When someone goes to a place such as a movie theater, or even an orchestra, why are you there? To watch the movie or performance. If a college student goes into a class with a hundred other students, why are they there? To learn from the professor. In these types of places people are there to listen and learn, they are not there to start cranking up their music on their phones and start singing, or start talking to their friends on the phone, they are there to listen and/or to learn, in silence.
When someone is silent they are not speaking. They are wordless, and say nothing. Once someone speaks they are no longer “silent,” are they?
In the church it is the pastor who teaches the rest of the congregation from the Bible, and as the Bible makes abundantly clear, only men have had this place of pastoral teaching leadership given to them. This is the way it is and it is what the Bible teaches.
1 Corinthians 14:34-37 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.
What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Women are commanded to keep silent in the churches, Paul taught, and that it is not permitted for them to speak. If you “permit” something you give authorization or consent to do something. You allow it to happen. So simply put, what Paul taught is that women do not have the authorization to speak aloud during the church service. It is forbidden. They must sit quietly and listen and learn, and if they have any questions they may ask them later, but not during the church service. This is a verse that so many women in professing “Christian churches” today seem to try to ignore, change, or negate, but the truth is that if they do this they are also choosing to ignore what Paul wrote shortly after that verse, where he says that the things which he wrote are the commandments of the Lord. Paul wasn’t preaching things of his own teachings, he taught the word of the Lord.
As Christians, we must follow the word of the Lord, and this includes everything that Paul wrote, as Paul was filled with the Holy Spirit of the Lord.
We are all required to be obedient to God’s Word, men and women alike. Both men and women have their own roles and functions in the church, both different from each other. But if a woman tries to begin to speak in the church what she is doing is going around her God given roles and she is trying to take the role of the men in the church. This should not happen. Paul once again wrote something quite similar in one of his letters to Timothy.
1 Timothy 2:11-12 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Teaching isn’t a woman’s place, as that role has been granted to men, and let your women keep silence in the church, for this is a command of the Lord.
In Christ
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 