WORSHIP SCHEDULE

                   Outline of Sermons 

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         Sunday Morning Lesson: 03/09/25, I Tim 2:8-15                The Woman’s Role in the Worship Service

 

We’re living in times where people want to change the message of God. But we have an organic morality, not faking morality.

We live in a world that is out of order with no spiritual structure. When man becomes corrupted, the woman becomes confused. The feminist movement says that a woman doesn’t need a man.

1.  In the worship setting, man leads lifting up holy hands, with the right attitude, and in purity. Women show their purity in how she dresses. Some say that women may lead in the church. But leading acts of worship must be done by the man. Eph 4:11-16: Roles of leadership in the church – “ And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors, . . .” – roles only fulfilled by a man. The pagan world has told women that they can be ‘masculated’ (the law reversed).

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Everything we do is a salvation issue. In Eph 5, wives are to submit to their husbands and to the male leadership in the church. Man’s duty in the church is protecting the women, wives, and sisters.

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The woman is to carry herself in the right attire (modestly), showing her respect to her husband and the household of God. Women should show their submission, which shows her deliverance. Modesty is not outdated; modesty does matter. Our God is the God of modesty and morality who cares how you dress and how you live.

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Sister, hold on to your modesty and morality that is tied into your salvation. Women are not to be a distraction. Titus 2:2-4 states that “. . . the aged women be teachers of good things. That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.”

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2.  Women should strive for modesty, not corruption, showing eternity living inside them, carrying the message of Christ. Hold on to the purity. An orderly woman is a woman who submits to authority, receiving instructions in quiet submission. I Tim 1: 11-12 “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. . . ” God put the men in leadership, but some are trying to deceive the women into teaching. Women are to live in silence, living a peaceful life, being guided by the message.

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A woman should not bring distraction but her submissiveness, telling the story of what the gospel is doing in her and saving her from. I Cor 14:33-35 . . . “Let your women keep silent in the churches . . .” Women should show submission and orderliness, demonstrating God’s order. This submission communicates the acknowledgment that God delegates his authority to the man. I Cor 11:3 “… the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man.” Christ covers the man, so man covers the woman, not leaving her naked spiritually.

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Men of God aim to protect our sisters. Corruption thrives when the order of men and women is our of order. Don’t let man corrupt your position. II Tim 2:2 -- “.. . . the things that thou has heard of me . . . commit thou to faithful men . . .“  Rom 12:6-8 Having gifts differing according to the grace given us . . .  he that exhorteth, he that teaches, he that giveth, he that ruleth, etc) . . .” Paul always says “he” and not “she.”

 

The structure in the church results in our sanctification. Some leadership structure in the home is the same as we follow in the church. You can’t serve God in parts. 

 

3.  An orderly woman carries our God’s arrangement (verse 13). Adam was first created, and the woman was deceived, not Adam. The woman came from man. In Gen 2:15-17, God commanded to the man . . . “but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it . . . “  Gen 3:2 The woman said unto the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.” So Adam taught his wife, but she listened to the serpent. Thus, Eve submitted to the lies of the serpent. Gen 3:15 contains God’s curses upon the serpent.

 

As Christians, we are to live within the boundaries. In your submission, you are showing your faith, holiness, charity, and sobriety (vs 15). Women, keep your boundaries, hold to the message of Christ in your submission.

                       

 

     Sunday Morning Lesson:  3/16/25, Heb 13:13-15

         The Church of Christ is not a City Church

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The Church of Christ is not a city church as noted by the quietness and the songs of our assembly. Quietness: To be with God during the assembly, meditating and trying to please Him in every way. Singing comes from your mind with your mouth, which produces the music. Just outside the city our Savior died, and everything in relationship with him comes through him. You would have seen Jesus on that day of resurrection, finishing his work on Calvary. So everything related to salvation is by way of him. II Chr 25:29: the priests, the prophets  . . . the instruments of David . . . the way God wanted it done back then, the priests and Levites singing / playing instruments.

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We are not a city church. We have our Jesus, just outside the city where everything we do in worship comes through him. Others say that they have to have their music. But we aren’t Levites (as back in David’s times). Churches of today just have their music. The Chronicle writers / prophets wrote about how to carry out the worship. Our Savior in our worship has but a two-word invocation (vs 15 “By him / through Jesus”). Everything we do is through Jesus. 

David could not build a house like this (the Lord’s house). God told David he would not be the builder of his house (his son/Son would be the builder). We worship in this assembly through Jesus; through songs with our mind and mouth we make music, not with lifeless instruments. The sound of instruments does not come from a sound produced by the mind or the mouth. It’s not like speaking – music is different (the production of rhythmic sound). When we sing, our bodies, minds are engaged, breathing differently. Our mind and mouth are engaged to produce music.

The Church of Christ does not carry out like the people of the first temple. We have a better temple – the holy of holy. Worship is of the one who suffered just outside the city. There we come to Jesus and the reproaches are ours to share in – not to blow horns and play pianos but to engage your mind where your worship of God begins. We sing spiritual songs with our minds and our mouths as in the New Testament (their singing of praise to the Lord).

Today, it’s not about the Lord anymore; it’s about us. But the Church of Christ is at a different place, contemplating through Jesus, offering sacrifice of praise. Praise is only produced with the mind and the mouth. God put the covenant in you -- Heb 8: a new covenant in a new place (in your mind). That’s our instrument where the spirit dwells (in your mind and in your heart). In our assemblies, bring your mind to Christ so your mouth can engage in praise. The instrument is lifeless; the spirit is not in it. We produce vocal music with vocal capacity, which doesn’t include “boppity bump or be bop.” Heb 13:15 -- the word “praise” is talking about what is done in order to offer praise that is acceptable. You say it; you can’t ‘bop’ it. You have to say it to praise Him! It’s the Church of Christ where the mind and mouth offers him in praise.

What gets us in the mood to worship Jesus is the words from the scriptures. There are certain sounds that bring on sinful, sensual thoughts (from city churches). Jesus’ church is an outside of the city church where he suffered, bled, and died.

Eph 5:19 – “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns . . . singing and making melody in your heart . . .” means speaking / saying something because you are thinking something and understanding what you are saying. I Cor 14:15 -- when praying and singing “. . . I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.”

 

The music of the church helps us to learn. We come to learn. We sing because it is the official designated music. We just do it through Jesus, praising him with the words from our lips. Singing is the dialog of the church in which we talk to one another. “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing . . . (Eph 5:19). Singing is the mind of our music. David is not the builder of the house. Singing is dialog, direction, the designated music of the church. The one we praise is the one we’re trying to be like.

 

 

 

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               Psalm/Hymn/Edification of the week:

 

 

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. (Eph 5:19)

 

II King 6:16:  Fear not: For they that be with us are more than they that be with them..

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                             I Stand in Awe of You

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               You are beautiful beyond description,

                      Too marvelous for words,

               Too wonderful for comprehension,

               Like nothing ever seen or heard.

               Who can grasp your infinite wisdom?

               Who can fathom the depth of your love?

                       Majesty enthroned above.

                              

                                 Chorus:

              And I stand, I stand in awe of you,

                  I stand; I stand in awe of you,

              Holy God to whom all  praise is due,

                  I stand; I stand in awe of you.

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