The Bible Study Podcast, episode 80. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of First Timothy.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. As we continue with First Timothy in chapter two today,

we find out that it's probably better to read a book before you decide to do it on a podcast like this one,

because this particular chapter I may have avoided if I had thought about the fact that there were things in it that are going to be controversial.

So we're going to try and see if we can address them in a way that will make nobody happy.

So continuing on in Timothy, 1 Timothy 2, instructions on worship.

I urge then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession, and Thanksgiving be made

for everyone, for kings and all those in authority, that we may live

peaceful and quiet lives in all goodness and holiness. This is good and pleases God our Savior,

who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God

and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men,

the testimony given in its proper time.

And for this purpose, I was appointed a herald and an apostle.

I am telling the truth.

I am not lying.

And a teacher of the true faith to the Gentiles.

So this is the easiest part of this particular chapter.

So Paul is encouraging us to pray for everyone, but particularly for those in authority. Kings, we might say presidents or prime ministers,

depending on where we live, but that we might live good in quiet lives. Now, Paul would

possibly be by the time this letter is written under the leadership of Nero. Who would later execute Paul?

So there's no excuse here that, well, I'm a Republican and your president's a Democrat or I'm a

Democrat, the president's Republican. This is a call for all believers to pray for everyone,

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