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Part 5-Someone Please Turn the Faucet Off?. Proverbs 27:15-16. Proverbs 27:15-16 A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and grasps oil with his right hand. Big Idea: Does Your Presence Bring Blessing or Burden?.
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Part 5-Someone Please Turn the Faucet Off? Proverbs 27:15-16
Proverbs 27:15-16 • A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike; whoever restrains her restrains the wind, and grasps oil with his right hand.
Question 1: Has the cursebeen reversedin your home • The Curse in your home began in the garden • Genesis 3:16, “To the woman He said: “I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; In pain you shall bring forth children; Your desire shall be for your husband, And he shall rule over you.”
Question 1: Has the cursebeen reversedin your home • The Curse in your home began in the garden • The Curse is reversed in the Christ-centered home • 1 Timothy 2:8–15, “8 I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting; 9 in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, 10 but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works. 11 Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. 12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.”
Question 1: Has the cursebeen reversedin your home • The Curse in your home began in the garden • The Curse is reversed in the Christ-centered home • 1 Timothy 2:8–15 • 1 Peter 3:1–6, “Wives, likewise, be submissive to your own husbands, that even if some do not obey the word, they, without a word, may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied by fear. 3 Do not let your adornment be merely outward—arranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparel— 4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God also adorned themselves, being submissive to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose daughters you are if you do good and are not afraid with any terror.”
Question 1: Has the cursebeen reversedin your home • The Curse in your home began in the garden • The Curse is reversed in the Christ-centered home • The Curse has a practical help-mentoring and modeling • Titus 2:3–5, “3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”
qUESTION 2:Is Your Presence more akin towater tortureor a water cooler • Indiscreet Woman=Gold ring in Swine’s snout • Proverbs 9:13 13 A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing. • Proverbs 11:22 22 As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a lovely woman who lacks discretion.
qUESTION 2:Is Your Presence more akin towater tortureor a water cooler • Indiscreet Woman=Gold ring in Swine’s snout • Contentious Woman=Continual Dripping • Proverbs 19:13 13 A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping. • Proverbs 27:15–16 15 A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike; 16 Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand.
qUESTION 2:Is Your Presence more akin towater tortureor a water cooler • Indiscreet Woman=Gold ring in Swine’s snout • Contentious Woman=Continual Dripping • Contentious Woman=Unrestrained, unpredictable force • Proverbs 27:15–16 15 A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike; 16 Whoever restrains her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand.
qUESTION 2:Is Your Presence more akin towater tortureor a water cooler • Indiscreet Woman=Gold ring in Swine’s snout • Contentious Woman=Continual Dripping • Contentious Woman=Unrestrained, unpredictable force • Contentious Woman=Impossible housemate • Proverbs 21:9 Better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman. • Proverbs 25:24 It is better to dwell in a corner of a housetop, Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Wrapping Up… • Arab proverb: “Three things make a house intolerable: • tak(the leaking through of rain), • nak(a wife’s nagging), and • bak(bugs)” • Proverbs 14:1, “The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.”
Big Idea:Does Your Presence Bring Blessing or Burden?Men, Women, Children… Are you tearing down your home or building it up? Does Your Presence in the home give cause for blessing or cause for relocation of the rest of the family!