 already know it. There's gonna be some women going to be upset with me on this one. Hey smart Christians welcome back again my name is Corey Miner and if you haven't done so already please remember to touch the subscribe button just one time. Also remember to like this video if you have any questions and comments I'm pretty sure on this video you might. Please remember to leave a comment or question in the comment section. Last week's question was one that gets kind of controversial. It gets ignored by many but the answer to the question is found in the Bible and that is can women biblically be pastors? So it's interesting to hear the answers to a lot of people. Obviously I guess some folks are influenced by their gender, some are influenced by their age but the answer to the question biblically is no. Some people just won't like that that won't sit well with them because after all what can a man do that a woman can't do? Well let's be honest let's not be too politically correct. There are differences between men and women but the physical difference and other differences those aren't the reasons necessarily why the Bible forbids women. The Bible is clear when dealing with who can be a pastor, who can be an elder, who can be a presbyterian or a bishop according to the scriptures. So let's go there. 1 Timothy 3 lays out the qualifications for someone hoping or wanting to go into this office of what we call today a pastor. Issue stems from what Paul says in 1 Timothy, what he says in Titus, what he says in 1 Corinthians among others and also some people want to bring in what he states in Galatians and some people seek to kind of downplay Paul's words because it doesn't quite fit what they want to do but that's not how we handle scripture is it? Just because it says something that we don't like or disagree or even understand does it does not give us a reason to nullify or to ignore those scriptures all together. If Paul is right and all scripture is God breathed then his are as well and we know that Peter gives validity to Paul's writings as being scripture and Peter walked with Christ so if anyone wants to downplay Paul you certainly can't downplay Peter and so Paul's writing states this in 1 Timothy 3. The saying is trustworthy if anyone desires or aspires to the office of overseer he desires a noble task therefore an overseer must be above reproach the husband of one wife sober minded self-control respectable hospitable able to teach very important there. Verse 3 not a drunkard not violent but gentle not quarrelsome not a lover of money he must be able or must manage his own household well with all dignity keeping his children submissive for if someone does not know how to manage his own household how will he care for the church of God? Then he goes on to say that he must not be a recent convert and must have a a good reputation outside of the church but the focus is going to be this issue of he must be the husband of one wife and it uses the the term for wife the Greek term in case he's speaking about a female and then Andra the the Greek term indicated he's speaking about a man the same holds true in Titus as well the problem comes in where some people also don't like the verbiage that's used in 1 Timothy chapter 2 let's look at that verse 8 he says I desire then that in every place that men should pray lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling the word that's used there isn't mankind the generic sense it is literally the word Andras which is the word meaning male or man and so he's he's speaking specifically to men and what he wants he says in verse he says in verse 9 likewise so he's speaking about men then he says likewise going and dealing with women he says in verse 9 also that women should adorn themselves in a respectable apparel with with modesty and self-control not with braided hair and gold of pearls or costly attire let's stop there for a second some women are going to say well clearly this must be a cultural issue because he's talking about them wearing braids and so forth and they should if they shouldn't do that then then why do we allow it now certainly we're not saying that women can't have braided hair today well there is a point to why they wore braided hair then that's not present here today it made a statement about you that you were trying to allure men to you that you were kind of putting yourself out there it represented that you had a status that was above men a rank that was above men and that you did not have any sort of desire to be under any sort of male headship and so that's not what braids mean today so is he still speaking culturally well no let's keep reading skipping down to verse 11 let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man rather she is to remain silent he didn't mean remain silent as though that once they enter into or come around in the congregation they can't speak they can't say anything that is not Paul's point you got to shut up no that's not what he's saying he's speaking in terms of leaning I do not permit her to teach or to have authority over a man that was his whole point you could argue with it you can fight with it but again this is not necessarily Paul's point it's God's point let's keep reading he says in verse 13 because or four Adam was formed first then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor he's referring back to what happened in the garden God pronounces these sentences on mankind he pronounces sentence on all of the earth as well and so now we live in this fallen world and there are consequences for their actions right the consequence for Adam and even all the mankind is that we're no longer going to live forever we're going to die and return back to the ground and in that the man you are going to work for everything the ground is not going to just yield up a harvest a bountiful harvest of fruit it's going to have thorns and thistles you're going to have to work your tail off right and then for the woman says that your desire shall be after him you're going to it's almost like there's going to be this struggle this battle between you and him and hasn't that been the case going forward from from then up till now there's been this battle some men have kind of overstepped their bounds and have have kind of gone too far where they want every woman to be submissive to them that was never the case but just in terms of of order as it relates to the church as relates to how things are to take place there is this this this level of leadership where it is the males who lead the church services who lead the congregation and not the women at least as it pertains to having some sort of leadership over men to teach over men somebody may point to well what about these other prophetesses and so forth well being a prophetess doesn't necessarily mean that you are in leadership that's never been the case a person can prophesy in the old testament that necessarily can note that you are a leader over someone or in the new testament and so when you look at uh whenever prophesied yeah but that was to the shame of the men as a matter of fact she said so because if men don't step up then God will use a woman but that doesn't mean that that she is supposed to take the authority away from man and so he says I do not permit a woman to have authority over a man and so when you see women like like a Beth Moore who wants to do so who leaves the SBC because the Southern Baptist convention because she's not in agreement with how women are not allowed to lead you see other women who are pastors of their church paula white and so forth of course you also end up seeing when you start messing up on one element of doctrine soon other elements of doctrine are going to start falling you'll start allowing all all types of ungodly things in the church when you start fudging a little bit on this doctor and that's okay that's okay we don't we're going to reject that you'll start rejecting other elements of the gospel as well but paul is clear here that a woman cannot be a pastor and of course he takes his cues from from God does that mean that women cannot have any sort of role in church in ministry obviously they can as a matter of fact you see how women have in many cases supported and held up the church uh when men have decided to to abandon it god is going to keep this church going and he's going to always have men around unfortunately though it's always seemed to be the woman who has kind of kept this thing going i mean when they left uh at the first side of trouble these male apostles decided to to scatter right all of them took off except for john john hung out he was the youngest john was there with the women but the women were there who came to the tomb at the at the first opportunity it where it was the women but even still Jesus did not pick a woman to be an apostle he did not name there was not a woman named in place of Judas's death and so nor were there any um women named to to lead in the Old Testament and so you do see women having a role but it's just but it's just not in that role as a pastor and so it's not an issue of ability or gift i heard uh uh tony evidence put it this way let's say a small Volkswagen is going down the highway in the right lane and then coming up the on-around is a 18-wheeler well the 18-wheeler has the power to knock over the Volkswagen but it's not an issue of power or ability it's an issue of what's right who has the right of way and in this case the Volkswagen similarly in the bible in the scriptures God has said in order or the right of way that it's in this case it's going to be the man so some people aren't going to like it uh i'm not going to apologize because again it's not my words i don't have to apologize for them take it up with God uh but if you want to live by every preset by every jot until of his word then that requires you to adhere to that as well amen next week's question is this this this requires a little bit of kind of thinking the bible says that the earth was created in six days how do we know the earth was created in a literal six days think about it take some time to your research and then on next week we'll answer the question