I have made the audio from the first session available as a sample for those who may still be interested in joining us. If you have friends who might benefit from these times, they can hear what we covered today by going to this page: https://www.westernconservatory.com/smm
Sincerely,
Geoffrey Botkin
Our lives are characterized in the way we invest our time and money. How will I defend the faith? Deception is all around us.
Thy presence alone can make me holy, devout, strong and happy.
Abide in Christ in everything you do. Many professing Christians live no different than the world. Older women need to teach the younger women.
Men will never be leaders till their homes are in order. Husbands need to be respectful leaders in their homes. The welfare state makes family life unnecessary and unwanted. The welfare state endorses perpetual childhood. The state frowns on men taking responsibility.
Worldly romanticism makes agape love impossible. Lay your life down for your wife every day.
Women are severely messed up spiritually and progressively confused and degraded turning to the state to care for them. We must husband, care for our wives, discipling our wife. If we don’t we will not have the strong marriages that God require. Protect them from a corrupt culture, rescue her from the captivity of a bad world view, and cleanse her from unbelief, ignorance, compromise, corruption and rebellion. Love your wife. Provide her both and material and spiritual support to sanctify, beautify and honor her. Adorn your wife with a gentle and quiet spirit.
Will your wife be willing to call her husband “lord?” Cleave closely to her with a romantic enthusiasm. Every man needs to be more verbal with them. Protect her from wrong influence in catalogs, internet and movies to control the flesh. Honor our wives as a husband that is worthy of the title “lord.” Wives are attracted to gentle men. What must you do to become a man of courage and valor? Our heads are never turned by someone younger or more attractive.
Masculine repentance is hard. Western men are more messed up than western women. Assess our own unbelief and rebellion. Assess my unbelief. Help me grow in this. We have traits of rebellion. We must find problems in ourselves first. We have to root out our wrong view of family, marriage, affections, worldly wealth and esteem. Do we have nonbiblical heroes? Are we married to self-love instead of our wife? Are we in pursuit of personal affluence at the expense of character? Are we exchanging true freedom for statist security? Is wealth and leisure time away form responsibility?
Examine unbiblical goals. Severe dangerous relationships. Greed is idolatrous. Is tongue unbridled? Assess our gifts, talents, abilities. Get council. Use sympathy, kindness and gentleness.
Is my wife happy? The more she loses her life for Christ’s sake. Would she die for Christ become a refugee in a two day notice? Willing to go into the wilderness to protect her
Does your wife love Christ enough to study and obey all Christ’s commandments? Does she dishonor you by the way she speaks to the children? Does she look to worldly messiahs for security? Does she prefer licensed Christianity to the unlicensed variety, endorsing the state? Conform to every edict of the state? A weak gospel is a tool of the statist gospel, not a biblical gospel.
Does your wife smile at the future?
Does she fear man and seek the approval of the elite (a scholarship to Harvard)? We do not need the approval of others over the approval of Christ. A friend of the world is an enemy of Christ. We are free. Long-term debt is wrong. Debt makes slaves of an entire population. Does your wife blame others for her problems? Does she look for hope in candidates who are statist in their beliefs like Sarah Palin?
The profane and vulgar should be offensive. Do rival gods offend her? Do we really, really want children? Does she allow strangers to rock the cradle as a Walt Disney movie or Marxist piano teacher?
A wise woman is spiritually teachable. Use a gentle tone of voice. Give her space. If you are committed to the will of God, the family will want to hear you. Her primary mission in life is to help you with your mission.
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