Ministry Looks Like You! Pt.2
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Prayer Is A Battle Position
Prayer Is A Battle Position
1 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.
2 Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.
3 This is good and pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth.
1. When Paul is talking about urging there is a sense of urgency that is expressed in this statement.
Parakaleo` is greek for pleading with persuading with.
Before anything else we need to pray for the souls of all men and women. Before our own request, which is the prayers of supplication. God supplying your needs. No it needs to be the need for others first. We are to intercede for others. Why? Because praying for others moves Gods hands for you.
enteuxis - Is the thought of taking a petition before a King, a formal message requesting something.
12 The eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right, and his ears are open to their prayers. But the Lord turns his face against those who do evil.”
imagine and think about the person who always does wrong, it is absolutely devastating to do anything for them because they always seem to put themselves in a jam.
But a person who does right! They call on you when they are truly in need and you want to try and find ways to assist in their issues.
9 Then I heard the man speak, and when I heard the sound of his voice, I fainted and lay there with my face to the ground.
10 Just then a hand touched me and lifted me, still trembling, to my hands and knees.
11 And the man said to me, “Daniel, you are very precious to God, so listen carefully to what I have to say to you. Stand up, for I have been sent to you.” When he said this to me, I stood up, still trembling.
12 Then he said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer.
13 But for twenty-one days the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia.
Just because God is not on your time table doesn’t mean he didn’t hear your prayers. This is war and there are things happening in the spiritual realm that we know nothing about!
4. So what is the command in giving thanks for them?
Giving thanks is referring to the prayers that are already answered. When ever I prayer with anyone who is Ill I pray with expectancy!
You must learn to pray in faith!
19 Later the disciples came to him privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we cast out the demon?”
20 He told them, “It was because of your lack of faith. I promise you, if you have faith inside of you no bigger than the size of a small mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move away from here and go over there,’ and you will see it move! There is nothing you couldn’t do!
21 But this kind of demon is cast out only through prayer and fasting.”
11 Put on all of God’s armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.
12 For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle you will still be standing firm.
Sister Penn share her testimony 1-3min.
So thee are 4 kinds of prayers here.
Supplication - Specific request usually for self.
Prayers - Direct object to a pardon. Forgivemess etc.
Intercession - Praying for others.
Thanksgiving - Exhortation! Lifting up God above all else.
5 For, There is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus.
6 He gave his life to purchase freedom for everyone. This is the message God gave to the world at just the right time.
7 And I have been chosen as a preacher and apostle to teach the Gentiles this message about faith and truth. I’m not exaggerating—just telling the truth.
8 In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.
5. Pauls uses a strong point of reference to give indication of how we come to God. He reminds us that there is only one way to God the Father! Through Christ Jesus.
There are those who will tell you that there is more then one way to God. But it’s not.
6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
8 he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
9 Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
8 And when he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.
9 And they sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation.
God desires that all men will come unto Him. Race, Color, Creed! God is not looking at that! Only man looks at the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart!
6. God gave a message to all and we must deliver it and hope that they will hear it.
6 I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow.
7 It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow.
8 The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work.
9 For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.
8. This is reflective of the times but also of the Ephesian culture. (We will look at this more shortly) When Paul is saying he wants men, he actually is referring to men. But this was because the Ephesian Culture. which had very strong female greek domination in it’s gods.
Listen to what one historian says about it.
Plain Talks on the Pastoral Epistles Chapter IV: The Environment at Ephesus, and in Crete
Significant indeed, and appalling, are those last words, lifting the veil from the external splendour to reveal the black moral darkness beneath.
And then there was the far-famed temple of Artemis or Diana, one of “the seven wonders of the world,” almost as large as St. Paul’s Cathedral, with its 127 columns sixty feet high, each the free gift of some princely devotee. This great representative of the finest Ionic architecture would naturally suggest the architectural metaphors in St. Paul’s letters written both from and to Ephesus; see 1 Cor. 3:9–17; Eph. 2:19–22; 1 Tim. 3:15; 6:19; 2 Tim. 2:19, 20. Ephesus gloried in the title of “temple-keeper of Artemis,” and of the hideous many-breasted image said to have fallen down from Jupiter—as the “town-clerk” reminds the mob in Acts 19. There was an extensive trade in the small “silver shrines” referred to in that chapter, and we get there a graphic illustration of Ephesian money-making.
So everything Paul says and does for these next few verses is strategic. Remember this war and we need to access all formidable intel to conquer the enemy.
So now he informs them we will go back to the basics.
50 Then Jesus led them to Bethany, and lifting his hands to heaven, he blessed them.
2 Listen to my prayer for mercy as I cry out to you for help, as I lift my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven,
54 When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven.
29 “All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
Listen this was a battle move Paul was using to flank the enemy. By saying we surrender all to you Lord God because this all yours anyway and we are all your creation. By doing so they were releasing the strong holds of Artemis and raising up a fortress to God. Focused on God. Not distracted by anger and controversy. Not wasting time worrying about the things of this world.
9 And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes.
10 For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
11 Women should learn quietly and submissively.
12 I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly.
13 For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve.
14 And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.
15 But women will be saved through childbearing, assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty.
9. Paul is not referring to women being belittled under the strong hand of the man. He was saying; ladies of Ephesus! You are adorned in some of the finest earthly things money can buy and the issue is you look like run way models! It was said that a well to do woman would have an outfit on that could cost in todays dollars $250K!
28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing,
29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
See the problem was and much like now they missed the whole point. It wasn’t about coming to church to show off what you had and how much it was. It was about coming to learn how to become more like Christ and that’s the same now. It’s about coming to learn how to become more like Christ. How was Christ humble.
10. This why he says women who are devoted. Notice how uses a play on the words. listen if you really love God then you are going to be more concerned with doing the things of God. That is what’s going to look beautiful to the world around you. Listen you want to appeal to the world around you. Fall more in love with Christ and start ministering to the needs to the world around you. watch what happens.
11/12. This is concurrent to the place. Again Paul is strategically addressing the women of Ephesus that were causing issues in the churches. Paul is not a male-chauvinist like would love to say! He is dealing with the problem that is front and center. He is addressing the pink elephant in the room.
1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deacon in the church in Cenchrea.
2 Welcome her in the Lord as one who is worthy of honor among God’s people. Help her in whatever she needs, for she has been helpful to many, and especially to me.
25 He had been taught the way of the Lord, and he taught others about Jesus with an enthusiastic spirit and with accuracy. However, he knew only about John’s baptism.
26 When Priscilla and Aquila heard him preaching boldly in the synagogue, they took him aside and explained the way of God even more accurately.
27 Apollos had been thinking about going to Achaia, and the brothers and sisters in Ephesus encouraged him to go. They wrote to the believers in Achaia, asking them to welcome him. When he arrived there, he proved to be of great benefit to those who, by God’s grace, had believed.
4 Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophet who was judging Israel at that time.
5 She would sit under the Palm of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites would go to her for judgment.
There are other as well as black pastors in the Bible. So Paul is neither bias or racist. You just have to study your Bible to see it all.
13. Now with that being said Paul is pointing out the order of things according to God’s plan. Adam first - then Eve.
21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man.
6 But ‘God made them male and female’ from the beginning of creation.
14/15. Paul sends a reminder that Eve was deceived, not Adam. He says nothing about sinning, only about the order again.
Then he closes out the chapter by sending a clear message.
The hand that rocks the cradle! Rules the world.
Women will be saved through child bearing is not an attack on bear foot and pregnant. It’s pointing them to something they would have understood very well. The goddess Diana or Artemis was the supplier for all Ephesians and she feed them all with her many breast.
God would use the God fearing woman to bring salvation to her house through her children and thus provide many more soldiers for the cause of Christ.
But they still must do the things required continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty.
Remind them who brought timothy up in the faith.
His mother and grandmother Eunice and Lois.
20 My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
1 The sayings of King Lemuel contain this message, which his mother taught him.
2 O my son, O son of my womb, O son of my vows,