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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.
...as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
1 Corinthians 14:33b-35
This ends today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
There are places in the Bible that quickly cause a debate and today we have come to one such place but before I get into these words from Bible regarding proper worship, there are some things to say in advance.
First, since the great fall in Eden’s garden, mankind has sinned against God. Adam and Eve got it all started when they decided to eat from the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Everything else was permitted and God had provided the couple everything they could ask for except that fruit but they didn’t comply with His order. They instead chose the path of disobedience and rebellion, a path that became well worn through the rest of biblical times and indeed is still be beaten down today.
Disobedience and rebellion. Both are byproducts of sinful behavior toward God by people deciding that they should control what they can do and not do. God calls us to surrender and submit to Him, period, and over and over again, His people refuse to answer that call.
With this being said, I now present these verses from 1 Corinthians 14 in regard to women and worship. These verses are intended to be sexist or discriminatory. These are worldly concepts applied to biblical direction and biblical direction is not grounded in the world but rather the very will of our God. Here’s what we read between the second half of verse 33 and verse 35:
...as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people.
Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.
Here we find God providing instruction through His word regarding worship. Men are to have the speaking roles within the church during worship while women remain silent. They are to be in submission, not to men but rather to the God who calls them to be silent. To do otherwise is disgraceful because it disrespects and dishonors God.
Now, people who have bought into the world and its ways will get up in arms over these verses. They will demand equal rights to what men have in the Bible but here’s the thing.
No one has equal rights when it comes to entering into a relationship with God. No one.
Every man and every woman are subordinate to Him. Period.
He is the Master of everyone and that makes every single person a slave to Him and slaves have no rights of their own. They carry out the will of their Master. So if God tells His people to do something in His word, then He expects His people to do it. There’s no room for questioning Him, arguing with Him, and definitely never room to blatantly defy Him.
The scriptures are clear here when it comes to proper worship. Women are to remain silent. If they have questions based on what they have heard spoken during service, they are to ask their husbands afterwards for clarification. Lord knows, we could use more spiritual conversations in our homes anyways.
The bottom line here is that if God tells us to do something, we had better do it. If He tells us to be silent, then we had better be silent. He dictates what we should and shouldn’t do in life, and this means we might have to surrender some freedoms that the world may offer. This is the going in point for God believers and so there shouldn’t be any surprise when we read passages like this one and find that our Lord is restricting our behavior, whether in worship or otherwise.
Tomorrow, we’ll finish up this series with the final message.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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