4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE; THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE IS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND WE ARE NOT UNDER THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT BE ADMONISHED. SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF WOMEN. THERE ARE WOMEN, THAT ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THE WOMEN THAT ARE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL. IF A MAN MARRIES A WOMAN THAT IS A CHILD OF GOD, HE HAS SOMETHING THAT IS WONDERFUL. BUT, IF HE MARRIES A WOMAN THAT IS A CHILD OF THE DEVIL HE HAS LOTS OF TROUBLE. THE BIBLE SAYS, PRV:12:4 A VIRTUOUS WOMAN IS A CROWN TO HER HUSBAND; BUT SHE THAT MAKETH ASHAMED IS AS ROTTENNESS IN HIS BONES. THERE ARE WOMEN THAT REBEL AGAINST THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, AND REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT , THESE WORDS WERE SPOKEN TO KING SAUL BECAUSE OF HIS REBELLIOUS ACT. 1SM:15:23 FOR REBELLION IS AS THE SIN OF WITCHCRAFT, AND STUBBORNNESS IS AS INIQUITY AND IDOLATRY. BECAUSE THOU HAST REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HE HATH ALSO REJECTED THEE FROM BEING KING. FOR EXAMPLE MULTITUDES OF WOMEN GO TO THE CHURCH, TO THE HOUSE OF PRAYER, WITH THEIR HEADS UNCOVERED, EVEN THOUGH THE HOLY SCRIPTURES COMMAND WOMEN TO COVER THEIR HEADS WHEN THEY PRAY. 1COR:11:5 BUT EVERY WOMAN THAT PRAYETH OR PROPHESIETH WITH HER HEAD UNCOVERED DISHONOURETH HER HEAD: FOR THAT IS EVEN ALL ONE AS IF SHE WERE SHAVEN. 6. FOR IF THE WOMAN BE NOT COVERED, LET HER ALSO BE SHORN: BUT IF IT BE A SHAME FOR A WOMAN TO BE SHORN OR SHAVEN, LET HER BE COVERED. MANY WOMEN PLAN ON USING AS THEIR DEFENSE FOR TRANSGRESSING THIS LAW, WHEN THEY STAND BEFORE GOD, THAT THEIR HAIR IS THEIR COVERING. BUT LOOK CAREFULLY AT THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE. 1COR:11:6 FOR IF THE WOMAN BE NOT COVERED, LET HER ALSO BE SHORN. BELOVED , IS IT GOD’S WILL THAT WOMEN PASTOR A CHRISTIAN CHURCH? HOW COULD A WOMAN PASTOR A CHURCH AND BE OBEDIENT TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. HOW COULD A WOMAN PASTOR A CHURCH, AND BE SILENT IN THE CHURCH. THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS INSPIRED OF GOD TO COMMAND WOMEN TO BE SILENT IN THE CHURCH, BUT MANY WOMEN REBEL AGAINST THIS COMMANDMENT, AND SPEAK IN THE CHURCH, EVEN PASTOR CHURCHES, TEACHING MEN WHICH IS ALSO FORBIDDEN . 1COR:14:34 LET YOUR WOMEN KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES: FOR IT IS NOT PERMITTED UNTO THEM TO SPEAK; BUT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO BE UNDER OBEDIENCE, AS ALSO SAITH THE LAW. 35. AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANY THING, LET THEM ASK THEIR HUSBANDS AT HOME; FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH. YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE WOMEN THAT ARE CHILDREN OF GOD, FOR AFTER THEY ARE CALLED TO REPENTANCE, AND RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST, THEY WILL NOT WILFULLY TRANSGRESS THE COMMANDS OF GOD. 1JN:3:9 WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN; FOR HIS SEED REMAINETH IN HIM ; AND HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD. 10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF TH DEVIL; WHOSOEVER DOETH NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT OF GOD, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER. MEN, BE VERY CAREFUL OF WOMEN THAT ARE CHILDREN OF SATAN, LEST THEY SEND YOU INTO THE FLAMES OF HELL. FOR EXAMPLE ,THE HOME OF THE HARLOT, IS THE WAY TO HELL. PRV:7:19 FOR THE GOODMAN IS NOT AT HOME, HE IS GONE A LONG JOURNEY ; 20. HE HATH TAKEN A BAG OF MONEY WITH HIM, AND WILL COME HOME AT THE DAY APPOINTED. 21. WITH HER MUCH FAIR SPEECH SHE CAUSED HIM TO YIELD, WITH THE FLATTERING OF HER LIPS SHE FORCED HIM. PRV:7:23 TILL A DART STRIKE THROUGH HIS LIVER; AS A BIRD HASTETH TO THE SNARE, AND KNOWETH NOT THAT IT IS FOR HIS LIFE. PRV:7:25 LET NOT THINE HEART DECLINE TO HER WAYS, GO NOT ASTRAY IN HER PATHS. 26. FOR SHE HATH CAST DOWN MANY WOUNDED; YEA, MANY STRONG MEN HAVE BEEN SLAIN BY HER. 27. HER HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL, GOING DOWN TO THE CHAMBERS OF DEATH.