We Must at All Times Rightly Divide the Word of Truth
Good morning.
Too long The Church world has been divided about Women speaking in The Churches.
Still, where is just some of the understanding to be applied from the scriptures?
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
This is what The Spirit of The LORD spoke to me concerning this recently: “The Church is to be a house of order, not confusion.
Why was the woman commanded not to speak?
She was usurping authority over the man by the way she took over. (1 Corinthians 14:34-35 below)
Where was her place? Beside the man — not in front of him or walking far behind.
I told My Apostle Paul to write it in the pages of My Word, but not as a stranglehold.
The Corinthian Church — check it out,” The LORD further spoke to me.
As I started digging for something to present for those who are still troubled by women preachers, etc.
This article seemed pretty straightforward to put things more in proper perspective of the Corinthian Church.
“What was the background of the Corinthian Church?“
There are more examples and scriptures just in the New Testament alone I will give at the very bottom.
Now. I present this article I wrote on HKP.
If you can take the time to read this link, I believe it will all better fit together.
“Could It Just Be That God Calls Us Women Too?“
We must balance the Word of God out with several witnesses from the Scriptures.
Here are just a few but you can search out many more for yourselves.
“And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity. And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto The LORD, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” Luke 2:36-38
“Jesus saith unto her, “Mary.” She turned herself, and saith unto him, “Rabboni;” which is to say, Master. Jesus saith unto her, “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.”” John 20:16-17
“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.” 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
“And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.” Acts 21:8-9
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to The LORD.” Colossians 3:16 (do you see ‘one another’ here?)
This is a deep study. and you can go further pulling out the balance of the Scriptures from old and new Testament alike!
Let us dig for truth together, line upon line, precept upon precept!
I pray God bless you all.
~ Joyce D. McGuire
My name is Joyce D. McGuire, called to work in and for the Kingdom of God! To lead we must try to follow Jesus Christ closely. That is my heart. I am a Chaplain to the prisons; prophetic intercessor by His grace; author; and a Mother in the Kingdom of God. To many I am simply Mama Joyce. Some favorite verses of mine are Matthew 11:28-30.
Spirit is Manly; soul is Feminine=woman. What Paul said was to tell that soul to shut up and sit down as there are many preachers preaching from their soulish nature instead of their spiritual nature. It was the soul that usurp authority over the spirit in the garden with both Adam & Eve. What i written is what the spirit says rightly dividing the word of truth.
S
Amen Sister Joyce.
Good word.
We better not count the women out.
They are a great asset to the Church.
I have heard great women speak, and I thank God for them.
May God bless you.
Pastor Grady Cross
Thank you Pastor for your response. God bless you, too.
Your welcome and thank you, M F for this blog post on the Junia project.
I had shared a blog post on Junia before in an article. I believe she was a woman apostle.
Getting back, i believe the facts quoted there certainly shed light to a lot of things as even why Apostle Paul corrected that way in the Corinthian church.
Seems as I read much of the history through time you see patterns being repeated.
There are still masculine and feminine sides to men and women. The devil trys to confuse and pervert so much.
The Lord has us to correct in a Spirit of love and not condemnation. Yes, to equality through Jesus!
God bless you.
Hi! In Genesis, we can see that her husband having authority over her was one of Eve’s punishments. That means that in the beginning, before sin, they were equal. I read the Hebrew word used for “helper” to describe Eve, is elsewhere always used to describe God, Who is certainly not our assistant; and it means to consult someone who is qualified to help you with something that you are not able to do. And I came across this article https://juniaproject.com/1-timothy-pauls-language-original-context/ that shows a surprising context of the Corinthians passage, saying about the women warrior cult of Artemis, and how that word “authority” is uniquely used in that passage, and in other places outside of the Bible it was used to describe abuse, violence and even murder. So Paul was telling the women in that church to not abuse the men. Paul said to submit to your husband (but also submit to each other) , but “if you’re a slave, stay a slave, if you’re free, stay free…”. He wasn’t trying to start anarchy. If the agreement in a marriage is the man is in charge, it doesn’t matter who’s in charge- God’s in charge! But I think for a marriage relationally to be what God intended it it be, and for women’s place in society to be what God intended it to be, there has to be equality from Jesus. Equality, but we are certainly not the same! Also Thanks for your article!
Mary was the first woman preacher of the gospel at the resurrection of Jesus.
Yes, she was Deborah. Thank you and God bless.