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- 0:00Speaker 1: And my wife is not going to let me go
- 0:03Speaker 1: home if I don't ask this question because she can't
- 0:05Speaker 1: ask it. You can answer it after this. She just
- 0:09Speaker 1: wanted to know why women are not allowed to preach
- 0:12Speaker 1: in the church. And if a woman feels that she
- 0:16Speaker 1: has the gift of preaching, why isn't she allowed to preach? Thanks.
- 0:20Speaker 2: All right. 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 12. I
- 0:35Speaker 2: do not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority
- 0:38Speaker 2: over a man. Rather, she is to remain quiet. So,
- 0:44Speaker 2: because the Bible says so. And that's it. The other
- 0:49Speaker 2: thing is, well, what if a person feels like they
- 0:51Speaker 2: have gifts to do that? No one gets to do
- 0:54Speaker 2: everything they feel like they're gifted at. No one does.
- 0:58Speaker 2: What if a man who has several wives... feels like
- 1:03Speaker 2: he's gifted to be a pastor. The Bible says he
- 1:06Speaker 2: must be the husband of one wife, right? So just
- 1:09Speaker 2: because you feel like you're gifted to do something, that
- 1:12Speaker 2: doesn't give you the right to overthrow biblical qualifications. The
- 1:17Speaker 2: office of the elder. Paul says, you know, when he's
- 1:20Speaker 2: talking about the elder, he must be the husband of
- 1:23Speaker 2: one wife. He's talking about man, okay? That office is
- 1:27Speaker 2: exclusively for men. That's the office of the pastor-teacher. So
- 1:31Speaker 2: if the office is exclusively for men, and the Bible
- 1:34Speaker 2: is very clear that women are not to teach or
- 1:36Speaker 2: exercise authority over men, there's absolutely no room for women
- 1:41Speaker 2: to be in that office or to exercise that authority
- 1:44Speaker 2: in the church.