Now I've been going through the book of first Timothy.
Chapter 2,
I've been going through the book just passage by message coming, you know, going over the just.
The next topic. And so today we will be in this portion of men and the role of men and women in the church.
So that's gonna be what we're gonna talk about today.
And before we do that, let's pray.
Our Heavenly Father. We thank you for this time. We thank you that we can open your word.
Be encouraged, and understand your will and design for the Church.
Thank you, Heavenly Father, that you, in your wisdom you've designed it to for a purpose, and, Lord help us to see that here today we thank you again for your word in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray? Amen. So now now I've been going through the book like I said to Paul, is writing to Timothy.
His Son in the faith, and he's encouraging him.
He's challenging him. He's giving him direction with his appostolic authority of what Timothy ought to be doing.
There in Ephesus. Timothy was a younger man, and he needed some encouragement, and Paul is giving him that encouragement, and he's giving him some direction. Now.
There were some things going on there that needed to be a address.
There were men that were leading people astray by getting off the simple truth of the gospel and getting carried carried away with tangents going off on tangents, things that weren't really edifying to the church, and so he comes and he corrects those things and tells Timothy to
Stand for these things. There were other things that were going on too, not just the men, but the women.
There were things that were going on with the women as well, that needed instruction and correction.
So that's really where we come today. Now, before I read the portion that we're in now, we're gonna be in first, Timothy.
2, 8 to 15. That's the portion that we're in today before I do that, just want to provide some context.
Take a look at first, Timothy, 3, 14 to 16, if you remember.
This was a specific portion of the book that was dealing with the house of God.
The church. So first, Timothy, 3, verse 14. These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly.
But if I'm delayed I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God.
The pillar and ground of the truth, and without controversy.
Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit seen by angels.
Preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory no, we're we're told here.
Paul is telling us that there is a way that we ought to behave ourselves, that we ought to conduct ourselves in the house of God.
And what's really something that we need to see is that we're involved in something much greater than any of us, something much greater than that we could imagine.
And we're part of something that's greater than ourselves.
That is, we all need that. We all need something greater than ourselves.
And this in this culture of self promotion, we need something that we can see that's greater than ourselves.
It's the house of God. It's the Church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth.
So this goes without saying. But I'm going to say it.
It's his house. He makes the rules right, you know, when we would go visit my parents we would go to the front door, and there was a foyer there, and we'd have to take off our shoes cause, you know, maybe they had new carpeting, or something, and so everyone took off their shoes, and
When we came over that would be 12 shoes would be lay in there in the foyer.
But that's what we did, because that was the rule.
That's their house, their rules, you know, in the in this house, in in the house of God, in the Church.
It's his house, he decides how we ought to conduct ourselves.
He, he lets us know his design, his order, and we are responsible to maintain that.
And to obey as best as we possibly can, and to know what that is so that we can please him.
So his house, his rules. What he says goes, and really, you know, that should be enough. Right.
God says this, Okay, Lord, I'll do that. But he's not like that.
He, he gives us the reason why, you know, as as a parent we say that you know our kids.
You know, we tell our kids to do something, and they say, why?
Well, because I said so. And that's definitely something that we need to.
That young children need to know and understand, but as they get older we need to let them know why.
Why is this the rule? Why is this the standard? And you give them that reason and it's and then they understand, and then they can apply that to other.
Areas of their life. Not just what I'm here, but that as they grow older we can do that.
So God does that to us he gives us the reason why not only what we're supposed to do, but why we're supposed to do it, not just the what, but the why.
That's our our God gives us that, and part of that is seen here in this passage.
First, Timothy, 3, verse 15,
We are told that we need to know how to we, how we conduct ourselves.
The house of God, which is the church of the living God, which is the pillar and the ground of the truth.
See suddenly how we conduct ourselves is very important. It's a reflection of the truth
The exercise of gift, the preaching of the word, how we interact with one another, the unity that we are to maintain in in this place this suddenly becomes incredibly important because it is the pillar and the ground of the truth if people aren't seeing the truth in the church where are they going to
See it.
Take a look at John, 17,
John, 1721, you know the Lord he's praying.
This is the Lord's Prayer. Here, John 17.
And he says here in verse, I'll just start in verse 20, John 1720.
I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word.
Talking about the apostles, so he's really praying for us here, because we believe through the word of the apostles.
Here, here's his prayer that they all may be one, as you, father, are and me and I and you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me what's at stake, that the world would believe that God the Father sent the same that is what's going to
Be communicated in his church, as we conduct ourselves the way that we ought to, as we behave ourselves the way that we ought to, as we as we strive to keep the unity that He has created in Christ.
So, as I said, how we conduct ourselves is of utmost importance.
And the the the other point here, I want to say is, it's his church, his rules, his design in his wisdom.
He's created it for us for this purpose, because he has a story to tell.
He has something that he wants to communicate, and I that was one example.
But there's many others. There's many other things that he wants to communicate in his church.
Verse, take a look at back there in first Timothy. 3.
That other, the other half here that we were discussing
He has a story to tell. It says we're 16, 3, 16, and without controversy.
Great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
Is that what we just? We just read that John did? The Church will display that the Father sent the son, and there's so many other.
Yeah. Topics that the Lord wants to communicate to the world through us.
He has a story to tell. There's a message that God wants to communicate through us, and it's Ops.
Absolutely. It's preaching the gospel. That is certainly one of the things.
But there's many other things that he wants to communicate.
His character. Who he is, is love. All these things that he wants to communicate through us.
Here's another analogy. You can think of it like this.
He is, he's a player right? He's a director of a play.
We're on the stage.
And he wrote a beautiful script that's going to communicate wonderful truths, and we are the actors, actresses on stage performing this wonderful truth that's how I think it we can about that.
How do we conduct ourselves? How do we conduct ourselves when we are part of this wonderful drama?
And story for the world
And it's in this conduct. But again the story is told.
Take a look. First, Corinthians, 14. First printing is 14
First screenings, 14, verse 25,
Therefore, if the whole church comes together in one place, and I'll speak in tongues, and there come in one of the come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will we not say that you are out of your mind?
But if all prophesy and an unbeliever or uninformed person comes in, he is convinced of all he is convicted by all, and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed.
So falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
Is that what we want? We want when people come here they can see God is here.
God is among you, people. Is that what we want, and what it?
What was it? It was the proper exercise of gift. That's what's happened.
Is addressing how you express your gifts. We have all kinds of gifts going on.
The proper exercise of gift is going to reveal God in this place, and people will come in, and they will see.
Truly God is here. Is that what we want? Hmm! You know it's we're part of something greater.
We all have a role to play. We all have a part to play in this drama together, and you know it's not just the world right.
It's not just the world we you know, unbelievers.
Maybe someone comes in to hear the gospel, and they recognize God is here.
They're convicted of their scene, and they get saved.
It's, but it's not just the world that God has a message for.
Take a look at Ephesians, 3 Ephesians, 3, 10,
It says, here.
Paul is speaking of this ministry, that he's been given I'm just gonna start in verse 9, and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Christ through Jesus Christ to the
Intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places.
See, the angels are looking in the church. They're looking in and learning the manifold wisdom of God.
You know what a manifold is in a car it's it's all of these, you know.
It's the metal is bent in such a way that it has a lot of surface area so that it can.
You know, cool certain parts of the engine manifold.
It's just amazing the intricacies of His wisdom. And the more that we learn about certain things like creation, the the more we learn about the differences between men and women, we're standing awe of His wisdom, the manifold wisdom of God.
That is something that's being taught to the angels by us in the church, as we go about conducting ourselves in the way that we ought to behaving ourselves in the way that we ought to
So to continue this analogy a little further. A good play, you know.
God is a master director and playwright. A good play will use symbolism
Something that stands for a deeper truth.
God has instructed us in this dispensation, and this age, that we're in, that we would continue with the Lord Supper.
Telecom, and also that we would backwards. That would, we'd make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the fathers and the Holy Spirit.
These things are really symbolic of deeper truths. The Lord Supper, the bread and the wine they stand for a deeper truth, and then our first meeting, we saw that there was a deeper truth regarding the bread and the wine the body and blood of Christ it stands for something there's a deeper
Truth, the symbols point to that. If we tamper with the symbols we'll obscure the deeper truth behind them.
You know. Let's let's update this, you know.
Let instead of bread and wine. Let's do.
How about a chick-fil-a sandwich and a peach shake you know.
Would that be great? I mean I love, I love chick flay, although they're closed on Sunday.
You have to buy it like, you know, Saturday, and then bring it here.
But would that be great? But you know it may taste good.
They may, you know, be more pleasant to the senses.
Put it, obstructs the truth behind the symbols.
How about baptism? Baptism symbolizes a greater truth when when someone is baptized or it's, you know, as they're immersed in water, it shows that they've died with Christ.
They're buried with Christ. They're risen with Christ.
That's symbolism shows us something greater, something deeper, a deeper truth.
If you, tamper with the symbolism, the truth is obscured, obstructed.
Some some teach, sprinkling. It doesn't really show the the symbolism doesn't really match what we're talking about.
There's other things that we could. You know that that obscure the truth.
But if the symbol we don't tamper with the symbolism it's there for a purpose.
Now there's something else that points or stand for a greater truth.
The roles of men and women in the Church and in marriage point to a deeper truth
Take a look at Ephesians. 5.
Ephesians, 5, 22.
Now this is, regards to marriage, but there's certainly application here.
Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is headed of the Church, and he is the Savior of the body.
Therefore, just as the Church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands, and everything husbands love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church, and gave Himself for her.
There's a deeper truth there's a deeper truth in the roles of men and women in marriage.
Christ is the head of the Church, the husband is the head of the wife.
There's a if we tamper with the symbolism we obscure the truth that is designed to proclaim.
No, the doctor, the director's handing out scripts for the play, and he says, Ladies, sisters, you play the part of the church.
That's your part in this plate in this drama you play the part of the church you get to show communicate submission to Christ.
That's your role. What a wonderful role! Brothers, you get to play the part of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That. That's your role. You you have to love her and give yourself for her.
That's your role in this drama. And when we maintain that wonderful truth, we proclaim truth, we proclaim the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Is the head of the Church that we, the Church, is submitted to Christ.
That's a that's the story he wants to tell.
That's how he uses us also in the church there is roles that we play that communicate a greater truth.
First printing is 11,
Now he says, verse one, imitate me just as I also imitate Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and keep the traditions just as I delivered them to you.
But I want you to know. But the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Man.
Praying, a prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
Every woman who praised a prophesies with her head uncovered, dishonors her head for the for that is one and the same as if for head were shaved, and it goes on, it's a
It says in verse 10. For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels.
So there you see again angels looking in, learning about his manifold wisdom.
But here again in the church, there's we have roles we have.
The Lord is handing out the scripts. He's handing out the scripts.
He says, sisters, you play the part of Christ, submitting to the Church I'm excuse me, you you play the role of Christ, submitting to the Father.
That's the role that you get to play in this drama.
And and brothers, we, we get to play the role of having that authority
We know we represent an authority, but it it's the role that we're playing.
It's what he designed in the church
So our wise and loving Creator has given us different roles in the body of Christ.
You know, these things really aren't, you know. Few years ago everyone would have said, Oh, yeah, of course.
But but today today it is a completely different message that is getting pushed constantly on us.
That to even say that there's a difference. You're somehow that that it's you shouldn't even think that you have to deny those things that no, there is absolutely no difference between men and women it doesn't make any difference whether you're a you know a boy.
Or a girl. That's not true. Men and women have different.
Jeff's. They have different responsibilities. They have different joys, things that encourage them.
It's all different, a different set of gifts and not just spiritual gifts, not just spiritual guess.
Men and women are different. It's, you know, we complement each other right?
There's certain aspects that Erin is much more capable than I am of certain things.
There's some things I'm weak at, and she's stronger at.
There's things that I might be stronger at that.
She's weaker at we complement each other. We work together.
That's how God created us to be different. Do you know that they did some studies?
Now the unfortunately, these things aren't always published out to the for the world to see.
But you know, because they want to suppress certain things. There's studies.
They went, they did test. They went to pregnant women on their trimester, and they did brain scans of the babies inside of their bodies.
So these are individuals that had no interaction with society. Right?
This is just biology. They did scans on the brains of the third trimester.
They realized that there's a totally different brain structure between men and women.
Women. They have a rich neurons on the left side of the brain.
Men have more, richer neurons in the frontal area.
So there's no, there's there's a difference in how we've used things and see things.
If you give a blank piece of paper to a young little girl and have her draw something, she will drop people, homes, trees, sons, and she would use multiple colors
Not satisfied with just, you know, multiple colors, details in the faces.
All these sorts of things guys, boys, they don't just give me like 2 or 3 crowns black, you know, blue, silver, and I I don't draw things.
I draw a motion action, draw cars crashing together.
That's what that's what boys do when you give them a blank piece of paper
So God is created us differently for different reasons, for different purposes, and we can celebrate those things, not try to diminish them.
We need each other. We need each other. We need the differences.
You know, one of the worst things is happening today right now is that the world is telling little girls in order for you to be really successful.
Value to this society. You need to be more like a man.
I'm sorry that is not true. That is not true.
So here in the in, the assembly of God's people, men represent his authority in the local body of believers.
That's again. That's the role that we've been given.
It's the script that we've been handed.
We need to play that role of authority in the local body of believers.
And then again, women in the in this role, they're in subjection to that authority
Women in subjection to Christ are subject to the representative authority.
So we just. We represent his authority, not because men are superior.
Or women are inferior, but because we've been assigned a role in this drama. In this play the roles stand for something greater than ourselves.
So all that to to get to first Timothy 2, 8, through 15
First, Timothy, 2 8 to 15. I'm gonna go ahead and read it
No, I'm actually, I'm gonna back up a bit here.
So I'm gonna go to verse 7 just to give some context.
Here Paul is proclaiming his authority as an apostle.
Here for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle.
I am speaking the truth in Christ, and not lying a teacher of the Gentiles, and faith and truth.
I desire, therefore, that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath, and doubting.
In like manner, also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothes, but which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works, let a woman learn in with all submission, and I do not permit a woman
to teach, or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.
For Adam was formed first, then Eve, Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, fell into transgression.
Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with self control.
Let's pray, Emily, father, again we thank you. We come before you.
Thank you for your Scripture. Help us, Lord, to understand the meaning and your will in regards to these things we just commit this time into your hands.
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.
So the beginning here we're talking about his house and his order, and what he wants in his church.
Here we see this first part in versus 8
To 10
There's a distinction between inward and outward.
There's outward performance. Outward appearance, but the Lord is looking for something inward.
He's looking for something deeper in his house.
So he says, here Paul says, I desire how again he's speaking as a with apostolic authority.
Here. So he is speaking of he's not just saying, well, you know, I'd really, you know, I'd really prefer it if you did this.
That's not the sense of the word is I will.
This is what appostolic authority. This is what needs to happen in your in the Church.
I desire, therefore, that men pray so there's a lot of different words for men.
Andrew Pas is one that's used, and that generally is mankind.
Men and women, humanity, that's not the word. Here the word here is males, the Greek word is males.
I desire, therefore, that the males pray everywhere. Now the thought there is not every single place that you go, but everywhere that the Church gathers everywhere the people the Lord's people, come together.
That's really the thought. There
I desire, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath, and doubting.
So there's some instruction for men in regards to their inner life.
When we come, and we are exercised in gift at the in, at the local assembly.
At church, that we are exercise, we pray, lifting up holy hands, holy.
Our hands are really a representative of our daily life.
You know you come with clean hands and a pure heart. The act my actions are my hands clean, or do I or have they been polluted with the things of this world when we come?
And we are exercising in our gifts. At the church we come, you know, having, you know, Re crying out to God, Lord, forgive me of my sins.
Help me to be a pure vessel for you to use me here in this place.
Keep short accounts with the Lord, so we don't call me polluted, but we come ready, and to serve Him
And general, the ability to kind of segment our lives.
I can go to work, and I can have a terrible day at work, and just really stressful.
And but I can. I can shut the door to that, and then move on to the next thing and now I'm with my family, and that's all for forgotten.
But then I come back to work. It's like, Oh, it's still there we have.
Men have the ability to do that, and maybe some women to do, too.
But generally women. It's all one thing. It's all one.
There is no shutting the door on something, and moving out of the next thing.
This has to be dealt with first, and then I can move on.
That's generally the way it is so. Man especially have a and have a tendency, you know I can.
I can be in a knock down, drag out, fight with my kids and my family, and then come to church, and really fine
No, we we can't do that. We have to come, you know.
Ready. It says, desire, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
I don't. I'm not hanging on to some anger.
There's no downtown or disputing in my hearts, internal or external.
Yeah, how often you heard. And maybe somebody prays, and they're actually airing grievances.
Maybe they're pointing out someone else's failure in their prayer.
They're, you know. They're they're masking it as oh, I'm praying for brother so and so or sister so and so, but they're actually just spreading gossip, and they're maybe even bringing up their weaknesses to everyone that kind of thing that's not that
has no place, and when we come together and pray, using prayer to settle the score or correct someone no, we come with pure motives when we come, and we pray pure motives that's, I think, what he's saying.
No, verse 8. In like manner, now, what he's saying is the same way that he said before, and perceived.
I desire now in verse 9, he saying, I desire that in the same way the the women now there's there's something that women may struggle with as far as external versus internal, just like the men struggle with something here verse 8 the women may struggle with something like manner also that
The women adorn themselves with modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works, so many take this verse to mean that there's a prohibition
Of women wearing makeup or jewelry. And that's really not the point of this.
What the the point of what Paul is saying here is that it is wrong to place an unhealthy emphasis on outward appearance versus inward character.
That's the perp. That's the point of this.
What is really important
Is it how you look on the outside, or is it your character on the inside?
That is what makes a woman beautiful, it says, professing godliness with good works.
You know this again, talking about this world that we live in today.
This is the world is pushing forth this image of outward appearance, and that is what's so important.
And we're gonna we're gonna you know, inward characters.
Not so important. What do we value in society? What do we reward in society?
I mean. Look at the you know, social media and the influencers, and these people pushing forth their augmented bodies and plastic surgery and saying, This is what every woman should try to live up to, and it's all fake it's like, shallow now there's nothing lasting
There!
But what does last? What should be celebrated? What should be rewarded?
It is the godliness and good works. That's what we need to celebrate I'm I'm running out of time.
So I need to skip some of these illustrations.
So also the other thing that we're we want to talk about here in verse 9 is the braided hair, gold pearls that mean that women can't wear jewelry, and I think we need to understand the the culture that was going on at this time this really was about class
Distinction. The very wealthy they would, they would have ribbons of gold or silver, and they'd put it in their hair to to basically flaunt the wealth.
There were dresses that when these women would wear on this, these type there were 3 or 4 years worth of daily wages.
3 or 4 years worth. Now, if you, if you come into a meeting in Europe, maybe you're in a slave, maybe you're an X slate.
Maybe you're poor, and you come in. And this is what people are wearing and flaunting.
You would feel a little intimidated. So that's why that has no place in in got with God's people.
Again. There's nothing wrong with, you, know. Makeup and jewelry, and all these sorts of things.
We you wanna look nice, right? I mean, that's what it that's what we do.
We look nice now. Every culture has a different idea of what's modest.
Every culture is a different idea. So the point is to not do something that's going to distract or stand out it's really a heart issue.
Am I coming into this meeting because I want people to notice me and see me, or do I want people to see the Lord and point to the Lord?
That's really, that's the issue that's the heart issue. You know.
I can pass a test. Maybe a ruler. Get out of ruler and check the length of a skirt.
I can maybe pass that test, but I but my heart is far from the Lord.
It's about. It's about who do I want to have the attention here today?
Who do I want the glory to go to? It's the Lord that's really the the point here.
It's a hard issue.
Also, let's
I won't be much longer here. Verse 11.
Let a woman learn, and with all submission
So before we jump into this just to, I think we need to stop and appreciate something here in context.
It says, Let a woman learn. Oh, this was revolutionary at the time this was revolutionary.
You don't teach women right. The rabbis in these days.
They? They said it was like tossing pearls to the swine you know you don't.
It's a waste of time. Even the Romans, the education system in during this time women were busy doing all kinds of other things.
You didn't teach women so just the very fact that women are there learning that's a huge.
That's a huge paradigm shift. In that day Paul would have been called a feminist
Today. He's a chauvinist right?
So it was. It was revolutionary, because, as I mentioned, you know, men, we're we're leading people.
A strain. They need so they needed to learn. And the women were leading people astray.
And that's and I won't turn to it.
But if you look at first, Timothy, 5, 11, through 13, you can look at that later.
But there were women that were leading people straight. They needed to come into the meeting and learn the the truth.
We all need to submit the authority, authoritative preaching, and teaching of the Word of God.
But
The careful transmission of truth and the authoritative doctrinal instruction in the assembly of God's people is reserved for the men that is again that's the role that we've been given in this drama.
Men are to be preaching and teaching from the pulpit in the meet.
The public meeting of the Assembly
Now there are plenty of other opportunities for women to teach, and I don't have time, but I'll give you the the the references Titus 2, one through 5, that women would teach other women teachers of good things.
Admonish or teach the younger women. Philippines, 4, one through 3.
Paul calls these, these various women, fellow laborers in the Gospel, so he wasn't pushing them aside.
They were fellow laborers. Now what again? First century!
Who else would say anything like that that this woman is my fellow laborer in the gospel?
It's again revolutionary. Roman, 16, one through 4, and acts 18.
Talk about Priscilla and Aquila.
If you remember the story of Paulos was boldly proclaiming the Word of God, but Priscilla and Aula were there, and they heard the message, and they said, You know, come here, we need to teach you the way of God.
More perfectly, we're completely Priscilla and Aquila.
We're took this man aside, and they taught him the truth of God.
So there's plenty of opportunity, and for for a woman to be involved in proclam proclaiming the truth of God.
Just not on a Sunday morning in this place, that's and again, gods!
Order is the authority that we are displaying here.
This morning.
And it goes back to creation. Verse 13. For Adam was formed first, then Eve, so again, it's pointing to a deeper truth, higher truth.
When we follow his rules, his guidelines, and Adam was not to see.
But the woman being the sea, fell into transgression. Men and women are different.
We need to celebrate these differences. Men generally are cold, hard facts, devoid of any kind of feeling, right?
Our thinking can be consumed with cold, hard facts, and sometimes that's what we need.
Cold, hard facts. We need women to tempor that some time you know what, when I prepare a message, I kind of give Aaron a little, you know hey? What do you think of this?
And here I'm gonna say this, and maybe maybe just you know, tweak it a little bit and do this or do that, we need each other.
We need each other for that, you know. A a quiet word of council in the privacy, the home between our husband and wife is much greater than that will accomplish more.
That's that's the role we complement each other.
I need Aaron's perspective. We need women in the church you know, Aaron, I we can sit and we can.
We maybe talk to someone, and then we walk away, and Aaron will say, Oh, she's really troubled, or he's really troubled by what like oh, yeah, didn't you know?
Didn't you notice this or that like no, I didn't see that like that's that's a woman's gift.
That's a woman's gift to the slightest variation.
Someone's behavior or facial expression or tone of voice mean something they can, and then can pick those things up.
Guys can't which is like bounces off our head.
You know we don't. We don't recognize that I was in a church again.
I'm almost done sorry I was in a church in St.
Louis. It it fell apart. Lot of old hurt feelings.
People were driven apart from each other. There were people that were trying to hold the church to get, and we'd go to these meetings.
And I was actually just reading an acts, and it said how they all gathered together, and the women
So I I went to this meeting. We're trying to hold it together, and it's all men.
It was all men, I said, where the where the women they they recognize. Something is gone.
They recognize again that slightest variation in the atmosphere of the place.
They, the women realize. This is all you know, and so I you know, it was like, Yeah, this is over.
Women, your canary in the coal mine I don't know if you know that seeing so the miners they would bring canaries in the slightest change of the atmosphere.
The air, you know. Maybe they break open a pocket of methane gas and it would kill.
You could kill everyone. You bring in a canary, and they are much, much more sensitive to that, and they would die.
And then you okay, it's time to get out of here
Sensitive to any variation and changes of anything. It's, you know, that is important
Okay. Sorry. Verse 15. I I should. I need to say something about this.
Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing.
Okay, this is not salvation from hell. That would be crazy.
Right, if that's you know we know the gospel.
We know that it's not by works. It's not by a woman giving birth is going to save her from hell.
That's not the context. We need to understand salvation.
You need to look at the context. What are you being saved from?
You are saved. A woman is saved in childbirth, temporal.
It's temporal right life filled with purpose, meaning, and satisfaction.
That is what will happen when a woman has, you know, bears children, and it's more than just.
It's not just the physical bearing of children giving birth.
It's pouring your life into anybody is going to fulfill this pouring your life into others.
Now that'll give you satisfaction. Verse 15. It says.
Nevertheless, she will be saved in childbearing if they continue.
Now? Who's they? Who's they? There? There's a lot of different ideas I think.
What I've seen. I think it's talking about her children.
Okay, nevertheless, she will be safe. She will be filled with purpose and meaning and satisfaction. In childbearing.
If her children continue in faith, love, and holiness with self-control, that's the glory of a mother right?
When a child goes off and accomplishes something, or or, you know, goes in the right direction, goes on, for the Lord.
A woman is going to glory in that she poured her life into these children, and sees the fruit that is going to be awesome.
But there's also tremendous pain when a child goes the wrong direction.
I remember my mother, my oldest brother, got divorced, and my mother took it personally, a failure.
She was a failure, and she was physically ill because she poured her life into this boy, and he grows up and he divorces his wife. It's just.
It was a shame! It was. It all came on her.
And she was physically ill. It's not really the same for for men it's not the same thing.
So, women, you have the the wonderful opportunity to raise up the next generation of teachers and godly men and women.
What are this? This role is sneered at? It's scoffed at by the world.
Diminishes it. So, women, we need you.
We need you in the, in the church. We need you exercise and gift.
We need to follow God's guidelines and design for His Church, so that His purposes, his story can be communicated clearly, and with that, let's finish.
Let's pray Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time.
Thank you for that. You've made us both men and women. Thank you.
Lord, that you've created us in such a manner to bring yourself glory.
We thank you for that manifold wisdom when we see these wonderful differences and help us to celebrate them, and to and to accept them for what they are from you.
Lord, we need each other, we need you. We thank you for this time.
We thank you for the rest of this day. Now, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we pray, yeah.
From 5 28 cause of time, constraints but 5, 28 have I know it is thine own way, Lord, but apparently our new book has changed it for current vernacular, but have your own waylord.
Have your own way. You are the potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after your will while I am waiting, yielded, and still 5, 28
Have your own way. So
You are the butter, I am the clay bold me and me.
Yeah.
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