Sadly, most of the women have no idea that they are crippling themselves as they fill themselves up with the words of anyone other than God. They do NOT have the discernment to accept the truth and reject the lies. How can they when the majority of their time is spent not in the Word, but in the opinions of others? They will continue to lack discernment, and, indeed, to lose discernment, as long as they continue to avoid God’s word in favor of their latest celebrity “Christian” author.

 
2 Timothy 3:1-10

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. ² For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud,arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,³ heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, ⁴ treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, ⁵having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. ⁶ For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,⁷ always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. ⁹ But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

I’m seeing a tautological problem today. (And I’m totally gonna speak out against my own gender here.) The vast majority of women today prefer to read not the Bible, but to do “book studies”. The majority of book studies out there are so mixed with truth and lies that it’s like wading through a field with land mines to make it through alive. But without reading and knowing your Bible (which means it should be your primary reading material, not the latest best seller) you are not equipped to navigate the land mines and make it through unscathed. This helps explain why women who seek out these types of books continue to get farther and farther from what the Bible actually teaches and have no idea what is in their Bible, or how to study it.

Sadly, most of the women have no idea that they are crippling themselves as they fill themselves up with the words of anyone other than God. They do NOT have the discernment to accept the truth and reject the lies. How can they when the majority of their time is spent not in the Word, but in the opinions of others? They will continue to lack discernment, and, indeed, to lose discernment, as long as they continue to avoid God’s word in favor of their latest celebrity “Christian” author.

The sad reality is that as women continue to desire these things, the leaders over them need to sit down with them, show them the errors in these books, and rebuke them. These women need to be pointed back to God and His word, and they need to have their toes stepped on, instead of their desires pandered to. What a woman learns, she will teach to her children. And, especially when that teaching is endorsed, either explicitly or implicitly by the church, her husband will accept that teaching too. The influence of women is great; and that is a dangerous influence when they are eagerly  embracing false teaching and passing it on to the next generation.

Where is the hunger and thirst for God’s word? Where is it?

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