The strongest of all Gods creatures

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The strongest of all Gods creatures?

• Woman
• Women, as a rule, are stronger
• than men where it counts---
• in character

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A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far
above rubies. Proverbs 3110
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A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far
above rubies. Proverbs 3110

• Worthy ---The basic meaning of this verb is
  be firm,
• strong.The basic meaning of the noun is
  strength, from
• which follow army and wealth.The individual
  designated seems
• to be the elite warrior similar to the hero of
  the Homeric epic
• When the term is used of a woman (Ruth 311
  Prov. 124 and
• 3110) it is translated virtuousbut it may
  well be that a woman
• of this caliber had all the attributes of her
  male counterpart...
• Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 1,
  271-272

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The strength of women in the home

• The wise woman builds her house
• Prov. 141
• I counsel younger widows to marry, to have
  children, to manage
• their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity
  for slander.
• 1 Tim. 514

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The strength of women in the home

• Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in
  the way they
• live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much
  wine, but to teach
• what is good. 4 Then they can train the younger
  women to love
• their husbands and children, 5 to be self
  controlled and pure, to
• be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to
  their husbands,
• so that no one will malign the word of God.
• Titus 23-5

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• The strength of specific women

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The strength of Ruth and Naomiwidowed, divorced
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The strength of Ruth and Naomiwidowed, divorced

• Famine, death, separation, uncertain future
• A man with his wife and sons leave Canaan for
  Moab due to
• famine. After arriving the husband dies, the sons
  marry two
• Moabite women but after awhile the husbands die,
  leaving two
• widows. And all of this within a ten year period,
  11-5, 19-21. It
• must have seemed to these three widows that not
  much godly
• ahead for them and that the future looked bleak
  life had been
• cruel.

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The strength of Ruth and Naomiwidowed, divorced

• Naomi
• Faith in God 16, 8-9
• Brought Ruth to faith 116
• Unselfish 18-13
• Offered advice 222 31-4, 18
• Concerned about Ruth's
• activities 18-13 219 31,16

• Ruth
• Good companion 115-18
• Worked 22-3, 7, 17
• Followed advice 35-6
• Reputation 211 311 414-15
• Gratitude 210
• Kindness 18 414-15

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The strength of Ruth and Naomiwidowed, divorced

• Fruitfulness, life, togetherness
• One of the young widows, Ruth, has married a
  wealthy older man
• who is of very honorable character and they have
  a child, a
• grandson for the older widow Naomi, who becomes
  the
• grandfather of king David, 413-17. How wonderful
  and different
• life was now from the bleak outlook in Moab.

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The strength of Abigailbad marriages
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The strength of Abigailbad marriages

• Please do not let my lord pay attention to this
  worthless man,
• Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his
  name and folly is
• with him
• 1 Samuel 2525
• Honest 25
• Didnt sink to his level 18-19
• Good judgment, good advice 33

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The strength of Eunicemarried to non-Christian
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The strength of Eunicemarried to non-Christian

• Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And a
  disciple was there,
• named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was
  a believer,
• but his father was a Greek,
• Acts 161
• Sincere faith 2 Tim. 15
• Taught Timothy from infancy 2 Tim. 315

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Dedicated to strong women everywhere
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Dedicated to strong women everywhere

• Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting but a
  woman who fears
• the LORD is to be praised. Give her the reward
  she has earned,
• and let her works bring her praise at the city
  gate.
• Proverbs 3130-31
• Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new
  strength they will
• mount up with wings like eagles, they will run
  and not get tired,
• they will walk and not become weary.
• Isaiah 4031