July 2010
Hello to the Saints and the Aints,
Well folks, half the year has gone and now we are facing the next half. Time moves right on along doesn't it? June was a great month for our church. We are thankful for the many blessings bestowed upon us. Blessing to be able to baptize one of our young men John Walker. Praying that the Lord will use Bro John in a mighty way. We had a wedding at the church as Daniel Lott and Norah Curry took marital vows before God. Our ladies did a great job of preparing and decorating for this special event. Now we are preparing for our Black Creek Baptist Blowout July 23-25. Evangelist Harold Leake, Pastor Karl Baker, Bro Frank Verginio and Evangelist Kevin Griffin will be preaching and special singing will surely be a blessing to you. For more information, go to our special meetings page for start times.
This month I will post my Bible study before the pictures. I want to share with you a couple of chapters from the book "Woman the Completer" by Dr. Jack Hyles. Bro. Hyles was greatly used of the Lord while he was here upon the earth. Bro Hyles pastored a church in Hammond, Indiana with a membership of over 50,000 and the many ministries from that one church would lead over 20,000 people to salvation each year. This book deals with the biblical role of the woman and the influence that she has on her family. Here is the first couple of chapters and Lord willing I will post the other 3 next month.
Bible Study July
Woman the Completer by Dr Jack Hyles:
Genesis 2:21-24, "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; and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from
man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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. Therefore shall a man leave
his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they
shall be one flesh."
"Our Heavenly Father, we come to speak on this vital subject. I'd love
to be a help and a blessing. I pray that for some ladies this will be
life-changing. May we give our attention to this truth and to Thee. In
Jesus' Name, Amen."
The Lord chose to compare a family with the Trinity. In so
doing, He called the head of the family, the man, after His own name,
Father. We pray, "Our Father, Which art in Heaven." Then He likened the
son or children in the family to His own Son, the secondnamed Person in
the Trinity. Hence, we have in the family a person who represents God
the Father, and we have a person who represents God the Son. By process
of elimination, we come to realize who represents the Holy Spirit in
the family. There is only one person left, and that's the lady. That
means that you--the woman, wife, mother--represent the Holy Spirit. If
you would like to find your duties in life, just find in the Bible what
the Holy Spirit is supposed to do. He comforts; so does Mother. He
teaches; so does Mother. He instructs; so does Mother. He leads; so
does Mother. Think of all the ministries the Holy Spirit has in the
world. He's the unseen One; so is Mother. He is the one Who gives the
others attention; so does Mother. If you want to know what your duties
are in the family, all you have to do is find out the duties of the
Holy Spirit in the Trinity, for you are the Holy Spirit of the home.
The week of creation began. First came the light. After the
light, God made the firmament. Then God lit the starry hosts of the
nighttime in their constellations. Then God made the fishes of the sea
and then all the tribes of the animal kingdom. Now creation's week is
almost finished and all is prepared for God to make man. God did make
man in His own image.
All that God had made before man was made for man. The stars of
the nighttime were placed in the heavens for the enjoyment of man. The
herbs and grass of the field were placed there for the nurture and
health of man. The water was placed there for the refreshment of man.
The sun in the noontime and the moon in the nighttime were placed in
the heavens for man. It was marvelous.
Every tree that grew was pleasant to the sight. Rivers flowed
peaceably between verdant banks in Eden's garden. Every sound was a
melody and every scene was a delight. There was no war to unrest the
breast of man. There was no sickness to cause in his heart a fear of
death. The leaf never withered. The wind never chilled. No perspiration
moistened man's brow. There was no profanity to cause discomfort to his
ears. There was no weariness, no heat, no cold. No blossoms were ever
smitten by a tempest. Man had not yet learned to sigh and to weep. This
was the Garden of Eden. God had made it and the entire universe for one
person--man! No withering frost to chill the rose and no shadow of
guilt was ever felt in the heart of man. For Adam there were choirs of
birds to sing. Man had everything he would need, it seemed, in this
Edenic bliss and yet something was missing!
Adam needed someone to share with him these beauties. Adam
needed someone to whom he could say, "Look at the stars! Aren't they
pretty?" Adam needed someone with whom he could share the joys of the
beautiful garden. He longed for communion with a kindred soul, one
whose wants and joys were like his own. The virgin world was cold and
blank. Adam needed somebody, and God made her, and here she comes
dressed in all the beauty for a human being to possess.
Milton said of Eve, "She was adorned with all of heaven and
earth that they could bestow upon her to make her amiable." Grace was
in her steps. Heaven was in her eye, and every gesture possessed
dignity, poise and love. Perfection was stamped on her. The sons of God
shouted for joy, the morning stars sang together, and Eden was
transformed. Now Adam has what he needed. Someone wrote, "The earth was
sad, the Garden wild, the hermit sighed, till woman smiled." The work
of Omnipotence was finished.
Notice, woman was not taken from man's head to lord over him,
nor from his heel to be crushed by him, but this magnificent creation
of Omnipotence was taken from man's rib, near his heart, so she could
be loved and protected by him.
The winds are a thousand times more refreshing now that she is
here. The flowers are a thousand times more fragrant now that she is
here. The birds are a thousand fold more melodious, the trees are more
beautiful, and the fruits are more delicious. The sun is brighter, the
moon is more lovely, the stars are closer, the animals are tamer
because she is here. There she is--Miss Universe! She was created
because all of the perfection of the Garden of Eden did not give to
Adam what he needed.
There she stands with the beauty of Sarah as she made Abraham
her lord, with the courage of Deborah as she stood beside Barak in the
battle against the enemy, with the depth of Hannah as she prayed for
and reared her son, with the devotion of Rizpah as she vowed to protect
even the dead bodies of her own, with the royalty of Esther as she
stood before the king and spared a nation. There she is with the grace
of Lydia, the poise of Mary, the humility of Phoebe, the friendship of
Dorcas, the faith of Rhoda, the ambition of Salome, the worship of
Mary, the care of Martha, and the praise of Mary Magdalene. There she
stands, our Miss Universe, with the patience of Anna, the loveliness of
Rachel, the love of Jochebed, the gentleness of Elisabeth and the
spirit of Lois. Wrapped up in all these personalities is what you ought
to be. Take all the good from all the good women of the Word of God and
there, dear lady, is what God intended you to be.
Who could have guessed that in the midst of Eden's loveliness,
innocence and peace where angels guarded the gates of the garden and
where peace, love and joy prevailed, who could have looked at this
magnificent creature of God's omnipotence and ever thought that evil
could find an entrance! In the loveliness of this woman is also the
potential for ugliness. In her joy is the potential for sadness. In her
grace is the potential for selfishness. In her humility is the
potential for pride. In her submission is the potential for rebellion.
In her faith is the potential for doubt. Though she is lovely and
though all the good qualities of all the women in the Bible are
potentially hers, there is another potential that she possesses. She
bears in her breast the potential of Michal, who hated her husband and
laughed at him because he got happy and shouted when the ark of the
covenant came back to God's people. She can, if she chooses, possess
the rebellion of Jezebel, who fell and with her took a nation. She owns
the seed of the selfishness of Athaliah, who could kill her own
grandchildren for her own rights and privileges.
It's difficult to imagine that this beautiful queen of the
Garden of Eden, the one who filled every need of Adam, could possess in
her breast the hatred of Herodias, who had John the Baptist's head
served in a platter! It's hard to believe that she could be a soiled
Rahab, who could sell her body to the hands and lusts of wicked men.
It's hard to believe that this beautiful one has the potential so that
her feet could carry her to Moab with Naomi. It's hard to believe that
these lips could possess the potential of lying as did Sapphira. There
behind her smile dwells the possibility of hatred and the disposition
of Abigail.
Ladies, it is up to you, as it was to Eve, to decide, for there
is in your breast all the loyalty of Sarah, the loveliness of Rachel,
the tenderness of Mary, the servitude of Martha, the patience of the
mother of Christ (His earthly mother), and the gentleness of Rebecca.
There is also a bit of Jezebel, Athalia, Michal, Abigail and the
others. It is up to you to decide.
Whether it be good or bad, there is one thing that woman always
does; she determines the spirit and the atmosphere of any place where
she is present.
Woman was not made to till the soil, she was not made to build
the house, she was not made to steer the crane, nor stack the brick,
nor hew the stones, nor build the road, nor head the state, nor lead
the church, nor reap the harvest.
It is woman's job to determine the atmosphere while the soil is
being tilled. It is woman's job to determine the atmosphere while the
house is being built. Though it is not her job to steer the crane, it
is her job to make happy the one who steers the crane. It's not her job
to stack the brick nor hew the stone; it's her job to make a wonderful
spirit and atmosphere while the brick is being stacked and the stone is
being hewn. It's not her job to build the road, nor head the state, nor
lead the church, nor reap the harvest. Everywhere woman has ever been,
it has been her job to provide the spirit of atmosphere while man does
his work and changes the course of history.
Woman can make Eden a paradise if she so chooses, or she can
curse everything in it, as she did. She can make an ark a lifeboat and
the Nile River a nursery if she wants to, or she can curse her husband
in Job's ash heap. It's her choice! She can ruin a nation as did
Jezebel or she can change a house into a church as did Priscilla. She
can make a preaching service great by giving all or ruin one by
withholding some as did Sapphira. She can fill the house with Mary's
ointment or she can fill it with Michal's hatred. She can save a nation
as did Esther or she, like Jezebel, can destroy one.
Ladies, I don't think you understand completely how the atmosphere is determined by you.
Much of the atmosphere of Hyles-Anderson College is caused by
the lovely young ladies who grace our hallways. Our college was made
basically for God's men. When I was in Los Angeles, California, praying
all night one night, God didn't give me a burden and say, "You need to
start a college and turn out some young ladies." My burden was for God
to send us some young men who could go across this country with the
fire of God in their breasts and change this country, build churches,
call America back to God and fight evil, but we could not have done it
had it not been for the marvelous spirit that permeates our campus
caused by the sweetness of the "Holy Spirits" of our campus who make it
so much sweeter.
We have some fine young men in our high school who play
football and basketball, and who are the officers of the classes, but
our high school this year has an amazing spirit. Do you know one
reason? A group of young ladies determine what it's like.
Woman's spirit determines the tranquility of the home, the
spirit of the office, the unity of the church, the reputation of the
preacher, the health of her husband and the joy of her children. She's
not the one whose name is put in the headlines of the paper. She's the
one who makes man have a delightful place to be. 'Tis her spirit, her
attitude, her disposition.
The little song is true: "Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm
blue; my disposition depends on you!" That's the way it is. You can
make your church a marvelous place. You ladies can determine the spirit
of your church more than menfolks can, for your spirit determines the
spirit of the menfolk. I wonder how many preachers have gone to church
and bawled the people out because of some discontent they received from
their wives concerning the church while they were home. I wonder how
many preachers have kept churches tranquil and serene because of the
tranquility they received at home.
Any time a woman is present, she determines the spirit and the
atmosphere many times more than does the man. Though she's not the
head, she's the neck that determines which way the head looks. Though
she's not the arm, she's the fuel that gives it strength. Though she's
not the strong cedar of Lebanon, she's the myrrh that makes fragrant
the atmosphere. Though she's not the pillar of the temple, she is the
altar of incense that makes everything fragrant within its walls.
Though she's not the harvest gatherer, she is the lily that makes the
gathering of the harvest more beautiful as she graces herself in the
field.
Woman is the flower on the communion table. She's the honey at
the banquet table. She's the Holy Spirit in the home, the unseen power.
Man worked before woman came, but man worked harder after she
came. Man ran before she came, but man ran faster after she came. Man
jumped before she came, but man jumped higher after she came. Man was
good before she came; man excelled after she came.
Some women are not listed in the Bible by name--the Shunammite
woman, the little maid that pointed Naaman toward the man of God, the
widow who gave two mites, the widow at Zarephath, and others. You see,
the honest truth is, though you're not made to have your name in the
headlines, break the records, win the wars and fight the battles, God
made you for a specific purpose.
Jesus is the One we exalt in our preaching here, but the Holy
Spirit gives us power to exalt Him. The Father is the One Who is the
great omnipotent God, but the Holy Spirit is the One Who causes our
attention to turn toward Him. The Gospel gets people saved, but the
unseen power of the Holy Spirit is felt in the services, His power
causes folks to walk the aisle; His power causes Jesus to be more
lovely; His power causes God to look more omnipotent, omniscient and
omnipresent; that power causes the church to go out and bring more
folks to Christ and draw folks to Calvary; that power is the unseen
One, the Holy Spirit! And that's what you are! You're the
determiner--the unseen one.
When I was a boy my mother used to sing to me in some tune that
you would not recognize, for she was possessed with the same musical
talents with which I am obsessed! She used to rock me on her knee and
sing, "Brighten the corner where you are; brighten the corner where you
are; someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar if you
brighten the corner where you are!" As she sang it, my father was
probably out drunk. We lived in a little two-room shack. Light came
from a kerosene lamp, and heat came from a wood stove which was too
often empty because we had no wood to place in it.
Mother did not know the story behind the song, "Brighten the
Corner." Years ago a little lady, Ina Duley Ogdon, was given a
beautiful voice. Someone asked her to sing a concert tour around the
world. She had anticipated the day when she could cover the globe and
carry the bright light of Christ through her voice. She had signed the
contract; the date had been set for her journey to begin. Just days
before her departure, she found her father was taken seriously ill. No
one else could care for him; only she! With some bitterness and much
disappointment she cancelled her worldwide trip to use her voice to
sing the praises of Christ and shine His light around the world!
Ina Ogdon looked at her aged father and saw him as he was
nearing death. She realized that she could not take her trip. Her
bitterness changed to joy, her disappointment changed to gratitude as
she sat down one day and began to write, "Brighten the corner where you
are; brighten the corner where you are; someone far from harbor you may
guide across the bar if you brighten the corner where you are!"
What the soloist could not do with her journey she did with her
sweet spirit as it went from her heart to her mind, from her mind to
her pen, from her pen to the paper, from the paper to the hymnbook, and
from the hymnbook to the whole world! Not just in her lifetime did she
brighten the world, but she will do so as long as the song is sung!
That's your job--brighten your corner! The atmosphere of the
office is determined more by the spirit of the secretaries than that of
the bosses. The atmosphere of the home is determined more by the mother
and wife than by the father and the children.
Man looks to you first to see in what kind of mood you are now.
Your husband comes home at night and one of the first things he wants
to know is, "What kind of a mood is she in tonight??' His evening is
brightened or saddened according to your mood! Why? Man doesn't
determine the mood of the house; you do! You are the Holy Spirit of the
home.
You won't get the praises man gets. You won't get your name in
the paper like he does. You won't get your name honored like he does,
and you won't be as big, as strong and as much of a leader. He is the
Father, the children are the Son, but you are the Holy Spirit. The
whole atmosphere wherever you are is determined by you.
Did you know that God has made it so that your spirit can
overwhelm the spirit of man? He is stronger than you as far as your
body is concerned. Your emotions could never do it, because there is
more emotional stability in a man than in you, but there is one place
where you can always overpower your guy or any guy and that is your
attitude, the spirit, the atmosphere!
Sometimes your home is happy; sometimes it's blue. Its disposition depends on you.
Sometimes the place you work is happy; sometimes it's blue. Its disposition depends on you.
Sometimes your school is happy; sometimes it's blue. Its disposition depends on you.
Sometimes your church is happy; sometimes it's blue. Its disposition depends on you.
If your church doesn't have a good spirit, it's more your fault
than the man's. I like this building. I helped to build it. I love it.
I think it's the prettiest building in the whole world and I wouldn't
trade anyone's building for it. I love this pulpit. It's the same
pulpit I had in the other building; we just put some new wood on the
outside of the pulpit. When we meet here Sunday morning, it doesn't
matter about the building, and all of my training and planning for the
services doesn't matter if the Holy Spirit is not here! It doesn't
matter what kind of a guy you've got or what kind of kids you have, if
the Holy Spirit is not there.
That's what it's all about. It's your job to comfort. Dad's not
a very good comforter; in fact, he's a weak comforter. Dad's a horrible
spirit-determiner or atmosphere-determiner. He waits on you.
Not many years ago, I think it was in the state of Georgia, a
mother and a child fell into an open well. The mother was beneath the
child. She held the child up above her and cried for help. For hours
that mother was there, just holding her arms up, holding the child
above her. When the rescuers came, they found the child was alive, but
the mother was dead. They took the mother's body to the funeral home.
The funeral director came to the family and asked, "How shall we bury
her?"
The family said, "What do you mean?" The director said, "What shall we do with her arms? "
They said, "What do you mean, 'do with her arms'?"
He said, "Her arms are locked in position above her head. We'll have to break the bones to put them across her breast."
The family said, "Bury her with her arms up." As the people came
by to view her body at her service they looked at her face, but her
arms were raised out of the casket, and that's how she was buried.
That's the way it ought to be. Lady, your job is to keep
lifting up those who are yours. Your guy and all guys are symbols of
the Father; your children are symbols of Jesus Christ; you are the
unseen and often forgotten, overlooked, unpraised, but always necessary
Holy Spirit!
Think about the songs we sing. "Holy Spirit, breathe on me."
"All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down." Compare
your purpose to the jobs of the Holy Spirit: teach, lead, comfort,
encourage, strengthen, help.
I'll be honest with you. I think you ladies got the long end of
the stick. Preachers get on their faces and say, "0 God, give me the
fullness of the Holy Spirit." I think I may get the men to demonstrate
to God. We got short-changed in all of this. We're going to start our
own men's ERA. We build the wall, but you decide whether we smile or
frown while we build it. We build the city, but you decide whether we
have normal blood pressure or high blood pressure while we build it. We
are the ones who build the churches, but you are the ones who decide
whether we have tranquility or frustration while we lead. It's up to
you.
Why don't you say, "My church is going to have a new spirit
because of me"? Some of you ought to meet your preacher before he walks
out to the pulpit Sunday morning and encourage him. Do what some of our
college girls did as they formed a little honor guard behind the
platform and began to sing for me about loving the Preacher.
The next time you are prone to think, "I'm not very important;
nobody appreciates me," remember that you are the one in the family
that typifies the One in the Trinity that nobody appreciates either.
His job is as the spotlight that is covered by the bushes or the
ravine, but it shines upon the building so that all may see the
building. 'Tis your job to be the unseen one, that comforter, that Holy
Spirit.
Take your Bible, look up the term Holy Spirit, and find all He
does. Then resolve that you are going to do what He does. Go alone
somewhere, bow your head, lift your heart to God, and say, "0 God, I'm
so thankful that You made man in the image of God the Father, and I'm
so glad that our children symbolize God the Son, and I'm so glad that
You made me a woman, something that the earth had to have, something
that paradise could not replace, something that could not be satisfied
by the breeze of Eden, the taste of the fruit, the fragrance of the
flowers, nor the gentleness of the wind."
The earth had to have you, lady, just as the church has to have the Holy Spirit.
Get on your knees and say, "Dear God, I am satisfied with my lot
in life. I am glad You made me a woman in the image of the Holy Spirit.
I yield myself to promise You that everywhere I go the flowers will be
a little prettier, their fragrance a little sweeter, the sun a little
brighter, the wind a little more gentle, the smile a little broader,
the shoulder a little straighter, and the arm a little stronger because
I'm present."
You're somebody! You are God's Holy Spirit in the family. It
matters not what else you do--that's your job. It matters not what else
you accomplish. That is your job.
Mrs. Evans conducts these Christian Womanhood Spectaculars. To
you she seems like a mighty strongwilled person. I don't see her that
way. I see her as, "Whatever you say, Preacher." "Preacher, you know
what's best." "Preacher, you're the wisest." "Preacher, I'm dumb
compared to you." That's what it's really all about.
You carry with you two little dispensers. One dispenser is
filled with the most marvelous fragrance and one is filled with a bad
odor. You have the potential for making everything around you sweet or
foul. We can't overbalance you. There is no way we can. You give me ten
gossipy ladies in a church, and I'll chase off any preacher in America!
Churches aren't split by men; they are split by women. Wounds in
churches aren't healed by men; they are healed by women!
One day I was teaching a class in a college in Texas many years
ago. I was driving down the highway coming home, and the cutest little
"cat" came across my path. It was black and white. It was a polecat or
a skunk, and I tried to miss him. I didn't! Not a bit of his Chanel No.
5 touched me, but do you know that for weeks everywhere I went people
said, "Whew! My! What's that odor?" There was no way around it.
You have that potential. It's up to you.
The Russell Andersons and we were in Nassau, Bahamas. I was
standing in a big department store and I heard something behind me
going, "Psst, psst, psst." I thought, "What is that--gas escaping?"
Then I felt something trickling down my neck, and Russell Anderson had
taken a little sample perfume bottle and absolutely washed my hair in
it. For weeks everywhere I went people said, "Ah!" My deacons said,
"Ohhh!"
You have both in your personality!
There Miss Universe stands with power enough to complete the
perfection of the Garden of Eden or to let the serpent find his way
into her heart and destroy and curse all in the garden.
You have that power too. It's up to you which one you choose.
You are the mood-determiner, the atmosphere-determiner, the Holy Spirit
of the family.
Chapter II
WOMAN, THE COMPLETER
May I say to you before I begin that I have no desire to scold.
I'm going to say some things that will make many ladies disappointed.
Maybe you're going to look back over your life and say, "Oh, I blew
it!" I'm not interested in scolding someone who has had any degree of
failure. I would be interested in helping many young ladies and those
who are still in the middle years of life as well as those of you who
are not yet married. I beg your leniency and understanding as I discuss
with you this very vital and important subject.
This originated when I was talking to a lady in my study one
evening. She was a very unhappy lady, so I discussed with her for
awhile her home situation and her marriage. I gave her a little talk.
She said, "I have never heard anything like that! I believe my life
will be changed tonight."
I thought that perhaps I should go home and give the same truth
to our daughters. So late one night as Linda and Cindy and I were
talking, I sat down at the kitchen table and taught them a Bible lesson
on "Woman, the completer."
Would you bow your head and ask God to help me help you?
"Our Heavenly Father, what a responsibility You have placed on my
shoulders to discuss such a vital subject. I pray You would give me
Your Holy Spirit, power, wisdom and leadership. Give me an alert mind
and a warm heart as we discuss together this thing that could well be
life-changing for hundreds of ladies, especially those who are young.
Help me. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
Nothing is happy, until it fulfills its purpose for existence.
God has made everything on purpose. He makes nothing by accident.
Nothing is happy until it finds the purpose for which God has made it.
No one is happy unless he finds and fulfills the purpose for which God
has made him. We hear talk these days about "I want my rights."
Everybody talks about "my rights, my rights, my rights." Somebody ought
to start talking about "my purpose, my purpose, my purpose," or "my
place, my place, my place."
You have only one right in life and that is to find God's will and
purpose for your life. Then sit securely and work actively right in the
center of God's purpose and place for you.
For example, God made a bird to fly. If a bird doesn't fly, it
is not happy. A bird can say, "I want to be a fish and swim, " but a
bird won't be happy swimming. A bird can say, "I want to be a dog and
run through the yard," but a bird won't be happy running through the
yard. A bird is happy only when flying, for God made a
bird to fly.
A fish could say, "I'm not satisfied here. I would like to fly through
the air," but a fish would never be happy flying through the air, for
God did not make a fish to fly. The fish could say, "I would like to
run through the forest like a wild animal," but God didn't make the
fish to run through the forest like a wild animal. God has a specific
purpose for each of His creatures. Hence, God has a purpose for woman.
Man needed someone to see how fast he could run and to say to
him, "You're a fast runner!" Man needed someone to see how far he could
throw the rock and to say, "You're a good thrower!" Man needed someone
to see how much he could lift and to say, "My, you have strong biceps!"
But there was nobody. Maybe man climbed to the top of the tree, and he
was so proud and so he said, "How did I do?" There was nobody to boost
him. God looked around and saw there was no help meet for man.
The Lord said, "The poor fellow needs somebody to be in his
corner, somebody to be for him. He needs someone to say, "Hey, that's
fast running! My, what a strong arm you have! Hey, how fast you can
climb the tree!"
When I was a little boy I got my first brand new bicycle. I had
a little girlfriend named Shirley Warren. I thought she was the
prettiest thing in all the world. I wanted her to see how I could ride
my bicycle. I rode in front of her house. She came outside and I said,
"Hey, look here, Shirley!" I rode the bicycle by Shirley's house. I
went back the second time. I wanted to do better. I said, "Hey, look,
no hands!" In front of her house she sat with that adoring, admiring
look! That's why God made women. (Coming back the third time I got up
and stood on the seat, and then I ended up on my seat!)
God made woman to sit on the sidelines and cheer when a man succeeds.
Why did God make woman? He made woman to cheer on the sidelines
while her fellow made a touchdown. God made a woman to sit in the
audience while her husband preaches and say, "That's the best preacher
in the world!" God made woman to stand on the side of the street and
watch her little boyfriend ride the bicycle using no hands or standing
up on the seat and say to him, "That's the most amazing thing I ever
saw in my life!" God made woman to see her man run the 100-yard dash
and say, "That's the greatest accomplishment I ever saw!" God made a
woman to sit on the sidelines and watch her fellow throw a 100-pound
stone 50 feet and say, "Nobody else could do it like that!" God made a
woman to sit on the sidelines and watch a fellow climb a tree faster
than anybody in the world and say, "That's my man! He's the best tree
climber in the whole world!" That's why God made woman. He made her to
be man's help meet.
God made woman for man! The word "help meet" means "completer."
God said, "I will make a completer for man." It is like an incomplete
circle. Man has almost all he needs, but there's something he doesn't
have. God said, "There's something I've got to give to man," so He took
from beneath man's heart a rib, and from that rib He made a woman. God
said, "I want that woman to go to that man, and I want her to complete
him." Man will not be complete until he has her.
No, God didn't see a child needing care and say, "I'm going to
send somebody down to take care of that child." Now I'm for children! I
think they're wonderful, but ladies, God didn't make you for your
children! No, He didn't. God didn't look down one day and say, "Hey,
there's a little fellow down there that needs his diaper changed. I'm
going to have to make somebody to go down and complete him." God didn't
do that.
God didn't look down and say, "There's a dirty house down
there. I want somebody to clean it. I'll make a house cleaner." No, God
didn't make you for that.
God didn't look down and say, "You know, man needs to love
somebody and protect somebody, and I'm going to send somebody for man
to love and protect." No, God didn't do that either.
God didn't send you down to be helped; God sent you down to help.
Your husband came home from work one day and you said, "I went to the doctor today." Perhaps you were knitting.
He said, "Have you got the flu?"
You said, "I've got the nine-month flu."
Up out of the chair he flew! He said, "Wh-wh-wh-what?"
"That's right."
He said, "D-d-don't g-g-get n-n-nervous. Just s-s-stay c-c-calm."
You said, "Thank you, sweetheart. I always appreciate the fact that you are able to calm me down."
Then you started getting sick. Every morning you regurgitated,
you got sort of a funny color to your face, and you were even harder to
get along with than usual. You started getting bigger! When you sat
down you had to spread your legs in order to get up! When you laid on
your back you looked like one of the pyramids in Egypt. When you laid
on your stomach you looked like a rocker on a rocking chair. Nothing
fit, and there was room for only one person in the bed. You had to go
sideways through the door. You ate pickles at midnight and watermelon
for breakfast and peanut butter sandwiches at two o'clock in the
morning. Nobody could get along with you. You remember those days. God
bless you. Then one night about two o'clock in the morning (I know it
was two o'clock in the morning because all babies are born at two
o'clock in the morning!) you reached over to your husband and said,
"Sweetheart, the pains are five minutes apart now."
"He said, "Now d-d-d-don't you w-w-worry. Everything's g-g-g-going to be all right."
You said, "Oh, thank you for your comforting words. It's so nice to have a man around the house."
He said, "G-g-get in the car. I'll g-g-get your suitcase." He
got the bowling ball out of the basement and put it in the trunk of the
car. You had presence of mind enough to know what he would do, so you
got the suitcase and put it in the car yourself. (He doesn't know to
this day exactly what happened.) You took off for the hospital. You
were going about 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile zone and looked up in
the rear view mirror and saw the flashing light. The officer pulled you
to the side of the road and said, "Hey, are you going to a fire?"
Your husband said, "No, it's my hospital here. She's going to
the baby to have a wife. I mean, no, no, it's my baby here. She's going
to the wife to have a hospital."
The policeman was a nice man and said, "Yes, I think I
understand what it is." (He had probably been there before.) He said,
"You follow me," and he gave you a guided tour to the hospital.
They rolled you through a couple of doors, and you were
apprehensive, for maybe it was the first time you had ever done this.
You went into the room, and there was the nurse and the doctor and
maybe a hypodermic needle. Maybe they put you to sleep a little bit,
maybe not, and soon you felt pain like nobody has ever felt, the like
of which no human being ever feels in all the world. After awhile there
was a little cry and they rolled you to your room. It wasn't long until
they brought that little one to you. You held the baby to your breast,
and that little, blind, wrinkled, ugly rascal started hunting for his
supper. He had enough sense to want to eat as soon as he was born. As
he fed from your own body, you said, "That's flesh of my flesh and bone
of my bone and blood of my blood," and oh, how you loved it! What a
sweet time it was, but that's not why God made you. That wasn't the
most important day of your life. You did not fulfill the purpose for
your being a woman that day! No, you didn't! God didn't look down and
say, "I have a baby that needs feeding; I'm going to send someone down
to feed it." God did make it so you could bear children, but God didn't
make that the main purpose for your existence. You can be a good mother
and be a failure. You can be the best mother in the world and be a
failure. You can be the best mother who ever lived. You can be a
Susannah Wesley, a Jochebed, an Elisabeth, and a Mary all wrapped in
one package, and still be a failure.
Nothing is ever completely happy or content or finds
fulfillment until it fulfills the purpose for its existence. You say,
"Well, I'm going to rear my children." Go ahead. That's okay with me. I
think you ought to rear your children. Yet it is not as important as
being the kind of wife you ought to be. God made woman for man. God
made woman for man to be a help meet for him.
God didn't look down and see a hungry family and say, "I want
someone to feed them," or a dirty house and say, "I want someone to
clean it," or a little kid and say, "I want someone to rear him." No,
God looked down and saw a man that He had made. He saw an incomplete
man. God saw that man could not make it completely by himself. He saw
that man was not a self-contained package. God saw that man could not
sustain himself by himself and God said, "I'm going to make somebody to
complete him. Man has a subject but no predicate. He has a noun, but no
verb. He has three sides, but no completed side. He is a circle not
completed. He is a two-sided triangle. He's a three-sided square.
There's something missing in man." So God made you to complete man.
If that be the case, then in a sense God made you to be the
aggressor. Yes, woman is the weaker vessel, but man is the less
complete vessel. Woman is the weaker vessel, but man has more need than
woman does. Did you know you can stay at home at night by yourself and
not be as scared as your husband would be if he stayed at home by
himself? That's true. I dare you to check it. Some of you stay at home
alone with the doors unlocked. It is a different story when he is by
himself. He probably has the police number written down by every
telephone in the house! Why? Man needs you more than you need man. Man
has the engine and the gasoline but he doesn't have a starter. You
don't have an engine, and you don't have the gasoline, but you have the
starter! If you don't believe it, tickle him under the chin and see if
you don't start something! He has the engine. He's got what it takes,
but he needs someone to start him, somebody to prod him along, somebody
to complete him.
Let me put it this way. Woman comes to an incomplete man,
completes him, and then receives the benefits of his completeness.
Woman comes to an incomplete man and completes him; that's her job--to
be the aggressor, to lead him to become a complete man so he can lead
her, but he needs woman to start him! Then after woman completes man,
she receives the benefits of his completeness!
Some of our college girls made a list of "the ten things I want
in a man." A girl's list might have included these qualifications:
6'3", handsome, compassionate, strong, tender, etc.--that's what she
wants in a man. If you ever found a fellow with all those things, he
wouldn't need you!
Some lady says, "Oh, he has everything!"
No, he doesn't have everything! No man has everything! If he did have
everything, he wouldn't need you. I think the best thing for you to do
is find someone who doesn't have everything, and then help him get
everything. That's why God made you.
1. Complete him in his work.
If your husband is a carpenter, go look at the house he built
and say, "Did you all build that? My, my, my, let me see your big old
bicep!" (You may not realize it, but those old southern belles had
something on the ball.) You should say, "That's the prettiest house I
ever saw. My, did you build that?" That's what you're supposed to
do--cheer on the sidelines.
By the way, if your husband is a carpenter, you learn what a
16d nail is. Learn what an 8d common nail is. Learn what a 8d casing
nail is. You learn what a 2" x 4" and a 2" x 8" are. Know what
Sheetrock is. Find out what kind of roof is put on a house. Why? God
made you to complete that man, that's why!
You say, "I want a strong leader."
Make him!
Someone says, "I want a great lover."
Make him a great lover.
"I want a great, successful man."
That's why you're there! You're there to complete him, finish
him. God made him, but he wasn't complete. So the Lord says, "I want
someone to complete him."
11. Complete him in his play.
Complete him here also. When your guy is watching a football
game, share it with him. When his favorite team wins a game or makes a
touchdown, you should cheer! When he looks around and says, "That was
great!" you ought to be there to say, "Sure was!" You ought to be able
to say, "You know why they got that touchdown? Because they red-dogged
on that last defensive play!" Red-dogged? Yes, you ought to know what
red-dogging means. No, it doesn't mean squirting ketchup on a mutt in
the front yard! You ought to know.
Listen, if your husband likes baseball, learn baseball. If your
husband likes to fish, when he pulls up that little old 6-inch fish you
should say, "Man, look at that whale! " That's why you're here.
You say, "I'm just not that type.
I know. You're not the happy type either.
"I'm just not made that way."
I know. We're all pretty bad. We're supposed to straighten up ourselves!
You say, "You're just trying to help the men.
No, I'm not. The first thing I said was that nothing is ever happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was made.
"He never brags on me," you say.
God didn't make him to brag on you. Now don't misunderstand me.
I think it's fine if he does, and I think it would be nice if he did,
but that's extra. The "bread and beans" of this is that God made YOU to
brag on your man!
"Well, I'm not going to listen to all that junk."
Don't call it junk. I didn't write it. I'm just telling you what it says. God says, "I need a completer for man."
Complete him in his play. Complete him when he catches a fish.
When he hits a ball, say, "Let me feel your arm!" I'm saying, spoil him
rotten! That's why God made you.
Man is a vain creature. Men like to say, "All in the world my wife does
is primp, primp, primp!" I dare you to time the two of you. I dare you
to put a timer on the old man and one on the old lady and see who takes
longer!
I use Command hairspray on my hair. I spray one hair and then I
spray the other one! I part my hair in the middle--in the middle of the
two hairs. I don't comb my hair; I place it. I get it all placed. Each
hair has one little spot where it's supposed to go. If one hair is out
of place, it makes the whole skull shine through. If one little hair is
sticking up, I work on it. I'll get my comb out and put that hair back
and spray it right quick.
You say, "Why?"
We're vain!
Men say, "I don't use face powder."
I do. I use after-shave talcum powder daily. Why? I don't want my nose (or my head) to shine.
What I'm saying is, man is a vain person. Man is vain because
God made him vain. A man can do more if he is vain. When a man is
running for a touchdown and a little gal on the side is saying, "Rah,
rah, rah! Run, Goerge, run!" George will run faster because of that
yelling on the side.
The tragic thing is that before marriage it's, "Run, George,
run," and after marriage is, "Get, George, get!" There's something
wrong about that. Keep hollering, "Run, George." That's why God made
you. Complete him in his play. There's nothing in the world that
masculinity hates worse than to fail. A real man would rather die than
fail. Now it's your job to see that he doesn't fail. If your husband
fails, you are part of that failure. You must bear the responsibility
of it because God has made you to help and complete him.
You say, "I'm looking for a certain kind of man." That's like a
doctor looking for well patients, a plumber looking for a house with no
leaks, a mechanic looking for an engine with no knocks, a cobbler
looking for a shoe with no hole, or a barber looking for a man with no
hair! You look for God's man and then help to make him what God wants
him to be.
This is every man's right. Each has only one life to live. God
looks down and sees that every man is incomplete. God gives a man a
woman, and that woman is supposed to complete that man. If you fail to
do it, it won't be done. If he dies without ever having it, it's
because you didn't give it to him. You have taken from him what is
every man's right. Every man's right is to have a completer. That's why
God made you!
A lady came to my office not long ago and I gave her this truth. She said, "I'm not going to do all that stuff."
I said, "I'll give you an alternative suggestion."
She said, "What?"
I said, "Go over here to the bridge over the Chicago River and jump off."
"What?"
"Go jump in the river."
"Why?"
I said, "You'd go to Heaven, and your husband wouldn't have to
live in hell!" Listen to me, especially you young ladies, you unmarried
ladies, you ladies who haven't been married long. I'm trying to help
you. I'm not trying to take any freedoms away from you. I'm trying to
give you a liberty that you'll never enjoy unless you become what God
has made you to be.
I said to that lady in my office for counsel, "Look, you are
standing in the way. Your husband is a good man. He's not going to have
anybody else. You're standing in the way of your husband ever having a
completer. You'd be a lot better off, young lady, in the early days of
your marriage, if you would go over and jump off the bridge so your
husband can have in his lifetime someone to complete the circle."
Ladies, most of your husbands are fine men. Wouldn't it be a
shame for your guy to live and die without having what is his rightful
heritage? How pitiful! How tragic! I wish I could help you realize the
purpose for which God made you. I wish I could get you to get to your
man and help make that man all that God wants him to be. Complete him.
Then you'll know what it is to be happy.
Do you know what these women's libbers are? They are a group of
confused women trying to find happiness and failing because they are
searching for it outside of God's Word and God's plan.
You say, "I have my rights too!
No, you don't. Not yet! A woman does not have any right in this
world until she's done this. You check in the Bible. Always in the
Bible the first command is to the follower. In Ephesians 5:22, for
example, it says, "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands."
Then in verse 25 it says, "Husbands, love your wives." Who's supposed
to start it? The wife!
It says in Ephesians 6:1, "Children, obey your parents." Then
in verse 4 it says, "Fathers ... bring them up in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord."
What does it mean? God gives the command first to the follower.
He says, "I want the wife to do her job first." That means you have no
rights until you do your job. That means He wants the child to obey
first. That means He wants the child to obey even if the dad is never
the right kind of dad. That means a child is supposed to obey,
regardless!
For example, it says in Ephesians 6:5, "Servants, be obedient
to them that are your masters." Then in verse 9 the masters are
exhorted to be good masters.
God always puts on the follower the burden of having the
initiative and being aggressive. Wives, you do it first. Children, you
do it first. Servants, you do it first.
Somebody says, "I want a man already made."
There's no such thing as one already made.
Somebody says, "He doesn't help me at home."
He wasn't made to help you at home. If he wants to help you at
home, that's a pretty good bonus, but it is not part of God's plan. I'm
not saying it is wrong for him to help you at home, and I think it may
be good for him to help you at home, but it is not in the Book for him
to do so.
You were made for him; the man was not made for you. Man's main
business is outside. Woman's main business is inside. Man's main
business is not the woman. Woman's main business is the man.
You say, "He doesn't give me as much attention as I give him."
The Bible doesn't say he's supposed to do that. Let me put it
this way. You be what you ought to be so you can make your man to be
what he ought to be to you.
This is why girls should be taught to cater to their dads.
Girls who cater to their dads make better wives. A little girl should
bring her dad's houseshoes to him. The mother should teach her to do
it. The daughter ought to be taught that if Dad's tea glass gets half
empty, she should fill it and cater to him and spoil him.
This is important, not for Dad's sake, but the girl's sake.
When Cindy and Linda were our only two children home, they
catered to their dad. They spoiled me! They liked to do nice things for
me. I enjoyed it. I wanted my girls to get accustomed to spoiling a man
so they could spoil their husbands. I wanted them to get in the habit
of supplying Dad's needs so as to practice for marriage. I enjoyed
their spoiling me, but that wasn't my goal. I had ten thousand times
rather my daughters be good wives than good daughters. If each daughter
will make some man a loving, completing, spoiling kind of cheering
wife, I'll feel then that the girls are what God wants them to be.
I have always preferred that our daughters sing in duets rather
than solos. I want them to blend. That's why I've always been pleased
when they accompanied on the piano rather than play piano solos. I'm
not against ladies singing solos. I thank God for the ladies who sing
solos in our church, but I think for every solo a lady sings she should
sing a thousand times where she blends. That's why I've always wanted
the girls to play doubles rather than singles in tennis. From the time
they were little I've wanted them to share, be part of a team, boost a
team image, and be a part of boosting someone else. That's why I wanted
them to spoil their dad. I never much care if they win any beauty
contests. Your main job in training a girl is not to help her be happy
when she grows up. Your main job is to train her to know how to make a
man happy when she grows up. Then, and only then, will she be
completely happy and fulfilled.
You say, "Brother Hyles, how can I do it?"
The best way is by example. Young ladies, have you a child in
the nursery now or one in the Beginner or Primary Department? The best
way to train those little girls to be a help meet one day is for you to
be that right now.
"How can I get the girls to watch the tea glass?" you ask.
You watch the tea glass.
"How can I get the girls to spoil their future husbands?" you ask.
You spoil your husband.
There ought to be some place where every man can go where he is
a hero. I mean, he is the biggest guy in all the world! He's the most
handsome guy in the whole world. He's the strongest man alive. There
should be some place he can go, a refuge, where he can feel that he's
really somebody. Every man has a right to be a hero to somebody! For
every man God has made somebody to make him a hero.
How does your husband feel tonight? How does your guy feel?
When your guy comes in the house, he ought to feel like a conquering
hero coming home. He has a right to it! That's why God made you!
God made a man and said, "That man needs someone to think he is
the greatest thing in the whole world. That man needs someone to help
him. That man needs someone to complete him."
Without a completer man will never achieve what he could have achieved.
You say, "Brother Hyles, I'm not married. What can I do?"
You can be a Viola Walden, a Fairy Shappard, a Maxine Jeffries.
Maxine Jeffries, the lady who oversees all our ministries to the
handicapped, is one of the most feminine ladies I know in the whole
world. Now Maxine weighs a "little" more than 110 and she has not won a
beauty contest. She's not Miss America. (She is to some of us!) She's
one of our staff members. She is in her40's. Maxine has never married,
but she is a help meet to God's man!
Miss Viola Walden was with Dr. John R. Rice for over 40 years
as his administrative assistant. Many years ago a doctor fell in love
with her, and he asked her to marry him. Miss Viola went to Dr. Rice
and said, "Dr. Rice, how long do you think I'll work for you?"
Dr. Rice said, "As far as I'm concerned, you have a job with me as long as you live."
Miss Viola went back to the doctor and told him, "I don't
believe God wants me to marry you." Miss Viola has been a help meet to
Dr. Rice all these years. She has been a helper and a completer to his
ministry.
A woman should be a help mate by nature! I teach our high
school and grade school lady teachers that the boys in their classes
should feel more masculine when they are around them. When I was a
little boy, my mother used to say to me, God bless her, "Son, would you
get this pickle jar open for me?" I would open the pickle jar. (The
next time when Mama didn't know I was nearby, I would see her open it
just as easy as I did.)
Mother used to say, "Son, would you get this window unstuck for me?"
"Sure!"
She would say, "Son, Daddy isn't home, and it's so nice to have a man around the house!"
The simple truth is, my mother was feminine. She still is. When
I'm in my mother's presence to this day, I feel more like a man than I
do when I'm not in her presence. She's in her nineties, but she's
feminine. She's a help meet.
A sister ought to be that to a brother.
You say, "Oh, brothers and sisters fight."
They shouldn't! I wish you could see the poem Cindy wrote about
David when he got married. Cindy happily worked for her brother at the
Youth Center. (Bro. Dave is our Youth Director.)
Even if you don't get married, the right kind of woman will
still be a help meet. I think that's what femininity really is. Being
feminine is not being a wallflower, a weakling, or a little dainty
weakling. Being feminine is being a strong completer, one who is strong
enough to do it alone but lets "him" do it and lets "him" get the
credit for it. It's the kind of woman who can beat him at Ping-pong but
never does!
I was out playing golf with Evangelist Jim Lyons one day. He
had never beaten me. David was only seven years old, and he went with
us. Brother Jim got ahead of me by three strokes. He had a short putt
to beat me. Dave was crying because his daddy was getting beat. As Bro.
Jim pulled the putter back, Dave yelled, "HEY!" Jim jumped and hit the
ball across the pasture! It took him seven strokes to get in the hole,
and I beat him by four strokes!
That's the way every girl ought to feel about her dad, her husband and her brother if she is a completer.
One of these days all of us are going to stand before the
judgment seat of Christ. God has given you one thing to do in life.
There is an incomplete circle. It lacks a part. God made you to add
that little part. You can make all the circles you want to by yourself,
but God won't reward you unless that circle is complete. Woman is the
completer.
Several years ago Dr. John Rice, Bill Harvey and I were in a
conference at the First Baptist Church of Temple Heights in Tampa,
Florida. Dr. Rice and I were the featured speakers. At noon on Tuesday
we had a steak dinner for all the preachers and their wives. Dr. Rice,
singer Bill Harvey and I were sitting at the head table along with the
staff members of the church and their wives. All of a sudden as we were
eating steak, I heard someone choking badly. I looked! One of the
assistant pastors had turned completely white, and he began to run
toward the door. The door was locked! Suddenly we realized what had
happened. He had a piece of steak caught in his windpipe. We all tried
to help him and failed. Folks were frantic. He was about to die. All of
a sudden his little wife jumped out of her seat and stuck her finger
down his throat and pulled out a piece of steak! That's why God made
woman. He made woman to be the one person who can complete man and make
him what he ought to be.
God has given most of you a man. Your man is not complete. He
is not even the aggressor yet. One of these days when you stand before
God, the dear Lord is going to judge you according to whether you
completed that man that God gave to you.
I want you to have the very best. I want you to have the
happiest life and the sweetest eternity, but you never will until you
become that thing for which God made you. No creature that God has made
will ever be happy or useful until that thing which is its superior
becomes its master.
God's purpose for you is to be a completer. Woman was made for
man, not for children, not for a house, not for cooking; she was made
for man!
Be a completer.
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Enjoy some pictures taken during the month of June
Sis Ski has her two sons by the hand. Congregation listening to Pastor Whitaker preach.
Sis Norah with her dad Steve. Sis Nikki and Sis Alana
Bro Todd talking about his soon deployment to Iraq. Bro Brian Landis shaking the pastors hand at end of service
Norah pinching her new husbands face. Samantha hugging on mom.
Getting ready for mens prayer time. Bro Gary heading out after church.
Getting ready to start song service. Marissa, Seirra and Bro John singing.
Patrick and Mary Hammond getting ready to sing. Sis April giving a gift to Sis Norah for her wedding
Sis Norah's wedding shower. Seth enjoying God's light.
Teens talking and Ted is reading the bulletin before service Sis Vicky making kissy face with Seth
Grandpa and grandson--Steve and Joey Sis Kathy being 'kewl'
Daniel getting ready to walk the Aisle. Daniel and Norah getting ready to "tie the knot"
Smile Daniel you just got married. There you go. Beautiful wedding ceremony.
Alana and Marissa at the piano before church starts. John Walker getting ready to follow the Lord in Believers Baptism
Bro Wayne and his grandson Seth Praying is a part of worship
Pastor Whitaker remodeling a 13 foot Gheenoe. Sanding away and now its a different color. Finished picture next month.
I count it a privilege to help people with their spiritual needs. Some people need more help than what they realise. God help us! My goal is to get people to live for the Lord Jesus Christ and see people get saved. Many times I have seen people think that they are saved but their life is filled with devilish things and the filth of this old world and bears no fruit(Wherefore
by their fruits ye shall know them). I would rather speak up and tell someone they are not saved than keep my mouth shut and let them die and go to hell. If I were to walk by a house and smelled smoke, even though I didn't see the flames, I would go to the homeowner and ask "Is your house on fire" because I smell smoke. Safe than sorry.
Charles Spurgeon said a Christian is either a missionary or an imposter......
“If Jesus is precious to you, you will not be able to keep your good
news to yourself. You will be whispering it into your child’s ear. You
will be telling it to your husband. You will be earnestly imparting it
to your friend. Without the charms of eloquence you will be more than
eloquent: your heart will speak, and your eyes will flash as you talk
of His sweet love.
Every Christian here is either a missionary or an impostor.
Recollect that. You either try to spread abroad the kingdom of Christ,
or else you do not love Him at all. It cannot be that there is a high
appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about Him. Of course
I do not mean by that, that those who use the pen are silent: they are
not. And those who help others to use the tongue, or spread that which
others have written, are doing their part well: but that man who says,
‘I believe in Jesus,’ but does not think enough of Jesus ever to tell
another about Him, by mouth, or pen, or tract, is an impostor.
You are either doing good, or you are not good yourself. If thou
knowest Christ, thou art as one that has found honey. Thou wilt call
others to taste of it. Thou art like the lepers who found the food
which the Syrians had cast away: thou wilt go to Samaria and tell the
hungry crowd that thou hast found Jesus, and art anxious that they
should find Him too. Be wise in your generation, and speak of Him in
fitting ways and at fitting times, and so in every place proclaim the
fact that Jesus is most precious to your soul.”
People today have plenty of time for the computer especially playing games but little time for God. What a shame. People are dying all around us but yet we don't see the importance of trying to spend our time wisely for the Lord and witness for HIM. If you spend all your time playing games on the computer is that a true reflection of your spiritual state. Playing games with God? Set your affections on God and not the fantasy games of distraction.
I am here for you if you ever need to talk. My office door is always open for you and my phone is dedicated to the Lord day or night. 912-690-1066. I welcome email but do not always respond by email because people can "read things wrong" or they can change your response within an email and make it say something you didn't say.
Serving My Saviour,
Pastor John Whitaker
