God Has an Order

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God Has an Order

• God created woman for the man. (Gen 218-24)

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God Has an Order

• (Genesis 218-24 NKJV) And the LORD God said,
  It is not good that man should be alone I will
  make him a helper comparable to him. 19 Out of
  the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the
  field and every bird of the air, and brought them
  to Adam to see what he would call them. And
  whatever Adam called each living creature, that
  was its name.

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God Has an Order

• 20 So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the
  birds of the air, and to every beast of the
  field. But for Adam there was not found a helper
  comparable to him. 21 And the LORD God caused a
  deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept and He
  took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in
  its place.

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God Has an Order

• 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken
  from man He made into a woman, and He brought her
  to the man. 23 And Adam said This is now bone
  of my bones And flesh of my flesh She shall be
  called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.
  24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and
  mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall
  become one flesh.

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God Has an Order

• It can truly be said that God saved the best for
  last.

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God Has an Order

• It can truly be said that God saved the best for
  last.
• When two become one it is not just a physical
  act. This involves a blending and teamwork.

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God Has an Order

• It can truly be said that God saved the best for
  last.
• When two become one it is not just a physical
  act. This involves a blending and teamwork.
• As in marriage it is important for both men and
  women to learn their God given place and work as
  God would have us.

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God Has an Order

• God has given an arrangement for men and women to
  work together.

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God Has an Order

• God has given an arrangement for men and women to
  work together.
• In the church we must recognize these
  arrangements. (1 Cor 113)

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God Has an Order

• (1 Corinthians 113 NKJV) But I want you to know
  that the head of every man is Christ, the head of
  woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

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God Has an Order

• We live in a time where all previous social
  orders are questioned.

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God Has an Order

• We live in a time where all previous social
  orders are questioned.
• The trends within denominations are now rising
  among churches of Christ.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Where does God place the priorities for women? (1
  Peter 31-7)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Peter 31-7 NKJV) Wives, likewise, be
  submissive to your own husbands, that even if
  some do not obey the word, they, without a word,
  may be won by the conduct of their wives, 2
  when they observe your chaste conduct accompanied
  by fear. 3 Do not let your adornment be merely
  outward arranging the hair, wearing gold, or
  putting on fine apparel

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 4 rather let it be the hidden person of the
  heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle
  and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the
  sight of God. 5 For in this manner, in former
  times, the holy women who trusted in God also
  adorned themselves, being submissive to their own
  husbands,

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord,
  whose daughters you are if you do good and are
  not afraid with any terror. 7 Husbands,
  likewise, dwell with them with understanding,
  giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker
  vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace
  of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• There is something you can do to have a very
  powerful impact upon your husband! (v1-2) Rather
  than demand your rights, build a good character.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• There is something you can do to have a very
  powerful impact upon your husband! (v1-2) Rather
  than demand your rights, build a good character.
• Rather than the outward, a woman that is not
  constantly challenging their husband, but rather
  showing honor and confidence in his leadership,
  will build strength in him. (v3-4)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• God places a great value on this spirit, do you?

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• God places a great value on this spirit, do you?
• It will take great faith to believe in God.
  (v5-6 1 Peter 312-15 Phil 127-30) Do not fear
  to do what the Lord asks!

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (Philippians 127-30 NKJV) Only let your conduct
  be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that
  whether I come and see you or am absent, I may
  hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one
  spirit, with one mind striving together for the
  faith of the gospel, 28 and not in any way
  terrified by your adversaries, which is to them a
  proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and
  that from God.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 29 For to you it has been granted on behalf of
  Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to
  suffer for His sake, 30 having the same
  conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in
  me.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Peter 312-15 NKJV) For the eyes of the LORD
  are on the righteous, And His ears are open to
  their prayers But the face of the LORD is
  against those who do evil. 13 And who is he
  who will harm you if you become followers of what
  is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for
  righteousness sake, you are blessed. And do not
  be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts,
  and always be ready to give a defense to everyone
  who asks you a reason for the hope that is in
  you, with meekness and fear

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Here is a passage where men and women are
  contrasted. (1 Tim 28-15)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Timothy 28-15 NKJV) I desire therefore that
  the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands,
  without wrath and doubting 9 in like manner
  also, that the women adorn themselves in modest
  apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with
  braided hair or gold or pearls or costly
  clothing,

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 10 but, which is proper for women professing
  godliness, with good works. 11 Let a woman
  learn in silence with all submission. 12 And I
  do not permit a woman to teach or to have
  authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13
  For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And
  Adam was not deceived, but the woman being
  deceived, fell into transgression.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in
  childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and
  holiness, with self-control.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Here this is specific to men (v8)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Here this is specific to men (v8)
• What is proper for women? (v9-10) We need to give
  emphasis to subjection and a Godly spirit than
  fashion.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Here this is specific to men (v8)
• What is proper for women? (v9-10) We need to give
  emphasis to subjection and a Godly spirit than
  fashion.
• Here all submission is not just to the husband!

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Because she is not to be in authority does not
  mean that women should not become good Bible
  students. (Some mates let the other do all the
  studying!)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Because she is not to be in authority does not
  mean that women should not become good Bible
  students. (Some mates let the other do all the
  studying!)
• The silence here is not an absolute silence. (v12)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• hesuchia AV - silent 3, quietness 1 4 1)
  quietness 1a) description of the life of one
  who stays at home doing his own work, and does
  not officiously meddle with the affairs of
  others 2) silence

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• hesuchia AV - silent 3, quietness 1 4 1)
  quietness 1a) description of the life of one
  who stays at home doing his own work, and does
  not officiously meddle with the affairs of
  others 2) silence
• There are circumstances where women may teach
  men. (Acts 1826)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (Acts 1826 NKJV) So he began to speak boldly in
  the synagogue. When Aquila and Priscilla heard
  him, they took him aside and explained to him the
  way of God more accurately.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• The reasons for subject are as old as creation.
  (v13-14)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• The reasons for subject are as old as creation.
  (v13-14)
• Here the proper role of both men and women are
  described. (1 Cor 117-12)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Corinthians 117-12 NKJV) For a man indeed
  ought not to cover his head, since he is the
  image and glory of God but woman is the glory of
  man. 8 For man is not from woman, but woman
  from man. 9 Nor was man created for the woman,
  but woman for the man. 10 For this reason the
  woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her
  head, because of the angels.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 11 Nevertheless, neither is man independent of
  woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.
  12 For as woman came from man, even so man also
  comes through woman but all things are from God.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• Please note than women and men are equal but have
  different roles. (v11-12 Gal 328)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (Galatians 328 NKJV) There is neither Jew nor
  Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is
  neither male nor female for you are all one in
  Christ Jesus.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• When the role of men or women are not fulfilled,
  the cause of Christ suffers.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• When the role of men or women are not fulfilled,
  the cause of Christ suffers.
• Here women are limited in their participation in
  the assembly. (1 Cor 1433-37)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Corinthians 1433-37 NKJV) For God is not the
  author of confusion but of peace, as in all the
  churches of the saints. 34 Let your women keep
  silent in the churches, for they are not
  permitted to speak but they are to be
  submissive, as the law also says. 35 And if
  they want to learn something, let them ask their
  own husbands at home for it is shameful for
  women to speak in church.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• 36 Or did the word of God come originally from
  you? Or was it you only that it reached? 37 If
  anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or
  spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things
  which I write to you are the commandments of the
  Lord.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• This is not just any gathering of Christians. (1
  Cor 1423) (Not a Bible Class)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Corinthians 1423 NKJV) Therefore if the
  whole church comes together in one place, and all
  speak with tongues, and there come in those who
  are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say
  that you are out of your mind?

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• This silence involves the addressing of the
  assembly. (1 Cor 1428,30)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Corinthians 1428 NKJV) But if there is no
  interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and
  let him speak to himself and to God.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• (1 Corinthians 1430 NKJV) But if anything is
  revealed to another who sits by, let the first
  keep silent.

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• When a woman follows this rule they are showing
  submission whether married or not! (v34)

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 Passages That Outline the Role of Women

• When a woman follows this rule they are showing
  submission whether married or not! (v34)
• This is a command of God to be followed, not some
  social order by man. (v37)

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How should we apply these verses?

• There cannot be women elders and deacons. (1 Tim
  32,11)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (1 Timothy 32 NKJV) A bishop then must be
  blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate,
  sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able
  to teach

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How should we apply these verses?

• (1 Timothy 311 NKJV) Likewise their wives must
  be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful
  in all things.

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How should we apply these verses?

• Phoebe was a servant but not one who served in
  the office of a deacon! (Rom 161)

58
How should we apply these verses?

• (Romans 161 NKJV) I commend to you Phoebe our
  sister, who is a servant of the church in
  Cenchrea,

59
How should we apply these verses?

• The word apostle has both a specific meaning and
  a general one. (Acts 12,261414)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Acts 12 NKJV) until the day in which He was
  taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had
  given commandments to the apostles whom He had
  chosen,

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Acts 126 NKJV) And they cast their lots, and
  the lot fell on Matthias. And he was numbered
  with the eleven apostles.

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Acts 1414 NKJV) But when the apostles Barnabas
  and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and
  ran in among the multitude, crying out

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How should we apply these verses?

• Sadly some may be saying as the old Baptist
  manual now it is different.

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How should we apply these verses?

• Sadly some may be saying as the old Baptist
  manual now it is different.
• It is unwise to have women in business meetings.

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How should we apply these verses?

• There were occasions for the whole church to hear
  discussion. (Acts 156,22)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Acts 156 NKJV) Now the apostles and elders
  came together to consider this matter.

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Acts 1522 NKJV) Then it pleased the apostles
  and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen
  men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and
  Barnabas, namely, Judas who was also named
  Barsabas, and Silas, leading men among the
  brethren.

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How should we apply these verses?

• Why would we want to have women in the business
  meeting? What would they do?

69
How should we apply these verses?

• In the Bible it was men who were to be the
  leaders. In our business meetings the men are to
  make the finial decision.

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How should we apply these verses?

• In the Bible it was men who were to be the
  leaders. In our business meetings the men are to
  make the finial decision.
• To have women attend the business meeting but not
  speak would be like inviting someone to a dinner
  table filled with food and not let them eat.
  Temptation will likely prevail.

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How should we apply these verses?

• Women have a great influence in the church when
  they follow their God given role

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How should we apply these verses?

• Women have a great influence in the church when
  they follow their God given role
• There are some bad examples in the old testament
  of women who dominated their husbands and forced
  their will. (Ex. Jezebel and Ahab)

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How should we apply these verses?

• Women have a great influence in the church when
  they follow their God given role
• There are some bad examples in the old testament
  of women who dominated their husbands and forced
  their will. (Ex. Jezebel and Ahab)
• Still there are many good examples of women who
  did much good by living by faith. (Prov
  3110-12,23,26-31)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Proverbs 3110-12 NKJV) Who can find a virtuous
  wife? For her worth is far above rubies. 11 The
  heart of her husband safely trusts her So he
  will have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good
  and not evil All the days of her life.

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Proverbs 3123 NKJV) Her husband is known in
  the gates, When he sits among the elders of the
  land.

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Proverbs 3126-31 NKJV) She opens her mouth
  with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of
  kindness. 27 She watches over the ways of her
  household, And does not eat the bread of
  idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her
  blessed Her husband also, and he praises her
  29 Many daughters have done well, But you
  excel them all.

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How should we apply these verses?

• 30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,
  But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be
  praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands,
  And let her own works praise her in the gates.

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How should we apply these verses?

• In the church a woman can cause great trouble by
  complaining, gossiping, being jealous and
  contentious. Some will push their husbands in the
  background to their designs. Some have used the
  term she-elders.

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How should we apply these verses?

• If you find a good church with a loving spirit,
  you will find a church with godly women. The
  atmosphere of the home and also of the church is
  greatly influenced by Godly women!

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How should we apply these verses?

• If you find a good church with a loving spirit,
  you will find a church with godly women. The
  atmosphere of the home and also of the church is
  greatly influenced by Godly women!
• Will we trust God?

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How should we apply these verses?

• If you find a good church with a loving spirit,
  you will find a church with godly women. The
  atmosphere of the home and also of the church is
  greatly influenced by Godly women!
• Will we trust God?
• We will build for good or tear down for evil,
  which will it be? (Matt 1230)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Matthew 1230 NKJV) He who is not with Me is
  against Me, and he who does not gather with Me
  scatters abroad.

83
How should we apply these verses?

• When we serve God, we must all learn submission.
  (Heb 58-9)

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How should we apply these verses?

• (Hebrews 58-9 NKJV) though He was a Son, yet He
  learned obedience by the things which He
  suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He
  became the author of eternal salvation to all who
  obey Him,