Hi, this is Bill Stevenson. Today we continue our walk through the Scriptures. Jesus prayed that God would sanctify us through His Word of Truth. In this time, we need to be washed with the water of God's written and living Word. I pray the eyes of your heart will be illuminated by the Holy Spirit to see and personally know Jesus Christ and all of His majesty and splendor.
May we also come to know our dear Father, who sent His Son Jesus to redeem us from all sin and death, and to give us eternal rest, peace, joy, and life within Himself. May the Lord draw us into closer and intimate fellowship with Himself, and may we increasingly know what Jesus Christ has done for us in His death, burial, sufferings, and resurrection, and that now He lives within us as our true life. And now today's scripture. Chapter 2 I exhort therefore that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle.
I speak the truth in Christ and lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. And like men are also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair or gold or pearls or costly array, but which becometh women professing godliness, with good works. Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.