(1Ti 2:9) “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; (10)  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” The idea here is to dress in a way that brings the mind to the place of humility. This world seeks to lift the woman up in pride, constantly speaking of what she “deserves” – of her beauty. Woman needs nothing to aid her pride – this world gives her all she needs for that. But it is not pride she needs. She, like man, needs humility before God.

(1Ti 2:8) “I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”  As we pray for those in authority over us, it must first of all be from a heart that is right with God (“holy hands”), (Psa 66:18) “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:”  Wrath is a sin against God, (Eph 4:31) “Let all…..wrath……be put away from you, with all malice:” “Doubt” stands against “faith”, believing God. Mankind “needs” our prayers! Are you right with God today?  

(1Ti 2:7)  “Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.”  “Faith”: believing the Scriptures and then acting upon them; “verity”: truth – God’s Word is truth. These are the things that should be taught regardless of how they are received by the hearers, the hard subjects as well as those everyone wants to hear. Example: we all easily embrace how God loves us so we are to love Him, but what about: (1Jn 2:15) “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”   

(1Ti 2:5)  “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (6)  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”  What does it mean, “…to be testified in due time.”?  The day will come when everyone will bow before the risen Jesus and confess, “You are Lord!” It will be an acknowledgement of Him as the ransom for sin they had neglected! NEEDED: Admit He died because of your own sin; ask His forgiveness willing to turn your back on your own desires to sin; then seek to obey Him by living the New Testament Epistles – Romans through Jude. Go to a Baptist Church.

 (1Ti 2:5)  “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, (6)  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”  The Mediator bridges the gap between the sinner and his Holy God. He paid the ransom of blood (death) for the sinner and clothed that sinner with His Own righteous life. The Holiness of God sees now that sinner “in Christ” allowing him to approach and fellowship with his God! Oh, what a Savior! Oh, what a God to devise such a way to save the undeserving!

(1Ti 2:5)  “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”    Jesus Christ is alive today! He rose again from the dead! This Scripture plainly says there is only one mediator – not many. No one has been assigned of the Lord to take His place. I cannot for you ask the Lord to save you and you thus receive; you must ask the Mediator, the Lord Jesus, yourself. No priest has power over your soul, no minister, no pastor, no one but Jesus! If you do not get saved in this life, all the prayers in the world won’t release you from hell once you die! Come on your knees to Jesus!

 (1Ti 2:5)  “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”   Mediator: “one who lays hands on both parties to bring them together”. Job bewailed the lack: (Job 9:32) “For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. (33)  Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.”  Our God’s precise usage of words, “daysman”, is why He so accurately emphasizes Christ’s humanity in our verse, “…the man Christ Jesus”!Thank God, as God the Son, He embodied the form of a child and lived, died, and rose again to save us. He is my Mediator, my Daysman! For more, come to www.thirstingsouls.com where you will find teaching and preaching.