It's more like "treat the young women as conquests, as lovers or something like that." God says they should be treated as your sisters. He says very simply, "Treat the younger women as sisters, with absolute purity." That's not how our culture tells young men to treat young women. Our word for today from the Word of God comes from 1 Timothy 5:2, God's roadmap for relationships between young men and young women. I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Brotherness." You know if you're a sister, it's nice to have a brother like that. He was always her personal "look-out-forer." Is that a word? And until our son-in-law came along, no guy had ever been good enough to get her brother's "thumbs up." Two years younger, he was always her protector. One thing was always really clear, say between our daughter and her older brother. As I watched their relationship over the years, it was interesting to see what I had missed: a lot of kidding around, some exciting disagreements, some hugs, some advice, some conflict, but a lot of loyalty. Our daughter is the oldest, and her two brothers each came at about two year intervals after that. I never had a sister when I was growing up, but my sons did. If you cannot see the media above - download here: MP3
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