The first thing I
want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.
Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be
quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is
the way our Saviour God wants us to live. He wants not only us but everyone
saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we've learned: that there's
one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us - Jesus, who
offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all
free.
Eventually the news
is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting
this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by
simple faith and plain truth. Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I
want mostly is for men to pray - not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising
holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility
before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and
becoming beautiful doing it. I don't let women take over and tell the men
what to do.
They should study to
be quiet and obedient along with everyone else. Adam was made first, then Eve;
woman was deceived first - our pioneer in sin! - with Adam right on her heels.
On the other hand, her childbearing brought about salvation, reversing Eve. But
this salvation only comes to those who continue in faith, love, and holiness,
gathering it all into maturity. You can depend on this.
1 Timothy 2:10-15
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