Are Women Permitted To Speak In The Church?
Back to the instruction for the church presented by the apostle Paul in I Cor. 14.
Paul said ... 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. 35And 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.
I asked God about this and was led as follows ... "Look at what these woman were doing."
When I reread this scripture, I saw these woman were disrupting the church gathering by asking questions, thus Paul said ... And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home:
Certainly it would be out of order for women to speak and interrupt the Spirit of God in the church by taking over and asking questions during the gathering of the church. This would not be permitted and should not be permitted.
Once I attended a meeting at a non-denominational church. Pastor was speaking and a woman in the congregation jumped up from her seat and began waving her hands in the air and running around the meeting room shouting, "Praise God ... praise God."
The people and pastor were very excited thinking this to be the Holy Spirit in this woman.
I was horrified!
The Holy Spirit would not interrupt the church gathering this way. The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets. I Cor. 14
And Paul says: I Cor. 14 ...40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
This woman was out of order in the church ...
Concerning God teaching me about women in the church ...
The Spirit of God took me to the example of the four daughters of Philip the evangelist.
Acts 21 ... 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.
The Spirit of God said to me: "These four daughters prophesied. Prophecy is for the church. They would have to speak in the church to bring prophesy to the church."
By this I was persuaded to do the work of God to which I am called.
Also in the church I remembered Gal. 3 ... For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There 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.
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