Submissiveness and Salvation? (1 Timothy 2)

I find the headings in some of the Bibles is interesting on this is like on Christian worship kind of thing, which I think is kind of funny.

Yeah, and I think I have to go back and look.

We might have even done these exact first seven verses.

If not, we've done very similar text where you have this sort of urging to pray for all people.

Yeah, I'll read the first seven verses and we can give some thoughts for context of what happens in verse eight.

So Paul writes to Timothy, it says, For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man, Jesus Christ, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle.

I am telling the truth.

I am not lying, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

And so that's sort of the setup to this.

And there's one verse in there that's just a banger verse, which you— which you love, which is that God desires all people to be saved.

This is a big Lutheran verse for our view of the atonement, I would say.

Yeah, yeah.

And the prayers and supplications for all people, if you do go to specifically an LCMS church and your pastor does the prayers of the church on Sunday morning that come from the LCMS, one of the prayers in there every Sunday is a prayer for those in authority.

It'll usually stay for like the governor of our state, the name, and then our president and the name.

And if you've been sort of in the church a long time and you've said those prayers, you'll be praying occasionally for people that you don't necessarily at all like.

Well, if we're praying for politicians, we're probably praying for people I don't like.

Well, I know.

Me

too.

But I'm just saying like the normal people out there who probably like have a side every time there's an election, you know, that they're really into, depending on how the election goes.

Like I know in my state right now, most of the people in my church, at least before certain things just started happening not too long ago, Would have been, you know, didn't really enjoy praying for Governor Newsom, but probably did enjoy praying for Trump.

And that was, you know, could be reversed depending on the election.

But you still pray for them, is my point.

No matter your opinion of these people as politicians or as people, the Lord here through the Apostle Paul tells us that we pray for these people.