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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Lewis 

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Harold, assistant pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 

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County in Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 

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continues teaching through God's
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If you were going for a cheap, 
kind of slutty, inviting look, 

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you nailed it. 
That was the way he addressed 

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it. 
Didn't have to say another word,

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didn't have to say another word.
Never accused her of anything, 

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just basically gave a man's 
opinion of what she looked like.

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That's all. 
And I think as fathers we should

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do that. 
We should give our opinion. 

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We understand how the male mind 
works and we have to impart that

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to our kids. 
We joined Pastor Lewis in the 

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middle of a recounting of a 
story of a father talking with 

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his daughter about some immodest
clothing choices that she was 

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making. 
Well, this kind of talk might be

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antiquated. 
We know as fathers that God has 

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called us to speak the truth in 
love to our children. 

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Now we must season these times 
of truthful speaking with the 

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love of God. 
When our children know that we 

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love them, we can say some of 
the most difficult things in the

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world to them. 
Now here's Pastor Lewis in the 

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Book of First Timothy, chapter 
2, with today's edition of 

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Living Waters of Grace. 
I heard one teacher say that, 

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you know, in the church now, 
there's more announcements and 

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things of that nature than there
is prayer. 

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And we really need to focus on 
prayer. 

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I'm glad that we have so many 
avenues here in this church that

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offer prayer. 
So many, so many. 

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And you can all plug yourselves 
into it. 

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We invite you to plug yourselves
into those avenues. 

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A prayer because every one of 
those groups, whether it's a 

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Thursday night Zoom group or 
whether it's the Thursday night 

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group that meets here to pray 
about certain things. 

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The all of the Bible studies 
that should include prayer. 

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I'm sure it does. 
When those things happen, that 

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is all in worship to God. 
It's all in worship to God. 

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So we pray because he died for 
all and his death was sufficient

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for all, but it's only efficient
for those who believe, for those

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who believe. 
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And as we move to verse 8, we 
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moving into an issue which is 
seen as being controversial, but

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it's not really controversial. 
If it is rightly divided, it's 

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not really controversial. 
The world makes things 

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controversial, but it's the word
of God. 

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It's the word of God. 
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just want to go to second 
Timothy real quick. 

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Chapter 3, Second Timothy 
chapter 3, we're going to just 

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look at verse. 
Just going to read for verse 16.

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All Scripture, not some, not 
parts of it. 

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All Scripture is given by 
inspiration of God and is 

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profitable for doctrine and for 
reproof, for correction, for 

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instruction and righteousness. 
We just talked about that, that 

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the man of God or the woman of 
God may be complete, thoroughly 

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equipped for every good work. 
So what we're about to go in 

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here into here, this is not 
Paul's opinion. 

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This is not just Paul's opinion.
All scripture is inspired by 

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God. 
It's in the Canon of Scripture. 

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This is coming from God. 
So he, she, he says here in 

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verse 8, I desire therefore that
the men pray everywhere, lifting

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up holy hands without wrath and 
doubting. 

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Let's stop there, he said. 
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men pray everywhere. 
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mankind, meaning everybody. 
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male gender, that they pray. 
And Paul is saying here that men

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should lead prayer in public 
services. 

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Men should lead prayer. 
I know growing up I didn't see a

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lot of men leading prayer in 
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It was mostly in women. 
I just see a lot of men leading 

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it. 
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should lead prayer. 
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Paul's saying we want to see 
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Men pray leading. 
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prohibition to say that women 
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That's not what this is saying. 
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in verse 9. 
But here he is making a point to

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say that men should be praying 
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praying in public services, 
lifting up holy hands without 

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wrath and doubting. 
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three things that are essential.
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public, three things. 
First of all, he says lifting up

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holy hands and lifting up holy 
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It's Jewish culture that the men
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they prayed, they would pray 
extending their hands to heaven.

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Now that gesture of extending 
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look at it, it really has a lot 
of different meaning or 

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connotations to it. 
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connotation of surrender. 
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his hands, when a police officer
tells a suspect to come out with

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your hands up, that means you 
are surrendering, that that 

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person is surrendering to the 
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officer. 
He's surrendering. 

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He is putting himself into 
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himself into custody of that 
police officer. 

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And that's exactly what we're 
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the Lord. 
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was a sign of surrender to God. 
God, I surrender, I place myself

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under your authority. 
So the prayers that go up are 

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prayers to the Lord submitting 
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And there's several scriptures 
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the hands. 
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Psalm 63 and look at verse four.
He says thus I will bless you 

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while I live. 
I will lift up my hands in your 

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name and then go to Psalm 134 
and Psalm 134 reads this way. 

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Lift up your hands in the 
sanctuary and bless the Lord. 

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And we know we read the story 
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and 22 that when Solomon prayed 
and he dedicated to temple, he 

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lifted up his hands to heaven 
that he prayed. 

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When David prayed several times 
it's mentioned that he lifted up

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his hands to the Lord when he 
prayed. 

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So that is a, it's a cultural 
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But I just want to mention that 
we need to understand the 

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lifting of the hands. 
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where our hearts should be. 
It's not that important what we 

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do with our hands. 
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the position of your heart when 
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And then he goes in and he goes 
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So he says without wrath and 
without wrath means that it's, 

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you know, you first of all, you,
you, the hands that you're 

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lifting up have to be holy 
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So it's got to be pure hands, 
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Hands that we, we're not talking
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and then coming up and lifting 
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You know, that doesn't mean that
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pray, you repent. 
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We confess, and that cleanses us
before God and we can lift up 

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our hands and pray. 
It's about lifting up cleansed 

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hands. 
That means the heart is cleansed

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from whatever sin is morally or 
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But it's without wrath. 
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without anger. 
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We should be praying without 
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I shouldn't be up here praying 
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against that brother sitting 
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a sister sitting over there. 
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I got to go make it right with 
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I got to go make it right with 
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I don't want my prayers hindered
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things in my heart towards 
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my heart against a brother. 
I can't pray that way, Davis 

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said. 
If I regard iniquity in my 

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heart, he won't hear me. 
God won't hear me. 

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So we have to have pure hearts 
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And he said, and doubting, 
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must pray in faith. 
We shouldn't be praying 

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doubting. 
James said that when you pray, 

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you know you, you, you should be
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You ask without doubting. 
He said he who doubts is like a 

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wave of the sea tossed to and 
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It it's an unstable person who 
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When we pray, we pray believing.
We pray believing, so we pray 

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without doubt. 
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And this is where things get 
kind of interesting because he 

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says here in like manner also, 
and don't miss that line, in 

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like manner also, in like manner
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modest apparel with propriety 
and moderation, not with braided

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hair or gold or pearls or costly
clothing. 

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So what is he saying here? 
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some degree that women can pray 
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It's fine for women to pray in 
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manner. 
Also, in other words, in the 

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same way, when women pray, their
praying should be with, you 

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know, adorning themselves in 
modest apparel. 

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Men should pray with their 
hearts, not having wickedness or

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anger or art in their hearts. 
He emphasized that for men, not 

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that anybody should, but that's 
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And but for women, he said when 
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know, when you pray, have modest
apparel, have modest clothes on.

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Now, let's not know we, we don't
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think that this means that a 
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hair or never have gold or 
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That's not what Paul is saying 
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What he is saying is that when 
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the women should be dressed in a
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and not someone looking at what 
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It should be tasteful clothing. 
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we don't have that issue here. 
We don't have the issue of a, we

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don't have a clothing issue 
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We don't have people coming in 
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I, I, I just don't see that 
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But what Paul is saying is that 
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that professes godliness, a way 
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So he says here, first of all, 
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that emphasizes appropriate 
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You know, you have. 
We have to help men to be 

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focused on the right thing 
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We're very visual and our and, 
and, and we notice things very 

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quickly. 
So women, you dress in ways that

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doesn't call attention to 
anything negative, Then we don't

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worry about that. 
It it, it's, it's tasteful 

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dressing. 
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dress in a way that's, that's 
tasteful. 

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And then it says that the word 
propriety that means in or 

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shamefacedness, that means that 
you're, you're, you're dressing 

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in a way that's giving reverence
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And then the word moderation and
that means that you're dressing,

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you're using sound judgment and 
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When you dress sound judgment 
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moderation, it should be a 
spiritual radar on the inside of

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you that tells you what is good 
and proper dress, what is good 

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and proper dress before we leave
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We all have mirrors before we 
leave home. 

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You know, am I dressed 
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I have that. 
You know, when we're, you know, 

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when kids are younger mothers 
and fathers, we have to help our

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teenage daughters with that 
help, assist. 

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We have to have feedback for our
teenage daughters. 

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And part of the reason why is 
because society is putting out 

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clothes. 
I mean, almost forcing young 

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people to dress in ways that's 
not godly, almost forces them to

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they're like, what's the options
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What can you buy and where can 
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But I think that, you know, but 
we have to, but we have to give 

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assistance to our young teenage 
girls when it comes to dressing.

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Told me before I worked in 
pharmaceuticals and, and I was 

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in an office waiting to see a 
doctor and there was another 

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pharmaceutical Rep in there from
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And she came in and she, we're 
sitting down talking. 

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I knew that she was saved and we
were talking about the things of

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the Lord and some kind of way 
the discussion got on clothing, 

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appropriate clothing. 
She has a, you know, she was 

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dealing with a teenage issue 
with her 14 year old daughter 

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and her daughter came downstairs
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Well, her daughter came 
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They asked her mother and father
if she can go to the mall with 

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some friends. 
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trusted her and they trusted her
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their face, very surprised look 
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What's wrong? 
What, what, what, what's wrong? 

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You know, he's how do I look? 
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the father, he said, well, what 
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got dressed? 
Let me ask you that. 

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What were you going for? 
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look, if you were going for a 
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If you were going for a cheap, 
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you nailed it. 
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it. 
Didn't have to say another word,

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didn't have to say another word.
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That's all. 
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should do that. 
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We understand how the male mind 
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to our kids because a lot of 14 
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that they're dressing in that 
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styles that's out there. 
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But godliness is something 
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and the gold and the perils. 
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the top of this, this is 
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There was a lot of worldliness 
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the temples they had temple 
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themselves. 
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of things, the braiding of their
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hair and, and, and, and, and 
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the jewelry on and all the 
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attention to themselves so that 
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dress there should be a 
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of these women. 
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working in the temple, but that 
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godliness. 
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women professing godliness with 
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something, cover yourself with 
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Let people see that. 
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yourself with, not the showing 
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with all submission. 
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permit a woman to teach or have 
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in silence. 
OK, let's stop there now He says

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let a woman learn in silence. 
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particular time, you know, he 
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about church order. 
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to understand what is proper 
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Corinthians as well, when he 
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need to learn how to be quiet 
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These are women. 
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sit apart. 
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side, women sit on the other 
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They just thought it was OK to 
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you know, what does that mean? 
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that's sitting on the other side
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Hey, John, what is he talking 
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This is joint service. 
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disruptive and Paul's addressing
that they can learn, but learn 

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in silence. 
Learn in silence. 

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In fact, in First Corinthians, 
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think he says let's let's turn 
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chapter 14 and 34. 
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silence in the churches for they
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they are to be submissive as the
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And if they want to learn 
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own husbands at home for the 
shameful for a woman to speak in

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church. 
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have to totally keep their mouth
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But join the service. 
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disruptive. 
It's a shame for women to be 

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disruptive in service and to 
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flow of the Spirit as the word 
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That is, that's disturbing it, 
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So that's what Paul's talking 
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can't talk in church. 
That's not what it's saying. 

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Join the service. 
Be respectful. 

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we grew up in the church. 
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They didn't have this kind of 
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They weren't used to this. 
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instruction. 
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appropriate to give that 
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time you might see someone that 
may not have a lot of experience

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in church who could be 
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And then in verse 12 it says, 
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teach or to have authority over 
a man, but to be in silence. 

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And again, does that mean that 
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church? 
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mixed congregation like this, a 
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A man should teach the doctrine 
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We are taught in Titus chapter 
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or the older women are to teach 
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That's where women teach women 
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not stand up in a congregation 
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when because the Bible says that
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A woman is under the authority 
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Man is over woman, Christ is 
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Christ. 
So women are under the authority

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of the men here in the church, 
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because once someone is 
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We're under that authority, and 

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women should not be placed in 
that position. 

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That's just positioning. 
We're not talking about ability,

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OK? 
We're not talking about ability.

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Can women teach? 
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They're capable of teaching. 
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We're talking about church order
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order. 
This is what's appropriate in 

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the church, and I do not permit 
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authority over a man, but to be 
in silence. 

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Verse 13, Now he gives his 
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in verse 13 he says Adam was 
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He refers to the order of 
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Adam was first, the man was 
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Adam was not deceived, but the 
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transgression. 
So what is he saying here? 

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What he's saying? 
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wrong. 
He's not saying that Adam wasn't

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wrong. 
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was any less than Eve's sin. 
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Adam's sin wide with his eyes 
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law. 
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He just went and followed his 
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made a independent decision. 
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into the world. 
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That's the order of creation. 
So then he goes on and he says 

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it was a woman that fell into 
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So women can teach, but they 
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Women should teach women. 
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younger women, teach them how to
love their husbands, how to love

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their children. 
We need that. 

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We need that. 
Is that any less important or 

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significant than what Clark or I
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here does? 
Absolutely not. 

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It's important when women teach 
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women. 
That is important. 

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It's significant, very 
important. 

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Here on Living Waters of Grace, 
we're in the books of First and 

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Second Timothy. 
Pastor Lewis Harrell is walking 

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us through these letters written
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Toward the end of these letters,
Paul is anticipating that his 

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time here on earth is coming to 
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He's giving some final words of 
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Paul writes in Second Timothy 4,
verse seven. 

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I have fought the good fight, I 
have finished the race, I have 

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kept the faith. 
Wherever you are in your journey

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of faith with God, our hope is 
that you have the willingness to

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fight for what's true, not 
compromising, but holding fast 

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to the Word of God. 
Paul was reminding Timothy of 

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this. 
And it's a good reminder for you

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