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we look at gender right now our culture
is so broken so broken
when it comes to gender but gender
captures the image of God
[Music]
this session we’re going to be talking
about what it means to leave a
Redemptive Legacy I believe leaving a
Redemptive Legacy is actually a mandate
for each and every one of us but it
actually begins to drive our decisions
how we’re going to live today knowing
that it’s going to go into our future
and I’m going to set this up with a
story that’s not going to seem to make
sense but you’ll figure it out because
you’re women you can totally do this
okay so basically when I wrote the book
Linus arising it was out in five
languages I was driving in my car and I
prayed and I said God um I don’t know if
you know but I wrote a book called Linus
arising and I need a confirmation I I I
know that you gave me the dream but I
don’t know if it was okay if I wrote a
book so if you wouldn’t mind just
confirming to me that this was okay that
would just really be helpful because
it’s already in five languages and so
that night I was in the throes of a
school project with my youngest son
Arden he had about eight o’clock at
night said oh my gosh I just remember I
have a school project due tomorrow so I
I’d gone into the basement I had torn
apart the three older boys school
projects brought him up the poster board
and he’s like nope no it has to be like
trifold it has to stand it can’t be
white it needs to have a black
background so I braved a blizzard and
paid the other boys money I had Addison
he Arden was dictating while Addison was
typing Austin was like cutting things
out and there I’ve got it all set sort
out on the table it’s all spread out
when John decides to do something he
does a lot which is call me and put me
on the phone with random strangers now
these people I don’t think they want to
talk to me I don’t know if it’s an exit
strategy for John like I’m done talking
to you here talk to my wife and he just
like dials our home phone and says hey
Lisa here’s someone who wants to talk to
you and so he did that and I was like no
no I am not doing the random stranger
phone call tonight I am working with
your son on a school project you
wouldn’t understand that because you’ve
never done them but John no this is not
going he goes you know oh no don’t worry
about don’t worry I gave him your cell
phone
who does that and so I was like
unbelievable so when the guy called I
tried to sound exhausted I was like
hello it was like you know 10 o’clock at
night on the east coast and he was like
this is like
and he’s like well your husband held up
your book lioness rising and he said the
lions are the best Killers but lionesses
are the best hunters and I said well of
course he would say that that’s all he
knows he hasn’t read my book and he said
well I am calling you to tell you why
your book is important and so now I kind
of had his intent he kind of had my
attention he said
um let me tell you what I do here I am
in charge of special operative teams at
Fort Bragg he said up until this point
we have focused on special operative men
into Afghanistan because of the danger
and he said but now we are sending in
special operative women and he said um
he said because we’ve learned that their
culture forbids us to speak to their
women and we have learned as a military
that if you can’t speak to the women you
can’t flip the culture and if you can’t
flip the culture you can’t win a war and
he said so we have these special
operative women coming in and they’re
going to tell the Afghan women they have
voice and value they’re going to tell
them why democracy will serve their sons
and daughters well they’re going to take
care of their minor medical needs and
they’re going to deliver their babies
and he said you want to know what the
name of this group is I said sure he
said they’re called team lioness he said
they’re about ready to be deployed may I
have a copy of your book for all of them
so I got to outfit all of Team lioness
going out of Fort Bragg then team Linus
going out of Camp Lejeune and the reason
I’m telling you this because is if the
U.S military understands it without the
involvement of women
we will fight but we cannot win then it
is time that the church understands that
it needs its daughters so it no longer
is just fighting it is beginning to win
now interestingly enough our culture
will allow women in every single realm
of leadership except for the church
the church is the only place where women
are shut down and not given the
expression but the truth is there was a
mandate that was given in Genesis to
both the man and the woman and we have
different roles we express it
differently but we have a unified
purpose and because I don’t want to see
him like I’m just being self-serving
since I am a woman and I am going to say
the reason I keep speaking on this
it’s not so I get more speaking
invitations
I have enough speaking invitations this
isn’t about being a guest speaker
this is about changing cultures in the
house of God so that there are mothers
and fathers in the house of God not just
occasional guest speakers for mother’s
day but the woman in the house are
valued whether their daughters or
mothers or grandmothers so anyway
there’s a book that was written by Dr
Gilbert and I’m going to try to say his
name and Dr Gilbert please forgive me if
I say it wrong balenski and I think I
just totally did it wrong he’s a Wheaton
college professor okay and he did an
18-month study about gender roles and he
wrote a book called Beyond sex roles and
this is what he said before the fall men
and women related to each other as
co-regions both bearing the image of God
and called to join together in caring
for the world he had created
both men and women are responsible to
fulfill their ministries of service for
God’s glory in the manner God gifted
them and to the degree to which they are
apportioned Faith tragically in the fall
this Cooperative relationship was deeply
wounded We Believe God’s gracious plan
for Redemption is that everything that
was broken through sin including the
relationship between men and women might
be restored to the beauty that existed
during the first days of creation
many devout intelligent Christians
disagree with our conclusions
there will come a day when we will all
find out the degree to which we have
veered from God’s perfect wisdom
in this issue though and many others
until then I hold this position humbly
yet firmly
I am willing to take the risk of
encouraging women to do what I believe
scripture asks of them to make
themselves fully available
to the full range of spiritual gifts
I too understand I could teach for an
hour eight hours
and then I’m not here to try to convince
you
but I too believe
that women have full permission
to operate in the full range
of the gift of God on their life
the early church functioned this way the
early church God began to preempt
everything with signs and wonders and
miracles he poured out his Spirit on The
Young and the old he poured out his
Spirit on the men and the women he
poured out his spirit in such
significant ways that people couldn’t
control it couldn’t legislate it
couldn’t reduce it to their traditions
and in the book of Acts we have a little
bit of a crisis here because what’s
happened is Peter and John have walked
by a man who has been lame for 40 years
and they raise him up and the whole city
begins to hear the gospel and they’re
like okay we’ve got we’ve got to do some
damage control we’ve got to figure out
how to contain this thing because what
do we do this guy everybody knows for 40
years has been lame and he is standing
in front of everybody completely healed
and they are saying it’s Jesus who we
crucified that has healed this man and
made him whole what are we going to do
and so they they gather Peter and John
they gather the whole congregation
they’re all there and and it says in
chapter 4 verse 7-20 it says they stood
Peter and John in the middle of the room
and grilled them
they were going to try to label them
they were going to try to intimidate
them and how do they grow them they said
who put you in charge here what business
do you have doing this with that and I
just love this Peter full of the holy
spirit let loose okay I think Peter let
loose
because he figured out who he was
Simon might not have been able to let
loose
Simon Myra said you’re right I had no
business I don’t have the education I
don’t have the experience I don’t have
the money
but Peter let loose
and he says rulers and leaders of the
people if we have been brought to trial
today for helping a sick man put under
investigation regarding this healing
I’ll be completely Frank with you we
have nothing to hide
by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
the one you killed on the cross the one
God raised from the dead by the means of
his name this man stands before you
healthy and whole Jesus is the stone you
Masons throughout which is now the
Cornerstone salvation comes no other way
no other name has been or will be given
to us by which we can be saved only this
one this is what it says about the
religious leaders they couldn’t take
their eyes off of them
Peter and John standing there so
confident so sure of themselves their
Fascination deepened when they realized
these two men were laymen with no
training in scripture or formal
education they recognized them as
companions of Jesus
but with the man right before them
seeing him standing there so upright so
healed what could they say against them
so they sent them out of the room so
they could work out a plan they talked
it over
and they said what can we do with these
men by now it’s known all over town that
a miracle has occurred and that they are
behind it there is no way we can refute
it but so that it doesn’t go any further
let’s silence them with threats so they
won’t dare to use Jesus’s name ever
again with anyone
says they called them back and warned
them that they were on no account ever
again to speak or teach in the name of
Jesus but Peter and John spoke right
back whether it is right in God’s eyes
to listen to you
rather than to God you decide
as for us there is no question
we can’t keep quiet about what we have
seen
and what we have heard
sometimes
you just have to step back
obey God
and let whoever wants to argue
keep arguing among themselves
but silence
in this case
is disobedience
for more than 2
000 years
the church’s daughters have been
restricted
from obeying what I believe
is God’s mandate on our life
we have been restricted to the teaching
according to the traditions of men
you’ve heard them women can teach other
women but not men
they can share but no preaching
the gospel
has been reduced and diminished to only
being filtered by men
and I told you at the very beginning of
these sessions
that if we’re going to build an
unrivaled life
we need to be unrivaled Representatives
we need the men to continue to boldly
preach the gospel and unpack it and
teach it the way that they do it but we
also need mothers and women and
daughters to do the same
in our culture if you’re a bold women in
the church you’re labeled aggressive
if you’re confident you’re called
ambitious
where are we finding what Jesus actually
said and we actually have his words in
Mark 16 15. then he said now these are
everyone gathered then he said go into
all the world go everywhere and announce
the message of God’s new good news to
one and to all
we need to be childlike
I believe the Great Commission is our
permission
in Christ we are all redeemed to declare
the gospel and it’s best if it’s my
gospel what God has done in my life what
I have found to be true what I know what
I see but once we’ve known the power of
God
once we’ve known the truth once we’ve
known the freedom we cannot allow
bullies
to intimidate us and silence us
you know Don and I were talking this
through because he was like oh I know
churches they let women preach and I’m
like who and he like name three and I’m
like okay that’s not I’m not talking
about letting
I’m talking about raising up
raising up women who are carriers of the
Gospel not inviting people occasionally
raising up our daughters to have freedom
and boldness so that they can stand in
such a way that the religious leader are
fascinated wait a minute these are
people that they’re they’re confident
they’re they’re not educated but there’s
the spirit of God is on them in such a
compelling way
so when I was looking at this I said you
know the oppression is way wider spread
than most men understand you know and so
I pulled one of the most well actually I
think the most prevalent church planning
organizations manuals when it comes and
talks about women in leadership and
they were unpacking the scripture that
everybody beats women up with and I’m
not even going to try to attempt it here
I wrote 10 000 words in the book but I’m
not going to even try to attempt to hear
his first Timothy 2. and after putting
the scripture down this leader decided
to unpack the scripture this way he said
without blushing Paul is simply stating
that when it comes to leading in the
church women are unfit because they are
more gullible and easier to deceive than
men
how do how do these words make you feel
some women feel shamed
and guilty
there would have been a time in my life
I would I would have said yeah you’re
right
I I’ve I’ve been deceived before
I’ve been gullible before
I can see areas of my life where I’m not
fit
well that’s why Jesus makes this fit
and that’s why he imparts wisdom
and that’s why he washes us away
other people might feel relieved like
good I didn’t really want to do this
it’s going to be a battle I don’t want
to have to face this
I was really angry when I read this
because what I heard was sexist bullying
and I heard shame
I’m going to put up a picture of my
granddaughter Sophia running topless in
the snow
okay this is
one of my favorite pictures of her
because she just has no bounds she’s
free she’s running she’s in moccasins
she’s celebrating a change of season
no
she’s unfit
she doesn’t know
that she’s labeled gullible
she doesn’t know
that somebody would call her easily
deceived
see the truth is
if somebody spoke any of that over my
granddaughter
they’d have a sicilian grandmother to
deal with
I will not let those things be spoken
over my spiritual daughters
or my granddaughters
and if I won’t let them be spoken over
daughters
then I can’t let them be spoken over me
see a lot of us Mamas we we can look at
our past and say it’s okay to think that
about me but it’s not okay to think that
about my daughter no it’s not okay to
think it about you
and it’s not okay to think it about your
daughter because when you begin to allow
that for you you will pass it on to your
daughters on some level she’ll begin to
think
that she is less than when God has
created her to be
more than
we need to be women
who stop arguing
and stop acting out because it’s easy
because we need to leave a Redemptive
we need to say you know it’s really not
about me having occasional platform
it’s about a whole change in the mindset
we look at gender right now our culture
is so broken so broken
when it comes to gender
but gender captures the image of God
and when you never have women in a place
where you can see them or hear them
Emily is very difficult connections for
the daughters on the house to have those
connections and then I will say there’s
been a lot of damage done by men
and I always find it very interesting
that when I preach and I give an altar
call on a Sunday the people that respond
the most and come down are the young men
not the young girls
because some of them have been so
wounded by a father they can only hear
certain truths
from the mouth of a mother
Ephesians 2 10 says for we and that’s
all of us collectively male and female
young and old for we are his workmanship
created in Christ Jesus for good works
which God prepared beforehand
that we should walk in them
when I read things that attach Fallen
traits
to people
then I know
it’s not the Holy Spirit
when I come before God In Prayer
he never
measures me by my past
he always speaks
strength and Destiny to my future even
if I’m like I’m awful I’m terrible he
says I believe there’s better things in
your future
I believe you want to change I believe
you won’t do it again he throws
confidence into my future so we need to
just answer one question
is it better
to obey God
or is it better
to obey man
I don’t know what he’s told you to do
but you need to stop making excuses
stop blaming the men
stop blaming a lack of opportunity
if you don’t have a Pulpit in the church
that doesn’t stop you from preaching
other places your life is the greatest
platform God will ever give you
and everything we do for God
if we do it to honor him
the sacredness of that job no matter how
secular it is is evident we need to
honor God with every area of our life
and stop making excuses and stop blaming
and would we even are tempted to take
those designations of unfit easily
deceived mocking or even somebody having
the audacity to call Daughters of Sarah
daughters of Eve
we need to take those labels off
for unfit Let’s get fit
for uneducated let’s get educated if
we’re unwise let’s get wise
you already know everything that we have
everything that we need for a life of
godliness has been provided for us in
the word of God
so father in the name of Jesus
I speak to the women here
and I speak to the sons and the
daughters that are in their lives father
I break any Prejudice of misogyny I
break any shame of their gender off of
them Father I thank you that you have
made them For Your Glory that they are
your workmanship created in Christ Jesus
and father they are not limited by their
gender father I thank you that their
gender was uniquely given to them and
they would not be mightier if they had
been born a man father I thank you that
you need the voice of sons and daughters
in these last days so I ask that you
would give them back with Clarity your
directives in Jesus name that we would
preach the gospel unafraid amen and amen
foreign
that you got to hear the truth that the
Great Commission is actually your
permission I don’t know if you felt like
I felt I don’t know what kind of things
attach themselves to you I don’t know if
you heard that you were unfit that you
were gullible as a woman and that you
were given to deception I wonder how you
felt when you heard how I felt about my
granddaughter I thought wait a minute
yes Sophia’s young but that doesn’t mean
she won’t grow yes Sophia it has a lot
of things that she does not know right
now but that doesn’t mean that she won’t
know them in the future I remember
thinking I’m not gonna let anybody tell
my granddaughter that she is unfit that
she is easily deceived and that she is
gullible but then I heard the Holy
Spirit whisper hey Lisa
these labels that you wouldn’t put on
her
they can no longer live on you I wonder
my friend what is the label that you
have on your life that is limiting you I
don’t know what has been spoken you know
maybe you’re thinking well there’s been
a lot of things spoken but I’m not sure
those things are hindering me I bet they
are I bet they are I want you to list
the lies I want you to list the lies and
then you know what you’re going to do
you’re going to cross off the lie and
you’re going to write the truth when it
says that you are unfit you’re going to
be like okay yeah you’re right I’m unfit
but Jesus made me fit when it says
you’re gullible you’ll say the holy
spirit gives me wisdom I want you to
take everything that is a lie and I want
you to counter with the truth I want you
to write that truth that God has spoken
over your life I don’t want you to live
in the limits I don’t want you to say
yeah this was the lie I want you to
combat with the truth and everything
that God says about me is actually what
I am going to begin to say about myself
I Believe As you move into this season
that you are going to want God Astound
you with a life without limits that you
will no longer have these labels and you
will no longer have these lies that
maybe you didn’t even know were like
beginning to have a fog over your mind
you go forth with Clarity and strength