True love would protect Sarah, but pseudo love betrays her.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

1. Abraham is willing to betray category two love as the means of saving his own life.

2. True category two love would protect Sarah but pseudo love betrays her.

3. At this time, Abraham is a traitor to Sarah, not her lover and not her protector.

4. Abraham would use Sarah’s beauty to gratify his own lust and then turn around and betray her by exposing her to the lust of others.

5. You cannot truly love someone else and think more of your own life than you do of theirs.

6. One of the great things in category two love is to think more of someone else’s life than you do of your own.

7. Flattery is the facade of pseudo love.

8. No real man and no gentlemen would ever compromise a woman to gratify his own lust for survival.

9. Selfishness destroys capacity for love, capacity for life, capacity for happiness.

10. If a person thinks more of themselves than they do of doctrine, then they will think more of themselves than they do of others they allegedly love.

“Saw” - qal imperfect - raah - way-yir’u =
to stare.

They indicated that Egyptian women, by way of contrast, were generally ugly and faded early!

“The woman” - “eth-ha’ishshah” -
with the definite article in front of the word ishshah = “What a woman”

“Meodh ki-yaphah” = extremely beautiful.
But this time they said “meodh ki-yaphah,”
“meodh ki-yaphah,”
“meodh ki-yaphah.”

This is no verb here and the absence of the verb in the Hebrew emphasizes “meodh ki-yaphah” - extreme beauty.

1. There is nothing wrong with a woman being beautiful.

2. Sarah’s magnificent feminine beauty and glamour was never criticized as being worldly, unspiritual, or dishonoring to the Lord.

3. Generally, a beautiful Christian woman is the object of much jealousy, vindictiveness, pettiness, and criticism.

ISA 3:9 “The expression of their faces bears witness against them.”

PRO 30:13 “There is a kind - oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are raised in arrogance.”

4. There is nothing wrong with beauty unless beauty is accompanied by vanity and arrogance.

5. Beautiful women are often maligned, judged, slandered, and victims of gossip because of the pettiness of others.

6. Women are often ugly because they envy the beauty of other women.

7. One reason why other women hate beautiful women is found in this context, “meodh ki-yaphah, meodh ki-yaphah, meodh ki-yaphah;” the men all admire a beautiful woman.

8. If women would forget about comparing themselves with other women they would discover that in the advance of doctrine they are no longer ugly.

2CO 10:12 For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves, and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.

1CO 15:10 “But by the grace of God I am what I am,”

JER 5:3 But they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to repent.

NAH 2:10 She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body, And all their faces are grown pale.

9. Beautiful women, like all ladies, must be protected.

10. If we start with the premise that all women are stupid about men, then there’s hope for the woman becoming smart about males.