534 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 2 Book 45 - Order in the Local Church - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 45 Order in the Local Church - Part 2 I Timothy 2:8 - 6:20 We are taking it verse by verse. Paul was never against women, just for the sake of being against women - and anybody that thinks that, I send them into Romans chapter 16. In that chapter he commends more women than men who had helped him in the ministry. So there is a place for women in the Body of Christ. Let’s get right back to where we left off, I Timothy chapter 2 verse 11. I Timothy 2:11 Let’s go to Genesis chapter 3. Eve did. Never forget, even though women are on the same level ground with men in the Body of Christ, yet in the overall umbrella of God’s Sovereignty we have to always remember what took place in the beginning. Verse 16 of chapter 3 of Genesis. Genesis 3:16 Man was to be the head of the woman. Until the advent of Paul’s Gospel of Grace, the women of the world had no rights. They were never educated. Keep that in mind that this isn’t just Paul. So now, He causes Paul to write: I Timothy 2:12 "But I suffer (permit) not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence." The man was to maintain the place of authority but that didn’t mean that women couldn’t function in other roles in the Body of Christ. I Timothy 2:13 "For Adam was first formed, then Eve." Because man was made first and then Eve and then the next one is in verse 14. Adam was not deceived! Eve was. Which points up again, I think, an inherent weakness in the feminine makeup that they probably don’t have the aggressive stability of the man and all of these enter in to God’s instructions to the Christian Church, the Body of Christ and the function of the man and the women in that environment. I Timothy 2:14 Then verse 15. I Timothy 2:15a Just because Eve was in the transgression, she certainly didn’t lose the opportunity for salvation and as we well know, women are saved just as well as men. I Timothy 2:15b Not by having children. That becomes the way of salvation for women as well as for the men. Then: I Timothy 2:15c Pagan mythological idolatry. Now in that pagan culture, never forget that immorality ran rampant. Verse 1: I Timothy 3:1a I Timothy 3:1b If a man desire the office of a bishop, (or a Pastor is the word we would use today) he desireth a good work." I guess the first thing that I should do is to qualify the three words that Paul uses in Ephesians and here in Timothy and again in Titus, and that is the word "bishop" and "elder" and "deacon." The "elder" was the "man." The deacons in the early church were servants. There was never a single elder or pastor in the early Apostolic church. I Timothy 3:2 "A bishop (or a pastor) then must be blameless, (that is understandable. the husband of one wife,..." What does this mean, the husband of one wife? Divorce and take another one – divorce, etc. Prostitution. You don’t find a great Church hierarchy in Paul’s instructions. That is in II Timothy 2, verse 1. In chapter 2 verse 2 but I am going to read verse 1 as well. II Timothy 2:1-2 2. And the things that thou hast heard of me (that is, Paul’s doctrines of Grace) among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, (not a word about pastors and deacons here. This is to be committed to faithful men. Regardless of their station in the local church, evidently, and these men) who shall be able to teach others also." There is not a word in II Timothy about pastors and deacons and such an organization, but now the truth of Paul is to be committed to faithful "men." Never lose sight of that. I Timothy 3:2 I Timothy 3:3 How can you be a pastor if you have never had the anxiety of raising teenagers or in the husband and wife relationship which is different for someone who has never entered in. I Timothy 3:4 Getting along well with his wife.) I Timothy 3:5 "(For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)" You have children. Alright, verse 6, another good one! I Timothy 3:6a God doesn’t use ten year olds to preach and to be a pastor. I Timothy 3:6b Then verse 7. I Timothy 3:7 It’s just plain common sense. Now verse 8, I Timothy 3:8 Because the outside world is looking in and if the world looks and sees these church officers living no different than the world, then there is no testimony. Then verse 9. I Timothy 3:9a I Timothy 3:9b-10 So wives of deacons and pastors are to be the same type of a person. Verse 11 describes the role of the woman who is the wife of a deacon. I Timothy 3:11a "Even so must their wives be grave,..." I Timothy 3:11b #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible