In this sermon, the speaker, Jason Dohm, provides four practical warnings to daughters. The first warning is not coming to a conclusion about the breathtaking claims of the Bible about itself. The second warning is about the prevailing notion of the legitimacy of trusting Jesus without knowing and obeying the Bible. The third warning is against believing that the biblical vision for women is lacking and leads to a second-class status. The fourth and final warning is about embracing the influence of those who hate these biblical principles and are committed to their destruction. The speaker encourages daughters to acknowledge the claims of the Bible, fully trust and obey Jesus, embrace biblical womanhood, and be cautious of the influences they allow in their lives.

So this falls under the heading of practical applications. And so I hope it will be that. Let's ask the Lord to help us. God, we've already asked you to help us. But we want to come back again, plead with you that your Holy Spirit would be here stirring us up and helping us, giving us eyes to see and ears to hear, to put it in Bible language.

Help us to love your words and to embrace them. I thank you for our daughters and I thank you for how precious this relationship between father and daughter is and that you would harness the strength of that relationship to make your son Jesus loom large in the world, be loved as a mighty transforming Savior. Thank you that he is that. Pray in Jesus' name, Amen. Well daughters, we love you.

We're here because we love Jesus and He changed us forever. We can never go back. We can never be the same as we were before God had mercy on us and showed us his son. And so we want anyone under our care, especially as much as we love you, that it would break our hearts to think that you would not know him. He's our most precious possession.

And so just part of this weekend is wanting to share with you our most precious possession. I want to use my time to warn you about four things. So I'm going to issue four warnings to daughters, directly to daughters, specifically to daughters. Not to be melodramatic, not to stoke fear. I think there's anything to be afraid of.

I'm so glad that Scott said with the Holy Spirit we can handle anything this world can throw at us. I do believe that and want to just repeat what he said there. So it's not to be melodramatic or to stoke fear in you at all, but to be forewarned is to be forearmed, meaning to know about dangers ahead is to be able to prepare for them and to be ready for them and not to be undone by them. So that's why I issue these warnings. Number one.

Warning number one. Daughters, I want to warn you about not coming to a conclusion about the breathtaking claims of the Bible about itself. Just let that absorb for a minute. Let me repeat it. Daughters, I want to warn you about not coming to a conclusion about the breathtaking claims of the Bible about itself.

So first, I demand that you acknowledge that the Bible makes breathtaking claims about itself, all over the place. You can embrace them, or you can reject them, or you can hold off that decision, but you cannot deny that the Bible makes astounding claims about itself. I'm going to give you one in one you already know well, 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17. Just listen to it and just try to look at it with fresh eyes if you can, as if you had never heard it, and just think about how breathtaking these claims are. 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17.

The Bible says of itself. Paul says of the Bible. All Scripture, all Scripture, is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." So you have a number of astounding claims jammed into those two verses. The first is that all scripture from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of revelation is given by the inspiration of God. It actually literally means it's God-breathed.

God breathed out this truth. It is the revelation of God to man. That's the Bible's claim of itself. And it's profitable for these different categories that I think when you add them up, they're comprehensive. What would be left out if you added up these categories?

And finally, it says that it's able to make the man of God, the person of God, this is actually a gender-neutral term, God's person, it's able to make God's person complete and thoroughly equipped. So there aren't truths that you need that are essential to make you a whole person, a complete person that aren't in the Bible. The Bible is claiming that in that verse. It can make you complete, thoroughly equipped, thoroughly equipped for every good work. And those claims are not isolated.

If I wanted to track each of those claims down, I can find a dozen across Scripture, Old Testament, and New. Prophets, wisdom books, historical narratives where the Bible claims these things for itself. So 2 Timothy 3 is no isolated claim. And so this sets the trajectory for everything else. So you take a stand on those claims.

Is that true? Is the Bible really that or isn't it? And once you've decided, it sets you on a course for everything else. If you decide it really isn't truth from heaven, it's really not God-breathed, that sends you down one track, but if you decide this is God-breathed from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of Revelation, it sends you on a different track and it sends you to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the centerpiece of the Bible Old Testament and new.

We have nothing without the Bible. You say, well, We have Jesus. You don't have Jesus without the Bible. What Jesus? How would you know of him?

How would you define him without this God-breathed revelation? You would know nothing of him and his saving purposes. So daughters, I want you, if you never have really considered the breathtaking claims of the Bible about itself, I want you to consider them. Come back to 2 Timothy 3 verses 16 and 17 and look at the claims and decide, yes, I embrace this or no, I reject this, because it sets the trajectory for everything else. Obviously I wouldn't stand up here if I didn't have confidence that the Bible is what it claims to be.

I do, but I can't do that for you. You have to do that for you. You have to set the trajectory by coming down on a position, have the humility to acknowledge the Bible says this of itself and it demands a verdict of you. So warning number one is not giving it its verdict on its claims about itself. Warning number two.

Daughters, I want to warn you about the prevailing notion of the legitimacy of trusting Jesus without knowing and obeying the Bible. Let me say that again. I want to warn you about the prevailing notion, meaning it's everywhere, of the legitimacy of trusting Jesus without knowing and obeying the Bible. It's everywhere that you can trust Jesus but not know or obey the Bible. That is not legitimate.

Consider Luke 14. Consider Luke 14 verses 25 through 27. Luke 14 25 through 27. Now great multitudes went with him, went with Jesus, And he, Jesus, turned and said to them, if anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciples. He cannot be my disciple.

And whoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. So your dearest relationships have to be as hatred compared to your affection for Jesus or you cannot be his disciple now Jesus said this to the 12 no Jesus didn't say this to the twelve. Look, now great multitudes went with him and he turned and said to them to the great multitudes if anyone comes to me and does not he cannot be my disciple. This is not super Christianity, special Christianity, hyper Christianity. This is Christianity!

It is not radical Christianity. Christianity is radical by its definition. It is not legitimate to ignore Jesus but claim to trust him. The Bible just calls that a lie. Number three, daughters I want to warn you about the dominant viewpoint that this cheats women because the biblical vision is lacking.

So let's say you granted me number one and two, that you gave the Word of God its verdict and say, yes I believe it's claims about itself, it is truth revealed from heaven, and yes, it's not legitimate to say, I believe in Jesus, but not follow him or obey him. So I'll resign myself to So I'll resign myself to biblical womanhood, because the dominant viewpoint is that this, what this book says about a woman's place in the world and purpose as created by God is as a second-class citizen, so I'm willing to accept being cheated because I've accepted these first two propositions. Because the biblical vision is lacking. I'm married to a woman who has literally bet her life—there's a bunch of guys under this tent who are married to women—who have literally bet their lives that the biblical vision is not second best. And so she has spent The last 30 years pouring herself into me, helping me on the things that God has given us we think God has given us to do.

And pouring herself into our six children that God has given us and pouring herself into our local church and especially her sisters in the Lord in that local church and now pouring herself into our grandchildren. You cannot tell her that for 30 years she's had to resign herself to second best. You cannot tell her that. She's watched too much of people that she's known who wouldn't make that bet. And so they've kept a foot in both worlds trying to have both and have ended up having neither.

You cannot tell my wife she got second best. You cannot tell my wife that she was cheated because the biblical vision is lacking. If you took us back to the starting line, she would do it again with joy. No woman who bets at all and trusts the Word of God will end up saying, I got second best. Daughters, you must choose.

You cannot in fact have it all. In trying to have it all, you'll have nothing. You'll not get the biblical vision, and you'll not give yourself completely to the world's vision, and you'll end up with nothing. You must choose. But know this, That your fathers are thoroughly convinced that we are not calling you to resign yourself to second best.

We don't think for one second that we're calling you to resign yourself. Well, okay, it's in the Bible, I'll do it. Please don't undertake this in that spirit. It's not so. Number four, finally.

Daughters, I want to warn you about embracing the influence of those who hate these things and are fully committed to their destruction. I want to warn you about not hand handing influence to people who hate these things. They don't say they hate these things, and they're committed to the destruction of these things, but they don't say they're committed to the destruction of these things. And they make really entertaining stuff. And it's polished.

And it Seems good. But you cannot drink it down and not be influenced by it, changed by it, moved by it. That's not how it works. You're not the special, different person out of the world who can drink down whatever and just be uninfluenced by it, unchanged by it, unmoved by it. None of us are.

What are you listening to? Is it from people who hate these things and are committed to their destruction? What are you reading? Is it written by someone who hates these things and is committed to its destruction? What are you watching?

Is it coming from people who hate these things or are committed to its destruction? If you hand them the influence, they will move you, they will change you. Imperceptibly, one degree at a time, those around you might see it and you might never see it and think you're the same person but you're not because you gave away influence to people who hate your king. I'm gonna pray, and we'll take five minutes to just talk about these things, and then the next man up. God, help us.

Help us. We find ourselves inclined towards these things with an appetite for them. Please don't leave us alone. We don't want to be filled with wine in which is dissipation. We don't want to be filled with things that change the way we think, suspend the way we think.

We want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, helped by Him every day of our lives. Pray that it would be so in Jesus' name, amen.