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Remind you that there's coffee and orange juice and a few Donuts left help yourself as we get started this morning. And if you see a band member send her to her keyboard.

This first song Speak to our very purpose for existing why God created us the song called made to worship her sing together.

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Zola gift from God

brought to life

He has been with one.

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you and I

Even the rocks cry out. And even that have been shut down.

Call Google.

You and I are pretty sure Brenda you and I choose to you. Call 3 a.m.

You and I am ready to render choose to believe.

More Donuts this morning. So if donut have a great morning and say hi to one another greet each other.

Dicola's from Emmanuel's veins.

forgiveness and all

the change in the past.

I've got Jesus.

the love of God

I got Jesus Jesus Jesus.

What does it mean to be at the mercy of Jesus?

What does it mean to be undone by something or someone?

What's that? taken by surprise David overwhelmed

You're embarrassing me in front of the servant girls. And what did David say? You're right honey. I should act more kingly Unbecoming than this because he was under by the mercy of God and just melt when you sing that that's what it means. So we should be a little more I'm done wasting it where I'm done by the mercy of Jesus be overwhelmed by the grace of God if you've been saved by him today,

How great the chasm that lay between us how high the moon in the sky Into the Night.

Jesus Christ my Living Hope

who could imagine a greater?

the god of Ages stepped down and then

the cross is beautiful.

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ my Living Hope

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then came love that till the promise. You're very bad.

Then came out of the silence the roaring lion.

Death has lost its grip on me.

Jesus Christ

talked about this many times has power and just saying thank you to somebody it. It restores your faith in humanity when someone is grateful how much more so our God when he hears us say, thank you for the things. He provides us. All of the things that he provides that so somebody say thanks for something you had this week. Your mom your mom had a birthday today today. She is 21 again again. Platinum Plus, which is much better than 21 21. Plus you're grateful for this week.

Health just try not having it it'll make you grateful for it. Right and even when you're struggling you're grateful to the other parts you're working right if you think it's sleep. We didn't have much two nights ago last night was much better. Somebody said during a bunch of food that disagreed with all of us two nights ago. What are you grateful for? energy having it. What are you grateful for? learning

growth

mission trips you going to find out the Alicia has applied to go overseas for mission trip to some we find out next week if it's local or overseas. What are you grateful for? family

but that sometimes yeah some family sometimes yeah. It is good to be grateful and to thank God for the things in your life that you have to be grateful is something that requires a little bit of attention, but it doesn't cost us much to say thank you. We should do it more often be thankful. Even as we sing.

They say sometimes you win some.

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But what will I say?

We're getting a little face.

But God will choose.

Give me strength.

How old is Charo?

Would all go away if you just say the word.

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I know you ready.

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Who is by?

Do you still the Shadows deepen?

But do you know that?

do you wish that you could

isn't it?

Is anyone home?

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Does the father truly love?

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Does our God intend to do Allegan width?

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By the way, grateful to get this. Truth back to the one who wrote it. Thank you for being the truth. Giver never giving us. Klarity Vines to hear what you would have to say in your name. We pray. Amen.

You know, I find it especially ironic that today when I'm going to tackle one of the tougher passages for me in Timothy that the representative audience is mostly strong women today fellas. Got to pay attention because it's the dangerous passage will be getting to I just want you to be aware as we move forward and ladies. I'm aware of who is in this room. We've been reading the book of Timothy Wright written to whom you doing.

For what purpose?

Encouragement and training and strengthening and he's admonishing Timothy Timothy. Just been given us pastoral position. And what town does anybody remember?

Look at the very beginning of 1st Timothy and see that.

First Baptist of Ephesus Not really there weren't any Baptist Churches back then it was this the Church of Ephesus Timothy is speaking polish speaking to Timothy as he takes on the role of Pastor and a hard congregation. My dad was a pastor. And one of the very first churches that my dad got to go be a Pastor O was in Chillicothe Missouri city of Kansas City stuck on the border between Kansas and Missouri and some I don't know. I think it's 70 miles. Maybe not that far just inside of Missouri is a town called Chillicothe a little teeny tiny town a little teeny tiny town and the church that my dad was going to be called to see if I have this family lore. Correct had gone through some three Pastors in 18 months. They just shoot them up and spit them out. They came into his lives a little bitty white frame chart to remember the small listen to be typical churches white frame church for the porch and a staple in classrooms in the back and my dad and mom decided as they were coming out of Seminary that God had called into this church and Dad basically said if you can become as your pastor, I'm answering God's call and I will only answer God's call to leave so you're not going to run me off. Basically. I'm going to be here until God decides that I leave. If you met my dad, you know, he is stubborn enough and then some to be able to pull that off and this was the agreement that he made with the church that he would remain until God said he wasn't supposed to be there anymore. By the way. That's the way it's supposed to be in charge you But a lot of times passes with you is Church's better easier easier to work with maybe they're called there. But maybe that church in Honolulu is just a little bit more alluring than the one in North Dakota. Maybe that church that has a sizable budget over the one that you were last in has a little bit louder call than the one you've been in. But if you were to choose a church to be pastor of it would be unlikely. I think that Timothy would have said man. I want to be the head of the church in Ephesus. The church at Ephesus was UC typical to most of us it has issues. It was challenging so when Timothy walked in and he was walking into somewhat of a mess that he was going to be required to clean up he had to go in and correct what was going wrong in the church. He was first of all talk to to go after the false teachers in the heretical teaching when it heresy is something that may sound like truth but is not true in heretical teaching and heretical teachers are those who are able to promulgator promote and untruth in a setting where people believe them. Start thinking about this why. Why would people and we're all on the same playing with guy who have the Holy Spirit counseling and guiding us and can read and can think logically through many things. Why would people gather together? So frequently adopt a falsehood Why are people eager to scenes? To believe a lie. or none truth from someone spoken and the pulpit

But that it's easier. Just tell me what I'm supposed to do and want to do it.

And besides that you got at ion and you stand behind this Podium, and so you must be the guy that has the stuff that I need to hear. Maybe I'm Wrong about it. So I should listen to you I can assure you. I'm equally if not more prone to making errors than anyone in this room. So you cannot trust me. You have to verify anything. I say in the word of God Christian Hughes pointing out that word as if it contained the truth, you must verify that what I'm saying comes from an alliance within a harmonizes with the truth is scripture. Otherwise, it ain't I don't get to add to the scripture. There are religions that have other holy books. The Bible says not it's just the Bible and anyone that adds or subtracts from it will be condemned damned is the word the scripture. So when you have religions that infect other holy books, they are in defiance of the scriptures.

I'm going to give you a couple three things that I think may have been going on in the church that Timothy was adopting or that he was called to because why do we trust the people who who feed us a lie when the truth is so close at hand. First thing I think is worse made by Slick talkers is sometimes What's the worst way by people who can communicate or have Charisma or where is shiny suit or driving a nice car or say that God spoke to me?

Sometimes we just we listen to these folks. Cuz I got good hair. and it's in a TV show and a book that is publisher of some sort of street cred around and we give them more Authority than what the word has given him sometimes and I think this may be something we're very prone to we are swayed by Slick talker the fads in the series and the roads are really counterfeit things that resemble the true that are purported to be true but not are not in fact truth to listening to an interesting story on NPR this week. MP I was talking about this this sort of it's really an intriguing thing. It was a story about a guy who had decided. It was a contention between a geologist and somebody who really new media rights. And a a a guy who lied about knowing BJ rights? And the guy who knew meteorites what I had written and talked about the science of meteorite the hell rare it is to find meteorites in a characteristics of meteorites and how valuable they were because of their Rarity and in the same small town where the meteorite hit some decades ago a guy a charlatan a row to be going to lecture on meteorites. He was very smooth talkin about these who's able to convince people that he not only knew about anybody could find them and you go look for these things bring me what you think of meteorites and I will identify them and he created this entire sort of culture in the town where he was identifying chunks of rock as meteorites fall asleep attributing value to them and people were just believing this man. Out of hand, they were just believing it and then she'll just like he's just lying. These are not meteorite and I got angry at him to shut up and just ignored the truth that was literally screaming out in front of them.

The Frog was eventually uncover. But even to this day there people that believe it was all a conspiracy all a conspiracy against the charlatans just to try to get him to be quiet. They believe now even though the untruth is laid out there in front of him and some people really it here to this because they're suede by sleep talker's I think number two or more often drawn in by our pets ends when we hear it spoken from the pulpit or something gives us a way to act that. We already want to ask and somebody was telling us not to act that way. We want to line up with that person so we can act that way our pets in Zar song from the pulpit or priest from the podium or or on the air somewhere in the church at Ephesus as in the church in America that things like sexual sins are being white wash. And there are places that literally say, you know what? It's okay from the pulpit to conduct yourself in a way that is against what the scripture says because that's not what it really says. That's what it's used to say a society. But this is what God really meant when he said that what God really meant was that sex is for anyone that really love someone. I know I don't have nothing to say that but don't you all agree that section just be for people who love and great idea and we begin to adopt Our Lives because it aligns with our pet sins. That we want to believe in any way will believe a lie specially when it aligns with something. We want to number three. I think sometimes we are just weary.

weary weary I mean set apart. Marana talking about how lonely she was in high school because she was a Christian. She didn't do the crazy stuff that some of her classmates were doing was interesting to watch Elementary School behaviors were fairly similar in middle school to be a bit and buy a high school. She was standing alone many times in the way that she chose to conduct her life many Christian young people feel this way many Christian adults feel this way many Christian people feel this way to the truth is something that's very lonely and after why they are fine. I'm just going to go with that person to keep saving myself for whatever and I no longer. I'm just weary. The Bible says specifically don't grow weary in well-doing addresses. All of these issues that I think these are probably endemic to why we sometimes are willing to buy the lies that people are selling from within the walls of our reported churches reminding the church that we are in the presence of the one true God and we had last week, Coram Deo remember this term that we use a Latin term. What does it mean? The stand before the face of God and all of us acknowledge that when there is someone in Authority who walks in the room, we behave differently and when they're not in the room we just do from when we were this big we are now we act differently when someone who has Authority comes in and the idea behind Corvair was Christian should live as if we are under and in the presence of God himself with his face turned toward us individually. How would we act if we really believe this to be the case? Timothy said this is what we should be doing.

Finally the end of the first chapter call talk to Timothy about this idea of holding to Faith and a good conscience and when we can hold to our faith and maintain a good conscience to keep this from ship wrecking our soul by the way wasn't talking about losing your salvation. We just talked about wrecking your life. There are people who are saved from there soon will literally be in heaven a moment. They died who was just destroying their lives right now why we would live in a lie haven't been saved by the truth constantly befuddles me, but then once in a while I walk in that same lie as do most of us. Maintaining a good conscience and holding to our faith keeps us from ship wrecking our faith as we enter the second chapter. We see Paul address specific topics that are most often dealt with in preaching and teaching one of the two ways that the topics were about to get into are most often dealt with in these two ways. First of all, these passages are used sometimes as a bludgeon to keep people in their place to beat them into submission and to align them with whatever the person in charge believes to be in their own best interest. Sometimes these passages have been taught his entire country. To maintain the the true inequities engender that we see in most cultures avoid them altogether we say no. Thank you. I don't want to deal with that. That's too hard to talk about. Well, there's a lot of words in the Bible and I really think we should spend time getting through large chunks of scripture. That's what we're doing most of the time at the well and 1st Timothy is nothing we're going to avoid and nothing we can't manage. So with that in mind we're going to dive right into the pathogen Timothy to 1st Timothy Chapter 2.

And we'll avoid both of these options avoiding the bludgeon and avoiding the avoidance and dealing with it to get a fuller understanding of the ideas. Embedded it. However, they sell what I have experienced personally. And what I read over the years, we're not going to solve everything today. And he said if you're expecting a bunch of give you some thoughts, but I'm not going to give you all the answers today. If I do my job, right? Some of you will be more confused when I'm done, then you are right now. Okay, so I want to try to add jatate you to a position of where are you are interested in figuring out what this really is the first Timothy chapter 2. I heard you then first of all, I ordered them. First of all, the petitions prayers intercession and Thanksgiving be made for all people petitions are what but that request that you make requests for all people prayer sweet. We know this of communication conversation. We got into simplest. I want to talk to God about Gemelli. I hope I hope that we talked to you. I want to talk to God about this couple getting married. And how many days for 48 days. I want to make sure they speaking when you pray about somebody prayers intersection is what

on behalf of it anybody ever been interceded for Maybe for you, it feels good when you really need some intersection when somebody steps in for you. When somebody intercedes on your speaks for you access your shield and your Defender. We pray for people and Thanksgiving be grateful for the people around you many times were tempted to pray against the people around us. Paul says you should pray with Thanksgiving for the people around you and then he goes on to really metal for King and all those in authority. What? What voltage Jewish and the Roman kings of those in Authority were corrupt and Paul's day. There were very few men of note in positions of power that anybody grateful for is it sound familiar? Is it hard to be grateful sometime for those in positions of power and authority in our own Nation or world? Even that is contained in once in awhile.

It is really difficult. to pray with Thanksgiving and intercession and conversation for those in power ball says we do this so that we may live in peace and peaceful eyes and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

We're watching it. a show called The Mandalorian

science fiction nerds like me to the Mandalorian is that it's kind of a cereal that rolls. It said baby Yoda to if you seem like the baby names this is where is coming from? And there's a character in The Mandalorian who lives way out in the middle of nowhere. And he has been a man that's been in Conflict. He's been at War before but he was in the wilderness. And all he wants is peace.

Quilt quilt quilt is this little short guy? I think Liam Neeson does his voice. So it's confusing when you see him with that Nick Nolte even work. All right.

And he sort of retired from the world. He wants nothing but peace and the only reason he engages with the the hero whose life is violence. This is the hero might bring peace again to his life. He is disengaged from society, but the only thing that this grizzled old guy wants is peace. Peace I still think peace with boring.

Peace was really boring. And and operated accordingly keeping people agitated and stirred up and energize with partitive to I was even as a child. I love peace now anybody like peace and

Because they don't like this right let's just not talk while we want to talk. Let's just sit still. No, we want to run. Let's just sleep. No, we want to be awake. So all of the things now that we gain with some what we're talking about. The reason you pray for your for your leaders and those in Authority says he can be peace and we can live quiet lives. That's a great reason to pray for our leaders, right? There's so much noise right now. We can't hear ourselves think in this country. We need peace among our leaders so we can live quiet lives and it was no different in Paul's day is good and pleases God our savior who wants people to be saying I love that passes right there. I love that piece. God wants people to be safe. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The son of man came to seek and save that which is lost.

God has predetermined that his sacrifice will be enough for everybody to be safe. Scripture you read it. This is good and pleases God our savior who wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. God desires that all people come to a knowledge of the truth for there is one God and one mediator between God and Mankind the man Christ Jesus who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This is now been witness to at the proper time. Praise God is always flipping the gospel in this everywhere. He was preaching and teaching it as if it were his prime motivating force to deliver the gospel the good news of Jesus Christ anywhere in discriminately. He talked to leaders and he talked to poppers he spoke to lepers and he talk to prostitutes as if Jesus brought the message of Salvation to every human being Paul continues to hammer this home in the message to Timothy. It is relevant for us to look at today. We're 7 and for this purpose, I was appointed a Harold and I am telling the truth. I am not lying and a true and faithful teacher of the Gentile. There's all kinds of stuff going on there. You guys know who Paul was before hand, right? A true and faithful Jew who persecuted those who followed this Christ when he declares this to be true he sang. I believe this to be fully true. And for the reason that I draw breath the reason I draw breath so that I can be the one that continues to tell this message other people. Then he gets right into the meat and what's taking place or appears to be taking place in church in Ephesus? Therefore he said the reason the reason I listen before therefore. I want men everywhere to pray lifting up. Holy hands without anger or disputing. At the end of every day in the Brewster household. What do we do kids? The Fray how many of you have been the end of the day if you're still hanging around. 9:30 10:00 in our house we're praying Whether we want to or not. Weather in the right mood or not whether we're cranky or not. No, I can tell you it really is something I struggle with. We sit down with 43 people in the house. How many people at our house right now? 11-9 a lot. Somebody's having a bad time 9:30 at night somebody who threw needs to be disciplined. Somebody's in a bad mood and tired and we sit down to pray together. If our hearts aren't right. It feels icky. to pray together you want to pray because our hearts are right. I've just been fussing at somebody not making it better not picking up their clothes.

All right. Seems weird and it is weird because if your heart's not right you can't pray. Pulse is there should be no anger and disputing in your church that you going to act like you're raising your hands and praising God and you're fighting Timothy. Take care of this mess. These men have disputes among them and if they don't settle them than their praises cannot be heard by the god. There's supposedly praise Hollow who it's hard for Christy of a hard for me Chris. He's always struggle in the evening to make sure my heart is right and I'm trying to gather the children to pray. I know it's hard on them as well. They just comes back to me in this verse that if you have any anger or disputes, then you cannot pray. Well, then he goes from things that make sense in your are not in your hair had now we're going to get into what he says. It's a little controversial. I also he says he's fully with decency and propriety. I've heard that. I'm a problem with that. How do you know when somebody is not dressed with decency and propriety? Do you need a diagram?

It really does. It's one of those things I need for you to take care of this one because I'm going to be really uncomfortable 5 to talk to that teacher about the way she's dressed, right? Or that's it. She did mine. She will call him out. She called out an employee's child this week.

I walk him and I want to be in here right now. Although I did really want to be in there and hear what was going on.

I know.

Modesty and propriety or something? You know when you see it, I think I think the Supreme Court was struggling with the definition of pornography one time they were struggling with because they're supposed to find stuff. So you have a legal standard by which you measure it and basically just has to say you know it when you see it. You know it when you see it, which recognized the Supreme Court Justice of the United States sent people know it when I see it. We don't have to write this down when Paul said you dress with modesty and propriety he holds these truths to be self-evident.

When I see a young woman or a young man dressed inappropriately my first thought is that Mama or your daddy either doesn't love them or is not doing their job because someone should have spoken to the life of modesty and propriety are the way you should be because men are weaker than women in this way. So women you must be careful about the way you dress it just the way it is. It's not fair. But it's true. Is just the facts. Paul says dress with perhaps not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes. I mean you can't braid your hair. What is he really saying? It was most likely what he was saying is don't dressed in a way that called attention to yourself and the disparity between you and those that are poor there were affluent women in the church who are dressed to the nines. They're their hair fixed up there gold jewelry on the fine clothes on and the poor ladies and poor minute. We're coming in felt so out of place in this church because it didn't fit around these affluent people that they were backing out of the fellowship and I can tell you right now. I've been in some Churches where people were displaying their wealth by what they drove by what they wore so that everybody would know when they showed up and that is not a new problem. It was a problem certainly in the church in Ephesus as well. instead verse 10 you Adorn yourself with Good Deed appropriate for women to profess to worship God and he's on a roll now verse 11 Mazda just for you. You ready? Right a woman should learn in quietness and full submission. Call janier up the speaker this crowd today. And then he goes on to say I do not permit a woman to teach or assume authority over a man. She must be quiet. What a night for Adam was formed first and then even because if you were deceived it was a woman who was deceived and became a sinner.

but women

at least you'll said Gemelli, you're not going to just think alike but way women will be saved through childbearing if they continue in faith, love and Holiness with propriety and that's for two. Wow. You better unpack this a little bit.

You know, they're there honestly is some of this if then implied here, we know that when men fail to do what God has assigned them to do the women have to do the work. And not only the work that they already have was just too much but all the worth of man had and this happens again and again and again and again in our society where men have abdicated their responsibility and women refused to abdicate responsibility absorb the responsibility and do the work of two to four people. I honestly believe this is probably some of what is happening in the shirts. That there are people who should have been males should have been in their work positions in the church. You aren't doing it and Paula saying the ideal is not for these women to have to do it now. He isn't as explicit, but let me give you a couple of other passages the tell us a little bit more about what Paul really thinks about women Galatians 3:28. Paul writing to the Galatians there is neither Jew nor Gentile neither slave nor free North are male or female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. He didn't flatten. And level the playing field completely and racial and their their cultural in the Jew and the Greek and their gender based in male and female. God loves all y'all. There is nobody that is any better or any worse before our God teaches is quite a bit. By the way. Jesus has quite a bit to that. We male and female are created in God's image. We are uniquely made and equipped to fulfill the work God gives us which may not be the same, but it is equal. In God's eyes. We see the 1st Corinthians 12:13. But we were all baptized were all baptized by one Spirit to form one body. What are Jews or Gentiles slave or free? We were all given the one Spirit to drink. He talks again about the quality of human being. Colossians 3:11 here. There is no Gentile or Jew circumcised or uncircumcised Barbarian scythian slave or free but Christ is all and is in all Romans 16:1 he come in his sister Phoebe a deacon of the church since in Korea. Just outside of Corinth actually by the ocean and sayings there are roles that male and females have it was one of those things that just seemed too obvious to him. It is not disparaging. Will it stink a little bit in light of that in light of his consistent preaching and teaching on the equality of humanity. What could this passage mean? Let's just go backwards, but women will be saved through childbearing. Does that mean you have to move baby to be saved? Does that make any sense to you that you would have to be saved through childbearing? Does that sound right to anyone? Some Scholars think that I think this is scratch that you're safe through childbearing in that the son of Adam. What is the eventual bloodline of the one who saved the son of I would have saved through childbirth? That is the Son of God became a human saved through childbirth to Mary call the way more explicit than that. It may be that I found it interesting passages. I do want to read for you. It's it's one that resonates with me. I'm not going to say I totally understand but I like this version of it. So I'm going to give you my bias right now. This is John Piper summarizing a theologian in Henry Alford. I'll forward Any empathizes the idea that it's not by childbearing but through childbearing. Think about that emphasis. It's not that you're going to be saved because of something but you'll be saved on the other side of something that you'll be able to get through something. You remember the curse to sit there would be great pain in childbirth. Saved through childbearing even though many women today and in history may feel the ongoing effects of the curse in the Pains of childbirth and the lifelong wounds that it may leave all of our Christian sisters not to despair God's words. He was hope not curse God's plan for you is salvation. Not destruction. Yes, Justice man must work out his salvation through the cursive S utilities and miseries of his labor. Remember the curse in Genesis. The Salvation would come through the other side of the curse of sin with the labor millions of women must find her salvation through or the other side of the pains and miseries of childbearing. The path of Salvation is the same for her for all the saints continuing and faith and love and Holiness with self-control. These are the fruits of one who genuinely say Jesus Christ is the savior who became the curse for us according to Galatians The Sting of the curse has been removed. It cannot damn us. Any more faith in him is the links to the Save Your Love Holiness and self-control are the authenticating fruits of this face. at the last day every Vestige of the curse will be undone and every wound be healed that is part of what it means to be saved through faith in Christ. the Advent of sin, but the curse upon mankind the one that was pronounced upon or cause on man was that you will toil. all the days of your life and fundamentally fruitless labor. Just some sis. You will pour out your life to just exist. Remember what Adam had to do before?

Hang on the garden. Pet the Tigers and eat the apples. That's all they had to do. His life was full of peace and quiet. When he was cast out of the garden he had to learn to toil with his hand all that. God had given him. What you got to do before sin came in?

Hang out with that. Now you will be the one who goes through the incredibly destructive process of childbirth. You see there were no. There were no epidurals in that day or hygiene. IRC section millions of women died in childbirth became sterile as a result of bearing a child physically mouth formed as a result of the curse of childbearing prior to what we now have in medicine was a catastrophic thing for women and yet the promise of Christ is that you'll be saved through on the other side of this fruitless labor and pain you will be redeemed.

We are fully save and eventually brought to that rightness with God through our Walking In Christ. There's some Central teachings in here that will get you in just a moment, but I want to back up just a little bit. And take a few of these things one at a time a woman should learn in quietness and full. submission

as I read that over and over again, I think that's pretty good. admonition for anybody who needs to learn women or men and it's likely he was addressing a specific issue in the church in this that this was not necessarily prescriptive, but it was descriptive. What was occurring. We look back to the chaos that was in the church in Ephesus that the heresy that was being taught and it's like that he was saying you should be quiet. Y'all should be quiet and learn. Open your minds and hearts to a good teacher when they're teaching. I do not permit a woman to teach or assume authority over a man. She must be quiet. Again likely to be endemic to that particular shirt. But it was certainly something that was a proposed to that Society. I'm just going to lay my cards on the table. I do not believe that that is a a prescriptive admonition for all-time if that were the case. I would have trouble dealing with female astronauts. And schoolteachers and bank vice presidents and civil rights leaders because of the Soul distinction between their gender and the males. It is far more likely that this was a particular problem with particular women in a particular case in the church in Ephesus. Paul also knew that in that society that the male had a larger voice than a female. It just was the way that it was in those days. He goes on to say that Adam was born first and Eve and Adam was not the one to see it was a woman who has deceived and became a center. That's actually true. true think about the story what happened to Eve?

The serpent did what? Deceived her right? Which made me think that means Adam was even worse than I thought. Cuz he wanted to see he was delivered in Addison. He was deliberate in Houston. I will tell you right now in most cases women's gentle nature. There are more prone to believe and to be trusting them in our and the devil played on that now women who can beat up and taken advantage of and mistreated are the more callous. You've been down that road Glide too, but you see he's had not been lied to ever by anyone. And Satan attacked her at her weakness. She was prone to believe the slick-talking serpent, and she was deceived.

Adam wasn't deceived.

Adam knew exactly what he was doing. That feels even worse to me. Not only was that he was behind his wife I know that when there's a snake I'm supposed to be the one in front that's just the way it goes and she's also acting up a little piece of with a shovel but she would prefer that I do it She would prefer that I do it. We know for this evening just saying that there is a tendency for some of you to believe that it is in your nature to be more trusting. I'm just saying this because that's what happened with easy points out. So you should listen and be careful.

There's Central teachings that we find In this passage going to wrap up with these things as we close out first of all that That we should pray for peace with all people. We should pray for peace with all people not just for our people. little people

I cannot imagine somebody who has to be more miserable and lacking in. Peace and Donald Trump right now. Yesterday he had tweeted 54 times before noon. all about the impeachment 54th that takes a lot of time. 54 tweets how agitated this man must be his whole life.

I think he brings it on himself unnecessarily.

But I wish you were a piece because if you were a piece a lot of us will be a piece. If he was quite a lot of us wouldn't be here in all the noise and I can say that for thousands of people that have come across in leadership positions for their malady left-leaning celebrities or racist right-wing politicians. We need to pray for all these people to pray genuinely that God changes the hearts of all of these people because it brings peace and quiet and God likes that. And I think we can get to sleep in on Saturdays in Heaven someday. I don't know what that looks like with something like that's going to happen when you wake up and you realize I don't have to get up and then you can go back to sleep. You know that feeling where you have some. Peace. About 1 Seer that occurred to me. I'm still nervous. I'm sure I'm forgetting something. There's going to be peace and quiet over to Christ Supremacy exist as Savior for all people theory states that again In this passage. This is a truth. We have to cling to as Christians. He died to save the worst human being and the best human being equally for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God in Christ Supremacy and his love manifest in Jesus being the Savior for all people number 3. Harmony in the body of Christ the church is essential. Harmony in the body of Christ is essential. If we don't have we came pray? We can't sing We can't hear the word. If we don't get along with each other. We cannot accept the love of Christ if we don't have love for people around us. A number for we are different as men and women. We are difference. by Design from our molecular biology to our brain chemistry to our tendency to our likes and dislikes. We are different and that's good. That is something God gave us as a gift the world has now we should all be the same.

I'm non-binary.

Who is thought these words even exist a few years ago? messenger different are you equal? I made you equal and any human being is expressing an evil nature. We are equal. but different

You know, I don't really know. Timothy did in the church in Ephesus. albino But I know his task was not that different from our task and that's to bring the truth of God to a world that doesn't sing on the right pitch and a harmonized of Love Of Christ with all kinds of different folk and we can get this right the the words of the scripture sing to us. beautifully because God designed us to love the peace and quiet that comes. When we get her act together father, I thank you for the gift of reading your word. Even the hard part the part that are confusing or challenging. But I also thank you for the fact that it's confusing and challenging because I don't want to be able to put you in a box or say I understand you because then it would be clear that you were a God made by human mind and not an infinite God that we cannot comprehend. Thank you for not overwhelming us with who you are. But allowing us to continue to be nourished by your truth and by a growing knowledge in who you are. I thank you for these people that have gathered today each of these human beings created in your image male and female young and old red and yellow black and white you love all of us. And we really are precious in your sight. I thank you for the gift of Grace for the opportunity to show love to one another and to enter this week thinking about how we can represent you. Well as your followers in Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Couple of announcements next week is first Sunday so excited about that what you eat next week.

what that Fix your grill, how can I got to fix a grill? I want to meet with that may balls food. I bring in food and bring friends so I can fill the place up to eat with one another next Saturday at 11 in the morning apparently in my house. There is a wedding shower, right? It'll be at my house 11 for Victor, Marissa, Marissa. So 11 Friday on Friday the Ocho Saturday that we show February 8th. We're doing the Fieldhouse.