 Thank you for the high calling it is to be a woman and I thank you for our specific roles and I pray Lord that if there's any in the audience or any that are listening that have heart and hearts towards your word especially in this area that you would open their eyes to see truth that you would soften their heart hearts that you would help them to see that the role that we have in the church is a good role because it's been ordained by God and that it's what he has called us to do and it is a privilege. So Father give grace I pray for teaching and for listening and for obeying what we know to be true because it is your word and I thank you in Christ's name. Well when I was growing up in a Baptist minister's home there was a popular book called Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives and Women Preachers and I remember that book sitting in the foyer of my dad's church and the title was certainly a catchy one but I'm telling you the content was far from biblical. What is the role and specifically what is the role of the woman in the church? Thankfully we don't need to purchase I don't even know if it's in print anymore but you don't need to go out and purchase Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives and Women Preachers for the answer but we do need to read 1 Timothy 2 9 to 15 to figure out what the answer is regarding the woman's role in the church and how she should conduct herself in wisdom. So let's read the passage together and we have an outline of where we'll be going. In like manner also the women adorn themselves in modest apparel with propriety and moderation not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing but that would just proper for women professing godliness with good works. Let a woman learn in silence with all submission and I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man but to be in silence for Adam was first formed in Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived fell into transgression nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if she continues in faith love and holiness with self-control. So we're going to be considering the woman's clothing in the church the woman's character in the church the woman's conduct in the church the woman's created order in the woman's calling. Now again we're going jumping into the middle of a epistle a book and if you know anything about 1 Timothy the purpose of 1 Timothy Timothy gives or Paul gives his purpose statement in 1 Timothy 3 15 where he says I'm writing to you so that you will know how to conduct yourself in the house of God the pillar of the living God and so he's writing this epistle so they'll know how to conduct themselves in the house of God and in the beginning of this chapter 2 he's talked to the men of the church verses 1 to 8 how men are to conduct themselves in the worship service in the house of God and now he's turning the corner and he's going to address the woman what is the woman's role in the church well first of all he deals with the clothing that she should wear in church as a woman who belongs to the household of God and so he says this in like manner women are to adorn themselves in modest apparel now in like manner means in the same way and it could mean two things and both are true it could mean that women in like manner are to pray like the men that he talks about in the previous verses as they pray they're to pray without wrath and doubting they're not to doubt God's goodness they're not to pray angrily or anything like that or it also could mean in like manner in other words how she conducts herself in public worship in this same manner then the she is to conduct herself in this way and so both are true and so you can take whichever view you want to because both are accurate and I'm not going to die on that hill so I will die on some other hills but not that one so Paul says that women are to adorn themselves in modest apparel the word adorn means to arrange in order and so it would indicate that our clothing should be arranged in some sort of order and the word modest means shame or a sense of shame so it means that as you as a woman as you come to worship the Lord there should no be no shame in what you are wearing you don't want to cause anyone in church to stumble because of the way you are dressed okay you want to arrange your clothes in a fashion in the order of fact we were at the airport yesterday and I had to take a double take the night I said Debbie look at that lady's pants I mean one part was lime green the other part was black and it was the same everything seemed out of order there and you know you should go to the airport sometime if you want to see some strange the things I was just like whoa Lord help me but anyway we don't want to come to church and cause anyone to sin because of the way we're dressed in fact the word apparel here means a long flowing toga now I'm not going to tell you to go out and you know find a store open and I and go tomorrow come in with a long flowing toga even though somebody confronted me one time told me I was a false teacher because I didn't teach this that women should wear long togas for public worship but it does mean that a woman should dress for church with a thought in mind she's going to worship the Lord have you ever thought when you get dressed on Sunday morning that you're coming to meet the Lord you ever thought about that you're coming to meet the Lord so dress in a way that is pleasing in fact Paul goes on to describe the way we should dress he says with propriety and moderation propriety means to be of sound mind good sense moderation indicates women should not be extreme in their dress we should not try and show off our body or the latest fashions by how we are dressing we don't draw attention to ourself when we come to church and indeed the women in paul's day did just that they draw drew attention to themselves and he says how braided hair gold pearls and cloth costly clothing so the first way they overdid their adornment was the braiding of their hair and you might be saying I see a lot of you have braids in your hair my granddaughters have braids you might be saying oh am I in sin am I not supposed to braid my hair that's not what paul's saying you can braid your hair in fact peter says let it not be merely the braiding of hair but a meek and quiet spirit when he addresses this same topic so it's not saying that one man helps us here as we can kind of understand he says no expense was spared to make clothing dazzling they actually sparkled braids were fastened by jewel tortoise shell combs pins ivory silver or the pins were of bronze with jeweled heads the more varied and expensive the better the pinheads often consisted of miniature in images like an animal a human hand a female figure braids in those days often represented fortunes they were articles of luxury the christian woman is worn not to indulge in such extravagance in fact in some churches they would actually have these hairdos that were you know piled high like this and one man said it looked like a tower of something you know because she had so many tears to her head and braids in paul's day were the things they would put in the hair they were expensive and they were gaudy and paul is saying don't come to church to draw attention to yourself don't come and worship the lord and be addressed like that and draw attention to yourself now this doesn't give license either to us as women to come to church with our hair looking like you know we just stuck our finger in the electrical socket and you know we come looking like a fright you know god god knows the hairs on your head he's numbered them all but uh you know have your hair as best as you can with what he's given you to look becoming but not to draw attention to yourself the second outlandish adornment was gold and pearls again the same man helps us he says similarly a woman who's a believer must not try to make herself conspicuous by a vain display of ornaments of gold she shouldn't yearn for pearls from the persian goal for the indian ocean he says these are often fabulously priced and way beyond the purchasing power of the average church member in order to obtain a pearl of great value a merchant might have to sell all of his possessions in fact he talks about the wife of an emperor covered with emeralds and pearls gleaming all over her head her hair her ears her neck and her fingers to the value of over a million dollars i mean that is ridiculous right that's into that quote aren't you glad again this doesn't mean you can't wear jewelry to church that's not what paul's saying that's not what peter's saying in first peter but your jewelry should be worn in such a way as to not draw attention to yourself it should be a bit attractive be becoming but you know as you walk in the back door that's not the first thing that people see is your jewelry lastly paul mentions that women should not wear costly clothing some women in those days wore dresses that were seven thousand cost seven thousand an area which is a hundred and forty thousand in american u.s. dollars now ladies if any of you have a dress or any type of clothing a hundred and forty thousand dollars you're you're that's crazy i'm just telling you that's crazy i don't even think my whole wardrobe is worth a hundred and forty thousand dollars ladies when you come to worship the lord we don't want to show off our bodies we don't want to show off our clothes we don't want to show off our hair our jewelry when we dress in the morning for worship we need to be mindful of dressing to please the lord right don't dress to attract the attention of men but dress to show the inner attitude of your heart i know when my daughter and at that time her fiancee which is now her husband of 15 plus years i can't even keep tracking anymore of my kids and how long they've been married but they were out in california he was going to seminary and they were in a good sound church and they actually had to quit going he said i cannot worship here because the the girls that would come to church when short shorts and halter tops you know and that was worship and he said i can't worship here it's a stumbling block ladies don't allow your culture to dictate to you as a believer what is appropriate for your dress don't worry about what other people think of you i gave that up a long time ago i don't care if i'm fashionable or not and then most of time i'm not so uh in fact you know when we moved several years ago and a young man in our church helped us move in our new house and carried my clothes into my closet he goes miss heck do you wear all these clothes and i said yes i do germane if you keep them long enough they come back in style and besides you know i'm all sizes at different times you know and uh i don't you know doesn't really matter to me we dress to please the lord right don't be like that woman in proverbs seven ten that salomon says there was a woman who met him with the hot attire of a harlot and a crafty heart ladies your outer dress reflects your inner heart your outer dress reflects your inner heart by the way i think we should be conscious of how we dress in other places too i know we're talking about church but we need to be careful how we dress we were out last night with some of these girls here they took us out and and i was talking with one of them we were walking down the wherever we were some fan someplace they took us winter park or something like that and i looked over to her i said you see that girl's t-shirt it says virginity rocks and i was like yeah that's good but she wasn't dressed very appropriately and i was like she's she's asking for trouble there so but we need to be conscious of how we dress everywhere right not just at church so paul moves from the clothing women wear to church to the character they should wear to church and by the way this is also the character you should wear at all times to do only this in church is hypocrisy charles hatton's virgin says what you are at home is what you are so if you don't have this character at home don't try to just do it at church because it's hypocrisy notice what he says he says but which is proper for women professing godliness with good works the butt here is a word of contrast so instead of dressing provocatively i am to dress properly instead of dressing ostentatiously i'm to dress moderately paul puts it like this we dress in a way that is proper for women who are professing godliness we are to dress as women who are god fearing women right right women who fear god women who are walking in wisdom in the church in fact the word professing here means to convey with a message that is loud and clear women today are dressing with a message that is loud and clear but it's a far cry from godliness right do you agree with me if you don't just go take a walk or go to the go to the airport come to the airport with me tomorrow really sometimes i don't know i don't know i'm kind of glad for one thing i mean i started making a list of all the good things that came out of covet 19 but uh one of them is i'm not out that much anymore and it's kind of good because i don't have to see all this but sometimes i would dread to go out to places just because of this one thing seeing how women dress knowing that there will be women who are not appropriately dressed i feel for the men in our age uh i my grandsons i you know i have five grandsons and they're all teenagers now most of them one's almost there and i fear for them because they have to deal with many women who are inappropriately dressed and they're flaunting their bodies and dressing seductively now having said that i will also say that a godly woman should look nice at church but she doesn't again have to have the latest fashions in order to do that you don't have to shop all week spending money on jewelry and the latest trend that's sure you can shock everyone at sunday you know with your new outfit ladies realize do you know those clothes you're wearing them burn up one day you know what peter says everything in this world is going to burn up right ladies your heart should not be set on your outward appearance but on your inner right your inner attitude of a meek and quiet spirit which is precious in the side of god in fact paul puts it like this notice what he says as women who profess godliness with good works notice very carefully what he says not good looks did he say that good works not good looks good works ladies it should be our good works that is our endowment that should attract the attention of those we worship with not our clothes when they see you coming in the door on sunday morning oh there goes so and so look at her great clothes no here comes so and so you know she's a servant of the lord you know she serves the lord all week she comes here she's got ministry here at the church she's full of good works they don't they don't want to be looking at your jewelry your makeup your hair that's not what should attract the attention it's your good works remember dorcas when she died in luke chapter nine and peter goes and the women are weeping and crying and you know showing all of her what all the things that she made and it says this woman was known for what her good works dorcas was known for that ladies a woman of god will focus on her good works that's what she spends her time on one man says this it reflects a right attitude of mine for paul was shrewd enough to know that a woman's dress is a mirror of her mind a woman's dress is the mirror of her mind a woman's adornment and short lies not in what she herself puts on but in the loving service she gives out end of quote ladies as peter says in his epistle do not let your adornment be merely the outward adorning of braiding the hair and putting out of a pair but let it be the hidden man of the heart a meek and quiet spirit which is precious in the sight of god that's what we need to focus on well paul now moves from her character to her conduct in church in verse 11 and 12 let a woman learn in silence with all submission now paul also addresses this when he writes the church in Corinth which was a man of mass he writes in first Corinthians 1434 and 35 let the women keep silent in the church for they are not permitted to speak but they are to be submissive as the law says and if they want to learn something let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for a woman to speak in the church now before you get upset and throw your candy at me which you can throw the Reese's at me that'll be just fine I'll take all of your Reese's but before you get upset we need to study what this means right okay what does this mean we need to understand New Testament times their church services were a lot different than ours if you read first Corinthians they were standing up while the speaker was speaking one would stand up and do this one would stand up and do that that's why at the end of first Corinthians paul says let everything be done decently and in order why because the church service was you know kind of chaotic at times and so they would dialogue with each other they would challenge the the speaker whoever was preaching and we also need to understand something else as we think about this in the biblical world it was unheard of for a woman to come to church they were discouraged from learning they were to remain at home did you know women in the biblical world were never allowed to appear alone in public I mean it was a very restricted life they led and so those that call paul a male chauvinist have no idea or at least they haven't studied biblical history to know what was going on in the church at this time so listen ladies paul is actually commending us as women to learn in the church service there's no male or female right we're all one in christ jesus now with that in mind there are roles for us roles for men roles for women that we must adhere to so paul says let a woman learn in silence now learn here means to listen be taught what does silence mean does it mean she's muzzled no the word silence actually means to remain calm remain calm women should come to church to listen to listen and as they do that they remain calm she's to do it with all submission and the utmost respect to those that are in authority over her she should not be rebellious in her heart interactions that are calling in life as a woman she shouldn't be rebellious towards that now can a woman teach ladies can she teach children can women talk to people we had somebody recently that you know said well I don't think we should talk in you know the lobby or the parking lot and so already draw the line here you know you can't talk at all of course you can't women can teach women women you know what is tightest to say the older women teach the young women right I don't know how then you can teach you can teach children you can talk to people at church you can sing you can there's a lot of things you can do in the public assembly however ladies our limitations have to do with men as explained in this next verse I don't permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man but to be in silence one of the questions I'm often asked when I go speak at women's conferences or retreats is this what is the woman's role in the church why can't a woman be a pastor and I've often received a lot of angry looks for my answers but I've even actually had places I've been where I've said I'm not speaking until these men leave and I have made men upset with me but I usually end up saying something like this is what the scripture teaches I don't know what they think when it says if a man desires the office of a bishop he desires a good thing my bible doesn't say if a woman desires the office of a pastor she desires a good thing right it says if a man so I don't know what the problem is but I usually end up saying these are my spiritual convictions I usually take them to this this passage and the other one I just quoted and then I also if that doesn't suffice them I say well I'm under the submission and the authority of my husband who says I can't do this and my elders right and I am to be submissive and to them and so sometimes that silences them sometimes it doesn't now Paul says I do not permit a woman to teach a man so I'm not sure what the opponent's issues are with this verse this is a command it's not an option remember Paul is writing so that we can know how to behave ourselves in the house of God right which is the church of the living God the pillar and the ground of the truth so he's writing on how we behave in the local assembly how we conduct ourselves we're not to have authority over the man in the church in fact the words have authority means to play the master we're not to be the master we're not to interrupt the preacher by the next words he says we're to be in silence remember they were standing up and spouting off things so what Paul is saying here as you sit and listen to your pastor on Sunday you're to be calm you're to listen and you don't stand up and challenge him we actually in our church had a woman that did this several years ago she's passed away this last year I think she went to a christless eternity but she actually did this in our worship service she would always challenge my husband or didn't it didn't only happen once actually well maybe twice I don't know if it happened once or twice I can't remember a couple times but she was church disciplined put out the church not only for that spouting off and trying to challenge my husband as he was preaching but she was also using legal and illegal drugs oh abusing those but that's the idea we are to listen and we're not to challenge the preacher as he's preaching we're to be in silence we're to listen with all respect and again remember the history of what was going on in fact my husband has told me recently because on every pretty often about once a month we'll have a Q&A on Sunday night where he opens it up to men and women who can ask theological questions or counseling questions or any kind of question they want which he loves to do and the people love it but he says that you know I'm kind of thinking maybe with at least the women because some of them will then kind of try to challenge him and he says I really think it's a violation of this passage because it'd be wiser to talk to him privately afterwards instead of in a public assembly no no harm in them asking questions of him publicly but not to try to challenge because it would be a violation of this passage so the question might come to your mind can a man learn from a woman of course he can do you know in all the passages where Priscilla is mentioned there's six of them in the word of God do you know four out of those six passages she's mentioned first and especially in one in Acts chapter 18 remember when Paulus was in error about the about baptism and it says Priscilla and Aquila her husband took him aside and explained to him the way of God more excellently and the Greek order there is that Priscilla did most of the talking many believe that Priscilla was actually a stronger believer than her husband and knew more and so it's very interesting that she's mentioned in the Greek when somebody's name is mentioned first they're more prominent and so she's mentioned first four times out of the six times men can learn from women men can learn from women but women are not to teach in the public assembly of worship in fact this is the second time the word silence is mentioned so it must be important and again it doesn't mean you're muzzled it doesn't mean you have to wear your mask and not talk it doesn't mean you need to be peaceable you need to be quiet you need to be calm and not challenge the preacher in the pulpit now you might say well Susan Paul is a male chauvinist and he's really making me angry I don't like this passage well he's not a male chauvinist I'm sorry he makes you angry but I remember he's writing by the power of the Holy Spirit right these are God breathe words ladies God breathe this out but he gives a reason why why in verse 13 why do we behave this way in the church of God and it has to do with our created order notice what he says for this is the reason this is the reason why women do this in the church why because Adam was first formed then Eve ladies the first reason women are to be silent in the church is because Adam was created first not Eve Eve was not created first he was this was the order of creation the head of the home was created first and if this isn't enough Paul says in first Corinthians 11 3 I want you to know the head of every man is Christ the head of the woman is man and the head of Christ is God in fact later on he says for man is not from woman but woman from the man nor was the man created for the woman but the woman was created for the man ladies man woman was taken out of man's side right not to be his Holy Spirit not to be his mother to be his helper right to be his helper well Paul gives a second reason why women should not teach men in the local assembly besides of the created order look what he says in verse 14 Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived she fell into transgression ladies the second reason she's not to usurp authority over a man in the local assembly is because of her because she was deceived in the garden in fact women are more easily deceived the word deceived means here completely deceived she was seduced holy look at look at Jenna turn back to Genesis 3 I'm already getting looks from some of you so I won't see you tomorrow but that's all right I wonder why this is so hard for us Genesis 3 I don't know about you I'm glad God made me a woman so wait till we get to tomorrow and talk about husbands loving their wives you think you got it bad love the wife the way Christ loved the church that's a challenge isn't it now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made and he said to the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden the woman said to the serpent oh we can eat of the fruit of the tree of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God has said you shall not eat it nor touch at least you die and the serpent said to the woman you won't die for God knows in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good from evil so the woman when she saw the tree was good for food and it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree desirable to make one why she took of it and she ate it she gave it to her husband with her and he ate it then the eyes of both of them were open and they knew they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings ladies Adam disobeyed willfully the woman was deceived by the serpent in fact Paul says in another place 2nd Corinthians 11 3 I fear somehow as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness so your minds are corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ in fact in 2 Timothy chapter 2 Paul writes about false teachers who come into women's homes silly women laden away with lust who are led astray by false teachers why do they pray on women because we are more easily deceived than men that's why for 40 years now or 30 or how long ever I've been teaching I have been saying the same thing to women get into the bible get into the word of God know what God says why we are more easily deceived we need to know the scriptures right you need to know the word of God you need to be discerning ladies what Adam did he did on his own with a willful choice he knew what he was doing Eve was deceived and she fell into transgression ladies as a woman recognize your weakness you know I'm a very strong woman I really am I'm very in fact you know my husband will say strong as an ox dumb as a bull not really that used to say that when I was pregnant and I'm a very strong woman I understand that I am independent I'm strong I mean I am under the submission of my husband and see that as freeing and a blessing but even in that we should recognize our weaknesses I'm so thankful for the many many times that my husband has helped me in an area where I could see where I could be more easily led astray or deceived men are just built different and wired differently than we are and Satan knew she would be easier Eve would be easier to tempt than Adam and so he tempted her and she fell into sin remember Peter says we're the weaker vessel ladies women should realize Eve was the one who was deceived and because of that she should take a humble attitude now maybe all this sounds pretty bleak to you but it's not it's really not Paul leaves us with a wonderful outlook in verse 15 as he gives us the woman's calling nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if she continues in faith love and holiness with self control I will say this is one of the most difficult verses in this epistle to interpret there's some really weird interpretations out there about as weird as those spirits in prison that are in chapter three but it's really not when you look at it look at it carefully Paul says she will be saved through childbearing now ladies we know this is not salvific because women are not saved by bearing children right we are saved by grace alone through faith alone through Christ alone right we are not saved by giving birth to a child and so we know that's not what it means but the Greek word salvation can mean several things in Scripture and here it means to be delivered it's not salvific in the sense of salvation to be delivered or to be set free ladies in other words listen very carefully women can be delivered from the stigma of Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden by being set free through delivering children and raising them to the glory of God John MacArthur says this the pain associated with childbirth was the punishment for the woman's sin but her joy and privilege of childrearing delivers women from the stigma of that sin in fact Paul writes later on in this epistle I will that the therefore the young women marry bare children rule the household why so she gives no occasion for satan to be spoken of reproachfully ladies a christian's woman role is not to be a female pastor but to be a female parent by raising children to the glory of God and I hope you see your role is that I am so thankful God only gave us two children but I'm so thankful that I was able to raise my children for the glory of God both of them are in both of their spouses and them are in the in full-time ministry and raising my seven grandchildren in the nurturing admonition of Christ however we must just like a man we must continue as Paul says in faith and holiness and self-control we must continue in that in fact it's interesting this triad is what Paul began this epistle with in 1st Timothy and chapter 1 verse 5 he says the purpose of commandment is love from a pure heart a good conscience and faith and faith so what does this mean when he says she must continue in these things well faith would be her faith in the Lord love would be her love to everyone in holiness would be just that she is set apart and she does this with all self-control which means to be sober minded ladies this is a high calling in fact Paul reiterates this in Titus 2 where he mentions old women teach young women and the first thing that that I am to teach you as an older woman is to be self-controlled to be self-controlled so what is the woman's clothing in the church from verse 9 women are to dress in modest clothing and jewelry that is becoming the profession of her faith in Christ what about you what about the way you come to dress to worship do you stop at look at yourself in the mirror and ask if what you are wearing pleases the Lord would you dress in that manner if Christ was going to visit your church this Sunday he is he's going to be there he's here right now right since he's omnipresent he's everywhere right are you secretly drawing attention to yourself by the way you dress do you purposely dress seductively and tight fit clothes and low blouses to attract the attention of men are you wearing clothes in a way that a man would desire something in you that you cannot righteously fulfill ladies for those of you that are married you might ask your husband before you leave the house and honey am I dressed appropriately and for those of you with daughters please make sure they're dressed appropriately before my daughter became a believer we went round and round and we'd go clothes shopping I'm like you're not buying that no you're not buying that you're not buying that either and so you know Mark the piece has a great book out called clothes it's more than just modesty so you might pick that up and go through that with your teenage daughters the woman's character in the church from verse 10 women are not to focus on their good looks but their good works how much time have you spent this past week focusing on your inner heart how much time have you spent in the word in prayer and with God's people this last week in comparison to the time you've spent on Pinterest Instagram Facebook Twitter and I can't even name all the other Google and you know there's new ones every day coming up how much time is spent on your inner woman versus the outer woman what good works have you done for the master this week and the woman's conduct in the church from verses 11 and 12 women are to learn with all calmness and submission to those in authority over her are you guilty of overstepping your boundaries do you secretly wish that you could be the preacher in the pulpit the woman's created order from verses 13 to 14 have you embraced the God given truth that the woman was created second for the purpose of being a helper to her husband do you dwell on the untruth that you're a second-class Christian do you joy in the fact that God has created you to be a woman and what is the woman's calling from verse 15 we are called to be delivered from the stigma of Eve's sin by rearing children to the glory of God and by continuing in faith love and holiness and we do all this with a serious mindset do you take your parenting seriously and are you rearing your children in the nurturing admonition of Christ does your life exhibit faith love holiness would others say you have a sense about you that you are sober-minded and calm in your spirit well instead of being known as women with bobbed hair who are bossy wives and women preachers how about we be known as women who properly dress perform godly and produce children my friend this describes a woman who is walking in wisdom in the church let's pray lord father god we thank you again that you have called us to be women we thank you that you have placed those in authority over us who are godly men who teach us and train us who have nurtured us through the years we do thank you that we as women can encourage and teach one another and help one another we thank you for the children that you allow us to raise for your glory we thank you father that we live in a culture where we can come to church and learn thank you that christ comes in and changes the culture that we live in and i thank you for that i thank you for the good churches that are represented here father where women can go and learn and i thank you for women who teach other women the bible so father we pray that this would not discourage us but encourage us in the things in the ways that you have called us to perform as women i pray also lord for this evening that as we go back to our perspective homes and places that we would reflect on these two messages walking in wisdom in the world in the church and prepare hearts tomorrow lord as we think about how we can walk in wisdom in our home and in our in those that are single and then lord in our calling as we think about what type of wisdom we need to possess so give us rest i pray bring us back tomorrow refreshed and ready for another day lord of learning and growing and fellowshiping with one another in christ's name i pray amen