Proper Worship (Part 2)

For First Timothy. What a great passage. As we've probably

a few two sundays ago, we were in First Timothy.

If you turn your bibles with the First Timothy chapter

two this morning we're turned back there. We're going to

start in verse eight in just a moment. But that

was really the heart of chapter two is as Paul

urging the church of living lives of worship and worship

that's pleasing to the Lord. You know, I don't know

about you, but when I was a young boy, a

little boy, my mom and dad taught me manners. Mom

and dad ever taught you manners, taught brandy to brandy,

gripping home. We were taught as a young age that

you were to say please, You were to say thank you,

and you were to say you're welcome. You're always to

say no sir, no ma'am to someone who was older

than you. I always used mister and missus and saying

there and then you call them by their last name.

You don't interrupt others while they're talking. And not only

did you have that that you had to navigate as

a young kid, but you also had Tabor manners. That

means that there were things that you were not to

do when you were at the kitchen table. Right, you

were to wash your hands before you eat, by the way,

that was importing. You don't chew with your mouth open.

You chew with your mouth closed. You don't talk why

you chew? Right, all these different rules. Right, you had

to wait for everybody to get their food before you serve,

before you started eating. Don't big no, no, don't burp

at the table, right, struggle with that at a young age.

And you don't sing at the table too. That's another thing.

You don't sing at the table. So there's different etiquettes,

different things, different manners that we were taking. If you

think about that for a minute, why did my parents

teach me that? Why did Brandy's parents teach her manners?

Because they wanted us to know that there's certain way

that you show as a child, proper respect to others.

And also they wanted us to learn what was proper behavior. Well,

as we come to that understanding this morning, we teach

our children proper behavior, proper respect. And first Timothy Paul

writes this letter, and in this letter he's teaching the

church what is proper worship. And when you see that

that's in first Timothy, chapter three, Starting the verse fourteen,

he says, I hope you'd come to you soon, but

I am listening to this. I'm writing these things so

that if I delay, you may know how one ought

to behave and the household of God. So Paul wrote

this letter because he was coming, it was planning coming,

but if he was delayed, he wanted them to know

how they should ought to behave in church. And so

he writes this letter with that thesis, if you will

behind this is I'm writing to explain to them what

is proper what is proper behavior, what is proper worship

in the church. As we come to this passage. I

think it's important that's to know that that's Paul's heart

in this passage. In this church, there were those who

profess to be godly, and he wants them to understand

how they're to behave as godly men and women, how

they should worship. And so two sundays ago we started

this series and we looked at the first two things.

There was issues with men not properly, I mean not

behaving properly or not worshiping properly. And last time we looked,

he started with men first he talked about how men

must worship with proper posture. Right that you worship with

your hands lifted up, but you don't lift your hands

up before God and worship if you have unforgiveness against

your brother, your hands are unclean, and so you must

have Men must worship with proper posture. I would say

that for all of us, right, we don't worship with

unforgiveness in the heart. We Scripture says we get to

the altar, we find we know we have an issue

with our brother. We used to leave the altar and

go reconcile with our brother. And then secondly Paul went

into we must worship with proper motives, and he talked

about a lady's address and how many women in the

church and and ephesis there were adorning themselves in a

way in their dress that was drawing attention away from worship,

a way for worshiping the Lord instead of worshiping them,

and how they looked. And Paul was addressing that and says,

when you worship, you should worship in a way with

proper motives. That the worship just as this song just

saying that we're just saying it's not about being you

receiving attention. It's about worshiping in a way that's pleasing

to the Lord that he gets all the glory from it. Well,

this morning we come to the third address for Paul,

and we pick up his third teaching. So I want

you if you will stand with me, and let's look

at how Paul is teaching them proper worship, proper behavior

in the church body, how they ought to as he said,

as they ought to behave. And so let's start. We're

going to just read everything together just so you can

see this as one complete unit, because it is for Paul.

So one Timothy chapter two, we're starting verse eight. He says,

I desired and in every place that men should pray, lifting

up holy hands without anger or quarreling. Likewise, also women

should adorn themselves with respectable peril, with modesty and self control,

not braided hair, or gold or pearls, or costs of

the attire. But what is proper. Listen to that for

women who profess godliness with good works. Let a woman

learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a

woman to teach or exercise authority of a man. Rather,

she is to remain quiet for Adam was from first

then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman

was deceived and became the transgression. Yet she'll be saved

through childbearing if they continue in faith and love and

holiness with self control. Let's pray together, Father, We thank you,

Lord that you've led us to this service. Lord, I

pray that the words of our mouth and the meditation

of our hearts will be pleasing. Lord to you. Made

the songs that we sing, Lord be pleasing. Lord to you.

May the words that we proclaim that I proclaim be pleasing?

Lord to you. Lord, You know, Lord, what you've led

me to study this week. Lord, you know my preparation,

You know my heart, you know my mind. And Lord,

today they don't need my thoughts, they don't need my words.

They need your words. Lord. So I pray Lord that

I would decrease and you would increase today. And Lord,

the words that I will proclaimed, would Lord be pleasing.

Lord to you, Lord, but would be your words, Lord,

that you would fill me with your spirit, that I

might proclaim Lord your word today? And Lord, as we

have ears to hear today, Lord, may we receive Lord

your word. May your spirit give us a spirit of

discernment and understanding, we might preperly understand Lord your word.

And Lord, may we not be just hearers of the word,

but God, may you lead us to be doers of

the word that we respond Lord to how this word

applies to us individually, corporately as a body. And Lord,

may we be faithful to obey your word. Lord, we

love you, lor I pray you lead us into service

in your name. We pray, Amen, you may be seated.

So we again we kind of walking through the rest

of this passages. The first two weeks we saw we

must worship with proper posture. Secondly we were worship with

proper motives, and third this morning Paul addresses how we

must worship with proper submission and authority. We must worship

with proper submission and authority. I think it's important to

as we kind of start this morning and we think

about Paul's writing, that he might teach them how they

ought to behave So we know there's some misbehavior by

the men who are worshiping and with unforgiveness in their heart.

We we know it's some misbehavior from these ladies who

were adorning themselves and dressing in a way that's drawing

attention from worship to them. And now we know there's

this other issue. So what's the source? Where? Where is

this misbehavior coming from? And I think it's important to

understand that Paul identifies as we walk through this book,

and I think it's what's a goat so good about

teaching through books? As we get to see the book

as a whole, we know the source of this misbehavior

is false teaching. You know, Paul wrote this letter and

I only teach him how to live, but he also

wrote this letter to confront the false teaching. And we

saw that in one Timothy chapter one as we just

finished that chapter up a few weeks ago, and first

Timothy chapter and I'm I'm just going to encourage you

this morning. I am going to probably give twenty different

references to Bible references, okay, and so, and I'll encourage

you just try to follow on. Many of those are

going to be in Timothy. So what I'm going to

show you is what I'm going to explain to you

is not it's not somewhere far off. It's actually just

right within this this same letter that Paul writes. But

if you turn back when we one chapter, you'll see

Paul address this false teaching, and we saw this at

the very beginning's first Timothy chapter one, verse third and

three says, as I urge you when I was going

to Macedonia, you remain at Ephesus, since you may charge

certain persons not to teach any different doctrine or to

devote themselves to miss or endless genealogy, which promotes speculation

rather than stewardship from God, that is by Fay. So

we know false teaching was really happening in that. We

even know later on in that same chapter that Paul

actually calls out two false teachers, him Anas and Alexander

in verse twenty. So we know these false teachers were there.

We know there exists. But one of the things we

don't know from scripture from Paul doesn't tell us directly.

Let me say it that way, is we don't know

really what is the content of their teaching. You know,

Paul tells us that these teachers are there. He tells

us that he calls Timothy. By the way, Paul's writing

a letter to Timothy, who's the pastor, and so he's

writing this letter to Timothy that Timothy might instruct them

how they ought to live. But he's also is writing

to a pastor explain what he should do in the

false teaching, and so Paul doesn't just directly explain what

the false teaching is, and it's probably because he knows

as he's writing to Timothy, Timothy knows what it is.

He's the pastor of the church. He's there with the

day to day, he's seeing what's happening firsthand. So Paul

doesn't need to reiterate what the false teaching get is

because Timothy already knows what it is. And so that's

probably why we don't see Paul clearly state what it is.

But we do can We can gather some information from

different things. Paul says in Firse Timothy and also tewod

Timothy to understand really some things about what the false

teachers were teaching in Ephesus number A. I want to

explain just a few of them, just so you can

have an understand A. False teachers were focusing on dissensions

and speculations. How do I know that? Well, we know

that from the passage that just read to you. In

verse chapter one, verse three, it's says that you may

charge certain persons not to teach any different doctor, to

devote themselves to the myth English genealogies which promote speculations.

So these false teachers really focus on creative dissension, people

having people doubt what God's word says and kind of

creating speculation. Is that really what God's word says? That's

what they were focused on, the dissensions and speculations be

These false teachers were taught an esthetic spirituality. What is that?

What does that mean? I was studying that and I

was like, what does that mean? I've not heard that that.

Esthetic spirituality means that you could be more spiritual the

more self discipline you are. It's this teaching from false

teaching that if you would have stained from certain things,

you'll become more spiritual. False teachers believe, and they were

teaching at the time, if you would have stained from

food for a period of time, if you would stained

from marriage, and they were even going as far as

if you distained from sex, you will be more spiritual.

And that's what they were teaching. How do I know? That?

Turned with me to First Timothy chapter four. First Timothy

chapter four, Paul talks about this. He actually describes this

the First Timothy chapter four, verse one. Now the spirit

expressly says that in later time some would depart from

their faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits teaching of demons.

So listen, it's false teaching, right, seitful spirits, teaching of

demons through the sincerity of liars whose consciousness here and

now he tells them what they teach, who forbidden marriage

and require abstinence from food that God created to be

received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

So we know from chapter four that Paul was saying

in latter times, false teachings who are affect by the

spirit of the devil will lead people away from the

truths to this ecstatic spirituality, to think they can be

spiritual by forbidden to be married and from abstaining from food.

So we know they were teaching this acstatic spirituality see

false teacher or persuaded. There was persuading many women in

the Church of Ephesus. There's many women who are being

drawn to this false teaching. We know this from the

next chapter, chapter five. You turn one chapter over with me.

First Simpathy chapter five, verse fourteen through fifteen he says this,

he's instructing the ladies in the church. He says, I

would have younger widows married mairy cheldren, manage their household

and give the adversary no occasion for some fun. Somewhat

younger women, that's the sentence before have already astrayed after Satan.

In chapter of the next letter that he writes to Timothy,

which is Timothy still the pastor of the Church of

Ephesus tewd Timothy two second Timothy three in six and seven,

he says, for among them those who are creeping households

and capture weak women, burden with sin and led astray

by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive

at the knowledge of truth. So we know these false

teachers they're teaching this aesthetic spirituality. Whether those false teachers

are focused on speculation to dissensions, and we know they're

praying on the women in the church. We know d

false teachers are are one of the false That one

of the things that the false teachers are really pushing

the ladies to is to abandon their god given roles.

What is that marriage? What is it having children? That's

one of the things as we see just in the

previous passages that who they forbidden marriage and require abstinence.

We see him instructing in chapter five women to marry

and have children and manage their households. And he's seen

some ladies have what abandoned these things and of straight

after Satan, and so we know the false teacher are

encouraging these women not only in false teaching, but they're

encouraging them to change their behavior and how God created them.

And so we know that's one of the methods. The

last thing I think we see as we think of

false teaching, we try to examine what these false teachers

are really focusing on. In one Timothy is we know

this evidence tells us in the body of this letter

these are the things that they were teaching. We also

can understand some things that were happening in other churches

that paralleled to this issue, and we see false teacher

had led also many women away. Also in krinth First Corinthians,

Paul writes a letter to a church in karn and

in this letter some of the very same things that

we see in for Timothy. We also see in Charinth

and First Corinthians that the false teacher had led many

in the church to deny the future of physical resurrection again.

They were teaching that the future resurrection of Christ. Christ

has already risen once right after he died and rose again.

But there's another second resurrection. It's second coming of Christ, right,

and that is the second resurrection. The false teachers were saying,

that's not that's not coming. They actually taught that it

already came, and what had already came. What they were

teaching was a present spiritual resurrection, and they were teaching

that to say, now that this present spiritual resurrection is here,

then it changes everything. And now there's no marriage, and

therefore there needs to be no sex, and therefore there

needs to be You need to stay from these foods,

and you need to be disciplined. You need to have

this spiritual discipline to really be spiritual. You need to

forget marriage, you need to forget food, you need to

forget these things, you forget your roles, because now this

is a time for this intense spiritual discipline. And they

were leading many people in Karrent away from that from

these things. We see this throughout First Corinthians. Paul explaining

that they were doing this by manipulating scripture. By the way,

in Ephesians two five through six, the passage says, even

when we were dead in our trespasses, he made us

alive together in Christ. By grace, you've been saved and

raised us up with him. They were using that say, see,

you were deading trespassing sins, but by grace, you've been

saved and you've been raised. It's not a future raising,

it's a present raising. And so they manipulated scripture to

justify this present spirituality. They also use scripture to justify

how the roles of men and women have changed, and

that you don't have to be married. And you know

where they got that from. They got it from Galatians

three twenty eight. There's neither June nor Greek, nor slave

nor free, nor there's male or female. You're all one

in Christ Jesus. And they would use that twisting that

scripture a CC. We're in the present resurrection and now

there's no male or female. You don't need a husband,

you don't need to have children, you don't need food.

This is the time. And I want you to understand

this something. As we think about this, these teachings of

these false teachers, you're seeing what false teachers are doing.

What are they doing. They're using scripture and they're twisting

scripture to what justify their false teaching. That's what false

teachers did in the New test Cement, and listen to

me today, that's what false teachers are still doing today.

Paul in this passage Scripture is then because he knows

these things are happening in the church. In Ephesus, he's

right into Timothy and he's saying, you have to understand,

these things are happening in the church. There's women who

are giving up their roles to marry, they're giving up

their roles to have children they're given, they're abstaining from food.

They think that this is right, and they're disputing their roles.

And so Paul writes to explain is what is proper,

what is proper for worship? And so he's establishing what's

proper works and what's proper roles for who for godly women.

Notice that as we come to this passage in verse five,

I'm sorry, not verse five in verse ten, but with

what is proper for women who profess God ing this

with good works. So I want you to hear this heart.

As we come to this passage. Listen, I'm very fully

aware that this is probably this may be one of

the most debated sermons I've ever preached. I know that

you probably know that you've heard it probably your whole life.

And listen, I've been a pastor long enough. It's probably

the most debated sermon I've ever preached, and it will

probably be the most debated sermon I preached in twenty

years from now. Right. It's been a topic has been

heavily debated ever since I've been in ministry, So let's

understand that. But because it becomes so debated and it

can be some heated, sometimes we don't see the parastoral

heart behind Paul. What is Paul's heart is he wants

to care for the women in the church, and that's

his heart here versus you see that but with those

who are proper, for women who profess godly with good works,

and then he's shepherding. He first starts out with verse

eleven and explaining what was proper for women. First, he

explains what they should do. He says, let a woman

learn quietly with all submissiousness. He starts off with, listen,

what do you think it is important as we think,

just walk through this passage. He first begins by commanding

them to learn. Paul wants ladies to learn. He wants

to learn in church. It's important for him for you

to understand. His heart is for ladies in the church,

women in the church to learn. I think you have

to understand. This is a foreign concept to us. But

in early New Testament times, in many sects of Judaism,

there was an idea by many of those that women

were not to learn, that women were forbidden to learn,

that it was not good for women to learn. That's

not Paul's heart here. Paul believes that women are to learn,

and that we are the church, are to equip but

we are to teach. We are to lead women to learn.

But then he describes here it's not only that she's

to learn, but it's really important for how she's to learn.

Paul uses the word quietly here, listen to let the

woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. The word quietly means

silence or quiet. It could be it can have the

sense of peaceable ones. What paul concern is is that

there's women in the church who are not learning quietly.

You say, what do you mean by that, pastor, there

are people who there's ladies in the church and Ephesus

at the time who had followen these false teachers, and

they're questioning what the Bible says. And furthermore, they're disputing

what the pastors and the different leaders of the church

and what the Bible says, and they're combating the teaching

of the church, and they're disputing that. And Paul is saying, listen, ladies,

God's God wants you to learn, but you're not to

dispute what the word of God says. And now I

would say that's important for not just ladies, were all

of us not to dispute what God's word says. And

these ladies were doing that. So he's confronting that. I remember,

by the way, I'll just show you where we see

this also in scripture that I you say, how do

you know it was the ladies who were doing this?

And in one Timothy five thirteen, he's just besides that

they've learned. They there are women are learning going about

from house to house, not only idlers but also gossips

and busy bodies saying listen to this, saying what they

should not. He's talking about the ladies there in First

Timothy five and Second Timothy. Paul also says in chapter three,

verse six and seven, from among them are those who

crept in households and the captured weak women, burdened with

sins and led astray by various passions, always learning, and

they were never able to arrive at a knowledge of truth.

So he's explaining, there's many of these ladies who have

got caught up in these false teachings. They're being led

astray by these false teachers, and they're learning, but they're

able to never really come to the truth. And some

of these leaders are the ones who are saying what

they ought not to say. I can remember there's different

things that happened in ministry, and you're like, you know,

I remember when that happened. I remember I was at

my first church out a seminary, and I was a

young pastor learning what was proper for young pastors. And

we had business meetings. You remember business meetings. They're such

a blessing, right, And I remember we're in a business

meet and there was this lady and I cannot remember

her name right now, but I can see her, and

she was a she was a pastor's wife. Her husband

was a pastor and he was retired, and they were

in our church there at Hickory Grove, and she had

gotten into she had gotten upset about something and I remember,

you think I'll never forget this. She was sitting at

her on the right side and not pick on those

who are on the right side. In the middle of

the business meet, she got up. I'm not kidding. I'm

gonna demonstrate what she did. She went up to the pulpit.

Preci there's a pulpit. She stood in front of the

tire church and she pointed his her finger at him

and she let him have it for ten minutes. I

have no idea to this day what she said, but

I know how she said it. I want you to

understand that if you think, man, that would be that

would be awful to see that happen in the church.

I want you to understand that that's what's happening here.

There's there's women in the church who are disputing pastors

on what the Bible says. And he's saying, listen, ladies,

I want you to learn. But but you're but but

it's not right for you to come and dispute the

pastors and the leaders in the church. You learn quietly.

But also he explains he wants someone to learning submission.

What is submission? Thought about that? What is submission? Submission

almost becomes like a bad word. You know, we've our

world made it a submission. No, pre're gonna talk abou submission.

What is some Well, submission is the proper response of

a Christian or someone godly to those who are an

authority over them. Let's hear that again. Submission is the

proper response of a Christian to those who are an

authority over them. You know, God's created roles, God's created

authority in all different realms. Right, we have authority in government.

Right we have rulers, we have mayors, we have city

officials in our community here, and we are called to

submit to those in authority over us in government, aren't

we We have authority in our lives. First Titus tells

us that not first Titus, just Titus. There's only one Titus.

Titus three one says, remind them to submissive to rulers

and authority. Too obedient to be ready for every good work. Sad.

You know, as a Christian, God's called Judas c. Emit

every one of you, male a female. God's come all

judas men, God's come all judas ment and it's the

Christian response for you to submit to those who are

authority of year in government. Now it only stops there,

But listen, you know, I know you do have jobs,

and you know in your job, God's put someone in

authority over you. He's called your boss. And you know

it's times that your boss wants you to do something.

You're like, I really don't want to do that. But

you know it is the right thing as a Christian

for me to obey my boss as I would obey

the Lord. And that's what Ephesians talks about in Ephesians five.

Do you know in the home God's created spiritual leaders.

The husband and wives are too in a Christian response

to submit to their husbands, who God places in the

authority as a spiritual leader. And that's a proper response

for her. Right Listen, men, don't don't look at her

and say, hey, look at you. Hear what he said? Listen,

God called you to submit as a husband who's your leader, Christ?

And you should submit your life to Christ. And you

as a listen, as a man of God, she should

be following. And as you are submitting your life to

Christ and following Christ, then you're setting the example for

her to follow. So listen, she's not doing something that

you should not already be being the example for her

to follow. Do you see that? And so listen. It's

the godly response of a husband to submit to his head.

It's a proper response. And who is his head as Christ?

And she's submit to her husband as he follows Christ.

And then there's the church. You know, there's authority here.

I'm one of them. I'm one of the elders. God's

past authority structure here, there's elders, there's deacons, and God's

called you to submit to that. And it's a proper

response for us as a Christian. That's saying, you know what, God,

You've placed people with arty all the way through my life.

It's a teacher at school, it's a it's a police

officer in our community. It's a a mayor, it's a governor,

it's a president. It's proper for me submit to those,

even sometimes I don't maybe agree with them or understand them,

but God, You've given them to me to shepherd me.

And God is proper for me to do that. You

ever heard someone it said that someone's full of the

Holy Spirit, and you look at that person, they just

they're just full of the Holy Spirit. Man, they just

exude Jesus. I mean, just the Spirit's just all over them. Well,

you know, in Ephesians chapter five, Paul's talking about that.

Paul's talking about how believers are to be filled with

the spirit and walk in the spirit. I think if

you think about that, if someone feel with the spirit,

and someone who's faithful to live by the spirit, guided

by the spirit, and and Paul and for Ephesians five,

he's talking to the Church of Ephesus, who is Timothy pastoring.

In one Timothy Ephesus and Ephesians is passed first letter

to the church Timothy. One Timothy is paused letter to

the pastor of the Church of Ephesus. But in his

first letter Ephesians, he's talking to them about how important

it is how they live, how they walk, how they

live their life. He talks about how important of them

that the days are evil, that you live as wise

and not as unwise. He talks to them how important

it is for them to know what the will of

the Lord is. I want you to term with me,

turned with me to this passage, because I think it's

so important for us to see this. He says in

chapter five, sirn in verse fifteen, again, I won't you

hear this. He's talking about how important it is for

them how they live their life, how they walk. He says,

look carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

making the best use of your times, because those the

days are evil. Verse sixteen says and verse seventeen says, therefore,

do not be foolish, but understand what the will of

the Lord is. And then he explains, all right, hey,

let's live wise, let's not live as unwise. We are

to understand what the will of the Lord is. And

then he describes what is the will of the Lord is. Listen,

don't get drunk with wine, for that's debakery, but be

filled with the spirit. What is God's will for you?

You ask me? You come into the service today and say, pastor,

What's God's will for my life? Can I tell you

right now? In Ephesius chapter five, the Lord is about

to tell you what the will of the Lord is

for your life. And you know what it is is

that you're to be walking the spirit. It's you're to

be filled with the spirit. He says, don't get drunk

with wine. Don't get drunk with wine. Is an analogy,

it's an illustration. Right. If you get drunk with wine, right,

and you get drunk, what happens? Alcohol starts taking care

over your body. And then what guess what? You're not

in control of your members or your facilities. Right, the

alcohol's in control. And he's saying, just in the same way,

you should not be drunk with wine. What I do

want you to do. It's only you to be filled

with the Holy Spirit, so full of the Holy Spirit,

that the Holy Spirit is in power in your life,

is in control in your life, and it's leading your life.

And then he starts talking about what it looks like

when you're filled with the spirit, when you're full of

the spirit, and he's just taking control of your life.

What are the things that you do? And then he

lists those things. Listen to this. I lost my place.

I got so excited, he says, verse eighteen. Don't get

drunk with wine, but that for that is the barkra.

But be filled with the spirit. Addressing one another in songs,

him spiritual songs. Singing, making melody to the Lord with

your heart. Well, one of the ways when you feel

with the spirit, the spirit's moving your life. Man, you

got a song in your heart, singing about the Lord

throughout the day, singing about the Lord. When you come

in on Sunday mornings, God's got a song in your heart.

Twenty Since we give thanks for every good thing, not

only words their song in the heart, but we have

a heart of gratitude where we continue to give God

thanks for things he's doing our life. That's what it

looks like to be filled with the spirit. Listen what

he else He says, given thanks for every good thing.

That God's the Father and the name of the Lord

Jesus Christ. You know, in another aspect of being filled

with the spirit, not only do we sing, don't we

give thanks, but we submit. Woh oh wait, wait, preacher,

you're taking a turn there. That's what it says. Listen,

submitting to one another out of reverence of Christ. And

then verse twenty two and on he goes after our

example after example, why submit to your husband as unto

the Lord? Listen to the pastores read it with me.

Why submit to your husband as to the Lord, for

your husband is the head of the wife, even as

Christ is the head of the Church, and his body

is himself as Savior. Now church submits to Christ. So

also wives should submit in everything to their husband's husband.

Love your wives, as Christ loved the Church, gave himself

for her, that he might sanctify of her, having cleansing

her by the washing of water and the word, so

he might present her to the Church himself in splendor,

without spot or wrinkle, in any such thing, that she

might be holy without blemish. And the same way husbands

love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves

his wife loves himself. No one ever hated his own flesh,

but nourishes and cherishes just as christ Us, because we

are a member of his body. And then he goes

into verse Chapter six. Children, obey your parents and the Lord,

for this is right. Honor your father and mother, that

may go well with you, and that you might live

alone in the land. Fathers, don't provoke your children to anger.

Verse five. Slaves, obey your masters, earthly masters, with fear

and trembling with the sincere heart. He goes into thing

after thing. He goes into different area from why submitting

to their husband, to husbands submitting to Christ, the church,

submitting to Christ, children submitting to their parents. You see that,

You see one of the ways that we live a

spirit filled life. It's submitting to those who God's put

in our place. You know, I remember, and I may

have told you this story before, So forgive me if

you heard it before. Laugh like you didn't hear it before.

It kind of helped me out here. You know, it's

a tough sermon. I remember when I was a little boy, Saturdays,

you know, Saturdays is you know, it's supposed to be

a great day. You know, you're out of school, it's

a free day. And I'd be woken up to a

song by my mother and I won't sing it because

I don't want to torture you with it. But she's

sang this song, and she sang it every Saturday to

kind of get us all reped up. You know what

she was getting reving this up for. I'll called it torture.

She called it chores. And so every Saturday, whether we

liked it or not, the Barbie household was going to

clean the house. That means Jonathan was going to clean

his room. I really think there's some certain things that

Satan put on this earth, and I believe dusting is

one of them. A pledge is from the devil. I

just believe it is. I mean it just it doesn't

make any thing sense. Why do you have to remove

everything off a counter. You got to move it all

off there, and you got to get this lemon spray

and wipe your hand over it, and then you got

to put everything back on that same table you just

took it off. Just leave it there. The dust ain't

hurting anything. Never made me sick. I don't think right.

But mamould make us dust the room. We'd make you vacuum,

make me pick up all my toys, make me make

my bed, maybe take out the trash. And I could

not stand it. I hated saturdays. And you know why,

because Saturdays I didn't want to do that. I didn't want.

What I wanted to do was play. I wanted my

free time. I wanted my freedom. But guess what God

gave me a mom. And I would submit to my mom.

And you know why, you ever had you ever had

a child, and I know all your kids are perfect.

You never had that. You ever asked your kid do something.

They just fall out, Well, let me do that? What

I don't want to do that? You know, what is it? Why?

Why do they go that? Why do they do that? Why?

Because in every one of us, listen, there is a

desire in us to do what we want to do,

and listen when when we come to the word of

God and God tells us, listen, husbands, submit to Christ.

Live your life following me. We as men. At times,

whether you want to realize it or not, you stick

your foot in the ground. He says, I don't want

to do that. Why because you want to live your

life your way. And it's the same thing. We can

go from husbands, we can go to wives. We can

go to church leaders whose church members who say, I

don't want I don't agree with what that church is doing.

And when it comes down to us in the heart

of our hearts, the reason why we don't want to

obey is listen, because we don't want to surrender to

the will of the Holy Spirit. But also we want

to surrender not to the will of the Holy Spirit.

We want to surrender to our will, our wants, our desire.

And Paul is saying here, listen, if we're gonna if

we're gonna live how we ought to live, if we're

going to be godly as we want to be godly,

it starts with saying, God, I surrender my will to

your will. Lord, and God, I know you put people

over me, and Lord, I'm going to surrender. I'm going

to not surrender. I'm going to submit to those who

you put in my over me to care for me

because I know it's for my good. I know it's

for my good. I want you to move on. I

want us to move on because I've got a lot

to cover. If you're listening fast and I need to

talk faster. We need to listen. We must worship with

proper submission, but also we need to proper worship with

proper authority. Look, look here what Paul does here. Oh

I've got to go fast. I got a lot to

talk about here. Let's let's let's go Paul. I want

you to understand here real quick, Paul. What Paul's doing

here is establishing what is proper works and proper roles

for Godliness. Now with the understanding of proper submission, now

Paul dresses what is proper teaching. Think about this as

you think about this passage. Paul is transitioning from one

activity that women are to carry out. What is that activity?

Learn and learn quietly? Right, that's an activity that he's

encouraging them to do. Right now, he moves to two

actions that they're prohibited in him. Why they're prohibiting of

these actions in order for them to maintain their submission.

You understand that if you do these things here, it

subverts you being. You're calling to submit to those who

are in charge of you. And I want you to

think this is don't just think here when you come

to this passage. This is about women obeying their husbands.

This here is about the women who are what they're

they're they're disobeying not just their husband, They're not they're

not They're disputing not just their husbands here, they're disputing

the church leaders here. And so that's the issue here.

So so Paul transitioned from one activity that they are

to carry out and he's encouraging two actions that they've

they've prohibited. Notice, as you come to this passage, and

I know this is the this is the thickest part

of it. Okay, I'm gonna go fast. Listen fast, Paul

doesn't say you ought not to or I don't think

epics should do this. Notice this is his first person, Paul,

an apostle and the father of the church at Ephesus.

You understand he did start this church. And this is

what Paul says. In prohibiting. He prohibits two functions. Two functions.

Paul prohibits women, and he says, in this let's read it.

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissions submificit submissiveness

verse twelve. I do not permit a woman to teach

or exercise authority of her man, whether she's remain quiet.

So one he prohibits women to teach or preach over men.

I think it's to understand. It's important to understand what

what does this? When you come to this passage and

I tell you we could take another hour on this

and I won't do that. Just calm down. There will

be another rebellion here. I'm just kidding, y'all need to

lighten up. Okay, help me out here. What is this?

Every every part of this passage, I mean, every word

in this passage of scripture is debated. I'm just telling

you there are I want to tell you real quick today.

I know full well that there's other arguments about everything

I'm about to say that I'm not giving to you.

And the reason why is that I just don't have

time to tell you every false teaching that's out there

about this passage of scripture. But you do need to

know that because you're going to hear it. Trust me

Wednesday night, this Wednesday night at six thirty to come

and I will give you all the different other theories

about this passive scripture. But I cannot do that this morning.

But one of the questions is what does Paul mean

by teach? Right? What is he talking about teaching? Here?

The word teaching the New Testament describes as careful transmission

of the tradition of Jesus and the authoritative proclamation of

God's will to believers. In light of that tru transmission,

we would see those word used in One Timothy four

eleven command and teach these things and acts to forty two.

And they devoted themselves to the apostles, teaching and the fellowship.

So teaching, probably plainly understood for you and I, is

really the the idea of preaching. It is the teaching

is in scripture. Here is plainly restricted to certain individuals

who have the gift of teaching. So we understand that

and as elders, and we're going to look at that

later on. We see that by the way in Ephesians

four eleven he gives the apostles and the prophets and

evangelists and shepherds and teachers we see. We see that

in second Timothy four to two, preach the word be

ready in the season, analyses and approve, rebuke, or exhort

with complete patience and teaching. So Paul is prohibiting women

from teaching here, but I think it's important the object

of their teaching is he's saying the women should never teach.

That's not what Paul is saying here. What Paul is

saying here though, that women should not teach over men.

That a woman, I do not permit a woman to

teach or exercise authority, And there's the object of that

at the end of the sentence, over a man. So

what Paul is saying here is that he's prohibiting women

from teaching the teaching role of the church and to

teach over men. And so it's not proper for women

who profess godliness to preach. If they do preach, what

are they doing. They're subverting their role in submitting to

those who are an authority over them. It's hurting that

you're you're surpassing that if you will and so and

we see this was a problem, by the way, and

Titus to and I won't go and share that again,

but he was saying, yeah, so anyway, the second function

that Paul prohibits women in this passage is to have

authority over men. These two go hand in hand, right,

He says in verse twelve, do not permit a woman

to teach her exercise authority over man. Rather, she is

to remain quiet. Authority here again another word that's very debated.

Authority means just very simply to have authority over you.

Kind of think about what does that mean, What does

it mean to in a church setting? Again, because this

is a church setting, what kind of functions in the

modern church that that Paul would be prohibiting a woman

to have authority over a man. In the pastoral letters

of Paul, the governing authority or the governing activity is

subscribed to the elders. In one Timothy three another reference

to Timothy, for someone who does not know how to

manage his own wholes household. Talking about elders, how does

he care for God's church? It's understanding that it was

the role of the elders to care for the church.

They were an authority. There were the shepherds, and on

Timothy five seventeen, let the elders who rule well considered

to be worthy of double honor, especially those who labor

and preaching and teaching. So in some churches this role

of authority and also this role of authority but also preaching,

I think there are two separate things, right. It's not

that she's just not to preach, she also is not

to have authority. Some women may not have been teaching,

but they were trying to maybe a rule or have authority.

And he's prohibiting both here. And some churches it's elders.

But you know there are other churches, especially in the

Southern Bads Convention, where the churches don't have elders, and

so deacons are the governing body of that church. And

so there that's what Paul is prohibiting there. And again

why what's the purpose is because he's called God's called

you to submit to those who were in authority. They

were disputing the leaders of the church, and he's like,

so listen, you don't do these things because it subverts

your calling to submit to those who are an authority

over you. Then Paul outlines and we knew quickly go

through these. Paul outlet lines of reasons why, and let

me explain these two reasons why. Paul says in this passage, listen,

verse twelve, I do not permit a woman to teach

her exercise authority of a man. Rather, she's remain quiet.

You see how he's bringing the quietness back into the picture. Right.

This opposes what you what God's called you to do,

and that's to learn quietly instead of disputing. Then he

goes into the reasons thirteen and fourteen. For Adam was

from form first, then Eve. So two reasons why Paul prohibits.

One is God's created a order. In verse thirteen, Paul

is explaining why women are not to teach or have

authority of her men. Why first, because Adam was born first.

You remember the Old Testament, the first born of a

family had the birthright and they had authority to lead

the family. And so we know that part of God's

design was that God creative work. He created a creative order.

He created man to be first, Adam first, to be

the provider, protector and the spiritual leader of the home.

And so he's referencing that why is she not to lead?

Why does she not have authority? It's because God created

man with the calling to lead the home and also

the church. And so he's calling upon that creative order.

B EA's deception. And there's different theories on what Paul

means here, but look at what he says here in

verse fourteen Adam, verse thirteen, he says Adam was from first,

and then Eve and then fourteen, and Adam was not deceived,

but the woman who was deceived became the transgressor. And

so then he talks about E's deception, how she and

he's referring, you have to understand here's he's building an

argument why women are not to preach or to have

authority over men? And what is his justification? What is

his arguments? And his argument goes back to the very beginning.

He doesn't go to something going on there. He goes

back to where God created things, and he says, one

is god creative order. But secondly, because of Eve's deception.

There's two different thoughts about what Eve's deception is. Some

would say, I don't agree with this theory, but I'm

just telling you what the interpretations are. Some would say

this is the nature of women. Some would say that

Paul is describing the nature of women, meaning that women

are more easily deceived than men, and because women have

a predisposition to deception, Paul is prohibiting them from teaching

or having authority. I don't believe that's what Paul is

talking about here, but that is a theory by some.

Some would say this is the nature of deception. Think

about it. Eve's in the garden, right, Adam tells her

what Adam think about it? Spiritual leader, God's called God

disciples Adam. Before Eve came along, he told him, all right,

this is the tree if good and evil, don't eat that.

Then Adam goes to Eve and says, hey, she comes along, Hey,

this is this Guard's wonderful, but this is the tree

of good and evil. You don't need to eat of it.

When Serpent came along, what did he say? Is that

really what God said? Is that really what God says?

And furthermore, do you really need to listen to him. Hey,

I'm telling you something. And so part of Satan's deception.

Understand this is not only to doubt the word of God,

but also to rebel against God's creative design. And so

what Paul was bringing out here is listen, she was

deceived and she's just eved in thinking. Listen, if I

don't obey God's design, it'll be okay. And look what

what look at the destruction that it brought along. Women

don't fall into this trap too. Listen to the passage.

It says, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman

was even became the transgression. There's this, you know, I

really believe for for all of us, really, there really,

there is this innate desiring us to say, you know what,

we really don't have to do it God's way. We

don't have to really follow God's design. I don't really

have to For husbands here, I don't really have to

follow what God's word says for me. Uh. For for

you ladies, I don't really have to follow him as

my spiritual leader. For children, I don't really have to

pay my parents. My parents think they know it all.

They don't know nothing. I know what's best for me.

There is desire in all of us not to submit,

to say, you know what, God really doesn't know best

when he created things the way he did. I know

better than God, and I don't I can reject his order.

There was a captain of a ship one day, and

he was in the dark night, and it was kind

of a mist over the sea, and he was in

a boat. He was in the battleship, and he looked

out in the distance and there was a light, faint light.

It was headed straight through his boat. He sent on

a message under a signal man, and he says, after you,

all to your course, calling out to the light ahead

of him, Off to your course by ten degrees Promptly,

the return came back by someone else, off to your

course by ten degrees north. The captain was angered. He says,

he commands. He says, he's ignoring my commands. He sent

out his second message. He says, all to your course

by ten degrees south. I am the captain. Soon after

the message received, off to your course ten degrees north.

I'm a sea man third class Jones. Immediately captain sent

a third message, knowing that fear would have voked all

to your course ten degrees south, I am a battleship.

The reply came all to your ten degrees north, I

am I'm a lighthouse. You know the truth is, many

times when we come to these things, we're saying, we're battling.

Who are we boutling? In? This is God? And we're

saying to God, God, I really don't have to accept

your creative order, your plan. I really can do it

my way. But listen, God knows best, and there is health,

and there's growth, and there's Godliness and there's the spirit.

In saying, God, I'm going to surrender to how God

you created things and know you know what's best for me.

Ask you today, some God's play someone in authority over you. Husbands,

it's the Lord. Maybe a boss could be a church

leader could be your husband, Students could be your parents.

How are you resisting? How are you resisting the temptation

to reject those who are leading over you and the

authority which God's placed over you. God has sent them

to care for you, lead you, protect you. How do

you submit to them and reject the temptation to abandon

what God's put over you. I'm just finish. I am

way over time. But you're gracious to me. Thank you.

I do want to finish with want you to see

the last passage. I think it's important for us she

is to see that. Just understand what he's talking about quickly.

Here he says he will she will be saved through

child bearing. Yet, let's just bring the thought together. It's

good Verse thirteen, for Adam was from first and then Eve,

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman would deceive

who became the transgressior. Yet, referring to the transgression of Eve,

he's seeing she will be saved through child bearing if

they continue in the faith and love and holiness and

self control. And you're probably saying, as most people who

read this, like, what in the world is he talking about?

How is a woman saved through child bearing? Well, I

think it's important to understand there's two different theories on

this one. Some say this is Mary, all right. See

Paul's referring to Eve, who brought sin into the world.

Now you're first to another woman named Mary who, through

childbirths you would have a child named Jesus, and he would,

through the virgin birth, would live the sinless life, and

he would live and die and raise again and it's

through his life and the birth of Him and him living,

dying and raise again that all of us are saved.

So some would say women aren't saved through childbirth, but

through the birth of Jesus we are all saved. So

some would say that would be what Paul is referring to.

Some would say this is the work of sinking effaction

certification that Paul is talking about. In a New Testament,

salvation means more than just the moment we get saved. Right.

Most often when the word salvation is used in the

New Testament and covers the entire life of a crew.

For instance, Philippians two twelve, pauls tells us to work

out our salvation what with fear and trembling. He's not

talking about an instance that we came to Christ. He's

talking about the salvation of our entire life and the

work of sanctification. And so what he's talking about here

is he's saying that here these ladies again they're disputing

the leaders of the church, and not only disputing, but

they've abandoned getting married, they've abandoned having children, they've abandoned

these different things. And Paul has told us that some

have followed Satan were doing these things. And Paul is saying, listen,

God's called you. God's called you. God's given you a

God given role to lead your family, to have children,

to nurture children, and the adminition of the Lord. And

part of you working out your salvation is continuing in

that faith, continuing that calling and that love and that holiness.

I think a great example of that is Lois in Unus.

You remember that who was Lois in Unis? You say,

Lewis in Uness is Timothy's grandma and mother? Do you

know Timothy's father was an unbeliever. Timothy, the pastor of

this church, was raised by a godly mom. And about

golly grandma, And Paul says Timothy one time, Timothy, continue

into faith, the faith that you first found in your

mother and your grandmother. You see, his grandmother and mother

were a demonstration of women who don't reject their roles,

but accepted their roles that God called them to and

use it to train up their children in the ways

of the Lord. You know, as we finished this passage

to this morning, I just really challenge you this morning

this as God called us a walk into spirit, may

we walk into spirit. Husbands, we need men of God

to lead their families. I encourage you, husbands, to look

at your wife today and realize you to be that

godly man. She needs you to be a man that

submits to the Lord and follows the Lord. And she

needs a man who sets the example of what it

means is submit to Christ. Would you do that today? Men,

students surrendered, to submit to your parents, the God's authorities

that God's put in your place. How are you living

out Godliness through submission? And then, lastly, how are you

rejecting the temptation to reject the authority that God's put

in place for you, whether it's home, or whether it's school,

where it's at work, wherever it may be. How are

you rejecting that temptation to reject the authority that God's

put in your life? You know the greatest example of this,

and I ask the band to make their way up.

What's the greatest example of proper submission and authority in scripture?

Thought about it? Greatest example in all of scripture a

submission Jesus. You know the Bible says this in one

Corinthia is eleven. But I want you to understand that

the head of every man is Christ, the head of

a wife as her husband, and the head of Christ

is God. You know, when Jesus was on this earth,

he says, I've come down from heaven not to do

my will, but the will of the one who sent me.

You remember in the garden of Yosemite, when he's he's

taking on your sin and our sin, and it's the

weight of that is coming upon him. He says, Father,

if you're willing to remove this cup from me, nevertheless,

not my will, but your will be done. You see,

Jesus was the greatest example of submission when he submitted

to the Father for your sins. May today we follow

our savior and saying, God, help me follow your example

and submit to you Christ what I need. You help

me resist the temptation to reject those are authority over me. Lord,

Today I want to walk in your spirit. Would you

pray with me? Lord? We love you, We thank you

Lord for this morning. We thank you Lord for this

message Lord that you've led us to. Lord. I pray

that we would be people Lord, that would be not

just be hears of your word, but doers of your word.

And God, we would live out your word that you've

spoken today. God, we thank you, Lord for your calling

upon us. We thank you, Lord for what you've created. Lord,

I pray we live in light of that. Lord. We

acknowledge a day where we're all sinners, and we all

Lord want to resist. Lord, you're leading in our life.

We don't resist those that you put in authority over us, Lord,

because Lord, we want our way. We want to live

by our rules and our will. Lord, just as Christ

submitted to you. Lord, Father, may we submit our lives

to you, Father, and Lord, that you receive all the

praise and all our glory from it. In your name,

we pray, and all to him