My Dear Precious Child,
Unfortunately, Paul had to refer to traditions and customs in the Jewish church which flowed over into the Christian churches. He quoted the tradition of women not being permitted to speak in the assembly of the churches. Because of the good gifts of Godly emotions in women of love, kindness, goodness, sympathy, mercy and gentleness from Me, the devil perverted them in Eve and her offspring by taking emotions to the extreme and making some women unruly in their emotional extremes, making them disruptive in meetings. Paul was disturbed by the lack of self control of those women so he made a cultural law out of it in order to help bring order to the religious assemblies. Because of the spiritual immaturity of the Corinthians, he knew that he could not trust the women in the church to control their emotions. He wrote that women should not speak in the communal meetings but should be submissive to men, even writing that if they want to learn anything that they should ask their husbands. It was certain disgraceful, unruly and overly emotional women who were responsible for Paul's having to give that cultural command. He even asked the overly emotional women if the preaching of My word originated with them or were they the only ones to whom the sharing of My word had come? With maturity in spiritual matters, that their being totally led by the Holy Spirit, they would be more organized in their delivery of the gifts of the Holy Spirit than had previously been experienced. Hopefully, with maturity would come wisdom.
Paul gave them instructions that if anyone thought himself or herself to be a prophet or a person of the Holy Spirit, that he or she would know that what he had written to them was the command of Jesus Christ. He even wrote that if anyone ignored the instruction that that person should also be ignored in the assembly.
Then Paul reiterated some instructions he had previously written in his first recorded letter. First he stressed that the Corinthians should set their hearts on prophesying and the second instruction was that they do not forbid those who speak in tongues. However, the caveat was that everything must be done properly and in order, as he had sternly described earlier. Their embarrassment of Paul by their being unruly and undisciplined in worship was because they were his disciples and it was of great concern to him, but also of much more concern was that they had become an embarrassment to Jesus Christ by their lack of spiritual maturity which resulted in the women becoming emotionally authoritative over men and also that the congregation displayed unruly speaking in tongues without yielding to the guidance of the Holy Spirit who is the Lord of Order.
Your Orderly Father
Friday, August 6, 2021
BLESSINGS FROM GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS
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