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Well, good morning. 
It's good to see you guys. 

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We'll welcome you today. 
You have your Bible. 

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You can open the 1st Corinthians
14, First Corinthians 14 for the

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last time. 
All right, we're going to finish

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out chapter 14 today. 
Then we'll move into a new issue

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within the Corinthian church 
concerning the resurrection and 

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really, really looking forward 
to those, to chapter 15 and the 

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text there. 
But our assignment today is 

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chapter 14. 
And so that's where we'll be. 

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We'll be in verses 26 through 40
this morning. 

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We've been walking through 
chapters 12 through 14. 

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If you've been here, you're kind
of aware of this at this point. 

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If you're new today, what I want
you to understand is that Paul 

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the apostle Paul is correcting. 
He's correcting A gifted but 

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chaotic church. 
What he tells us in chapter 12 

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is that the Spirit gives gifts, 
spiritual gifts for the common 

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good, meaning it's for the 
building up of the congregation.

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It's that's for their 
edification, right? 

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And so each believer is gifted 
with a spiritual gift to be used

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for the edification of the 
church. 

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In chapter 13, he shows them 
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way, that love should be the 
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these gifts, that that love is 
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It's the thing that should be on
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And he's correcting their 
behavior because they haven't 

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been operating in love. 
They've been operating with with

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selfishness and divisiveness, 
holding one gift or some gifts 

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higher than other gifts and 
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those with those more excellent 
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not paying attention to the 
lesser gifts, so to speak. 

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So in chapter 12 and chapter 13,
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of Christ and each person being 
gifted in certain ways, and some

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might be small, some might be 
large, but none of us can say to

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one another that we have no need
of you. 

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We all need one another. 
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excellent way in chapter 13. 
Therefore, in chapter 14, what 

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it gets to is that worship 
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church, the gathered church, as 
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these services must be edifying 
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in order. 
They must be peaceable. 

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They must promote God's peace, 
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dwells among the Saints through 
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with one another. 
Paul elsewhere calls it the bond

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of the spirit of peace, and 
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chapter 14. 
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instructions on this bond of the
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services should be decent and in
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Now, Corinth had zeal, all 
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We can't fault them for not 
having zeal. 

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Corinth had a lot of zeal, and 
zeal is a good thing. 

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You know, in my own sons, I 
understand that God has wired 

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them with testosterone, which 
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zealous in some ways. 
They're going to be aggressive 

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in nature. 
And this is good and right. 

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It's according to God's design. 
But that needs to be channelled 

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with self-control, right? 
Needs to be channelled with 

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parameters, guardrails that help
them exercise aggression and 

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zeal in the right direction. 
And that's sort of what Paul's 

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after here is Corinth is a 
church that's full of zeal, but 

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they're without order, all 
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They're, they're lacking order. 
They have noise, a lot of noise,

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but no clarity. 
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And so no one's being edified. 
There's spontaneity, which in 

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some circles, even circles I 
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regard. 
The more spontaneous the 

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service, the more spiritual it 
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And yet Paul says that 
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is disorder, that it that it 
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So Paul with the with the 
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right? 
He's like a shepherd with a 

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shepherd's shepherd staff with a
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He's got Apostolic authority and
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them back to the character of 
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And that that's the point of 
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He wants to show them what the 
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character of God should be 
present in our services, which 

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he tells us in our, our, in our 
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confusion, but of peace. 
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God is not a God of confusion, 
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And so he's correcting them. 
He's bringing them back. 

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He's trying to rein in the 
zealousness. 

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He's trying to point it in the 
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And so I think you'll see that 
as we walk through this passage 

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today. 
Again, First Corinthians 1426 

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through 40, if you would please 
stand in honor of the reading of

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God's Word. 
When I'm finished reading, I'll 

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say this is the word of the Lord
and you can join in response. 

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Thanks be to God. 
All right, so First Corinthians 

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chapter 14, verse 26, What then?
Brothers? 

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When you come together, each one
has a hymn, a lesson, a 

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revelation, a tongue, or an 
interpretation. 

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Let all things be done for 
building up. 

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If any speak in a tongue, let 
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two, or at most 3, and each in 
turn, and let someone 

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interprets. 
But if there's no one to 

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interpret, let each of them keep
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himself and to God. 
But two or three prophets speak,

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and let the others way would 
have said, If a revelation is 

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made to another sitting there, 
let the first be silent. 

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For you can all prophecy 1 by 1,
so that all may learn, and all 

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be encouraged. 
And the spirits of prophets are 

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subjects subject to prophets. 
For God is not a God of 

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confusion, but of peace. 
As in all the churches of the 

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Saints, the women should keep 
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not permitted to speak, but 
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Law also says. 
If there's anything they desire 

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to learn, let them ask their 
husbands at home. 

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For it is shameful for a woman 
to speak in church. 

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Or was it from you that the word
of God came? 

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Or are you the only ones it has 
reached? 

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If anyone thinks that he is a 
prophet or spiritual, he should 

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acknowledge that the things I'm 
writing to you are a command of 

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the Lord. 
If anyone does not recognize 

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this, he is not recognized. 
So my brothers earnestly desire 

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to prophecy and do not forbid 
speaking in tongues, but all 

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things should be done decently 
and in order. 

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This is the word of the Lord. 
Thanks be to God, let's pray. 

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Heavenly Father, we thank you 
for your word, and we come 

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before it today. 
And it's our hope to humble 

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ourselves before your words, to 
submit ourselves to it. 

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And so we ask that Your Spirit 
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that, although that we would 
hold Your word in such high 

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regard that we revoke the 
opinions and the wisdom of man, 

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and we long for the wisdom of 
God, the truths of your Word. 

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Lord, I thank you that this 
people here at New Life 

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Community Church are a hungry 
people, and they hunger and 

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thirst for righteousness. 
And so you have been faithful to

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fill them. 
And Lord, here we are yet again 

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in pursuit of truth, in pursuit 
of your word, and we know that 

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we will find you faithful to 
fill us. 

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So, Lord, would you do that 
today? 

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Would you open our hearts and 
our minds to to hear and to 

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understand Your Word, to know 
it, to believe it, Lord, that we

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would also put these things into
practice and bear the fruit of 

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Your Word in every area of our 
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It's in the name of Christ I ask
these things, Amen, that you may

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be seated. 
My title for the sermon today 

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comes from the text. 
God is not a God of confusion. 

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The text says He's not a God of 
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So I want you to imagine for a 
moment inviting an unchurched 

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neighbor to church this morning.
Or maybe you really did. 

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If. 
If so, good on you and welcome 

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to your friend. 
And one kind of service. 

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Say that five people speak all 
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No one explains what is 
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And your friend leaves saying, 
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haven't learned anything. 
I didn't gain anything from 

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that. 
Imagine another kind of service,

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really, the kind we aim for each
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and it's it's explained. 
The prayers are clear songs 

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teach or rehearse scriptural 
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And so your friend leaves 
saying, I understood those 

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things. 
I was helped today. 

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Which gathering best reflects a 
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I think we would all agree it's 
the latter because God is a God 

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of peace and order. 
Here's the main point. 

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If you're taking notes, you can 
write this down. 

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Because God is a God of peace 
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Spirit filled worship must be 
intelligible, orderly, and 

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submissive to God's Word. 
Spirit filled worship must be 

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intelligible, orderly, and 
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This morning, the first point 
we'll come to is order for 

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edification. 
We'll see that in verses 26 

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through 33 A Secondly, we'll see
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verses 33 B through 35. 
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biblical authority and peace in 
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Along the way, I do hope to 
answer questions that I assume a

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congregation may have as we walk
through the passage. 

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So let's begin. 
Number one, order for 

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edification, verses 26 through 
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A. 
In verse 26, Paul writes, what 

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then, brothers, when you come 
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lesson, a revelation, a tongue, 
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Let all these things be done for
building up. 

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So Paul lays out the agenda, 
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He, he, he lays out that it is 
the building up of the 

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congregation which must set the 
agenda for our worship services 

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now to be done in a way that 
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now. 
Paul assumes abroad 

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participation, right? 
He said. 

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Each one has, each one has a 
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a tongue or an interpretation, 
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The, the problem is not the 
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I want to reiterate that the 
problem is not the gifts. 

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The problem is aimlessness in 
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They've, they've got no clarity.
They've got no direction on 

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where they're going with it. 
Everyone's participating, all 

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right? 
Everyone's kind of doing their 

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own thing. 
They're highlighting their own 

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gifts. 
And so there's an aimlessness 

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about what they're doing. 
And Paul's seeking to provide a 

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target, right? 
The target is the bull's eye on 

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the target is these things must 
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And so if you're missing the 
mark, right, you're not hitting 

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the bull's eye, then you have 
aimlessness. 

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He gives the controlling purpose
of that, right? 

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It's the bull's eye for building
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Literally what that means is 
edification. 

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It means a strengthening, it 
means a really a building in a 

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sense. 
It's laying foundations. 

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It's, you may think of building 
a house as a good analogy, 

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right? 
You lay a foundation, you put up

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walls, you put on the roof. 
All right, you, you then go back

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into the house and you begin to 
build out the rooms. 

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You begin to construct what 
their purposes are, what they're

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for, right? 
I suspect that none of you have 

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a bedroom in your kitchen, 
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You're not using the kitchen as 
a place to sleep. 

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You're using the kitchen as a 
place to host, all right, The 

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kitchens used as a place to 
prepare meals. 

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It would be weird for there to 
be a bedroom in your kitchen 

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unless you're remodeling like, 
and that's just where you have 

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to sleep for a little while. 
But under normal circumstances, 

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that would be strange. 
Well, this is what you have. 

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You have a house that's in 
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All right. 
And you may want to underline, 

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if you're comfortable writing in
your Bibles, that idea of for 

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building up, let all things be 
done for building up. 

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This is the litmus test for 
churches. 

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It's the litmus test for 
everything that we do in 

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gathered worship is how does 
this song we're going to sing 

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build up the congregation? 
How does this sermon we're going

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to preach build up the 
congregation? 

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How does this prayer we pray 
build up the congregation? 

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How does the Lord's Supper 
practice each week build up the 

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congregation? 
How does baptism on weeks we 

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have baptisms? 
How do they build up the 

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congregation, right? 
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everything that we're doing 
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our liturgy, whether there be 
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or exhortations. 
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this build up the body? 
The question cannot be, is it 

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exciting? 
Is it going to create a great 

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worship experience for everyone?
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going to edify the church? 
All right, so that's where we 

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want to be is how is it going to
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And verse 27, Paul says if any 
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only two or three or two or at 
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someone interpret. 
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regulation of tongues, right? 
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important than novelty. 
Clarity matters more than all of

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you speaking in tongues. 
All this 3 guardrails here as he

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addresses regulations for 
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The first guardrail is number 2,
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each in turn, and 3rd is 
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The third guardrail is 
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Interpretation. 
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and if there's not, let him keep
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Let him remain silent, right? 
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that uninterpreted tongues are 
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therefore they are useless for 
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They're not helpful. 
All right? 

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So whatever your view of their 
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here must stand those 
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number, the sequence, the 
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must be present in a local 
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to be practiced. 
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worship service without 
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In verse 28, Paul continues, But
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let each of them keep silent in 
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to God. 
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worship. 
Silence must exist where there 

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is no interpretation or it 
cannot be explained what the one

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speaking in tongues is saying. 
He should not say anything, He 

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should remain quiet, right? 
This is the first of three keep 

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silent commands that you see in 
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Paul is telling the Corinthians 
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than to fill the room with sound
that does not edify. 

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He's already said that it's 
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prophecy than to utter 10,000 
words of a tongue that no one 

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can understand, right? 
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Because prophecy builds up the 
church when we open our Bibles 

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and we say, thus says the Lord, 
this is an edifying thing. 

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It brings comfort, it brings 
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It's helpful to the soul, right?
It calls sinners out of the 

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darkness and into marvelous 
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So there's redemption in the 
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It also strengthens Christians, 
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It helps us along our way. 
It sanctifies us. 

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But we can become more Christ 
like, more godly, right? 

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Learning how to follow him in 
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So these people, Paul is saying,
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urge to say something merely to 
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All right, so I don't want to be
left. 

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Outlet me. 
Let me offer something. 

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Well, they must resist the urge.
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measured by how many speak, but 
by how much the church 

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understands and benefits. 
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It's not measured by how many 
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It's measured by how many are 
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Is this an edifying worship 
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That's again the litmus test 
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He says let two or three 
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weigh what is said. 
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must be weighed. 
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other church. 
You couldn't just stand up and 

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say, thus says the Lord, and 
everybody has to take it for 

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granted. 
No, you say it and all the other

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prophets in the room, all the 
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said, right? 
And again, Paul provides a two 

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or three limit here, right? 
It's not that everyone should 

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stand up and speak. 
There's a two or three limit. 

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When Paul instructs the 
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prophets, he's teaching them 
that they must discern or test 

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their speech. 
They must see by which spirit 

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they're speaking. 
Is it from the Spirit of God or 

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is it from the spirit of another
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The church must never receive 
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Must never receive speech 
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When I ask you to open your 
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sermon, it's not a style choice.
We don't have somebody walking 

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around taking pictures with open
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We're not looking for style 
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What we're what we're trying to 
establish is an obedience 

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choice. 
When we come to God's place of 

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worship and we gather with the 
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we have gone to God's Word, 
right? 

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That we've opened our Bibles and
we've spoken from what God has 

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said to us the way that he's 
revealed to us. 

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It also helps you to be 
discerning in what we say right 

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as you read the words. 
Is what Kyle says, is what 

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Jasper says, is what one of the 
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we put up here, is what they're 
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Right. 
If it's not true, then let us be

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found liars, all right, let us 
be repentant, but let us be 

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found liars in God's house. 
We don't want to utter things 

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that are untrue, all right? 
We want you to be discerning of 

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what we say. 
We want you to test what we say 

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because God requires you to be 
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It requires you to understand in
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In verse 30, Paul writes, if a 
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sitting there, let the first be 
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So Paul commands deference in 
real time. 

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Even truly gifted speakers in 
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Work then includes self 
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is one of the fruit of the 
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In a service of or in service of
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We ought to be restrained 
people, right? 

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And the leaders in Corinth were 
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yieldedness to one another. 
Right, if something better 

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serves the moment scripture to 
read, prayer to pray, truth to 

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clarify, then they were being 
asked to yield. 

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So what are the goals of orderly
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What's the goal of it? 
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31. 
For you can all prophecy 1 by 1 

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so that all may learn and all be
encouraged to learn and 

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encouraged right. 
The result of order is learning 

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and encouragement. 
It's the result of order in a 

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worship services that all are 
learning, all are being 

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encouraged. 
What this means is that the head

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and the heart are working 
together, right An orderly 

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worship service like 
expositional preaching, walking 

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verse by verse through the text 
instructs the mind. 

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It impacts the heart and it 
invites the will of the man 

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right. 
So if people leave saying I felt

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a lot, but I did not learn God's
Word, then we fell that this 

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verse, we've grown a lot in this
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I can remember in our very first
membership class nearly 11 years

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ago at this point, I can 
remember uttering these words to

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the people in the membership 
class. 

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What we want for you here is 
that when you leave this place 

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on Sunday mornings, we want you 
to sit in your car with your 

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hands on the steering wheel and 
to think to yourself, man, that 

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was amazing. 
What a great experience. 

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How foolish, how foolish was I. 
But I praise God for His grace 

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and growing us up. 
Praise God for His grace and 

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leading us. 
If people leave saying I felt a 

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lot but did not learn God's 
word, then we have failed Paul's

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instruction here. 
They'd be learning and 

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encouraged. 
If they learned but we're not 

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encouraged, then we've also 
failed this verse. 

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There should be learning with 
encouragement. 

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In verse 32, Paul says in the 
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to prophets. 
So any claims of being carried 

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away by the spirit are corrected
here. 

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Any claims of I just couldn't 
control myself any any claims of

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you know, that was a word of the
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with the scriptures. 
Those things are being corrected

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here. 
The spirits of the prophets are 

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subject to prophets that the 
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get his people in such a frenzy 
that they lack self-control. 

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This is contrary to the holy 
laughter and whole body shakes 

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experienced and praised often in
charismatic circles today. 

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These things are not decent and 
in order. 

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Authentic spirituality must be 
governed. 

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It must be governed by the word 
of the Lord. 

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Now, we're not saying that God 
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kills zeal or any of those 
things. 

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Remember, we're saying that God 
channels these things in right 

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directions so that the body is 
being built up, right? 

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So the body is matured. 
They're governed, not 

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uncontrolled, right? 
They must be governed by the 

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Lord, right? 
I couldn't help myself. 

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It's not a justification for 
your children and home when they

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haul off and hit their brother. 
And so it shouldn't be a 

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justification for hauling off 
and doing whatever we want in a 

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worship service apart from the 
Spirit of God, right? 

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It's not a, it's not a 
justification for disorder in 

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worship. 
And finally, in verse 33, A for 

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God is not a God of confusion, 
but of peace. 

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So why are all these things 
happening? 

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Well, Paul shows that our 
theology must undergird our 

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liturgy. 
Our theology must undergird our 

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liturgy. 
Confusion means instability. 

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It means there's disorder, 
right? 

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We don't want confusion in a 
worship service. 

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We want peace. 
And when we see that God is not 

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a God of confusion, he's not a 
God of disorder, He's not an 

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instable God. 
How many of you would want to 

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worship an instable God? 
Not me. 

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I don't want a God of peace. 
I want a God of order. 

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I want a God who this is decent 
and a God who's sovereign in 

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power, of course, but a God 
who's governing all things for 

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his glory. 
That's, that's what we want, all

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right? 
And so peace means wholeness 

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means harmony. 
There's a togetherness, right? 

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The whole body is working 
together. 

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There's harmony among the body. 
There's harmony in the worship 

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service, not just in the 
singing. 

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Our liturgy must mirror God's 
life. 

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Our liturgy must mirror his 
heart. 

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Our liturgy must mirror who he 
is. 

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You can write this down if you'd
like. 

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Doctrine shapes doxology. 
Doctrine must shape doxology. 

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What we understand about God, 
doctrine, right? 

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The things that God has revealed
to us about himself, that thing 

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must shape doxology. 
There's no greater example. 

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Well, there's several great 
examples. 

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One of my favorite examples, let
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Romans Chapter 11, when Paul 
comes to the end of chapters one

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through 11 before launching into
a new conversation where he's 

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just expounded on thoroughly 
salvation, rebellion, 

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sanctification. 
He's expanded on these things so

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thoroughly At the end of that, 
he's just concludes it all with 

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praise, with doxology. 
All right. 

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And that is, it's instructive to
us that the doctrine of Romans 

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one through 11 should lead us to
praise like Paul does at the end

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of the chapter there. 
It should lead us to want to 

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praise him, not question him, 
should lead us to want to praise

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Him and not doubt him. 
Doctrine shapes doxology. 

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Who God is determines how we 
worship him. 

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It must determine how we worship
him. 

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So maybe some of the questions 
that you would have from this 

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part of the text is does each 
one has? 

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When Paul says each one has, 
does that mean that everyone 

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must speak weekly? 
All the introverts are here or 

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hoping for a no right now. 
All right, no, it doesn't mean 

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that everyone must speak weekly.
Weekly. 

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What it does, though, is it 
affirms widespread gifting, all 

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right? 
It's not about one man standing 

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in the pulpit week after week 
after week after week, being the

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sole man of God, the one who 
hears from the Lord, and 

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00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,120
everyone else must walk in tow 
with him. 

457
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:29,280
It affirms widespread gifting. 
A plurality of elders A plow 

458
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,640
out, a plurality of gifted men 
who can teach God's Word. 

459
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:36,320
It doesn't give us guaranteed 
airtime, right? 

460
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,640
Often each week, really, the 
elders are yielding to one of 

461
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,160
the other elders to stand up and
proclaim the word of God. 

462
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,440
All right, So we're not 
guaranteeing that every elder 

463
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:50,400
gets airtime even the aim is 
edification. 

464
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,680
The aim is that the church would
be strengthened. 

465
00:27:56,080 --> 00:28:02,000
And so that controls access to 
the microphone that determines 

466
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,960
who should speak and when they 
should speak. 

467
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:09,840
Another question that may come 
are the two or three, whether 

468
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,160
it's in tongues or in prophecy, 
are those hard caps for all 

469
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,080
time? 
Well, the principle is timeless.

470
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,960
Yes, limited intelligible, 
curated participation is what 

471
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,000
Paul is showing here. 
All right. 

472
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:30,320
Must be used for the edification
of the church. 

473
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,640
Second point, we come to 
submission and the Assembly. 

474
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,120
All right. 
Verses 33, B through 35. 

475
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,440
Let me read it again because 
it's been a moment since we 

476
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,200
first read it. 
As in all the churches of the 

477
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:48,080
Saints, the women should keep 
silent in the churches, for they

478
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,520
are not permitted to speak, but 
should be in submission, as the 

479
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,920
law also says. 
If there's anything they desire 

480
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,080
to learn, let them ask their 
husbands at home, for it is 

481
00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,120
shameful for a woman to speak in
church. 

482
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:06,160
All right, so as you may suspect
already, this is a hotly 

483
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:11,160
contested paragraph. 
All right, so let's go through 

484
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,720
it carefully. 
Let's go through it in context, 

485
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,160
and let's allow Scripture to 
interpret Scripture where we 

486
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:22,040
need it to. 
All right, so in verse 33 B, 

487
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:28,440
Paul lays out a universal norm 
as in all the churches of the 

488
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,440
Saints. 
This is what we call a 

489
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:34,040
transcultural proclamation, 
right? 

490
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:39,600
This is for all the churches of 
the Saints both present in the 

491
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:44,280
world that Paul's writing in and
present in the world today and 

492
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:50,320
throughout history from us back 
to them and in the future. 

493
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:56,840
This is transcultural, as in all
the churches of the Saints. 

494
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,960
So what he's saying is I want 
you Corinthians, and I want us 

495
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:06,160
today to understand that what 
follows is not a Corinth only 

496
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,600
rule, right, which is often the 
argument. 

497
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:17,320
This is a cultural thing only. 
Now this is not a Corinth only 

498
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,200
rule. 
When Paul says, as in all the 

499
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,840
churches of the Saints, he's 
negating the cultural arguments 

500
00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,680
and God's peace and order are 
for all churches at all times. 

501
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,960
Amen. 
One of you agrees. 

502
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:40,760
Good off to a good start. 
Verse 34 reveals A situational 

503
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,640
silence and also role clarity. 
Situational silence and role 

504
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,800
clarity. 
Look at 34 again. 

505
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,640
The women should keep silent in 
the churches, for they are not 

506
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,480
permitted to speak, but should 
be in submission as the law also

507
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:54,760
says. 
Maybe that's why I didn't get 

508
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:56,640
any Amen from the ladies a 
moment ago. 

509
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,440
It's not saying you can't say 
Amen, all right. 

510
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,400
And if you can't say Amen, say 
Ouch as our dear passed on, 

511
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,160
Brother Vodi Baulkham says so. 
We've already heard two keep 

512
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,600
silent commands, one in verse 
28, one in verse 30 concerning 

513
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,360
tongues and prophecy. 
This is the third in context 

514
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:22,120
here, the speaking being 
restricted is not all forms of 

515
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,320
vocal participation because that
would contradict what we looked 

516
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,600
at in Chapter 11 verse 5, which 
was some time ago. 

517
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,040
I totally understand that was 
last fall right? 

518
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:33,040
And so we'll get to it in a 
moment. 

519
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,680
But there what we see is that 
women pray and prophecy by by 

520
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,080
joining the church in prayers, 
singing and agreeing with God's 

521
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,960
word as it's being taught. 
The the restriction then is 

522
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:50,240
placed on authoritative 
governing speech in the 

523
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,800
assembled church, especially 
that weighing and judging the 

524
00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:00,200
testing of the prophets. 
It's also being applied to the 

525
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:04,240
exercise of teaching authority. 
All right, now this is in line. 

526
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,160
This is where we have to let 
Scripture interpret Scripture. 

527
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,680
This is in line with what Paul 
teaches in first Timothy 2:11 

528
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,400
and 12:00 where he writes, let a
woman learn quietly with all 

529
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,600
submissiveness. 
I do not permit a woman to teach

530
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,760
or to exercise authority over a 
man. 

531
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,280
Rather she is to remain quiet. 
So immediately after those 

532
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,400
verses, we get First Timothy 
3:00, which gives us the 

533
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:33,160
requirements for elders just to 
be a man who's been chosen by 

534
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,440
God, set apart by the Spirit. 
There's a he has a desire to 

535
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,840
serve as an elder. 
He's a husband of one wife, all 

536
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,080
right. 
He's above reproach. 

537
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,360
He's self controlled. 
There's a litany of things there

538
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,640
that he is to be all right, but 
it is a him. 

539
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:52,280
It is a he. 
Pronouns matter here. 

540
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,240
Let a woman learn quietly with 
all submissivists. 

541
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,800
I do not permit a woman to teach
or to exercise authority over a 

542
00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:59,800
man. 
Rather, she is to remain quiet. 

543
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,480
So that's First Timothy 2:11 and
12:00 here. 

544
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,680
What we have is very similar 
wording. 

545
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,080
The women should keep silent in 
the churches, for they are not 

546
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,960
permitted to speak, but should 
be in submission, as the law 

547
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,240
also says. 
We'll get to that in a moment. 

548
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,960
No, we'll get to it now. 
Sorry. 

549
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,120
As the law also says, refers to 
the creation order. 

550
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,360
All right, He's he's, he's 
bringing this, he's grounding 

551
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,240
the argument in creation. 
So again, I think that verse 33 

552
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,880
B is plenty to say that the 
cultural argument doesn't stand 

553
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,640
as in all the churches of the 
Saints. 

554
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,520
That's plenty, right? 
But just in case that's not 

555
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:41,800
plenty, he also grounds it in 
the creation order, Genesis 2, 

556
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,760
where you have the man created. 
He's to work and keep the Garden

557
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,840
of Eden. 
He is then brought to this 

558
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,560
realization that he's alone. 
God says it's not good for this 

559
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,160
man to be alone. 
And so he creates a woman for 

560
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,400
him who's to be a helper fit for
him. 

561
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,920
So she's to help in these 
things, but not the lead in 

562
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,680
these things, right? 
And Paul grounds the argument in

563
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:12,120
First Timothy 2 in the very same
verses Genesis chapter 2, Paul 

564
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,480
uses the creation order to found
his teachings on Mel headship as

565
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,239
well in First Corinthians 11, 
which we have looked at but also

566
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:25,679
in Ephesians 5. 
All right, so I wrestled with 

567
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,440
this text this week mainly 
working to harmonize. 

568
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,080
I wasn't I wasn't upset about 
what it said. 

569
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,920
I think our church believes this
well. 

570
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,239
But I wrestled with this text 
mainly working to harmonize with

571
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,840
First Corinthians 11 because 
there a woman is instructed to 

572
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,440
pray and prophecy and here she's
being told to keep silent. 

573
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:45,960
So what? 
What's going on? 

574
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:49,280
Why the differences? 
And here are the 2 main 

575
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,280
conclusions that I think we're 
able to draw from Scripture. 

576
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:56,960
The 1st is different kinds of 
speech in the same gathered 

577
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,480
setting. 
All right, different kinds of 

578
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,720
speech in the same gathered 
setting. 

579
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:05,600
So First Corinthians 11 fives 
assumes that women pray and 

580
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,800
prophecy. 
They may offer Spirit empowered 

581
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,080
speech, but that's to be under 
visible submission, which was a 

582
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,280
head covering. 
There again, you can hold the 

583
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:22,520
the that the head covering is 
merely her husband. 

584
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,360
My belief is that it's also a 
cloth of some sort. 

585
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,680
All right, that there's a 
covering. 

586
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,000
All right, we looked at that. 
If you're interested in that 

587
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,680
teaching, you can go back and 
find it on in our sermons. 

588
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,280
But she should do so under 
visible submission and subject 

589
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,320
to testing. 
All right, she's subject to 

590
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,480
testing. 
As I mentioned earlier, this 

591
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,680
passage restricts, restricts 
women from authoritative 

592
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:51,800
speaking that governs the 
assembly, right, especially the 

593
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:55,520
weighing and judging of 
prophecies and any teaching over

594
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,760
the gathered church. 
So verse 29, but also first 

595
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,520
Timothy 211 through 12 as a 
cross reference there. 

596
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,360
You also want to note the three 
Keep Silent commands, 2830 and 

597
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:11,400
34. 
All are situational and they're 

598
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,480
meant to preserve order. 
They're not blanket gags on all 

599
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,040
speech. 
Again, here, the silence is 

600
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,480
about governing and deciding 
speech. 

601
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,480
It's about weighing and testing 
speech. 

602
00:36:24,240 --> 00:36:28,400
It's not about congregational 
participation, such as singing, 

603
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,120
praying, confessing or 
testifying, or even offering an 

604
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,200
Amen. 
The second thing that we see are

605
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,120
different settings. 
I think I've kind of made that 

606
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,600
point, but I want to make it 
more clearly. 

607
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,800
In First Corinthians 11/2 
through 16, Paul addresses the 

608
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,200
propriety for men and women in 
general Christian gatherings or 

609
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:55,120
smaller home settings, right? 
Churches would often meet house 

610
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,480
to house, and there you might 
see women pray, you might see 

611
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:01,960
them prophecy with appropriate 
signs of authority. 

612
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:08,080
In First Corinthians 1426 or 40,
he's addressing the church, and 

613
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,840
we know that because he says 
when you have come together as a

614
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,800
church in 1118, but also in 
1423. 

615
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:20,800
So the official assembly of the 
church, Sunday worship under 

616
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:25,160
elders where authoritative 
speech is regulated, including a

617
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:29,840
prohibit, including prohibiting 
women speaking in the 

618
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,600
authoritative sense. 
So then the question becomes 

619
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,800
what's allowed and what's not 
allowed, right? 

620
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,080
What's allowed and what's not 
allowed? 

621
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:42,240
Well, allowable things that are 
allowable and gathered worship 

622
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:47,320
would be congregational singing,
singing some sort of a meaning 

623
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,520
responsive prayers. 
Sorry, congregational praying, a

624
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,800
meaning responsive prayers, 
those sort of things. 

625
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:57,920
Secondly, congregational singing
and public scripture result 

626
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,600
responses, right? 
All the Saints are instructed to

627
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,880
sing. 
An elder might get up. 

628
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,680
We kind of do this in our call 
to worship where we're saying 

629
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,280
something together, right? 
We're declaring some things 

630
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,800
together and it's often led by, 
it's always led by qualified 

631
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,160
men, but we say those things 
together. 

632
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,160
Another thing that would be 
allowable testimony and 

633
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,600
Thanksgiving, right? 
The testimony, Thanksgiving, 

634
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,560
these things are non 
authoritative. 

635
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,480
They're curated for edification.
We've seen this a few times even

636
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:35,200
in our members meetings. 
We see them often in home groups

637
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:40,400
where a woman will testify to 
the things that the Lord's doing

638
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,800
in her life. 
She'll give thanks for the 

639
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,160
things that the Lord's doing in 
her life. 

640
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,000
She'll even share things that 
the Lord taught her as she was 

641
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,240
going through the study in Home 
group, right? 

642
00:38:49,240 --> 00:38:52,440
This is allowed in the Apostolic
era. 

643
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,240
Women could offer a prophetic 
revelation 11/5. 

644
00:38:57,240 --> 00:39:00,320
We see that in a way that did 
not place them in the judges 

645
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,000
seat all. 
Right. 

646
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,240
And that honored roll order with
a covering as the sign, all 

647
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,440
right. 
So things that would not be 

648
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:13,440
allowed in the stated assembly, 
authoritative teaching or 

649
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,040
expounding of Scripture to the 
mixed congregation, we would not

650
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,840
permit. 
Paul is not permitting a woman 

651
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,560
to stand up and preach. 
There are no such thing in 

652
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:27,320
Scripture as lady preachers. 
All right, it does exist in our 

653
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,640
world, but the Scriptures do not
affirm this. 

654
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,280
Secondly, the formal weighing 
judging of prophecies or 

655
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:40,680
doctrine in the assembly they're
they're told to ask at home. 

656
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:46,240
Right. 
That sort of formal weighing and

657
00:39:46,240 --> 00:39:51,480
judging evaluates it. 
It governs the act, and that 

658
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,800
belongs to the male leadership 
or the elders of the church. 

659
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,680
Also, you see, disruptive 
interrogation. 

660
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,600
One thing here that some 
commentators pointed out as I 

661
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,360
was walking through this is that
the women, like everyone else, 

662
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,040
were confused by what was going 
on. 

663
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,080
And so they're asking questions.
What in the world is taking 

664
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,160
place? 
What's going on here? 

665
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:16,440
What's happening? 
You know, And so disruptive 

666
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,560
interrogation that that shifts 
the learner into a governing 

667
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,640
role, right? 
And so, Paul says, they should 

668
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,240
ask their husbands at home. 
They should pursue understanding

669
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,640
without destabilizing the order 
of worship. 

670
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,080
So men and women are equal in 
dignity. 

671
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:38,280
We affirm this wholeheartedly. 
They're equal in value, but 

672
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,920
they're distinct in their roles.
God has given men and women 

673
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,800
different roles, distinct from 
one another, complementary of 

674
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,640
one another. 
God's does not design is not a 

675
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:52,640
demotion, even though the third 
way feminism would have you 

676
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,440
believe it is, and even first 
wave for that matter. 

677
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,560
It's not a demotion, it's 
wisdom. 

678
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:04,080
God is laying out wisdom here. 
God's peace and edification are 

679
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,040
advanced when gifts flourish 
within the lanes that God 

680
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,160
assigns to us. 
Right? 

681
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:15,920
His peace and his edification. 
His wisdom advances when gifts 

682
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:20,240
are allowed to flourish within 
the lanes that God assigns to 

683
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:24,520
us. 
So since revelatory prophecy has

684
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,120
ceased with the Apostolic 
foundation, the abiding 

685
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,680
principle is this. 
Women fully and vigorously 

686
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,920
participate in all the non 
authoritative elements of 

687
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,840
worship and ministry, singing, 
praying with the body, 

688
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:41,360
scripture, memory, recitation, 
testimonies, discipling women 

689
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,280
and children, and 1000 other 
great works. 

690
00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:51,480
God does not, he's not bound 
women to some sort of box, 

691
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,960
though. 
He's unleashed women into the 

692
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:56,520
roles that he's designed them 
for, right? 

693
00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:59,200
And that's a good thing for the 
body of Christ. 

694
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,080
The whole body is built up in 
this way. 

695
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,840
So authoritative preaching and 
Speaking of the gathered church 

696
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,920
that belongs those formal 
doctrinal proclamations that 

697
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,560
remains the responsibility of 
qualified men and elders. 

698
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,880
So in summary, 11/5 affirms 
women's meaningful non 

699
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,120
authoritative participation, 
whereas 1434 and 35 guards the 

700
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,560
assemblies governing speech, the
weighing and authoritative 

701
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:32,760
teaching so that the church 
displays the God of peace decent

702
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,080
and in order, as verse 40 will 
show us. 

703
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,720
So therefore, Paul says women 
are to pursue understanding 

704
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,680
without disrupting the order 
right in verse 35. 

705
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,120
If there's anything they desire 
to learn, let them ask their 

706
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:47,200
husbands at home. 
British shameful for a woman to 

707
00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:51,160
speak in church. 
All right. 

708
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,200
Paul says women are to pursue 
understanding without disrupting

709
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,720
the order. 
Shameful in this setting. 

710
00:42:57,720 --> 00:43:01,360
When Paul says this is shameful,
shameful in the setting means 

711
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:06,160
that it's out of place. 
It's out of place, right? 

712
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,720
And so therefore it becomes 
shameful. 

713
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:15,680
It'd be like if a man wore, you 
know, his swimming trunks to his

714
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:18,880
wedding. 
It's out of place, all right? 

715
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,480
It's not decent and in order. 
I know that's a silly analogy, 

716
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,240
but it's the best I had on the 
fly. 

717
00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:26,520
Brothers and sisters, I'm sorry.
It could have been much worse. 

718
00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:33,000
It's shameful. 
Right. 

719
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,080
Because it's out of place with 
the honor and order of the 

720
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,200
gathered church, Paul commends 
eager learning. 

721
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:44,040
Questions are good, sisters. 
They're good and right. 

722
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,480
But Paul urges that they be 
channeled in ways that do not 

723
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:53,200
destabilize the worship service.
Let them ask their husbands at 

724
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,080
home. 
All right, So men, there's a 

725
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,800
charge here for us, is there 
not? 

726
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,200
I mean, you can read it and say,
yeah, women should keep silent. 

727
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:07,640
That's not the charge for 
husbands. 

728
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,960
The charge for husbands is let 
them ask their husbands at home,

729
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:15,680
which says a certain thing about
what husbands should be men. 

730
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,840
We see that we must be men of 
learning. 

731
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:24,880
We must be men of understanding,
such that we can adequately 

732
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:27,960
teach our wives and children 
God's Word. 

733
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:32,760
We should always be willing to 
receive their questions and work

734
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,120
toward biblical answers. 
But we have to be men of 

735
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:41,160
learning to do this. 
In Ephesians 5, you're quite 

736
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:44,880
literally charged with the 
washing of your wife with the 

737
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:48,000
water of the word. 
Well, what that means is you're 

738
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:53,560
to be a primary resource of her 
growth and godliness, Learning 

739
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,960
the Word of God in such a way 
that you can apply it to your 

740
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,640
wife's life all right. 
Learning the word of God in such

741
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:05,640
a way that you can, he says 
there to nourish and cherish 

742
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,400
your wife as you apply these 
things. 

743
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:11,160
All right, So it's not some 
domineering. 

744
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,400
I'm the head of the house. 
I have, you know, all the 

745
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,720
answers you need to submit to 
everything I say. 

746
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:20,920
That's really stupid. 
It's really foolish behavior. 

747
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,480
But that's often what ignorant 
men do. 

748
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,400
And I don't mean ignorant in the
sense of stupid. 

749
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,200
I mean ignorant in the sense of 
unknowing men that that's often 

750
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,960
where they go with that verse. 
And then that becomes another 

751
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,040
kind of patriarchy that really 
is evil, another kind of 

752
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,280
headship that is evil. 
Right. 

753
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,880
But what we're told is that 
we're to be the kind of man who 

754
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,360
nourish and cherish our wives, 
who love them as Christ loves 

755
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,600
the church. 
And so we're able to wash them 

756
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,760
with the water of the Word, 
meaning we know the Word of God.

757
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,000
Our hearts and our souls have 
been washed by the Word of God. 

758
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,600
Our minds have been renewed by 
the Spirit of God, according to 

759
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,400
Romans 12/2, right? 
We're not following the ways of 

760
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,160
the world. 
And we're seeking to help our 

761
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,280
wives walk in line with the Word
of God. 

762
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,640
All right, we're learning how to
do that in the right ways. 

763
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,880
So that's Ephesians 5 and 
Ephesians 6. 

764
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:15,720
Just a few verses later, Paul 
continues to harp on what godly 

765
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:19,240
headship looks like in the home.
In Ephesians 6, we're charged 

766
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:22,240
with raising our children with 
the discipline and instruction 

767
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:25,160
of the Lord. 
All right, so discipline is 

768
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,120
often one of those ones we we 
find easy to get right. 

769
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,360
All right, it's easy to be an 
authoritative kind of 

770
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,080
disciplinarian in your home. 
Maybe you're wired that way, 

771
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,640
maybe you're raised that way, so
it just comes real natural for 

772
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,280
you. 
Well, that that's a part of it 

773
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:44,280
and it's a part of it that can 
be grossly taken out of context 

774
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,040
if you're not also understanding
that you're to raise them with 

775
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,720
the instruction of the Lord, 
right? 

776
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,320
We have to raise our children in
the instruction of the Lord, 

777
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,560
which means we are to be a 
primary resource of their 

778
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,320
exposure to the law as we lay 
down right discipline. 

779
00:46:59,960 --> 00:47:04,120
But we're also an exposure, 
their primary place of exposure 

780
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:08,200
to the gospel as we apply grace 
and mercy, as we show them 

781
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:12,040
Christ. 
And in all of those things 

782
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,520
working together, you become a 
primary resource of their growth

783
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:21,720
and godliness as well. 
You become the head of your home

784
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:25,240
in a way that your wife and 
children flourish under your 

785
00:47:25,240 --> 00:47:30,040
rule, under your leadership. 
I think we also find application

786
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,240
for the church in this text as 
well. 

787
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,760
We must reserve authoritative, 
authoritative teaching and the 

788
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:41,680
formal weighing of doctrine in 
the in the assembly to qualified

789
00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,120
men and elders. 
That's one of the applications 

790
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,760
here. 
Another application is that we 

791
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:51,040
must maximize women's robust 
participation within scriptures,

792
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:56,760
design of them, congregational 
singing, Scripture reading where

793
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,520
appropriate, and corporate 
prayer, inappropriate settings, 

794
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:01,880
maybe home groups, small groups,
those sort of things. 

795
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,280
Our Home group would practice 
this just by going around the 

796
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,160
room reading a verse at a time 
of the Scripture that we're 

797
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,480
studying. 
So men and women and children 

798
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,000
who are present are 
participating in Scripture 

799
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:19,720
reading testimonies. 
It's another way that women 

800
00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:23,200
should have robust 
participation, sharing, telling 

801
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,720
of what the Lord's done in their
life all. 

802
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,600
Right. 
Mom did this just several weeks 

803
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,200
ago as she told of the great 
work of the Lord in her life 

804
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,120
prior to her baptism. 
All right, This is a great way 

805
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,440
to maximize a woman's robust 
participation in the General 

806
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:43,440
Assembly discipling women and 
children. 

807
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:50,160
Titus 2 is very clear and it's 
call for women to be involved, 

808
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,440
not the primary involvement, but
hugely involved in the 

809
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,240
discipling of other women and in
children. 

810
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:02,200
Older women are to teach, to 
train younger women how to love 

811
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,480
their husbands and children. 
Well, all right, that's 

812
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,800
discipleship. 
That's taking doctrine and 

813
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:11,360
applying it to life, right? 
God has saved us. 

814
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:14,080
God loves us. 
God's given us this gift of 

815
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,240
being women, right? 
We're to be wives and mothers. 

816
00:49:17,240 --> 00:49:20,680
God's called us to this task. 
And so how do we carry the love 

817
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,360
of God, the grace of God, the 
mercy of God, the wisdom of God 

818
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:27,840
into our home, right? 
That often takes older women 

819
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,160
sitting down with younger women 
and saying here's how we walk 

820
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,160
this out. 
Here's how we obey these 

821
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,840
commands. 
Leadership and ministries that 

822
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,760
are fitting to Titus 2 is also a
lap every good work in the home 

823
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:43,760
right. 
Like I said, 1000 other good 

824
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:48,200
works, 1/3 application is there 
ought to be clear avenues for 

825
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,640
questions, clear avenues for 
learning with questions, whether

826
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:55,320
that's classes, whether it's 
elders making themselves 

827
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:59,520
available during the week, 
whether it's home discussions so

828
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,600
that no one is left unheard. 
All right, we want there to be 

829
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,320
questions, clear avenues for 
that. 

830
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,240
And so finally, because Paul 
lays this out as a transcultural

831
00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:14,200
norm, our practice as a church 
is to be honoring, protective 

832
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,120
and proactive in cultivating the
gifts of men and women and to 

833
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,560
disciple them in their God-given
roles according to their divine 

834
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:26,240
nature and design so that we can
glorify him in the church, at 

835
00:50:26,240 --> 00:50:29,000
our homes and in the culture. 
Amen. 

836
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:34,520
Hopefully we can all agree on 
that being our task #3 Biblical 

837
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:40,960
authority and peace. 36 through 
40 Biblical authority and peace.

838
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:47,240
In verse 36, Corinth learns that
they are not the standard. 

839
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,320
Another hard hitting comment 
from Paul. 

840
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,880
Or was it from you Corinth, that
the word of God came? 

841
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,400
Are you the authority or are you
the only ones that the word of 

842
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,040
God has reached? 
You can hear the sarcasm in 

843
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,760
Paul's questions. 
They're two cutting questions, 

844
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:14,160
and questions have a way of 
exposing things that need to be 

845
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,680
exposed here. 
It's exposing Corinthian pride, 

846
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,640
right? 
Churches receive the word. 

847
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,080
Corinth as a church has received
the word. 

848
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:30,760
Churches do not invent the word,
and Corinth is not the inventor 

849
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,800
of God's Word. 
Brothers and sisters, we do not 

850
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:40,680
discover worship, rather we 
receive worship from God. 

851
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,600
God is the one who creates us 
for worship. 

852
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,920
We become new creations in 
Christ Jesus. 

853
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:51,280
Old things passed away, all 
things becoming new, walking in 

854
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:54,320
the reconciliation with God. 
All of this is laid out in 2nd 

855
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,840
Corinthians 5. 
And we become Proclaimers of 

856
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,680
that reconciliation. 
We become ambassadors for this 

857
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,360
message of reconciliation. 
Why? 

858
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:10,480
Because we received it from God.
We didn't create it. 

859
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:15,520
We didn't discover it ourselves.
God, in his great mercy, with 

860
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:19,680
great love and great grace, 
saved us from the pit of hell 

861
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,960
and made us worshippers. 
All right. 

862
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:30,360
And so we become Proclaimers of 
worship and verse 37, we have 

863
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,320
the recognition test. 
We might call it all right. 

864
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:39,200
If anyone thinks that he is a 
prophet or spiritual, he should 

865
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,840
acknowledge that the things I am
writing to you are a command of 

866
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:46,080
the Lord. 
Paul saying, look, you should 

867
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:48,960
recognize this if you're a 
prophet, if you're spiritual, 

868
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,000
this will bear witness with you 
as being true. 

869
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:57,400
You should recognize this. 
You should acknowledge the 

870
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,520
things that I'm writing to you 
as a command of the Lord. 

871
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:06,040
So to be spiritual, all right, 
sometimes we wonder what does it

872
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:11,360
mean to be spiritual? 
To be spiritual means that we 

873
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:18,560
submit to Apostolic doctrine. 
We submit to God's Word in full.

874
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,320
Paul's pin carries the Lord's 
command, he says This is a 

875
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:29,200
command of the Lord. 
Any leader who dismisses 

876
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,600
biblical instructions for 
worship, however gifted they 

877
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:37,480
might be, they are disqualifying
themselves from spiritual 

878
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,440
credibility. 
They're no longer above 

879
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,360
reproach. 
Right. 

880
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,640
And so we must submit to 
biblical authority if we're 

881
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,120
going to have order and peace in
our worship services, we must 

882
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:54,240
submit. 
We must acknowledge this. 

883
00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:57,240
We must not think that we are a 
prophet of some other kind, that

884
00:53:57,240 --> 00:54:01,640
we're higher than Paul, that 
we're higher than God's word. 

885
00:54:01,640 --> 00:54:03,240
And so therefore we don't have 
to submit. 

886
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:06,920
No, if we think that we're 
spiritual, we must acknowledge 

887
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:10,560
the things that are being 
written here as being truth from

888
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,440
God. 
And so we submit to them. 

889
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,560
Glad heartedly all. 
Right. 

890
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:19,680
We lay ourselves down at them, 
we humble ourselves before them,

891
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,040
and we trust that God's Word is 
right. 

892
00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:30,880
We have a warning in verse 38 
for anyone who won't do that. 

893
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,600
It's a stark warning. 
If anyone does not recognize 

894
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:39,080
this, if he doesn't acknowledge 
these things as true, then he is

895
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:43,840
not recognized. 
It's a grave warning there. 

896
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,160
So when a person refuses to 
recognize Apostolic authority 

897
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:55,520
when a first, when a person 
refuses to recognize, in other 

898
00:54:55,520 --> 00:55:00,280
words, the authority of the 
scriptures that leads to their 

899
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:06,920
non recognition, they they 
should not be recognized. 

900
00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:12,320
Their authority has no weight. 
It has no meaning any longer, 

901
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:20,440
and so the church, both locally 
and universally, the church must

902
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,120
not platform those who are 
unsubmissive to God's Word all. 

903
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:27,720
Right. 
What are ways that we can 

904
00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:30,200
platform those who are 
unsubmissive to God's Word? 

905
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,920
We may find a kernel of truth in
something they've said on a 

906
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:42,360
social media reel and share it. 
You're platforming men and women

907
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,640
often who are unsubmissive to 
God's Word. 

908
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:47,400
And so we must weigh the things 
they say. 

909
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,520
Now, that could be really hard 
when someone has hours and hours

910
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:54,240
of podcasts, hours and hours of 
sermons or teaching, you know, 

911
00:55:54,240 --> 00:55:56,280
books and books of things 
they've written. 

912
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,800
But we must be discerning 
brothers and sisters, even of 

913
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,480
the people we would platform on 
social media. 

914
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,880
As careless as that might seem, 
it's important. 

915
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:10,400
Right. 
In the church, elders must guard

916
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,160
the pulpit, elders must guard 
the Mike. 

917
00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:18,480
Authority is always accountable 
to the Word of God. 

918
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,120
Authority does not stand on its 
own right, that the only 

919
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,320
authority we have is the 
authority that's been given to 

920
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,440
us by God as we humble ourselves
before Him. 

921
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,240
If someone will not submit 
themselves to God's Word, then 

922
00:56:33,240 --> 00:56:36,320
Paul is saying they should not 
be recognized by the church. 

923
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,000
So therefore the church cannot 
approve them. 

924
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:41,960
Rather the church must rebuke 
them. 

925
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:46,000
The church must pray for their 
submission to God and his word 

926
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,040
to seek their reconciliation 
with the Lord. 

927
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,160
And verse 39, Paul teaches A 
balanced zeal. 

928
00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,040
So my brothers earnestly desire 
to prophecy and do not forbid 

929
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:04,400
speaking in tongues in the 
Apostolic era. 

930
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:10,360
Both gifts are both gifts had a 
regulated place, earnestly 

931
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,040
desire prophecy, do not forbid 
speaking in tongues. 

932
00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:16,160
Paul refuses both extremes, 
right? 

933
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,400
We're not going to be chaotic. 
The church should not be 

934
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:25,960
enraptured in chaos. 
But we're also not going to 

935
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,240
allow for prohibition, all 
right. 

936
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,160
We should do these things in the
right way. 

937
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:38,320
So legitimate languages, the 
gift of tongues, these were 

938
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:42,640
limited in purpose and very 
likely in duration, but as long 

939
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,680
as it was still active in the 
early church, they were not to 

940
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:49,640
be hindered. 
They should be done in the right

941
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,840
way, decent and in order. 
But prophecy was the most 

942
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,080
desirable gift to be exercised 
because of its ability to edify,

943
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,640
because of its ability to 
exhort, because of its ability 

944
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:07,240
to comfort with the truth. 
And so we ought to still desire 

945
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:12,000
the ends of revelatory gifts, 
which is intelligible 

946
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,680
proclamation that builds up the 
body of Christ. 

947
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:22,400
So that means we maximize 
expositional preaching, we 

948
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,200
maximize Scripture, rich singing
and prayers. 

949
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,280
We maximize the ordinances that 
Christ has given to the church, 

950
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,640
baptism and the Lord's Supper, 
right? 

951
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:39,360
Because these things are the 
kinds of things that edify, 

952
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:42,160
exhort, and comfort us with the 
truth of God's Word. 

953
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:47,040
And then in verse 40, Paul 
provides the summary principle. 

954
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:52,480
But all things should be done 
decently and in order or read 

955
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,600
the word decently, we ought to 
think of fittingly. 

956
00:58:56,480 --> 00:59:00,080
They, they fit well, right? 
They, they fit the purpose. 

957
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,080
What's the purpose? 
Edification. 

958
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:09,200
They're becoming right decently 
means becomingly means it's 

959
00:59:09,200 --> 00:59:11,200
attractive. 
It's good for us. 

960
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:16,480
It's obvious that it's good. 
Right order. 

961
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,240
I will read the word order. 
We ought to think of arranged in

962
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,360
sequence, right? 
The things are arranged. 

963
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,400
They're they're meant to build. 
They're they're meant to edify. 

964
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,840
They're meant to strengthen. 
They're done with purpose. 

965
00:59:32,520 --> 00:59:36,920
Beauty and structure belong 
together, right? 

966
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:39,800
Beauty and structure belong 
together. 

967
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,880
Order is not cold. 
Order is lovely when it reflects

968
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:52,200
the God of peace. 
Order is not cold. 

969
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,840
It is lovely when it reflects 
the God of peace. 

970
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:58,760
So there's a checklist maybe 
that we could run through for 

971
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,800
application on this. 
Number one would be 

972
01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:02,880
intelligibility. 
All right. 

973
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:07,520
Do we have intelligible worship 
services, plain explanations, 

974
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,920
clear scripture readings, 
understandable prayers, so on 

975
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,960
and so forth? 
Secondly, limits in sequence. 

976
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:20,080
Is it one voice at a time? 
Is it curated participation? 

977
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:23,160
Are there intentional 
transitions, those sort of 

978
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,160
things? 
Can everybody follow along? 

979
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,480
Is there a clear limit, a clear 
sequence? 

980
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:32,520
Thirdly, weighing an oversight. 
Elders test teaching. 

981
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,640
The congregation becomes Bereans
right. 

982
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:38,080
Weighing the word of God against
the word of God. 

983
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,000
Weighing the spoken word of God 
against the Word of God. 

984
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:45,680
Right. 
Role clarity Another checklist. 

985
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,440
Qualified men bear the load of 
authoritative teaching. 

986
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:54,600
Women's gifts flourish in 
biblically fitted lanes or the 

987
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:59,000
roles clear in a church. 
And then finally Apostolic 

988
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,240
submission, right? 
Or biblical submission. 

989
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:07,680
What does the Scripture require 
is our question, Not what do we 

990
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,960
prefer? 
What do the Scriptures require 

991
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:12,440
of us? 
Right. 

992
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:17,200
So who weighs teaching today? 
I hope this has been plain, but 

993
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,520
I want to make it more plain by 
answering the question outright.

994
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:23,440
Who weighs teaching today? 
Elders first must weigh the 

995
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,680
teaching of God's Word, then a 
word saturated congregation 

996
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:29,920
weighs the teaching of God's 
Word. 

997
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,520
And we do those things under 
confessional standards. 

998
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,400
All right. 
Confessional standards include 

999
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:38,960
things like the New Hampshire 
Confession of Faith, which is 

1000
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,520
our church's confession of 
faith. 

1001
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:46,120
Another really helpful 11 I use 
very, very often is the 1689 

1002
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:47,760
London Baptist Confession of 
Faith. 

1003
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,840
And another one that I find very
helpful is the Baptist Catechism

1004
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,600
with has questions and answers 
in it. 

1005
01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,200
Those documents serve as 
guardrails. 

1006
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:02,920
They are not authoritative, but 
they serve as guardrails as we 

1007
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:07,040
strive to align ourselves with 
God's Word as the primary, all 

1008
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:10,880
sufficient and infallible, 
infallible authority in our 

1009
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:14,440
lives. 
OK, so who weighs the teaching 

1010
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:16,520
elders then? 
The congregation under 

1011
01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:20,480
confessional standards? 
What does decently and or and 

1012
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,240
and in order? 
Yeah, that was tough. 

1013
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,040
What does decently and in order 
feel like? 

1014
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:34,200
Well, it's warmth without 
whirlwinds, right? 

1015
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,480
It's the difference between 
sitting in a hurricane and 

1016
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:41,520
sitting in a calm, peaceful 
spring day. 

1017
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:46,520
All right? 
It's reverence without rigidity.

1018
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:50,240
It's it's clarity without 
quenching the Spirit. 

1019
01:02:55,040 --> 01:03:01,640
Church order and worship is not 
about fussiness, it's about 

1020
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:04,480
love. 
Order and worship is about love.

1021
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:10,920
When we plan our services, when 
we limit them, when we sequence 

1022
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:15,640
them for understanding, what 
we're communicating is that we 

1023
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,600
love the Saints that Jesus has 
purchased with his blood. 

1024
01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:24,360
We love them. 
And submission and worship is 

1025
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,200
not about power plays. 
It's about peace. 

1026
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:32,840
The peace of God ruling among 
the people gladly under his 

1027
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:36,560
word. 
The God of peace has made peace 

1028
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:42,800
by his blood on the cross. 
And if you're outside of Christ 

1029
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:46,200
today, you're not. 
You're an unbeliever. 

1030
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,040
You haven't submitted yourself 
to the Lord. 

1031
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:58,760
Then your life is no doubt noisy
and your heart is disoriented. 

1032
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:03,920
It's disordered. 
And so I implore you to come to 

1033
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:10,440
Christ today to lay your sins at
His feet, to find forgiveness in

1034
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:14,560
Him, to understand that Christ 
alone can reconcile you to the 

1035
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:19,080
Father, and to also understand 
that He will give you His 

1036
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:24,200
spirits who produces 
self-control and peace, among 

1037
01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,880
many other things. 
So let's commit together that 

1038
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:30,200
everything we do is for building
up. 

1039
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:33,280
Everything we do is for building
up the body. 

1040
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:36,360
Nothing we do is to be without 
understanding. 

1041
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:42,280
Everything should be under 
Scripture always and for all 

1042
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:46,640
time, because God is not a God 
of confusion, but a God of 

1043
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:49,640
peace. 
And so we want to promote the 

1044
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:54,240
peace of God in the lives of His
people and in the lives of those

1045
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:58,000
who have yet come to him. 
Brothers and sisters, remember 

1046
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,800
that spirit filled worship must 
be intelligible, orderly, and 

1047
01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,360
submissive to God's Word. 
Let's pray. 

1048
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:13,160
Heavenly Father, we thank you 
for this word that we've studied

1049
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:19,040
this morning. 
And Lord, I just want to ask 

1050
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:25,800
that you would make this church 
a living picture of all that 

1051
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,720
we've seen in chapters 12 
through 14, but especially of 

1052
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:32,360
what we've seen today in verse 
26 through 40. 

1053
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:43,800
May all that we do, the 
intelligible, may all that we do

1054
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:47,120
be orderly. 
May all that we do be 

1055
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:51,280
submissive. 
May all that we do be joyfully 

1056
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:56,360
alive in the Spirit. 
And Father, I pray that there's 

1057
01:05:56,360 --> 01:06:00,960
a church, but I also want to 
pray that for the members here 

1058
01:06:02,240 --> 01:06:06,240
that their lives too would be 
intelligible, orderly, 

1059
01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,720
submissive, and joyfully alive 
in your spirit. 

1060
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:16,000
Father, we understand from 
chapter 12 that you've gifted 

1061
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:19,680
everyone for the purpose of 
edifying the church. 

1062
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:25,560
And so therefore, everyone has a
responsibility before you to 

1063
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:30,320
walk in step with you, to have 
their lives governed by you as 

1064
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,200
their Lord, to submit to you, to
humble themselves before you. 

1065
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:39,440
And if they'll do that as 
Christians who have an 

1066
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:44,600
individual relationship with the
Father, then what we'll see is a

1067
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:48,880
church corporately where 
individuals walk together in 

1068
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:54,360
unity is we'll see true unity. 
We'll experience peace. 

1069
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:59,120
We'll understand that God is not
a God of confusion, but a God of

1070
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,640
peace. 
And so, Lord, would you do those

1071
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:06,960
things here among us? 
Would you continue to sanctify 

1072
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:11,200
us, continue to strengthen us, 
Lord, even as this Word has been

1073
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,800
pressed upon us this morning? 
Would you help us to respond in 

1074
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:18,000
faith to it? 
Help us not to have hearts of 

1075
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:21,560
rebellion any longer, but help 
us to submit to Your Word by the

1076
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:24,920
power of Your Spirit? 
Would you reveal to us those 

1077
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:34,360
areas where we are unsubmissive?
And God would you lead us in 

1078
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:40,360
Christ likeness and Father, it 
is my prayer of that, if there's

1079
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:45,000
anyone here who is not yet a 
believer, that you would draw 

1080
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:47,760
them to yourself, that you would
save them by calling them out of

1081
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,320
darkness and in the marvel 
marvelous light. 

1082
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:55,440
Or that they would see the error
of their ways clearly. 

1083
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:59,360
That they would see that they 
have no Lord but themselves, 

1084
01:07:59,360 --> 01:08:04,120
their own desires. 
Let them see, Lord, that they 

1085
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:07,480
are not in fellowship with the 
God of heaven and earth. 

1086
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:13,440
Rather, they've rebelled against
Him willingly, even gladly at 

1087
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,800
times. 
And Father, would you bring them

1088
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:19,120
to their knees this morning in 
repentance? 

1089
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:22,359
Would you convict them of their 
sin? 

1090
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:30,200
And would you reveal Christ to 
them, the only one who's able to

1091
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:34,920
save us? 
Would you grant them new life 

1092
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:40,200
today? 
I'm going to be a moment now to 

1093
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:44,560
pray there in your seat, not to 
seek the Lord. 

1094
01:08:46,160 --> 01:08:50,439
Maybe you need to confess sins. 
Maybe you need to examine these 

1095
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:53,080
scriptures and see where the 
Lord's calling you to believe 

1096
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:56,080
them today. 
Whatever it is, you have a 

1097
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,000
moment now to pray, just you and
the Father. 

1098
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,319
Heavenly Father, we thank you 
for your grace this morning. 

1099
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,240
We thank you for calling us. 
We thank you for equipping us, 

1100
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:46,760
for molding and shaping us. 
We thank you, God, that as the 

1101
01:09:46,760 --> 01:09:50,080
Word testifies over and over 
again, you are always faithful 

1102
01:09:50,080 --> 01:09:54,560
and steadfast in love. 
Not only does that say something

1103
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,920
about your character, it says 
something about ours. 

1104
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:02,960
We are not always faithful. 
We are not steadfast in love, 

1105
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:09,000
and so we need you daily. 
But God, we thank you that you 

1106
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,840
never leave us. 
You never forsake us. 

1107
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:14,360
You remain faithful and 
steadfast in love even when 

1108
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:20,760
we're found not doing so. 
And so, Lord, we thank you that 

1109
01:10:20,760 --> 01:10:24,360
you have dealt with us yet again
today in faithfulness and love. 

1110
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,040
We thank you for Christ, who has
died to save us from our sins, 

1111
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:33,240
and He's the one who makes the 
way to you possible. 

1112
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:38,840
We praise you for that. 
It's in the name of Christ I 

1113
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:39,880
pray. 
Amen.