PLEASE GOD IN YOUR WORSHIP

MARCH 10, 2013 

1.     PRAY FOR OTHERS (1 TIMOTHY 2:1-4)

1 Timothy 2:1-4

1 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

NASB 

Verse 1:

·        Entreaties - asking God for the fulfillment of certain needs that are keenly felt. They include humble requests in a situation that God, and God alone, can furnish the help that is needed.

·        Prayers - are more general in meaning and commonly refer to every form of address to God. In this verse, prayers may refer to more general requests, more wisdom, more grace, more patience, etc.

·        Petitions - a pleading in the interest of others.

·        Thanksgiving - expressing gratitude to God for the blessings that come from Him. 

Christians are to be men much given to prayer, and in their prayers having a generous concern for others as well as for themselves. They are to especially desire for those in civil authority that God will turn their hearts and direct them, making use of them for the accomplishing of His purposes.

Summarized Bible

 

Ἑντυγχάνειν in the passages cited is not to make intercession, but to intervene, interfere.

Vincent’s Word Study

Verse 2:

·         In that day, the kings and those in authority, were non-Christian.

·         They even persecuted the Christians.

·         And here is Paul telling us to pray for them!

Verse 3:

·         The summit of every Christian ambition should be to live a quiet and peaceable life.

·         In doing so, we will be seeking first the kingdom of God.

Verse 4:

·         We want a man or woman in office that will make it possible for the Word of God to continue to be given to the lost. This should be our concern and our prayer. 

2.     TEACH THE TRUTH (1 TIMOTHY 2:5-7)

1 Timothy 2:5-7

5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony borne at the proper time. 7 And for this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

NASB 

Verse 5:

·         Christ is the One who has voluntarily taken His stand between the offended God and the offending sinner, in order to take upon Himself the wrath of God which the sinner has deserved, thereby delivering the latter. 

A Mediator supposes a controversy. Sin had made a quarrel between God and man.

Summarized Bible

One mediator also - We could not rejoice that there is a God, were there not a mediator also; one who stands between God and men, to reconcile man to God, and to transact the whole affair of our salvation.

John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes

Verse 6:

·         Paul is getting across the idea that Jesus, though a Jew, came to the Gentiles as well.

·         The testimony of the Father of the Son when the Son shall come again and shall make all things subject to the Son.

·         "at the proper time," which has reference to God's eternal plan with respect to it.

Verse 7:

·         Note that Paul ever holds up his credentials to his office.

·         He states again that he is ordained.

·         By saying this, he puts himself on a par with the 12 apostles.

·         Paul is appealing to the eternal plan of God as saying that he was ordained forever, from the beginning, to be an apostle.

·         For God does not make up things as He goes along, He is not winging it.

·         Everything that happens, he causes it to happen according to his will.

·         And since His will has not changed from the beginning, the things that happen to us in the spiritual realm has not changed from the beginning. 

It means that faith and truth are the element or sphere in which the apostolic function is discharged: that he preaches with a sincere faith in the gospel, and with a truthful representation of the gospel which he believes.

Vincent’s Word Study

3.     BEHAVE IN WORSHIP (1 TIMOTHY 2:8-15)

1 Timothy 2:8-15

8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension. 9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments; 10 but rather by means of good works, as befits women making a claim to godliness. 11 Let a woman quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. 12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. 13 For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve. 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression. 15 But women shall be preserved through the bearing of children if they continue in faith and love and sanctity with self-restraint.

NASB 

Verse 8:

·         This implies places of public worship, often in a large room in the house of one of the members.

·         "lifting up holy hands" was a custom practiced in the early church.

·         It revealed a dedication in the lives of those praying.

·         “holy hands" would mean that they were hands dedicated to God's service.

·         There is no one way to position one's body when praying to God.

·         God does not stress the position of the body, but the attitude of the heart when one comes to Him in prayer. 

Prayer, according to our writer, is to be without the element of skeptical criticism, whether of God's character and dealings, or of the character and behavior of those for whom prayer is offered.

Vincent’s Word Study

Verse 9:

·         The Christian woman must understand that her real adornment is the doing of good works which are the fruits of character transformed by the Holy Spirit.

·         The Christian woman must understand that her real adornment is the doing of good works which are the fruits of character transformed by the Holy Spirit.

Verse 10:

·         These words Paul wrote thru the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. 

There is no religion or irreligion in dress, provided pride and luxury are guarded against, and modesty and moderation preserved.

John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

Verse 11: 

According to Paul, women must be learners, and are not allowed to be public teachers in the church; for teaching is an office of authority, and the woman must not usurp authority over the man, but is to be in silence.

Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible

Verse 12:

·         For a woman to teach in an official manner in public worship is to exercise authority over a man, to dominate him, is wrong for a woman.

·         She must not assume the role of a master.

Verse 13:

·         God made Eve for the sake of Adam, to be his helper (Gen 2:18), and his glory (1 Corinthians 11:7-9). Neither is complete without the other.          

Genesis 2:18

18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

 NASB 

1 Corinthians 11:7-9

 7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man. 8 For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; 9 for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake.

NASB

 

·         The tendency to follow was embedded in Eve's very soul; hence, it would not be right to reverse this order in connection with public worship.

Verse 15:

·         Now every time a woman bears a child, she brings a sinner into the world - that is all she can bring into the world.

·         But Mary bought the Lord Jesus, the Savior into the world.

·         The phrase “preserved through the bearing of children" means that thru childbearing the Lord Jesus would be born into the world.