SHOULD WOMEN PREACH IN THE CHURCH?
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W omen are capable of doing any thing and every thing that men can do. There are some things that women can do better than men. Women make better spies, better assassin and sometime better missionary. Women missionaries open up Africa, they were able to go into places where no white men could dare venture.
Why is it that women can bear our children, cook their husbands food, wash his clothing and cash his check at the bank, but cannot sit on our pulpit.? The husband suck the women lips and sometime suck their toes, and even though all that has happen she is bar from our pulpit, and are not suppose to worship with us. Why? Why all this double standard, and what is it that these men are afraid of?
WHAT DOES THIS WOMAN BELIEVE?
Ephes. 5:23 (KJV) For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
1 Peter 3:1 (KJV) Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Peter 3:1 (Living) Wives, fit in with your husbands' plans; for then if they refuse to listen when you talk to them about the Lord, they will be won by your respectful, pure behavior. Your godly lives will speak to them better than any words.
DOES SHE BELIEVE THESE SCRIPTURES OR DOES SHE POINT OUT THE OTHERS THAT DEAL WITH THE MEN, TRYING TO COUNTER THESE?
1 Tim. 3:11 (KJV) Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. 1 Tim. 3:11 (Living) Their wives must be thoughtful, not heavy drinkers, not gossipers, but faithful in everything they do.
IF THE WOMAN DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THE ABOVE VERSES THE FOLLOWING VERSES APPLIED TO HER.
1 Cor. 14:33 (KJV) For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. 1 Cor. 14:34 (KJV) 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.
1 Cor. 14:35 (KJV) 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 Cor. 14:37 (KJV) 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.
THE BORD OF ELDERS.
The problem of women preaching in the church, was not a preaching problem but, taking authority over the men.
If the church has qualified men who want to serve as pastor, or bishop, the post must be given to them. If no man want the post are no man is available, why cant a woman who is available and have same gift and calling occupy that post? If the Bible teaches two things differently, it is best to bring all the verses together and examine them and see the reason.
There are some churches that do not believe that women should go around the pulpit and preach the gospel, and they base their beliefs on these two texts. 1 Cor 14:34-35. 1 Tim 2:11-14. But a close examinations of the texts along with some other old testament verses and other verses in the new testament shows that we could have gotten the wrong idea, and that these verses are not saying that women should never preach the gospel, but this was only an isolated cases of a church that gone bad and the apostle Paul have to take drastic measures to put down the problem, and he did not intend this message for all the churches in that region.
THE BORD OF ELDERS.
1 Cor. 12:28 (KJV) And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
As long as the church has a board of elders working in the background as government of the church, women are men can act as pastor. Because whosoever is in the pulpit still have to answer to board of elders, you have to be in line are leave. The word the apostle use were Usurp Authority over the men is talking about women taking complete authority over men.
I must admit that women in authority over men can turn out to be a disaster, especially if she has suffered a letdown, and a broken hearted. All that hurt will came out in her preaching. From the pulpit she can wreck every marriage. I could not land a wife from certain church, another brother could not land one because of women leader. If she do not like you, you could be in trouble. The worst thing about women leaders, women tend to go according to feeling. For just like the apostle say Adam was not deceived but the woman At the same time we cannot rule out the fact, there are ministries in the church for women.
WOMEN IN MINISTRY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
[Daughters shall prophesy] Women are not excluded from spiritual gifts and powers (Acts 2:16-21; Acts 1:14; Acts 2:1-21; Acts 21:9; 2 Cor. 11-14). See note, § Acts 21:9.
Acts 2:17 (KJV) And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God,I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
WOMEN WERE THE FIRST TO TELL THAT THE LORD WAS RISEN.
PROBLEM EXISTED IN THIS PARTICULAR CHURCH.
a[usurp authority] Greek: authenteo (, to have power over. Only here. Women should not dictate to men, but exercise their rights to teach, prophesy (or preach), pray, and do other things under the authority of men (note, §1 Cor. 14:34-35).
1 Cor. 14:34-35 (KJV) 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.
1 Cor. 14:35 (KJV) 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.
TO MAKE A DOCTRINE WE NEED TWO ARE THREE WITNESS, ONE FROM THE OLD AND AT LEAST ONE FROM THE NEW SAYING THE SAME THING.
1 Cor. 14:34-35 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. [35] 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 Tim. 2:11-14 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. [12] But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. [13] For Adam was first formed, then Eve. [14] And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
THIS CHURCH WAS RUN BY WOMEN.
[lady] Greek: kuria , feminine of kurios (, Lord. It may signify some honorable woman to whom John addressed the epistle. She probably had a church in her home. She was a married woman, because her children are also saluted. No husband is mentioned, so perhaps she was a widow who entertained many ministers and traveling evangelists in her home.
HERE WOMEN WERE TOLD TO TEACH.
WOMEN HELP PAUL IN HIS MINISTRY.
which laboured with me-"inasmuch as they labored with me." At Philippi, women were the first hearers of the Gospel, and Lydia the first convert. It is a coincidence which marks genuineness, that in this Epistle alone, special instructions are given to women who labored with Paul in the Gospel. In selecting the first teachers, those first converted would naturally be fixed on. Euodia and Syntyche were doubtless two of "the women who resorted to the riverside, where prayer was wont to be made" (Acts 16:13), and being early converted, would naturally take an active part in teaching other women called at a later period;
WOMEN CAN DO EVERY THING IN THE CHURCH JUST LIKE MEN IF THE WOMEN REACH CERTAIN STANDARD AND HAVE CERTAIN QUALITIES.
The things that women must teach the younger women.
Soberness Mean to understand the seriousness of life. We do not even need to go any further. To love husband mean do give the husband due benevolence.
CHRISTIANS WOMEN USES SEX TO MANUPULATE THE MARRIAGE.
1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband every woman have her own husband. 1Co 7:3 let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 1Co 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
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Titus 2:3 That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good, Tit 2:4 Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children, Tit 2:5 To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.
IT WAS PREDICTED THAT BOTH WOMEN AND MEN WOULD PREACH THE GOSPEL.
Acts 2:16-17 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; [17] And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Acts 21:8-9 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. [9] And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
Fourteen Prophetesses
Micah 6:4
1. Rachel (Genesis 30:24)
2. Miriam (Exodus 15:20)
3. Deborah (Judges 4:4)
4. Huldah (2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chron. 34:22)
5. Noadiah (Neh. 6:14)
6. Isaiah's wife (Isaiah 8:3)
7. Elizabeth (Luke 1:41-45)
8. Mary, mother of Jesus (Luke 1:46-55)
9. Anna (Luke 2:36-38)
10. Jezebel, a false prophetess (Rev. 2:20)
11-14. Phillip's four daughters (Acts 21:9)
WOMEN PREACHERS IN THE OLD TESTAMENTS.
Eight reasons for women preachers: Finish Dake Notes.
7. In 1 Cor. 12 Paul compares the church to a human body and mentions nine gifts of the Spirit, including the gift of prophecy, for all the members of the body of Christ, men and women. 8. Women were used of God in Old Testament days as prophetesses (Exodus 15:20; Judges 4:4; 2 Kings 22:14; 2 Chron. 34:22; Neh. 6:14; Isaiah 8:3; Luke 1:39-56; Luke 2:36). The law made provision for women to make sacrifices, attend feasts, and make vows (Deut. 12:11-18; Leviticus 27).
CONCLUSION:
THE END
Let us face the fact, no matter how much education we had on a subject we can go out there and made the worst mistakes of our life, that cause us dearly. Only Jesus Christ can help us with our decision-making.
Proverbs 3:6 in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Psalm 34:8 (NASB-U) O taste and see that the Lord is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!
HOW TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN.
Isaiah 7:11 (ASV) Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. Isaiah 7:12 (ASV) But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Jehovah.
Ezekiel 18:32 (ASV) For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord Jehovah: wherefore turn yourselves, and live.
First you must recognize that you are a sinner and need God mercy.
1 Peter 2:24 (Living) He personally carried the load of our sins in his own body when he died on the cross so that we can be finished with sin and live a good life from now on. For his wounds have healed ours!
YOU MUST KNOW THAT YOU CANNOT SAVE YOURSELF.
2 Peter 3:18 (ASV) But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Zech. 4:7 (KJV) Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Eph 2:8 The Message Bible Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! Eph 2:9 We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! There nothing you could do to save yourself , the only thing you could do is bowed your head and ask God to save you.
You must believe that there is a God.
No other person can save you except Jesus.
Acts 4:12 (Living) There is salvation in no one else! Under all heaven there is no other name for men to call upon to save them."
Then you must know that God invites you to come to him.
Do not wait until tomorrow to get save.
2Co 6:2 The Message Bible. God reminds us, I heard your call in the nick of time; The day you needed me, I was there to help. Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped.
Delay not your conversion to the lord, put it not off from day to day. Remember that tomorrow is promise to no man. Accept the lord, go home and continue with your life, if the lord.. If the lord saves you in bad life style, he has some plan up his sleeve how to get you out of it, give him time to work out his salvation in your life.
WHOSEOEVER SHALL CALL.
Romans 10:13 (KJV) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Ezekiel 33:11 (KJV) Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Now bow your head and pray this prayer.
From this day onward you will begin to feel a flood of joy and peace full your heart and mind. You must confess Jesus to others with your mouth. Tell what great thing the lord had done for you. Romans 10:9 (Living) For if you tell others with your own mouth that Jesus Christ is your Lord and believe in your own heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Then you need to start reading the bible, start reading from St Mathew.
THE LORD WILL MAKE YOU HOLY IN HIS OWN TIME.
OUR BODY WAS NOT REEDEM AT CONVERSION.
Rom 8:21 that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. Rom 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Rom 8:23 And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
OUR VILE BODY WILL BE CHANGE AT THE RETURN OF JESUS.
THE SINS OF THE BODY WILL NOT BE CONQUERED LITERALY BY ALL SAINTS WHILE LIVING ON EARTH.
When the Lord redeemed us our body was not redeem, it was our spirit and soul. The changes took place in our spirit man. Not the body. The body will still continue to sin. If the believer do not know this they will become worried as to why am I still lusting? And became eaten up with guilt to the point where they experience no peace and joy.
Even though our body were not redeem, we who wanting to live up to certain standard, to please society, must bring our body into subjection, even thou we do not do that to buy salvation. But to prevent Satan from capitalized on it. But to bring this body into subjection take time. We saw belivers at the judgment seat of Christ in heaven being judge for the deeds of the body. That mean they made it in, so not all of us will overcame the deeds of the body, but we all will made it in.
1 Cor. 9:27 (NASB-U)but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
2 Cor. 2:11 (NASB-U) so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
Romans 12:1 (GW)Brothers and sisters, in view of all we have just shared about God's compassion, I encourage you to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, dedicated to God and pleasing to him. This kind of worship is appropriate for you.
2 Cor. 12:7 (NASB-U)Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment meto keep me from exalting myself!
SOME THING YOU OVERCAME BY GRACE.
I saw a river of blood, flows from Calvary Mountain, I am in it and your are in it, and I am clean, clean By Smith Wiggle worth.
We can sing with the song writer" I rise walk in heavens own light above the world and sin with heart made pure and garments white, and Christ en-throned with in. The cleansing stream I see I see I plunge, and O It cleans-eth me. O praise the Lord, it cleans-eth me, it cleans-eth me yes, cleans-eth me."
HOW TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH.
The first thing you will need to know is this. Beware of people who come laying hands on you say they are filling you with the Holy Ghost. That is how people get possess with demonic spirits. God will give you every thing you need to fit you out for his service in his own times. You do not need to push any thing nor to make any thing happen. Wait until God make it happen. Do not get too carry away into this charismatic stuff, I spent almost forty years in it, all those who try to fake it or pushed it got hurt.
You will need to read the book War on the saints By Jessie Penn-Lewis. The Christians literature Crusade, fort Washington, Pennsylvania 19034 U.S.A. ISBN 0-87508-958-4. Get this book before you start messing with Charismatic.
A NEW MIND-SET.
Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph 4:25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
GIVE YOURSELF AWAY TO THE THINGS OF GOD.
Jer 29:13 The Message Bible. "When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else,
Bearer Of The Mind Sword.
The author of this article.
Rev. James McBean. Sr
Was born in Jamaica west Indies. Bachelor In Theology. Masters in Christians counseling.
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