Sunday, October 22, 2006

1 Tim 2 Positions of Men and Women in Holy Battle Array

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1 Timothy 2:1-15
Instructions about Worship
1I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. As you make your requests, plead for God's mercy upon them, and give thanks. 2Pray this way for kings and all others who are in authority, so that we can live in peace and quietness, in godliness and dignity. 3This is good and pleases God our Savior, 4for he wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth. 5For there is only one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and people. He is the man Christ Jesus. 6He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message that God gave to the world at the proper time. 7And I have been chosen—this is the absolute truth—as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles about faith and truth.
8So wherever you assemble, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. 9And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. 10For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
11Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. 12I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly. 13For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve. 14And it was the woman, not Adam, who was deceived by Satan, and sin was the result. 15But women will be saved through childbearing F3 and if they continue to live together in faith, love, holiness, and modesty (with self control and in unity of the spirit, as a symphonic harmonious sound).
FOOTNOTES:F3: Or will be saved by accepting their role as mothers, or will be saved by the birth of the Child-Jesus. Come LORD Jesus, COME!
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~ Lena’s Journalin’~
All kings, would be for all heads who are ultimately responsible before God for other men, other people. Every head of household, every boss, every parent, every male, every ruler, governor, etc. Our position on earth is to pray for these to be in their God-given positions and stay there, rather than use our energies to complain against them being out of position.
If there’s bitterness, envy, strife, anger malice, etc., against people, there won’t be prayer for them, for their souls. Eph 4: says-31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. 32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Do you realize we all, like Paul, have been chosen as ambassadors of God’s living eternal word right now. We’re here to establish His kingdom on earth and to bring the living truth of the gospel message to our world, each of us has been given a piece of the world to influence? That means were to be a demonstration of God’s eternal word to anyone in our lives. Sinner and “saint” alike. Good mankind, bad mankind, nice mankind, ogre-like mankind. All need to be saved from the wrath of God which is to come. All will give account for the part of the world they were responsible to govern starting with themselves then going to their own homes and after that is established they get to be stewards of their greater world. This is the order of God. When He says, get your house in order, this is what it means.
When one gets an eternal revelation both of a life with Christ and without Christ, he only wants others to believe in and receive Life in Christ. There is no hope for doom, even for the worst of enemies. We want what God wants, change for unsaved, unredeemed mankind! The only way towards that change is through Christ.
After Paul tells us the order of life, he starts telling each person in the array about having specific prayer assignments for the home and communities we live in.
Where heads of houses are concerned, beginning with heads of individual houses, starting with me, Paul says I would like to see men not be agitated in their souls over temporary fleshly order, but to take that energy and turn it into effective prayers for all mankind in their sphere of influence. Males especially were set by God as examples and leaders and they have to raise up a standard everywhere they go, the standard of the unconditional love of God, which endures great affliction for the receptivity of seed plantings for salvation unto God.
This is the “lifting of hands”. Hands that give praise to God, rather than insist on domination over other men. God made men to rule earth for God. That means move a few demonically influential powers away from other men’s sight of Jesus. That means kick devil butt in the spirit, not command men as slaves to serve other men. True love covers a multitude of sin in prayer, rather than becoming frustrated and commanding, they get earth’s ground ready for the words of God to be planted. That takes a whole lot of unconditional love in demonstration.
The lifting of hands means my own fleshly powered defenses are down, but my spiritual senses are up. I surrender the flesh power I have to a God that has given me responsibility to me to move mountains that people may see Him and be saved. The goodness of God brings men to repentance, the love of a Father draws them to Jesus.
Holy hands means I’m clean before the blood of the Lord Jesus. When I compare my life and the actions and attitudes I carry about as I walk as a saved man, to His word, I’m a model of it. I change continually, adjusting my life to His words, not His words to the personal opinions of my life.
Likewise women have a Divine assignment and a prayer order. They need to also stay in orderly array, submitting to order and covering of the spirit. They must get a glimpse to understand they are co-governors, responsible to God to rule through the same spirit of humility, as an under girder, they help the men rule the earth as co-laborers of the gospel message. They are very perceptive even to the enemies of the man, being able through intercession to thwart things that try to come onto the pathway of the heads of households before they even get to them! They stay sensitive in the spirit for the purpose of seeing and praying ahead. They are serious enough about this position to not usurp it for hormone’s sake, allowing their flesh to get in the way of their spiritual positions and assignments. They are not stirrers of fleshly lusts, for they know what oneness is about and they keep the focus on kingdom matters and kingdom rule and purpose, not allowing their man to be distracted off of the focus.
What she says she is. If she says she belongs to Christ, she has no need to win a worldly man in the flesh, but to under gird one in the spirit, for life. She doesn’t need to give additional trouble for lust to a man. She understands covenant relationship, so lusty fleshy fly-by-nights she does not even give the time of day.
Learn in silence, means she has no need of gossip or slander for it does not help serve the purposes of God. No meddling, she’s in the spirit and God tells her what to pray for. Her relationship with God and her co-partnership with him in the spirit is in tip top shape and so she has no need to tell all. That’s the silence she’s under, one of orderly respect, giving the enemy NO place with her mouth.
This word “teach” here means – debate. She has no need for debating a with a male, unless she has no faith in exercise, debating with intent to correct as in usurping the authority of. This does not means she does not point enemies out in honest conversation, but she’s not a hot-head know-it-all in congregational settings, being on top of every conversation, advising everyone, especially men who are leaders.
God requires the man to give account to Him about the rule men should be having, not for them to account to her but to God. She needs to stand in the fear of God for his well being and pray for his soul that when he does give an account, he’ll have mercy, for his heart and actions were righteous before God. If he’s off, he needs the miraculous and supernatural power of God at work in order for him to stand in this required by God position with out being judged harshly and possibly dying. She needs to take the incorrect things that she sees to God for Him, forgiving him and asking for mercy for him.
That’s her God-given position.
She too shall be saved from wrath in her own responsibility as a woman of God, if she stands in her “place” of intercession, if she never leaves this post.
If he rules well as a priest, prophet, and then a king and she prays and intercedes when he’s off or attacked and they live this way, then reproduction of kingdom life will happen for God, and they who together were set up here by God to take back the earth together will do His will and fulfill His plans for mankind.


Daily Repetitive Verses -
John 17:15
I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.