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What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 9) What is the finality of the potentates? To understand this, let see the excerpts that comes before and after Romans 3:1-7: • Rom 12:19-21 -> “Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 7) Furthermore, see these examples: 1 – The Creator acted in a way that He knew that pharaoh’s heart would be hardened and, thus, He could have occasion to manifest all His wonderers throughout the world: • Exo 7:2-4 -> “You shall speak all that I...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 8) 5 – Sometimes the Creator allow a false prophet to be successful in order to prove believer’s heart: • Deu 13:1-4 -> “If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, and the sign or wonder that he tells you...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 6) 6 – The midwives of Egypt: • Exodus 1:18-20 -> “So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 6) 6 – The midwives of Egypt: • Exodus 1:18-20 -> “So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 5) We can see more examples: 3 – The apostles: • Act 4:19,20 -> “But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 4) However, let's look at some passages that show resistance to the authorities. 1 – Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah (Daniel 3). Considering that it was the Creator that constituted the potentates and leaded them in the way that everybody should walk (see...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 3) Nevertheless, there is a verse that seems to contradict this: • Hos 8:4 -> “They made kings, but not through me. They set up princes, but I knew it not. With their silver and gold they made idols for their own destruction.”. What this means is that...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 2) Do all the potentates come from the Creator? • Rom 13:1 -> “Let every person be subject to the governing potentates. For there is no potentate except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.”. Reading this, our conclusion is: for...

What does it mean Romans 13:1-7? (Part 1) Introduction This is a subject of great discussion. After all, if every potentate comes from the Creator and is to be obeyed, how should we do if the potentate is evil and his orders are unfair? How should the believers do? In order to answer this...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 13) See, for instance, this passage: • Act 21:9-11 -> “He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 12) Conclusion Although today the woman doesn’t need to use veil, they need to observe what Paul and Peter taught: • 1Ti 2:9,10 -> “likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with...

What is our inheritance in Christ Jesus? In the Old Testament, the priests left, as inheritance, their ministry in the tabernacle, and this only to their children. The inheritance of the Old Testament was the privilege of staying all the time serving the Creator and, thus, getting free from...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 11) Furthermore, imagine how long hair would make difficult for the man at the time of going to battle. So, for men, long hair was unbecoming. On the other hand: • 1Co 11:15 -> “but if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 10) After all, should the woman use veil? Is the size of the hair important? • 1Co 11:16 -> “If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do the churches of God.”. Paul said that, neither them (he and the other apostles)...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 9) The chief verse and the target of this passage: • 1Co 11:11 -> “Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman;”. In all discussion of this excerpt, what is most important is that husband figure out that he need to...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 8) What did Paul mean when he said: “because of the angels”? • 1Co 11:10 -> “That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.”. Angel means “harbinger”. The wife needs to have in her head something...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 7) The man is what? And the woman? • 1Co 11:7 -> “For a man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God, but woman is the glory of man.”. When the Holy Scripture says that the man is image and glory of the Creator, what...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 6) How the word veil was used? The veil, at first place, was a symbol of concealing something. See these examples. 1 - Here unveil is a good thing. It is being used to take away the cover which the world uses to hide its true face. • Isa 25:7 ->...

What does it mean 1Corinthians 11:2-16? (Part 5) Unfortunately, the Israelites was very distant of the Creator and His commandments: • Amos 8.10 -> “I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I...