Sermon Tone Analysis

Isaiah (16)

Role Disorder

!!! Welcome and announcements

!!! 8 Doxology        /“Majesty”/

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Call to worship and Greeting

8 We praise the Most High; we honour and glorify Him who lives forever.

His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.

He does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth.

(Daniel 4:34-35)

/8// Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

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–         /(Revelation 1:4-5)/

 

!!! 8 Hymn no 32:                 /  “God is our Strength and Refuge”/

!!! Bible Reading:                  /New Testament:                     1Timothy 2:1-15 /

!!! Prayer of adoration and Confession of sins

!!! Proclamation of pardoning

If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

(1 John 1:8-9)

!!! Hymn no 310:  /  “Brother let me be your servant” /

!!! Stewardship

!!! Offering and Dedication

… every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine.

(Psalm 50:10-11)

While the Offering is taken up, all (remaining seated) sing)  Hymn no 472:   /“Fill now my life O Lord” (Only verses 1-4)/

!!! Prayer of Intercession

!!! Bible Reading                                   Old Testament:       /Isaiah 3:12-26/

!!! Sermon                                /“Role disorder”/

!! Introduction

1.

The context of removal of all forms of security – leads to anarchism.

2.     Spin-off:  men refuse to assume their God-given roles of leadership.

3.     All this is the result of a humanistic society that severs itself from God to replace his order with a human code.

Man becomes a law unto himself.

4.     This leads to the so-called “political correctness” of our day: all forms of so-called oppression and discrimination need to be removed out of society.

5.     We have egalitarianism of all mankind, and all distinction between male and female falls by the wayside.

6.

The result is seen in Isa 3:12:

Youths oppress my people, women rule over them.

O my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path.

(Isaiah 3:12)

!!! God’s plan for woman

1.     Restoration of creation to what it was intended to be.

Jesus is the last Adam, and all those restored in Him are referred to as the wife, or the bride, of Christ.

created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

(Ephesians 4:24)

2.     Misconstrued role of sinful men, who overstepped their role and assumed far more that what God intended.

They became like the nations around them which abuse woman and made them nothing more than just a piece of property whom they could discard of at own will.

Even the Mishnah and Talmud allowed for these practices.

3.     The woman was, with Adam, in a regal partnership over God’s creation.

Both of them were created in God’s image.

She is a helper, a complementing counterpart.

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.

I will make a helper suitable for him.”

(Genesis 2:18)

4.  Both Adam and Eve were, unlike all other things created, created from existing matter.

Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

(Genesis 2:22)

4.     Adam was put to sleep and had no part in the creation of Eve as if she was an inferior creation.

5.     Unlike the animals, Eve is endowed with those unique qualities that compliment man.

Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air.

He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.

But for Adam no suitable helper was found.

(Genesis 2:19-20)

6.     Eve bore the closest of kin sociality to Adam

Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.”

(Genesis 29:14)

7.     For each, man and woman, God ordained certain rules and tasks.

Man is to take leadership of his house and provide for them.

He is to secure the income and he has to provide safety.

The woman was ordained the privilege to bring into the world children.

To each of man and woman certain qualities were given to make this possible.

Men are physically stronger, but women have to qualities to with tenderness nurture her family and raise the children in partnership with her husband who takes on certain other responsibilities in the household.

The apostle writes:

But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

(1 Timothy 2:15)

!!! Biblical order

The Bible makes a few rules very clear.

8.     The apostle Paul writes in 1 Tim 2:13

For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

(1 Timothy 2:13)

9.     The second principle:  Adam was not deceived:

And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

(1 Timothy 2:14)

10.

As result of these principles the apostle writes:

I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

(1 Timothy 2:12)

11.

And further:

For God is not a God of disorder but of peace.

As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches.

They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says.

\\ If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.

(1 Corinthians 14:33-35)

!!! Rise of Feminism and feministic theology

In reaction to Biblical principles.

Femiist Aileen O’Carrol writes:

There are two knock-on effects of women staying at home minding the family.

Firstly they are not financially independent.

They do not earn any money and are dependant on income received from their partners.

Because nobody gets paid for rearing a family it's status as an occupation is at the bottom of the ladder and because women are financially dependant on their husbands it means they, in the past, have had little input into the major decisions affecting the family.

Today the family is a trap for women as much as it was for women at the beginning of the industrial revolution.