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Lord.

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?”

Why then do many women read the following scripture and interpret it altogether
differently?

I Peter 3:5-6
For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God,
used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become
her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear.

I do not know how Peter could have expressed himself any plainer. Objections to the
teaching of scripture relating to a woman’s calling really are not based upon the
scriptures being hard to understand, for in fact they are very plain. The objections
arise because the revealed will of God is difficult. In fact, it is murderous, for it
requires a death to walk in His will, and that death is our own. It requires taking up
our cross and losing our very life. How incredibly difficult it is. But if it were not
difficult, why would Yahshua urge us to count the cost before we proclaim we will
follow Him?

Luke 14:27-33
"Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after Me cannot be My
disciple. For which one of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not
first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete
it? Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish,
all who observe it begin to ridicule him, saying, ‘This man began to
build and was not able to finish.’ Or what king, when he sets out to meet
another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he
is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming
against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is still far
away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. So then, none
of you can be My disciple who does not give up all he possesses.”

Giving up all we possess is the cost of discipleship. Are we willing to lay down
everything of our life and say, “Here I am Lord. My life is not my own. Use me as You
desire?” Have we fully reckoned that when we proclaimed Yahshua to be our Lord
that we were acknowledging that our life is not our own for we have been bought
with a price? We no longer have any rights. We are bondservants, willing slaves, of
Yahshua the Messiah.