INTRO: Let us begin this message this morning by a reading of 1 Timothy 2:8-15 (read). Today is a day we set aside to acknowledge mothers. It is easy to go through life and forget of the task God has set out for mothers. Childbearing is the second highest honor God can bestow on women. The only exception to this is the honor of having been called by God to remain single and glorify God by a life wholly devoted to God (1 Cor. 7:34). Make no mistake about it, motherhood is a very huge honor, bestowed by God on women. When God originally created man and woman He instructed them to fill the earth. That takes motherhood.
You may have heard the saying, “The hand the rocks the cradle rules the world.” I might add there is the potential danger in childbearing of having the one that rocks the cradle ruin the world, by a life that is not continued in faith and love and holiness and self control. You see, in verse 9 Paul sets out three areas of danger for women, in general. It is that they might dress themselves immodestly, and be overly concerned with their external appearance. Here there are three areas women struggle as the Apostle Peter sets out and these are her hair, her clothing and jewelry. These all have to do with external appearance. And so Paul, in verse 9 instructs them with this general principle, that they are to attend to such matters in a manner proper for women professing godliness with good works.
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