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Of Course, Women can teach and Preach!
God is not a respecter of persons and will speak through any yielded vessel. In the Lord there is neither male nor female. This does not mean that biological sexes cease to exist in the body of christ. This means that for both men and women, we have died and Christ now lives in us. The Holy Spirit will speak truth through any yielded vessel.
The culture and times that Jesus came into were very oppressive to women. He flowed upstream by first revealing himself publicly as the messiah to the woman at the well. She then went into her town and preached the gospel and told her town about Jesus. It is a good thing she was not silent among the congregation or church (eklesia) of people.
When Jesus rose from the dead he first appeared to you guessed it, women. They then went and shared the good news with the men.
Jesus’ ministry was also funded by women.
Aquilla AND Priscilla taught Appolos.
We can go on and on about the amazing women used by God as teachers, preachers and leaders in the Bible. We could go on about the amazing women throughout church history who have partnered with God to preach and teach the gospel.
You see part of the curse the world came under when Adam and Eve fell is that women came under the domination of men. Jesus reversed this curse and takes us into the body of Christ. In the body of Christ, there is only one head and that is Jesus.
There is one body, one lord, one Spirt, one Father and so on.
The devil knows the Bible better than most of us and will twist it to oppress men and women to silence us and bring us under his domination. He has tricked many into ignoring all of the women teachers, preachers and leaders in the Bible and twisted a few verses and seduced men through their own weaknesses to oppress women in an attempt to silence half of the body of Christ.
You cannot throw out the whole of scripture and Jesus' relationship with women to validate the misinterpretations and mistranslations of only a few verses and create a new law to bring believers under when Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death.
It is the devil who would want to silence the gospel yet many fall into his snare and are used by him when telling women to be silent.
Can the eye say to the hand, “we don’t need you?” This is what many including big name preachers have done in the body of Christ by telling women to be silent, and by telling them they cannot lead and teach. They don’t know that they are speaking by the sprit of slavery and domination that tries to keep others in bondage.
I pray that those under this doctrine of demons would have a revelation of the truth. I pray for any women watching or listening to this video to have boldness to preach and teach when led by the Holy Spirit! No doctrine, denomination, pastor, priest, self-proclaimed apostle or prophet can stop you from preaching and teaching about your beloved Jesus Christ!
I break the glass ceiling that has been put over you in Jesus name and today the restraints that have been holding you back from preaching the gospel are destroyed! Run the race with boldness. Blessings!
The Holy Spirit births and nurses us.
Cynthia Dunbar continues this series by expounding on the truth of the Trinity as a family consisting of the Father, the Son and the Mother.
Jacob Dunbar continues this series by diving deeper into the mystery of the Trinity. God is most definitely three, but God is also one. This is a mystery we will enjoy unpacking for all of eternity. In this message we dive deeper into this mystery. It is important to note that we are made in God’s image, not the other way around. Every tribe and every culture in some way reflects the image of God. Men and women are both made in the image of God. God is described as the Father, the Son, but also the Spirit.
The bible is very clear in describing the Holy Spirit as the Mother of the Household of God. The trinity is described as the household or family of God that believers are brought into when we become born again, or born of the Spirt. Family’s consists of fathers, mothers and children. The Spirit is described as giving us new birth, and as nursing her children. Mothers give birth and nurse, not Fathers.
It is revealed to us in Genesis one that men and women both are made in the image of God,
So God created man (mankind) in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)
It is important to note that the word used for man often should be all of humanity in both the Greek and the Hebrew.
God is one person, but not like a human. God knows every thought going on right now. God knows every hair on every head of every person that has ever walked the face of the earth. God holds the universe in the palm of His /Her hand.
We can see that the family is under attack in the world. We believe that this starts with the body of Christ as we have made the Trinity into our image, the image of a man. We have pushed a theology that would have either a Father nursing and giving birth or having three men in the trinity with one of them nursing and giving birth. We have created a homo-sex God. We have made God in the image of a mortal man and thus mankind has fallen into gender confusion and homosexuality. This is evident when reading Romans 1…
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans 1:22-25)
We have made God in our image, the image of a man. We largely miss what is in the scriptures and what God has spoken because our traditions make the word of God of no effect. We have many denominations and many church doctrines built on man’s intellect.
Why is this so important?
God has given us all free-will to choose what we believe. We decide what we let into our heart, which is the seat of our beliefs.
The bible says that we have no need that any man should teach us, but the anointing teaches us all things. The Holy Spirit leads us into all truth. So search this out for your self. “They will all be taught by God.”
We are now in the household of God. God is a perfect beautiful family of which we are now a part. In the body of Christ, the Father is preached, worshipped and honored as well He should be for He is like no Father the world could ever see or imagine. Likewise, the Son is honored worshipped and admired as well He should be for He is love and truth and everything beautiful! But where is the Mother in this family? Is the household of God a single parent household without a mother. The scriptures and many throughout history would say OF COURSE NOT! So who do they describe as being our mother?
Here are just a few quotes from Count Zinzendorf who was instrumental in the Moravian Revival a catalyst for the first great awakening:
"a family must be complete. We must have a Father, Mother, & Husband."
"I could not speak about it [the Holy Spirit], since I did not know how I should define it. I simply believed that she is the third person of the Godhead, but I could not say how this was properly so. Instead I thought of her abstractly. ... The Holy Spirit had known me well, but I did not know her before the year 1738. That is why I carefully avoided entering in the matter until the Mother Office of the Holy Spirit had been so clearly opened up for me.”
"God [Christ] is even our dear husband, his Father is our dear Father, & the Holy Spirit is our dear Mother, with that we are finished, with that the family-idea, the oldest, the simplest, the most respectable, the most endearing idea among all human ideas, the true biblical idea, is established with us in the application of the holy Trinity, for no one is nearer to one than Father, Mother, & Husband.
Paul in Galatians 4 gives us an allegory to help understand the old and new covenant. Paul telIs us that the Jerusalem above is free and she is our mother; he then goes on to tell us that those born according to the flesh still persecute those born according to the Spirit, and that we are now children of the free woman, that being the Holy Spirit.
But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written,
“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.” (Galatians 4:26-27)
“But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now…So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.” (Galatians 4:29, 31)
Many other places in the scriptures including Romans 8 and 2 Corinthians 3 juxtapose walking in and being led by the Spirit as opposed to being led by the law or the flesh. So why does Galatians 4 call the Spirit the barren woman. Jesus told his disciples that no one had known the Spirit until He came and revealed her. He is described as being the firstborn of many brothers and the firstborn of the dead. Jesus is the Firstborn of the Dead, it is the Spirit who raised Him from the dead. Please read this blog for more on being born again and raised to new life
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Many other places in scripture describe the Holy Spirt as She. Proverbs 1-Wisdom is described as She. Early church Fathers taught that Wisdom is the Holy Spirit. Throughout the Proverbs the Seven Spirits of God are revealed. The Seven Spirits of God are 7 ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests Herself.
Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the markets she raises her voice;
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out;
at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?
If you turn at my reproof
behold, I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you. (Proverbs 1:20-23)
Count Zinzendorf linked Isaiah 66 to the comforter in John 14,
"When the dear Savior at the end of his life wanted to comfort his disciples (at that time the language was not as rich as ours is); by that time the Savior, who was a very great bible student, had doubtlessly read the verse in the Bible "I will comfort you as a mother comforts one." Then the dear Savior thought, "If I should say to my disciples that I am going away, then I must give them some comfort. I must say to them that they will receive someone who will comfort them over my departure. It will not be strange to them, for they have already read it in the Bible. ...There it reads, they shall have a Mother: "I will leave you my Spirit.”
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 66:13)
The following is a hymn from the Moravian revival,
The Church's Prayer to the Holy Spirit (1759)
- Thou, who from the Father hast
‘Fore all Time proceeded,
Spirit, by whom the Virgin Blest
The Son here conceived!
- Since the Lamb of God, so red,
Is his People’s Brother,
And Christ’s God their Father’s made,
Thou’rt the Church’s Mother.
- Of thy Name, O God, & Breath
Grant us still the Nearness!
That the Word of Jesu’s
Shine to Souls with Clearness.
- Whom from Death-Sleep of the Fall
Our dear Lord doth quicken,
Fetch into thy Church-Ark all;
Help their Abba speaking.
- As in greatest Things thy Will
Meets with Execution:
So in small shall it fulfil
His Church-Constitution.
- Of the Righteousness of God
Thro’ the Blood-Effusion,
Of that daily Bread & Food
Thou mak’st Distribution.
- MOTHER! all the Church’s Life
Is the Father’s Kindness,
Our Lord’s Patience with his Wife,
And thy rich Forgiveness.
- We would fain not tempted be,
With none thus distressed;
Yet if one’s chastis’d by Thee,
It to him be blessed.
- And till once the wicked Fiend
Is at God’s Feet lying, (Ps. cx.1. Heb. ii.8.)
Sleeps within thy Cradle screen’d
The Church from his Trying.
- Amen, Ruach Elohim!
Come in th’ Name of Jesus,
Thy Children’s whole Sanhedrim
God from the beginning explained that his image is reflected as both male and female. Clearly, the Father is an archetypal male, as is the Son, so who is the female? Unquestionably, the Holy Spirit is the proverbial mother who births us into new life. To believe otherwise is to embrace a theology with a homo-sex God or a transgender God rather than the beautiful image of a FAMILY.
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From Genesis to Revelation God is given both masculine and feminine attributes and described as a father, but also as a mother who gives birth, nurses and comforts as such.
Throughout Church History the Holy Spirit has regularly been referred to as Mother and spoken of as She. Early church fathers such as Origen, Jerome and Clement described the Holy Spirit as Mother and also attributed Wisdom in the Proverbs to the Holy Spirit.
Count Zinzendorf who was the leader of the Moravian Revival which some say is the catalyst of the First great awakening was adamant that the Holy Spirit is the Mother of the Church and even went so far as to say that those who know the Spirit know her as mother. He described God as family represented in the Trinity and said that those who experience the Trinity in their hearts experience God as the Father, the Son and the Mother.
In the first of this 3 part series, Cynthia Dunbar expounds on this truth and goes through scriptures that describe the beauty and glory of our Heavenly Mother.
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Every piece of the armor of God points back to the finished work of the cross. When our eyes are fixed on Jesus and what HE has done, the enemy has nothing on us. We are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. We are fully justified, sanctified, glorified and made perfect through our faith in Him.
Cynthia and Jake discuss the never-ending, indescribable love and grace of God.
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Have you ever felt constantly judged or criticized especially in your journey with God? Unfortunately the world and religion rely on standards of living based on human reasoning. This “wisdom” causes people to compare themselves to others and judge and compete with others. This is rampant in the world and in religion. The Good News, the gospel of Jesus Christ sets us free from comparison and judgment!
God gives us many metaphors for How much we are loved! We are called the bride of Christ. I am a man, but I am also the bride of Jesus Christ! This is to demonstrate to us how amazing our union with Jesus Christ is! We are one with the God of the universe! We are in Christ, and Christ is in us! We will spend eternity understanding this amazing mystery. Jesus loves us and romances us way more than any husband has ever even come close to loving and romancing his wife.
Sex is an amazing gift from God and a wonderful part of marriage. The bridal metaphor also reveals to us the amazing pleasure of our union with Jesus. The secret place is to be alone in the Presence of Jesus. No sensual pleasure in the world can compare with sitting at the feet of Jesus resting and receiving His love!
The secret place, or how we enjoy Jesus individually is in my opinion the most sacred part of our walk with God. This will look different for every person as God is SO jealous for a unique individual relationship with every human being! We overstep and cross boundaries when we start telling people how to walk with Jesus and what their journey should or shouldn’t look like. This unfortunately happens way too often in the world and even the church today. I wrote the following short poem in an attempt to illustrate how sacred our union with Christ is and how harmful and domineering it can be to try and step into someone else’s secret place.
I don’t know the hits you’ve taken
I don’t know the tears you’ve cried
I don’t know how love’s been shaken
All I know that you’re His bride
For me to step into your bedroom
Is out of bounds to say the least
The path you take with your bridegroom
How you enjoy your wedding feast
I will not judge your consummation
You are safe in your secret place
You need not fear my invasion
Enjoy your lover’s grace upon grace
I will not say you are mistaken
It’s not for me to correct and chide
From only His touch will you awaken
Feel free to run in Him and hide
Only His love will bring your bloom
Opinions guised as counsel have ceased
It’s no man’s seed inside your womb
But only that of the Great High Priest
So give up any obligation
Trade instead for His sweet embrace
Ignore all scorn and insinuation
**Because you choose to seek His face
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The Fear of the Lord
The fear of the Lord is NOT the same as human fear. The fear of the Lord is awe, reverence and faith in God! The fear of the Lord is to trust in His faithfulness and steadfast love!
For the Lord has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7)
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. (1John 4:18)
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. (James 1:16-17)
And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD. And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD. (Isaiah 11:2-3)
You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday. (Psalm 91:5-6)
“but my righteous one shall live by faith,and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. (Hebrews 10:38-39)
His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor his delight in the legs of the warrior; the Lord delights in those who fear him,who put their hope in his unfailing love. (Psalm 147:10-11)
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Jesus is God
You may have heard it said, "Jesus is perfect theology." This statement is 100% true since Jesus is the TRUTH! Jesus reveals the nature character and will of God. Any view of God outside of Jesus is a view through the veil of the law of Moses and the old covenant.
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. (John 14:7-10)
He is the radiance of the Glory of God and the exact imprint of His nature. (Hebrews 1:3)
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’” (Hebrews 10:7)
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We are only able to love because of God’s steadfast and unconditional love for us. Once we believe and receive the amazing love from our Father in heaven, then we are able to love others and to walk in freedom. Extravagant worship is a response to a revelation of the cross of Jesus Christ.
‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. (Revelation 2:1-5)
Remember from where you have fallen
that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. (Ephesians 1:20-23)
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, (Ephesians 2:4-6)
First Love
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins...We love because He first loved us. (1John 4:10,19)
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:6-8)
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15:4-5)
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