World's Greatest Provider PDF

Revival Fires Baptist College
Christian Ethics
Professor: Dr. Dennis Corle
World’s Greatest Provider
I. My responsibility as a man is to be the provider of my family.
A. 1 Timothy 5:8, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own
house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
B. The man’s responsibility is to be the provider.
II. There is more to providing for my family than just giving them money.
A. I am to provide more than just finances though certainly the financial aspect rests
heavily upon my shoulders.
B. I am not supposed to just provide for my children while I am alive, if I am ethical, I am
also to prepare for them in case of a quick departure so that they are provided for in my
absence if anything happens to me.
III. Men being sorry and not being good providers pushed women into the workforce.
A. They pushed women into rebellion against their role because they were not cared for.
B. I can’t trust man to take care of me, I will have to take care of myself.
C. You ought to be the kind of provider that your wife does not feel compelled to go out
and join the workforce.
D. She ought to know she is taken care of.
E. If I know my wife needs or wants something, I should do all I can to get it for her.
1.I should give her whatever I can give her.
2.If she wants it, I should try to provide it for her.
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3.That is ethical.
F. I am not only supposed to be the provider of her needs, I need to be the provider of her
wants.
G. If you provider her need and not her wants, who will provider her needs?
1.You don’t want someone else to fulfill them.
2.You don’t want them to be unfulfilled.
H. Most good marriages break up once the woman starts working outside the home.
1.They got a job.
2.Started missing services because of work.
3.Didn’t have the same contact with her husband.
4.Someone flirts her everyday whether she wanted it or not.
5.Before long she goes to him and falls in love with him.
6.He is meeting her needs and her husband is causing her stress.
IV. Husband has the responsibility to provide:
A. Food
B. Clothing
C. Housing
D. Medical
E. Protector
F. Etc.
V. Provide love
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A. Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and
gave himself for it;”
1.There is supposed to be a spiritual love here.
2.The husband is supposed to love his wife in every way.
3.He is supposed to love his wife as Christ loved the church.
4.That is a spiritual love and a sacrificial love.
B. Ephesians 5:28, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth
his wife loveth himself.”
1.This is physical love.
2.You are not going to abuse your physical body.
3.There is supposed to be some gentleness and love physically for the wife.
C. Ephesians 5:33, “Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even
as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.”
1.Everyone loves themselves whether they admit it or not.
2.If you will be as considerate of your wife and love her like you love yourself
you will be alright.
3.This is the emotional love.
D. It would not hurt anything if you:
1.Told your wife you loved her.
2.Told your children you loved them.
3.Make it evident too.
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E. So many people Dr. Corle has talked to that never one time did their dad say, “I love
you.”
1.That is sad.
F. There ought to be affection in the home.
1.The husband ought to instigate that.
2.The husband ought to promote that.
3.He ought to make it so.
G. It wouldn’t hurt her if you bought some flowers for your wife.
H. It wouldn’t hurt you if you took her out and planned an excursion.
I. Love is deeper than physical attraction.
1.It doesn’t hurt any relationship to try to keep a physical attraction in there.
J. Genesis 29:30, “And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than
Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.”
1.His love for her was so great that it seemed like nothing.
2.You ought to date your wife.
3.Women make great wives and mothers because of their emotional structures.
4.The best favor you can do your children is to love their mother.
K. In a home where it is evident to your children that you love your mother, there is
security and stability
1.You will do your children a great injustice if they are in doubt whether you
love your mother.
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L. If you are going to get a women into subjection, you must love her into subjection.
1.You can get a position that has some authority, but you are never going to get
people to follow you by force.
2.Don’t think you are going to preach your wife into subjection.
3.It will cause a major uproar.
M. Your love needs to be evident and there is a lot more evidences of that love than you
think.
1.Love is not one-fold, it is many-fold.
2.Love needs to be made visible and real to the people that you love.
N. Love is an action, not a command.
1.You can’t command someone to love.
2.They must love.
VI. He needs to provide leadership.
A. Genesis 18:19, “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household
after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that
the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”
1.He is out to lead.
2.He is setting the example.
3.He is leading them in the paths of righteousness.
B. Joshua 24:15, “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day
whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other
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side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me
and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
1.He spoke for his house.
2.I am going to serve the Lord.
3.They are going to serve the Lord with me.
4.I can’t decide what you are going to do, but this is what we are going to do as
a family.
C. Proverbs 1:8, “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy
mother:”
1.Get the leadership you are supposed to get from your father and mother.
2.When you leave home, take these principles that you were taught and take
them with you.
3.You do not have leadership just because you have followers.
4.People follow a leader.
a. A leader is someone who has a vision who is going somewhere.
b. If you are going somewhere, someone will follow you.
c. If you have a vision of doing something and you have leadership, then
someone will follow you.
D. You need to be responsible and have devotions.
1.When you are on a busy schedule, it will be hard.
2.The man needs to provide leadership in this area.
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3.If you don’t have family devotions, your children probably won’t have
personal devotions.
E. A man needs to be the leader in the fact that he is decisive.
1.Not bullheaded.
2.Not vacillating.
3.Not undecided.
4.If I don’t know what I am going to do, how are you going to follow me?
5.If I don’t know where I am going, how will you follow me there?
6.If I don’t do the will of God, how will they?
7.If you tell your wife, this is the will of God, make sure that it is!
a. She will lose respect for your walk with God.
b. You will destroy your relationship with your wife.
c. Where God guides; he provides.
d. When God leads you, make sure you follow.
e. You lead because God is leading you, not because you are trying to
escape problems.
8.You will always have problems no matter where you are.
a. You leave because it is the will of God to leave, not because you are
trying to escape problems.
b. You will never escape problems.
c. This world is full of them.
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d. Learn to cope and deal with your problems, not try to escape them.
e. You can’t escape them.
F. If you go the wrong direction, so will your family.
1.There was a direct link between Dr. Corle getting saved, getting in church,
reading his Bible, praying, and the alcohol and cigarettes leaving.
a. It set Dr. Corle back.
b. He started witnessing and praying for him.
c. He did not get saved for too soon.
d. He infected him.
e. He got saved because of his leadership.
2.If you are not separated, your children will not be separated.
a. You need to keep your standards high, this world is going to pot.
b. We are not supposed to just keep 10 feet from the world.
c. We are supposed to stay right where we used to be.
d. If it is 30 miles away now, it does not matter.
G. You need to center your life around serving God and let that be the central theme.
1.Be a leader as a man.
2.Lead in having good standards.
3.Lead in being right with a good man of God.
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a. If you can’t respect the man in the pulpit, it is time to go and find
someone whom you can respect and lead your family in respect for a
preacher and cause them to trust a preacher.
b. Cause them to love the preacher because you do.
VII. You need to provide discipline.
A. Proverbs 19:18, “Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his
crying.”
1.Don’t stop until he is crying.
2.You must break the will.
3.Susan Wesley said she never stopped until they were sobbing.
a. Not just crying because of the pain.
b. Not just because of getting in trouble.
c. Until there was a brokenness.
B. Proverbs 20:30, “The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward
parts of the belly.”
1.Spanking bruises the body.
2.They don’t want you to curve evil, but they want to empty the prisons.
C. Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will
not depart from it.”
D. Proverbs 22:15, “Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction
shall drive it far from him.”
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1.Talking about a thin rod that stings.
2.It is not strong enough to brutalize or break a bone, but it does sting.
E. Proverbs 23:13-14, “Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him
with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his
soul from hell.”
1.A spanking will save his soul from hell.
2.You as the husband, as the man, stand in the place of God because you are
the authority figure.
3.If your children do not learn to respect your authority, they will never respect
anyone else’s authority.
a. They shouldn’t be afraid of you like a tyrant.
b. Never respect the police
c. Never respect God.
4.They will never learn to respect authority unless they learn to be respectful to
their father.
a. If you do not teach them proper response to authority in the home, they
will never have a proper response anywhere else.
b. Don’t refer all the discipline to your wife.
i. It is not wrong for the wife to spank a child.
ii. God has given the primary responsibility of chastising the
children to the father.
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iii. If the child is going to be broken, the father must break them.
iv. Once they are broken and tender, then my wife can handle it.
v. She does not have the spirit to break them.
VIII. Proverbs 29:15-17, “The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his
mother to shame. When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous
shall see their fall. Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto
thy soul.”
A. Do not accept the letter of the law without a good spirit.
1.That is not obedience.
2.I must obey from the heart.
3.Obeying outwardly, but not inwardly is not obedience, it is conformity.
B. If you do the thing you ought to do in discipline, your children will be a blessing to
you.
1.They won’t break your heart.
2.They will be the blessing of your life if you put the right stuff into them when
they are coming up.
3.Training and discipline and leadership all in place will cause your children to
be the blessing of your life when they are grown.
IX. Men must decide to be the best leader you can possibly be.
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