The Issues About Women's Liberty pt. 12

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faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon.

Look at verse 15, Ephesians chapter 5, verse

Ephesians 5:15

15. I want you to walk with your Bible. I mean,

I want everybody to open his Bible because...

I believe that you should be looking at your

Bible. Don't just be walking. Don't just be walking.

That's the essence of Bible teaching. That's

the essence of Bible teaching, that to also study

the Bible together. And so study means to pay

attention, to pay attention to detail, to pay

attention and be focused. Look at verse 15. See

then that you walk circumspectly. That word means...

to walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

redeeming the time because the days are evil.

Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what

the will of the Lord is. That word redeeming

the time means make most of every opportunity.

That means the time there is opportunities. You

understand? Now, we're here in Cyprus. We have

an opportunity. You are here in the church, you

have an opportunity to study the Word, to pay

attention to what you are taught. He said, redeeming

the time, which means that the way to redeem

the time, because when last year, if you were

16, this year you are 17. And that means 17 will

never come again. But how to redeem opportunities

is to make most of the opportunities. I have

talked to so many of us that are here. Some of

you may not have liked the courses you are taking

now in school, you are studying, because they

forced it on you. Daddy and mommy said, if you

don't study engineering, I will not pay your

school fees. So you have no choice than to study

what they have imposed on you. But one thing

that... And not a lot of young people need to

understand is that whether you are an adult or

a young person, you have to understand that somebody

will take decision for you. Oh, are you getting

me? Are you getting me? Now, are you the president

of your country? So that means somebody is taking

decision on your behalf and is going to affect

you. So don't always look at it as if, you know,

the way we used to paint it in the sand. This

is what I want to do. Yes, it's good that parents

allow us to make our choices. But sometimes when

you don't have a choice, what I'm trying to say

is that in life, it's a reality. We're not saying

that it's good for a curse to be imposed upon

you. We're saying that is a reality. It happens

in life. Some decisions are made, not without

you. Whether you like it or not. He knew man

would fall. Man would die. But he needs to be

rescued. You do understand what I'm saying? We

say that word Ezar means a savior, a rescuer.

Ezar, E -Z -E -R. It's a rescuer. So when Jesus

took on flesh, are we together? When he took

on flesh, that is Ezar coming to help man. That

is Ezar coming to help man. Did you understand

what I'm saying? He rescued man from darkness.

He rescued man. So that word means rescuer. It

means a deliverer. One who saves you. One who

takes you from darkness and from death. And we

saw. That the woman is not man's Ezzah. Because

the woman that is coming to a man's life, or

a man coming to a woman's life, you know, we

always describe it in the other way. But it's

both coming to each other's life. Are we together?

So, when they come to each other's life, when

a woman comes to a man's life, she is not coming

as a savior. You understand what I'm saying?

She is not a rescuer. She's not coming to save

the man from darkness. Except you are darkness.

I know and I know. When I married my wife, I

was in the light. And I'm still in the light.

And I'll continue to be in the light. You understand?

You remember Ephesians 5? It says you were in

darkness, but now you are light in him. So my

wife did not come to give me light. And God did

not institute the marriage to bring... people

into light. I know some people say, I am with

him because I want to convert him. Thank you,

Holy Spirit. God has not put marriage as a means

to bring people into light. So the woman is not

coming to rescue the man from darkness. No. There

is nowhere, at no point, that the scripture teaches

that the woman is man's Ezzah, is man's helper.

So helper in that context, helper in this text

is not literal. It's not saying that she is your

house help. Do you understand what I'm saying?

I know this teaching is spoiling some men's strong,

strongest scripture in their arsenal in bringing

their wives into subjection. When the wife want

to complain and say, don't you know that? He

say, I want to remind you what the Bible says.

He say, you are my helper. Did you realize that?

Brother, don't you think you are wicked? That

her father took her to school, pay her school

fees. She went to the university, got degree.

Her degree was not in Kuchino. And then you carried

her and said she must continually cook for you.

How about now? Don't you see that your heart

is terrible? Okay, wait. Give birth to a child.

Give birth to a daughter. Train her. Which one

is it? Medicine. Train her in medicine. I think

here we pay about 13 ,000 euros, right? Or thereabout.

That's about 22 ,000, 22 million, probably thereabout

in Nigerian, whatever, Naira. Are we together?

A year. And you do that for five, six years,

right? When you are finishing, that means you

must have paid up to about 70 something thousand

euros, right? Are we together? Doctors in the

house, right? Imagine you paid that money, you

understand? Some of you, even to help your roommates,

you say, brother, the Lord will help us. Now,

somebody trained his daughter with such money.

And you will carry her and keep her in the house

to be cooking for you. Didn't you see the way

your heart is? And you will not do the same.

So the point I'm trying to say is that there

is nowhere in scripture because the water helper

tells us of a message of salvation. Remember,

he said, in the day you eat it, you will die.

And he said, and the Lord said, the next scripture.

I don't want a man to be in that position. He

said, I have already made a provision for his

rescue. And I am his helper. Are we together?

I used to like that song. My, my helper. My.

It's just that the other line, that's just the

problem. Maybe you have to adjust that. That

word. There is something that makes me come into

your. Where have you been? That's just the line

that is. Where have you been? You understand?

Since the day we received him, we have come into.

And we have been there. We will remain there

forever. Glory to Jesus. You have not gone anywhere.

Not there is something. You are already there.

So adjust that line. But else, I love this song.

You know what I'm trying to say? So the point

I'm trying to point out is that marriage is a

union. It's a mutual union. Oh, let me say it

again. Marriage is a mutual union. It means a

symbiotic relationship. It's not a commensal

relationship where only one benefits. It's not

also parasitic where one is harmed. No. It's

a symbiotic relationship. So the man helps the

woman. The woman helps the man. If you are using

that word literally, it's not just one way. You

come together to be a team, to be able to do

greater things so that when you get married,

you become better, both of you. You do that in

business. When two people join hands to come

together, they join thinking, they join energy,

they produce a better thing than each one of

them will have done it. Are we together? Marriage

is a union where we both help each other. Are

we together? Therefore, woman is not the help

of man. Glory to Jesus. Now look at verse 21.

And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall

on Adam, and he slept. And he took one of his

ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. Then

the rib which the Lord God had taken from man,

he made into a woman. And he brought her to the

man. I want you to pay attention, please. Note

something in verse 21. Particularly, took one

of his ribs. In verse 21. And then the rib which

the Lord God had taken from man, he made into

a woman. Verse, note that word. The reap which

the Lord or which the Lord had taken. Verse 22.

You know, people have used this verse also to

take it very literal that and they call the woman

the missing reap. Meaning that the man has one

reap missing because God took it and from the

woman. So the woman is one reap. The man is left.

with 23 rips, that this one is missing. And I

have checked. I had to go online again. I become

foolish for just a few seconds. I said, let me

check, you understand? I know this is, Pastor,

anything is possible. Pastor Emma recently, he's

had to become pharmaceutical, international relations.

So there is nothing that you cannot create. Hallelujah.

But paucococci is a red anatomy. You understand?

Now you understand that first and foremost, I

check to find whether there is any normal human

being. You understand? First, any normal man

that has an incomplete rib. You understand? And

I have found none. Then I check, okay, let me

check any woman. Any normal woman that has only

one rib and I couldn't find. Okay. And then I

check, I discover that every, regardless of sex,

every person, male, female, have 12 pairs of

ribs. That's 24, right? 24. The exception is

abnormal. What is abnormal? Maybe you had an

accident and then some, the curse just broke

someone's. Or? You went for cosmetics these days.

Hey, Jesus. There is a cosmetic surgery they

do these days that they remove your lips to make

your waist align. You know what I'm saying? I

saw one woman, she removed six of her lips. What

is it? That she wants to make herself happy.

She's on YouTube. That she wants to look... Oh,

Jesus. She wants to look like a cartoon. That's

what will make her happy. You see this place

very thin. If it is that one, that's artificial.

It's not normal. Or a side accident, or you have

a genetic disease, you understand. Or sometimes

even can be removed surgically for any kind of

maybe disease, when maybe you have discomfort

around this area there, so they have to remove

it to help you feel, I mean, to relieve you from

the pain. But besides these cases I've mentioned,

normal human beings come with complete rifts.

Then that means, how did it happen? Is it mutation?

When God removed that of Adam, and then over

there they give birth, then there's mutation,

and then the other one grows back. Or what? I

don't understand. So what I'm trying to say,

I want you not to throw away your brain when

you are reading the scripture. Do you understand

what I'm trying to say? Yes, don't throw away

your brain. You need to ask questions. Remember,

don't forget. When you are reading. That Adam

didn't read anatomy. And I mean Moses did not

read anatomy. Moses is a prophet. And the goal

of Moses is not to give you a textbook of anatomy.

That's not his goal. Because you know Moses is

a prophet. And you know his goal. What God called

him. Then you have to be careful how he writes.

You have to pay attention because you can't just

assume that's what he meant. No. Just like I

gave you an example with Jesus. You know why

he's here or not. You know what he's about to

do. So when he was teaching and he uses parables

and he writes in that pattern, you don't think

that he's teaching people how to do business

when he gave the parable of the talent. He said,

this is the business secret of the Bible. The

business secrets from Jesus himself. However

now, that is not how to study the Bible. Go back

to that verse. Look at that verse. Let me just

do some things in that verse. Verse 21. Are you

there? And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to

Adam. I mean to fall on Adam. To fall on Adam.

What is that reap? And he slept and he took one

of his reaps. What is this reap then? If it is

not biological, if he's not talking about literature,

what is it? What is Moses trying to communicate?

Now, the first thing, you know, every teaching

we teach you, we also teach you how to read Bible.

When you encounter this kind of a thing, all

the first thing, I think I taught you during

the catatismus, one of these catatismus, I think,

no, the last, no, not this last, the 2024, the

2023. When Pastor Olu was here, you understand.

I say, how to know that you have accurately divided

the word of truth? You have to subject it through

some certain principle. You understand? One of

the principles, when you are juggling, you are

trying to understand the meaning of the word.

We just did that in the cell with the issue of

water and the spirit. Are we together? One of

the things we did was to follow through John.

And look, how did he use water? Are we together?

From chapter 3, we look at the context of discussion,

and the context includes a number of things.

One is to look at the immediate context. What

is the major theme discussed there? The theme

discussed is being born again, which means being

born of what? Of the Spirit. And how will you

do that? How will you be born by the Spirit?

By faith. Did you understand what I'm saying?

That is the theme. nowhere physical water is

mentioned. Then that means, and that's the only

place he said water and the spirit. And John

was writing it to say to us that Jesus was saying

it as a further explanation. Because in verse

3, he told him that except you are born again,

you will not see the kingdom. And the man didn't

understand and took it literally. Although he

was a Pharisee, although he was a teacher of

the law, he never understood what born again

means. He thought that a man would be born twice,

meaning he has to go back to his mother's womb.

You understand? And then he asked Jesus, what

do you mean? And then Jesus said, no, no, no,

no, no, no. This is what I mean. And then he

reiterated himself. In verse what? Verse 5. That

means whatever he's saying in verse 5 is not

different from what he was saying in verse 3.

And then he further verse 6, verse 7, and then

continues. When you move to chapter 4, you saw

Jesus with the Samaritan woman, right? And then

they were talking about there was literal water

there. But he uses that also figuratively. He

said, I will give you the living water. Will

you mean? Jesus is talking about that. The woman

also did not understand. She has to begin to

ask, you don't have the, you don't have anything

to draw the water. How are you going to give

me? Then Jesus began to explain further. When

you read chapter 7, again he talks about water.

He calls it the living water. What we are trying

to say is that if you follow the author, you

will know what he means. Now again, what we will

do, we will follow Moses. How did he use the

word reap? Are we together? Are we ready? Okay,

let's follow Moses. Let's look at how did he

use the word reap in his writings. Hallelujah.

Exodus chapter 25. Exodus 25. So just follow

Exodus 25 · chapter mention

me quickly. Exodus 25 verse 18. Sorry, verse

Exodus 25:18

8 to 14. Exodus 25. Verse 8. And let them make

me a sanctuary, that I might dwell among them

according to all that I saw you. That is the

pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of

all furnishing, just so you shall make it. Verse

10. And they shall make an ark of acacia wood,

two and a half cubits. Shall be its length. A

cubit. And a half. Its width. And a cubic. And

half its height. Verse 11. And you shall overlay

it with pure gold. Inside. And outside you shall

overlay it. And shall make on it. A molding.

Of gold. All around. Look at verse 12 please.

And you shall cast. Full. Of the gold. That word

sight is the same word as rip. The word there

in Hebrew is selah. S -E -L -A. Selah. S -E -L

-A. That's the word in Hebrew. So that word sight

is the same word selah. Let's continue. He said,

and two rings on the other side. And you shall

make pole of acacia wood and overlay them with

gold. You shall put the pole into the rings on

the side of the ark. That the ark will be carried

by them. Now look at that word. He said the rings,

verse 14. That word sides. Sides is also means.

The rip. What can you see here? That means we

see now here in this text, rip. Rip as what?

Side of an ark. The rip here is what? The sides

of what? An ark. Look at Exodus 26. Exodus 26.

Look at verse 20. And for the second side of

the tabernacle. Now look at that what side again.

Is the word to reap. Which is selah. Side of

the tabernacle. The north side. There shall be

20 boats. Look at verse 26. Verse 26. So Exodus

26. We read verse 20. Now 26. And you shall make

bars of acacia wood. Five of the boats of one

side. That word side again. Is the word what?

Reap. Selah. Look at verse 27. What do you see

again here? That means here, reap is what? The

site of what? The tabernacle. Are we together?

Oh, are you with me? Sight of what? The tabernacle.

Look at chapter 27. Chapter 27. Chapter 27, verse

7. The pole shall be put in the rings, and the

pole shall be on the two sides of the altar to

bear it. Two sides of the altar. That was sight

again. That was sight again. Here we see is a

sight. of the altar. Side of the ark, side of

the tabernacle, side of the altar. Look at chapter

30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse 4. Chapter 30 verse

4. We're still in Exodus 30 verse 4. Two gold

Exodus 30:4

rings you shall make for it. On the molding on

both sides you shall place them on it. two sides.

Now that word side, again, both its sides. Sides.

You shall place them on its two sides and they

shall be holders for the poor witch to bear it.

So we see side. Reap a side, O Selah. Chapter

36. Chapter 36. Verse 25. And for the other side,

that word side is Selah, of the tabernacle. Move

to verse 31 of that. Exodus 36. And he made bars

of acacia wood, five for the boat on one side

of the tabernacle. One side of the tabernacle,

verse 32. Five bars for the boat on the other

side of the tabernacle. Now, you could see that

in all these verses, verse 31, verse 32, verse

25. Again, what do we see? Reap of Selah. As

what? Sides of the tabernacle. Sides of the tabernacle,

verse 37. Sorry, chapter 37. Next is chapter

Isaiah 37:3

37, verse 3. And he casts for it four rings of

gold, for gold to be set in its corners, in two

rings on one side. That word side again is rip.

And two rings on the other side of it. Again,

we see sides. Look at verse 5 of that chapter

37. Are you there with me? He said, and he put

the pole into the rings at the side of the ark

to bear the ark. That side again. 27, verse 27.

Verse 27 of chapter 37. He made two rings of

gold for it under its molding. By two corners.

By two corners. On both sides. As holders for

the pole. With which to bear it. Look at chapter

38. 38 verse 7. 38 verse 7. Then he put the pole.

Into the ring. On the side of the altar. With

which to bear it. He made the altar hollow. With

both sides. Of the altar. That word sight again.

What can we see here? That means Selah. As all

we are. This is. They enter in all Moses writings.

You understand. These are places Moses used the

same word. With that word he used in Genesis.

We see it as the sight of a building. Of a tabernacle.

The sight of an ark. Sight of the altar. Sight.

So in all these instances, Moses taught rips

in reference to building. Moses taught what?

Rip in reference to what? Building a tabernacle.

Because all these things we talk about is about

the building of a tabernacle. Are we together?

The building of a tabernacle. Now, I want you

to note something again because we are trying

to look contextually. Why will Moses be using

this same word? That's the question I want to

ask now. Why would Moses be using this same word

in reference to a tabernacle? Why would Jesus

be using a lot of parables with agriculture?

Are you together with me? Are you together with

me? Because the choice of Christ to use more

of agriculture to speak about what he wants to

speak is in reference to his audience. Oh, are

we together? Oh, are we together? Amen. I want

you to note Moses' choice of what? Moses' choice

of even the issue of tabernacle was because of

the experience of the Israelites. The issue of

tabernacle is not a strange thing to Israel.

Are we together? The children of Israel are conversant

with tabernacle, with temples in Egypt because

that is where idol worship takes place. Are we

together? Idol worship takes place where? In

a tabernacle. So when Moses was using to build

a tabernacle, he didn't choose that because he

just wanted to choose that to communicate the

gospel. Because I think we did hypodigma, right?

When we are dealing with Leviticus, the gospel

in Leviticus. We even studied the issue of in

Hebrew and we saw that the tabernacle. was a

hypodigma, was an example, was a pointer. Are

we together? To the building that God will do.

Are we together? Amen. So when Moses make a choice

to build the tabernacle and to describe it, he

is speaking from a point to make his audience

have a connection to what he's saying. So note

this one, that the deliverance. Let me tell you

one thing. Tabernacle, the knowledge of the tabernacle

or temple emanates from Egypt because Egypt is

a place of idol worship. That's where they knew.

So most times when we describe the exodus of

Israel from Egypt, we describe it as if God is

just saving them from oppression. But it's not

just oppression. Yes, it's oppression. But equally,

God was saving them from idol worship. Because

when he told Moses, he said, go and tell Pharaoh

that I want my people to go and serve me. Are

we together? Hallelujah. So God was not just

only saving Israel from oppression in Egypt,

but he was saving them also from idol worship,

from idol worship. Hallelujah. He was saving

them from idol worship. Now, let me give you

just an introduction of something. Look at Exodus

12. I want to just show you that Egypt, about

tabernacle and idol worship, Israel lent it from

where? From Egypt. So when Moses was speaking

using tabernacle, they understood what Moses

was communicating. They understood what Moses

was communicating. Exodus chapter 12, verse 12.

Exodus 12:12

For I will pass through the land of Egypt. On

the night, and I will strike all the firstborn

in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and

against all the gods of who? The gods of Egypt.

And I will execute the judgment. I am the Lord.

The gods of Egypt. The gods of Egypt. The gods

of Egypt. Look at Joshua 24. Joshua 24. Joshua

24. Look at verse 14. 24 verse 14. Now, therefore,

fear the Lord. Serve him in sincerity and in

truth. And put away what? The goat which your

father served on the other side of the river.

In where? Oh, talk to me. In where? In Egypt.

That's where they learned it. That's where they

learned it. Look at Ezekiel 20. That's where

I will stop. Look at Ezekiel 20. Ezekiel 20.

And we shall continue from there. All glory to

Jesus. What I'm trying to say is that when you

see Bible writers use things, it is not accidental.

They don't just choose what have hazardly. They

choose it deliberately. Are we together? That's

what we're trying to communicate. Are you in

Ezekiel? Ezekiel 20. Look at verse 5. Let me

read quickly here because I want you to see.

so much here before we close excuse me verse

five say to them so says the lord on the day

when i choose israel and raise my hand in an

oath to the descendants of the house of jacob

made myself known to them in the land of egypt

i raise my hand in an oath Verse 7. With the

idols of Egypt, I am the Lord your God. But,

verse 8, they rebel against me and will not obey

me. They did not all cast away the abominations

which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake

the idols of Egypt. Then I said, I will pour

out my fury on them and fulfill my anger against

them in the midst of the land of Egypt. But I

acted for my name's sake, that I should not be

profaned before the Gentiles, among whom they

were, in whose side I had made myself known to

them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt.

made them to go out of the land of Egypt and

brought them into the wilderness and I gave them

my status and showed them my judgment which even

man does he shall live by them moreover I also

gave them my sabbath to be a sign between them

and me that they might know that I am the Lord

whom sanctified them. Yet the house of Israel

rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did

not walk in my status. They despise my judgment,

which if a man does, he shall live by them, and

they greatly defile my Sabbath. Then I said,

I will pour out my fury on them in the wilderness

to consume them, but I acted. For my name's sake,

that it shall not be profane before the Gentiles,

in whom side I had brought them out. So I also

raise my hand in an oath to them in the wilderness,

that I will not bring them into what? Into the

land which I had given them flowing with milk

and honey, the glory of all the lands. Verse

16. Because they despised my judgment and did

not... But I said to them, to their children

in the wilderness, I said to their children,

he said, do not walk in the status of your father,

nor observe their judgment, for nor defile yourself

with their what? With their idols. Now, when

Moses make a choice to build a tabernacle and

to use the word to reap and to describe, sorry,

he was not describing anatomy. He was describing

and using things familiar to his audience. using

things familiar to his audience to communicate

something. Are we together? So even the Israelites

were delivered from Egypt. Even though they were

delivered from Egypt, they were still not free

from what? For their idols. They were not free.

They were not free. That thing they have imbibed

was following them. When we come, we will see

some of the trouble that they had in the wilderness.

And then the idea is that we are following gradually.

to come to understand what was Moses communicating

when he used that the Lord took a rip, took a

rip and built into a woman. What did he mean

by that? But one thing I want you to understand

is that at this moment, that Moses was not communicating

by logic. Are we together? That that word rip

is a term in building and the building is about

the tabernacle. And he... The tabernacle is about

what they are familiar with. And he's using that

to communicate the plans of God for their life.

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