1 Timothy 2:9-15 | Episode # 1199

May 21, 2026

Hope Alive: Applying God’s Word to Your Daily Life

1 Timothy 2:9-15

I am Chad Harrison, and I am the teaching pastor of Lake Community Church and had been serving as a pastor for over 25 years. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse-by-verse and find God's will for your life. The purpose of studying scripture is that you might know the character of Jesus Christ, and that you might see the world from the Father's perspective. That you gain wisdom that changes your life. I pray in the name of Jesus right now that God would open His word to you and allow you to see Him and to know Him. To know His will, that you might glorify Him and that you might walk in faith and power each day, especially today. In Jesus name.

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This is Hope Alive, where we apply God's Word to our daily life. My name is Chad Harrison. I'm first a husband, a father, and a grandfather. I'm also the teaching pastor at Lake Community Church in Dadeville, Alabama, on beautiful Lake Martin. I've been serving as a pastor for over 30 years. I also serve as the Tallapoosa County District Judge. This podcast is designed to help you study God's word verse by verse through the Bible and to find his purpose and will for your daily life. If you would like sponsor this podcast, go to the Show Notes where there's a link where you can make a donation. I pray in the name of Jesus that God would open his word to you, allow you to see him and to know him, so that you would know his will and his way for your life, that you might walk in faith and power each and every day, especially today. Word of God, please speak to the hearers of your voice today in the name of Jesus. Amen. He says in like manner, women. Now he's going to deal with them in worship, okay? This is important that they adorn themselves modestly. And that starts with apparel. Now, I want you to hear me. He's not being. He's not being a misogynist this way. But women start out presenting. Look, a man will throw on old shirt and wear the same shirt every day for a year. I know. See, there we go. Pastor Cope says, what's wrong with that? There. There's the answer. Are you following me? Because a man, he. He just. I mean, if a man was allowed to not be bathe and not wear clean clothes, about 90% of them would do it. We'd live in caves. We'd grunt at each other. We wouldn't even talk. We'd kill animals and cook them and we wouldn't eat any vegetables. And that's just all we do, okay? If there were no men, in fact. And we'd be angry all the time. We'd be totally angry all the time and fearful, okay? Women domesticate men, all right? There's not in this. This is not. This is not a. This is not something that's out there that's questionable, okay? It's not only. It's not only sociologically true, it's biblically true, okay? Women domesticate men. Women innately are better at relationship than men are, okay? They, they. They have twice the vocabulary. They usually speak twice the number of words during a day. They have a whole lot of. Whole lot more. See, there you go. Amen right there. They have A more socialization skills. They. They grow up socializing. Boys grow up taking blocks and hitting them together and hitting the boys in the head. Women grow up with dolls and houses and talking to each other. And they. And they're talking all the time. And I remember one day I was riding down the road finally, when my girls all got old enough to talk, I remember. I remember riding down the road, and all three of them were talking at the same time. And I'm sitting there going, for the love all. Why three of y' all talking at the same time? How can you hear each other? And any man who's been in my position knows that that would cause you not to have another child in fear that you'd be numbered, outnumbered four to one rather than three to one. Amen. All right? And then I'm sitting there thinking, how can they. How. What is going on? But then I found out that women had this unique ability to be able to talk and listen to multiple conversations that are going on around them and know what those conversations are being said and be totally in depth in our conversation. Kathleen even did it last night. We're sitting there talking. We're talking deep. Some folks from out of state are talking to each other. When they get up, she tells me their whole conversation while we had our whole conversation. And I'm going, you are an alien. You're freaky. Okay? Just don't do that to me. Even if you're doing it, I don't want to know you're doing it, okay? I don't want to know you're doing it. By the way, men, just to let you know, if you're in a conversation in a room and you leave the room and you just get by yourself and start thinking about things. You're thinking about football and sex and things like that. The women, when they leave the room, they're thinking about what everybody said, okay? And they're going through it in their mind in detail and parsing it out. So be careful what you say. Are you following me? And you should understand that they're doing that, okay? Just letting you know, and that scares you to death. But it's the truth. Now, I'm telling you that for a reason. Because God made us that way. And a good man will figure out that his wife is seeing things, and he'll learn to see what she sees. She'll help him with it. A man who walks in fear won't listen. He'll live in wrath. He won't listen to it. Okay? Now I'm going to Go one step further, and then I'm going to explain it to you. If I deal with a couple that need marriage counseling, if the two issues aren't the issue, okay? And. And the two issues. They are the issues. They are the issues. Fidelity and finances, okay? If those are not the issues, I can tell you this. They can't communicate. And that's the third issue, okay? And usually it's this. She won't shut up. And he won't listen to me, all right? And I mean, I'm just telling you. I just said he's not listening. And I go, no, he's not. And you won't shut up. No, you won't. Okay? Because what you think is if I talk more, he'll listen more. He's already tuned you out. He ain't listening no more. You can talk all day long. He ain't listening, okay? And by the way, if you think that you not listening is going to help the situation, it's not helping it, okay? You're just frustrating the snot out of her. Now, I know this is not supposed to be marriage counseling, but you got to understand how God made us, okay? And there's a purpose for it. And if you don't understand that, listen to me. Understanding God is also understand the world he made and also. Also understand how he made things. And if you. If you can't take those things and apply them to your life, well, you're going to live. You're going to live less than the best. If you can't listen to your wife, well, it's going to go bad. You following me? It's going to go bad. But you can't. But I want you to listen to me, women. You can't talk him into what he ain't hearing. You can't talk him into what he ain't hearing. Now, I know that's the Southern way to say it, but you can't talk him into what he ain't hearing. You put that in your memory bank because he's going to say some things here. Women need to be. Wear modest apparel. Keep your head down. That's what that word propriety means. Be self controlled. That's what that word moderation means. Not. He says, listen, he says. He says, what's going to make you powerful is not your braided hair or your gold or your poor pearls or your costly jewelry. He says, but with prop. But which is proper for women professing godliness. It's good works. Works of faith. That's what makes your worship powerful, is Your works, faith. And by the way, the church has been sustained by that. The church has been sustained by that because women who, because men who won't pray, who won't lift holy hands, who. Who want to walk in wrath, who want to walk in. In. In unbelief and doubting have controlled our churches and not led our churches. And so when, when the men don't do it, the women take over. When the women take over, they don't. They, they, they. They can't lead the men. And so they want to get the attention of the men and they start wearing clothes to try to get the attention of men and adorn themselves and all that stuff. And God says, that's not how this thing works. It's not how this thing works, and it's not the way it's supposed to work. Does that mean that women shouldn't wear jewelry? No. Remember, you're going to a law here. If you start making the rule, thou shalt not. And thou shalt. If you start doing that, thou shalt not braid your hair. There shall not wear jewelry. Thou shalt not wear makeup. That's law. And that's proof texting. That's just saying, well, Bible says they're not supposed to wear. Wear jewelry. All right, Is that what. That. What that's talking about? Okay. Because what you're saying is I want to be a. The theological third grader, okay? And when I hear that, I just. I'm sorry. As I get older, I'm more discerning in what I'm going to deal with. And if I know I'm dealing with a third grader who wants to be a third grader and wants to be the ruler of the third graders, there's no way to get him to the sixth grade. So I'm not even going to argue with him. Just going to let him be where he's at. Okay, if you're going to proof text things and just use this to rule over people, is that how you're going to rule over your wife? Ain't going to work very well. Just letting you know. Ain't going to work very well. Keep playing that game. Play stupid games, get stupid prizes. Okay. All right. Just letting you know. I'm just letting you know. All right? You can either dig deep with God and go deep with God, are you not? And if you're using that proof text to tell your wife that she can't wear nice clothes, well, it's going to go bad for you. Okay? Now if you're using that text to Say, baby, you look good and you look great, and you don't have to do a whole lot to take care of yourself like that. But what I love most about you is you have raised our children, and you've been a wife to me who's a wife of faith. And let me tell you something, that's been powerful for me, been very helpful for me. You've helped me see things that I've never seen before. Now, if you're willing to say that to your wife, now, that's a powerful message to your wife. But if you're going to use this to tell her she can't wear jewelry, that's a problem. That's just because you don't want to buy any jewelry for Christmas. Okay? All right. He says, let women learn in silence, with all submission. Now, I want you to hear me. You can translate it that way, but I don't think that's what it's saying. I want you to hear what I think it's saying. Let me. Let me read it. Translating it in a very viable way. Let women learn. Let wives learn in silence, with all submission. Now, what is he telling us? What the road is he going down? He's going down the road of that whole problem where men don't listen to women. And, ladies, you may have a lot to teach a man, but if he's not willing to listen, it won't matter. And let me tell you something, immature Christian men can't hear you. They can't hear you. The only voice they can hear is a man's voice. And you say, well, that's misogynistic. Well, that's where they are. And you know they are, and I know they are, and we all know they are. And let's quit playing games about it, all right? He says, let wives learn in silence, with all submission. What does that mean? If you complain about your husband's not being spiritual leader, your husband's not doing this, your husband's not doing that. I want you to listen to me. Shut your mouth. Quit dishonoring your husband. He. You may be absolutely right, but you ain't helping nothing by saying it. And if you just gonna say it just to say it to make yourself feel good, well, you're just destroying yourself because you're alienating him. I've already told you that God can promote people fast. He can take you, and he can. He can. He can clean that vessel up, he can strengthen that vessel up, and he can pour power into that vessel as fast as he wants to. But if you as a wife, keep poking holes in the vessel because you. He's not doing exactly what you want him to do. That's a problem. If you keep holding him back, that's a problem, He says. And I notice he's using me because he's telling him, I'm not given a law. I'm just trying to teach you something here. I do not permit women to teach or to have authority over a husband. Now, I'm using Anair in a very valid way. By the way, the word for. For woman there is. Let me make sure I get it right. The word for woman There is gun, A. And it's used several times. It's translated about 70% of the time. It's translated in the Bible, woman. And then about 30% of the time, it's translated wife. Now, if we read this in the context of a man who has been raised by women, spiritually raised by women, he needs to hear this, because what he's going to think is, we just going to get the women and let them teach. Because that's the way I grew up. Are you following me? And if we got a problem in the household, when you teach the wives and they can go home, teach their husbands. And Paul's saying, that ain't going to work. That ain't gonna work. Now, I want you to hear me, that interpretation is a little deeper than women shut your mouths in church, because we are the men's. Listen, you get some redneck theology real quick with proof texting, okay? Like I said, you can do that. And we can play those games and you can have your arguments. I'm just gonna let you know. You can send me notes, you can call me on Facebook, you can text me. I don't care. And when I start, there's certain things, when I start it, I just move away. You know why? Because there's only one person that fits you. And I sure don't want to be around to get the shrapnel from it because that thing's fixing to blow. All right? Let women learn. Let wives learn in silence, with all submission. Mean stay in your right place with your husband. Be submit to his authority even though he's bad at it, he says. And do not permit wives to have authority over their husbands, but to be silent, meaning to shut up and let us lead these men. Quit whining about it. Start praying about it. Quit worrying about it. Start expecting God to do what God does. Give your man to God. He's in between you and God in the order of things. I'm sorry you don't like that. That's too bad. Give him to God. God's either gonna get him right or get him out. But you ain't never gonna fix him. Yeah. And he chose you. I love that. All right. He says. He says, for now, listen. For Adam was formed first, then Eve. What he's saying is there's a. There's a hierarchy of authority. Listen, if you don't like it, I'm sorry, but there is a hierarchy authority. There's not a hierarchy of value. If you read scriptures quite clearly, God's got great value in women. Don't you hear me? In scripture? If you take all the religious text of the world, the Bible mentions women, not only women, and tells their stories, but just mentions them hundreds of times. More than the Koran, more than any of the Eastern religious texts, more than. More than the Book of Mormon. Are you following me? The Bible teaches not. Listen. The Bible not only teaches about women's lives. There's two books named after women. Amen. Jesus had 12 disciples and there was regularly five or six women, some of them that wanted to be sit right at his feet and learn his teaching, in which he protected their right to do that. If you think the Bible's misogynistic, I'm sorry that the only reason you want to is you want to usurp the authority structure that God's given us and ain't no way to get around that. And if that's who you want to be, keep on doing that. Go off and get in. You're not going to do it here. Go off, go to a church where the women are running the church, and I'm going to tell you what's happening. Their children aren't being redeemed. There's no men being called to the ministry. They're flying off into. Into unbiblical understandings and ideas. You with me? Paul elsewhere says, I would that you not put a man under woman. Now, I want you to listen to me. That's not a rule. And by the way, it's very important to understand that. That's found in First Corinthians, okay? It's very important to understand that. He didn't say that a man couldn't learn from a woman. He didn't say a man couldn't go be taught by a woman. He said, I'm telling you, don't make him go learn from her. He said, I would that you not put a man under a woman. What are you saying? Well, you got to be in her class, she's got something to teach you. That man's going to cut off immediately. And by the way, ain't showing up next week either. Now, understand, how God did things is just the way he did things. And if you let me. Let me tell you something that. Conversations already been had. Job already talked to him, okay, about that. He sat Job down. Well, he didn't sit him down. He told him, stand up. And he explained to him that he was God, Job wasn't God. And his sovereign will is. Is. Is. Is. Is the supreme will of the universe. And it's going to be carried out. Okay? Now. Now listen to me. You can say, well, the men ain't doing a very good job. Amen. Amen. That's why he started out with men, okay? He said, pray. He said, lift holy hands. He said, don't doubt. Okay? Now, he started out with them. You go. We ain't talked to him very long. Well, I mean, you know, we ain't got a long tension span, first of all. Okay? Second of all, you know, if you just do that, things get a whole lot better. Let me tell you something. You find a church where men pray, where men lift holy hands, where men walk by faith, where powerful, and the women love it. Amen. Huh? Now listen to this. He says, Adam was not deceived. Hmm? But the woman being deceived fell into transgression. Now, I want you to hear me. He is right. Adam. What? Adam wasn't deceived. Eve was deceived by the serpent. You know what Adam did? He abdicated his leadership and let her lead. You go. What do you mean, Pastor? Well, he saw that he did it. He didn't take his authority, which had been given by God, and handled the. And handled the serpent. Which means he could have kicked him out of the garden. Don't you hear me? You go. Well, his wife's already in sins he's not very easy to handle. You know how it's easy to handle? Jesus comes down, he kills him, takes his blood, raises him from the dead, takes the blood, places on his wife, redeems her, and there you go again. We're good to go. You go. Well, why has he got to die? Because all sin leads to death. That's why. He said, husbands, love your wives. As Christ loved the church in so much that he died for her. Adam could have fixed the problem. He could have called in the. Called in Jesus. He could set out. Listen, you just sit right there. Jesus will be along here in the cool of the evening. He'll be here in just a little bit. We'll get this handle. Jesus walked right in. I tell you what, Adam, you the husband. You were in charge. You were in authority. You let that happen. You let that. You let Satan do that. There's got to be a price to be paid. The price is either she's going to be eternally separated from you, or you're going to have to die for her. Adam say, I'm going to die for. He killed him right there, spread the blood on her, raised him from the dead and had been taken care of. But that's not what happened. His wife was deceived, and he let her lead him into the deception and aided himself. And that's just the way it went. If you don't like that, nothing I can do about that, Okay? I can't fix it. I can't change it. I can't redeem it. There's nothing I can do about it. I wasn't there. But I act just like Adam all the time because I'm a man. Nevertheless, she will be saved. This goes back to the curse. Salvation is in the hard things. And what's the hard thing that he said? She's got to be saved through childbirth. What's the hard thing? Men got to be praised. Got to do. They got a toil. They got a toil in the earth. There's a curse to sin. He's dealing with it. She's going to be saved in childbirth. And if they can notice, and that by itself identifies what women do, well, what do they do? Well, relationship. Relationship. I want you to notice in scripture. Nowhere in scripture does scripture teach women how to be mothers. Have y' all noticed that there's not big old passages telling women how to be mothers? Why? Because he made them to be mothers. There's a lot of passages teaching fathers how to be fathers. You know why? Because we ain't good at it. Bible goes into detail over and over again. Men, do this with your children. Why we're not good at relationship. How do I know we're not good at relationship? Rather than doing the hard thing in the garden, Adam did the easy thing he did. He just went along to get along. And let me tell you something, man. If you're just going along to get along in your relationships of life, they are all going to eventually fail. It ain't no going along to get along. You've been given authority in those relationships. You have. You have. You have obligations to God in those relationships. And if you don't learn your obligations and Walk in those obligations, they are going to be destroyed. There's no way to get around that. You men need to hear that. And any man who's listening to this, I don't care if you're listening to it this week or next week, or a year from now, or 20 years from now or 100 years from now. You have responsibilities from God. You better operate in those responsibilities or the world will come tumbling down and you will be foolish enough to not even know why. So quit playing games. Quit just showing up to church because your wife wants you to go to church. Quit sitting out there and saying, well, I don't know if I like the music. You're just coming up with reasons not do what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to be praying, lifting up holy hands and walking in faith, not in disobedience. Quit playing your games. That's what Paul told Timothy. That young man need to hear that. That's hard teaching, but it's good teaching. Don't let them women take over and run their husbands out of the church. Don't let them husbands do what they did in the garden and just compromise and not do what they supposed to be doing. Hold them men to the feet, their feet to the fire. Get the women out of the way. Let God directly deal with the man. Listen, you get an you give an eval evangel evangelic message anywhere in the world to a group of equal men and women. I don't care if you go to South America or East Asia or Africa or Europe. It don't matter where it's at. You will get twice as many women, maybe even three times as many women answer the call to the gospel than men. You know why? Because men women are relational. Women know the need they have for eternal God. Men are stupid and dumb and have no idea what's important. And they will push God aside so that they can just make it another day. I'm just being real with you. And when we get to scripture like this, it's important. You can't be the king of anything until the you're the king of your own soul. True, you can't walk in royalty until Jesus is in his rightful place and you are being royal in your actions and in your thoughts. Quit looking at everybody else as the excuse for your problems. Because all you're saying is all the God's promises are lies and I'm being put upon. And I'm sorry, that's just not true of scripture. And Jesus didn't say that nowhere in Scripture, does it say that? He says, you're more than conquerors. You're co heirs with Christ. You're a royal priesthood. Quit playing around. I don't know, preacher. You know, and let me tell you, I wrestle with it. I wrestle with it hard. It's, I mean, and I wrestle with it as a pastor. It's hard. I do because I have put the thumb down on a man and told him he needed to answer his call. And they run from the hills. And then, you know, I'm standing there thinking, well, Lord, I. I guess I should have shut up, not said anything to him. I done it many, many times in my life. Saw a called man, saw somebody that had the gifting and God was moving and he had a place for them to serve, a kingdom for them to build a. A life for them to have. Gone up to him, encouraged them, gave him a strong word. I'm not talking about terrible. Two weeks later, they don't run to the hills. I told them where the illustration is. I told them where the fire of the Holy Spirit was and told them they need to promote, get promoted and move up a little closer. And they said, I don't want it. Let me tell you something that's painful as a pastor. Because I gave it all. I didn't say I was good at giving it all, but I did give it all. Yeah. Rough. It's rough being on the battlefield by yourself. I thought David killed Goliath, Pastor. It wasn't easy. So sometimes I do find it very difficult when I see something in somebody and I call them out for it and they run. It's hard. I don't. That's right. And I have no excuse. When he put those. When he put that coal to my lips, sent me out, I can't come back and tell him, well, Lord, they wouldn't listen. So I just shut up and went to the house. He ain't showing up. He ain't showing up on his white horse and. And me at the house. Bible says if you do that, you'll be beaten with many blows. Boy, that's painful, huh? Notice if you continue in faith, love and holiness and self control. That's what he's asking women to do. Trust God. Be what you're good at, loving people. You're good at relationships. Be holy and control your mouth. Let God deal with the man. Let me. Listen to me. If I can't talk a man into doing what clearly God's revealing to him, maybe even something they've directly expressed to me, if I can't talk them into doing it. How you going to do it? Are you more persuasive than me and the Holy Spirit and the word of God? Are you? I just asked the question. Are you? You think you can talk him into it more than me and God in the Bible? Let me put it in the right order. The Bible? Well, God, The Bible, and then me talking through it. You think that's how it's going to work? Well, no, it ain't going to work. You ain't going to do it better than that. That's how it's done. He went to Peter, he told him to put out, catch that fish. You're going, what are you doing, Pastor? Well, I got three more minutes. He said, put out to put a catch fish. Peter goes, lord, I'm tired. You know, I sat here and listened to you preach. Put the boat out in the water. You know what I'm talking about. Now, you know I'm going to tell you something. You persuasive. I never doubt about that. I mean, you, you. I mean. Now, I wouldn't even put out in the boat if I didn't like hearing you talk. I mean, you, you. There's something special about you. Ain't no doubt about that. He said, put out for catch fish. He said, now, listen, I know more about fishing. You do, you know, because I'm a fisherman and you use whatever you do over on that talking thing. Now, he didn't know that Jesus wouldn't have made the fish, but that's okay. Okay. And he put out. He said he finally, Jesus wouldn't take no for an answer. Sound familiar? He wouldn't take no for answer. He says, okay, Lord, because you say so. Let's go. And then he caught so many fish that they had to call a boat from shore because the boat was being swamped, which means, lady, it was too many fishes pushing the boat under the water. Swamped is a very country boy term. In fact, there's a whole group of people called swamp people. Okay. They live in Louisiana. It's the same story every week. And about first two years of it's good. After that, it kind of gets boring. Okay. You know what Peter says after he realized Jesus was king? Women, you need to hear this. After he realized Jesus not only knew how to preach, but he knew how to catch fish. And he knew how to catch fish better than Peter had ever caught. He said, depart from me, Lord, for I'm a sinful man. What'd he do? He went right back to his fear and his pain and his. And his ugliness. When he met Jesus and really realized who he was, he wanted to run from him and get away from him. Now, you think you're going to change that in a man just you talking to him? That ain't never going to happen. Best thing you can do is walk up there, carry him to the altar. I'm not talking about, you know, tase him and drag him to the altar, okay? I'm talking about carry your relationship to the altar and say, lord, he's yours. He's between me and you. Handle him. And then go back to your seat and trust God. That's the best thing you can do for a man. Because now you done given God all. You ain't in the way if he needs to beat him with many blows. And he'll just beat him with many blows. And men, if your wife has done that, you better get right because she's out of the way. It ain't nothing but between you and God, he fixing a whoop on you, and that's the truth. He f to wrestle you down. He going to f be like that. That. That guy from Virginia and that spider monkey story on you. He ain't getting off. Amen. As you go today, I pray that the Lord will bless you and keep you, that he'll make his face to shine upon you and that he will give you hope and peace today in Jesus name.