Good morning. After Paul tells
women to be quiet (of course he doesn’t mean to not participate in the service),
he talks about the qualifications of leaders in the church. He then says: I
write so that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of
God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the
truth. They did not know how to behave in church – it was not something that
came naturally. They may have seen how to behave in temples of idols. Paul even
told the Corinthians how to behave. It is not the building but the people who
are the household of God. Just like a pillar in a building helps support it,
the church is supposed to support the truth. Great is the mystery of godliness:
He who was revealed in the flesh (Jesus was God revealed in the flesh), was
vindicated in the Spirit, beheld by angels, proclaimed among the nations,
believed on in the world, taken up in glory. This is probably one of the songs
they sang back then. Then some verses that remind us of Thessalonians. But the
Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith
(The day will not come unless the apostasy comes first), paying attention to
deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons (with all the deception of wickedness
for those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth so as
to be saved), by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience
as with a branding iron. Remember the saying: if you don't stand for something,
you'll fall for anything. Father thank You that the reader conducts him/herself
well in the household of God. He/she is an inspiration to those around him/her.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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