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“Ministerio de la mujer I ”

For now I'd invite you to open your Bible to 1 Timothy chapter 2...1 Timothy chapter 2. We're going to be looking together in the next few weeks at verses 9 through 15, 1 Timothy 2:9 through 15. I want to read that text so you'll have it in your mind. I trust you'll reread it through the weeks we go in the teaching of it, but I do for this morning want to set inyour mind so you listen carefully as I read beginning at verse 9.
In like manner, also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with godly fear and self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothing, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I permit not a woman to teach nor to usurpauthority over the man but to be in silence, for Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived but the woman being greatly deceived was in the transgression. Nevertheless, she shall be saved through child bearing if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.
Now obviously this portion of Scripture has to do with the woman's role in the church. And we're going to belooking at it in detail because it is as we find so commonly in Scripture a revelation of the most marvelous comprehensiveness. The Spirit of God using that economy of words that only God can use uses very few terms to express vast amounts of truth in a comprehensive manner. Because of that we need to give careful attention to all that is said in the passage. And when it is complete, we will have aconsummate statement on God's design for women in the church.
Now I think it's apparent to everyone here that this is a battleground today. The dialogue and debate and even conflict that goes on over the issue of the role of women in the church has reached massive proportions. It is amazing to me that it all began with a sort of self-justifying effort on the part of a group of lesbians who wanted tohave their day in the sun and gave birth to the modern feminist movement. Feminism rises out of sinful perversion and yet in spite of its origin it has found its way into the culture of our society in almost every area and even lately into the church. And the church for years committed to certain standards of behavior for men and women is systematically and rather progressively throwing aside allof its former doctrines in favor of newer ones. I am amazed at how many evangelical churches, schools and even seminaries are fast jetisoning things that they have for all their life long held to be biblical truths.
Books are coming out written by people who have for all their ministry been known as evangelicals now denying the things they've always believed and affirming new truth regarding therole of women. They're going back to passages in the Scripture and saying they have to be reinterpreted. Some are saying they have to be ignored, they reflect only Paul's anti-female bias. Others are saying they were added later by editors and they do not reflect the intent of the biblical writer or even his own verbiage. One or another kind of approach is used to do away with what has been thetraditional interpretation of the Word of God. In fact, interpreting passages which are so patently obvious that even a rather brief reading of the passage, as I have just done, leaves you in little doubt as to the intent of its meaning.
But nonetheless, the church which is to be the last bastion of the truth of God is falling fast to the march of the feminist army. And it's my own covenant and vowin my own heart that Grace Community Church and myself and the integrity of our teaching of the Word of God will not become victim to what is going on in the society around us. We need only to go back to the Word of God and affirm what it says to hold our ground.
Now we are aware, I trust, that all of this kind of effort is really not the effort of men, but is the effort of the archenemy of...