<TITLE>24. Par 148-153</TITLE>L-148 Now, let me turn you in just another one, just in a minute. See? Now, let's turn to I Corinthians 14:32 there, and see what Paul says over here, and then we're going right over to some more just in a minute. And then we don't want to keep you too long, so you'll be so tired in the morning you can't come back. All right, I want to read. How many believes that Paul was an inspired teacher? Now, remember, Paul wrote this to Timothy also. See? That's... Now, I Corinthians 14:32. Now let's start right in here and start reading here, 14:34, I believe.
Let your women keep silent in the churches:...
Did you hear what he said?
Let your women keep silent in the churches: for it's not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience,...
Have you got a marginal reading on that? If you are, run it back and see if it don't take Genesis 3:16, when God told Eve, because that she had listened to the serpent instead of her husband, that he'd rule over her all the days of her life. How can the woman come and rule over a man, be pastor or deacon, when the Bible said let her be obedient just like it was in the beginning when God... God can't change. You can't make the Word say one thing here and another thing over here. It don't do it. It's the same thing all the time. So in the beginning, that's where...

L-151 Before this is over, if I get a chance, I want to straighten out that marriage and divorce case for you. I've never done it in this church yet. Watch this double covenant. One says she can marry, and the other said he can't marry, and this one say this, that, or the other. Just wait a minute and see what the Bible says when we get to that. See? All right.

L-152 Let your women keep silent in the churches:... it's not permitted to them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Then in the Old Testament they wasn't allowed to speak, 'cause Paul said here they wasn't. Is that right? "Let your women keep silent, it's obedience." Now, if you want to run your margin reading there, it'll take you back to Genesis 3:16. See? All right. "Under, as under the law..."
And if they... learn any thing, let their... ask--ask their husbands at home: for it's a shame for a woman to speak in the church.
What?

L-153 Now, look at that question mark on each one of your Bibles, on that "What?" What caused Paul to say that and to act it like that? Now, if you'll ever get the letters that the Corinthians wrote to Paul (Now, you can get them in any good library. See?)--that the Corinthians wrote to Paul, they wrote and told him. After these women who was converted... They had a--a goddess over there was called Diana, and she was of Ephesus also. And the Corinthians worshipped the same, 'cause it was a heathen worship. And they found a rock out in the field one day; it looked like a shape of a woman. They said, "God is a woman, and she dropped her image down to us." And their temple was far beyond the Solomon temple, they said, the historians. Oh, it was all marble, inlaid with gold; where, Solomon's temple was made of cedar and inlaid with gold. See? And it was far beyond it. And that, then, if God was a--a woman, why, sure, she could have women priests. Sure, if God is a woman, then the woman preacher's right. But God is a Man, the Bible said He was a Man. He is a Man. See? And if God was a Man, then it should be men.


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