Kofi Annan – 2006 U N Report

• Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime with the abuser usually someone known to her.

United Nations – Declaration of Violence Against Women

• "violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women" and that "violence against women is one of the crucial social mechanisms by which women are forced into a subordinate position compared with men."

Restoring God’s Order Between

Men and Women

Restoring God’s Order

• Difference in strength of body structure between men and women is honored – not exploited with abuse (I Pet. 3:7)

• Men and Women are equal as recipients of salvation and the inheritance of Heaven (I Pet. 3:7, Gal. 3:28)

• But God’s order distinguishes between men and women regarding “headship” (I Cor. 11:3, Eph. 5:22-23)

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are to learn in “quietness” with “all subjection” (v.11)

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are to learn in “quietness” with “all subjection” (v.11)

• Being “quiet” – not silence, but to be calm in her distinctive position of being in subjection to the man. 1. “heschusian” – peaceful, serene, content 2. “tranquil and quiet life” a prayerful request (I Tim. 2:2)

3. “meek and quiet spirit” priceless before the Lord as manifested in a wife’s relationship with her husband (I Pet. 3:4).

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)• A woman has authority to teach…• Women are to teach good things to women –

character regarding marriage and the home (Titus 2:3).

• Mothers and grandmothers can teach their children – Father was an unbeliever and not a Jew (2 Tim. 3:14, 1:5, Acts 16:3)

• Wives worked in subjection with their husbands to teach privately other men the truth of the Gospel (Acts 18:26).

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• Such teaching that does not exercise authority over the man – as elder or evangelist (I Tim. 3:2, 5:17, Eph. 4:11, Titus 2:15)

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• Such teaching that does not exercise authority over the man – as elder or evangelist (I Tim. 3:2, 5:17, Eph. 4:11, Titus 2:15)

• Why? – God’s order was violated in the beginning…Adam and Eve

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• Adam created “First” (v.13; Gen. 2:15, 18, 19)

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• Adam created “First” (v.13; Gen. 2:15, 18, 19)• Eve beguiled, not Adam (v.14; Gen. 3:1, 6, 17)

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• Adam created “First” (v.13; Gen. 2:15, 18, 19)• Eve beguiled, not Adam (v.14; Gen. 3:1, 6, 17)• God’s order : Man’s headship - was not

upheld – being restored in Christ

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women are not to “teach over a man” (v.12)

• How can a woman teach, but not teach over a man? –Work within two areas: –Personal or Impersonal relationship –Direct or Indirect interaction

Personal

Indirect

Priscilla – Apollos (Acts 18:26)

Abigail – David (I Sam. 25:23-35)

Impersonal

Can Be More Direct Teaching

Women writing songs and

articles for general public

Recognition of God’s Order I Timothy 2:11-15

• Women have their distinctive roll from man: bearing children (v. 15, I Tim. 5:14)

• Not ruling over man – but giving life to children