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Day 3: Contextual Reading of the Bible (Part 4) · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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  Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is
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  designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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  walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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  the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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  right in. the text that has been weaponized by
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  those who are practicing sexism, gender discrimination,
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  and the exclusion, systemic exclusion of women
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  in leadership. Particularly we're concerned about
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  the church. And what we're trying to do is to
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  understand what is Paul saying First Timothy
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  chapter two, verse 12. Let me read that text
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  again. First Timothy chapter two, verse 12. Many
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  have used this to say a woman cannot teach in
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  the church and she cannot lead. She cannot be
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  a pastor. She should keep quiet. verse 12, and
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  I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority
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  over a man to be, but to be in silent. So what
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  we did was to look at first that in chapter one,
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  verse three, to fall, we saw that there is a
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  doctrine problem. So Paul sent Timothy to go
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  to Ephesus and said, there are lots of myths
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  in the sun, meaning that if we will say in general,
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  we will say that there are a lot of out of context
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  discussion, which is being taught that is not
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  sound to doctrine. There are myths. They are
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  endless genealogies, and they cause division.
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  They cause confusion, disputes, rather than Godly
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  edification. And we try to go to the church itself.
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  We saw when Paul established the church, had
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  spent two years in the school of Tyronus teaching
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  these people. And then, of course, commotion
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  starts in the town. because he used to go for
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  evangelism, do a lot of things. And there are
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  some people whose business is affected in the
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  sun. And so they say, you could say that the
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  problem is not first and foremost Artemis, because
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  when you see the young man started discussing,
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  he was concerned about their traits in the sun.
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  And I want to tell you the truth. All the issues
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  we are dealing with, slavery and all that, is
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  a problem of greed of men. in the sun, is about
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  the profit they will get. That's why I said,
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  ministry is sacrifice. If already your test board
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  has been spoiled by luxury, you're not going
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  to do ministry or else you compromise. One of
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  the things that you have to adopt as a discipline,
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  and that's what we call concentration, meaning
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  that there are things that might be your rights.
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  but you waive them because you want to stay focused.
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  I said, if you say you want to maintain your
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  concern about what people say about you, you
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  and lawyers will be friends. You will always
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  be going to court, defamation here, defamation
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  there, defamation here. You don't understand
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  what I'm trying to say? Yes, because people will
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  speak, they will call you devil. As I said, the
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  ones who are false prophets will be calling you
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  false prophets. You will be angry because the
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  one who is actually trying to tell you false
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  prophets, if you ask him to recite just two memory
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  verse, he doesn't know. You don't know last when
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  he went to church. But again, because now everybody
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  are for data, you can say anything. So you have
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  to be less sensitive concerning your reputation
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  and be more concerned about the character of
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  God, about the glory of God. As long as God is
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  glorified, you should be satisfied, even if some
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  people call you evil. Are we together? That is
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  a point. Secondly, you have to reduce your appetite.
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  Once you are focused on wanting to gain this,
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  gain that, gain this, gain this, gain this, gain
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  this, you are actually setting yourself for problem.
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  You have to tame your appetite in the sun. You
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  must be like Paul that you know how to be in
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  abyss and know how to be in what? In abound.
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  Hallelujah. So the temple of Artemis or the temple
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  of Diana In that temple, women held high ranking,
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  respectful leadership position. Remember, already
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  the goddess herself is a female. Are we together?
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  So in that temple, women held high ranking, respected
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  leadership role. such as high priestess and this
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  position of high priestess in the temple it grants
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  you immense public authority you know it's not
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  like today like now we have just like I said
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  we have seen it even the era of church that when
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  the church is is is closely related with the
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  state You see that if you're a bishop in that
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  moment, you're not just bishop in the church.
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  You have immense authority in the public domain,
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  in the society. You are the one who shape loss,
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  who shape what goes on. Not just only that, you
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  have a high opportunity to immense wealth, to
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  immense wealth so much because of your influence.
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  So at Ephesus, not just only that, whatever position
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  you have held in the temple of Artemis, it also
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  has its own power extended into the society.
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  So you are the people who have immense public
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  authority. And you see, these high priestesses
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  in the temple, there are positions which are
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  independent of your husband. Let me repeat it
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  again. They are entirely independent. Means that
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  authority surpasses the authority at home, sir.
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  Are you with me? Are you with me? Please understand
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  this context. This is very important. That authority
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  is an independent authority. It surpasses your
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  husband's status. because now you are dealing
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  with the community, the society. So Paul stationed
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  Timothy in this place and told him to fight false
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  doctrine. And these doctrines are feebles. So
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  when Paul wrote, go to verse 13. Now with this
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  understanding, I want you to read verse 13. of
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  chapter two. For Adam was formed first, then
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  Eve. Please, listen, the reason why Paul quote
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  this text was not because he wanted just to quote
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  anything. Remember, there was a doctrinal problem.
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  And the problem fundamentally has to do with
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  how the scripture is viewed. because there's
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  a corruption there's another doctrine so when
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  Paul wrote and said for Adam was from first he
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  was not trying to say that the woman is inferior
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  to a man that's not the point he is addressing
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  a problem in Ephesus no He was correcting an
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  efficient false doctrine about female supremacy.
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  Remember what I told you about the goddess Artemis,
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  right? So when he said, for Adam was from first,
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  then Eve is trying to reset the heretical order.
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  Remember I told you, when we are this high priestess,
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  their authority is supreme. is more than that
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  of their husbands. Their husbands start to, it's
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  independent because they are already firsts.
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  So Paul is saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  no, no. There is an order in scripture. Adam
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  was first. He's trying to confront this female
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  supremacy doctrinal that is being pushed. He
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  said, no. There is an order from the beginning.
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  Remember what Pastor Fred told us. When Jesus
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  was addressing the Pharisees, he immediately
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  asked him a question. He returned them back from
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  where? The beginning. It was not so. This is
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  the order. Now let me tell you something. In
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  Greek mythology, that's why you see Paul say
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  part of the first doctrine in first Timothy,
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  he said myths. That's febuls, right? In Greek
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  mythology, the goddess Artemis was said to have
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  been born first before her twin brother Apollo.
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  Let me repeat again. In Greek mythology, the
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  goddess herself, Artemis or Diana was said to
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  have been born first. before her twin brother
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  Apollo. In fact, when you read the myth, it says
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  that she first was born and she came and helped
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  her mother. Imagine that a baby, your twins inside
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  the womb, the first baby came out and the first
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  baby that came out will now come back and assist
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  the mother to give birth to the other twin. Are
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  you with me? So because she was born first before
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  her twin brother Apollo, so this day is a myth
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  that is mixed now. Those people who have been
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  saved from the temple, from that worship into
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  the church, came with that type of ideology of
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  female supremacy. because she was born first,
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  is the first born attitude that meets heavily
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  shaped by the doctrine of the female spiritual
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  supremacy at the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
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  That is the background I'm telling you. So when
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  Paul quoted that verse and said for Adam was
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  born first, then Eve, that was what he was confronting.
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  because they have been taught all the while when
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  they were still unbelievers that you are above
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  the man. Now that they are born again and they
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  enter the church, they came with that ideology.
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  They are the first. Paul said, no, it was not
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  so in the beginning. Look at verse 14. Paul then
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  added, and said, and Adam was not deceived. But
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  the woman being deceived fell into transgression.
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  Again, you see, when we read this verse, we don't
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  pay attention to the context. So it looks as
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  if Paul is saying here again that the woman is
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  gullible than the man. You see, don't miss it.
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  That's not issue. You know, some people have
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  used this so we put nice women in the sun. the
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  question i'm saying in your class are you the
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  first is it a woman that is leading you i mean
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  do you understand i'm trying to say oh god you
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  see some religious people max their their ignorance
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  and aside they are failing and the women are
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  leading their in their classes and then they'll
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  come to the scripture and say women have a chicken
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  brain it's you that have a chicken brain but
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  that's not what paul is addressing He is addressing
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  a doctrinal problem. And to understand what is
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  a doctrine, you are going to take this out of
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  context. So when Paul wrote again in verse 14,
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  and said, Adam was not deceived, but the woman
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  being deceived fell into transgression. He was
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  correcting again another myth beside the issue
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  of the firstborn myth. What is a myth? Because
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  Artemis is a goddess and supreme, spiritual supremacy
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  again there's a means that has been flying that
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  whatever a woman did she act in wisdom that is
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  the woman has more wisdom than the man including
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  that what Eve did that it was a wisdom is a Gnosis
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  this is a the hint of what we call of Gnosis
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  you know something Gnosis means she has a secret
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  knowledge secret wisdom So whatever she did,
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  what she acted was superior, was an enlightened
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  wisdom. So Paul was saying, no, no, no, no. There
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  was no wisdom in what the woman did. She was
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  simply tricked by the devil into sin. What she
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  did was not gnosis. What she did was a deception.
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  it was ticked he was ticked into sin again paul
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  was addressing a doctrinal problem that you see
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  two things address in that text so the first
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  doctrine in ethos was also a distortion of genesis
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  are we together was distortion of the intent
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  of god a myth when meat are set above the word
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  of God, the order of God. That's what Paul is
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  addressing. Now, the issue is that the question
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  we need to address was Paul addressing all women
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  when he said in verse 12, let's go back to verse
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  12, and I do not permit a woman to teach or to
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  absorb authority over the man. but be silent.
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  Was he talking to all women in the church? Again,
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  if you look at it, just like we did with the
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  other scriptures, if you read from verse one,
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  Paul started with a general instruction about
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  church from verse one. When you go down, he begin
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  to talk to church, I exhort first and foremost,
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  first of all, the supplication prayers, intercession,
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  giving of tongues. be made to all men for kings
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  and for all in authority and on and on verse
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  seven for which was appointed as a preacher and
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  then he kept talking about that some of the things
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  he was facing verse eight i desire therefore
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  you know sir that man now look at it once he
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  talks generally he now started focusing on specific
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  you understand what i'm saying now when he said
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  men he was not talking to women did you get what
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  i'm trying to say That means in that shot and
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  there is a problem also with men. Did you want
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  something? Listen when you see Paul saying certain
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  things he was not saying for saying sake In those
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  days, they don't just write a letter and just
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  send just tell the people to love the Lord Say
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  the people to be patient said no this they address
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  specific problems So when you said now after
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  talking generally now he turned to the man you
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  say hey man, let me address some problem And
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  it's part of the doctrinal problem, sir. He said,
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  men, this is what I desire, that you pray everywhere,
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  lifting up holy hands without rat and doubting.
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  You know what has happened there? There is aggravation
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  in that church. You understand? He said, don't
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  come to church. You understand? Having all those
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  kinds of confusion here and there. That is not
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  what to do. You understand? It's wrong. Don't
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  do that. Just one thing I want you to do, to
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  lift up holy hands, not filthy hands, not hands
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  full of rats, full of anger, divisions. He's
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  addressing me, he know men, men that are angry.
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  You know, Sam, brother, you need to, anger is
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  all your portion. Don't say that's how we are
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  in our family. That's not, which family are you
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  talking about? How many families do you have?
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  And then you keep shouting, I've been translated
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  from the kingdom of that means into the kingdom
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  of that song. In this kingdom, we don't have
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  anything like that. Generally, because you normally
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  say, you have to understand, you're not just
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  a body. Your hormones, you're not under the control
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  of your hormones. Generally, there is sex. Of
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  course, because of testosterone, Men are generally
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  aggressive. That's why you have more men in prison
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  than women. You are not a body. You are a regenerated
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  person. You can't live by that. It's not the
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  fruit of the spirit. That's why it's telling
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  them, no, that's not your identity. Lift up holy
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  hands with that wrath, with that anger. He's
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  not a portion without doubting without confusion
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  without disputing without division Then he don't
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  turn to women he said in like manner, did you
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  see that? Did you see the kind of things? We're
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  saying, you know, we've been seen likewise, you
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  know, sir Meaning that when Paul is saying he's
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  just applying the same principle or two different
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  Groups of people in the nature if he's discussing
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  love he cannot turn to married women and address
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  them and say okay this is how you should apply
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  love within the context of your relationship
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  if he's addressing fathers this is how you should
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  you admit you you you demonstrate love within
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  the context of your relationship but it's the
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  same thing that's why he said in like manner
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  also that women so that means the matter fundamentally
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  the matter he was telling the men to do is exactly
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  what he's telling the woman is only that he's
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  applying it to the problem of the women at that
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  moment because the problem again as we see because
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  if a woman as we have seen in the that came from
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  the temple of Artemis what do you expect she
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  should be doing of course that woman does have
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  you seen those women that are supreme you know
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  you know they pay attention to their appearance
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  are we together are we together have you seen
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  a big big woman or powerful women in society
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  brother before they come out hey you know what
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  they have done to them understand they will ensure
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  that every every of the addressing has a meaning
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  i was i was sometimes when i sit down i was uh
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  after maybe a program maybe program of donald
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  trump or this i'll see people analyzing the the
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  the the outfits that uh the trump's wife war
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  They will be saying, this is what it means. This
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  is the color of this. It was chosen by this.
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  I say, uh -uh. Me, I don't know how the color
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  speaks. But I'm trying to let you know that when
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  you are at that level, sir, you don't come out
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  anyhow. The dressing you are coming out is in
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  itself a message. That is what the women were
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  doing. And they are neglecting the main thing.
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  Remember where they were coming from. Paul is
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  saying no, no, no, no, that is not correct. You're
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  supposed to pay attention to your attitude, your
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  inner heart, your character, much more than you
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  pay attention to your appearance. He was not
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  saying don't wear anything. He was saying priority,
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  setting priority. And the issue is what he was
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  addressing. is the problem at Ephesus. Are we
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  together? That's what he was doing. And so verse
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  9, and he moved to verse 10. And then he told
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  them that that is what is proper. For women professing
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  goodliness with good works, that is the order
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  of your identity. It's not subjugation. It's
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  telling them their identity, that first attitude.
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  Peter said the same thing in the sun. The inner
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  beauty, you pay attention to it. Then verse 11.
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  You see, in verse 11, he suddenly changed. He
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  didn't say women. He now said, let a woman, are
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  we together? Let a what? A woman learn in silent
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  with all submission. And I do not permit a woman
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  to teach or to absorb authority over a man. But
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  to be, I repeat that word again, he did in 11
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  and said, but what? In silent. Which means that
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  by starting to say silent, repeat it again, you
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  understand? Over a man, you understand? Because
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  in the verse nine, verse 8, he said men alone.
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  He didn't mix them. Verse 9 and 10, he said women.
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  He didn't mix them. When he came to verse 11,
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  he mixed the two, talking about the relationship
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  between the two. That means he was not speaking
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  to general women. He was speaking to who a man
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  and a woman within the context of marriage. Are
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  we together? He was speaking to a man and a woman
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  within the context of marriage. That means he
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  was addressing three set of people in this text.
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  Now, why do we say? It's not because we are just
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  wanting to say that there are evidence within
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  the text that verse 11, verse 12 is talking to
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  married people. Or in this way, married women.
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  Are we together? Married women. First, this text,
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  they say direct parallel to another text in Corinthians.
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  Let's look at it quickly. So it's not today that
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  Paul have admonished people in this manner. 1
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  Corinthians 14. 1 Corinthians 14, verse 34. We
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  have dealt with this text in this church already.
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  So I'm going to just read it in the sun. 14 verse
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  34. Let your women keep silent. Did you hear
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  silent again? Keep silent in churches for they
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  are not permitted to speak, but they are to be
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  submissive. Is that what we saw again? Silent
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  submission. Do you understand what I'm trying
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  to say? That's the same thing. As the law also
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  says, verse 35, and if they want to learn something,
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  let them ask their own husbands at home, for
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  it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
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  Now, we're not dealing with this text because
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  we have dealt with it. I'm trying to show you
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  the parallel. that does the same thing, silent
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  submission. And this one even made it clear because
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  in Timothy he said man and woman. Here it makes
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  it vivid, husband. You understand? And why? Even
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  though the word, Greek word, is the same, wife,
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  woman, you understand, is the same, gune. So
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  it is a context that tell us. what exactly he's
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  talking about because the Greek word is the one
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  word, gunei. So what we're trying to say again
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  is that he said they should ask their husband
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  at home. That means is a home of yes. Then there's
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  a problem when you drag a problem from a family
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  problem and drag it into the public domain. That
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  means you are out of context. Now let me give
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  you more evidence that shows us that this is
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  one that shows us that what Paul was discussing
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  in verse 11 and verse 12 is talking to a couple
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  or married women. So Paul talks about submission.
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  Now you see there is Because there's another
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  word aside just being the words the parallel
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  We see it there is one word that is important
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  there submission Now nowhere in the Bible entire
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  Bible that asks women to submit to all men Let
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  me repeat again nowhere in the entire Bible that
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  asked women to submit to who? to all men. Anywhere
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  you see, submission to a man is within the context
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  of a home. You understand? Ephesians 5 also tells
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  us where we saw. In fact, he said, submit to
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  their own husbands, not someone else's husband.
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  Are you with me? You cannot say, you come here
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  and you're commanding my wife to submit to you.
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  You are dead on arrival. Did you understand what
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  I'm saying? No. She has only one to submit to.
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  Because that kind of expression of love is only
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  effected within the context of marriage. We have
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  submission, we will submit to the church. That
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  is not the same. Let me tell you one thing. In
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  submission to the woman involves sex. That's
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  why her body is not her body, but the husband's.
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  And the husband's is not his body, but the wife.
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  There are other submission that brother, you
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  can't do it. So you can't tell another man's
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  wife to submit to you. How? That's why we said
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  it is only within the context of the house, the
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  home. So sir, you are not the head of every woman.
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  It's clear, 1 Corinthians 11 tells us, right?
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  He's a husband that is the head of his wife,
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  not all men. You are not. So that's another thing
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  we saw in that Timothy that shows to us that
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  no, this could not have been told to the women
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  in Ephesus that you have to submit to all the
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  men in the church. How could that be? That would
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  have been aberrations. Are we together? Now we
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  have made up, I said, my love, when I met her
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  some years ago, and I unveiled the vision and
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  I turned her head for her to be following me.
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  You know, some say, huh? She agreed and she was
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  following me. And then now, we are making another
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  decision to move to somewhere else. Can I call
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  my mid -person friend wherever and say, well,
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  let's go? Did you understand? Did you understand
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  what I'm trying to say? How do you expect that
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  to say, the Bible says it's a summit to a man?
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  Did you understand what I'm trying to say? You
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  see, that's the point we're seeing. The issue
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  is that there are many things. When we talk about
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  submission in marriage, it can be applicable
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  in any other relationship. Because it's a unique
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  expression of love within the context of marriage.
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  There are other submissions in the church. Of
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  course, they ask the young men members to submit
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  to the elders. That's not the same as a submission
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  of a woman to the man. That's also expression
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  of love. but is done in a way different from
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  what you are, is obtainable within the context
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  of a marriage. So it could not have been poured
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  a blanket to say every woman, you have to submit
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  to all women, men. No. No. We have men that are
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  still finding their way, men that do not know
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  their left and right, you understand? Men that
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  are still struggling. How can you expect every
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  woman to submit to any man? I mean, he's not
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  even sensible in the sun. So that is a point
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  here. Are we together? Let me show you another
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  thing. Look at us starting. Why we are saying
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  that this instruction is within the context of
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  marriage. Was starting you say for Adam was from
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  first and then if you see this text Wherever
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  this text was pointed to Are we together is within
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  the context of marriage? Are we together where
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  issue of Adam and Eve we have many other this
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  thing Jesus pointed it in the Sun is a discourse
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  discussion about divorce about problem in marriage
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  in the Sun Paul also has shown us in Ephesians
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  Matthew 19, the same thing. Are we together?
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  It's within the context of marriage. If it is
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  not the context of marriage, it is about something
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  that is done in marriage. Did you hear what I
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  said? If it's not just about marriage within
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  that context of marriage, it's about something
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  that is done in marriage. For example, in 1 Corinthians,
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  chapter six. Well, Paul could take the verse
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  he say for the scripture says in the Sun that
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  Talk about that if you are joined with the Lord
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  your one flesh and your one spirit in the Sun
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  We either is joined to a hallowed is one flesh
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  for the scripture says yeah that what? That the
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  two shall become One flesh the context of that
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  place is immorality trying to make them understand
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  how they cannot carry that which belong to Christ
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  because you are one with god and go and give
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  it to another illegal person the illegal person
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  there is the harlot because that's illegality
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  you understand that is you carry someone's property
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  you go and give to another person do you understand
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  what i'm trying to say and so what they are happening
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  here is the sex here and the sex means union
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  that's the definition of sex you understand in
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  marriage you understand what tells us about the
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  union and that's the demonstration that is being
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  used as the relationship between Christ and the
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  church. Did you understand what I'm trying to
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  say? So it is a sex that man defines such a union
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  together. You understand? So when you carry yourself
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  and go and unite with another person, that's
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  why you call it immorality. That's illegal. So
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  he said if you joined yourself to God, which
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  is demonstrated by the relationship between a
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  man and his wife, So that's why I said, if your
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  context is not talking about marriage, it's talking
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  about something that is done in the marriage.
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  Did you understand what I'm trying to say? So
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  there is no how you will prove you see Adam and
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  Eve, you understand, and their relationship.
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  And you say it's talking to the general church.
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  Are we together? Amen. So this is an exclusive
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  speaking about marital issues. So in 1st Timothy
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  chapter 2 verse 11, Paul stated, let a woman
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  learn in silence. Look at verse 12. He said,
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  and I do not permit a woman to teach or to have
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  authority over a man but to be in silence. Remember,
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  we have already dealt yesterday with the issue
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  of context. You understand? You don't read a
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  verse with your knowledge of a modern times.
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  You need to read it. What does that mean to be
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  silent? Because the word in Greek, silent, is
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  not always to be mute. Because if you say that
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  they should be mute, it doesn't make sense. Our
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  sister just sang for us here. If we are to practice
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  this, they will come here. They will not say
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  good morning. They will not say good night. They
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  will not say anything. They will keep quiet.
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  That's the meaning, the literal meaning of what
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  some people don't want to apply, if really you
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  are going for that. That means all these women
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  that come to church, when they enter, they will
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  enter with their mouth shut. You understand?
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  No speaking, nothing. That's what the meaning
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  of literal silent means. Are you with me? Are
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  you with me? But that is not what Paul meant
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  there. Because he has already instructed women
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  already. You understand? In fact, we see in scripture,
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  a woman can prophesy. Is that correct? In fact,
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  1 Corinthians 11 tells us, if a woman prophesies,
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  right, or prays, that means she can pray. So
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  that means I'll be a Confucian. If it means literal,
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  so how comes then they can prophesy? So that
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  means that is not what he's saying. That's not
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  what he's saying. Are we together? So let's deal
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  with the word silent first. Then we'll just...
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  go out of here. In scriptures, the word silent,
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  as we said, doesn't have a blanket meaning. Remember,
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  the context helps us to define words, their usage
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  within the context. Let me give you an example.
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  Of course, the word silent can be mute in some
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  other places, but that's not, you don't use a
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  blanket meaning. We have said it over and over
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  in this church, right? Like the word world is
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  used several times in different ways. It's a
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  word, the same word in English, but it has different
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  meaning. We have cosmos, we have aeons, right?
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  We have okiume, okiumene. You understand? These
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  are all Greek words. But brother, they are translated
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  into English in the Bible, they all means wall,
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  wall, wall, wall, wall, but they don't mean the
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  same thing. So that means we have to read closely.
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  Are we together? We have to what? Read closely.
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  I saw even in English, I saw one was doing some
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  play of what? What do you call it? Is it homophones?
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  My English, go help me. You understand? Yes,
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  one or go, you can help me. You have one word,
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  you understand? The same sound. In fact, there's
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  another one he was saying. It's the same word,
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  but when you sound it differently, what do you
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  call that one? It is the same word, but they
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  have different meaning the way they are sound.
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  You understand? So I'm just, I say, ah, hey,
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  hey. You understand? Are we together? For example,
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  beat. Hmm? B -E -A -T. It can be choir beats.
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  Eh? It can be, eh? Are we together? Amen. So
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  that means even in English, I have those kind
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  of things. So you can use the word a blanket.
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  Are we together? let me give you an example first
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  of solonia first of solonian just an example
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  where it is the word that was silent was not
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  used as mute first of solonian chapter 3 verse
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  12 first of solonian 312 and may the lord make
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  you increase Okay, second, sorry, let's say first,
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  second Thessalonians, sorry, second Thessalonians
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  3 .12. Now those who are such we command and
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  exalt through our Lord Jesus Christ that they
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  walk in quietness. That word quietness is the
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  same word as silent. and eat their own bread.
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  Now, do you think it means that you should walk
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  with your mouth mute? That's what you're saying
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  here? No. He's saying that you should walk in
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  order. You understand? So the word here, silent,
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  was translated from the Greek word, hesychia,
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  or hesychia, H -E -S -H -E -S. H -E -S -Y -C
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  -H -I -E, H -E -S -Y -C -H -I -E, has to chair.
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  It's a Greek word, it's a feminine noun. Now
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  it is a word that was translated to asylum or
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  quietness. It means to settle down. It means
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  to be calm. It means to be orderly. To settle
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  down, to be calm, to be orderly. In fact, this
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  word, hesychia, was derived from the root word,
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  hesychios, that is H -E, S -Y -C -H -I -O -S,
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  H -C -T -O's. And this H -C -T -O's is an adjective.
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  It means peaceful or undisturbing. Peaceful or
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  undisturbing. So verse 11, let's go back to first
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  Moti. 2 verse 11, he said, let the woman learn
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  in silence with all submission. So it means he's
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  saying that let the woman have a teachable disposition,
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  is that correct? Meaning to be orderly, have
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  a teachable disposition, that it means to teach
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  in silence or to learn in silence, sorry. To
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  learn in silence, it doesn't mean to patlock
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  your mouth while you are learning. No, it said
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  to be peaceful, to be only stopping. You understand?
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  I mean, those of us that are lecturers, we met
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  some aggressive students, right? Hallelujah.
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  There are students that are not peaceful learners.
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  Did you understand what I'm trying to say? They
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  are very proud. They know nothing. but they want
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  to scatter the whole uh something you have to
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  put them in order if not they would this they
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  will they will scatter the the the class are
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  we together this is the type of people now please
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  as we are doing this right be thinking about
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  where we are coming our context you know our
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  context is that these are women coming from the
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  temple of Artemis some of them must have been
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  high priestess You understand? Now they are coming
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  with their supremacy mentality. They don't want
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  to learn. They are always busy. You understand?
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  He said, mm -mm, mm -mm, mm -mm. He said, have
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  a teachable disposition. So he's not saying keep
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  quiet. It doesn't even make sense. You understand?
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  Yes. You understand? Don't be arrogant. That's
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  what he's saying. You understand? Be humble.
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  When you relate with your husband be humble In
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  the Sun are we together so that by the way, let's
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  go back again. There's another word verse 12
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  so already because he said have a teachable disposition
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  in all submission because by adding with all
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  submission that means he is talking about arrogance
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  Supremacy kind of thinking you know son prides
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  and confusion you don't want to you understand
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  he said no no no no that's not how to go about
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  it this is your your nature in Christ that you
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  learn in silent and that learning has a disposition
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  is that of humility with submission to your husband
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  are we together amen now verse 12 he said I do
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  not He continued, he said, I do not permit a
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  woman to teach or to have authority over the
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  man. Remember, this man here is not every man.
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  He's her husband. Are we together? Good. He said,
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  I do not permit a woman to teach. What does teaching
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  means? What is teaching? Now, if you see, if
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  it's just a blanket again words, it means to
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  teach. just to pass information. And that means
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  I'll be confused. Are we together? Because if
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  that verse 12 were a permanent universal ban
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  that women should not teach, it would directly
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  contradict Paul himself, the rest of his colleagues.
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  You understand what I'm saying? When they met
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  with the couples Priscilla and Aquila, they were
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  tent -makers, co -workers. Amen. In Act 18, we
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  saw that in Act 26, Aquila and Priscilla, he's
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  not just Aquila, he said Aquila and Priscilla,
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  they call a man, verse in scripture, called Apollos.
• 48:57
  They say, there is some loopholes in your doctrine.
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  You now call him and polish his head. Do you
• 49:05
  want to sometimes say? That means, if that's
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  the case, fall is burning woman. how else he
• 49:11
  is working do you know that he also in his letter
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  in his romance he also talks about great aquila
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  you know something i'm saying i'm priscilla that
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  means he said they are co -workers we have done
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  this when we are dealing with the women's issues
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  about women's liberty in the son in romance of
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  the 16 verse one and two he also commanded phoebe
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  He's a woman. Paul commanded her. He uses the
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  word documus. You understand? He said Phoebe
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  was a, she's a deacon, because that word documus
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  in Greek is a minister or a deacon. Do you want
• 49:54
  something? Hey, are we together? Because a deacon
• 49:58
  in the church is a teacher. A minister is a teacher.
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  Did you want to know something, Francis? If you
• 50:05
  read 1 Timothy, He gave for bishop and details,
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  right? Are we together? One of the criteria is
• 50:15
  that they must not be novices in the things of
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  God. So there's no how he's commending Phoebe
• 50:24
  and he's asking the brethren to support her in
• 50:26
  her ministry of ministering. That ministry is
• 50:29
  not food that she's sharing because documents
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  is not used for that. Documus is used for deacon
• 50:39
  or a minister. One that preaches the word. Romans
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  16 verse 7, he also talks about Jumeah. This
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  one, he commended Isaiah, he's an outstanding
• 50:56
  apostle. Are we together? An outstanding apostle.
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  Amen. in fact he said she was before me she was
• 51:08
  in Christ before me are we together so there
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  is no how you will now say that Paul is putting
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  a blanket listen that means you are taking out
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  of context he's out of context I want you to
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  note before we come to explain what teach means
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  they say what there you now say oh because he
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  said verse 12, first Timur teach of the two verse
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  12, he said I do not permit a woman to teach
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  or to have authority. He's not a mystic. He didn't
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  say to teach and to have authority. He say or.
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  It's a reason. Hallelujah. Now that word or is
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  a conjunction. is translated from the Greek word
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  ode, that is O -U -D -E, O -U -D -E, which frequently
• 52:17
  links two words together to express a complex.
• 52:28
  This word or ode is used to link two words or
• 52:35
  two expressions. And the idea by linking them
• 52:40
  is to express a single complex idea that you
• 52:46
  cannot use just one word. Do you understand what
• 52:48
  I'm trying to say? You want to explain something.
• 52:50
  You don't want to use one thing. It's the same
• 52:53
  idea, but you want to use multiple words or statement
• 52:58
  and connect them together. Did you understand
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  what I'm trying to say? That is what it means.
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  So, for example, let me give you an example where
• 53:08
  that word is. Matthew 7 verse 18. Please note
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  this. Matthew 7 verse 18. Now look at it. A tree
• 53:23
  cannot bear, a good tree cannot bear bad fruits.
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  Nor, you see that word, nor is the same word
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  or day. Or can a bad tree bear good fruit? Listen,
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  the whole statement here is one idea. It's just
• 53:46
  trying to say it in another way to explain a
• 53:49
  single complex idea, but using two statement
• 53:53
  and connect them together. Are we together? Amen.
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  Yes. Let me give you another one. Matthew 10,
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  go to Matthew 10 verse 24. Matthew 10, 24. So
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  I'm trying to let you know that the one idea
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  there is trying to say that, you understand,
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  you will know a tree from the fruit it produces.
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  That's the idea. Are we together? That's the
• 54:21
  idea Jesus was trying to pass. One idea, but
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  using two statement to explain the two ideas.
• 54:28
  and connect them with Odei. Yes. Are you there?
• 54:34
  A disciple is not above his teacher, nor, now
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  look at it, that word nor is the same word Odei.
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  You understand? Nor a servant above his master.
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  Look at it. He said, disciple, teacher, servant,
• 54:54
  master. This is the same idea. Is trying to communicate
• 54:59
  what he's saying if you read the context just
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  like I was saying He's a one complex idea. He
• 55:05
  was talking that Jesus was saying if I have been
• 55:09
  persecuted you as my Disciples you'll be persecuted.
• 55:13
  That's why he's saying a Teach a disciple is
• 55:16
  not above his teacher. No a servant above his
• 55:19
  master That means whatever that was done to me
• 55:22
  was will be done to you That is the idea he's
• 55:26
  trying to pass. And so he uses two statements,
• 55:29
  you understand, and then leading them by Odei,
• 55:33
  just to explain that complex idea. Are we together?
• 55:37
  Amen. So you can now see that the first statement
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  is the same with the second statement, because
• 55:43
  they are explaining a complex idea. Are we together?
• 55:46
  Let's go back to that text in second tumultu.
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  12. So when you see, he said, I do not permit
• 55:57
  a woman to teach. That means the teaching will
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  not be referring just merely passing an information.
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  It is related to the issue of domineering, the
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  issue of absorbing authority. That's why he said,
• 56:17
  all have authority over the man. So what Paul
• 56:23
  is saying is that, that teaching there is not
• 56:26
  just mere teaching. It's absorbing authority.
• 56:31
  Are we together? Are we together? So this, normally
• 56:36
  when you see these complex things are passed
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  together, is always, is a figure of switch. When
• 56:43
  you have two different statement, trying to express
• 56:46
  a complex idea and then use that link. You understand?
• 56:50
  That conjunction of oddy, to express a complex
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  idea, is a figure of speech we call hen -dear
• 57:01
  -dears. I know people don't want literature.
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  Hallelujah. Let me spell it. We are adding, I
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  mean, how many figure of speech are we learning
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  in this torture? We are still learning more,
• 57:16
  you understand? Amen. And that's why we said
• 57:18
  that the Bible is a literary text. Are we together?
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  H -E -N -D -I -A -D -Y -S. H -E -N -D -I -A -D
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  -Y -S. H -E -N -D -I -A -D -Y -S. Is a figure
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  of speech. where by you want to express a complex
• 57:45
  idea but you use a link you know son you link
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  to statement in a way to all express that idea
• 57:56
  that's the figure of speech that's exactly what
• 57:59
  paul did there here and we saw in jesus used
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  it are we together amen yes so paul was not speaking
• 58:09
  about two separate ideas he was not saying teach
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  he was also a sub authority he's talking about
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  the same thing he's talking about the supreme
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  mercy the female spiritual supremacy that attitude
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  of domineering that attitude of pride that was
• 58:28
  brought from the temple of artemis that was what
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  paul was addressing and so in verse 12 he said
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  i do not permit your husband i mean the woman
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  to teach or to have authority over the man, but
• 58:45
  to be silent. Remember, we've already said that's
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  silent. We said, but she should have a teachable
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  disposition. That's what silent means. So to
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  teach is not a separate idea with to have authority.
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  No, over. Or to absorb authority. In the sun.
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  Direct half is to absorb. You understand? Let
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  me explain to you these words here. Because they
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  are words that are careful. Paul chose those
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  words. He didn't, he is careful to choose them.
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  You know, sometimes there's a way Englishman
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  water some water, you would think that is just,
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  no, no. He carefully chose them. So by joining
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  the word or, the second phrase to half, authority
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  over. He tried to define the toxic nature of
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  the first. Do you understand what I'm trying
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  to say? By saying or absorb authority or have
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  authority, he's trying to tell you the kind of
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  the teaching Paul is talking about, that I do
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  not permit a woman to do that. That this type
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  of a teaching is not just merely to pass information.
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  It's a domineering toxic, you understand? supremacy
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  mentality that is brought from a foreign place
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  and that does not glorify god it means teaching
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  you understand that is bossy it's not just normal
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  positive acts this is not a positive like like
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  what many of us do in the class personal td personal
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  course and the rest you know something it's not
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  a positive teaching Listen, the teaching here
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  is not a positive teaching wanting somebody to
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  learn something. Like what we do in school, that
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  you are proud that somebody learn after you and
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  graduates. You understand? It's not positive,
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  it's negative. It's not intended to pass on information.
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  It's intended to dominate. It's intended to enslave.
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  Did you understand what I'm saying? Have you
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  seen those women before? That the man have no
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  wealth in his house? Have you seen them? Oh,
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  you have not seen them. May God never make you
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  to see them. You know what I'm saying? She is
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  the ultimate, the alpha and omega in the sun.
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  Whatever she says stands. She has no world. That
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  is this Artemis. She is from the daughters of
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  Artemis. Are we together? So this teaching here
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  is not positive. It's not helping someone to
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  succeed. It is the teaching that dominates, that
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  bullies. To have authority of sub -authority
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  means to take or to keep power. Now listen, that
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  word have is the word usurp, right? In some translation,
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  use the word usurp, right? That is you. s -u
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  -r -p -s it's not that you see we sang a song
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  oh jesus i have authority this authority is given
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  to us we didn't collect it by force is yes now
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  the exactly sir the you sub -authority sir is
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  the authority of kurita is the one that you collect
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  by force it's not your place but you collect
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  it there's something and you rule with iron fist
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  because the reason is that you are also afraid
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  because it's not your position. It's not that
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  people voted you in power say we love you. We
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  want you to rule us. No. It's like you collected
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  by force. So you would necessarily have to rule
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  with iron fist. That is a kind of authority here.
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  So this authority is it means to have authority
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  or to assume authority means to take power to
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  take a position by a force you understand without
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  legal right you don't have legal right in christ
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  as i said the position of a man as the head of
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  the home is an election of grace it's not because
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  he's wiser it's not because it's not it's an
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  election of grace you understand saying So the
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  position he is carrying is not an usup authority.
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  It is not an authority he hijacks. But for the
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  woman to come and say, Paul said, I do not permit
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  her. That means it's an illegal position. This
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  is what Paul was addressing. And remember, this
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  is an idea that he's addressing. They are coming
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  from the temple of Artemis. So the position is
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  important and I want you to note. So the wife
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  shouldn't take the position of authority because
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  it's divinely given to her husband. And so the
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  word, importantly, the whole word means to dominate,
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  to take power by force. to be autocratic, to
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  have an absolute power, that's what it means,
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  to be a bully, to practice self -assertive aggressive
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  control, that's what that means. It's not just
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  to teach that they want authority define the
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  kind of teaching Paul was talking about. And
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  this is not, let me explain. what Paul is not
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  saying, and that's what the error of many of
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  our churches. They think here that this teacher
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  is talking about just merely teaching the Bible.
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  This is a positive one. This teacher is a negative
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  one. Are we together? And when you check in the
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  church, let me give you some thought here. Now
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  there are different words used. Oh, I have to
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  give you this word, please. Have authority, because
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  that word authority, we have to define it. The
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  entire word, please follow me. The entire word
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  to have authority there is autentio in Greek,
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  autentio. To have authority is autentio in Greek,
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  means A -U -T -H -E -N -T -U, and T -O, sorry.
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  A -U -T -H -E -N -T -U. E -N -T -E -O. Please
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  pay attention. Because authority is not authority
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  everywhere. This one here, authority, this one,
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  is used only once and in this place. It's not
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  a mistake. Paul deliberately chose this word.
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  This word here is only used, that's the only
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  place used in the Bible. And as I said, this
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  autentio means to have authority. It's a verb.
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  It's actually, it's not a positive one. It is
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  to dominate, as I said. It is to take power by
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  force. It is to be autocratic, as I said. is
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  to be a bully. To have an absolute power. That
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  means to be an absolute master. You know absolute.
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  Means the other person has no say. As I said
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  also, it means to practice a self assertive.
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  You know self assertive? Means you are the one
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  who assert yourself. or a self -aggressive control.
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  So it's meant to be a manipulative power. Now,
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  this autentitude, as I said, is the only place
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  it appears, this authority here. This is different
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  from the church power. or the leadership of the
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  church authority. This is different from the
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  believer's authority. And it's also different
• 1:07:53
  from governmental authority. Remember in the
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  Bible, God, you know, this is maybe to help to
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  address some of these things also. God asks us
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  to submit to the governmental authority. Is that
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  correct? You know, some people are saying, what
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  if they are tyrant? What the word the Bible use
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  is not authentic. to refer to those authorities.
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  Now, let me start with the church. What is the
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  word used as church authority or church leadership
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  authority? Paul used the word exusia. E -X -O
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  -U -S -I -A. X -E -X -O -U -S -I -A. This is
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  a healthy authority. It's not a tyrant authority.
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  Let me give you some text. 1 Corinthians chapter
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  9. 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 4 to 6. Do we
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  have no right? Look at it. That word right is
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  the word exusia. is an apostolic authority to
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  eat and drink? Do we have no right to take along
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  a believing wife as do also the other apostles,
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  the brother of the Lord and Cephas? Or is it
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  only Barnabas and I who have no right. That word
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  right there is a word authority or exusia, to
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  refrain from working. Are we together? What Paul
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  is saying that we have the right to demand your
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  material things because a laborer is worthy for
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  his wages. You know what I'm saying? but they
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  say we waive that authority. It's an apostolic
• 1:10:10
  authority. This is not manipulative. This is
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  the right given to them by the Lord, that those
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  that walk in the altar will eat from the altar.
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  Did you understand something? It's not what you
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  give to a pastor. You know, some of us have to
• 1:10:28
  understand. When you are giving and taking care
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  of your pastor, it's not that he is the one who
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  require it, it's a divine authority is a divine
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  privilege. Did you get what I'm trying to say?
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  1 Corinthians 9 verse 12. Let me give you another
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  one. Look at verse 12, the same 1 Corinthians
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  9. If others are partakers of this right over
• 1:10:59
  you, are we not even more? Nonetheless, we have
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  not used this right But endure all things, lest
• 1:11:08
  we hinder the gospel of Jesus Christ. That means
• 1:11:11
  Paul is willing to waive even the right giving
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  to him by God, so that he will not be a hindrance
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  to the preaching of the gospel. That's why you
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  always say, I have shown you an example by working
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  that you support the weak. For the sake, that's
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  leadership. When I'm talking about leadership
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  in the home, that's exactly. You want to teach
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  your wife something. You don't just say, hey,
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  do, do, do, do always. It's that you demonstrate
• 1:11:39
  it. That's leadership. Paul wants to teach these
• 1:11:41
  people sacrifice and how to support the weak
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  in the family and in the church. He said, OK,
• 1:11:48
  I waive my right for you to give to me. I will
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  go and work with my hand and show you how you
• 1:11:54
  should do it. And then when he makes money, he
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  supports the weak and said, this is how you should
• 1:11:59
  do it. That's a leader. Second Corinthians chapter
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  10 verse 8. This right is called exucia. Second
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  Corinthians 10 verse 8. He said, for even if
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  I should boast somewhat more about our authority,
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  which the Lord gave us, did you see that? He
• 1:12:33
  did not hijack it. It was given to them. For
• 1:12:39
  who? For edification, that's positive. This is
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  the authority we are talking about. Exucia, not
• 1:12:45
  Othentio. Othentio is an aggressive, abusive
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  power, authority. Exucia is one for edification.
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  And not for your destruction. Exucia, sir, the
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  church authority. Is not for destruction is for
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  edification. This is why they are this is what
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  they are hindering women to do That is not the
• 1:13:11
  same with a turn to The Bible never Said that
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  the woman should not have exusia. You know something
• 1:13:19
  because is one given by God So we should not
• 1:13:26
  confuse the two And say that God banned women
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  from leadership and authority in the church.
• 1:13:33
  No, they are not the same, sir. Let me give one
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  more here. 2nd Thessalonians. I have to do this
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  one. 2nd Thessalonians. Even if we will finish
• 1:13:49
  this one alone, it's okay. Did you want something?
• 1:13:54
  Are you 2nd Thessalonians? 3 verse 9. 2 Thessalonians
• 1:13:59
  3 verse 9. He said, none because we do not have
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  authority, but to make our self worth an example
• 1:14:13
  of how you should follow us. That's just what
• 1:14:18
  I have said, is authority. It has been given
• 1:14:22
  to them. And it is for edification, not for destruction.
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  is a power, is an authority for confusion. Now,
• 1:14:33
  the believer has also that. Let's look at the
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  believer. This one is for the church authorities.
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  What about the believer? The believer also has
• 1:14:42
  authority. And the authority is also a exusiasa.
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  It's not autentio. It's not for destruction.
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  1 Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 4. This one,
• 1:14:54
  in fact, he uses The what? Let me, let me read
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  it here. The wife does not have authority. Now,
• 1:15:04
  this authority is not attentive. You know what
• 1:15:08
  I'm saying? Over her own body, but the husband.
• 1:15:11
  That means this authority is not an evil authority.
• 1:15:16
  It's not saying that the woman will be subjected
• 1:15:18
  by the man. No. You know what I'm saying? He
• 1:15:22
  said, and likewise, the husband does not have
• 1:15:25
  authority. over his own body but that means both
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  of them have this authority over the other's
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  body and this authority is not authentic it's
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  not the one that mutilates that that tarnish
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  it's not the one you understand it's not selfish
• 1:15:46
  you understand that you the husband you're only
• 1:15:49
  the one once you enjoy your wife and move you
• 1:15:52
  don't care that your wife enjoy it or not That
• 1:15:54
  is not the one. It's not a selfish power. It's
• 1:15:58
  not a selfish power. In fact, here he uses the
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  verb of exusia. Exusia is a noun. He uses the
• 1:16:05
  verb of it, which is exusiazo. Are we together?
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  You just add zo to it. Z -O, zo. Go to 37 for
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  me. 37. Nevertheless, he who stands steadfast
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  in his heart, having no necessity but has power
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  over his own will and has so determined in his
• 1:16:41
  heart that he will keep his virgin thus well.
• 1:16:47
  You know, many people have mutilated, even Amplify
• 1:16:50
  have confused this text. They are thinking that
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  he's talking about the father of the woman. But
• 1:16:57
  he's talking about the man himself. That is the
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  young man has authority over if he thinks that
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  he can be able to tame himself, to tame his loss,
• 1:17:07
  he does not need to marry. He can decide not
• 1:17:11
  to. That is within his control. Are we together?
• 1:17:16
  He said, if what? Having no necessity. He said,
• 1:17:20
  but has power over his will. Do you understand?
• 1:17:24
  He said, and has so determined. in his heart
• 1:17:27
  that he will keep his virgin. That is, he will
• 1:17:30
  keep himself because he is a virgin. Do you understand
• 1:17:33
  what I'm saying? He said he does well. He's trying
• 1:17:37
  to say that if you decide not to marry, you have
• 1:17:41
  done well. Do you understand what I'm trying
• 1:17:43
  to say? But it has a condition if you have exusia
• 1:17:48
  over your passions. Because those who does not
• 1:17:51
  have, He has already told them in verse one,
• 1:17:54
  instead of you to born with loss, what you should
• 1:17:56
  do? Go and marry. You are laughing. Paul is not
• 1:18:06
  just any how, he is addressing reality. Brother,
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  if you cannot keep yourself, can you just go
• 1:18:12
  and marry so that they will be using that word
• 1:18:15
  for you, you are settled. You know when people
• 1:18:18
  marry, they say they are settling down. Maybe
• 1:18:21
  it's their passion that is settling down. Amen.
• 1:18:25
  Are we together? So that word here is power,
• 1:18:29
  authority. Amen. Hallelujah. To commit to a life
• 1:18:35
  of singleness and celibacy. 1 Corinthians chapter
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  8 verse 9. 1 Corinthians chapter 8 verse 9. This
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  is talking about the believer's authority. You
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  understand? the believer's authority, exusia,
• 1:18:51
  is not negative, is a one that is helpful. 8
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  verse 9, but beware, lest someone, somehow this
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  liberty, the word liberty there is a word authority,
• 1:19:06
  of yours become a stumbling block to those who
• 1:19:09
  are weak. Remember, we say exusia is not autenture.
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  So it's not meant for destruction, it said be
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  careful. that your exusia that is good is an
• 1:19:21
  authority of the believer that is good. Don't
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  allow it to become a stumbling block to those
• 1:19:26
  who are weak. 1 Corinthians 11, 10. 1 Corinthians
• 1:19:33
  11, 10. He said for this reason, the woman ought
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  to have a symbol of authority on her head because
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  of the angels. You understand? We'll deal with
• 1:19:48
  this text separately. But the point I'm trying
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  to say is the authority here. And the idea here
• 1:19:53
  is that the symbol of authority means that she
• 1:19:56
  is under authority. She said that is a symbol.
• 1:20:03
  It's an indication that she's under authority.
• 1:20:06
  Because remember, they have a culture at that
• 1:20:09
  time, just the same way we have today. You understand?
• 1:20:13
  I don't know today. How do you show that you
• 1:20:15
  are rebelling? What are the things that when
• 1:20:18
  you wear it signify that you're a rebellious
• 1:20:20
  person? I don't know anyway. But maybe for the
• 1:20:26
  men, when you see a man sagging, what is the
• 1:20:30
  indication? Because that sagging came from the
• 1:20:34
  prisons. It's a statement to the wardens. Do
• 1:20:39
  you want me to tell you? Because there is something
• 1:20:42
  that happened, they want to rebel. So they started
• 1:20:44
  sagging. Now, most of our boys, that's what they
• 1:20:47
  are doing. That's a symbol of rebellion to authorities.
• 1:20:52
  It's an indication. So the same way, at the context
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  of that time, head time means something. When
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  they see you tied, it shows something. It shows
• 1:21:04
  that you're under authority. And remember, this
• 1:21:06
  authority is exusia. It's not autentio. It's
• 1:21:10
  not a controlling, manipulative power. Are we
• 1:21:16
  together? Lastly, governmental leadership. I'm
• 1:21:19
  trying to let you know that what the word of
• 1:21:21
  God commands is not an uncontrolled, negative
• 1:21:27
  power. You know, some people accuse that the
• 1:21:29
  church is trying to manipulate you, that this
• 1:21:32
  thing is manipulating you. Some people are even
• 1:21:34
  saying that, no, we can't continue today or whatever.
• 1:21:37
  No, no, no, no, no. Remember, the Bible did not
• 1:21:40
  ask, say that when he was talking about authorities,
• 1:21:44
  Let's look at governmental authorities. Romans
• 1:21:47
  chapter 13 verse 1 to 3. He was not talking about
• 1:21:51
  a Tentil. He was not talking about a Dictators.
• 1:21:56
  Those who snatch power like North Korea. You
• 1:22:01
  understand? And ensure everybody does not move.
• 1:22:06
  You don't have a right. You understand? The government
• 1:22:08
  own you. Everything they say you must do it.
• 1:22:11
  That's not what we're talking about. Are we together?
• 1:22:15
  Amen. Sorry, I'm not a politician. And I'm not
• 1:22:19
  trying to undermine any government. I'm just
• 1:22:21
  trying to give an example. That's the reality.
• 1:22:23
  You understand what I'm saying? Amen. He said,
• 1:22:26
  let every soul be subject to the governmental
• 1:22:29
  authorities. That word, authorities, is the word
• 1:22:32
  exucia. He's not talking about autentio. You
• 1:22:36
  understand what I'm saying? He said, that's why
• 1:22:38
  you will see that. How he continue, you now understand
• 1:22:40
  that. He's talking about that. he said for there
• 1:22:44
  is no authority except from God you definitely
• 1:22:47
  you know that this authority is not talking about
• 1:22:49
  or Tentil are we together he said except from
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  God and the authorities that exist are appointed
• 1:22:55
  by God God cannot appoint anything that is tyrant
• 1:23:00
  therefore so don't say when a people foolishly
• 1:23:04
  elected a foolish leader and you say that it
• 1:23:06
  is God that put him there and he's He's destroying
• 1:23:08
  people, doing a lot of this. Say it is we that
• 1:23:11
  put him there. You know what I'm saying? If it
• 1:23:15
  is a power that God is involved, you will see
• 1:23:19
  it is positive. He said, therefore, whoever resists
• 1:23:23
  authority resists the ordinances of God. You
• 1:23:26
  know what I'm saying? And those who resist will
• 1:23:30
  bring judgment on themselves. That's three. For
• 1:23:33
  rulers are not what? Oh, are you with me? Do
• 1:23:45
  you want to be unafraid of the authority? He
• 1:23:49
  said, do what is good, and you will have praise
• 1:23:53
  from the same. Are we together? Romans 9 verse
• 1:23:57
  21. Romans 9, 21. He said, does not the potter
• 1:24:07
  have the power over the clay from the same loom
• 1:24:11
  to make a vessel for honor and another for dishonor
• 1:24:17
  here again that's another thing many of us misquote
• 1:24:21
  this place in the sun listen power here is no
• 1:24:25
  negative the word power here is a positive power
• 1:24:29
  exusia what he's saying is that the lord has
• 1:24:31
  the rights in the context of this text he's not
• 1:24:34
  talking about producing a human being. He's not
• 1:24:39
  talking about creation. He's talking about the
• 1:24:42
  way of faith and the way of law. Are we together?
• 1:24:47
  And God has chosen that the way to come to him
• 1:24:50
  is through the way of faith. So you cannot come
• 1:24:54
  and wake up and say, no, me, I will not use faith.
• 1:24:58
  I will use law and you have to accept me. No,
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  it doesn't work like that because you don't have
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  the authority to do that. So it is in this context
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  and Paul is giving this example. He said just
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  the same way the potter, right? Have the right,
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  you understand? Over the clay, you understand?
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  To shape it the way he wants. He can break it
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  and shape it. That's the same way the Lord has
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  the right to choose which way people come to
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  him. And he has chosen the way of faith. So you
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  don't have that right to say, no, I will not
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  follow the way of faith. I'll follow the way
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  of the law. No, you won't get to him. You get
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  to another place. Are we together? only to wake
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  up probably and see that it's the wrong address.
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  Lastly, Titus, let me give this one. Titus, Titus
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  chapter three, verse one. Titus chapter three,
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  verse one. He said, remind them to be subject
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  to rulers and authorities. authorities we have
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  shown you something here he's not saying rulers
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  are different from authorities the word and there
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  is chi in greek which means it's saying it's
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  a in in in biblical studies not always you see
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  that word and a conjunction is always a talking
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  about two things like joining two things it may
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  be a further explanation you understand as you
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  normally see it in different place my Lord and
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  my God. He's not saying my Lord is different
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  and my God is different. You understand what
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  I'm saying? He's saying that and he's saying
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  my Lord which is my God. Are we together? That's
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  exactly what he's saying. So here rulers means
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  rulers which are authorities. So authorities
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  here is exusia. He said to obey, to be ready
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  for every good work. Are we together? Please
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  brethren you can see that in all the texts we
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  are the Bible the authority that God gives is
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  not a negative authority so if Paul is saying
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  I do not permit you should know that that authority
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  that the woman is taking is an illegal authority
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  the one that God gives both to the believer both
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  to government you understand and to the church
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  authority is a positive one for edification you
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  understand not for destruction Are we together?
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  It's Exucia. So while Exucia is legitimate, is
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  given by God, or Tentil, is a highly negative,
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  aggressive position, right authority, taken by
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  force without legitimacy. This is a one that
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  Paul says, I do not permit you to have it. because
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  it's illegal. With this understanding, we can
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  then read 12 clearly now. Are we together? Are
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  you with me? Are you with me up to this moment?
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  Now you can now read this verse with clarity
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  and now understand why Paul said, I do not permit
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  a woman. So let's read it this way. Because we
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  said that word teach. is defined by the authority
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  in the sun which is a figure of speech we have
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  said and then that is right which we said we
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  will read it this way i do not permit a woman
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  to teach in such a way that you soup authority
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  over a man but to be silent or but to have a
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  teachable disposition. So he is not permitting
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  a woman to exercise what is and not her rights.
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  That authority is a snatched, is a hijacked authority.
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  It's meant to bully. is coming from the temple
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  of Artemis, not temple of God. That authority
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  is not God -like, is not Christ -like, is demonic,
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  is evil. That authority does not promote success,
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  does not promote the harmonious living. That
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  authority is domineering. That authority is abusive,
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  is aggressive. is controlling. That is what Paul
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  said, no. No. So Paul was not banning a healthy
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  pastoral teaching. Don't use this text to condemn
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  pastoral authority of a woman. She is in Christ.
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  We have already said, We don't want the woman
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  to assume pastoral authority by any other means
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  than the means God have outlined in the church.
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  A woman should not become a pastor because her
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  husband is a pastor. That's an illegal way. That's
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  also like atentio. It's an illegal means. Because
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  the position of a pastor is a position of maturity.
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  You don't call me through relationship. is not
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  a marital religion that brought you to become
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  a pastor no neither we will not allow any man
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  to become a pastor because his wife is a pastor
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  that's why we have to be careful you understand
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  we really have to be careful else we will be
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  practicing we'll be bringing you some some some
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  thought of artemis you understand we will be
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  circumventing where god man of god have they
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  will show to us you understand How the leadership
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  of the church of Ephesus came. Sometimes they
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  go in Acts chapter 19. These people were not
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  born again. You understand? In fact, what they
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  say, we don't even know there's anything like
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  a Holy Spirit. They say, with what baptism have
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  you been baptized? They say with the baptism
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  of John. They don't understand even with the
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  baptism of John. Because Paul now said, listen,
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  this is the baptism of John. When John was baptizing,
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  he was baptizing unto repentance. And what he
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  was doing is that he was pointing to a person.
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  He said, eh? Oh, we didn't know. He said, no.
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  That's what John was doing, because the baptism
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  of John was pointing to someone who is going
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  to come. When they heard it, they now understood,
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  oh. The Bible now said they were baptized in
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  the name. That's not water baptism. We've told
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  you now, the name is not a tag. He's not to say
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  the name, you understand? He's not attack, he's
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  authority, you understand? To be baptized, we
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  have shown it. Give me that text, one of God.
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  1 Corinthians chapter seven, sorry, 12. He shows
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  to us a word there. I think he's in verse 11,
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  talks about those of us, we are baptized into
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  Christ, we are baptized through the spirit. Show
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  me that text, there's a verse there. I forgot
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  that verse. Look at, show it for me. For by one
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  spirit we are all, do what? Baptized into one
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  body. That's not what our baptisms are. Meaning
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  it is through the spirit that you came into Christ.
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  Right? Whether you are Greek, so we are slaves
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  or free, all have been made. to drink into one
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  spirit so they were baptized in the name and
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  then Paul wanted to make more converts they rejected
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  him he said okay since you rejected he just carried
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  the ones he has already they already received
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  those who were disciples of John but didn't even
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  know John's message listen people can be going
• 1:33:42
  to try they don't know what they are saying We
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  had the Ethiopian, you know, he was coming to
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  Jerusalem to serve. He didn't know the God. He
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  was moving back. He was reading the book of Isaiah.
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  He doesn't even know what he's saying. This is
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  the man that has come to Jerusalem to worship.
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  And now God has to intervene and say, well, please
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  help this young, help this man in the sun. Are
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  we together? And of course, he became born again
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  and he moved back to Ethiopia. So what we are
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  saying is that these type of teaching is not
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  just any kind. So don't use autentio as exusia.
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  Don't use that. Do not use that. So Paul was
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  not banning healthy pastoral teaching. He was
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  banning that abusive, aggressive, spiritual takeover,
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  because it's a spiritual takeover. You are coming
• 1:34:41
  from the temple of Artemis and now coming to
• 1:34:45
  temple of God to to take over to you know son
• 1:34:48
  to continue leading because you are used to that
• 1:34:50
  that high you are a high priestess there you
• 1:34:53
  think and that's the same thing church are doing
• 1:34:55
  we are still practicing Artemis today have you
• 1:34:58
  not seen the man has been singing in the world
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  you know son he's a celebrity suddenly he came
• 1:35:04
  into the church he was born again glory to God
• 1:35:06
  okay brother sit down and learn suddenly now
• 1:35:09
  they met him the head of the choir now he is
• 1:35:12
  busy now singing that is artemis you are coming
• 1:35:15
  from somewhere you are high ranking there suddenly
• 1:35:17
  you enter the church you want to maintain that
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  position that is artemis and the church have
• 1:35:23
  to be careful and this is where we are going
• 1:35:25
  and so when things happen then you start to watch
• 1:35:29
  no brother sit down and learn this is not time
• 1:35:33
  to start singing you understand i am trusting
• 1:35:37
  the lord to help us you understand The first
• 1:35:39
  thing is not to start serving here and there.
• 1:35:41
  That's why I'm careful always with some of us
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  that are serving. I'm much concerned because
• 1:35:45
  I don't want you to be here for donkey years.
• 1:35:49
  You are busy holding camera, you are busy playing
• 1:35:51
  this and playing that and you learn nothing and
• 1:35:53
  it doesn't bother you. And then we think the
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  brother has grown and then we begin to see some
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  things and then we are surprised. What happened?
• 1:36:03
  That's what happened. He's already overtaken.
• 1:36:07
  We don't want you to do that in the sun. Service
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  is a product of maturity. You know something?
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  That's why I read Ephesians chapter 4, sir. That
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  word, sir, when you read from 13, 14, 15, 16,
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  where the body, every part of the body begins
• 1:36:26
  to contribute to the child. That is when maturity
• 1:36:29
  has come. But the first instance, those who are
• 1:36:32
  to serve are those who are mature. they are to
• 1:36:35
  teach they are to ensure that those people are
• 1:36:37
  matured the time they will be contributing is
• 1:36:39
  when you lead by the time you read 16 verse 16
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  of chapter 4 then you said that every part will
• 1:36:46
  now contribute its own part but how comes you
• 1:36:49
  start contributing without knowing anything so
• 1:36:54
  and that is how leadership came from from the
• 1:36:59
  apple dwell with them for two years teaching
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  them In the sun. In all together, by the time
• 1:37:07
  you come to Acts chapter 20, in the sun, it was
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  already that he has spent three years with them.
• 1:37:18
  And at that moment, they are mature. They are
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  the one they become elders now. So how come you
• 1:37:25
  just enter the church and you are given the leadership
• 1:37:27
  position? What did you know? So Paul's instruction.
• 1:37:32
  was not to ban any woman. So Paul's solution
• 1:37:38
  wasn't to mute the woman, but to mandate that
• 1:37:42
  they humbly learn sound doctrine, sound theology,
• 1:37:47
  which is not the one they have been receiving,
• 1:37:51
  which is corrupted, not to be influenced by the
• 1:37:56
  Ephesus powerful Artemis culture, which uses
• 1:38:01
  a corrupted, Genesis narrative. Eve first, because
• 1:38:08
  the goddess believed she is the first. Because
• 1:38:13
  she was born first and came to help her mother
• 1:38:18
  to deliver her twin brother. Can I imagine this
• 1:38:21
  kind of mythology? Or myths? Yes, the mother
• 1:38:27
  gave birth to her. Then after she came out, Then
• 1:38:31
  she now returned to help the mother to give birth
• 1:38:33
  to Apollo, which are twin brother. So she's first
• 1:38:37
  over men. Or if wiser, what Eve did is wiser
• 1:38:45
  than is a wisdom that she demonstrated. And Paul
• 1:38:49
  said, no, it was not wisdom. She was deceived.
• 1:38:53
  Paul was not comparing her with the man. He was
• 1:38:56
  saying against the attitude. and the culture
• 1:39:02
  of Ephesus and say, no, what if demonstrated
• 1:39:08
  was not wisdom, sir? What she demonstrated there,
• 1:39:13
  eh? She was tripped. She was deceived. Are we
• 1:39:19
  together? Hallelujah. I believe you have gotten
• 1:39:24
  something. Can you just appreciate God? I say,
• 1:39:28
  thank you, Lord. For all we have seen so brother
• 1:39:33
  as you are growing you are growing ministry.
• 1:39:35
  Don't block any sister Don't block your wife
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  You know son and say the layer said you are not
• 1:39:41
  permitted that means you are joining the devil
• 1:39:44
  You know son to hinder his will His will is not
• 1:39:50
  gender -based. Sorry, sir. It's not gender -based
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  Exucia is the authority given to the believer
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  Giving to the church and a woman can grow to
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  become a pastor She can be a leader She have
• 1:40:05
  the authority Can you just pray for that? We
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