The Heroine Of God Series

So she went home and put the matter into prayer. The next Sunday she offered the class a deal. She said she would teach for a while, but ONLY if two of them men she saw as promising teachers would be her understudies. Over the next few weeks, she took those men aside taught them how to study their Bibles, and look things up in commentaries. And she taught them how to do word studies and other kinds of research.

After a while, she began to shoehorn those men into teaching the class and ultimately they took over the class as the official teachers there. Eventually they became leaders in that congregation.

They became the men they should have been, because my sister challenged them to do so. My sister was just like Deborah. She showed great wisdom and she worked to build up men who were leaders.

CLOSE: And that’s kind of the way Godly women have always been. Godly women (and Godly men) have always been more concerned with being servants of God and of others than they ever have of having positions of authority and influence. When Jesus said the greatest among you will be those who are the servants of all I think He may have been thinking about women like Deborah.

Someone once pointed out that women were instrumental in much of Jesus’ ministry.

• It was a woman (His mother Mary) who prompted Jesus to perform His first miracle

• It was women (Mary & Martha) who ministered to Christ during His public ministry.

• It was woman (Mary) who anointed the body of Jesus before He was crucified.

• It was the women (Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome) who stayed with Jesus throughout his trial and crucifixion.

• It was women (Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and others) who were the first witnesses to the resurrected Savior.

• And in today’s churches - it is women who make up the majority of the population of most congregations.

In our congregation there are many Deborah’s who are known for their wisdom and insight

In our church there are many great women of God

In our midst there are many She-ros of faith.

And we would be much weaker and poorer without them.

Do I hear an “amen?”

INVITATION… but you can’t be a woman of faith (or a man of faith) until you FIRST belong to Jesus.

1. You have to be willing to believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

2. You need to be willing to repent and turn from your sins.

3. You need to confess that Jesus will now be the Lord and Master of your life.

4. You need to submit to being buried in the waters of Christian baptism, and rise up from those waters to live a life for Jesus.