Amen and amen. All right church, who's ready to study the Bible? I hope you are. If you brought yours for Song of Solomon, obviously we're going to be in chapter 1, verse 1. And as you have already heard, I am going to talk about how to be a godly woman. Now, a couple of things to go over before we dive in here. First of all, you may ask, well, what gives you the right to tell us how to be a godly woman?

So I do have a confession to make.

I've never been a woman.

So this is a bit like a Catholic priest doing marriage counseling, you understand?

And that's not a shot, okay?

Because this just means, I hopefully will say very true things.

I just don't know experientially or

existentially what it is to be a woman. But the good news is, is that God has given us his

word and we can trust his word and all of his word is breathed out by him and profitable and

useful in our lives. And so, ladies, I would just ask for a little grace,

but I do want you to know this. As your pastor, I love you. I really do. And I want God's best for you.

And it seems to me right now it's a hard time to be a woman. I mean, because what you were asked to do

is typically by what the world offers you is one

of two extremes. Either one, they basically just say, well, just be a man in a skirt. That's one

option. And then the other is treat yourself like a commodity. Use your body just as a commodity

to be used up and cast away. But that is not what God's word has for you. So we are going to talk about what it

means to be a godly woman. Now, I do have a few things that are working for me. One is I helped

create a young girl, and I am raising a young lady right now who's 11 years old, so I've been

trying to figure that out and paying attention in the world, and I have been studying one particular godly woman for over 20 years. In the fall of 1998,

I was working out in the gym, and that used to be a lot more important than it is today,

obviously, but I was into it, and so I was bench-pressing as heavy as I could,

because I thought chicks would dig that. Turns out,-pressing as heavy as I could, because I thought

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