Victory and Overcoming! 10/2/26 Sometimes what we have to OVERCOME is BAD DOCTRINE. Today we briefly touch on Hyper Calvinism and Complementarianism, two doctrines that can't pass the Bible test and bring harm to God's people and our ability to know, love, and trust HIm and work as the Church that He created us to be. Key ideas: Hyper calvinism teaches that God sovereignty means He has 'approved of' or sifted through first everything that happens on this earth. The problem with this, is that three wills happen on the earth, God's, humans', and the adversary's. God deposited the vision in to Joseph, HE decided to blab it to his brothers who were already contentious, they decided to kill him, then traffic. Behind the scenes, the adversary is pulling the brothers and the Lord is pulling on the older brother to spare Josephs's life. Calvinism gives God some level of culpability in the evil on the earth, that He does not have. God is good and good only and He can not violate His character nor His Word which says His plans are good and good only. Jeremiah 29:11. When the church is taught that 'God allowed the disaster' it puts a terrible burden on the person to work through all the terrible hurt and anger toward God that this bad doctrine causes. How can you love a God who could have done something to prevent the trauma but did not? You can't. We have to teach what the bible SAYS which is Psalm 115:16, mankind makes the decisions on the earth, either yeilded to the Lord, or the adversary or their own self will. Girls grow up to be adult women. And as ADULTS they simply have to be taught that THEY are responsible for their own behavior, not someone else, or a man. You can not be a healthy responsible adult if you believe it takes the other gender to tell you what to do, lead you in every area of life or tell you what the Bible says or does not say. Women can attend seminary and Bible school and be taught the Word. Women can make decisions to tithe, honor the Lord with their finances, and take financial classes and learn to be wise stewards of what God our Father has given us. Women need to be able to recognize ungodly behavior and resist it, even if it is coming from a husband, pastor or 'someone with authority'.' We are not allowed to agree with doubt, unbelief, sin, bad attitudes, tempers or anything else that people do outside the character of God and His commands for ALL of HIs people. Women are responsible for our own faith. We are responsible to teach faith to our children, whether boys or girls. Timothy's mom and grandma certainly did. Being married, simply does not erase personal agency or capacity. Being married is a relationship between two adult equals. They should both be praying over the family. Both be students of the Word. Both help make decisions . God said Adam was NOT in a good position because he had no equal counterpart. God answered that need with WOMAN. We are the equal counterparts to men. You just have to really mess up basic theology to get that wrong. We do not see gender hierarchy appear on the earth until as a result of the FAll. Genesis 3. And it is what Jesus has redeemed HIS people from. We honor one another and submit one to another out of REVERANCE to Christ. If the entire body of Christ was transported to Jerusalem and saw the bloody crucifixion, no one would be arguing and vying for position, title, rank and who 'gets to lead who.' And all would be excited that Mary got the first encounter, and happily welcome Prisicilla and Phoebe, just as Jesus and Paul did. #teamJesus Books on faith for recompense and provision, healing and provision are available at www.H2two.org To sow a seed into H2:2 Ministries: https://h2two.org/bookstore-and-partners #Jesus #CovenantGod #covenantofIncrease #covenantofrecompense #recompense #divinerecompense #double #doubleforyourtrouble #SaraShallenberger #h2two