2. The Lord’s View of Women
There are some women that are not needed in his service because of their actions and dispositions.
Then there are women whom are truly desired by the Lord for his work!

3. Women NOT Needed In The Church!
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Women NOT Needed In The Church!

4. Women NOT Needed In The Church
Women who misrepresent the truth like Sapphira!
Acts 5:1-10; cf. Proverbs 6:16; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9
Prov. 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

5. Women NOT Needed In The Church
Women who misrepresent the truth like Sapphira!
Acts 5:1-10; cf. Proverbs 6:16; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9
Women who look back like Lot’s wife!
Genesis 19:17-26; cf. Philippians 3:13-14; 2 Peter 2:20ff; Prov. 26:11
Philp. 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

6. Women NOT Needed In The Church
1Ki 21:5 ¶ But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?
6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
Women who misrepresent the truth like Sapphira!
Acts 5:1-10; cf. Proverbs 6:16; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9
Women who look back like Lot’s wife!
Genesis 19:17-26; cf. Philippians 3:13-14; 2 Peter 2:20ff; Prov. 26:11
Women who are instigators of wickedness like Jezebel!
1 Kings 21; cf. 1 Timothy 2:12; Eph. 5:24

7. Women NOT Needed In The Church
Women who discourage their husbands like Job’s wife!
Job 2:9; cf. Prov. 21:9; 24:25; 27:15
Pr 21:9 ¶ It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Job 2:9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!"
10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Pr 27:15 ¶ A continual dripping on a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike;

8. Women NOT Needed In The Church
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Women NOT Needed In The Church
Re 2:20 "Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
21 "And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
22 "Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.
23 "I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
Women who discourage their husbands like Job’s wife!
Job 2:9; cf. Prov. 21:9; 24:25; 27:15
Women who tempt men to commit fornication like Jezebel of the New Testament!
cf. Rev. 2:20; cf. Prov. 7; Gen. 39:1-20;
1 Cor. 6:18

9. Women NOT Needed In The Church
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Women NOT Needed In The Church
Women who are quarrelsome like Euodias and Syntyche!
Phil. 4:2; cf. Rom. 14:19; 1 Cor. 13:11; Rom. 12:3; Phil. 2:3-4; 2 Cor. 5:10; Mt. 5:9
Php 4:2 I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.
Rom. 14 – seek what is good for peace and mutual upbuilding esv

10. Women NEEDED In The Church!

11. Women NEEDED In The Church
Women who teach their children the Scriptures like Eunice and Lois!
2 Tim. 1:5, 3:15; Titus 2:3-5
2Ti 1:5 when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.
2Ti 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

12. Women NEEDED In The Church
Ac 18:24 ¶ Now a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, came to Ephesus.
25 This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spoke and taught accurately the things of the Lord, though he knew only the baptism of John.
26 So he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.
27 And when he desired to cross to Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him; and when he arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
28 for he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ.
Women who teach their children the Scriptures like Eunice and Lois!
2 Tim. 1:5, 3:15; Titus 2:3-5
Women who are interested in teaching others like Priscilla!
Acts 18:24-28

13. Women NEEDED In The Church
Women who teach their children the Scriptures like Eunice and Lois!
2 Tim. 1:5, 3:15; Titus 2:3-5
Women who are interested in teaching others like Priscilla!
Acts 18:24-28
Women who have proper priorities like Mary!
Luke 10:38-42; cf. Titus 2:5; 1 Tim. 5:13-14; 1 Peter 1:25
Lu 10:38 ¶ Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house.
39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.
40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, "Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me."
41 And Jesus answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.
42 "But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her."

14. Women NEEDED In The Church
2Ki 4:8 ¶ Now it happened one day that Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a notable woman, and she persuaded him to eat some food. So it was, as often as he passed by, he would turn in there to eat some food.
9 And she said to her husband, "Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly.
10 "Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there."
11 And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there.
Women who show hospitality like the Shunammite woman!
2 Kings 4; cf. Heb. 13:1-2

15. Women NEEDED In The Church
1Pe 3:1 ¶ 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.
Women who show hospitality like the Shunammite woman!
2 Kings 4; cf. Heb. 13:1-2
Women who respect their husbands and are in subjection to them like Sarah!
1 Pet. 3:1-6; Eph. 5:22; Col. 3:18; Titus 2:5; Gen. 2:18

16. Women NEEDED In The Church
Ru 1:14 Then they lifted up their voices and wept again; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.15 And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law." 16 But Ruth said: "Entreat me not to leave you, Or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God.
17 Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me."
Women who show hospitality like the Shunammite woman!
2 Kings 4; cf. Heb. 13:1-2
Women who respect their husbands and are in subjection to them like Sarah!
1 Pet. 3:1-6; Eph. 5:22; Col. 3:18; Titus 2:5; Gen. 2:18
Women who know how to get along like Naomi and Ruth!
Ruth. 1:14; cf. John 13:34-35

17. Women NEEDED In The Church
Women who are modest like Vashti!
Esther 1
Es 1:11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.
12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

18. Modesty 1 Pet. 3:1-6 Not This: 1 Tim. 2:9-10 Not This:
Outward adorning
Braiding of hair
Wearing of Jewels of Gold
Putting on of apparel
Braided hair
Gold or Pearls
Costly raiment
Modesty

19. 1 Pet. 3:1-6 BUT THIS:
1 Tim. 2:9-10 BUT THIS:
Hidden man of the heart in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quite spirit
Be in subjection to own husbands
Meek and quiet spirit
Women professing godliness
Through good works
Woman learn in subjection
Learn in quietness
Modesty

20. Women NEEDED In The Church
The Worthy Woman of Proverbs 31
Prov. 31:10-31

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Needed or Not
What kind of Woman are you?