The Most Beautiful Woman!
by Richard St.James
The Most Beautiful Woman!
Bible 1611.Com / Sluice Box Adventures.com / Old Paths Bible Ministries © 2008
Who is the most beautiful
woman on the face of this earth? Do not go to the world
for their opinion. In this message the most beautiful
woman is identified.
• In The Garden
• After The Garden
• The Ugliest Woman
• The Most Beautiful Woman Identified
• The Description Of the Most Beautiful Woman
The Most Beautiful Woman
"She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
Man" [Genesis 2:23].
Absolutely marvelous, and so
beautiful to the eyes:
Wo-man "because she was taken out
of man," called to be along his side, for she was taken
out from his side. How can this be known? It is in That
BOOK! It is in the book that God wrote.
In the English
language, it is preserved in the Authorized Version of
the Bible of 1611 [commonly called the King James
Bible]. It is tried!
"The word of the Lord is tried"
[Psalm 18:30]. It is pure!
"The words of the Lord are pure
words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified
seven times" [Psalm 12:6].
Seven is the number of
completion. Almost six thousand years ago
"God created
the heaven and the earth" [Genesis 1:1].
Six is the number of man. Man has had these six thousand years to
govern himself under the authority of Satan ,
"the god
of this world" [II Corinthians 4:4], also known as
"the
prince of the power of the air" [Ephesians 2:2].
Soon
the whole earth shall see the seventh millennium. It
will be a thousand years of government under the
authority of Jesus Christ, the Son of God who will reign
over the nations of this earth from Jerusalem.
"And it
shall come to pass that every one that is left of all
the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go
up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of
hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles"
[Zechariah
14:16 and Revelation 20].
In the book of Hebrews
(chapter 1) we learn from God the Father that it was God
the Son who
"laid the foundation of the earth" and is
the one
"upholding all things by the word of his power."
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth" [Genesis 1:26].
(Note the plural words
"us" and
"our." It is the first
revelation in the Bible of the triune nature of God).
God let man
"have dominion" over the earth, and in
particular, He "
put him [Adam]
into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it" ALONE!
[Genesis 2:15]
I. In The Garden
The order in the creation is so very important. In all
that, God created in those first six days (including
Adam), the work would not be complete until He had
created the woman. God would not allow the evening of
the sixth day to come until He
"squared off" with His
declaration of Genesis 2:18.
In God's infinite wisdom
and intention by a wondrous design, Adam needed to
experience loneliness before receiving his help meet. It
was to this end and for this reason so that God would
have this declared of him.
"And the LORD God said, It is
not good that the man should be alone; I will make him
an help meet for him" [Genesis 2:18]. It is the Lord God
who
"knoweth our frame" and our makeup
[Psalm 103:14].
He
knew Adam's soul and spirit intimately, because it came
from Him. Adam was made in God's image! The Scripture
reveals that the
"candle of the Lord" was in Adam.
"The
spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all
the inward parts of the belly" [Proverbs 20:27].
Adam would have to be made to feel his loneliness. This in
two ways:
"And out of the ground the LORD God formed
every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and
brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:
and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that
was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle,
and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him" [Genesis 2:19-20].
First: Adam would have to see
God's design in the order of the creation by observing
the distinctiveness of both
"the male" and
"the female"
in the naming of the creatures before him. Adam pondered
much in his heart and was filled with great wonder.
"Wow! I am ALONE, I have no counterpart."
Second: It was
Adam who received the life vocation of dressing and
keeping the garden (not his help meet).
"And the LORD
God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it" [Genesis 2:15].
Now Adam was in
the right place, with a right heart (before God) doing
the right thing (working), all of which was before the
fall of man and sin coming into the world. Yet all was
not good!
"And the LORD God said, It is not good that
the man should be alone."
When Adam found himself thus,
he came to the thoughtful conclusion,
"Oh! Who can go
along with me and who can share the reward of my labor?"
When Adam came to this, God said,
"I will make him an
help meet for him."
Now begins the most miraculous
surgical operation ever performed on the face of this
planet. And who performs it?
"It is he that sitteth upon
the circle of the earth," [Isaiah 40:22] the omnipotent
God who, with deft precision, takes one of Adam's ribs
and makes out of that rib a
WOMAN.
"And the LORD God
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and
he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead
thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from
man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."
Now Adam wakes up from his deep sleep and coming to, he sees
that his fondest dream had come true. The sight of that
woman had put a song into his heart!
"And Adam said,
This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man"
[Genesis 2:23].
In the next verse, we will see the most
basic underlying truth of what a marriage really is.
"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one
flesh" [Genesis 2:24].
In Genesis, chapter 3 is the saddest story ever told.
The woman who has no name as of yet is shown to be the
one most vulnerable to the onslaught of the deceptive
work of the Devil. She becomes the focus of the attack
in Satan's attempt to destroy God's perfect earth. The
way to ruin what God had done was through the woman. The
way to destroy the man was by going through the woman.
To get to God, Satan had to get to Adam. To get to Adam,
Satan had to go through the woman.
It has always been
done the same way many times since. The trick is
performed in this fashion: just raise doubt about what
God has said. That is the bottom line.
"And he said unto
the woman, yea, hath God said?" [Genesis 3:1]. Yes, once
the doubt came, a lie she would swallow. She was
deceived.
"And Adam was not deceived, but the woman
being deceived was in the transgression" [I Timothy
2:14].
Also in Genesis, chapter 3 is one of the greatest
love stories ever told. The woman is now coming to Adam.
(Now we have it. The scene is set). Adam sees the woman
of his life, the woman he loves with the forbidden fruit
in her hand, but it's too late. She has already taken of
it.
For Adam, it is now instant recall. He remembers the
commandment:
"And the Lord God commanded the man,
saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely
eat; But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" [Genesis 2:16-17].
Adam immediately chooses to die with his wife. He would
rather hearken to his wife than obey God. Why would he
do this? The answer is easy. Adam loved his wife [see
Ephesians 5:25-29]. Never did he want to be separated
from her, nor lose her.
He chose "open-eyed" to join
her:
"And he did eat" [Genesis 3:6].
"And Adam was not
deceived", his was a deliberate choice. He chose the
woman and not God.
"And unto Adam he said, Because thou
hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast
eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying,
thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy
sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to
thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread , till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return."[Genesis 3:17-19]
II. After The Garden
Adam chose to disobey God, to keep his woman, and he
pays the price with the
"sweat of his face" until he
returns to the ground (death). Sin comes into the world.
"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned" [Romans 5:12].
The sad end for
mankind had come, and God pinned it on Adam (not Eve).
For only by Adam could sin and death come. It is in
this: God made the man first. (
"For Adam was first
formed, then Eve.")
And it was God Who gave Adam the job
of dressing and keeping the garden. And it was God Who
gave Adam (not the woman) the commandment
"saying, of
every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt
not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die."[Genesis 2:16,17].
Not only did Adam and Eve die, but the whole creation died.
"For we
know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now." [Romans 8:22] With no
"fix" or
remedy (but one glimpse) in sight, God drove out the man
from the Garden of Eden.
YES! "One glimpse" of God's
redemptive plan was shown in what He said to the Devil.
("And I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed:
it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
heel" [Genesis 3:15].
This would point Adam and Eve (and
every man, woman and child ever since) to the first
coming of Jesus Christ, Who is the Son of God and the
Lamb of God. Further, this reference to Satan having his
head bruised is somehow linked to Jesus Christ's second
coming to this earth with His saints.
"And the God of
peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly"
[Romans 16:20].
There it is! The Gospel in its embryonic
form given almost six thousand years ago, just as the
spiritual darkness was rolling in, (the result of Adam's
sin). And what is this gospel that is fully revealed to
us six thousand years later?
"Moreover, brethren, I
declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By
which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I
preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For
I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the scriptures:"
[I Corinthians 15:1-4].
Now let me ask you a few things.
Are you saved? Have you believed this Gospel of Jesus
Christ? Have you put your trust in the shed blood of the
Son of God? Well, have you? Then if you have trusted
Jesus Christ for His salvation, I say
AMEN!!! Let's sum
up Adam's belief concerning Eve. To Adam, Eve was the
most beautiful of God's creation. To Adam, Eve was the
most beautiful woman. You say, that is easy! She was the
only woman in the world! I say, so what!
No matter how
many women there are in the world (even billions), any
husband worth his salt would be as Adam, concerning his
own wife. Every husband should have the opinion that his
own wife is the most beautiful woman in the world. But
now if we were to ask God, who would He say is the most
beautiful woman? What would He say? His
BOOK does reveal
who she is. But wait! Before we identify her (and the
Bible does reveal who she is), it may well be wise to
find out who God says is the most ugly woman in the
world. One does not appreciate the light but for the
darkness!
III. The Ugliest Woman
Let us go to the Book of Proverbs 9:13-18 to see this
ugly woman, and who she is.
1. She is a foolish woman.
"A foolish woman is
clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing"
[verse 13]. A foolish woman is easily known.
2. She is loud, and is repeatedly talking loud, and is
found pouring forth many complaints and making many
out-of -line demands on others [verse 13].
3. She is without wisdom (simple) [verse 13].
4. She is idle (not working with her hands).
"For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city. To call passengers who go right on
their ways: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and
as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is
pleasant. But he knoweth not that the dead are there;
and that her guests are in the depths of hell."
[Vs.14-18]
5. She is bold [verse 15].
6. She is a flirt and impure in her thoughts, words and
actions [verse 15-17].
7. She will lie [verse 17].
8. She will hurt others (verse 18).
"So is a fair woman
which is without discretion" (according to Proverbs
11:22).
9. She is a strange woman (according to Proverbs 5:3).
10. She is contentious.
"The contentions of a wife are a
continual dropping" [according to Proverbs 19:13b].
Therefore, she is the most ugly woman! Every decent,
God-fearing father and mother will take the time to
teach and warn theirs sons and daughters how ugly this
type of woman is. The classic text for this is found in
God's word in Proverbs chapter 5. Here the father is
imploringly teaching his son about wisdom and
understanding. He wants his son to have discretion
concerning the
“strange woman." She is the ugliest woman
in the world.
"My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my
understanding: That thou mayest regard discretion, and
that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a
strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is
smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death;
her steps take hold on hell.
Lest thou shouldest ponder
the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst
not know them. Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and
depart not from the words of my mouth. Remove thy way
far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years
unto the cruel: Lest strangers be filled with thy
wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body
are consumed, And say, How have I hated instruction, and
my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice
of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that
instructed me! I was almost in all evil in the midst of
the congregation and assembly.
Drink waters out of thine
own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of
waters in the streets. Let them be only thine own, and
not strangers' with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed:
and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as
the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts
satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always
with her love.
And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished
with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a
stranger? For the ways of man are before the eyes of the
LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. His own
iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall
be holden with the cords of his sins. He shall die
without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly
he shall go astray."
When I think of the fruit of this woman, my thoughts
turn to Athaliah, the daughter of Omri. What a
sweetheart she was! [I am just kidding!] According to II
Chronicles 22:10,
“she destroyed all the seed royal of
the house of Judah." Her own family she destroyed.
"Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish
plucketh it down with her hands." [Proverbs 14:1]. Such
is a wicked woman. She is an example of possibly the
most ugly (or wicked) woman that ever lived.
I can think of yet another, and even more wicked woman. Jezebel!!!
Wow, what a name! Loud and bold (or clamorous) was Jezzy.
"Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord"
[I Kings 18:13].
Her husband, Ahab, received the greatest promotion and
encouragement to do wrong a wife could ever give. This
was to bring down forever on his head, the distinction
of being the most, wicked king who ever lived.
"But
there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to
work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel
his wife stirred up." What a woman! She stirred him up
"to work wickedness."
We have the modern-day equivalents shrouded (and not so
very carefully) in the midst of the
"rights movements."
Brethren, remember the times we live in. We are living
in the last part of the
"church age" which is
characterized by the spirit of the Laodicean church
found in the book of Revelation.
"So then because thou
art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee
out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and
increased with goods, and have need of nothing: and
knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked" [Revelaton 3:16,17].
Dead religion, in conjunction with material wealth
(materialism) breeds
"the rights movements." Every
high-sounding, so-called, moral plea for
"equal rights"
is only the veneer. Below the surface we find the real
thing. It is the old wicked heart of men and women
rejecting
THE BOOK and the
GOD Who wrote
THE BOOK!
A hero of the feminist movement, Mary Edwards Walker was
only 16 years old (1848) when she began to discard her
skirts for the full trousers of men in order to promote
"women's rights." "She wore her hair in curls, in order,
so she said, that everybody would know that I was a
woman." "All the ways of a man are clean in his own
eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits" [Proverbs
16:2].
She never did marry. Her sad life was not used to
the honor of Jesus Christ, nor ever was in subjection to
THE BOOK. Later in her life (1897), she founded a colony
for women called
"Adamless Eden", and wrote a book
called
Unmasked, or the Science Of Immorality.
Listen,
friend, if you are honest about it, check out the
history of the
"rights movements" and you will
"unmask"
the truth about what it is all about. Listen, ladies!
Stay out of even the least of it. It will only be a road
that will lead you away from God and ruin your family
(and your marriage). The natural direction of the
"rights movements" is in total opposition to God and His
Book. It is not progress! It is decadence in full bloom.
The feminist is not a beautiful woman. She is an ugly
(or wicked) woman. Remember, the bottom line, the most
ugliest (or wicked) woman according to God's own word is
shown in Proverbs 5 and 9:13-18.
IV. The Most Beautiful Woman Identified
Now we are ready for the answer to our question of who
is the most beautiful woman in the world. Are you
ready??? The identification of her will be first made,
and then we will find the description of her. The clear
and exact identification is found in I Peter 1:6;
"Even
as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters ye are."
This is her identity. She is a
daughter of Sarah. She is the daughter that comes by
faith [being justified by faith. See Romans 5:1]. Look
for yourselves and see how she is described in Proverbs
31:10-31.
"Who can find a virtuous woman?"
Look at her.
There she is ... the most beautiful woman ... is a
virtuous woman, and look at her price,
"for her price is
far above rubies." Now how can this be? If the price of
a virtuous woman is far above rubies then, who could be
found to pay for her? Well, I will tell you who could
pay for her. Jesus Christ paid for her! (Get excited,
and whoop and holler around the room). With what did He
pay for her? This virtuous woman was redeemed
"with the
precious blood of Christ" [I Peter 1:19].
This virtuous
woman has been declared righteous by
"the righteousness"
of another [Romans 5:18]. Amen! Amen! This daughter of
Sarah has been
"quickened" [Ephesians 2:1] or
"born
again" [John 3:3-7] by the Spirit. She has been
“purified”!
"Seeing ye have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love
of the brethren." [I Peter 1:22]
V. The Description Of The Most Beautiful Woman
Let us look at the description, at how the most
beautiful woman is described by God:
1. She is a crown to her husband.
"A virtuous woman is a
crown to her husband"
[Proverbs 12:4].
2. She is the safe repository for the heart of her
husband.
"The heart of her husband doth safely trust in
her, so that he shall have no need of spoil"
[verse 11].
3. She always builds up (or promotes) her husband.
"She
will do him good and not evil all the days of her life"
[verse 12].
"Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land"
[verse 23].
4. She works hard with her hands (industrious) for her
family.
"She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh
willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants'
ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also
while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household,
and a portion to her maidens" [verse 13-15].
"She layeth
her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the
distaff" [verse 19] (There will not be much opportunity
here for long painted fingernails!!!)
"She looketh well
to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread
of idleness. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let
her own works praise her in the gates" [verse 27, 31].
5. She is market wise.
"She considereth a field, and
buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a
vineyard" [verse 16].
"She perceiveth that her
merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night"
[verse 18].
"She maketh herself coverings of tapestry;
her clothing is silk and purple. She maketh fine linen,
and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the
merchant" [verse 22, 24].
6. She is a giving person (hospitable).
"She stretcheth
out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her
hands to the needy" [verse 20].
7. She is an achiever of noble goals in the face of
opposition.
"She is not afraid of the snow for her
household: for all her household are clothed with
scarlet" [verse 21].
8. She is a woman that fears the Lord (a godly woman).
"Favour
is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that
feareth the LORD, she shall be praised" [verse 30].
9. She is a woman of great grace (honorable) and this,
is known by all.
"A gracious woman retaineth honour"
[Proverbs 11:16]. "
Strength and honour are her clothing;
and she shall rejoice in time to come. She openeth her
mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of
kindness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."
[These are the daughters of Sarah verses 25,26, 28, 29].
Please remember these attributes. These are the marks of
the most beautiful woman. If you are a saved woman (or a
saved girl), you are a daughter of Sarah! You are the
most beautiful woman.
Take courage!
"Even as Sara obeyed
Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as
long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any
amazement."
The differences between the most beautiful
woman and the most ugly woman, is as stark as the
contrast between the brightest of days and the darkest
of nights. What the first man and the first woman lost
nearly six thousand years ago (through sin) has been
restored through the precious blood of the Lamb of God,
even by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by what He did on Mt.
Calvary almost two thousand years ago.
In Ephesians
chapter 5, the Holy Ghost provides the crowning
explanation of the great New Testament mystery of Christ
and the church, by using the husband and wife
relationship. You just can't miss it! It is so clear to
the Bible believer. Jesus Christ clearly holds that His
church is the most beautiful woman in all, the universe
(the church is likened to a woman).
"Husbands, love your
wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave
himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it
with the washing of water by the word, That he might
present it to himself a glorious church, not having
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should
be holy and without blemish" [Ephesians 5:25-27].
Men,
what a treat! As husbands of your own wives, please
"get
a grip" on this! If you have a Bible-believing woman (a
Christian) for your wife, rejoice!!!
Never take her for
granted! Be thankful!!!
Praise her and tenderly let her
know that she is the most beautiful woman in the world.
She is a daughter of Sarah! And if she is not a believer
(and is not saved), please remember this:
"Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins"
[Proverbs 10:12].
Apply this diligently, and believe the
scripture concerning I Corinthians 7:14b;
"the
unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband."
Remember!!!
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but
when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life"
[Proverbs
13:12].
The Christian wife is the daughter of Sarah and she
shines forth as a very great gift in a man's life
absolutely marvelous, and so beautiful to the eyes. Wo-man
"because she was taken out of man," called to be along
his side, for she was taken out from his side.
"Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth
favour of the LORD" [Proverbs 18:22].
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