WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:14.220 Great stuff folks. With God's word open in front of us, remember a number of years ago hearing someone refer to themselves as an Ikea kind of Christian. 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:25.940 Now if you want to get what they're talking about, have a think about the last time that you found yourself building a little bit of flat pack furniture. 00:00:25.940 --> 00:00:36.140 So one of your experiences was anything like mine, which happened about three or four weeks ago. I'm trying to build a bed for a spare room. 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:45.859 And if you've had an experience of anything like mine, here was the inner battle I faced every time I turned over a new page of instructions. 00:00:46.820 --> 00:00:52.659 In my mind I'm thinking to myself, reading the instructions, thinking to myself, do I really need another daul? 00:00:52.659 --> 00:00:56.779 You know what a daul is? You've got to learn the lingo with these Ikea flat packs, haven't you? 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:05.060 Do I really need another daul? Does it really matter that the kind of size of screw that I need to put in that joint? 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:12.579 There's got to be some kind of mistake here because the instructions don't quite seem right to me. 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:17.019 Does it really matter that I've got that head poured back to front and upside down? 00:01:17.099 --> 00:01:20.259 Does that really matter for how this thing's going to turn out? 00:01:20.260 --> 00:01:25.900 Somebody hand me the phone because I'm calling customer services because these instructions don't quite seem right. 00:01:26.660 --> 00:01:27.580 Ever had that experience? 00:01:29.300 --> 00:01:34.660 You see, what my friend meant, this person meant, when they called themselves an Ikea kind of Christian, 00:01:35.420 --> 00:01:40.939 was that they had seen the goodness in following the Creator's design. 00:01:40.939 --> 00:01:51.140 And as we take in this passage in 1 Timothy today, that is Paul's plea to this church in Ephesus, 00:01:51.579 --> 00:01:54.620 particularly as he thinks about men and women. 00:01:56.179 --> 00:01:58.539 How God has made them purposefully different, 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.539 and how they are to wonderfully work together in the church. 00:02:04.540 --> 00:02:08.420 This is what this is talking about, in the church, not in the world, in the church. 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:13.640 Now here's two things I think we need to be aware of as we come at a passage like this. 00:02:14.040 --> 00:02:19.200 Firstly, we need to be aware of the cultural waters in which we all swim, 00:02:19.819 --> 00:02:24.659 and how they have influenced how we automatically think about so much of this stuff. 00:02:24.719 --> 00:02:27.840 It's a bit like, if you were to ask a goldfish in a bowl, 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:31.979 and you say, do you like the water in which you're swimming? 00:02:32.620 --> 00:02:35.259 And a goldfish would turn around to you if it was able to speak, 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:37.379 and it would say, what's water? 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:42.280 Because sometimes we get so used to, don't we, just the environment in which we live, 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:47.599 that we don't even notice that we are growing up in a certain culture that thinks a certain way. 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:50.879 So we need to be aware of the cultural waters in which we're swimming, 00:02:51.740 --> 00:02:56.620 and we need to be aware of the church waters in which we're swimming. 00:02:56.620 --> 00:03:02.520 And we should expect the timeless word of the eternal God 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:07.719 to challenge our ever-changing culture in the way it thinks. 00:03:08.780 --> 00:03:11.200 We need to be aware of the church waters in which we swim, 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:16.020 because some of us here today, we will have never thought about this stuff, 00:03:16.099 --> 00:03:17.580 let alone heard it read. 00:03:17.780 --> 00:03:18.640 I think that's fair to say. 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:20.599 Some of us will never have thought about this stuff. 00:03:21.640 --> 00:03:22.840 And on the other end of the spectrum, 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:25.500 I'd imagine some of us have grown up in church circles here, 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:31.000 where I don't think I'm exaggerating too much to say this is probably all we talked about growing up. 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:37.419 And so I think what that calls for is you bring our cultural waters in which we're swimming 00:03:37.419 --> 00:03:39.159 and the church waters in which we're swimming, 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:41.080 if you bring them together, 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:47.120 friends, what this means is that we come to this passage today with great humility. 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:53.700 And we choose to put ourselves under God's word, not over it. 00:03:53.740 --> 00:03:57.360 In other words, we don't tell God's word what it should say. 00:03:57.740 --> 00:04:00.980 We listen and we respond appropriately. 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:04.360 And we come at this with a great love for one another. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:07.939 If nothing else, this passage today, I hope, 00:04:08.939 --> 00:04:12.259 by God's spirit, inflames our love for one another 00:04:12.259 --> 00:04:15.439 and our desire to see one another flourish. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:17.680 And so here's my aim today. 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:18.399 I've got one aim. 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:21.579 It's to help us see the beauty 00:04:21.579 --> 00:04:25.539 in being IKEA kind of Christians. 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:28.180 Because this little section, remember, 00:04:28.259 --> 00:04:29.899 is tied so closely to 00:04:29.899 --> 00:04:33.240 verses 1 to 7 of chapter 2, 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:35.480 which was all about 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:38.060 the church sharing God's heart 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:40.060 that the peoples of the world 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:41.180 would come to know Jesus. 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:43.579 It's so closely tied to it. 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.240 And I think how the peoples of the world 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.660 are going to see us in action 00:04:49.660 --> 00:04:53.079 is a big factor in our witness to the world. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.120 So the world should be able to look in and see 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.060 a counter-cultural, Christ-like community 00:04:59.060 --> 00:05:03.120 of men and women together seeking to glorify God 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:04.420 and enjoy him forever. 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:07.879 So this stuff on men and women 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:09.420 is part of that bigger mission 00:05:09.420 --> 00:05:12.180 that we saw in the opening verses of chapter 2. 00:05:12.280 --> 00:05:14.080 Now, to get into this today, 00:05:14.180 --> 00:05:16.020 come with me and look at chapter 4, 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:17.140 verses 3 to 5. 00:05:20.740 --> 00:05:21.980 Opening chapter of this letter, 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:23.280 we thought about the false teaching 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:25.300 that was doing the rounds in Ephesus. 00:05:25.520 --> 00:05:26.660 And we kind of get little clues 00:05:26.660 --> 00:05:27.240 throughout the letter 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.259 as to what the subject 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:30.780 of that false teaching was. 00:05:31.939 --> 00:05:33.500 And we get another little snippet here. 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:34.580 Some of the false teaching 00:05:34.580 --> 00:05:36.340 that's doing the rounds in this church 00:05:36.339 --> 00:05:39.179 is that marriage is a thing to be avoided. 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:40.139 You see it? 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.599 Chapter 4, verses 3 to 5. 00:05:44.699 --> 00:05:45.899 Some people are saying marriage 00:05:45.899 --> 00:05:46.919 is a thing to be avoided. 00:05:47.060 --> 00:05:48.739 And you can imagine the spill-on effects 00:05:48.739 --> 00:05:49.560 of that kind of teaching. 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:51.139 So I'd imagine it's going something like this. 00:05:51.599 --> 00:05:53.679 People are saying truly spiritual people 00:05:53.679 --> 00:05:56.519 are the ones who have set themselves free 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.359 from the old shackles of God's dusty old design 00:06:00.359 --> 00:06:01.379 for men and women. 00:06:01.379 --> 00:06:03.399 And why would you subject yourself 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:05.500 to limits on your life? 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:07.079 What you can do, what you can be. 00:06:07.180 --> 00:06:08.500 Think about how you can flourish 00:06:08.500 --> 00:06:11.120 if you go it on your own. 00:06:12.100 --> 00:06:13.259 And imagine that kind of teaching 00:06:13.259 --> 00:06:15.300 is going down a storm in Ephesus. 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:19.139 And you can be quick to join the dots 00:06:19.139 --> 00:06:20.000 and see that it's a teaching 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.540 that would go down a storm in Edinburgh today. 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:27.560 Paul counters this, verse 4, chapter 4. 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:30.779 He says, everything God created is good. 00:06:30.779 --> 00:06:31.279 Do you see that? 00:06:32.579 --> 00:06:35.199 Everything that God created is good. 00:06:36.819 --> 00:06:37.959 And so to this church 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:39.479 who are maybe beginning to believe 00:06:39.479 --> 00:06:42.019 the false teaching, he says, 00:06:42.699 --> 00:06:46.500 get back to being Ikea kind of Christians 00:06:46.500 --> 00:06:47.359 and love it. 00:06:49.259 --> 00:06:50.119 And so what he does 00:06:50.119 --> 00:06:52.939 is he firstly turns to address 00:06:52.939 --> 00:06:54.739 the men in the church. 00:06:54.799 --> 00:06:56.059 And here's what he says, verse 8. 00:06:56.179 --> 00:06:57.239 Effectively he says, 00:06:57.240 --> 00:06:59.160 stop squabbling 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.060 and start praying. 00:07:02.500 --> 00:07:03.139 It's interesting. 00:07:03.220 --> 00:07:04.560 See, when you read Acts 19, 00:07:04.860 --> 00:07:05.400 and you can go home 00:07:05.400 --> 00:07:06.300 in your own time and do that, 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:08.079 when the gospel first hit Ephesus, 00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:09.300 the message of Jesus 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:11.540 first hits this city, 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:13.439 the men that you meet 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:14.660 in the marketplace there 00:07:14.660 --> 00:07:15.960 who caused this rabble, 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:17.720 what are they doing? 00:07:17.800 --> 00:07:19.060 The two things that they're doing 00:07:19.060 --> 00:07:19.840 in Ephesus, 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:22.000 they're raising their voices 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:24.079 and they're being angry. 00:07:25.220 --> 00:07:25.360 Right? 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.120 That's the two characteristics 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.420 of the men that you meet 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:29.939 in Acts 19, 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:30.779 what they're doing. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:32.360 It might be part and parcel 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:33.019 of what it means 00:07:33.019 --> 00:07:34.300 to be a man in Ephesus 00:07:34.300 --> 00:07:34.920 in this day. 00:07:34.980 --> 00:07:35.420 I don't know. 00:07:36.180 --> 00:07:36.819 But could it be 00:07:36.819 --> 00:07:38.259 that some of those attitudes 00:07:38.259 --> 00:07:40.259 of being angry 00:07:40.259 --> 00:07:41.579 and raising your voice 00:07:41.579 --> 00:07:43.939 have made their way 00:07:43.939 --> 00:07:44.680 into the church? 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:47.560 And that's why Paul says 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:48.000 to the men, 00:07:48.060 --> 00:07:48.360 he says, 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:49.939 don't be about disputing 00:07:49.939 --> 00:07:51.920 or anger. 00:07:52.180 --> 00:07:53.120 Do you see how he specifically 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:54.060 goes for those things? 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:56.639 Don't be known for being angry. 00:07:56.780 --> 00:07:57.319 Don't be known 00:07:57.319 --> 00:07:58.360 for your arguments. 00:07:59.000 --> 00:07:59.840 I don't know what's going on 00:07:59.840 --> 00:08:00.579 in the background here. 00:08:00.699 --> 00:08:02.879 It's almost impossible to tell 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:04.560 if it's not for the little clues 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:05.180 that you put together. 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:06.800 Could it be that the men 00:08:06.800 --> 00:08:07.240 in this church 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:08.220 are being envious 00:08:08.220 --> 00:08:08.920 of one another? 00:08:09.879 --> 00:08:11.120 Could it be that they are 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:12.860 gossiping about one another 00:08:12.860 --> 00:08:14.000 behind each other's backs? 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:14.620 Could it be that 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:15.740 they love nothing more 00:08:15.740 --> 00:08:17.399 than an intellectual argument 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:18.300 and winning it? 00:08:19.420 --> 00:08:20.120 Could it be that 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:20.920 they're competing 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:22.439 with one another in prayer? 00:08:22.780 --> 00:08:23.920 Who can pray better? 00:08:24.100 --> 00:08:25.459 Who's got more impressive prayers? 00:08:28.100 --> 00:08:28.840 Whatever it is, 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:29.439 Paul says, 00:08:30.500 --> 00:08:31.519 guys, you've got to stop it. 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:33.440 What are you doing? 00:08:34.620 --> 00:08:35.360 You've got to stop it. 00:08:35.419 --> 00:08:36.919 The anger that's in your heart, 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:38.519 the competition 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:39.440 against your brothers 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:40.560 if you're somebody to beat, 00:08:40.899 --> 00:08:41.940 you've got to stop it. 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:44.880 You've got to put aside 00:08:44.880 --> 00:08:45.920 your petty scrobbles 00:08:45.920 --> 00:08:47.320 and you've got to get praying. 00:08:47.980 --> 00:08:49.080 I love that simplicity 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.260 of that command 00:08:51.260 --> 00:08:52.040 to get praying. 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:54.080 Right? 00:08:54.280 --> 00:08:55.380 Get praying for the peoples 00:08:55.380 --> 00:08:55.960 of the world. 00:08:56.140 --> 00:08:56.360 Again, 00:08:56.460 --> 00:08:57.720 did you see it so tightly linked 00:08:57.720 --> 00:08:58.420 to what's come before? 00:08:58.500 --> 00:08:59.380 Get praying for the peoples 00:08:59.380 --> 00:08:59.880 of the world. 00:09:00.740 --> 00:09:01.660 Get praying with 00:09:01.660 --> 00:09:02.680 and get praying for 00:09:02.680 --> 00:09:03.420 your families. 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:05.200 Get praying for your sisters 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:06.100 in the church. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:07.440 Now here's what I want us 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:07.980 to see. 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:10.700 According to Paul, 00:09:11.940 --> 00:09:13.000 you see how a godly man 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:13.820 is not somebody 00:09:13.820 --> 00:09:15.259 who can lift big at the gym. 00:09:17.060 --> 00:09:17.680 Do you see how 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:18.940 a godly man 00:09:18.940 --> 00:09:19.519 is not somebody 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:20.740 who's got the drive 00:09:20.740 --> 00:09:21.840 and the aspiration 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:23.580 to climb the corporate ladder. 00:09:24.139 --> 00:09:24.920 He's not somebody 00:09:24.920 --> 00:09:25.580 who's handy 00:09:25.580 --> 00:09:26.960 with a black and decker drill. 00:09:27.080 --> 00:09:27.759 He's not somebody 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:29.440 who runs the roost at home. 00:09:29.740 --> 00:09:30.480 He's not somebody, 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:31.340 dare I even say, 00:09:31.379 --> 00:09:32.180 who's even married. 00:09:32.740 --> 00:09:33.940 That is not what defines 00:09:33.940 --> 00:09:34.800 a godly man. 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.519 Oh friends, 00:09:37.579 --> 00:09:38.059 would we see 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:39.079 that a godly man 00:09:39.079 --> 00:09:41.039 is one who will 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:42.219 get on his knees 00:09:42.219 --> 00:09:43.279 and pray. 00:09:44.379 --> 00:09:45.120 Do you see that? 00:09:46.539 --> 00:09:47.099 And do you feel 00:09:47.099 --> 00:09:47.859 the challenge 00:09:47.859 --> 00:09:49.500 if you're a guy here? 00:09:50.819 --> 00:09:51.639 Are we known 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:52.399 in this church, 00:09:52.539 --> 00:09:52.979 the men, 00:09:53.859 --> 00:09:54.799 for those who will 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:56.240 get down on our knees 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:57.599 and pray? 00:09:59.899 --> 00:10:00.939 And are we known 00:10:00.939 --> 00:10:02.839 for increasingly 00:10:02.840 --> 00:10:04.899 cultivating 00:10:04.899 --> 00:10:06.580 by God's grace 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:08.139 a humble 00:10:08.139 --> 00:10:09.700 and a teachable spirit 00:10:09.700 --> 00:10:11.820 that loves 00:10:11.820 --> 00:10:12.600 to declare 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:15.180 its dependence 00:10:15.180 --> 00:10:15.899 on God? 00:10:18.460 --> 00:10:19.379 And let me just say 00:10:19.379 --> 00:10:20.080 that if you think 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:20.480 about the bigger 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:21.180 Bible story, 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:22.399 Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:23.280 which we'll come back to. 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:25.080 Friends, 00:10:25.120 --> 00:10:25.820 that's what Adam 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:26.820 was created to do. 00:10:28.620 --> 00:10:29.420 Not to live 00:10:29.420 --> 00:10:30.100 independently 00:10:30.100 --> 00:10:30.879 from God 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:32.100 but to live 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:32.779 in relationship 00:10:32.779 --> 00:10:33.320 with God 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:34.040 as he carried out 00:10:34.040 --> 00:10:34.440 the mission 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:34.860 which God 00:10:34.860 --> 00:10:35.460 had gave him. 00:10:36.580 --> 00:10:37.320 And that's what 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:37.759 was ruined 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:38.420 at the fall. 00:10:39.259 --> 00:10:39.720 We thought about it 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:40.159 a few weeks ago, 00:10:40.180 --> 00:10:41.320 our natural inclination 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:42.560 towards independence, 00:10:42.740 --> 00:10:43.940 no political connotations 00:10:43.940 --> 00:10:44.620 given, okay? 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:46.320 But it's our natural 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:46.879 inclination, 00:10:46.980 --> 00:10:47.200 isn't it, 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:48.340 to do it our own way, 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:49.639 to be a self-made man 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:50.820 to which we always say, 00:10:50.899 --> 00:10:51.540 what part of you 00:10:51.540 --> 00:10:52.399 did you make? 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.039 It's why 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:57.299 if we want to know 00:10:57.299 --> 00:10:58.919 what it is to be a man, 00:10:59.639 --> 00:11:01.120 we look to Jesus. 00:11:01.459 --> 00:11:02.379 Don't look to the world. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:03.659 We don't look to CR7, 00:11:04.179 --> 00:11:04.419 right? 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:05.720 We look to Jesus 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:08.199 because Jesus 00:11:08.199 --> 00:11:08.939 is the one 00:11:08.939 --> 00:11:09.860 who perfectly 00:11:09.860 --> 00:11:10.819 modeled this 00:11:10.819 --> 00:11:11.959 and he is the one 00:11:11.959 --> 00:11:12.779 who redeems us 00:11:12.779 --> 00:11:13.419 from the curse 00:11:13.419 --> 00:11:14.059 of the fall. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:14.980 And what it means 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:17.279 to be sanctified 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:18.259 is to grow more 00:11:18.259 --> 00:11:19.639 into his likeness. 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:23.699 and letting those 00:11:23.699 --> 00:11:24.980 attitudes spill over 00:11:24.980 --> 00:11:28.139 into how we relate 00:11:28.139 --> 00:11:28.919 to and view others. 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:29.360 Do you know what I thought 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:30.259 was the most beautiful thing 00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:31.000 and this is going to stay 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:32.100 with me for the rest 00:11:32.100 --> 00:11:32.600 of my days. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.620 I'll use this as a sermon 00:11:33.620 --> 00:11:34.500 illustration every time 00:11:34.500 --> 00:11:35.340 I don't preach here, 00:11:35.500 --> 00:11:35.720 right? 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:38.100 I'm not going to look at him, 00:11:38.159 --> 00:11:38.659 I don't embarrass him. 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.000 Stuart was up here last week 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.379 and do you know what I loved? 00:11:42.139 --> 00:11:43.360 He talked about the passage 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:44.039 in God's word 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:44.879 which made an impression 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:45.279 on him. 00:11:45.379 --> 00:11:46.620 Do you remember where he went? 00:11:47.319 --> 00:11:48.419 John chapter 4. 00:11:48.419 --> 00:11:50.699 How Jesus treated 00:11:50.699 --> 00:11:52.620 a woman 00:11:52.620 --> 00:11:54.019 who was an outcast 00:11:54.019 --> 00:11:54.919 in that society 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:56.399 and how he treated her 00:11:56.399 --> 00:11:57.179 with dignity, 00:11:57.399 --> 00:11:58.159 how he knew her 00:11:58.159 --> 00:11:58.899 inside out, 00:11:59.379 --> 00:12:01.319 how he gave her respect, 00:12:01.479 --> 00:12:02.479 how he loved her 00:12:02.479 --> 00:12:04.399 and I love how he said 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.099 that was Jesus in action 00:12:06.099 --> 00:12:07.319 that drew me to him. 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:08.799 For as I take it, 00:12:08.860 --> 00:12:09.039 guys, 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:09.919 if we are being made 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.379 more into his image 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:12.740 then we should see 00:12:12.740 --> 00:12:13.779 more of him 00:12:13.779 --> 00:12:14.599 in our lives 00:12:14.599 --> 00:12:15.299 as God's spirit 00:12:15.299 --> 00:12:16.240 transforms us. 00:12:16.339 --> 00:12:16.539 You know, 00:12:17.199 --> 00:12:17.980 this is going to affect 00:12:17.980 --> 00:12:18.580 how we view 00:12:18.580 --> 00:12:19.700 particularly our sisters 00:12:19.700 --> 00:12:20.240 in the church. 00:12:20.340 --> 00:12:20.480 Now, 00:12:21.100 --> 00:12:21.879 this is what I saw 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:22.539 on Sky News 00:12:22.539 --> 00:12:23.039 the other day. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:23.659 I don't know if any of you 00:12:23.659 --> 00:12:24.019 saw this. 00:12:24.060 --> 00:12:24.740 I think it was on Twitter. 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:25.500 I can't remember 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:26.620 but the question was 00:12:26.620 --> 00:12:27.100 and I think it was 00:12:27.100 --> 00:12:28.159 in the context of 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:29.720 violence against women 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:30.440 in our society. 00:12:30.820 --> 00:12:31.600 The question 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:32.840 was something like 00:12:32.840 --> 00:12:34.480 is porn 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:35.560 part of the problem 00:12:35.560 --> 00:12:36.360 to view 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:38.080 how men view women? 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:39.899 Is porn 00:12:39.899 --> 00:12:40.659 part of the problem? 00:12:41.740 --> 00:12:42.700 I remember hearing it 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:43.120 and thinking 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:44.039 I cannot believe 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:44.820 that's even been asked 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:45.420 as a question. 00:12:45.419 --> 00:12:48.360 men, 00:12:48.419 --> 00:12:48.879 may it be 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:50.219 something that the world 00:12:50.219 --> 00:12:51.179 would see something 00:12:51.179 --> 00:12:51.759 different 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:54.279 when they come in here 00:12:54.279 --> 00:12:55.339 and they see 00:12:55.339 --> 00:12:56.899 how we treat 00:12:56.899 --> 00:12:58.299 our sisters in Christ. 00:12:58.799 --> 00:12:59.500 How we just 00:12:59.500 --> 00:13:00.379 treat women 00:13:00.379 --> 00:13:01.719 like Jesus treated them. 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:03.379 May the world 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:04.379 look in and see 00:13:04.379 --> 00:13:05.699 how we are for them, 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:07.399 how we listen to them, 00:13:07.699 --> 00:13:08.979 how we value them, 00:13:09.099 --> 00:13:10.199 how we protect them, 00:13:10.259 --> 00:13:11.480 how we give ourselves 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:12.519 in the church 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:14.379 for their flourishing 00:13:14.379 --> 00:13:16.059 particularly in the context 00:13:16.059 --> 00:13:16.799 of their walk 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:17.620 with Jesus. 00:13:17.779 --> 00:13:18.240 Agreed? 00:13:19.100 --> 00:13:19.659 Agreed. 00:13:20.939 --> 00:13:22.120 The challenge here 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:22.860 is men, 00:13:23.340 --> 00:13:24.139 are we 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:25.199 praying? 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:27.100 You feel the challenge? 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:28.259 Are we 00:13:28.259 --> 00:13:29.319 praying? 00:13:29.980 --> 00:13:31.079 Are we absorbed 00:13:31.079 --> 00:13:32.279 in silly competition 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:33.620 against one another? 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:34.559 Is there anger 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:35.799 that's lingering 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:37.139 in our hearts? 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:39.439 Are we being led 00:13:39.439 --> 00:13:40.259 and fed 00:13:40.259 --> 00:13:41.519 by our pride? 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:44.319 Stop squabbling 00:13:44.319 --> 00:13:45.179 and start praying 00:13:45.179 --> 00:13:45.799 says Paul. 00:13:46.139 --> 00:13:46.480 Oh man, 00:13:46.580 --> 00:13:47.919 how counter-cultural. 00:13:48.620 --> 00:13:49.199 I want a witness 00:13:49.199 --> 00:13:49.840 to the world 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:50.480 this community 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:50.860 will be 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:51.199 if the men 00:13:51.199 --> 00:13:51.720 start behaving 00:13:51.720 --> 00:13:52.120 like this 00:13:52.120 --> 00:13:52.620 considering what 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:53.039 the men 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:53.600 in Ephesus 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:54.279 were like. 00:13:57.199 --> 00:13:58.000 And to the woman 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:58.439 in the church 00:13:58.439 --> 00:13:59.059 he says, 00:13:59.179 --> 00:13:59.740 in the context 00:13:59.740 --> 00:14:00.399 he says, 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:01.419 stop distracting 00:14:01.419 --> 00:14:03.299 and start serving. 00:14:04.419 --> 00:14:05.179 You read the round 00:14:05.179 --> 00:14:05.719 on this? 00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:08.360 Women in the first century 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:09.059 were famous 00:14:09.059 --> 00:14:10.319 for their elaborate 00:14:10.319 --> 00:14:11.000 hairstyles 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:11.759 and their expensive 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:12.299 clothes. 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.599 It almost become 00:14:14.599 --> 00:14:15.719 a kind of status symbol 00:14:15.719 --> 00:14:16.500 as you walk 00:14:16.500 --> 00:14:17.179 around town 00:14:17.179 --> 00:14:18.379 everybody looks at you 00:14:18.379 --> 00:14:18.959 and they know 00:14:18.959 --> 00:14:19.579 who you are 00:14:19.579 --> 00:14:20.000 and they know 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:20.559 what you're worth. 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:22.479 Again, 00:14:22.659 --> 00:14:23.279 is Paul putting 00:14:23.279 --> 00:14:23.839 his finger 00:14:23.839 --> 00:14:24.759 on a cultural 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:25.740 norm, 00:14:25.839 --> 00:14:26.799 a cultural attitude 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:28.139 that has tiptoed 00:14:28.139 --> 00:14:29.259 its way into the church 00:14:29.259 --> 00:14:29.639 in the way 00:14:29.639 --> 00:14:30.079 that the women 00:14:30.079 --> 00:14:30.779 here are behaving? 00:14:31.419 --> 00:14:33.860 In terms 00:14:33.860 --> 00:14:34.899 of how they're 00:14:34.899 --> 00:14:36.379 conducting themselves. 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:36.860 Now whatever 00:14:36.860 --> 00:14:37.419 they're doing 00:14:37.419 --> 00:14:38.240 in the background 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:38.579 here, 00:14:38.659 --> 00:14:39.099 do you see 00:14:39.099 --> 00:14:41.059 it's disrupting 00:14:41.059 --> 00:14:41.599 things. 00:14:42.699 --> 00:14:43.579 Maybe for the men 00:14:43.579 --> 00:14:44.379 I imagine 00:14:44.379 --> 00:14:45.439 as well as the women 00:14:45.439 --> 00:14:47.299 it's distracting 00:14:47.299 --> 00:14:48.579 from the main thing 00:14:48.579 --> 00:14:49.299 how they're behaving 00:14:49.299 --> 00:14:50.539 and I think as well 00:14:50.539 --> 00:14:52.059 it's causing 00:14:52.059 --> 00:14:53.399 divisions in the church 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:54.159 how they're conducting 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:54.819 themselves. 00:14:55.339 --> 00:14:55.679 I know what he's 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:56.339 talking about 00:14:56.339 --> 00:14:57.639 and be clear 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:58.059 what he's not 00:14:58.059 --> 00:14:58.559 talking about. 00:14:58.620 --> 00:14:59.179 He's not talking 00:14:59.179 --> 00:14:59.839 about promoting 00:14:59.839 --> 00:15:00.899 ankle length skirts 00:15:00.899 --> 00:15:01.759 or anything like that. 00:15:01.819 --> 00:15:02.319 That's not what he's 00:15:02.319 --> 00:15:02.579 saying. 00:15:03.059 --> 00:15:03.919 He's saying to the woman 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.059 think about 00:15:05.059 --> 00:15:06.240 others. 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:09.039 What is it 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:09.379 that you're 00:15:09.379 --> 00:15:10.159 prioritising 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:10.959 in your life? 00:15:13.259 --> 00:15:13.980 Dear sisters 00:15:13.980 --> 00:15:14.559 here today 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:16.279 what are the 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:16.840 things that 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:17.699 you might be 00:15:17.699 --> 00:15:18.139 doing 00:15:18.139 --> 00:15:19.980 in here 00:15:19.980 --> 00:15:20.500 out of here 00:15:20.500 --> 00:15:21.279 that are 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:22.579 a cause 00:15:22.579 --> 00:15:23.419 for distraction 00:15:23.419 --> 00:15:24.059 and division? 00:15:26.059 --> 00:15:26.919 I tried to do 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:27.299 a little bit 00:15:27.299 --> 00:15:27.720 of research 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:28.100 on this 00:15:28.100 --> 00:15:28.500 asking 00:15:28.500 --> 00:15:29.340 different 00:15:29.340 --> 00:15:29.820 women 00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:30.299 in the church 00:15:30.299 --> 00:15:30.559 I don't 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:30.659 know 00:15:30.659 --> 00:15:30.879 if this 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:31.120 is going 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:31.419 to hit 00:15:31.419 --> 00:15:31.860 I'm not 00:15:31.860 --> 00:15:32.179 a woman 00:15:32.179 --> 00:15:33.299 you'll see 00:15:33.299 --> 00:15:33.620 okay 00:15:33.620 --> 00:15:35.000 what is it 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:36.659 you love 00:15:36.659 --> 00:15:37.419 to talk about? 00:15:37.539 --> 00:15:37.919 What is it 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:38.600 you talk about 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:39.179 when you 00:15:39.179 --> 00:15:40.000 hang out? 00:15:40.080 --> 00:15:40.399 What is it 00:15:40.399 --> 00:15:40.980 you talk about 00:15:40.980 --> 00:15:41.399 when you go 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:42.120 for coffees? 00:15:43.019 --> 00:15:43.360 Is it 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:43.779 houses? 00:15:45.059 --> 00:15:45.659 Is it 00:15:45.659 --> 00:15:46.960 wallpaper? 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:47.879 The different 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:48.519 things that you're 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:49.299 planning on doing 00:15:49.299 --> 00:15:49.899 to your house? 00:15:50.059 --> 00:15:50.340 Is it 00:15:50.340 --> 00:15:51.559 who's got 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:52.200 the better 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:52.559 buggy? 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.019 Is it 00:15:53.019 --> 00:15:53.919 jobs? 00:15:54.139 --> 00:15:54.480 Is it 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:55.039 schools? 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:55.559 Is it 00:15:55.559 --> 00:15:56.419 friendship groups 00:15:56.419 --> 00:15:56.819 that you're 00:15:56.819 --> 00:15:57.099 in or 00:15:57.099 --> 00:15:57.319 not 00:15:57.319 --> 00:15:57.539 in? 00:15:59.279 --> 00:15:59.959 For whatever 00:15:59.959 --> 00:16:00.379 it is 00:16:00.379 --> 00:16:00.919 think about 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:01.179 it. 00:16:01.379 --> 00:16:01.599 That's what 00:16:01.599 --> 00:16:01.919 Paul was 00:16:01.919 --> 00:16:02.139 saying 00:16:02.139 --> 00:16:02.939 think about 00:16:02.939 --> 00:16:03.679 it. 00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:06.360 Wouldn't it 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:06.740 be a great 00:16:06.740 --> 00:16:07.120 thing to 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:07.459 do 00:16:07.459 --> 00:16:08.179 to have 00:16:08.179 --> 00:16:08.399 in your 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:08.639 mind 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:09.019 the next 00:16:09.019 --> 00:16:09.339 time you 00:16:09.339 --> 00:16:09.620 meet 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:10.299 one of 00:16:10.299 --> 00:16:10.419 your 00:16:10.419 --> 00:16:10.679 friends 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:10.899 whatever 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:11.240 it is 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:11.479 in the 00:16:11.479 --> 00:16:11.719 church 00:16:11.719 --> 00:16:12.559 that 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:13.079 encouraging 00:16:13.079 --> 00:16:13.360 one 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:13.639 another 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:14.059 towards 00:16:14.059 --> 00:16:14.679 godliness 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:15.919 was 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:16.339 central 00:16:16.339 --> 00:16:16.699 to your 00:16:16.699 --> 00:16:17.379 conversation 00:16:17.379 --> 00:16:19.579 because 00:16:19.579 --> 00:16:20.079 the timeless 00:16:20.079 --> 00:16:20.500 principle 00:16:20.500 --> 00:16:20.899 I think 00:16:20.899 --> 00:16:21.259 here 00:16:21.259 --> 00:16:22.339 is that 00:16:22.339 --> 00:16:22.959 godliness 00:16:22.959 --> 00:16:24.079 is beautiful 00:16:24.079 --> 00:16:24.719 in God's 00:16:24.719 --> 00:16:25.079 eyes. 00:16:25.080 --> 00:16:28.960 Godliness 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:30.460 is beautiful 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:31.500 in God's 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:31.900 eyes and 00:16:31.900 --> 00:16:32.379 the fruit 00:16:32.379 --> 00:16:32.700 of the 00:16:32.700 --> 00:16:33.060 spirit 00:16:33.060 --> 00:16:34.379 man that's 00:16:34.379 --> 00:16:34.580 what we 00:16:34.580 --> 00:16:35.040 all need 00:16:35.040 --> 00:16:38.160 as you 00:16:38.160 --> 00:16:38.480 too are 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.060 transformed 00:16:39.060 --> 00:16:40.400 more into 00:16:40.400 --> 00:16:41.020 the likeness 00:16:41.020 --> 00:16:41.540 of Jesus. 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:43.440 That's why 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:43.960 I think he 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:44.780 calls the 00:16:44.780 --> 00:16:45.320 woman in 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:45.720 this culture 00:16:45.720 --> 00:16:46.240 again think 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.060 about how 00:16:47.060 --> 00:16:48.000 counter-cultural 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:48.480 this community 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:48.780 is going to 00:16:48.780 --> 00:16:48.879 be. 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:49.379 He calls 00:16:49.379 --> 00:16:49.580 them to 00:16:49.580 --> 00:16:49.920 be known 00:16:49.920 --> 00:16:50.300 for their 00:16:50.300 --> 00:16:50.980 good deeds. 00:16:51.660 --> 00:16:51.940 Listen I 00:16:51.940 --> 00:16:52.300 love this 00:16:52.300 --> 00:16:52.720 quote by 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:53.420 Elizabeth 00:16:53.420 --> 00:16:53.920 Elliott 00:16:53.920 --> 00:16:54.280 I've used 00:16:54.280 --> 00:16:54.680 it before 00:16:54.679 --> 00:16:55.000 but I 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:55.439 love it 00:16:55.439 --> 00:16:56.279 she said 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:56.620 this 00:16:56.620 --> 00:16:57.939 she said 00:16:57.939 --> 00:16:58.279 the fact 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:58.519 that I'm 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:58.859 a woman 00:16:58.859 --> 00:16:59.459 does not 00:16:59.459 --> 00:16:59.879 make me 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:00.239 a different 00:17:00.239 --> 00:17:00.559 kind of 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:00.919 Christian 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:01.839 underscore 00:17:01.839 --> 00:17:02.259 that 00:17:02.259 --> 00:17:03.539 but the 00:17:03.539 --> 00:17:03.879 fact that 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:04.099 I'm a 00:17:04.099 --> 00:17:04.480 Christian 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:05.740 does make 00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:06.000 me a 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:06.220 different 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:06.559 kind of 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:06.839 woman. 00:17:08.940 --> 00:17:09.720 So Paul 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:10.019 here he 00:17:10.019 --> 00:17:10.399 talks to 00:17:10.399 --> 00:17:10.819 the men 00:17:10.819 --> 00:17:12.079 and he 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:12.480 talks to 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:12.879 the woman 00:17:12.879 --> 00:17:13.839 and offers 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:14.099 two 00:17:14.099 --> 00:17:15.319 counter-cultural 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:16.099 yet 00:17:16.099 --> 00:17:16.679 wonderfully 00:17:16.679 --> 00:17:17.319 attractive 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:18.419 ways 00:17:18.419 --> 00:17:19.099 that they 00:17:19.099 --> 00:17:19.859 can uniquely 00:17:19.859 --> 00:17:21.220 and together 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:22.799 adorn the 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:23.519 beauty of the 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:24.119 gospel in 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:24.639 their city 00:17:24.639 --> 00:17:25.379 of Ephesus. 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:26.859 Do you 00:17:26.859 --> 00:17:27.259 see it? 00:17:29.639 --> 00:17:30.319 We need to 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:30.660 take that 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:30.980 into the 00:17:30.980 --> 00:17:31.579 next section. 00:17:32.779 --> 00:17:33.319 Now it's 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:33.819 worth saying 00:17:33.819 --> 00:17:34.119 as we 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:34.779 come to 00:17:34.779 --> 00:17:35.279 this section 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:36.539 that many 00:17:36.539 --> 00:17:37.079 dear brothers 00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:37.639 and sisters 00:17:37.639 --> 00:17:39.759 around the 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:40.539 city and let 00:17:40.539 --> 00:17:40.879 me just say 00:17:40.879 --> 00:17:41.400 personally some 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:41.879 of my best 00:17:41.879 --> 00:17:43.799 friends see 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:44.940 this very 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:45.539 differently what 00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:46.220 comes up here 00:17:46.220 --> 00:17:47.039 and some of us 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:47.339 here this 00:17:47.339 --> 00:17:47.900 morning will see 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:48.759 this differently. 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:49.359 We need to 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:50.200 acknowledge that 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:51.779 and in a 00:17:51.779 --> 00:17:52.299 world that 00:17:52.299 --> 00:17:53.279 handles its 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:53.940 differences with 00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:54.400 people by 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:55.160 saying tolerate 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:56.779 we need to 00:17:56.779 --> 00:17:57.319 see that Jesus 00:17:57.319 --> 00:17:57.980 calls us to 00:17:57.980 --> 00:17:58.680 handle differences 00:17:58.680 --> 00:17:59.500 in the body 00:17:59.500 --> 00:18:00.200 of Christ by 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:01.100 saying love. 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:02.740 Demonstrating 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:03.440 that love 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:04.259 that would 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:04.860 even die for 00:18:04.860 --> 00:18:05.600 its enemies 00:18:05.600 --> 00:18:06.140 that Christ 00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:06.799 showed us on 00:18:06.799 --> 00:18:07.240 the cross. 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:07.640 We need to 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:08.059 carry that 00:18:08.059 --> 00:18:08.519 with us and 00:18:08.519 --> 00:18:08.819 yet having 00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:09.559 said that 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:11.019 we've got to 00:18:11.019 --> 00:18:11.460 wrestle with 00:18:11.460 --> 00:18:11.940 this stuff. 00:18:12.620 --> 00:18:12.779 I just 00:18:12.779 --> 00:18:13.299 take a line 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:15.220 a byro and 00:18:15.220 --> 00:18:15.700 just score it 00:18:15.700 --> 00:18:16.100 out of our 00:18:16.100 --> 00:18:16.380 Bible. 00:18:16.539 --> 00:18:16.840 We've got to 00:18:16.840 --> 00:18:17.180 think about 00:18:17.180 --> 00:18:17.559 what he's 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:18.600 saying and 00:18:18.600 --> 00:18:19.539 to get what 00:18:19.539 --> 00:18:20.059 he's saying. 00:18:20.740 --> 00:18:21.240 We need to 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:21.599 see the 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:22.599 context in 00:18:22.599 --> 00:18:22.960 which he 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:24.299 draws on in 00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:24.759 the passage 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:25.039 here. 00:18:25.099 --> 00:18:25.420 Do you see 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:25.599 it? 00:18:25.980 --> 00:18:27.619 He says he 00:18:27.619 --> 00:18:28.019 talks about 00:18:28.019 --> 00:18:28.399 Adam and 00:18:28.399 --> 00:18:28.700 Eve. 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:30.980 Again, do you 00:18:30.980 --> 00:18:31.379 see it in the 00:18:31.379 --> 00:18:31.639 passage? 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:32.099 He's talking 00:18:32.099 --> 00:18:32.639 about Adam 00:18:32.639 --> 00:18:33.519 and Eve which 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:34.180 is code for 00:18:34.180 --> 00:18:35.420 Timothy to 00:18:35.420 --> 00:18:36.420 get his Bible 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:37.680 and turn to 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:38.139 Genesis. 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:38.940 Remember these 00:18:38.940 --> 00:18:39.399 two know each 00:18:39.399 --> 00:18:39.940 other really 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:40.220 well. 00:18:42.339 --> 00:18:43.099 Timothy knows 00:18:43.099 --> 00:18:43.559 what Paul is 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:44.000 getting at. 00:18:44.139 --> 00:18:44.659 Get to 00:18:44.659 --> 00:18:45.059 Genesis. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:46.099 Get to 00:18:46.099 --> 00:18:46.359 Genesis. 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:47.119 And you 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:47.539 turn to 00:18:47.539 --> 00:18:48.359 Genesis 1 and 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:48.859 2 and you 00:18:48.859 --> 00:18:49.519 will see two 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:50.240 truths there. 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:50.660 I think that 00:18:50.660 --> 00:18:51.400 Timothy has to 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:52.379 draw upon here. 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:53.440 Two truths 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:53.900 about men 00:18:53.900 --> 00:18:54.299 and women. 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:56.039 Firstly, 00:18:56.839 --> 00:18:57.480 equality. 00:18:59.299 --> 00:18:59.660 They are 00:18:59.660 --> 00:19:00.440 both made 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:01.460 beautifully and 00:19:01.460 --> 00:19:03.299 equally in 00:19:03.299 --> 00:19:04.879 God's image. 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:06.639 And if you're 00:19:06.639 --> 00:19:07.259 here today and 00:19:07.259 --> 00:19:07.700 you're feeling 00:19:07.700 --> 00:19:08.980 worthless, you're 00:19:08.980 --> 00:19:10.039 thinking, is life 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:10.940 worth going on? 00:19:11.639 --> 00:19:12.139 Am I really 00:19:12.139 --> 00:19:12.639 valued? 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:13.319 Would you know 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:13.720 that you are 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:14.379 made in God's 00:19:14.379 --> 00:19:14.700 image? 00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:15.839 Whoever you are 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:16.400 here today, it's 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:17.980 why as God's 00:19:17.980 --> 00:19:18.380 people, we 00:19:18.380 --> 00:19:19.240 care about all 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:19.960 peoples of the 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:20.259 world. 00:19:20.360 --> 00:19:20.880 We care about 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:22.779 life and all 00:19:22.779 --> 00:19:23.759 its forms because 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:24.740 every human being 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:26.360 is stamped with an 00:19:26.360 --> 00:19:27.299 inherent dignity. 00:19:27.500 --> 00:19:27.940 It's not one that 00:19:27.940 --> 00:19:28.700 you've earned. 00:19:28.900 --> 00:19:29.900 You just have it 00:19:29.900 --> 00:19:30.460 because you've been 00:19:30.460 --> 00:19:31.440 made in God's 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:31.920 image. 00:19:32.660 --> 00:19:33.279 You'll see 00:19:33.279 --> 00:19:34.480 equality between 00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:35.140 men and women. 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:36.140 Every human being 00:19:36.140 --> 00:19:36.940 made in God's 00:19:36.940 --> 00:19:37.339 image. 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:39.360 And you will see 00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:41.259 complementarity. 00:19:41.380 --> 00:19:41.759 Now, I couldn't 00:19:41.759 --> 00:19:42.360 think of a better 00:19:42.360 --> 00:19:43.000 English word. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:43.759 Not only we've got 00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:46.420 one, complementarity. 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:50.299 God brings Eve on 00:19:50.299 --> 00:19:52.259 the scene as a 00:19:52.259 --> 00:19:53.160 helper to Adam. 00:19:53.379 --> 00:19:55.660 Now, before you 00:19:55.660 --> 00:19:56.279 jump on the 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:56.779 conclusion that 00:19:56.779 --> 00:19:57.480 that's derogatory, 00:19:57.960 --> 00:19:58.700 remember throughout 00:19:58.700 --> 00:19:59.319 scripture God 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:00.720 refers to himself 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.539 as the helper to 00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:03.000 Israel. 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:04.920 So it's 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:05.660 dignifying. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.099 And God has 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:09.960 given Adam the 00:20:09.960 --> 00:20:11.279 role of stewarding 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:12.019 and cultivating 00:20:12.019 --> 00:20:12.700 creation. 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.400 filling it 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:16.220 under God's 00:20:16.220 --> 00:20:16.960 rule and for 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.700 his glory. 00:20:17.900 --> 00:20:18.579 And as Adam 00:20:18.579 --> 00:20:21.539 leads, as God 00:20:21.539 --> 00:20:21.980 has commissioned 00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:22.759 him to do, 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:24.799 Eve comes 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:26.940 alongside and 00:20:26.940 --> 00:20:27.700 the two of 00:20:27.700 --> 00:20:28.359 them can do 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:30.039 better the 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:31.240 thing that Adam 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:31.879 could not do 00:20:31.879 --> 00:20:32.339 on his own. 00:20:35.099 --> 00:20:35.859 Eve brings 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:36.480 something to 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:37.039 the table. 00:20:37.140 --> 00:20:37.460 She brings 00:20:37.460 --> 00:20:37.960 something to 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:39.200 the game because 00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.819 of the way that 00:20:39.819 --> 00:20:40.599 God has uniquely 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:41.960 wired her which 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:43.519 perfectly suits 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:44.420 the way that 00:20:44.420 --> 00:20:45.180 Adam has been 00:20:45.180 --> 00:20:45.720 designed. 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:46.639 It's 00:20:46.639 --> 00:20:47.220 complementarity. 00:20:47.319 --> 00:20:47.700 Now, if you're 00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:48.240 struggling to 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:48.779 picture that, 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:49.220 let me just 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:49.639 give you 00:20:49.639 --> 00:20:50.960 something to 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:51.400 carry with 00:20:51.400 --> 00:20:51.480 you. 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:51.720 This is 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:51.940 where I 00:20:51.940 --> 00:20:52.240 love being 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:52.920 Scottish. 00:20:53.639 --> 00:20:53.839 Okay? 00:20:55.339 --> 00:20:55.839 Because I was 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:56.299 brought up in 00:20:56.299 --> 00:20:56.940 Cayley's. 00:20:58.839 --> 00:20:59.660 The guy does 00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:02.259 his role and 00:21:02.259 --> 00:21:02.839 the woman does 00:21:02.839 --> 00:21:05.039 her role and 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:05.819 together it's a 00:21:05.819 --> 00:21:06.619 beautiful dance. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:09.319 It's growing up in 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:09.559 the stuff. 00:21:09.619 --> 00:21:09.920 Or you want to 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:10.740 change the analogy. 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:11.539 Do you notice 00:21:11.539 --> 00:21:12.200 when we sang 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:13.880 this morning as 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:14.380 we brought the 00:21:14.380 --> 00:21:15.400 male and female 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:16.259 voices together? 00:21:16.380 --> 00:21:16.799 Do you notice 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:18.099 how beautifully 00:21:18.099 --> 00:21:18.960 they're harmonised? 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:21.200 In my role, I've 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:22.140 spoken at women's 00:21:22.140 --> 00:21:22.720 coffee mornings, 00:21:22.859 --> 00:21:23.380 I've spoken at 00:21:23.380 --> 00:21:24.019 men's breakfast, 00:21:24.180 --> 00:21:24.700 both of which 00:21:24.700 --> 00:21:25.460 involve singing. 00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:27.420 I remember hearing 00:21:27.420 --> 00:21:27.980 both of them and 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:28.480 thinking, you two 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.200 should really meet 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:31.539 because your voices 00:21:31.539 --> 00:21:32.420 do something 00:21:32.420 --> 00:21:33.839 together which is 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:34.240 beautiful. 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:35.079 I think this is 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:35.579 what Paul is 00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:36.200 talking about when 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:36.799 he's talking about 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:37.740 equal yet different. 00:21:37.740 --> 00:21:40.339 And of course 00:21:40.339 --> 00:21:41.019 that's exactly, 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.799 to stretch you a 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:43.180 little bit, what 00:21:43.180 --> 00:21:43.740 we find in the 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:45.200 Godhead, isn't it? 00:21:45.259 --> 00:21:46.200 Father, Son and 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:46.819 Spirit, we sang 00:21:46.819 --> 00:21:47.299 about it this 00:21:47.299 --> 00:21:47.559 morning. 00:21:48.120 --> 00:21:48.599 Our God is 00:21:48.599 --> 00:21:49.220 three in one, 00:21:49.500 --> 00:21:51.059 all three equally 00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:52.180 God but different 00:21:52.180 --> 00:21:52.980 roles. 00:21:54.220 --> 00:21:54.660 And if that is 00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:55.440 who our God is, 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:56.380 then it would 00:21:56.380 --> 00:21:57.400 make logical sense 00:21:57.400 --> 00:21:58.240 if we're made in 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.079 his image that we 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:00.099 see something of 00:22:00.099 --> 00:22:01.220 that complementary 00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:02.740 design built into 00:22:02.740 --> 00:22:04.279 the very DNA of 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:04.819 what it means to be 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:05.420 a human being. 00:22:05.420 --> 00:22:08.980 And yet that's 00:22:08.980 --> 00:22:10.100 what went wrong 00:22:10.100 --> 00:22:10.820 at the fall in 00:22:10.820 --> 00:22:11.640 Genesis 3. 00:22:12.600 --> 00:22:12.880 So you see, 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.600 Paul writes here, 00:22:13.660 --> 00:22:14.000 we need to get 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:14.420 into this, 00:22:14.539 --> 00:22:15.539 Adam was not 00:22:15.539 --> 00:22:16.200 the one deceived, 00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:17.740 Eve was. 00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:19.420 So Eve ate the 00:22:19.420 --> 00:22:20.220 apple that God 00:22:20.220 --> 00:22:20.880 had forbidden 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:21.600 them to eat. 00:22:21.740 --> 00:22:23.140 But listen to 00:22:23.140 --> 00:22:23.680 this, I don't 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:24.300 think this is as 00:22:24.300 --> 00:22:25.779 much a dig at 00:22:25.779 --> 00:22:27.300 Eve as it's a 00:22:27.300 --> 00:22:28.160 dig at Adam. 00:22:29.539 --> 00:22:30.120 Because the 00:22:30.120 --> 00:22:30.720 picture that you 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:31.420 get if you turn 00:22:31.420 --> 00:22:32.460 to Genesis 3 00:22:32.460 --> 00:22:33.740 is that Adam 00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:34.620 is hiding in the 00:22:34.620 --> 00:22:35.400 background as all 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:36.340 this is unfolding. 00:22:37.040 --> 00:22:37.880 Adam is there, 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:38.620 he should have 00:22:38.620 --> 00:22:39.280 been the one to 00:22:39.280 --> 00:22:39.940 jump in and 00:22:39.940 --> 00:22:40.360 said, Eve, 00:22:40.420 --> 00:22:40.840 listen, we don't 00:22:40.840 --> 00:22:41.320 do that. 00:22:41.420 --> 00:22:41.920 Listen, our God 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:42.440 is so good, 00:22:42.500 --> 00:22:43.660 he's told us how 00:22:43.660 --> 00:22:44.280 we're to live, 00:22:44.540 --> 00:22:45.140 he's told us what 00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:46.000 we're not to do to 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:46.960 show our love for 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:47.840 him, we don't do 00:22:47.840 --> 00:22:48.080 that. 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:48.820 And yet Adam, 00:22:50.340 --> 00:22:51.380 Eve takes it and 00:22:51.380 --> 00:22:52.200 she hands some to 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:53.040 him, the image you 00:22:53.040 --> 00:22:54.680 get is that Adam's 00:22:54.680 --> 00:22:55.220 hiding in the 00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:56.000 background when he 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:56.540 should have been 00:22:56.540 --> 00:22:57.780 standing up and 00:22:57.780 --> 00:22:58.280 speaking and 00:22:58.280 --> 00:22:58.519 leading. 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:00.580 And he's the one 00:23:00.580 --> 00:23:01.360 that God holds to 00:23:01.360 --> 00:23:01.720 account. 00:23:01.840 --> 00:23:02.320 He says, Adam, 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:03.980 where are you? 00:23:03.980 --> 00:23:07.259 And I take it 00:23:07.259 --> 00:23:08.019 as Paul's replay 00:23:08.019 --> 00:23:08.680 in this scene 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:09.519 and I take it 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:11.799 Paul is saying 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.339 that this church 00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:13.319 need to rediscover 00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:14.360 something of the 00:23:14.360 --> 00:23:15.120 beauty of that 00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:15.759 original 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:17.559 complementarity. 00:23:19.120 --> 00:23:19.940 Now, don't miss 00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.500 the fact that 00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:21.440 Paul in verse 11 00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:23.620 is encouraging 00:23:23.620 --> 00:23:24.559 the woman in the 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:25.220 church to learn. 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:26.079 Don't miss that. 00:23:26.539 --> 00:23:27.180 Please don't miss 00:23:27.180 --> 00:23:27.500 that. 00:23:28.500 --> 00:23:29.500 So hugely 00:23:29.500 --> 00:23:30.440 counter-cultural 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:31.579 in this day, 00:23:31.579 --> 00:23:32.639 in the Greco-Roman 00:23:32.639 --> 00:23:33.819 world to 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:34.559 encourage women 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:34.879 to learn. 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.119 It's so 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:36.839 counter-cultural. 00:23:37.139 --> 00:23:37.879 Paul is so 00:23:37.879 --> 00:23:38.779 pro-woman here. 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:41.220 And I take it 00:23:41.220 --> 00:23:41.559 that when Paul 00:23:41.559 --> 00:23:42.279 uses that word 00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:43.199 quiet in verse 00:23:43.199 --> 00:23:45.359 12, he can't 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:46.079 be envisaging 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:47.299 absolute silence 00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:49.240 because he's just 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:49.879 used, you see, 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:51.179 the same Greek 00:23:51.179 --> 00:23:52.779 root word nine 00:23:52.779 --> 00:23:53.599 verses earlier 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.419 at verse 2 of 00:23:55.419 --> 00:23:56.339 chapter 2 when he 00:23:56.339 --> 00:23:56.939 was talking there 00:23:56.939 --> 00:23:57.559 about living a 00:23:57.559 --> 00:23:58.379 life of godliness. 00:23:58.380 --> 00:24:00.060 So I just don't 00:24:00.060 --> 00:24:00.560 think absolute 00:24:00.560 --> 00:24:02.660 silence is what 00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:03.160 we should read 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:03.460 there. 00:24:05.860 --> 00:24:06.420 So it would 00:24:06.420 --> 00:24:06.900 seem strange, 00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:07.120 wouldn't it, 00:24:07.120 --> 00:24:07.520 if Paul was 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:08.040 meaning something 00:24:08.040 --> 00:24:08.520 different. 00:24:09.320 --> 00:24:09.980 And when he 00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:10.900 says submissive, 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:11.960 the choice of 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:13.640 putting yourself 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:14.620 under someone, 00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:16.700 friends, that does 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:17.460 not mean that a 00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:18.000 woman has to 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:18.660 submit to every 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:19.440 man, get that 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:20.440 underscored. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.420 I think in this 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:23.400 instance, it's a 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:24.360 reference to the 00:24:24.360 --> 00:24:26.020 elders and the 00:24:26.020 --> 00:24:27.200 public teaching of 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:28.420 the church, and 00:24:28.420 --> 00:24:29.220 that calls exactly 00:24:29.220 --> 00:24:29.940 the same on the 00:24:29.940 --> 00:24:30.240 men. 00:24:31.980 --> 00:24:32.660 Paul knows that 00:24:32.660 --> 00:24:33.160 women have a 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:34.019 vital role to 00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:34.759 play in this 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:35.420 church if it's 00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.059 going to grow to 00:24:36.059 --> 00:24:36.640 maturity. 00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:38.180 And add to that 00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:38.779 the fact that 00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:39.519 elsewhere we see 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:40.059 him encouraging 00:24:40.059 --> 00:24:41.400 women to teach 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:41.819 the younger 00:24:41.819 --> 00:24:42.380 women, he's 00:24:42.380 --> 00:24:42.960 encouraged them 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:43.720 to pray and 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:44.160 prophesy. 00:24:44.299 --> 00:24:45.319 Some of Paul's 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:46.120 closest and 00:24:46.120 --> 00:24:47.140 most dearest 00:24:47.140 --> 00:24:48.140 co-workers are 00:24:48.140 --> 00:24:48.420 women. 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:52.200 And yet I 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:54.059 take it what 00:24:54.059 --> 00:24:54.440 he does 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:56.340 envisage is 00:24:56.339 --> 00:24:57.139 that both the 00:24:57.139 --> 00:24:58.079 authority and 00:24:58.079 --> 00:24:59.059 the teaching 00:24:59.059 --> 00:24:59.659 role in the 00:24:59.659 --> 00:25:01.220 church is one 00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:01.879 that he sees 00:25:01.879 --> 00:25:02.959 right for men 00:25:02.959 --> 00:25:03.740 to take based 00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:04.480 on Genesis 1 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:05.259 and Genesis 2. 00:25:06.619 --> 00:25:08.259 And the fact 00:25:08.259 --> 00:25:08.839 that he roots 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:09.539 that instruction 00:25:09.539 --> 00:25:10.500 in Genesis, 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:12.559 not Ephesus, 00:25:13.339 --> 00:25:15.240 I think means 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:15.859 that it's a 00:25:15.859 --> 00:25:17.019 timeless principle 00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:19.159 because it's a 00:25:19.159 --> 00:25:19.759 creational 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:20.359 principle. 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:22.599 Now what does 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:23.539 that mean for us 00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:23.879 today at 00:25:23.879 --> 00:25:24.199 Brunsfield? 00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:25.039 Well it means 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:25.940 that we'll 00:25:25.940 --> 00:25:26.860 continue to 00:25:26.860 --> 00:25:28.180 encourage our 00:25:28.180 --> 00:25:29.059 dear sisters to 00:25:29.059 --> 00:25:29.840 participate when 00:25:29.840 --> 00:25:30.620 we gather together 00:25:30.620 --> 00:25:31.980 publicly like 00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:32.360 this. 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:34.400 Leading things 00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:35.019 like small group 00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:35.759 Bible studies, 00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:36.519 leading various 00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.460 ministries that 00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:38.759 we'll see next 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:39.400 week and kind of 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:40.120 come under the 00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:40.740 umbrella of 00:25:40.740 --> 00:25:41.160 deacon, 00:25:42.100 --> 00:25:42.920 participating up 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:43.620 front on Sunday 00:25:43.620 --> 00:25:44.039 and leading 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:44.660 worship, 00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:45.580 reading, 00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:46.420 praying and 00:25:46.420 --> 00:25:46.840 speaking. 00:25:47.580 --> 00:25:47.960 And we've been 00:25:47.960 --> 00:25:49.019 so blessed as 00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:50.120 we've journeyed 00:25:50.120 --> 00:25:50.700 over the years 00:25:50.700 --> 00:25:51.480 seeing women use 00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:52.340 their gifts in 00:25:52.339 --> 00:25:52.959 those capacities 00:25:52.959 --> 00:25:53.879 on Sundays 00:25:53.879 --> 00:25:54.659 and I hope 00:25:54.659 --> 00:25:56.220 that by 00:25:56.220 --> 00:25:57.000 Kate's 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:57.659 appointment you 00:25:57.659 --> 00:25:58.319 see the 00:25:58.319 --> 00:25:59.619 strategic investment 00:25:59.619 --> 00:26:00.279 we're making 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:01.419 in women's 00:26:01.419 --> 00:26:01.980 ministry and 00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:02.919 seeing the 00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:03.319 women of our 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:04.179 church flourish. 00:26:06.339 --> 00:26:07.220 And yet friends 00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:07.859 when it comes to 00:26:07.859 --> 00:26:08.459 the office of 00:26:08.459 --> 00:26:08.799 elder, 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:09.500 which we'll see 00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:10.099 next week, 00:26:10.959 --> 00:26:11.679 and the teaching 00:26:11.679 --> 00:26:12.279 of the Bible 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:13.119 when we gather 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:14.139 together as a 00:26:14.139 --> 00:26:14.699 church, 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:16.319 I think this 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:17.159 timeless principle 00:26:17.159 --> 00:26:17.839 kicks in 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:19.839 and leads us to 00:26:19.839 --> 00:26:20.480 conclude that 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:21.279 these roles should 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:22.639 be taken up 00:26:22.639 --> 00:26:23.180 by men. 00:26:24.579 --> 00:26:24.980 And not just 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:25.619 any men, 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:26.240 got to get that 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:26.500 right, 00:26:26.579 --> 00:26:26.980 we'll see it 00:26:26.980 --> 00:26:27.639 next week 00:26:27.639 --> 00:26:28.359 where we'll see 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:30.139 God-loving men. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:31.099 In our world 00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:31.599 where there's a 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:32.519 leadership crisis, 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:33.759 the leadership 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.579 in the church 00:26:34.579 --> 00:26:36.259 is vital. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:38.339 Men who ooze 00:26:38.339 --> 00:26:39.000 Christ-like 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:39.579 character, 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:40.500 men who have 00:26:40.500 --> 00:26:41.720 been tested 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:42.480 and approved, 00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:43.240 men who have 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:44.259 committed themselves 00:26:44.259 --> 00:26:45.779 to sacrificing 00:26:45.779 --> 00:26:46.519 themselves for 00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:47.279 the good of the 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:47.920 church family 00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:48.899 and seeing them 00:26:48.899 --> 00:26:49.740 grow. 00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:53.460 Do you see 00:26:53.460 --> 00:26:54.079 Ikea kind of 00:26:54.079 --> 00:26:54.460 Christians? 00:26:56.700 --> 00:26:57.380 Let me just 00:26:57.380 --> 00:26:57.500 say, 00:26:57.599 --> 00:26:58.299 just swimmer 00:26:58.299 --> 00:26:58.559 there, 00:26:59.019 --> 00:26:59.519 when Paul 00:26:59.519 --> 00:27:00.059 talks about 00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:00.880 childbearing 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:01.819 at verse 15, 00:27:02.980 --> 00:27:03.539 I take it 00:27:03.539 --> 00:27:03.920 that's a 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:04.799 direct shot 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:05.380 at the 00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:06.160 false teachers 00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:06.539 who are 00:27:06.539 --> 00:27:07.140 seeking to 00:27:07.140 --> 00:27:07.599 downplay 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:08.180 marriage 00:27:08.180 --> 00:27:10.019 and who 00:27:10.019 --> 00:27:10.339 are by 00:27:10.339 --> 00:27:11.039 implication 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:12.099 who are 00:27:12.099 --> 00:27:12.819 downplaying 00:27:12.819 --> 00:27:14.079 motherhood. 00:27:14.920 --> 00:27:15.200 Now let me 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:15.380 just, 00:27:15.460 --> 00:27:16.059 just because 00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:16.440 we're in the 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:17.000 context of 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.339 motherhood 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:17.740 because, 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:18.559 listen, 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:19.099 dads were 00:27:19.099 --> 00:27:19.379 called to 00:27:19.379 --> 00:27:19.859 do exactly 00:27:19.859 --> 00:27:20.299 the same. 00:27:20.399 --> 00:27:20.619 Let me 00:27:20.619 --> 00:27:21.179 just say 00:27:21.179 --> 00:27:21.879 to you, 00:27:21.959 --> 00:27:22.179 if you're 00:27:22.179 --> 00:27:22.659 here today 00:27:22.659 --> 00:27:23.000 and you're 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:23.519 a mum, 00:27:24.199 --> 00:27:24.759 if you're 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:25.240 staying at 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.059 home to 00:27:26.059 --> 00:27:26.599 look after 00:27:26.599 --> 00:27:27.039 the kids, 00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:27.399 if you've 00:27:27.399 --> 00:27:28.039 stopped work 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:29.459 to look 00:27:29.459 --> 00:27:30.019 after them, 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:30.399 if you're 00:27:30.399 --> 00:27:31.079 sacrificing 00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:31.779 yourself for 00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:31.980 them, 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:32.359 if your 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:32.959 days are 00:27:32.959 --> 00:27:33.259 changing 00:27:33.259 --> 00:27:33.839 nappies 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:34.339 and running 00:27:34.339 --> 00:27:35.019 errands, 00:27:35.259 --> 00:27:35.939 falling into 00:27:35.939 --> 00:27:36.339 bed at 00:27:36.339 --> 00:27:37.000 night shattered, 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.359 all because 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:38.959 you long 00:27:38.959 --> 00:27:39.299 for your 00:27:39.299 --> 00:27:39.759 children to 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:40.199 grow up to 00:27:40.199 --> 00:27:40.519 come to 00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:41.019 know Jesus, 00:27:42.419 --> 00:27:42.859 I want you 00:27:42.859 --> 00:27:43.219 to know that 00:27:43.219 --> 00:27:43.679 that is a 00:27:43.679 --> 00:27:44.119 wonderful 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:44.519 call. 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:46.219 In our 00:27:46.219 --> 00:27:46.539 culture, 00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:47.659 one of the 00:27:47.659 --> 00:27:48.159 things that 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:49.200 we have 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:49.580 is a very 00:27:49.580 --> 00:27:49.920 core of 00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:50.320 identity, 00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:50.720 is it not? 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:51.200 When you ask 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:51.440 people, 00:27:51.500 --> 00:27:51.700 you say, 00:27:51.779 --> 00:27:52.019 what do 00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:52.440 you do? 00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:54.240 And friends, 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:55.420 how often do 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:56.060 those who are 00:27:56.060 --> 00:27:56.480 in this 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:56.920 category, 00:27:57.040 --> 00:27:57.480 do we kind 00:27:57.480 --> 00:27:58.480 of reluctantly 00:27:58.480 --> 00:27:59.120 say that 00:27:59.120 --> 00:28:00.279 we're at home 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:00.660 looking after 00:28:00.660 --> 00:28:01.040 the kids, 00:28:01.100 --> 00:28:01.279 right? 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:03.240 I think this 00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:04.060 calls us to 00:28:04.060 --> 00:28:05.279 see that that 00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.080 is a wonderful 00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:06.480 thing. 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:08.140 And I take it 00:28:08.140 --> 00:28:08.860 that's exactly 00:28:08.860 --> 00:28:09.420 what Paul is 00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:09.800 saying to 00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:10.519 those women 00:28:10.519 --> 00:28:11.279 in Ephesus. 00:28:12.180 --> 00:28:12.940 Do not let 00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:13.840 them downplay 00:28:13.840 --> 00:28:14.279 the false 00:28:14.279 --> 00:28:14.660 teachers. 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:15.140 what a 00:28:15.140 --> 00:28:15.860 glorious thing 00:28:15.860 --> 00:28:16.220 it is to 00:28:16.220 --> 00:28:16.460 be a 00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:17.000 sacrificial 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:17.340 mum. 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:20.279 Reject that 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:20.900 false teaching, 00:28:21.040 --> 00:28:21.700 reject it, 00:28:22.900 --> 00:28:23.560 and keep 00:28:23.560 --> 00:28:24.019 going with 00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:24.519 the grain 00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.540 of God's 00:28:25.540 --> 00:28:27.000 good design. 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:28.420 Now listen, 00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:28.980 we've covered a 00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:29.860 lot here today, 00:28:30.220 --> 00:28:30.440 Kate, 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:30.960 I hope you 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:31.560 recognise it, 00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:32.200 I could only 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:32.720 do so much 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:33.400 justice to it 00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:33.840 in half an 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:33.960 hour, 00:28:34.040 --> 00:28:34.220 and that's 00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:34.480 why we 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:34.700 need to 00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:34.940 be in our 00:28:34.940 --> 00:28:35.400 small groups 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:35.900 thinking this 00:28:35.900 --> 00:28:36.259 stuff out 00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:36.540 together. 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:37.380 But let me 00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:38.000 just close 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:38.560 by bringing 00:28:38.560 --> 00:28:39.259 us back to 00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:39.600 the big 00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:40.060 thing. 00:28:40.700 --> 00:28:41.340 The big 00:28:41.340 --> 00:28:41.740 thing. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:43.300 Now some 00:28:43.300 --> 00:28:43.640 of you might 00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:44.100 remember if 00:28:44.100 --> 00:28:44.400 you're old 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:44.740 enough, 00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:45.940 in 1992 00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:47.120 there was a 00:28:47.120 --> 00:28:47.500 book that 00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:48.100 was released, 00:28:48.300 --> 00:28:48.600 I can't 00:28:48.600 --> 00:28:48.860 remember the 00:28:48.860 --> 00:28:49.200 guy's name, 00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:49.420 it was 00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:50.020 American 00:28:50.020 --> 00:28:50.780 Relationship 00:28:50.780 --> 00:28:51.420 Guru called, 00:28:51.800 --> 00:28:52.060 is it 00:28:52.060 --> 00:28:52.560 John Gray? 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:52.900 I can't 00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.180 remember. 00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:53.980 You'll know 00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:54.500 the title, 00:28:54.620 --> 00:28:54.780 you know 00:28:54.780 --> 00:28:55.259 the title, 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:55.800 Men Are 00:28:55.800 --> 00:28:56.259 From Mars, 00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:56.720 Women Are 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:57.220 From Venus? 00:28:57.860 --> 00:28:58.120 You heard 00:28:58.120 --> 00:28:58.560 that before, 00:28:58.840 --> 00:28:59.280 that book? 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:00.740 Well let me 00:29:00.740 --> 00:29:01.280 just take the 00:29:01.280 --> 00:29:02.060 joke, it's 00:29:02.060 --> 00:29:02.420 kind of been 00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:02.860 a joke in 00:29:02.860 --> 00:29:03.259 our culture 00:29:03.259 --> 00:29:03.680 isn't it? 00:29:03.820 --> 00:29:04.140 Let me 00:29:04.140 --> 00:29:04.560 take the 00:29:04.560 --> 00:29:05.960 joke and 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:06.520 turn it 00:29:06.520 --> 00:29:07.040 around for 00:29:07.040 --> 00:29:07.440 us as we 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:08.240 finish and 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:08.820 put it to 00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:09.220 us as a 00:29:09.220 --> 00:29:09.600 truth. 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:11.080 Now I 00:29:11.080 --> 00:29:11.580 take it 00:29:11.580 --> 00:29:13.620 that as 00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:14.100 we live 00:29:14.100 --> 00:29:14.900 our lives 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:16.759 together as 00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:17.240 men and 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:18.320 women, as 00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:19.000 we exhibit 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:20.240 what it means 00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:20.900 to live under 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:21.660 the lordship of 00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:22.580 Jesus together, 00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:24.100 friends I 00:29:24.100 --> 00:29:24.580 take it we 00:29:24.580 --> 00:29:25.020 should show 00:29:25.020 --> 00:29:25.600 the world 00:29:25.600 --> 00:29:26.880 that we're 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:27.520 not from 00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:27.900 here. 00:29:29.820 --> 00:29:30.620 We show 00:29:30.620 --> 00:29:31.280 the world 00:29:31.280 --> 00:29:32.560 as we live 00:29:32.560 --> 00:29:33.020 our equal 00:29:33.020 --> 00:29:33.680 yet different 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:35.380 lives that 00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:36.480 together we 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.100 are from 00:29:37.100 --> 00:29:37.660 heaven. 00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:39.220 Just think 00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:40.360 how much of 00:29:40.360 --> 00:29:40.920 a counter 00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:41.400 cultural 00:29:41.400 --> 00:29:42.300 community this 00:29:42.300 --> 00:29:42.800 will be in 00:29:42.800 --> 00:29:43.160 Ephesus. 00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:44.440 And think 00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:44.840 how much 00:29:44.840 --> 00:29:45.060 of a 00:29:45.060 --> 00:29:45.280 counter 00:29:45.280 --> 00:29:45.620 cultural 00:29:45.620 --> 00:29:46.040 community 00:29:46.040 --> 00:29:46.500 this will 00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:47.580 be in 00:29:47.580 --> 00:29:48.040 Edinburgh. 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:49.400 What is 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:50.020 Paul saying? 00:29:51.060 --> 00:29:51.540 He's 00:29:51.540 --> 00:29:52.220 encouraging 00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:53.220 them to 00:29:53.220 --> 00:29:53.759 go with 00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:54.259 the grain 00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:54.759 of God's 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:55.400 good design. 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:57.060 And he's 00:29:57.060 --> 00:29:57.780 pleading with 00:29:57.780 --> 00:29:59.340 them to 00:29:59.340 --> 00:29:59.880 be a key 00:29:59.880 --> 00:30:00.259 kind of 00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:00.640 Christians. 00:30:02.380 --> 00:30:03.040 So let 00:30:03.040 --> 00:30:03.440 me pray 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:05.080 and then 00:30:05.080 --> 00:30:05.520 we will 00:30:05.520 --> 00:30:07.759 close our 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:08.100 service. 00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:08.580 Okay, let 00:30:08.580 --> 00:30:08.900 me pray. 00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:14.540 Heavenly 00:30:14.540 --> 00:30:14.940 Father, we 00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:15.220 thank you 00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:15.560 so much 00:30:15.560 --> 00:30:15.920 Lord for 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:16.400 your goodness 00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:16.940 to us. 00:30:18.780 --> 00:30:19.340 And I 00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:19.660 just pray 00:30:19.660 --> 00:30:20.120 Father that 00:30:20.120 --> 00:30:20.540 your spirit 00:30:20.540 --> 00:30:20.759 would be 00:30:20.759 --> 00:30:21.440 moving amongst 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.060 us today. 00:30:22.800 --> 00:30:23.180 Lord, we 00:30:23.180 --> 00:30:23.980 long to be 00:30:23.980 --> 00:30:24.759 those kind 00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:25.380 of disciples 00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:25.840 who are 00:30:25.840 --> 00:30:26.700 fully submitted 00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:27.280 to Jesus. 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:28.720 Lord, I 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.480 recognize that 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.640 much of what 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:31.019 we've spoken 00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:32.000 about today, 00:30:32.240 --> 00:30:33.040 it will come 00:30:33.040 --> 00:30:33.700 at us in 00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:34.360 unique and 00:30:34.360 --> 00:30:34.840 in different 00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:35.360 ways. 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:36.119 And so 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:36.559 Father, I 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:37.339 pray as 00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:37.719 one who's 00:30:37.719 --> 00:30:38.359 just pleading 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:38.659 that you 00:30:38.659 --> 00:30:38.939 would do 00:30:38.939 --> 00:30:39.319 your work 00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:39.719 by your 00:30:39.719 --> 00:30:40.919 spirit, that 00:30:40.919 --> 00:30:41.279 you would be 00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:42.279 bringing comfort 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:44.479 and challenge 00:30:44.479 --> 00:30:47.219 and forgiveness 00:30:47.219 --> 00:30:49.119 and healing 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:51.019 and restoration 00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:52.959 and a 00:30:52.959 --> 00:30:53.399 longing 00:30:53.399 --> 00:30:56.579 for a life 00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:57.279 that glorifies 00:30:57.279 --> 00:30:57.839 you in every 00:30:57.839 --> 00:30:58.199 way. 00:30:59.240 --> 00:30:59.639 So Father, I 00:30:59.639 --> 00:31:00.259 just thank you 00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:00.679 for your 00:31:00.679 --> 00:31:01.519 precious word. 00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:02.699 While we 00:31:02.699 --> 00:31:03.459 recognize that 00:31:03.459 --> 00:31:04.219 it is eternal, 00:31:04.419 --> 00:31:04.899 we recognize 00:31:04.900 --> 00:31:05.440 that we are 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:05.800 finite. 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:06.700 And so 00:31:06.700 --> 00:31:07.140 Father, I 00:31:07.140 --> 00:31:07.880 pray today as 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:08.780 we respond to 00:31:08.780 --> 00:31:09.940 this, that 00:31:09.940 --> 00:31:10.500 you would help 00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:11.500 us continue to 00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:12.640 be disciples 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:13.560 who glorify 00:31:13.560 --> 00:31:14.360 Jesus to the 00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:15.060 watching world. 00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:16.300 Father, help 00:31:16.300 --> 00:31:17.360 us to love 00:31:17.360 --> 00:31:18.440 one another, we 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:20.060 pray in Jesus' 00:31:20.280 --> 00:31:21.019 precious name we 00:31:21.019 --> 00:31:21.380 ask. 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:22.220 Amen. 00:31:23.220 --> 00:31:23.620 Amen.