let’s go back to the verse that we read at the beginning first Timothy 2 12. first in first Timothy um and you were talking about the Temple of Artemis and the women there and how they were distinctive looking isn’t it true that some of those women were going into the church and it was causing confusion inside the church sure so when you saw a woman that had the distinctives like you mentioned red hatred red shoes that’s not what it was in in that context yeah those gold pearls braided hair it’s all that’s the list that he that he mentions
yes and what were these women doing when they would go into the church so there’s a little bit of of debate on what’s actually happening here right and it really doesn’t matter where the debate is because it what matters is how Paul is addressing them the the identifying marker of them and Jesus does elsewhere what he tells us to treat people like Gentiles or tax collectors if somebody came into the church and they’re dressed in this way it’s one of two things one they’re curious about the gospel right there’s all of a sudden a Jesus
who value who redeems and values and and so they’re they’re curious they’re Skeptics the second one could be and I think this is a valid possibility that they’re coming to disrupt the church they’re coming to lead them astray it doesn’t matter which one you land and both go to the basic foundational understanding that we need to be aware of we need to know why what is the goal so that we can woo them that we can pray for them that we can invite them to be part of this family of God and so super confusing if all of a sudden
they start dressing like them right and this is even a cultural kind of conversation in today’s world the idea isn’t so that you and I look more like the culture It’s actually an invitation for the culture to reflect the goodness of the kingdom of God that is coming at the end that Jesus is going to make all things new and bring the new Heavens the new Earth together and yet there is a real um warning that Paul gives and it’s all over the place actually the New Testament that we should not be conned into acting like and placing our lot and
our affections and our loves into the culture we’re supposed to be inviting them to come into the family of God so are they the women that he was instructing or that he was referencing when he said they should remain silent in that context yeah very well could because imagine them being in there and all of a sudden they’re speaking out and they’re causing chaos and they’re you know and then it’s like yeah it’s about church order it’s about church order and was there also a reason I mean you pointed to it a little bit
