READ: 1 Tim 2:9--1 Pet 3:3,4
INTRO: "Adorn" 10 times N.T. 4
"garnished" 1 "trimmed"
Used five ways:
The gospel Tit 2:10
The Temple Lk. 21:5
The Home Mt. 12:44
Lamps Mt. 25:7
Christian Woman 1 Tim 2:9
"Adorn"==to decorate, arrange, put in order Eng. cosmetic
ADORNMENT OF A SISTER
TWO CATEGORIES
OUTWARD AND THE INWARD
PHYSICAL AND THE SPIRITUAL
(What we ..DO... What we ARE)
HABITS
CHARACTER
2 Cor 5:12 OUTWARD
Danger here in outward only --Gal 6:12 "fair show in the flesh"
Balance of Inward and Outward is seen IN 1 Tim 2:9 and 1 Pet 3:3,4
TWELVE WOMEN IN PROVERBS
EIGHT BAD........... FOUR GOOD
[1] Strange 2:16 [2] Evil 6:24[3]Whorish 6:26 [4] Foolish
9:13 [5] Brawling 21:9 [6] Angry 21:19 [7] Adulterous 30:20 [8]
Odious 30:23
GOOD ONES:
1-GRACIOUS 11:16 Heb. kind, Rt. "to bend or stoop in kindness
to an inferior
SOCIAL VIRTUE 1 Tim 5:10
2-VIRTUOUS 12:4 "strength, worth, valuable" "Behind every good man that is a woman"
MORAL VIRTUE 1 Pet 3:2 "chaste"
3-WISE 14:1 "skilled in her ways
DOMESTIC Tit 2: 4,5
4-FAIR 11:22 Heb. "beautiful, comely
within and without
Spoken of Christ Psm 45:2
S of Songs 14 times of the girl
SEE--Songs 4:7
SPIRITUAL==Tim 2:10, 5:10, Tit. 2:3