Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
How the fulfilled woman reflects the glory of the man.
Sunday September 9, 2001
Motivation is the main issue concerning your interest and involvement in your local assembly, marriage, single status, family, and on your job.
Your motivation is either natural or spiritual, self-serving or God-serving, human viewpoint or divine viewpoint, evil or virtuous.
When a marriage fulfills the spiritual life corporately, it becomes a corporate witness for the prosecution of Satan, and receives the very highest and best from God, beyond calculation.
The laws of evidence as found throughout the Bible = there must always be two or more witnesses in any trial,DEU 19:15; NUM 35:30.
The star witness is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself from the hypostatic union, between 4 BC and 30 AD, in which Jesus Christ pioneered this great spiritual life.
TLJC was interrogated separately, and He passed every kind of testing, including evidence testing, MAT 4:1-10, LUK 4:1-13.
He kept Himself from sin, and good and evil, and went to the cross without sin, 2CO 5:21, 1PE 2:22-24.
On the cross He offered Himself without spot to God by means of the Holy Spirit, HEB 9:14.
ho martus – the witness, the faithful and the true one = He was the star witness.
Between the offspring of David and the bright morning star, we have the star witness for the prosecution of Satan in human history.
The invisible heroes of the Church-age receive, REV 2:28, the reward of the order of the morning star because of their teamwork with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Any believer who becomes an invisible hero in the Church-age becomes a part of the second category of witnesses in this dispensation, and will be interrogated separately, PHI 1:29, 2TI 3:12.
Corporate witness – Christian marriage in the Church-age only, between October of 30 AD, to the rapture, the termination of the Church-age, EPH 5:32.
MAT 6:19 “where moth and rust cannot destroy, and where thieves cannot break in and steal.”
Elect angels observe human history while fallen angels are designed to oppose human history.
In the Church-age, mature believers and those dedicated and devoted the plan of God are on the front lines, and Satan is against these believers with all his principalities and powers in all areas of life.
Elect angels rejoice over the rebound and recovery of one believer, LUK 15:7,10. In the Hypostatic Union, angels observed every part of the first advent and incarnation of our Lord, 1TI 3:16 He was “Beheld by angels”
In the Church-age, angels observe members of the Royal Family of God in their failure or success to execute and fulfill the PPOG, 1CO 4:9; EPH 3:10; 1TI 5:21; 1PE 1:12.
1TI 5:21 – Angels even observe the believers in the Church-age receiving commands from headquarters. 1PE 1:12 – Angels desire and long to look into the things that so many of God’s people take for granted.
1CO 11:10 – angels observe the attitude that the woman has toward her husband and the symbol of authority that it represents.
A recognition of the authority of Christ means recognition of the authority of the right man.
EPH 5:22 “Wives, be obedient to your own husbands, as to the Lord.” COL 3:18 Wives, be obedient to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
When the right woman is fulfilled by the right man, the woman reflects the glory of the man.
The weaker vessel does not mean she is weaker mentally, physically, or spiritually; but she is the responder in the marriage and the man is responsible for filling up her vessel.
When a man invests nothing in his relationship or marriage, he can expect nothing in return.
The man needs to understand that the woman’s desire is for him, and she desires to feel wanted and protected,GEN 3:16.
A woman truly desires to respect her man. She does not want to look at him as just another child to rear and handle.
Rule his wife, GEN 3:18, Support the family, 1TI 5:8, Protect the family, EPH 5:23, 1PE 3:7, Administrate the family, EPH 5:23, Set the spiritual pace for the family, EPH 5:23-25.
“Glory” = the right woman both as a responder to her right man and as an illustration of God’s grace.
glory = doxa “the woman is the glory of the man” what takes place when a man possesses his right woman or someone who reflects perfectly what he is.
ECC 12:2 – the moon represents a satellite of the sun and a reflector of light = a man possessing his right woman or someone who reflects perfectly what he is.
GEN 2:18 “Then the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.”
will encompass cabab to revolve around, to surround, to walk round about, be about on every side, to encircle, to change direction.
JER 31:22 “The LORD will create a new thing on earth a woman will surround a man.” (NIV)
In the spiritual realm, she revolves around his personal sense of destiny and becomes a helper suitable for him as he fulfills that destiny.
She changes her direction, her course, her goals, for him!
The greatest form of human happiness for a woman is to be fulfilled by her right man, and the greatest in human happiness for a man is to be completed by his right woman.
The human race fell when the first woman had a conversation with an angel called Lucifer.
In the antediluvian civilization, the civilization was destroyed because women rejected the plan of God and became victims of the fallen angels.
The fallen angels do not want the man and the woman to be restored to the original design of God.
The right man and right woman are totally dependent upon each other.
“in the Lord” = it has to be the Lord’s design.
One of the greatest blessings in the original blessings of life is when God gave man the woman, and a woman is designed to be a blessing.