FAM:Working mothers: should they stay home?

   Note and Question

   COULD GOD BE USING THE GOVERNMENT TO TELL THE CHURCH THEY ARE IN SIN
WITH DAY CARE CENTERS AND OTHER SINFUL ACTIVITIES? THAT THE CHURCH
OPERATES TOO MUCH LIKE THE WORLD IN IT'S PROGRAMS AND WORKS AND SO GOD
IS USING THE GOVERNMENT TO WARN US?

   WORKING MOTHERS & GUILT

   "WASHINGTON (AP) - June 1988 - The labor force participation rate
for new mothers climbed to 50.8% last year from 49.8% in 1986, marking
the first time a majority of women reported they were working or
actively seeking employment within a year of giving birth. By
comparison, only 31% of new mothers were counted in the labor force in
1976, the first year the Census Bureau sought to calculate this rate.
For new mothers with college degrees, the job rate was 63%, well above
the 38% rate for those whose education ended during high school. The
increasing share of mothers returning to jobs led to a total of 13.4
million two- worker families with children last year, up from 8.3
million in 1976."

   ====> HOW TO CONQUER THE GUILT

   Are you going to school or working with a joy while you have
children at home? Do you ever feel guilty for leaving your children
with a baby sitter or at a day care center? Ever feel like someone else
is raising your child? Well, for those who feel guilty about being
outside the home we have a sure-fire 100% method that will take care of
all your guilt. The solution is easy. The solution is called
"repentance"! If you are feeling guilty about working - good! You
should feel guilty! You're in SIN! If you don't feel guilty - get that
way. There should be a very heavy sense of guilt resting on your
shoulders right now; unless you're just dead to the conviction by God's
Spirit.

   Jesus said, "And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a
father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause
them to be put to death." Matthew 10:21

   The reason that children will betray their parents is that parents
first betrayed their children. They betrayed their children to serve
the god of self. Parents had their careers to love. Christian parents
had their ministry in the Lord to do. Fathers and mothers demonstrated
to their children that serving themselves must come first. For they
served the gods of gold, silver, pleasure and self-fulfillment. With
each passing day the world and the worldly serve self more and more.
The end result will be that "brother" will "deliver up brother to
death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against
parents, and cause them to be put to death." All because the children
were shown that to please self, no matter who it affects, is the proper
thing to do.

   ====> GOD'S COMMAND

   If you are a married mother and working away from home take notice
of God's command. If your church has a "Christian Day- Care Center",
listen up to God's command. For you are in direct disobedience to God!
For GOD says in Titus 2:3- 5 "You must teach what is in accord with
sound doctrine. Likewise teach older women to be reverent in the way
they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach
what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their
husbands and children, to be self controlled, to be BUSY AT HOME..."

   Are you "busy at home"? Is this the "sound doctrine" and the "good
teaching" you and your church are teaching? If you're not obeying this
by the power of the Holy Spirit, you are in deep sin and wretched
disobedience to God! So cure your guilt by "godly sorrow" and repent
today, [2 Corinthians 7:8-11].

   ====> CHILDREN SACRIFICED TO IDOLS

   Every day that a child is dropped off at the baby-sitter's, or the
day care center, is another day that your child is slowly drained of
life. You should be "busy at home" raising children for the Lord. For
God says he made your husband and you one flesh for a purpose. That
purpose is:

   "Has not the Lord made them one? In flesh and spirit they are his.
And why one? Because he was seeking godly offspring." -Malachi 2:15

   God's intention was that you raise children up who would know and
love Him! God's plan is for mothers to be busy at home, raising
children for the Lord, being quiet spirited, full of good deeds and
submissive to their husbands, [Ephesians 5:22, 1 Peter 3:1-6, Titus
2:3-5, Colossians 5:22]. Instead, the children's "blood" is being
sacrificed to idols of money, pleasures, convenience and that
"independent feeling". Ezekiel 16:35-38 says:

   "Therefore, you prostitute, hear the word of the Lord! This is what
the Sovereign Lord says: 'Because you poured out your wealth and
exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers, and
because of all your detestable idols, and because you gave them your
children's blood...I will sentence you to the punishment of women who
commit adultery and who shed blood; I will bring on you the blood
vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger'" Women who delay marriage to
get an education God calls prostitutes. Married women who work outside
the home pour out the life-blood of their children and God says that He
will judge you with "blood vengeance of my wrath and jealous anger".

   ====> CHURCH DAY CARE CENTERS

   God's anger burns against a church that is encouraging mothers to
sin by opening "Christian Day Care Centers". How deaf the hearts are to
the voice of the Holy Spirit. How opposed they are to the concerns of
Jesus! Because they worship themselves, even though they sing of Jesus,
they cannot hear the Holy Spirit says, "Close the doors to the day care
centers and open your hearts to my Holy Word!!" Make no mistake about
it. Were they a group of Christians listening to the Holy Spirit the
day-care center doors would be closed. For they would see and feel what
the heart of God feels and sees.

   "Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would
not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you', says
the Lord Almighty." -Malachi 1:10

   The same book that says God's plan is for us to raise "godly
offspring" is the very same book that says "close the temple doors".
What a "useless fire" your so called Christian Day-Care Center is. God
is in no way "please" with such works. All that wonderful singing,
fellowship and preaching are "useless fires" unless there is obedience
to God's Word. Unless there be a death to self. All your self-righteous
arguments and justifications will not avail you mercy at the judgement
seat of Christ. You may complain that "Some women have to work for the
money to survive because their husbands don't earn enough." What an
ugly statement that is about your church fellowship. Use the money,
time and prayer invested in a Christian Day-Care center and meet the
needs of those married working mothers so they can stay home and raise
children for the Lord! Be what the New Testament Church was. Holy!

   And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and
soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was
his own; but all things were common property to them...For there was
not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or
houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales, and lay
them at the apostles feet; and they would be distributed to each, as
any had need." -Acts 4:32-34

   "And all those who had believed were together, and had all things in
common; and they began selling their property and possessions, and were
sharing them with all, as anyone might have need." - Acts 2:43-44

   See how little dead to self your church is! It would not have even
crossed their mind to open up a wicked "Christian Day-Care Center".
Rather, their hearts would have done what was needed to meet the needs
of others. They would have done such with joy! Woe to those churches
that have day care centers! They will indeed experience the jealous
wrath of God. For they encourage married women to work and be busy away
from home. Your preacher's "whitewash" their deeds and guilt
[<MI>Ezekiel 13:10- 16]. Do you not know that you cannot drink the cup
of the Lord and the cup of demons too? [1 Corinthians 10:20-33]

   ====> SPIRITUAL ABORTION CLINIC

   Truly, the church is a marketplace today and no one feels any shame
or guilt for throwing their children on the fiery altar to the demon of
self and money, [Jeremiah 6:14-15]. You teach women to "make the most
of themselves in Jesus". You teach that satanic doctrine of "self
worth" and "good self-esteem". So mothers are encouraged to sacrifice
their children to idols of self and pleasure. Oh, how you condemn
abortions but you encourage and bless spiritual abortion!!! In Russia
mothers are forced to do we Christians volunteer to do. Satan has
little need to fight against such Christians, for he has already won.
And won while churches, ministers and Christians sing with
self-righteousness haughtiness that they serve the Lord and His Word.
What a rude awakening awaits such people.

   ====> "Put a trumpet to your lips! An eagle is over the house of the
Lord because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my
law. Israel cries out to me, 'O our God, we acknowledge you!'" -Hosea
8:1-2

   It is no deep mystery that "children will betray their parents" for
before that can happen parents will have already betrayed their
children.

   ====> WOMEN OF WORTH

   "A wife of noble character is her husband's crown, but a disgraceful
wife is like decay in his bones." -Proverbs 12:4

   Just as Proverbs 12:4 says, that when women no longer remain "noble"
the very supporting structure ("bones") are destroyed. It is little
wonder that even within the church the family is not even close to what
it should be. For what is considered blessed today is the new family
that waits to have children so that they can "get settled in" or "get
financially ahead". Or worse, the couple that waits to have children to
do the work of the Lord is what is considered blessed. You cannot serve
self and God. How much a need there is in truth to pick up the cross
and seek the will of the Lord. How rare it is to find a Christian woman
who has the heart of Jesus. That is, raising godly offspring to be
given to God. Rare, indeed, is the Christian woman who serves God with
a fully surrendered heart. Truly, godly men are crying with the Holy
Spirit Ecclesiastes 7:28,

   'Look', says the Teacher, 'This is what I have discovered:...I have
found one upright man among a thousand, but not one upright woman among
them all."

   >Of course men must ask themselves if they really want a godly
woman. Or like Adam do they feed off the sins of their wives? Do the
churches and husbands like the extra income that these working mothers
bring in? Do the churches like the numbers these women ministers bring
in because they are fulfilling the "call of God" in their life, [1
Timothy 2:11-15]? How often ministers and husbands feed off the sins of
their wives. And as long as it looks good they don't care, [Genesis
2:6]. We are a land full of priests, ministers and seminars, yet
disobedience to God's Word abounds. It is as Hosea says,

   "The more the priests increased, the more they sinned against
me;...They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness."
-Hosea 3:7-8

   Again, the signs abound everywhere that a wife of noble character
cannot be found. Instead of men witnessing a "quiet and submissive"
spirit among Christian women today we hear that they are "bored" at
home. How many mothers say, "I will sure be glad when my child starts
school again"? Where is the wife who calls her husband "master" in her
heart and life? How little we see the Holy Spirit being able to produce
a 1 Peter 3:5-6 spirit in the women of the church...

   "For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope
in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their
own husbands, like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her MASTER."

   Instead of women dressing themselves in holy and quiet spirits we
find the church to be a place for a fashion show. Excessive make up,
wearing clothes that are like the world and the dressing of an
independent spirit, [<MI>1 Peter 3:3, 2 Corinthians 6:17, 1 Timothy
2:9-11]. We see little true leadership among the men because they feed
off the sin of their wives just as Adam did.

   ====> CONCLUSION

   Now, this is not some heavy law or legalism. Rather, it is the heart
of God that longs to bless His people. For you miss the godly joy Jesus
can bring because of disobedience. Let us remember, "that the Sabbath
was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." [Matthew 2:27]. That is, no
one is going to be so unloving to teach someone in the ghettos that
they must stay home and starve because it is against God's law for a
married women to work outside the home. Rather, the church will do
everything in it's power to meet the needs of such married mothers. For
the church, like God, desires godly offspring.

   SOUND DOCTRINE BBS
