This is from a sermon preached by Gabriel Hughes on biblical womanhood.

Now, my friends it may not look like I belong there, but I have actually attended many women’s conferences. My wife has been to several of these women’s conferences, and I can tell you from experience that what we’re reading here in Titus 2 verses 3 through 5 to older women and younger women, this is seldom taught in any of these women’s conferences.

They might talk about how to get away from your husband and children for a while, or they’ll talk about how you can still pursue your own hopes and dreams while being a wife and a mother and really, a lot of these conferences they’re just geared toward wanting to provide a pick-me-up, “We’re just going to tell you you’re wonderful and awesome and God has the best in store for you.” Everything’s just like a pep talk rather than any instruction or real exhortation. I cannot remember the last time that I listened to one of these women’s conferences and heard a woman teacher say, “Ladies, be a loving mom, be subject to your husband, be holy, be kind, be workers at home so the word of God will not be slandered.”

In 2018 and 19, the best-selling Christian book for two consecutive years was Girl Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis. She started that book by sayin, “This book is about a bunch of hurtful lies and one important truth…” and you might think that one important truth is Jesus, right? Not according to Rachel. She said you and you only are ultimately responsible for how happy you are. The book is framed around 20 lies that women often believe, and Rachel said that she used to believe a good life means being happy, and happiness means overcoming lives.

My friends, that’s been the world of philosophy for the last 2500 years to have a happy and fulfilling life you just need to pursue happiness and your own state of things is in your own hands. We need God to help us overcome the trials of this life, right? Well again, Rachel says “no” on her Instagram. She said it does not matter what your religion is or who you worship, but that you recognize that today is a gift.

Makes you wonder how in the world did this book end up on the Christian charts for two consecutive years. Rachel followed up that book with another bestseller Girls Stop Apologizing. She said, “Women, all that really matters is how bad you want your hopes and dreams and what you’re willing to do to make them happen. Love yourself then reach for more.”

Excuse me but what did Jesus say? Jesus said if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow after me. For whoever would save his life, will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it; for what does it profit a man or a woman to gain the whole world and lose her soul. And by the way, these words of Christ are at the heart of these instructions that we’re reading about here in Titus 2. In honor of Christ who gave himself for you, be willing to give up yourself for His body. Do you love God? Then love the people of God.

Rachel Hollis and her husband, Dave, made a fortune selling these books, building a self-improvement empire and putting on huge conferences for two years until 2020 when they got divorced. In February of this year, Dave was found dead in his home of a drug overdose.

My friends, do I need to make any more light of this story to tell you how devastating this advice will be if you accept it. We want to protect you from these lies. They will destroy your life and even worse, they’ll destroy your soul. The godly woman is not the one who is telling you to believe in yourself. The godly woman is the woman who says to you, “Believe in Jesus. Be pure as He is pure and older women, you need to speak into the lives of these younger women and young women, we need you to be willing to go to the older women and learn from them.”

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:3-5

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