YAH CREATED EVERYTHING FOR A PURPOSE!!!!

Genesis chapter 2

Today we are walking in: Yah Created Everything For A Purpose!!!!







Today we look to the word-PURPOSE- H6213 ’asah--to do, work, make, produce; to act, act with effect, effect








The Torah testifies...............

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The prophets proclaim.................. 

Jeremiah 26:3 

If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose H6213 to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.









The writings bear witness........................... 

Proverbs 20:18 

Every purpose H6213 is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.




Yah Created Everything with a Purpose 




Let us now consider the nature of purpose itself. Purpose is the original intent of the creator in the creation of something. It is what is in the creator's mind that causes him to fashion his product in a certain manner. In short, purpose motivates the action of creation. This results in precision production. 




Since Yah is a Yah of purpose, He never created anything hoping that it would turn out to be something viable. He first decided what it was to be, then He made it. This means that He always begins with a finished product in mind. Consider these questions: 




Why are humans different from animals? 

Why is a bird different from a fish? 

Why is the sun different from the moon? 

Why does one star differ from another star? 

Why are women different from men?




I want to answer these questions with a statement: Everything is the way it is because of why it was created, because of its purpose. The why dictates the design. Yah created everything with a purpose, and He created everything with the ability to fulfill its purpose. Yah's purposes were always planned out ahead of time; everything was al ready "made" in the mind of the Maker before He created it. 




What this means is that Yah never gives a purpose to something after He has made it; rather, He builds everything to fulfill the specific purpose He already had in mind for it. Yah designed everything to function in its purpose, and everything is the way it is because its purpose requires it to be so. The purpose of a thing determines its nature, its design, and its features. 




The purpose of something determines its nature, design, and features. 




To understand how we function as human beings, we have to go to the Manual given to us by the Designer and Manufacturer who created us. First Corinthians 15:38 affirms the principle that Yah made everything according to its intended purpose: "But Yah gives [a seed] a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body." Let's carefully consider this instruction from Yah's Manual. When it says, "Yah gives [a seed] a body," this means that He designs this seed as He determines. Notice that He gives the seed a body "as he has determined." To determine means to make a decision before you start. So Yah determined what He wanted, and then He made it the way He wanted it to be. 




"When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But Yah…." (vv. 37–38). "But Yah." We're talking about Yah, Incorporated. He's the Manufacturer. He created everything. "Yah gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. All flesh is not the same" (vv. 38–39). Yah said that "all flesh is not the same." Let's say it another way: all species are different. Yah determined that they would be different; therefore, they are different. 




"Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another" (v. 39). Of course, the word "flesh" in this instance does not refer to meat; instead, it refers to the nature of the creature—its characteristic design. Yah determined that human beings would be different from animals in their nature. He also determined that birds and fish would have distinct natures. The passage goes on to say, 




There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor ["glory" NKJV] of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor ["glory" NKJV] of the earthly bodies is another. The sun has one kind of splendor ["glory" NKJV], the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor ["glory" NKJV]. (1 Corinthians 15:40–41) 




The sun is meant to do a job that the moon isn't supposed to do, so Yah created the moon different from the sun. The moon is made to do its job, and no other job. The moon does not give light; it reflects light. Therefore, Yah did not put any light on the moon. Yah also made stars of different sizes and luminosity, for His own purposes. The point is that Yah made everything the way it is because of what it is supposed to do. 




To further illustrate this principle, look at the clothes you are wearing. You will see that the designer and manufacturer created them with a purpose. The purpose was to produce a garment that you could wear to cover your body and to keep you either cool or warm. In order to fulfill this purpose, the designer had to fashion your clothes in such a way that they would do the job, and do it efficiently. Notice how your clothes fit your body. Your sleeves are not down to your feet. Your collar is not around your waist. Your clothes were designed for the purpose for which they were made. The same thing is true of other types of products. 




We have disregarded the Manual and then become frustrated because our relationships aren't working. 




There's another aspect of purpose and design that we need to consider. Suppose you buy a camera. Even though you may not understand everything about how your camera was made, its components are still necessary for the fulfillment of its purpose. Just because you don't understand the nature of a product or can't operate it, you shouldn't get angry. There probably isn't anything wrong with it; you just don't know how it works. If you can't operate your camera, it doesn't mean that you should throw it away. You don't understand what was in the mind of those who made the camera, because that is their area of expertise. However, they are aware of that, so they provided a manual for you to refer to as you use your camera. 




When it comes to male-female relationships, it is as if we have bought the camera without proper training on how to operate it. We have disregarded the Manual, and then we have become frustrated or angry because we haven't been able to get our relationships to work—usually after paying good money for them, too. When many people get married, they spend vast amounts of money on the wedding, but they don't know how a marriage is supposed to function. 




Now, even though we have thrown away the Manual, we still often look around for help and advice. Many people turn to popular talk shows, magazines, and books to find out how to make their relationships work. However, many of these media dispense cheap psychology. Be careful when you start taking their advice on relationships, because half of the people on those programs and in those articles aren't married and never were, and they probably can't stay married if they are.




Yah is our Designer and Manufacturer. 




He knew exactly what He wanted when He thought of the female. He had her in mind before He made her. He first concluded what He wanted, then He created her and caused Her to function in exactly the way He had planned. He did the same thing with the male. He created him after He had finished deciding what the male was supposed to be. Yah did not venture out into the manufacturing business hoping He could create something that would work. He started out with an original design in mind, and His finished product parallels His intended purpose. He is the only One who knows how humanity is intended to successfully function. 




Not Every Purpose Is Known to Us 




So everything in life, everything that Yah has created, has a purpose and is designed according to that purpose. However, not every purpose is known to us. Humanity has lost its knowledge of Yah's purposes. It has not respected the fact that Yah's creation and His directions for living were established for a specific reason and that, if that purpose is abandoned, we will never function properly as human beings.




As we go through this series, we will learn the extent of what transpired when humanity rejected Yah's plan. What we need to recognize at this point is that the result of this abandonment has been debilitating for us: we have grown further and further away from Yah's original intent and design, so that we function less and less as we were meant to. This has left us incomplete, frustrated, and in conflict with one another. 




The first chapter of Romans explains that when people reject or are ignorant of the purposes of Yah, they end up continually abusing themselves. They abuse their bodies, their minds, their relationships, and their talents. 




Although they knew Yah, they neither glorified him as Yah nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. (Romans 1:21) 




This verse describes those who did not know the purpose of Yah and did not even care to find out what it is. Even though they knew something about Yah and His ways, they did not want Him in their lives. They did not want to know what He wanted them to know. They were saying, in effect, "Keep your opinions about who we are to yourself, Yah. We know You made us, but mind Your own business. We know You're there, but leave us alone." 




The next verse tells us the result of their decision: "Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools" (v. 22). They "exchanged the truth of Yah for a lie" and "exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones" (vv. 25–26). 




Humanity has been saying, "Mind Your own business, Yah." 




When does the exchange of natural for unnatural take place? It takes place when purpose is either ignored or unknown. "Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of Yah, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done" (v. 28). They did not think it worthwhile to find out Yah's purpose for the world or to retain the knowledge of Yah as to why He made humanity. They didn't check to find out why Yah made women and men. They didn't try to find out what Yah knows about the things He has made. They didn't want to know, so they relied on their own inclinations.




The above statements from Romans are a description of humanity as a whole. We have rejected knowing Yah and His purposes, and so Yah's original intent for us has not been communicated in many of our cultures and traditions. It has been lost or obscured. Instead, distorted views have been passed down, so that people do not know how to relate to one another as they were meant to. The problems is that, when we do not know how we are to function, we end up abusing one another. 




Where Purpose Is Unknown, Abuse Is Inevitable 




When humanity rejected Yah, He gave them what they wanted. He gave them over to their passions (Romans 1:24, 26). That's not as simple as it might sound. If Yah had just given us over to what we wanted, the implication might have been that we can succeed in spite of Him. But when Yah gave us over, He also allowed us to experience the inevitable results of our actions. Yah didn't just say, "Okay, go, carry on." He said, "If you carry on, you're going to end up depraved, because that isn't the way I made you" (v. 28).




The principle here is that you cannot move away from Yah and be successful. You cannot cut off your relationship with the manufacturer and expect to find genuine parts somewhere else. When you ignore the warrantee, any part you try to find on your own will not be genuine. You cannot develop into a better product without the help of the Manufacturer.




You cannot move away from Yah’s plan and be successful.




Yah says that when we reject His purposes, He gives us over to depraved mind. In other words, He’s telling us, “Without Me, your mind isn’t going to get any better; it will only get worse.” 




Therefore, if we think we can find out how to be better women and men without Yah, we are in trouble, for the consequences are serious. When we believe that we don’t need Yah, we get worse and worse. How many people have been suffering from these very consequences? If you don’t want to live in Yah’s purpose for mankind, then you will end up doing yourself harm.




“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Most High’s purpose that prevails” (Proverbs 19:21). We have many plans, but Yah has a purpose. 




Most of the time, our plans are not in harmony with Yah’s purpose. I think it is appropriate to include the concept of opinions or perceptions in the word “plans.” We have many opinions and perceptions regarding what things should be like or what they are for, but Yah has a purpose for everything that He made. Therefore, what you think the purpose of something is, and what its purpose actually is, could be different. 




The problem is that, if your plans are not keeping with Yah’s purpose, then you will either suffer yourself or inflict abuse on others, because where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. If you don’t know the purpose of a thing, all you will do is abuse it, no matter how sincere, committed, serious, or innocent you are.




We shouldn’t attempt to use anything until we find out why it exists, because when we don’t know what the maker intended for it, we will not treat his creation appropriately. We need to fully understand that where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. If you don’t know what was in the mind of a maker of a thing, all you can do, at best, is not use it properly. However, usually you will go beyond that and abuse it. If you don’t know the purpose for your existence, then no matter how earnest or sincere you are, all you can do is abuse your life. The most important thing for us to do, therefore, is to find out Yah’s purpose for us. Unless we have this knowledge, we will abuse what He has created. We have been doing that with the woman for thousands of years.




What happens when we don’t know the real reason and purpose for our existence?




The wrath of Yah is being revealed from heaven against all the Godlessness and wickedness, since what may be known about Yah is plain in them, because Yah has made it plain to them. (Romans 1:18-19)




The Scripture says that the wrath of Yah is already being revealed from heaven against unGodliness. I believe this statement means that when you turn away from Yah, you cause many of your own problems; Yah is not punishing you. 




Much of your hurt comes in the package of consequences you receive as a result of the decision you made to ignore Yah and His ways. The burning is in the heat. In other words, you don’t need Yah’s intervention to get burned; just put your hand into the fire. The judgement of putting your hand into the fire is inherent in the fire itself: you get burned.




Here is another illustration of this principle.




The judgement for drinking poison is death from poisoning. You don’t need Yah to kill you after you drink poison. What this statement is saying is that Yah doesn’t have to do anything to judge you. You judge yourself by your activities, by your participation based on your decision to live according to your own knowledge. Consequently, you are a victim of your own decision, not of Yah’s judgement.




Some people blame the devil for the results of their actions. Don’t blame the devil; he just takes advantage of your decisions. The devil cannot dominate you or force you to do anything. The devil waits for your decisions. When you make a bad one, he’ll ride it to the end, or just as far as he can, and he’ll try to bring you down with it. HaSatan is not the culprit. The culprit is your rejection or ignorance of Yah’s purpose. You don’t know Yah’s purpose for living, and so you abuse your life. Be careful; that abuse can cripple or kill you.




Even though humanity has turned away fromYah, He still creates us with gifts and talents that are intended to be used to fulfill His purposes. Yet since we don’t know how they are to be used, we take the talents He has given us and use them against ourselves and others.




We often use Yah’s gifts to hurt others rather than to bless them.




For example, Romans 1:29 says that one of the manifestations of a depraved mind is unrighteousness or wickedness. 




Some of the wickedest people in the world are wise when it comes to information. They are sharp people. They’re so sharp, they can be wicked with class. Some people are gifted, but they use their gift in such a wicked way that their victims don’t know what hits them until it’s all over.




Wickedness, greed, and all kinds of pravity can be combined with intelligence and skill, and be used for evil purposes. For example, it takes talent to be envious in a truly effective way. Some people hate you, but you don’t know it because they’re so good at it. They keep you from being successful in your job through well-placed memos to your superiors. If they could just use that energy and talent for good purposes, they could uplift people instead of bringing them down. They abuse the very thing that was given to them to be a blessing to others. When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.




Some of us are excellent at murder. Murder does not just mean stabbing someone with a knife. Yahusha said that if you hate someone, it is the equivalent of murder. (See Matthew 5:21–22.) 




Some people haven't acted on their feelings, but they have mentally wished for another's death. Slander is another example of this type of murder. We can use the talent of verbal eloquence to assassinate another's character with style. Slander doesn't necessarily mean lying about someone else; it can mean twisting the truth with the intent to hurt. It takes talent to do that. When some people want to get back at others, they stand up in public arenas and use their mouths as guns and their words as bullets. When they finish shooting, their victims are dead, and everybody knows it. Some of their victims never resurrect from these attacks.




A third example of this type of murder is gossip. We all probably have met some excellent, qualified gossips. They train in it. They know how to give you just enough to create a tempting aroma. If some people would take the energy with which they gossip and use it for promoting the Gospel, the world would be changed. 




The skill and talent necessary to carry out some of this behavior comes from Yah, but it has been perverted because it is not being used for Yah's purposes. 




When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. 




The apostle Paul told us that everything Yah made is available to us to do with what we want, yet he added a warning: "'Everything is permissible for me'—but not everything is beneficial. 'Everything is permissible for me'—but I will not be mastered by anything'" (1 Corinthians 6:12). 




Then he gave an example. He said, "'Food for the stomach and the stomach for food'" (v. 13). What was he talking about? He was saying that there is a purpose for everything, but if you don't know the purpose of something, it can enslave you. Not everything is beneficial. Paul was implying that if we are to use food in a way that is beneficial to us, we must understand both the purpose of the stomach and the purpose of food. The stomach and food were made for one another. Yah designed the stomach for food and food for the stomach so that we could receive nutrition to sustain our physical lives. 




Yet we can abuse the relationship between the stomach and food by overeating or by eating food that has no nutritional value. This can cause us to become overweight or lack proper nutrition, resulting in a variety of health problems. When purpose is not known, or when desire prompts us to misuse purpose, abuse is inevitable.




Paul was saying that you can use anything you want, but you had better find out what its purpose is if you want it to benefit you. If you don’t understand the purpose of something, it can become like a curse to you. For instance, some single people become nervous and depressed that they’re getting older, and so they marry the first person who comes along. They are permitted to marry. They are of age. It is permissible- but will it be beneficial to them? The criteria for marriage is not merely being old enough, but whether or not it will be beneficial. If you don’t have a clear understanding of the purpose of something, it’s not going to benefit you. 




That is the reason the divorce rate is so high. When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. These illustrations emphasize what happens when we don't know Yah's purposes: we end up hurting ourselves or hurting others. Sometimes we do so out of ignorance, but at other times we do so knowingly. 




At times, to assuage our guilt, we even encourage others to continue such abuse. Romans 1:32 says, "Although they know Yah's righteous decree [they know what He says in His Word] that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." They know what is written in Yah's Word—that those who do wicked things deserve death. (See verses 29–32.) Yet they not only continue to do those things, but they also encourage others in them. 




When a person is wrong, he feels better if someone else keeps him company in his wrongdoing. If I'm messing up but you're not messing up, then I really feel messed up. However, if I'm messing up and I tangle you up in my mess, then we can both feel justified in our actions. A person who is willfully ignorant of the purposes of Yah generally doesn't want anyone else to know them, either. 




Yahusha told the Pharisees, the religious leaders of His day, that this is essentially what they were doing. Many of them knew the truth but refused to accept it. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matthew 23:13). If we ignore or don't know Yah's purposes for us, we are in danger of hurting ourselves and others. When purpose is not known, or is rejected, abuse is inevitable.

YAH'S PURPOSE!!!!!

Genesis chapter 2

Today we are walking in: Yah's Purpose!!!!!










Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)










The Torah testifies...............




Genesis 11:7




Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.










The prophets proclaim..................




Nehemiah 8:2




And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.











The writings bear witness...........................




1 Kings 3:9




Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?

The Cause of Conflict 




When we don't understand and appreciate our Yah-given differences, we will inevitably have conflict. If the female doesn't understand why she is the way she is, and the male doesn't understand why he is the way he is, then three kinds of conflicts will occur. Women won't be able to successfully get along with other women, men won't be able to successfully get along with other men, and women and men won't be able to successfully get along with each other. 





Many people approach marriage in the same way they buy a car. 




This misunderstanding and discord between women and men may be illustrated by the way many people approach marriage today. Most people are unprepared for the marriage relationship. They approach it in the same way that they buy a car. When you want to buy a new car, how do you go about it? You go to various car dealerships, compare the models and features, make your selection, sign the papers, and then drive your new car home. The mere act of getting married is like purchasing that new car; both are relatively simple to do. You look at the choices, find somebody you like, go to a minister or justice of the peace for the ceremony, receive your marriage certificate, and then go home with your new spouse. 




At first, everything seems effortless. Buying a new car, driving it home, parking it in the garage, and admiring it in its mint condition isn't any problem. Driving with the full tank of gas that the car dealership gave you isn't any problem. Similarly, it's easy to marry a spouse, step over the threshold, and enjoy the honeymoon. Cruising on lovey-dovey honeymoon feelings is fine for a while. 





However, buying a car is one thing; operating and maintaining it is something else. Likewise, getting married is one thing, while maintaining and growing in the relationship is another. 




A car is meant to be a benefit to you, to help meet your transportation needs. However, you must understand the needs of the car, because there will come a time when that gas tank will need to be refilled. There will come a time when the car will need an oil change. There will come a time when repairs will need to be made. If you don't know the needs of a car, you will say, "What's wrong with this crazy car? Come on, car, you've been running for the last month. What is wrong with you?" All the time you are swearing at the car, the car is sitting there wanting to serve you. Yet it can't, because you don't know its needs and aren't attending to them. 




Suppose you then say to yourself, "Well, when I get thirsty, I drink water, so the car must need water. I'm going to fill the gas tank with water." You try to attend to the needs of the car based on your own needs. Now you're in trouble, because the water you put in the gas tank has gone through the car's system and damaged it. Now your car won't run at all. So you say to your car, "When I drink water, I'm revived. What is wrong with you?" Your needs are not the same as your car's needs, and your car's needs are not the same as your needs. When you want a car or anything else to function, don't give it what you need. Find out what it needs, and then give it what it needs; then it will work for you. 





What has been happening in relationships between males and females is that we have, in a sense, been putting water in the gas tank. We've been trying to function without understanding or addressing the other's individual needs. We have been trying to operate based only on what we need. That's why many relationships are at a standstill. That's why there has been so much misunderstanding and conflict between men and women throughout history. 




Would you feed a plate of ribs to a plant?




We assume that a man needs what a woman needs and a woman needs what a man needs. In many ways, this is not the case. The differences are so great they will astound you. Suppose ribs are your favorite food. Can you imagine trying to feed a plant with a plateful of ribs? You enjoy ribs, but the plant can't take them in or digest them. To grow plants, you must understand that they need absorbable nutrients, water, and light. The same basic principle applies to men and women. There are certainly similarities between males and females, but each also has a unique design and unique needs. We must come to understand the purpose of all the elements related to the function and design of men and women. Otherwise, we will be continually frustrated in our relationships. 





Moreover, because the nations of the world have tended to be governed by men, most societies have been set up to address the needs of the male before the needs of the female. To address the plight of the female and the conflict between men and women, we must learn, understand, and appreciate the woman's unique design. It is important for all people to understand the nature of the female as she was created in Yah's image and as she relates to the man.




This knowledge is not just for those who are in a marriage relationship. Whether you are married or single, male or female, young or old, you have interactions with women in the family, the workplace, ministry, the government, and almost every other arena of life. If you don't understand how a woman is designed, you will not be able to deal honestly and effectively with her in these realms of life. 





Of course, understanding the design of a woman (and a man) is also extremely important for a marriage relationship. When we learn what it truly means to be female and male, we can effectively enter into relationships with others, including the marriage relationship. If you are currently unmarried, and you learn who you are and why you are the way you are, as well as how the opposite sex is designed and functions, then if you do marry, your marriage will be successful. You won't have many of the conflicts that arise out of ignorance of the purpose and value of women and men. 




The needs of both males and females need to be learned. However, because the woman has been so misunderstood and devalued over the years, the focus of this series is on her design and needs, while also making reference to how her makeup relates to the makeup of the man. 





Yah's Purpose 





Nobody knows how something is meant to function better than its maker. 





Nobody knows how something is supposed to function better than its maker. Can I suggest to you that the best way for us to make progress in the relationship between men and women is to go back to the beginning—to see what was in the mind and heart of the Creator when He made humanity? Knowing our original design and inherent makeup is the only way to bring about lasting, positive change in the way men and women interact with one another in all the realms of life. 





I am persuaded that understanding and living in Yah's original purpose is crucial to restoring right relationships between men and women. Proverbs 19:21 summarizes this idea well: "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Yah is a Yah of purpose, and everything that He made in this life, including men and women, has a purpose. We can fight against His purpose, but if we do, we will be unfulfilled and frustrated. He made us the way we are for His purposes and for our benefit. 




Throughout this series, we will continually come back to these two essential principles: 




•​The purpose of something determines its nature (or design). 

•​The nature (or design) of something determines its needs. 





The nature of the woman must be understood in light of her purpose, and her needs must be understood in light of her nature. Otherwise, she will be unable to fulfill the purpose for which she was created. 





The most important thing we can find out about ourselves and others is the purpose of our existence. The sad consequence of men and women misunderstanding each other is that, when purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. We've had enough of that. 




What Is a Woman's Place?




The controversy over the role, position, and rights of the woman over the years has often centered around these apparently competing views of what a woman's place is: 




•​"A woman's place is in the home." 

•​"A woman's place is in the world—in business, education, and government." 





Both of these views fail to capture the essence of a woman's purpose and design. 





A woman's place is in Yah. 





Where, ultimately, is a woman's place? A woman's place is, before anything else, in Yah. (The same is true for a man.) It is in the way He created her, in the tremendous value He gives her, and in the purposes He has for her. Only when we grasp the implications of this truth will we resolve the controversy and conflict surrounding the role of the woman in the world.




Principles 




1.​If you have to ask somebody for your rights, you are admitting that he or she has ownership of them. 

2.​A woman's position and rights are Yah-given and inherent. 

3.​The essential nature of women and men has been forgotten by the world. 

4.​Culture and tradition have passed along distorted views of humanity. 

5.​Most women have obtained their identities from men rather than from Yah. 

6.​The devaluing of women is preventing them from living in the fullness of Yah's purposes for them. 

7.​The way to make progress is to go back to Yah's original intent in creation. 

8.​The purpose of something determines its nature or design. 

9.​The nature of something determines its function and needs. 

10.​A woman's place is in Yah.







Yah's Purpose in Creation 





Many are the plans in a man's heart,

but it is the The Most High's purpose that prevails. —Proverbs 19:21 The source of so many of our problems in this world, including the misunderstanding and mistreatment of women, is that we have lost our understanding of what it means to be human as Yah created us. We have lost our sense of purpose. I am convinced that, in every country in the world, both men and women are suffering from this ignorance of purpose. The best thing for us to do is to discover and live in the original plan of the One who created humanity. Only then will we learn the inherent nature and rights of women and men, so that both female and male can live in freedom and fulfillment. 




In the next chapter, we will discover a crucial aspect of Yah's original purpose for humanity—one that has been forgotten by most of the world for thousands of years. This purpose is key to our understanding of how Yah made men and women equal, unique, and complementary in design. 




To gain the fullest understanding of this aspect of creation, however, we must first briefly consider the significance of what it means that we have been created purposefully by Yah. When we understand this concept, we will see how important it is for our well-being that we discover Yah's purposes for us. 




Seven Principles of Purpose 




The following seven principles of purpose will help us to understand Yah's original intent for us in creation. 




1.​Yah is a Yah of purpose. 

2.​Yah created everything with a purpose.

3.​Not every purpose is known to us because we have lost our understanding of Yah's original intent for us. 

4.​Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. 

5.​To discover the purpose of something, never ask the creation; ask the creator. 

6.​We find our purpose only in the mind of our Maker. 

7.​Yah's purpose is the key to our fulfillment. 




Yah Is a Yah of Purpose 




Yah is a purposeful Being. He purposes, He plans, and then He carries out His plans. Yah always knew what He wanted to create before He made it; similarly, He always knows what He wants to carry out before He accomplishes it. 




This theme is found throughout the Bible, which we can consider Yah's handbook for our lives. Here are various expressions of His purposeful nature: 




And Yah said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Genesis 1:3)




But the plans of the The Most High stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. (Psalm 33:11) 




The Most High Almighty has sworn, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand." (Isaiah 14:24) 




As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:10–11) 




Yah…has saved us and called us to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. (2 Timothy 1:8–9) 




Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument. Because Yah wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. (Hebrews 6:16–17)




Yah is purposeful, and He always carries out His purposes. I want to direct your attention to Isaiah 14:24 and Hebrews 6:16–17, which illustrate a vital aspect of Yah's purposeful nature. First, the verse from Isaiah: "The Most High Almighty has sworn, 'Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand'" (Isaiah 14:24). 




The first part of the verse says that Yah has sworn an oath. Now, when people swear an oath, they have to find something higher than themselves by which to swear. "Men swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all argument" (Hebrews 6:16). We usually swear by the Bible or by some great institution. There is only one problem with Yah's swearing an oath: there is no one above Him. So Yah has to swear by Himself. 




If you were called to be a witness in court, you would be asked to swear on the Bible, "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me, Yah." If you were to lie, it would be the same as desecrating the integrity of the Bible—and you would destroy your own integrity as well. If you break your vow, then whatever you swear by is desecrated or destroyed.




When Yah swears an oath regarding something, He has to fulfill what He swore to do, because He is totally faithful to Himself. Yah doesn't want us to have any doubt about this aspect of His nature. "Because Yah wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath" (Hebrews 6:17). 




Before Yah's purpose would change, He would cease being Yah. 




We see this principle expressed in the second part of Isaiah 14:24, which says, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be." Yah is saying, in effect, "When I swear to do something, before that plan fails, I would stop being Yah." The third part of the verse says, "As I have purposed, so it will stand." Again, He is saying, "When I purpose to do something, and when I give something a purpose, before that purpose would change, I would stop being Yah." Yah isn't ever going to stop being Yah. So when He swears an oath regarding something, you can be certain that He is going to do what He has said.




If we look at the verses that follow Isaiah 14:24, we read, 




This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations. For the The Most High Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him [stop, interfere with, or cancel His purpose]? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back? (Isaiah 14:26–27) 




In essence, Yah is saying, "My purpose will be accomplished. No one can interfere with it or hinder it. When I give a purpose to something, your plans, ideas, opinions, perceptions, and prejudices about what you think its purpose should be are inapplicable. What you think about what I have purposed is not going to change My purpose and design. And before My purpose could change, I would have to stop being Yah." 




Let me ask you, If it comes to a contest between you and Yah, who do you think is going to win? If Yah sets a purpose for something, there isn't anything we can do to change it. "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the The Most High's purpose that prevails" (Proverbs 19:21). What we need to keep in mind, however, is that if we try to change His plans, we're working against ourselves, because He created us for good and has our best interests in mind. 




That means that since Yah made the female and the male for certain purposes, and He designed them to fulfill those purposes, there isn't anything you and I can do to change them. We cannot alter His design. Psychology may try to tell us the purpose of women and men, but psychology cannot influence Yah's purposes and design; they are unchangeable. All psychology can do is investigate and explore the mysteries of the nature of women and men. Psychology can never change their nature. Theology may also try to tell us the purpose of humanity, but theology cannot influence Yah, either. What theology says about Yah and men is only as true as it accurately expresses their nature. 




Theology is very limited if it is based on only what a person has experienced. A person should never build a doctrine based solely on his experience with Yah or what he perceives his experience to have been. Don't ever confuse your limited knowledge of Yah with biblical doctrine, because your knowledge may change next week. What you know about Yah today is what He has shown you so far. Tomorrow, you will know and understand more. The Bible is Yah's revelation of Himself to us, and it is our most reliable source of His nature and purposes.

INTRODUCTION TO UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF WOMEN!!!!!

Genesis chapter 2

Today we are walking in: Introduction to Understanding The Purpose And Power Of Woman!!!!




Today we look to the word-PURPOSE- H6213 ’asah--to do, work, make, produce; to act, act with effect, effect








The Torah testifies...............

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The prophets proclaim.................. 

Jeremiah 26:3 

If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose H6213 to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.









The writings bear witness........................... 

Proverbs 20:18 

Every purpose H6213 is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.




INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF WOMAN




It is extremely difficult to be a woman in the twenty-first century. Women around the world are facing the dilemma of identity. Many women are struggling to discover who they are and where they stand today- in the family, the community, and the world. At the same time that women’s personal expectations and roles are changing in some nations, many men around the world still have their own opinions about the place of women and want to impose certain standards of behavior on them. Other men are uncertain about the women’s role and function, and therefore they offer little support to women who are struggling with questions of identity. Additionally, many societies are still very much in a place of transition regarding the status of women. Because of this shift in position and roles, many women are finding themselves in either an uneasy cooperation or an uncomfortable conflict with men.




The question of a woman’s status and the issue of equal rights for women are relevant to every culture and society on the globe. The world’s confusion over the place and worth of women manifests itself in a variety of ways. In industrial nations, changing roles of women in the family and society not only have brought new vocational opportunities for women but also unforeseen personal and social issues. Even though women are working the same jobs as men, on average they earn less than men, on average they earn less than men and have less opportunity for advancement. Though many women are building careers, they are also still doing the majority of the childbearing and household chores. The pace of such a life is leaving them exhausted and disillusioned. On a personal level, confusion over male/female roles and expectations has led to misunderstandings, conflicts, and unstable relationships with the opposite sex. Women today are struggling with the delicate balance of attending to the needs of both their families and their careers, job competition with men, emotional turmoil and lost income due to divorce, single parenthood, and conflicts stemming from cultural changes in the way of women and men interrelate. Some women are confused about what a woman should be and how she should conduct herself because they’re not sure what a woman is supposed to be responsible for anymore.




We are not addressing the underlying cause of the problems of women worldwide.




What is compounding these issues is that cultures around the world have their own ideas about a woman’s identity and role, and these ideas are varied and contradictory. In many Western countries, a woman is accepted as a competitor in the work world at the same time she is often expected to fulfill the traditional roles of wife and mother. In many developing countries, cultural views of a woman’s role continue to devalue her worth and dignity. Sometimes, she’s considered the equivalent of a domestic servant or slave. A woman living under such a view is extremely vulnerable to emotional or physical abuse, poverty, disease and even death. A striking example of this plight of women in Afganistan who are being denied health care, education, employment, and personal freedoms. Another example is the situation of women in third-world nations who are at high risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. In June 2000 United Nations AIDS Report on the Global Epidemic reported that the percentage of women being infected with HIV is rising. Fifty-two percent (1.3 million) of all AIDS deaths in the year 2000 were women. The reason? Many young girls and women are being sexually exploited and are falling victim to the disease through contact with infected men.




The breadth and depth of the issues that women face worldwide is overwhelming. Yet current books and other literature about male-female relationships and women’s rights are not addressing the underlying cause that is fueling the crisis women are dealing with today. My concern is that the longer this cause is overlooked, the longer the plight of women will continue.




Women are facing a myriad of issues and dilemmas, whether they live in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Asia, or North America. There will always be certain factors, such as natural disasters and war, that exasperate problems for women and men alike; however, the root cause of the special problems women face, the issue that is largely contributing to their distress in the world, is essentially being ignored. The woman in North America who is juggling a career and family, the woman in Afganistan who is being denied basic human rights, and the young girl in Kenya who has just contracted the AIDS virus are each facing aspects of a common dilemma. Their problems are different manifestations of an underlying issue. Uncovering and addressing this underlying issue is a central theme of this series. What, then, is the root cause of the problem?




Before I answer that question, I want to say that it is not as if efforts and progress have not been made in respecting and valuing women. For example, from this inception, the United Nations has been concerned with women’s issues. The United Nations charter affirms its “faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women.” In the years since the founding of the United Nations, international laws and treaties regarding women’s rights have been adopted. Yet if you read the language of these succeeding proclamations, you will notice a recurring theme. After acknowledging that some progress has been made, the resolutions admit that discrimination against women still exists even among member nations who have pledged to uphold the resolutions! Those who are committed to making life better for women have had to admit that progress is slow and that change is hard to measure- and even harder to enforce.




The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, often called the “international bill of rights for women,” suggests the cause of the problem. It “targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations.” Over the centuries and millennia, societies all over the world have developed ideas about what it means to be a woman or a man, and most of what has been promoted through culture and tradition has devalued women in some way. We may well ask the question, What has caused diverse cultures and traditions around the world to misunderstand and devalue women? Why is this attitude seemingly ingrained in people’s hearts the world over?




If you don’t know how something is meant to function, you will misuse or abuse it.




The basic problem can be summarized in this way: There are fundamental truths about the inherent makeup of women and men that have been lost to the cultures and traditions of the world as well as the hearts and minds of individual men and women. They have been replaced with distorted views of women of male-female relationships, and these distortions have been promoted through culture and tradition. Because of these lost truths, women and men alike do not understand a woman’s nature, potential, role, and unique contribution to the world. The result is that women are misunderstood, held back from fulfilling their potential, and abused. The hurt, loss, trauma, and physical peril this has placed on women is tragic. There has been a terrible waste of life and potential over hundreds and thousands of years; this waste has been catastrophic not only for women, but also for men and human society as a whole.




Women and men alike must come to know the woman’s true nature and purpose if we are to address the plight that has affected women throughout history and still affects them in the twenty-first century. Women, as well as men, must gain new perspectives of themselves, since women have largely developed their self-concepts from cultural traditions shaped by men who did not understand females.




One of the main points I want to emphasize in this series is that, if you don’t know how something is meant to function, you will misuse or abuse it. This is easy enough for us to understand if we’re talking about bouncing checks because we’ve failed to balance our checkbooks properly or allowing our cars to slowly deteriorate by neglecting to change the oil regularly. Yet a similar principle applies to our failure to understand the inherent nature of women (and men) and how we were created to function together as human beings. The woman has been misunderstood, misinterpreted, and manipulated for thousands of years. As a result, she has been and is being abused in societies throughout the world.




This is why so many past efforts on behalf of women have fallen short of success. This is why a country like Afganistan can appear to be making progress in valuing women and then reverse itself. Merely insisting that women be treated right apparently will not change the false views of males and females that are ingrained in many men and women. People lack a basic understanding of the woman’s nature, and wherever this lack of understanding exists, there will always be the misuse and abuse of the woman. Therefore, we not only need to affirm the worth of women, but we also need to lay new groundwork for understanding who a woman is and how she should be viewed and treated. Repeated resolutions from the United Nations or the efforts of concerned groups- notwithstanding their good intent- cannot ultimately change the hearts of men.




We must look beyond the cultures of the world and rediscover intrinsic truths about the nature of women and men. We must transcend tradition and recapture principles that can free women to be fulfilled and valued, regardless of their nationality or geographic location. We need to understand the inherent nature of a woman and the implications of that nature that will enable us to address her particular issues-whether she is struggling to regain basic human rights, or at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS.




If we look at the issue of women’s rights from this perspective, it will give us the proper focus for solving the problems women face. Much of the discussion of women’s rights centers on what a woman is capable of doing and what she should be allowed to do. I would like to suggest, however, that these questions, while important, are actually secondary questions. The fundamental question, from which all other questions can be addressed, is not so much what a woman does as who she is, and the implications of who she is. When we come to know who a woman is, then the roles that she takes on in life-whether she is a homemaker, a businesswoman, or a prime minister- will be seen in an entirely new light, and the conflicts between women and men over the status of women can begin to be resolved.




A final note of caution: The temptation for women who are being devalued by men in a specific instance or through societal discrimination is to want to dismiss men altogether or treat them in an adversarial way. Yet to do this would be to disregard the inherent makeup of women and men and how they are meant to function together. The end result of such an approach would be damaging to a woman’s potential and advancement, and real progress would not be accomplished. 




What we want for the twenty-first century is a rekindling of hope, the capacity for women around the world is to bring their dreams of equality of access, opportunity and rights, for women in the twenty-first century. The truths contained within can create a better world for women and men- the world it was created to be.

In the mid-1960s, James Brown came out with a song that exposed the spirit of the age, entitled, “It’s a Man’s World.” The song sold a million copies. (I wonder who bought it?) James Brown was singing about an attitude that pervades the nations and cultures of the world. That attitude is, in effect, “Even though women are here, this world was made for men. It’s designed for males. Women are just filling in where needed. You women stay in your place;this is a man’s world.”




Does the world belong to men? If so, what place do women hold in it?




A Controversial Issue




One of the most controversial issues of our modern times- a topic that has been debated with much discussion and dissension is the role, position, and rights of the woman. Historically, in nearly every nation and culture, women have been regarded as inferior to men, holding a secondary place in the world. The following are traditional perceptions of women that still persist today. Women are considered….




-Inferior to men, second-class citizens.

-objects for sensual gratification alone.

-weak, incapable of real strength.

-lacking in intelligence and therefore having nothing to contribute to society.

-the personal property of men, the equivalent of cattle.

-personal servants, whose only purpose is to meet the needs of their masters.

-domestic slaves, to be used as desired.

-objects to be passed around until finished with, and then discarded.

-subhuman.

-deserving of abuse.




Depending on where you live in the world, your past experiences, and whether you are a woman or a man, the items on this list might shock you, offend you, be discounted by you, or serve as a painful reminder of what you are currently enduring.




If you live in an industrial nation that has seen significant improvements in the status of women and the opportunities open to her, you may not think these negative perceptions of women are relevant to your relationships or the interactions between males and females in your society. Yet the underlying assumptions behind them persist in every nation because they are so much influenced by legislative and societal changed as they are by ingrained attitudes in the hearts and minds of men and women. Women are misunderstood and degraded around the world, and it is causing them emotional, physical, and spiritual distress.




A Universal Problem




For thousands of years, in nearly every culture and tradition in the world, women have been devalued and therefore mistreated in some way. What accounts for this outlook? Why is this problem so universal? The fact that the devaluing of women is so widespread across the globe points to a cause that goes much deeper than mere culture or tradition.




One of the reasons the plight of the woman has been such a difficult issue to remedy is that it’s not easy to change a man’s mind about a woman’s place in the world. The idea that this is a mans world is very deeply entrenched. Even though legislation might be passed or public policy might change, you can’t easily change a man’s mindset. This internalized devaluing of women is the reason why women generally continue to be discounted and exploited in almost every society in the world, regardless of certain social and political advances. In industrial nations as well as developing nations, the plight of the female is still very real. It is tragic to have to admit this is true in our modern society. 




In the neighborhood where I grew up, it was common for me to hear men saying, “Woman, do you know who I am? I’m the one who wears the pants around here!” That statement was supposed to imply who was in charge. These days, both men and women wear pants, so who is that statement talking about now? This spirit of male dominance, this attitude of, “Stay in your place. You have no say in this; you have no contribution to make. You have no sense, anyway,” has pervaded our societies for thousands of years, and it is a spirit that still has a hold on many nations.




This prevailing attitude is the reason why the social and political advances of women- which on the surface seem to be victories- can become burdens to women because they are in reality only one-sided victories. For example, women can declare that they are equal with men, and society can try to enforce this equality, but the attitudes of men (and also other women) may not necessarily be in agreement with this change in status. This can cause perplexity, stress, and conflict. Thus, much confusion about the role of the woman still exists today.




Women’s Movements




Only in the relatively recent past, mainly in industrial nations, have people risen up and argued that the devaluing of women is not right. This protest has been manifested in various women’s movements, such as the women’s suffrage movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sometimes we forget that it is only recently that women were given the right to vote in many countries. We’re not talking about two centuries ago; we’re talking about eighty years ago even in America. Only recently have certain nations considered women viable and significant contributors to the mainstream of society.




Some of this change came about through expediency. Two world wars and the Great Depression altered people’s perception of the role of the women and their capabilities. While the men were off fighting wars or looking for work in other cities or states, women were needed to take on roles and jobs that men had traditionally performed. After the Second World War, men returned to their jobs, and many women were expected to return to their former roles, but the taboo against women working and contributing in areas such as business and government had been broken. Even though traditional views of women predominated, the culture had undergone a perceptible change.




In the last forty years or so, in America and in parts of Europe- in countries such as England, sweden, and Norway- a spirit has risen up among women, a spirit counter to the prevailing attitude, which says, “We are equal to men. There is no difference between us.” In America this spirit has been encapsulated in the phrase “equal rights.” The equal rights movement came to the foreground in the 1960’s and originally had certain goals in common with the civil rights movement. The spirit of the James Brown song, that we live in a man’s world, gave this movement its impetus, and millions of women got on the bandwagon. “This is not a man’s world,” they said. “We are here too.” Thousands of women marched in front of the White House in Washington D.C. They held big banners and placards and shouted in the streets. They held meetings in football stadiums and packed them to capacity. These women talked about passing the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). They wanted to amend the Constitution of the United States to declare that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” They were crying out to be given their rights to be equal to men. They wanted the same rights as men to participate in the world and to be involved in everything men are involved in.




Whose Rights?




If you ask somebody for something, you are admitting they have it.




I was in college during this period of uprising and revolution, and I used to sit in class and listen to people debate the issue of women’s rights. I would also sit and watch television in the lobby of the university, and I very clearly remember seeing these women standing up, shouting for their rights. Although I appreciated their overall concerns, something about their approach bothered me. What came to my mind as I watched them was that if you ask somebody for something, youare admitting that they have it; if you have to demand something from someone, you are confessing that they own it. When you do that, you are devaluing yourself, because you are, in effect, relinquishing the possession of your rights to someone else. 




This principle may be widely applied. For example, it pertains to race relations as well as to male-female relationships. If the white man asks the black man for something, then the white man is saying to the black man, “You have what I need.” If the black man asks the white man for something, he’s saying to the white man, “You possess what is mine.” If the female asks the male for something, she’s admitting that he has it. If the male asks the female for something, he’s acknowledging that she controls it. When you go to another person or group of people in order to get something that you claim you need, you are admitting that that person or group has ownership of it.




Therefore, if I say to the government, “Give me my rights, “ I am admitting to the government, “You have jurisdiction over my rights. “ Laws delineating our rights can be good, but we must remember that laws can’t grant us our rights; they can merely acknowledge the rights that we already have. I decided years ago, as a teenager, that nobody has the liberty to control my rights because my rights are Yah-given and inherent. Some people are amazed at my outlook. A black preacher came up to me one time and said, “Man, you’re a different kind of black man.” I said, “No, I am in control of whose opinions are important.” There is a significant difference between demanding one’s rights from someone and displaying the rights one already possesses. This is a critical principle to keep in mind as we explore the underlying reason for the devaluing of women. If we understand that the woman’s position and rights in the world are inherent, it is going to change our approach to solving her plight worldwide.




Joseph is a good example of a person who displayed his rights in the way in which he thought and lived. His story is told in the book of Genesis. Joseph was falsely accused and put in jail. Yet he said to himself, “I’m not a prisoner, “ and he was soon put in charge of the whole prison. (See Genesis 39.) It’s all about attitude. The Romans had Yahusha bound in chains, but Yahusha told Pilate, in essence, “I’m not bound; you’re the one who is bound.” Pilate said, “Don’t you know who I am?” Yahusha answered, “I know who you are. You’re a fool. You’re being totally manipulated by history and prophecy. You can’t kill Me; I don’t give you the right to have power to kill Me. No man takes My life. I am a free Man.” (See John 19:1-16.) There are people in jail right now who are spiritually free, and there are people who have never been near a jail who only seem to be free. Inwardly, they are bound. 




So, when you demand something, you have to be careful, because you might be subconsciously implying something. You might be suggesting that you don’t really have any rights of your own. I want to ask women, Do you really want to go to men and say, “I demand equality with you,” implying that they have the power to make you equal? That is a dangerous thing to say. If you convince me that I have the power and the right to make you a whole person, then you are in trouble, because I could use it to play games with you, to manipulate you. I could use it to get what I want. I could give you some freedoms, as I pleased- just enough to keep you in check- and withhold the rest. I believe that many people in movements for equality are inadvertently confessing that they have given over their rights to someone else.




Prejudice Persists




Even so, countries such as America and Sweden have recently elevated the status of women through legislative acts, achieving a certain amount of societal change. After a difficult struggle, the woman- who was once mainly thought of as a “baby-bearer,” “property,” “servant-slave-maid,” and someone who did the work men considered beneath them- now participants to some degree in both civic and political affairs. Her contribution is beginning to be appreciated. Many women are involved in opportunities and activities that were formerly reserved for males, such as leadership, management, and sports.




Women have not been allowed to develop their full potential.




However, although we can say that there has been some improvement, in most societies, women are still suffering the prejudice of the male against the female, and this bias continues to degrade women. Men’s hearts cannot be changed by legislation. People are still reacting and adjusting to the legislative and civic changes that have been made over the last several decades so that, even though the law says, “Women are now equal to men,” this doesn’t mean that men think so. As a result, women are still being confused, misused, and abused. They are being frustrated and manipulated. The persistent devaluing of women continues to hold back progress, and women are being treated in every way except in the way Yah originally intended. 




This depreciation of women is preventing them from living in the fullness of what Yah created them to be. There have been some notable examples of women throughout history who have been able to accomplish great things, display exceptional work and talent, and contribute much to society. Yet the majority of women have not been allowed to develop their unique personalities and gifts fully so that they may enrich their own lives, their families, their churches, their communities, and the world.




The serious problem we are facing, therefore, is that, not even the government can really do what needs to be done to remedy the devaluation of women, despite legislation and some positive social changes. 




Can Negative Ideas about Women Be Changed?




Can the world’s negative perceptions of the woman be transformed? What is the cause of the universal devaluing of women in societies across the centuries and around the globe? Why is it sometimes so difficult for men and women to understand one another and to work together harmoniously in this world? Culture and tradition, while apparently part of the problem, cannot take the full blame, because the problem spans ages and cultures and seems to point to a deep-seated discord or adversarial relationship between men and women.




What, then, is the cause of this age-old dilemma? It is that we have lost what it means to be human. We have lost what it means to be male and female. An understanding of the essential makeup of human beings has been discarded or forgotten and has been replaced with distorted views of humanity. Culture and tradition have then contributed to the problem by perpetuating these distortions. 




Equal and Different




Yah has already made men and women equal.




If the nations of the world has understood Yah’s purposes for women and men, they would have realized that the spirit of equal rights that demands equality from men was never intended by Yah, because He has already made men and women equal. Men and women were created equal. Men and women are equal. That’s not for a senate or a congress or a cabinet or a parliament to decide. Yah already made this decision in creation. Again, when you allow others to declare who you are, you are submitting your rights to them, and you must be prepared for the consequences. Don't ever give anybody the right to saywhat kind of human value you have. Don't let anybody else tell you how much of a person you are. When you understand that equality is inherent and discover how it is to be manifested in your life, then you can begin to live in the full realm of that equality, regardless of what others tell you about yourself. 





There's another point we need to carefully consider, because it is at the forefront of the current misunderstandings between females and males. Many of those who advocate equal rights say that there is no difference at all between women and men. Yet while women and men were created equal, they were also created different. This is part of their unique design. This statement may confuse some and anger others, because somehow we have come to believe that different means inferior. It is true that many societies have promoted the false view that because women have a different physical and emotional makeup, they are somehow inferior to men. A few women have adopted the attitude that men are inferior because they are different from women. Both views fail to appreciate, value, and celebrate the complementary differences between men and women.




In many spheres of life, we don't consider differences to be weaknesses but rather mutual strengths. In music, who is more important to a full symphony orchestra, a violin player or an oboe player? Both work together in harmony. In sports, who is more important to a medley relay, the swimmer who swims the breaststroke or the swimmer who swims the backstroke? Both have to be strong swimmers in their particular specialty, for a medley race cannot be swum with only one type of swimmer. The answer to the historical devaluing of women does not lie in declaring that there are no differences between females and males, but in recognizing and affirming their complementary differences. The problem is that we don't understand and accept these differences so they can be used in harmony.

UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF WOMAN

Genesis chapter 2










Today we are walking in: Understanding The Purpose And Power Of Woman
















Job 34:16




If now thou hast understanding, hear H8085 this: hearken to the voice of my words.

























UNDERSTAND







Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)






















The Torah testifies...............




Genesis 11:7




Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.






















The prophets proclaim..................




Nehemiah 8:2




And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

























The writings bear witness...........................




1 Kings 3:9




Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?



















UNDERSTANDING THE PURPOSE AND POWER OF WOMAN

Are y'all excited this afternoon? It's going to be a rough afternoon! We are going to have fun this afternoon! Any men here on live, they're going to wish they weren't here. This is an important session to really detail why a woman and a man are different and how they are different. For example a woman never tells you what she's thinking. She tells you what she is feeling. A man doesn't tell you what he's feeling. He only tells you what he's thinking. That's why they are always arguing because they think they're listening to hear each other. So when a woman says to you get out, don't come back! Don't leave! Don't pack your bags, that's just the way she feels at the moment. You leave, she'll kill you! When a man says, “woman you stupid,” it doesn't mean that's what he feels about you. That's what he calculated and he analyzed for the moment at the present condition that you seem to be acting a little stupid. So he doesn't mean that you are a stupid creature. He's analytically assessing your present state. Why? Because a woman is emotional but a man is logical. They're different. So a man calculates a woman in modes. It’s important to know the difference. Women are strange and men are weird. Get your Bibles and your notebooks and let's go to work! I want you to write fast and write well so you can understand your own writing. I want to talk about this topic, the power of women. The power of women. This statement is still not understood properly by women or by men. We're going to be focusing on understanding the nature and the assignment of the female. I want to begin with a few statements which have to do with the challenge of the 21st century woman. It's tough to be a woman today. It’s very difficult to be a woman, a female. It's even more difficult to be a male and that's why most males want to be women. You'll understand that in a little while. Why is it so difficult to be a female today? Let's take a look at a couple of thoughts. I believe that the most difficult challenge that a female faces today is the fact that she is living in a world designed for men. This goes all the way back I think 50 to 60 years when this really hit at the height, when James Brown the famous singer wrote a song, this is a man's world. That song captured the attitude that most men had toward women. Matter of fact, one of the common statements they made was, “know your place.” Do you remember that? And sometimes they told you where your place was. Where was that? In the kitchen and in the bedroom. In other words, there was such a graphic negative attitude toward women by men that even when men had company over they told their wives to leave the room. And this was in the Western world. We’re not talking about the East who has it even worse. So the spirit of a woman being caught up in this world that men created place women in a very difficult position. Most of you women are still trying to survive and to emerge from that, still struggling with that. A lot of men are having crises right now because men don't know what to do with the new woman because the world is no longer a man's world. It has changed since World War Two. It's very important to understand that ladies. Secondly, the 21st century woman is pressed on every side to be everything, to everyone, all the time. It's tough to be a woman. Actually today they want you to be a man and a woman at the same time. They want you to work and also be a home keeper. They want you to have babies and raise them and then pay their tuition too. I mean it's incredible. A woman has so much pressure. Difficult. Thirdly, the average woman is confused and insecure about her purpose and role in life. That's a real problem because some women are not sure what it is to be a woman anymore. That’s why many of them are experimenting. What does it mean to be a woman today? Now I must also balance this by saying, it's worse for the men because the men are in such a crisis. Men are your greatest problem. Because the men don't know what to do either. They're not sure what it is to be a man anymore. The average man in this country and in the whole Western world is struggling with his true manhood. He doesn't know what it is to be a man. You remember about 40 years ago it was very easy to be a man. 60 years ago it was automatic to be a man because the roles were very clear. He goes to work, you keep the house, you have the babies, he buys the food. I mean it was very clear and that's why your grandmother didn't have a divorce. There were no divorces back then because their roles were very clear. Everyone knew where their place was. The man’s place was out working. Woman's was home keeping home. The man bought the home, the woman cleaned it and kept it. The man bought the food, the woman cooked it and served it. It was very simple. Matter of fact, most women and men at that time didn't have a problem with one another because there was no competition and no contention. The man knew where the woman was all the time. She was home and she knew where he was, he was out labouring. Matter of fact, it was so tough to survive 60 years ago that everybody had to keep their rules clear. It was simple to be married and to love one another. As a matter of fact your grandmother and grandfather did not really express love the way you express love today because they didn’t have any time to do it. He was busy working 10 to 12 hours a day, by time he came home all he wanted was food, sex and bed. I call him the caveman. You know all a caveman does is grunt. Then sex grunt, boom, finish, then sleep. And you know the woman back then didn't complain. Why? She understood. He worked all day he’s tired, she had his food ready, she fed him, had sex, went to bed, he's happy. Next morning he goes back out in the forest, into the jungle of life and works for her and takes care of the kids. So she actually respected him because he did that. He worked hard and she was respected by him because he knew she took care of the kids and the home and everything. So they respected one another. There was a higher respect for each other. Their love was based on their roles. She loved him because he worked so hard to keep the family together. He loved her because she took care of the home and took care of the kids and he appreciated her cleaning his clothes and there was this mutual respect. Then something happened. World War two came. World War two changed the world in ways we have not calculated yet. Remember World War two came, the Western world got involved in the war and hundreds of thousands of men in America went to Europe to fight and what happened? The men used to work in the factories but now when the men are gone, the factories were kind of quiet and so the women were asked to make bullets and instead of sewing, they had to learn to make tanks. And if you study the history of America that's when women began to leave the home to go out and work for the war machinery. Are you listening carefully? So the men are in the battlefield, they left home, the women now have to go and make the bullets for the men to use in the guns. So women began to leave the home because of the displacement of men. What happened after the war was finished in 1945 the men came back home and there's no one home. Where is she? She's in the factory. Guess who’s job that used to be. His job. So now he comes back with two problems. One, the home is empty and two, she has his job. Problem: she's now earning revenue. So now we have three problems because he used to provide everything. That's why she respected him. Now she's making more than he's making, so the respect has dropped. Thirdly, they used to need each other. That's why our grandmother and grandfather never got a divorce they needed each other. Matter of fact, if she didn't mention leaving his question would have been, where are you going? She had no money, she had no support. So that's why she stayed. That's why many times 60 years ago a woman may be abused by a man but never leave. She had nowhere to go. There was no other support so she stayed, she made the marriage work, he made the marriage work. But now we have a new equation. We have women out working now. We have men displaced and they're not sure what to do. Back then a man's manhood was measured by simple things like, he builds the house for her, he earns the food, he brings home the beef, he pays the utilities, he takes care of you and the kids as far as their maintenance, and he protects the family. It was clear that's what a man does. She was very clear what she did. She kept the house clean, she kept the kids in order, she cooked the food, and she took the money and distributed it properly. But now here comes a new equation. He comes home and today it is still being felt. He doesn't know what it is to be a man anymore. Women, it's not your fault. It's what happened to our social structure. So we have men today, since World War Two, that doesn’t know how to be a man. Now your grandfather told you if you want to be a man, put your foot down in your house. Your answer is it’s not my house. Some of you will get it later. See, when a woman meets a guy today he's in trouble, right? First of all she owns her own house already, she got her BMW, she got money in the bank, she looks fine, she has a refrigerator with food in it and then she says I want you to be my man and the guy goes okay, so how do I be that? And she says take care of me, he said okay I'll buy your house, she says I got that. He says, I’ll buy you a car, she says I got that, he says I will get you some money, she says I got too much of that, he says I'll buy you some food, she says I got that. So how do I be a man? She says, I don't know, just be a man. See the problem? So he's frustrated. So what does he do? The only thing that he has left that you don't have is his strength. So the result is domestic abuse. That's the one thing he could always say he could give you that. It’s very serious. He physically abuses you and that's why domestic violence is so high because we have a male in crisis, who is frustrated at a misunderstanding what manhood means. Because you see, in the past womanhood and manhood was measured by the roles that they played but now the roles are gone. 40 years ago the man bought home the beef, today the woman owns the cow. Am I right? What do you do when the woman makes more money than you? Men fall apart, they don’t know what to do with that. They feel how am I supposed to feel like a man if you make more money than me and he feels this this crisis inside and that's why it's important for you to come to learn not only that, that is happening but what do you do about that, and whether the way we measured womanhood and manhood is the way it should have been measured. Let me just say this very quickly too, that nowhere in the bible does The Most High Yah ever tell a woman to cook. It's not in Scripture. In other words, matter of fact, here's a surprise in the Bible. If you study the Bible carefully the man cooked. Matter of fact, if you want to marry a good man, first question, can you cook? Very important. Do you remember when Isaac was about to die? This guy's on a deathbed. Issac was married but he said look I don't want you to cook baby, I want your son to cook. It was the men that cooked. I would tell men if you really want to follow Yahusha you have to learn to cook. They look at me strange. I said well let's study it. Yahusha was a cook. Do you remember that the disciples went out fishing after resurrection. It says he cooked fish and bread on the shore for them and fed them when they came in. See, he cooked boiled fish and johnnycake! Real men cook. What I'm trying to get you to understand is that the roles are being confused with the purpose. A woman is not a woman because she cooked. It's another way to identify your womanhood. A man is not a man because he brings home money. Matter of fact, if you study the scriptures carefully again, this is very weird for somebody to understand, but in the East they still do this. The men actually stay in the tent and the women go and take the sheep and goats out. It's reversed. The men stay home in the Middle East, the women go out and become shepherds. It is very rare to have real men as shepherds. Some of you think that men are always shepherds, not necessarily. Most of those cultures, the women are the ones that go out and watch the Sheep because the men stay at home in the tent to protect the treasures of the tent. So historically speaking, the man's place was in the home. It's getting quiet in here. That's why you're here because I want you to understand that staying home doesn't make you a woman. That is still a role. You see, you're confusing the role with your inherent purpose and that's why we're here this afternoon. I want to show you from the Bible what the purpose of a woman is. It is going to blow your mind. You are an awesome creature. First of all, the female controversy is a big one and that is the role, the position, the rights, the privileges, the expectation, and the relationship of the female in our society is our biggest argument. How much power should a woman have? Should a woman be a leader? Can a woman lead? Should a woman be the head or not of a home? Can women lead a company? Should a woman be a preacher? Should a woman be a pastor? All these confusing questions people have about women and mostly it's men who have those problems with women. Some societies have even gone to the extreme could they perceive women as personal property. The Middle East is still this way. It's as if they own women as property. Women are seen as domestic slaves. They actually see women as simply being born to take care of their needs. Some see women as chattel and this is still real. They sell women on the block in many cultures. Women are also seen as simply objects of sexual gratification. Many men see women as something to conquer. They don't respect this beautiful creature. They see a sex object. Then we see the attitude of women as personal servants. Do this, get that, fix that, iron that, cook that, just like slaves. Then we have men who think that women are inferior to them. You could never be as smart as me, they say. Men are more intelligent, men have more wisdom, women need men to guide them. This attitude that women are inferior is still a problem today. Then we have this attitude that women are unintelligent. Some women have a PhD but they still won’t get a promotion because they measure intelligence a little differently than academics. Some of you are struggling with that. Some of you went on and got degrees and went to night school and come back and they still won't promote you because there's this unspoken attitude that you don't measure up. Then there are those who think that women are weak. What a tragedy. Let me tell you something. The most dangerous creature on earth is a woman. Solomon says she can destroy a king. I'm going to show you why a woman is so dangerous this afternoon. You are powerful. You have awesome power and only smart men know how powerful women are. It’s the dumb man who thinks you're not powerful he's the one you get. He thinks you're not powerful. I'm going to show you how Yahusha thought about this as well. Then finally they see women as worthy of abuse. After all she's not as equal, so men abuse women. What a tragedy. Some men don't think anything about it. They they hurt you, they emotionally abuse you, physically abuse you, psychologically abuse you, and then just go on and go watch TV as if it was nothing. The Most High Yah's going to judge them and He will vindicate you. I promise The Most High Yah will vindicate you. Now this last point here only in recent history has the plight of women being given the attention it deserves. We're separating the women from the men, women from the children, we're getting you into place by yourself. Nobody can deal with women better than the one who made women. All these problems that women are facing today, it was not so in the beginning. See whatever you are today that is not what The Most High Yah made. I believe that, that woman is close to emerging again. She's going to emerge again. How does a woman react to all of this negative lifestyle? Number one women believe that they were created like men and so the problem is they try to be men. In other words, because the woman has been treated so badly she believes that she should compete with men in order to regain or gain some kind of equality. That's not the way you become a true woman. You don't compete with a man but that's what some women are doing. They're reacting that way. If you could drive a tractor, I can drive a tractor. The motivation is wrong. When you compete with someone you are admitting that they are superior. It's very subtle and so women spend the rest of their lives trying to be like men. He could be a CEO, I can be CEO and so you have this struggle going on. Then thirdly, women believe they must do what men do to be equal to men. That's a tragedy. He can wear pants, I can wear pants, he can wear ties, I can wear ties, he can be a supervisor, I can be a supervisor. This is the attempt to be the man, that still doesn't make you a woman, it simply makes you a man. You have to stop pushing to try and be like him because most of them aren’t worth being like. You have to discover yourself and that's what we are going to talk about. What did The Most High Yah make you to be? Fourthly, some have become men and lost their unique female essence. I've seen some women who I'm afraid to be with. They look too masculine, the way they walk, the way they talk, it's just not the beauty of the quality of the essence of the quintessence of femaleness. No man wants a manish woman. Some women act like they don't need men. You will never get one, I promise. What you don't need, is to be a man, but when you don't know what a woman is, then you have to try your best to be something. Then the fifth point is important. In order to answer the questions of how to become a woman, you have to discover your original purpose. The female can only be fulfilled when she understands and submits to this purpose that The Most High Yah created her to be. I want to talk a little bit about that word purpose because I think it's important to reiterate this. Write this down please. The principle of purpose. Number one The Most High Yah is a The Most High Yah of purpose. Number two everything was created with and for a purpose. Number three not every purpose is known. Number four where purpose is not known abuse is inevitable. That means if you don't know the purpose of a thing all you can do is abuse it, that includes you yourself. Number five it's very important. If you want to know the purpose of a thing, never ask the thing. The worst thing a woman can do is to ask another woman how to be a woman. If a product asks the other product why he was made or why she was made they are going to get the wrong answer, why? Because purpose is only found in the mind of the maker of the product. Purpose is defined as the original reason for the existence of a thing. Purpose is the original reason why a thing was made. Purpose is defined as the original intent for the existence of a thing. In other words, every manufacturer makes a product with an intention in his mind that he wanted it to fulfill. When The Most High Yah created you and me, he had an intent behind his motivation. There was something he wanted that required the product. There's something The Most High Yah wanted to do on earth that required a female and there's something The Most High Yah wanted on earth that required a male and both of those things were different so he had to make the products different. You are what you are, how you are, and who you are because of why you are. There's something The Most High Yah wanted. This last principle is very important and that is, purpose is the key to fulfillment and preservation. That means if a product or a thing discovers its purpose and fulfills it, it will be fulfilled and also it will be protected. If I bought a DVD machine today, take it home and put it in the bathtub in water, what would happen to it? It will malfunction. In other words, I will be abnormally using it and abusing it because I'm not using it for the purpose it was created for. That's the same thing that happens to anything that is not used for its original purpose. It is not preserved, it is destroyed and it doesn't fulfill its reason for being. That's important for you to understand because a woman, if you don't know why The Most High Yah created you, and what he wanted you to do, and why he gave you your uniqueness, then you want to keep on experimenting with your life, abusing your life and eventually you will destroy yourself. So this afternoon we have to take a look at what I call the manufacturers manual. You know when you open that DVD box when you buy it, the first thing you see is not the DVD player, you see this book on top. Normally it is very clear, it has on it, before operating this product please read this book completely. How many really read it completely? Don’t lie and you know you don't. Now here's the problem. If you don't read that book, if you don't read that manual, then that is why the clock on your DVD is blinking right now. Let me ask you another question. How many functions does your DVD have according to the manual? It has twelve functions but you only know four. Stop, Rewind, Pause and Play. That means there are eight functions that you literally paid for but you are abusing, why? You did not read the manual. What's the manual? The word “manu” means to make. Manufacture is the factor that made it. So the one who makes it is called a manufacturer. Manu means to make. Factor means the factor that made it. Manufacturers make the product. When they finish the product they put the manual in the box. Manu menu means to make and “al” is the word for thought. So when you say manual, you're saying that the manufacturer took his thoughts that made him put his thoughts in the box and sent his thoughts with the product and said before you use my product read my mind. In other words, the reason why you are abusing the product is because you didn't read the manufacturer's mind. So the key to operating any product effectively is to get the mind of the maker of the product because no one knows a product like the manufacturer. Do you agree? Wouldn’t it be terrible to take your Mercedes-benz to a Toyota dealer to be fixed? You don't do that, do you? What we keep doing is we keep taking The Most High Yah's product to unauthorized dealers to get it fixed and that's why we have lesbianism so strong because women are going to the wrong people for counsel. It's incredible to me that you go to a psychologist to get help with your marriage and the psychologist has been married four times. Come on, think about this. If the psychologist has information that can help you, how come their marriage didn't work? You see? We keep going to the wrong unauthorized dealers. Let me tell you something. Congress did not make women. Mayors in San Francisco did not make women. Theologists and theologians did not make women. You were not made by social scientists or behavioral scientists. You were created by The Most High universal company incorporated. You are produced by The Most High Yah which means that the only person that knows the truth about your product is the one who made you. So what he did was, he sent you with a manual and he said before operating your product, please read the manual completely. When we read, we read love romance books, we read Ebony, we read all kinds of magazines, we read all kinds of interesting books, but we don't read the manual. So we get other people's opinions rather than the manufacturer's truth and that's why it's so important in this series to bring women back to the manufacturers manual so that they can hear what the manufacturer says about them. No man won’t ever be able to fool you again when I'm finished. You're going to be so shocked. The manufacturer therefore is the only one that knows you.