The NXR Podcast - American Glory - What is a 'Submissive' Woman According to Scripture？

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00:01:30.500 Today on American Glory, I'm covering what is a woman according to scripture, but more than that,

00:01:36.060 what makes a woman glorious, and what are the four offices she is called to fill.

00:01:42.080 All that and more coming up right now. 1.00

00:01:57.440 Welcome to American Glory. This is season three on The American Family. I'm your host,

00:02:02.340 Dale Partridge. This is episode four of season three titled, What is a Woman According to

00:02:07.900 Scripture? Now, this season, I'm covering the history of the American family from multiple

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00:03:40.280 Activity is a natural outgrowth of identity. However, in our current generation, feminine 0.96

00:03:46.100 identity has been so warped and misrepresented that a woman's activity is often in conflict

00:03:51.880 with her identity. And this is important because in scripture, identity is directly connected to

00:03:58.320 glory. Now, glory is one of those words that needs to be defined because according to scripture,

00:04:05.720 we are to be glorious. But how can a woman be glorious if she doesn't know what glory is? 1.00

00:04:13.920 Now, from my study, I have come up with a personal working definition as I've done 1.00

00:04:18.080 a lot of work around this particular topic. Now, glory is the rightful radiant substance

00:04:24.820 of a particular object. And that is the correct and true expression of, or maybe a manifestation

00:04:33.660 of a particular thing or a created thing is glory. And so a man has a glory. A woman has a glory.

00:04:41.600 A lion has a glory. A tree has a glory. But what makes these objects glorious

00:04:46.960 is when they operate according to how they were designed.

00:04:51.540 In other words, glory is when they model

00:04:54.020 their creational intent. 1.00

00:04:56.700 And so a man who acts like a woman is not glorious. 0.99

00:05:00.740 A mother who acts like a father is not glorious. 1.00

00:05:03.580 A child who rules the home is not glorious. 1.00

00:05:06.960 A tree that has maybe fallen down

00:05:09.680 and acts as a bridge over a river,

00:05:12.000 it might be pretty, but it's not glorious.

00:05:14.260 An object can only be glorious if it is operating according to God's will for that object.

00:05:22.560 So to be glorious is essentially to be what God designed you to be.

00:05:28.260 This is why we talk about when a person dies, he's now been glorified.

00:05:32.740 He is operating exactly, perfectly how he ought to be without sin.

00:05:38.280 We are entering into glory.

00:05:40.220 We are entering into perfection, God's will, right?

00:05:42.800 Now, I'm not saying that this is some sort of subjective license of glory where you get to

00:05:51.200 determine based on your own emotional feelings what the identity of particular things are.

00:05:56.120 No, scripture tells us what a man is and how a man ought to operate. It tells us what a woman is 0.62

00:06:03.300 and how she ought to operate. It tells us the same for children and for servants and for animals and 0.96

00:06:08.880 for food and for nature and art. So glory radiates from that which rightly represents

00:06:16.000 God's will for their being. And this is why Proverbs 20, 29 says, quote, the glory of young

00:06:23.180 men is their strength, end quote. So strength, physical strength, demonstrates God's intention

00:06:30.220 for man's being. Okay, strength upholds his manness. And it's glorious for a young man to be

00:06:37.940 strong because it radiates their creational intent. And the inverse is also true. It's 0.99

00:06:44.680 inglorious for young men to be weak, both physically and I would say even in spirit or

00:06:50.900 emotion. Now, 1 Corinthians 11, 15 says, but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory. Now, 0.70

00:06:59.500 long hair expresses God's creational intent for femininity. It magnifies her beauty. In the same 1.00

00:07:10.660 way that physical strength or muscles is a physical distinction that upholds manness,

00:07:16.000 long hair, according to scripture, is a physical distinction that upholds woman-ness. In fact,

00:07:22.560 during my research for my book, A Cover for Glory, there was a study performed by, I can't

00:07:29.760 remember, some hair company, maybe it's like Pantene, that showed that men notice a woman's

00:07:35.500 hair before they notice their chest or their butt. And that's actually been true and known for 0.80

00:07:42.200 some time. It's why magazines highlight, you know, you might see like a woman on the cover of a

00:07:47.500 magazine and they have like a fan blowing her hair is everywhere. It's why the front of ships 0.96

00:07:54.420 had mermaids that didn't have butch cuts, right? They had mermaids or women, princesses or whatever 0.99

00:08:01.160 it might be at the very front of a ship, beautiful, glorious, long hair. It's why historic Disney

00:08:06.940 princesses had beautiful, long hair. It's a central physical distinguishing characteristic 0.98

00:08:13.300 of women, and it's God's intention for femininity. It's also why I would argue that as women age, 0.99

00:08:22.200 their hair generally is shorter, and because it's demonstrating the lack of femininity, 0.74

00:08:29.620 maybe that's not the right word, but it is they're losing the beauty, right? We know 0.84

00:08:35.060 beauty fades, and I forgot the proverb that says that, but beauty fades, but a woman who loves the

00:08:42.280 Lord is to be pursued, right? So we know that that part of life, beauty, fades, and that's because

00:08:47.900 we live in a sinful world where our bodies fall apart and they begin to fade. But glory is where

00:08:53.380 our being represents God's will. And so pregnant women are glorious. Helpful wives are glorious.

00:09:04.480 Submissive wives are glorious. Now, a woman with a gentle and quiet spirit is glorious.

00:09:10.800 And I would say again, a rebellious, aggressive, loud woman is inglorious. 1.00

00:09:17.300 An assertive woman is inglorious. 1.00

00:09:20.560 They are inglorious because they radiate or communicate 1.00

00:09:23.960 the wrongful expression of God's will for created woman. 1.00

00:09:31.020 And so God designed women to be soft. 1.00

00:09:34.220 And when they live in a way that is contrary, 1.00

00:09:37.240 if they live in like a hard lifestyle, when it's contrary to their design, whether that's, again, 0.53

00:09:43.300 maybe being a police officer or a butch, you know, blue-haired activist or a nagging wife, 0.58

00:09:49.980 what it does is it misrepresents God's will for woman to the onlooking world. It is inglorious. 0.96

00:09:57.400 Now, Jesus was perfectly glorious. Hebrews 1.3 says of Jesus, quote,

00:10:02.760 he is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, end quote.

00:10:09.020 And so Jesus is glorious because his being perfectly represents God's will as Messiah

00:10:16.280 on earth. And so to be a glorious woman, you must know what is God's will for women, right? To be a

00:10:26.580 glorious helper, you must know what God's will is for being a help meet. To be a glorious wife,

00:10:33.800 you must know what God's will is for wives. To be a glorious mother or daughter or sister or friend,

00:10:40.100 you must know God's will for each of those feminine roles. And this brings us back to

00:10:46.700 identity and back to the topic of this season, which is the American family. So we have a

00:10:53.600 feminine identity crisis in America. And that's surely seen in the fact that we have documentaries 0.99

00:10:59.800 by Matt Walsh literally titled, What is a Woman? But it also is in our own homes. Even Christian

00:11:06.740 women have become comfortable with what historic women found repulsive. I mean, just let me give 0.98

00:11:13.220 you an example. A pagan liberal woman from say like 1920 would call a woman in a bikini a gross 1.00

00:11:21.700 expression of whoredom and immodesty. She would mock that woman in the streets. But today we have 1.00

00:11:29.800 Christian women who spend hours on the internet defending their right or other women's right to 1.00

00:11:35.940 wear bikinis in public. Okay. So that's how much the drift has happened. You live in a circus. 1.00

00:11:42.960 We all live in a circus. And when you talk about scripture or biblical standards,

00:11:48.360 it seems incredibly strange. Okay. What is common is not what is normal. The Bible tells us what is

00:11:55.840 normal. And so when you come in and you bring normal ideas to a very common world, it's offensive.

00:12:03.440 They hate it. They hate the light. They love the dark and they will continue to, and even,

00:12:08.680 and not just like, this is not just like non-believers. This is Christians. Christians 0.85

00:12:13.320 hate it. They will hate you for saying normal things that every Christian believed for thousands 1.00

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00:14:12.300 So what I'm saying is that what earlier generations, Christian and pagan alike,

00:14:18.460 recognized instinctively as shameful, immodest, unfeminine, has now been normalized to the point 0.70

00:14:25.040 that even Christian women defend it as personal freedom, and that is the identity crisis. We don't

00:14:32.020 ask, does this reflect God's design for womanhood according to scripture? We ask, why should my sex 1.00

00:14:39.700 place any obligation on me at all? Okay, that is basically the question among many women, 1.00

00:14:45.840 and that's the problem. Activity flows from identity, and once womanhood is detached from 1.00

00:14:54.380 any fixed definition, nature, purpose, duty, motherhood, modesty, when it's detached from

00:15:02.700 all of those standards, then behavior becomes infinitely negotiable. If we no longer know

00:15:11.140 what a woman is for, then we no longer know what conduct properly belongs to women. 0.97

00:15:18.880 And once womanhood is reduced to autonomy, the old boundaries don't merely weaken, they actually 0.93

00:15:28.720 become offensive. And so in this episode, I want to answer the question, what is a woman according

00:15:36.520 to scripture? Because until men and women know the answer to that question, the American family

00:15:43.160 and more directly, the American woman will struggle to be glorious and feminine.

00:15:51.040 And so the four biblical identities of woman are helper, wife, mother, and homemaker.

00:16:00.840 And so we're going to talk about each one of these. So let's first talk about helper.

00:16:05.380 In Genesis 2.18, it says,

00:16:08.500 then the Lord God said, it is not good that man should be alone. I will make a helper fit for him.

00:16:15.700 End quote. Now, woman was created to be a dependent being. In fact, her existence is 1.00

00:16:22.220 dependent upon the pre-existence of man. So without man, she would not have been created.

00:16:29.400 In fact, unlike Adam, whose reason for living was to serve God, Eve's reason for living was to serve

00:16:36.220 Adam or to serve man. And that is woman's origin, according to scripture, was born from a need in

00:16:44.320 Adam, not God. Now this doesn't mean that she doesn't serve God. She does. But her service to

00:16:51.340 God is through fulfilling her creational intent or her created reason, which is helping man,

00:16:59.900 particularly her husband. Now you might be thinking like, okay, that's kind of wild.

00:17:06.140 What biblical support do you have for such a claim beyond that Genesis passage? Well,

00:17:11.260 I would say first Corinthians 11, eight through nine says, quote, for man did not come from woman,

00:17:17.080 but woman from man, neither was man created for woman, but woman for man and quote. Now I'm not

00:17:26.140 saying that if a woman is not married, she has no purpose. She does. Her creational intent to 1.00

00:17:33.120 glorify God through helping man can be channeled through her father or through her brother or

00:17:39.580 through her pastors. And this has been seen throughout all of history, by the way. If she

00:17:44.960 is married, her help is to be most directed or actualized in supporting her husband. 0.86

00:17:55.700 Well, I'll ask this. Who can question this? Who's going to question an all-wise God

00:18:02.520 and disagree with his design and station for a woman? As Paul says, will the clay say to the

00:18:09.720 Potter, why have you made me like this? No. Women have to recognize that being a dependent

00:18:16.340 helper is good. It's a glorious thing. That is your identity, your created purpose. 1.00

00:18:24.700 You don't need to feel oppressed or as a victim, what the feminist worldview has told you, 0.99

00:18:30.860 because being a helper is what you're made for. And a woman was made physically, 1.00

00:18:37.480 emotionally, and spiritually capable to help men. Again, primarily one man, her husband, 0.79

00:18:45.700 but this is a good thing and something every woman should fully embrace. I have to remind couples,

00:18:52.420 men do not need to feel like they're misogynistic or oppressing if they're leading their home,

00:18:59.020 because that is how God designed men to be. And women don't need to feel oppressed or like victims

00:19:05.440 in submission because that is God's design for women. So what we have, we live in a Marxist

00:19:12.400 society that has totally bastardized and perverted and critiqued the biblical model for men and

00:19:20.840 women. And now we look at what God says is normal and we hate it. But the truth is it's actually

00:19:26.660 good. It's orderful and it's helpful. I don't even know if that's a word, orderful. That's a

00:19:31.940 good one though. I like it. So there is nothing more frustrating than a created being operating

00:19:40.420 out of step with its nature or with its purpose or with its intent. So like a table operating as

00:19:48.040 a shoe or a tree operating as like an ocean or a dog acting like a bird are all just absurd as a 0.88

00:19:59.060 helper acting like a leader or a woman acting like a man or a soldier. Okay. So more than that,

00:20:07.420 what you have to understand is that when a woman fails to fulfill her purpose, 0.74

00:20:10.720 she frustrates the need of man in fulfilling his purpose. And that is the anthem of our day.

00:20:17.900 A helper disconnected from the object that is designed to help is basically like a tool without

00:20:23.360 a purpose. And so God made women as like the bow to a violin, right? Or the melody to a song. 0.97

00:20:33.600 Okay. Together, when women and men work together as they were designed to, they create a divine

00:20:40.280 symphony of glory and goodness. And so to be a helper is not a condescension. In fact, I would

00:20:50.180 argue God created man in his own image to be his helper. And he created woman to be man's helper. 0.54

00:21:01.760 We know also God sent the Holy Spirit as a helper. And though they are equal in their value in the

00:21:10.880 Godhead, they are not lesser, though the helper is called the helper. And so different roles and

00:21:17.900 purpose in the Godhead, but you should not look at the term helper as being morally inferior.

00:21:26.740 Now, in Genesis 2, 7, it says, and the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden

00:21:34.320 to tend and keep it, end quote. And in a sense, man providentially became God's helper,

00:21:42.900 carrying out his will, tending the garden, and woman comes to be a helper carrying out

00:21:50.460 man's will. And this is important because 1 Corinthians 11, 3 says, quote, but I want you

00:21:56.180 to understand that the head of every man is Christ. The head of a wife is her husband, 0.88

00:22:02.200 or you could, some translations will say the head of a woman is man, and the head of Christ 0.92

00:22:07.500 is God. And so this just gives you a structure where you have at the top, you have God, you have

00:22:13.280 Christ, you have man, you have woman, and then I would argue that you have children there as well.

00:22:19.300 So in the same way that Christ says to the father, not my will, but your will be done.

00:22:27.480 Man says to Christ, not my will, but your will be done. And woman says to her husband, not my will,

00:22:35.400 but your will be done. And when everyone is in submission, when Christ is operating in his

00:22:42.460 earthly ministry and submission to the Father and his followers are in submission to Christ and

00:22:47.420 their wives are in submission to their husbands, when everyone is in that submission, everyone is

00:22:53.640 helping to fulfill God's will and is glorious. So help is not a curse, but it's a divine assignment

00:23:02.360 within a divine station for women. Now, again, feminism has trained women to despise 1.00

00:23:08.600 God's design for womanhood. But when a woman rejects that primary identity of being a 1.00

00:23:16.380 biblically feminine female, it distorts every other station that flows from it. 0.52

00:23:23.280 And so it is the foundational calling of a woman to be a helper. Then it comes to wifehood and 1.00

00:23:30.100 then motherhood and homemaking. And these are not separate identities so much as I would say

00:23:35.120 distinct expressions of that same vocation as being a helper. And so a wife helps her husband,

00:23:43.340 a mother helps form and nurture his children, a homemaker helps bring order to sustain his

00:23:52.400 household. And so now let me just stop for a moment here because I want you to notice the

00:23:56.780 specific possessive pronouns that I just used, right? So you are his wife. You are having his

00:24:05.700 children. You are keeping his house. And this distinction is actually really important for 0.99

00:24:11.500 our generation, which has basically like systematically constructed a social framework

00:24:15.680 entirely contrary to God's design. Now, you may have heard the historical terms, you know,

00:24:21.580 for a man to take a wife, or a man might say, to make you my wife. Now, these phrases originate

00:24:27.440 directly from the biblical and covenantal understanding of marriage, where a man leaves

00:24:32.140 his father and mother to actively establish, to take, to lead a new wife under a new household

00:24:39.880 in God. Now, just think about the family for a minute with me. In today's secular family courts,

00:24:48.860 children are overwhelmingly perceived to be the primary possession of the woman.

00:24:56.280 However, according to scripture, children are ultimately designated as the man's line and the

00:25:02.560 man's possessions. Carrying his name, we know that, and the covenantal inheritance into the

00:25:09.200 next generation. Now, we see this explicitly throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.

00:25:13.560 For example, in Genesis 46, the genealogies that we all read of Israel, they're tracked

00:25:19.040 explicitly through the patriarchal heads that are listing the sons and daughters as belonging to

00:25:24.640 the fathers. Furthermore, when God covenants with Abraham in Genesis chapter 17, he establishes the

00:25:34.240 covenant through Abraham and his seed, placing the spiritual and the structural burden of the

00:25:41.520 children squarely upon the father's shoulders. Now, again, even children are given as a reward.

00:25:48.280 It's a scripture in Psalm 127, right? It says, children are a heritage from the Lord,

00:25:55.220 like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Now, what that's doing

00:26:01.660 there is it's depicting the father as the warrior responsible for the arrows. And in the New

00:26:10.060 Testament, we actually see the patriarchal genealogy of Jesus is also affirmed. And Paul

00:26:15.180 tells the fathers in Ephesians 6, 4, fathers, raise your children in the nurture and admonition

00:26:21.540 of the Lord. We also see this in English common law. We see this throughout Christendom and

00:26:26.160 throughout church history. This has been the pattern. Now, we also see patriarchal authority

00:26:31.560 in things like the prodigal son and some of the parables that Jesus is talking about. So

00:26:35.700 So children, historically, biblically, are the possession of the man. They follow his line. 0.88

00:26:45.400 That is just what the Bible says. Now, it's offensive to our modern era and especially

00:26:49.100 to our modern court system. Now, the home also belongs to him. Now, scripturally, the husband

00:26:55.280 is the head of the house, mirroring the model at Christ, who is head of the church.

00:27:02.180 And he is the provider and the protector and the ultimate spiritual authority under God.

00:27:05.700 Now, this is foundational truth because it doesn't mean that these blessings are not fully

00:27:12.220 and beautifully shared with the wife. In fact, they are, right? Christ shares all things,

00:27:19.540 his kingdom, his glory, his inheritance, all of those things are shared perfectly with his bride,

00:27:26.540 the church. And so Christian men are commanded to model that exact lavish generosity and

00:27:34.000 sacrificial love to their own wives. But the structural possessor, the foundational anchor

00:27:40.400 of accountability is the man. Just as the church finds her security and her identity and her

00:27:46.280 provision by belonging to Christ, she is a possession of Christ. A godly household

00:27:52.360 flourishes when it aligns with that kind of divine order. And so that was a little bit of

00:27:58.580 a tangent, but I want to look now at some of these feminine stations for a moment. So we talked about 0.58

00:28:03.900 helper. I want to talk about the wife, the mother. Actually, I'll think I'll talk about mother and

00:28:11.180 then wife, and then we'll talk about homemaker. And so in Genesis 1, 28, it says, and God said

00:28:19.040 to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the

00:28:26.240 fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living creature that moves on the

00:28:31.140 earth, end quote. Now, this command was given both to man and to woman, and the responsibility of its

00:28:40.240 accomplishment rests on man. And we know that because later in Genesis chapter 9, God reiterates 0.74

00:28:46.340 that same dominion mandate to Noah and his sons without the presence of their wives.

00:28:52.960 And ultimately, the responsibility of this mandate, this dominion mandate, actually rests upon the

00:29:00.160 second Adam, Christ. So the first Adam we know failed at being fruitful and multiplying. What

00:29:05.220 did he do? He was fruitful and multiplied death. Adam, or sorry, Christ, who is the second Adam,

00:29:12.800 according to Romans chapter five, is, you know, by the power of the gospel is now being fruitful

00:29:19.820 and multiplying and filling the earth with his bride. And he is filling the earth with born again

00:29:25.440 children of God. And so again, this is kind of an eschatological and times reality is that

00:29:31.220 Jesus and his bride is fulfilling what the first Adam and his bride failed to do. And we can trust

00:29:37.520 that he will do and accomplish that. And we will see a victorious gospel, a victorious church

00:29:43.740 over the generations. But I digress. Now for a man to be glorious and accomplish what he was made

00:29:52.260 for. He must be fruitful and multiply. So Adam cannot do this without Eve. He can't do this

00:30:00.700 without a helper fit for him, truly relationally, physically, biologically, sexually. And so she is

00:30:10.940 what makes him multiply. And she becomes his fruitful vine, as the scriptures often call women.

00:30:18.600 and through reproduction, she helps man be glorious in accomplishing his purpose of having

00:30:26.800 dominion over the earth. And so it is through this form of, well, let me back up. When I talk

00:30:33.240 about Jesus or when I talk about his role of having dominion over the earth, remember that

00:30:39.280 God created Adam to be a ruler like him. He's basically a vice regent. He's a vice ruler

00:30:45.080 ruling in his stead according to his will. And so that's what God made man to do. And we should be

00:30:52.000 fruitful and multiplying and filling the earth with people who love God.

00:30:56.320 And that's glorious for a man. So it's through that form of helping, childbirth, that God brought

00:31:03.360 forth all of his will, right? The patriarchs, the prophets, the kings, and eventually, obviously,

00:31:09.400 the Messiah. And so it's also the way that God has brought forth the apostles, the early church

00:31:17.600 fathers, Constantine, the crusaders, the reformers, the great preachers, Thomas Watson, Spurgeon,

00:31:23.940 Martin Lloyd-Jones, right? So Christian women helping their husbands multiply is also helping

00:31:31.560 Christ fulfill the great commission in some degree, right? They're interconnected. They overlap in some

00:31:38.080 degree, you are fulfilling God's will by doing that. And it's why 1 Corinthians 11, 12 says,

00:31:44.300 for as man, or sorry, for as woman came from man, even so man also comes through woman,

00:31:52.840 but all things are from God. So godly childbearing is arguably the primary form of help

00:32:00.940 woman offers to man. And it's why barrenness was viewed as a form of great suffering 0.96

00:32:07.360 in scripture and throughout world history. It's a woman unable to provide for her husband

00:32:12.320 what God commands of him to do, which is to multiply. And so now we have like literally 1.00

00:32:19.340 self-inflicted sterilization among women and among men. I mean, just the idea of, you know,

00:32:28.920 I always tell people, getting fixed is actually getting broken. You're breaking your ability to

00:32:34.260 fulfill what God designed for you to have in your vasectomy or whatever you choose to do there. Now,

00:32:40.180 again, I'm not trying to shame you for all of your decisions, but it's something that is certainly

00:32:44.680 out of step with the biblical and historical narrative. Next, wifehood, or I'll even say

00:32:51.320 companionship. Now, this seems probably a little bit out of order, right? Because marriage comes

00:32:57.860 before childbirth, but I'm ordering these according to the degrees of helpfulness in

00:33:03.720 God's economy. And so in the garden, Adam became aware of his aloneness and he carried out the

00:33:13.440 work that God assigned to him. You know, he was told to name the animals and unlike the animals,

00:33:18.940 which were created male and female simultaneously, they had companionship. Adam noticed and he lacked

00:33:25.320 a companion, and he had no helper that was like him. So while Eve was created to be a child bearer,

00:33:33.740 she was also created to be a complementary companion to him. And we know that it's not

00:33:40.280 good for man to be alone, right? So she was inferior in physical size and strength,

00:33:45.880 yet she supplied what he lacked. And Adam had no one like him to share his life with,

00:33:53.480 like the animals. He noticed his aloneness and Eve answered that need. He now had someone with

00:34:01.240 whom to share his joys and his desires and his burdens and labors. And so someone who could

00:34:08.300 essentially strengthen and support man in the work that God had given him. And we have to remember

00:34:14.520 that God himself said, you know, it's not good for man to be alone. It's the first thing that

00:34:20.200 God condemns in the whole Bible is man being alone. And so man was never designed for isolated

00:34:27.780 independence. And I said this a couple episodes ago, he didn't create a friend. He also didn't

00:34:34.460 create, he didn't say to Adam, I'm enough for you. No, he creates him a wife. And so humanity was

00:34:42.920 made for covenantal monogamous relationship. And marriage becomes the central earthly expression

00:34:49.380 of that design. And we see this clearly in the way that the scripture uses Christ in the church,

00:34:54.900 right? So the bridegroom and his bride, they're the great pattern for understanding the union

00:35:00.160 of man and woman. So Eve's physical stature indicated that she was not designed for

00:35:08.540 strenuous physical labor in the same way that Adam was, but rather she should support him in a less

00:35:14.320 rigorous way. And I mentioned that because again, this basic distinction appears to be like

00:35:19.840 overlooked in a generation that we live in where women are striving to blur the lines and physical 0.51

00:35:25.220 differences between themselves and men. So from lady powerlifters to female cops, you know, women 1.00

00:35:31.380 UFC fighters, all of these stand opposed to the glory of a woman. And my point is a woman's body 0.99

00:35:39.580 tells them how she is to help her husband. They are the weaker vessel according to scripture and 0.99

00:35:46.120 should not strive to kind of have this equality in labor. They are supporters. They are helpers.

00:35:54.340 They are administrators. They take raw materials from their husbands and they improve it. They 1.00

00:36:00.920 magnify it. They organize it. They multiply it. They care for it. They utilize it. Let me give

00:36:06.540 you an example. So a man hunts an elk, kills an animal, dresses the animal, hands a piece over to

00:36:14.160 his wife, and the woman glorifies it into a beautiful dinner. A man builds a house, and the

00:36:21.920 woman turns it into a comfortable home. A man produces a paycheck. The woman turns it into 0.92

00:36:28.340 clothing and groceries for the family. A man gives his seed. She turns it into a baby. And so

00:36:36.960 women are enhancers. They are made to help and enhance the work of men. They are fine tuners. 1.00

00:36:45.640 They are beautifiers. And help like that is very helpful. It's very helpful to men.

00:36:53.160 And now I will say help can come in many forms. And I'll give you just an example from our life.

00:36:58.340 as a pastor, Sunday mornings require a pretty deep study for me, prayer for me in the morning.

00:37:05.140 Veronica supports me by taking on basically the complete responsibility of caring for the kids

00:37:10.860 so that I can focus without interruption in the morning. So she takes my raw time and makes it

00:37:17.620 more effective for me. And she often, this is actually one cool thing that I don't ever really

00:37:23.440 tell about my wife, but she often will go to church earlier than me to welcome new guests

00:37:29.880 at our church who I might not be able to meet as I prepare to preach beforehand. So again,

00:37:36.860 she takes my raw availability and she magnifies it. This is like invaluable to our particular

00:37:43.820 situation. And I actually tell young men all the time that the most effective tool on earth

00:37:50.540 to make you a more productive man is a joyful, submissive, helpful wife.

00:37:58.820 Now, so yeah, young man, if you can, that's why the proverb says, he who finds a wife finds a

00:38:04.660 good thing. It's a good thing. It's probably the most effective force multiplier on earth. 0.52

00:38:10.880 Now, what complicates everything is sin. In fact, when we examine God's curse upon the man and the

00:38:20.220 woman, they are directed toward the objects of their work. So in Genesis 3, 17, God declares, 0.74

00:38:26.540 cursed is the ground because of you, speaking to Adam. And to the woman, the objects of her work 0.65

00:38:31.920 are also cursed. I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain, you should bring forth 1.00

00:38:37.340 children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, and he will rule over you. And so a man's

00:38:45.100 relationship with physical labor and provision becomes difficult. And a woman's relationship

00:38:50.700 with her work, which is bearing children and helping and submitting to her husband, 0.81

00:38:54.600 also become difficult. Again, that's that poetic justice that I talked about in my last episode.

00:39:00.660 Now, this is why Titus 2, we see older women are instructed to teach younger women 0.75

00:39:07.880 to, quote, love their children or to love their husbands and their children. And 0.57

00:39:13.820 it's to instill in them the understanding that through Christ, they can counteract the effects

00:39:22.280 of the curse on woman. And they can work as redeemed helpers. They can submit in all lawful

00:39:30.600 things because they know that submitting to their husbands is a form of submitting to Christ.

00:39:36.300 And let me just talk about submission just for a second, okay? Submission is essential for women. 1.00

00:39:41.080 Um, I mean, submission is for everybody, by the way, everybody submits. Okay. Just get over it. 0.97

00:39:47.920 Okay. Men submit to Christ. Uh, men should submit to their, their spiritual authorities, 0.87

00:39:52.460 their pastors, but submission is everywhere. Everybody has to submit. Um, I've seen the jokes

00:39:58.120 that people are like, women are like, I won't submit to my husband, but I will submit to my 1.00

00:40:00.940 boss who tells me I only have a five minute, you know, break. And then a 15 minute lunch break. 0.97

00:40:04.920 Like, no, submission is just a part of life. And so submission has limits. I do agree. If your

00:40:11.440 husband says, you know, hey, I want you to sleep with this other man or watch porn with me or steal 0.82

00:40:16.960 money, you know, from this, you know, institution, your duty as a helper at that point is to help 0.87

00:40:23.040 him not sin and to follow God rather than him. But if your husband says something like, hey,

00:40:27.780 we're moving to Ohio from Tennessee for a job, you go with joy. And it's not that you can't ask

00:40:35.360 questions or you can't offer your concerns, but when the decision has been made, you go with joy,

00:40:40.100 knowing that being a faithful and glorious woman requires you to be joyfully submissive.

00:40:47.480 Okay. Last category of identity or helping is being a homemaker. So Titus 2.4 instructs women 0.99

00:40:55.680 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may

00:41:05.720 be or may not be blasphemed. Now, nature itself, again, reveals that men and women were designed

00:41:13.320 for entirely different worlds, okay? We know by like really simple observations, like the male 0.57

00:41:19.060 body is built for the outdoors in a way that the female body is not, right? So God gave men 0.99

00:41:24.860 you know, more dense muscle and thick bones and greater strength, different hormones for lifting

00:41:31.180 or for fighting, for conquering, you know, the raw elements of nature. And even a man's, you know,

00:41:35.980 a man's beard serves as a kind of a functional purpose, acting as a natural shield to protect

00:41:42.060 his face from, or also his neck from the brutal wind and the weather during outdoor labor. Now,

00:41:49.400 women, by contrast, were created for an interior world. And a woman's body is uniquely designed 1.00

00:41:58.020 to produce and to nurse delicate babies who cannot survive the exposure to the elements.

00:42:06.740 And so because, just think about this for a second, a nursing infant has to be protected

00:42:10.580 from danger and harsh weather. So logic dictates that the mother must be shielded right along with

00:42:16.880 the child. And so if the mother is broken down by the grueling labor of the field or the factory,

00:42:22.880 the entire next generation is put at risk. And this, this like physical reality aligns perfectly

00:42:28.840 with scripture. Uh, first Peter three, seven, uh, God explicitly commands husbands to show honor to

00:42:35.080 their wives as the weaker vessel. And this phrase, again, it doesn't mean that women are less

00:42:40.940 valuable. It means that they have a physically lighter and more delicate frame. And it's 0.99

00:42:50.100 requiring a husband to act as a protective barrier between his wife and the harsh world. 0.52

00:42:56.220 And so scripture basically establishes that a domestic sphere for a woman is her place,

00:43:05.160 not the factory, not the field, but a woman's true place of safety and authority and ministry

00:43:11.360 is the home. It's the household. And this shouldn't shock us. It was obvious to past 1.00

00:43:20.320 generations that it was written directly into American law under the historical doctrines of

00:43:26.360 necessities, which remained on the books in the United States all the way until the 1970s.

00:43:32.200 a husband was legally and criminally required to provide his wife with shelter, food, and clothing.

00:43:38.300 And the law recognized that the burden of outdoor provisioning belonged strictly to the man.

00:43:46.200 And that there were essentially, this is one thing that's fascinating, there was never a

00:43:51.040 reciprocal law forcing a wife to provide shelter for her husband. No. Women are entirely free

00:43:58.740 to enjoy and appreciate the beauty of God's creation, but their primary domain is the home, 0.99

00:44:06.380 and man's job is to provide a way for her to be glorified in that home. And so the home is where

00:44:15.000 a woman can truly be glorious, using her God-given nature to fulfill her highest calling,

00:44:22.520 uh, including childberry. So when women wholeheartedly embrace this glorious structure,

00:44:30.380 they actually really excel at it. Uh, they produce an environment of love and compassion 0.98

00:44:36.600 and nurture. And I would say when you have a good, healthy home, it, it achieves three very

00:44:43.960 important things. One, it cultivates the next generation of godly people. So, catechizing the

00:44:52.680 kids and homeschooling the kids and teaching the moral realities to little children, such a good 0.97

00:45:00.620 and important reality for women. You're also producing, just from childbirth, great godly 0.96

00:45:05.860 children. Number two, it restores, having this beautiful home, it restores weary men and children

00:45:13.760 returning from their worldly labors. So it's a place, it's a little piece of heaven on earth

00:45:20.040 when you walk into a home that a wife has turned into a beautiful sanctuary. And that's very

00:45:26.840 important for a thriving household. And number three, it provides a place for her to thrive 1.00

00:45:34.800 and have all of her emotional needs through family and relationship and her ability to work

00:45:41.760 within a home on the administrative realities and to find joy in her own work and excelling at that

00:45:51.100 and being appreciated. And so what is more vital work than like homemaking? Think about it honestly

00:46:00.420 with me just for a second. Like what is more important than homemaking? Like there's no

00:46:05.340 more important job than being a homemaker. And I said this like in the last episode, I think,

00:46:10.940 or the one before that. Nations build militaries, not to guard disconnected individuals, but to

00:46:18.260 defend households. Because without the household, the nation dies in a single generation. If there

00:46:23.620 is no more households, after that generation dies, the whole country's gone. C.S. Lewis once 0.94

00:46:29.280 said of homemaking, quote, all other careers exist for one purpose only, and that is to support the

00:46:37.360 ultimate career, end quote. And he's talking about homemaking. We all go to work so that women can

00:46:42.520 stay home. That's, we have wars so that women can stay home. Our entire military battles are to 1.00

00:46:50.240 protect women doing their work inside the home. Just think about that. Our legal systems create 0.99

00:46:56.320 laws specifically to protect people so that we can keep making homes so that the nations can

00:47:01.200 continue on. But when women abandon the home, there is ultimately nothing left to protect. 1.00

00:47:09.560 The domestic sphere is the very engine by which civilization continues. And so if you want to see 1.00

00:47:16.460 a society collapse, you simply look for the moment when women stop making homes, which is precisely 0.99

00:47:23.320 the civilizational crisis that we're in today. And so to rescue our culture, we desperately need 0.51

00:47:30.860 women to catch a vision for the great, glorious, and essential work of being a helper, being a

00:47:37.620 homemaker, being a mother, being a companion. When we can do this, we can restore a glorious

00:47:45.860 Christian family, which in turn will restore a glorious Christian nation. So that's a wrap for

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The NXR Podcast - September 29, 2026

American Glory - What is a 'Submissive' Woman According to Scripture？

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