God's Providential Exception: The Barren Womb

God's Design for the Family - Message 10 - Lineage through Parenting: God's Providential Exception (The Barren Womb). God has made us male and female for a number of purposes, but the exception to what we have been studying is that in His Providence at times God ordains that a couple will not have any children. This has been viewed a as stigma by some and as a blessing by others. There are those, albeit without a Biblical worldview, who have decided that they do not want children and so have chosen barrenness by their own actions. And there are always those who deeply desire to have children and yet are never satisfied. It is the prevailing view in the world, and sadly in many churches today, that children are a burden, a choice, an inconvenience, or an infringement on our freedom.And yet, there are those who want children and who have a right view of children – but for some reason, God does not open every womb. God made us to be fruitful and multiply! And the desire to not have children, or to kill our unborn children is unnatural. That is not the way God designed us. So let us look then at these truths behind God’s Providential Exception: The Barren Womb. 1. God Alone Opens and Closes the Womb. 2. Is Barrenness a Curse? 3. Patriarchs and Prophets. 4. When Barrenness is a Blessing. 5. Practical Application.