If we look into the scripture with unveiled and open eyes, we shall all see that it was a parable used by Jesus to represent an idea or convey a moral thoughts. None should help Jesus legalize them as actual representation of physical exactness in view of a scripted or unscripted character(s).
Matthew 25:1-13 - 1 �At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise. 3 When the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take extra olive oil with them. 4 But the wise ones took flasks of olive oil with their lamps. 5 When the bridegroom was delayed a long time,267 they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 6 But at midnight there was a shout, �Look, the bridegroom is here! Come out to meet him.� 7 Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, �Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.� 9 �No,� they replied. �There won�t be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.� 10 But while they had gone to buy it, the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding banquet. Then the door was shut. 11 Later, the other virgins came too, saying, �Lord, lord! Let us in!� 12 But he replied, �I tell you the truth, I do not know you!� 13 Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour�
Looking at the first line of verse 1. It says "AT THAT TIME...THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN..WILL BE LIKENED...." Does this get to anyone knowing, that Jesus only compared (likened) heaven with the 10 Virgin story. If there was anything to learn in Jesus message, it must had been the message of the KINGDOM and not the 10 Virgins....
Gal 3:28 King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - "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."
Again in all sincerity, what Christ came to do and successfully acheived is more than GENDER. Its more than RULES. Its more than PRINCIPLES. Its purchasing life and removing all status that limits man and woman from serving God.
Any rule we hand out in churches that hammers and hampers anyone successfully standing in the defense of the Gospel to work for God is actually a doctrine of limitation and ideologies. Such is never from God. Such must be fled from.
God redeemed man and woman and called them to serve HIM! This is totally spiritual and can never in a thousand years be fathomable to the understanding in the flesh!
Hebrews 12:28 - King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - "Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear". And the "WE" in that verse is the man born again, irrespective of the GENDER!
Dear Jenny I join you in prayer. BUt in the interim you must train your heart not to respond to fear but of God power of boldness....For you have recieve the spirit of power sound mind and love
HOMOSEXUALITY IS A SIN. (Read first before you say i am judging)
Posted : 9 Dec, 2012 10:50 AM
Sin separates our fellowship with God (Psalm 66:18), but confession restores it (Psalm 32:5, 1 John 1:9).
Fellowship of God with man was truncated in the Garden by the Serpent. It took years for it to be restored. That restoration was done through Atoning Death of Jesus. That restores us to God.
What Christ did, in its veracity to restore that communion can not be separated by sin. Were it so, that sin separate us from that fellowship, Christ must die again as he did earlier to have that fellowship restored. Sin does not separate (divorce) the fellowship/communion/right standing the death of Jesus bought us. These are teachings we were taught out of sympathy for God by men. Those sins were once forgiven and blotted away. They are not strong again to require another death of Christ.
However, do I endorse SIN? NO. Far be from it.
Romans 6:1-4 - 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Gal 3:27 King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)- "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Ephesians 2:1-3 King James Version (KJV) - 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
We may gladly continue on this refreshing verses at any time
We must continue to be aware of all sorts of doctrines, particularly in these last days! Some will seek messages that appeals to their sensuality. Some will turn after the "extra hot revelation" because in the fallacies of their mind and errors, they deemed the Gospel of Redemption and Jesus Christ as being "too soft", hence they believe it must be hard and they look for complexities which had been removed when Jesus died and tore apart the veil that divided and broke down the middle wall of partition!
1 Timothy 3:1-5, 13-16
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.
Hebrews 12:1 King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with PATIENCE the race that is set before us,"
Undoubtedly and unarguably, PATIENCE is what God uses to freeze on us on the highways we had created for ourselves. Same PATIENCE is what he uses according to James 1:4 to PERFECT US.
James 1:4 - But let PATIENCE have her PERFECT work, that you may be PERFECT and entire, wanting nothing.
In the light of this scripture we can see proceeds of PATIENCE. ITS PERFECTION IN ITS ENTIRETY...MAY WE REMAIN REMINDED WHAT IT IS, ALBEIT PAINFUL BUT WONDERFUL AND THOROUGH WORKS PATIENCE WILL DO FOR US.
@IamGods Princess, I mean always looking out for your post and threads. But really on a good basis, here is like fellowship for me. I found that chances of getting with good and godly people is improved upon when you are with people calling upon the lord in truth.
Its a honor reading your threads. I look forward to it.
When you come to understand what Christ did in redeeming us, and how His redemptive work transcend genders, then you will see that Christ will use anyone and even "anything" without waiting for endorsement of few "elders" to do His work on earth here.
Gal 3:28 King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - "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."
The idea that women had never been men, uncles, fathers, or elders is true just as they will never be! And that is not a criterion that adjudicate against them. In the world we live in, is it only men who rule over their own house? What about homes where the father is deceased and the wife being the Matriarch had rule the home to profit? Hence that verse will never be a plausible condition that forbade women.
The most tangible thing to note is Gal 3:28
1Tim 3 :4-7 4 one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence 5 (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?); 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil. 7 Moreover he must have a good testimony among those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil (NJKV).
Cross Reference the following verse to 1 Tim 3:4-7
1 Cor 12:13 New Living Translation (�2007) Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.
Romans 6:3 - King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Galatians 3:27 - King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) - For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
In the light of all these, before men, all these conditions may hold, but the Condition that hold before God is the New Birth, that obliterate gender, race, creeds and opinion.
