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In 1 Corinthians 14:34-36,

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does it mean that women should not be pastors

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or leaders in a church?

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Or assume roles of teaching the Gospel?

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Let's everybody turn to that passage. 1 Corinthians 14.

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1 Corinthians 14:27 is where I want to pick up reading.

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I want you to see something very interesting here.

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"If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or three,

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or at most three, and each in turn,

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and let someone interpret."

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And listen to this: this is critical, verse 28,

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"But if there is no one to interpret,

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let each of them keep silent in church,

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and speak to himself and to God."

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Now, here's the first thing I want you to see.

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Women are not the only ones told to keep silent here.

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You have those that speak in tongues.

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If there is no interpreter,

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they are told the exact same thing.

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"Keep silent in church."

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Ok, let me ask you this:

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Does Paul mean that if you have a gift of tongues,

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let's say you're a man, let's say you're a pastor in the church.

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Let's say you're not only a pastor, you're a prophet.

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You have prophetic gifts, you have pastoral gifts,

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and you have tongue gifts.

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Which all of those were gifts that are

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identified in the Scriptures.

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Let's say you had all of those.

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And you show up at church one day,

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and it happens that the guy with the gift of interpretation

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was sick that day.

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He's not there.

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And God doesn't supernaturally give it to somebody else.

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Does Paul mean that because there's no interpreter there,

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and you are the guy that has tongues gifts,

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that you're to be absolutely silent, can't sing,

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can't use your pastoral gifts, can't use your prophetic gifts?

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Do you believe that's what he means?

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He says, "keep silent in church."

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Is that a blanket statement that you need to just

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shut your mouth the whole time?

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It has context. What's the context?

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The context has to do specifically with speaking in tongues.

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When he says be silent, you look at the context

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and you realize, oh, he doesn't mean totally.

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It's not like, hey, why isn't James talking today?

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Well, he's been silent in church because he has the gift of tongues

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and the interpreter's not here today.

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No, you're all laughing - that's ridiculous.

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Well, let's move forward now,

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Verse 29, let two or three prophets,

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now notice, Paul's shifted from speaking

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about tongues and interpretation,

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now he's moving to prophecy.

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Verse 29, "let two or three prophets speak,

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and let the others weigh what is said."

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Now notice this: he's not only speaking about prophecy,

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he's speaking about weighing those prophecies.

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Biblically examining the prophecies.

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"If a revelation is made to another sitting there,

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let the first be silent.

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For you can all prophesy one by one,

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so that all may learn and all be encouraged,

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and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets."

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Now notice what's happening: they're weighing prophecies,

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the prophets are being subject to the prophets,

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for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace as in

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all the churches of the saints."

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Now, look: when he says the women should keep silent,

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it's in the immediate context of weighing the prophecies,

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and the prophets being subject to the prophets.

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In other words, if the women have some question

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about the prophecy, they are not to be in a place

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where they are putting the men in check.

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They are not in a place where they are to be

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weighing these out and to be taking

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an authoritative role in that.

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Now look: all you have to do is turn back to 1 Corinthians 11,

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go back there.

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And verse 5, do you see what's said there?

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"Every wife who prays or prophesies..."

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Guess what? Paul is allowing women to pray and prophesy.

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They can even prophesy.

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What they can't do and where they need to

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keep their mouths shut concerning,

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is when a prophecy comes up for examination,

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they're not to be in that position.

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Just like 1 Timothy 2 says, a woman is not to be

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in the place of teaching or exerting authority over men.

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Now that's key.

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And as Michelle in this question asks,

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"does this have to do with women being in pastoral roles

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or leaders in the church?"

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Absolutely. They're forbidden from that.

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"We find in 1 Timothy 2:11-12, 'let a woman

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learn quietly with all submissiveness.

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I do not permit a woman

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to teach or to exercise authority over a man.

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Rather she is to remain quiet.'"

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And the whole thing is,

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Can women have prophetic gifts? Yes.

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Can they have gifts of discernment? Yes.

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Can they have gifts that lend themselves to leadership? Yes.

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Can they have speaking gifts? Yes.

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But women in the Scriptures are told

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that there are certain roles

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that are suitable only for men.

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The pastor. The elder. The overseer role,

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is one role that is exclusively for men.

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That doesn't mean that some of the gifts that men

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in that position have, that women can't also have those gifts.

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They just have to use them in the context

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and in the roles that God allows for women.

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Men must use their gifts in the context

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and in the roles that God has designated for men;

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women use those gifts in the context of roles that

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God has designated for women.

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Everybody follow that?