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“lifting up holy hands” 1 Timothy 2:8

“lifting up holy hands” 1 Timothy 2:8. Importance of This Study. To understand how to personally apply and follow 1 Timothy 2:8 To recognize common mistakes and be able to inform others of the Biblical model Our Approach: To examine the text, the context, and the historical evidence.

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“lifting up holy hands” 1 Timothy 2:8

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  1. “lifting up holy hands” 1 Timothy 2:8

  2. Importance of This Study • To understand how to personally apply and follow 1 Timothy 2:8 • To recognize common mistakes and be able to inform others of the Biblical model • Our Approach: To examine the text, the context, and the historical evidence

  3. “Therefore I want…” Requirement given by the apostle Paul “the men…” Greek = Males “in every place…” Not a local, custom based, or temporary command “to pray…” Posture prescribed for prayer, not other acts of worship. “lifting up…” Characterizes multiple postures and degrees of height “holy hands…” Hands that are set apart for God “without wrath and dissension.” Heart that is set apart for God Digging Into The Text: To Understand The Command

  4. Reviewing The Context: To Understand The Meaning • Emphasis On Holiness When Praying • A physical posture with a spiritual emphasis. • 1 Timothy 1:1-8 • Used In Old Testament, New Testament, and Heaven By: • Aaron, People of Judah, David, Solomon, Jesus, Angel

  5. Reviewing The Context: To Understand The Meaning • Used By Aaron To Extend God’s Blessing • (Leviticus 9:22) Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. • Used By People of Judah To Express Dependence and Humility • (Nehemiah 8:6) Then Ezra blessed the LORD the great God. And all the people answered, "Amen, Amen!" while lifting up their hands; then they bowed low and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

  6. Reviewing The Context: To Understand The Meaning • Used by David To Show… • Dependence - (Psalms 28:2) Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help, When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary. • Blessing God - (Psalms 63:4) So I will bless You as long as I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. • Loyalty - (Psalms 119:48) And I shall lift up my hands to Your commandments, Which I love; And I will meditate on Your statutes. • Offering Himself To God - (Psalms 141:2) May my prayer be counted as incense before You; The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

  7. Reviewing The Context: To Understand The Meaning • Used By Solomon To Petition God • (1 Kings 8:22) Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven. • Used By Jesus To Extend His Blessing • (Luke 24:50) And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. • Used By An Angel To Direct His Address • (Revelation 10:5) Then the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his right hand to heaven,

  8. Checking The Historical Evidence:To Avoid Past Mistakes • Clement of Rome – (96 AD) • “Let us then draw near to Him with holiness of spirit, lifting up pure and undefiled hands unto Him.” • Tertullian – (195 AD) • “We lift our eyes to [heaven] with hands outstreched.” • Tertullian – (198 AD) • “[The Jews] do not even dare to raise their hands to the Lord…We however not only raise them, we even expand them. Taking our model from the Lord’s passion, even in prayer we confess to Christ.”

  9. Checking The Historical Evidence:To Avoid Past Mistakes • Tertullian – (198 AD) • “We commend our prayers to God better when we pray with modesty and humility – with not even our hands too loftily elevated – but elevated temperately and becomingly.” • Cyprian – (250 AD) • “[The tax collector] did not pray with eyes lifted up bodly to heaven, nor with hands proudly raised.” • Notice the development from purity in practice, to misunderstood significance, to loss of propriety, to advocating other postures.

  10. Conclusions We Can Draw • Conclusion: Men publicly lifting their hands in prayer is one, among many, appropriate prayer postures for Christians. • Standing, Bowing the head, Looking up, Kneeling, Face to Ground, Face between Knees, Others • Guidance: The same principles that govern other postures govern this one as well. • Inner Heart, Honoring God, Respecting Others

  11. What We Learn: • “Lifting up holy hands” is a literal prayer posture. • “Lifting up holy hands” is one of several Biblical and acceptable prayer postures. • “Lifting up holy hands” is designated for public practice by males. • “Lifting up holy hands” is an outward reflection of inward holiness, not an imitation of Jesus’ death. • “Lifting up holy hands” is a prayer posture to encourage a heart of humility, dependence, examination, and blessing before God.

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