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The natural use of the woman, January 24th, 2022.

You're Dawson.

Up to this point, I have perhaps said a number of unusual things, and in our day, controversial

things.

But we are still just assembling pieces on the workbench.

We are now approaching the point where we will begin the assembly.

I'm talking about constructing a biblical view of how man and woman ought to enter into

the marriage covenant.

Once you have this clear in your mind, you'll be then in a position to seek out a woman

who has a clear in her mind, or failing that, if it is not clear in her mind, because of

the prevailing fog we all live in.

You seek out a woman who is absolutely submissive to the scriptures and is willing to learn

what the scriptures require of Christian women.

I'm going to be using two analogies.

The first will be the one I've already alluded to, that of assembling a complicated piece

of machinery on a workbench.

The second will have to do with novels, one written by a man for man, and the other written

by a woman for women.

Let us start with the assembly metaphor.

You know doubt have had the experience of putting something together in a way that made

sense to you, and then having the disconcerting experience of finding a piece left over.

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