From Gaskins; - Apr. 2003
God Bless,
I have just read your website and in viewing the above subject on women preachers, I find that each rebutle have valid points. Although women are used of God and have added much assistance in the battle against the kingdom of satan, there role in creation has been and will always be as help meets under the rule of man. Let me say this before i get into some of the previously quoted verses of scripture. Women CAN DO ANYTHING they want to. They also can do everything that a man does and some even better. But it doesn't mean that they are SUPPOSE TO. Case and point, I am a man I can lay down with a man, dress up like a woman, and even live my life as a women does, except for having children, but if you give mankind time they'll figure a way to accomplish that as well, {laughing} but this my friends does not make it right. A woman can lay down with a female, dress up like a man and again even live her life as a man but again this does not make it right. In other words, we are only to do what we were
orginally designed to do, not what we can do because of our desires {wants} to do so nor by what we feel God is saying. Hope that makes sense.
NOTE: God is always saying what He said, His words, nor their purposes, ever change!
Setting the senario, I will use this illustration. During the length of your life you should have the use of all of your senses, body parts etc. prayerfully speaking that is. Only one day something tragic happens and you loose, lets say your sight. What happens to your body it automatically begins to adjust itself to allow itself to continue to work, for example, your other senses grow stronger to take up the slack of the sense that has been altered. This adjustment does allow the body to continue to function, but it lets us also know that something is missing and very wrong. After going through this process we become labeld as physically, mentally, emotionally, whatever the case being, disabled, and without the problem being corrected, one has three options: 1. kill their self, {due to not being able to handle disablities}. 2. Live on with their life accepting their disablity. 3. Go to a specialist to recieve possible healing. Most sadly to say, choose option 2 becoming more and more complacent,
content and comfrotable with the disablity saying to themselves, well I'm blind thats that, as they are on their way to cash their disablity checks.
I said that to say this. The body of Christ needs to be restored back to its natural order and God is doing just that. The body of Christ is experiencing a break down within itself, so certain parts have to pick up the slack of the other persa.
The roles of the male and female have become damaged and due to settling with this obvious disability we have become more accustomed to collecting spiritual disablity checks while trying to enter into heaven sick and mamed, rather than recieveing the healing balm of Jesus Christ {the truth} that would make us free to be whole. { Mat. 5:29-30; Jer. 8:18-22;} Friends God is coming back for a WHOLE church that has no spot, wrinkle nor blemish and that is fitly joined together. {Eph. 4:16; 5:27}
God has given me a burden to restore and repair the body of Christ to its natural order, and only by preaching/teaching/demonstrating the word of God can this be accomplished. I am an advid teacher that the bible records mistakes but doesn't make them, records lies yet doesn't tell them so based on this, the Holy scrpitures are never wrong, not interperted incorrectly, but in fact are unquestionably accurate. To question the integrity of the scriptures is to question your own faith, for it is by these holy words that our very faith hang upon. {2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 2:20-21}
This is how I believe we have become so disfunctional as a unit, making the same mistakes our fore fathers have and listening and following the same lies. There are some mistakes, as well as lies, recorded in the word of God concerning the roles of man and woman so bear with me as I point them out a few while attempting to stay on the topic of women in the church.
First mistake: Mankind in its totality {male/female} disobeyed God. Gen. 3: 1-7 and due to this mistake God placed a perpetual decree upon the totality of mankind, {male/female}
Gen. 3:16-17 KJV V. 16 Unto the woman he {GOD} said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
V. 17 And unto Adam He {GOD} said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, {woman} and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of your life; {wife: woman, Heb. nashiym pronounced nawsheem ; strongs exhaustive concordance pg.17 # 802}
This utterance sent forth by God Himself was NOT a curse for God did not curse man, He only cursed the serpent {statan} v. 14 and the ground. v. 17 but again GOD never! cursed man. So in light of this mistake God placed a perpetual decree {spiritual law} upon the totality of mankind, {male/female} which if followed, will show God's grace inspite of our mistakes and His truth to make us free from them. {Jn. 8:32}
Jesus Christ handle a smiliar issue with the same response as His Father when He dealt with the issue of divorce. {Mat. 5:27-28; 19:3-9 *key v. 8; Mk. 10:1-12} not destroying the natural law {decree} that His servant Moses set, because of the hardness of mens hearts. {Mat. 19:8} but by exercising His dominonal rights He reestablished {subdued, replemished, restored} the orginal decree that His father set, thus fulfilling the law and its purpose {Mat. 5:17; Jn. 1:17}
The decrees given in Gen 3:16-19 activates God's grace towards man and gives us the ability to once again act out our predestined lifestyles designed for us, which is to: walk in God's image and likeness while excerising our God given dominon authority, through subduing and replemishing the earth {restoring natural order} in our own respective places. {functions/postions}