Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request. If you've been blessed by our content and you like this show, would you take just a brief moment and leave us a five-star review? This is quite possibly the most effective thing that you can do to ensure that this content gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. You know, I picked for 2019, off of 2018 leaving Acts 29, seeing, you know,

what was brewing, the storm that was coming. I picked First Timothy to preach through, you know,

Hymenas and Alexander. I've had it, you know, or in the very beginning, it's like, Timothy,

I charge you, or I, I'm encouraging you to charge certain elders, certain men, certain leaders in the church,

not to teach any different doctrine.

And so, you know, that was like second sermon in the series, and boom, people left.

And then 2000, or when we got to First Timothy chapter two versus nine through 15 I slowed down instead

of speeding through it I did four weeks on that text I only plan to do one week but I ended

up doing four weeks and talking about talking about the you know the the callings of men

and women and the distinction between the genders one of my big lines was it's not male and

female roles he assigned them but male and female natures, he designed them.

Like the difference goes all the way down to the way that we're made.

And I started talking about how, and that extends, I believe that extends beyond the home in the church.

If husbands are the head of their homes and then men as elders, and I would argue for a male deaconate, are the head of churches.

But then when we step outside of homes, which is the building block of any society, is the family.

So we're saying an entire society is made up of, even in a non-religious culture, an entire society is made

up of the building blocks of families and men are explicitly called in scripture to lead

those, but then women, when we step out of the home, women start leading their husbands.

You know, like, it just doesn't make any, so I was like, all right, the civil magistrate bears

a sword. The sword is a phallus. It belongs to men. Like, I started just, you know, it just doesn't make any so I was like all right the civil magistrate bears a sword

the sword is a phallus it belongs to men like and I started just you know and I mean I know

those are strong statements but I started thinking beyond the home and the church and say let's start

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