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.

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