Dear Paul,
Hear I am.
I am one who can wrestle with you so I have to prayerfully wonder how and if I should.
Who is to make a joyful noise?
The head or the body?
If the body then the head is not the only one to talk.
True the head can speak with authority
But Kings in the OT are authority too.
What did they get?
Prophets who were essentially nobodies.
If you are to be a prophet you are under authority of the Apostles (as found in the NT) And all the inspired written word offered by the body - I believe - because we have that in this New Covenant, I think.
A woman has her place in relationships with men but in the body she gets gifts as spoken of in the Bible. Yes, or no?
I will be back but have to end this here for right now.
Hug.
As they say, “Put your thinking cap on”, put on the gloves that grasp the Sword, and step into my Garden and be filled, or spit it out. YES, “Anything” you would ever want to ask or say, but between “People”, not as Church.
Neither Truth nor Faith has “sounds”. Faith in the Truth is of the Heart, where we joy in the Lord. You cannot Joy in the Lord with your flesh / mouth; man or woman. Flesh cannot be combined with Spirit, and have any knowledge to it. All things of God are of the “Heart”; nothing of the Fleshly, Mouthy Lips. --- Matthew 15:8-9 KJV – “This people draweth nigh unto me ( with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips ); ( but their heart is far from me ). 9- But ( in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men ). -----//-- There is nothing anywhere in Scripture that you can use “Singing” to honor God, man or woman. Singing to God with your mouth is condemned. That’s what I just showed you. – However, teaching the Word of God ( to others ) is that music to God. - Not to “Anyone else”, much less to yourself . - We “Speak” to each other in the of Word of God, and that is God’s music to Him, not your music!!!
Hey, look at the anatomy of the body, and say which speaks. God uses the body to show the way He is with us. He is our Friend and Neighbor, and speaks as do we; with His mouth, just under His nose, and through His beard. -- Aahhh, the Body of Christ itself has no mouth; and if it did, the Body of Christ ( Is asleep ) until the Quickening~~. Not our Flesh, the flesh has nothing to do with the Body except doing the Will with it members that cannot be controlled fully. --- Now the Body, of itself, ~~with the Head~ in Heaven~, and the Body ~asleep~ until the “Quickening”, or the “reunion / marriage” of the Head to His Body~~~ it cannot speak. - ( Think on that for a few ). How can the Body of Christ, be awake without the Head?? --- Just what do people think Quickens, or Resurrects the Body of Christ anyhow, giving it the Blessing of Eternal Life?? --- Everyone has missed it greatly. You all thought Jesus was ( Just ) Crucified on the Cross, but ( Yet he still has no Head, their way ) --.
Under the Authority of the Apostles?? Not quite. They were the Mediator between the Church and Christ its Head. -- In the Authority of Christ, Means in the Name of Christ. The Apostles and Prophets were Counselors sent to counsel those in “LEARNING”. ---
Hebrews 12:22-23 KJV – “Ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the City of the living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels,
23 To the general assembly and Church of the Firstborn, which are ( written in Heaven ), and to God the Judge of all, and to the Spirits of just men made perfect”. -----
There are and were women!! -- They have always had their places, according to who the rulers of those places were. - The evil places, No! - Heavenly Places, No! - The Christian Husband’s Places, Yes! – But you’re talking about the outpouring of the Ghost. Even the animals received that. Everything was Blessed of God, (in AD70 ) in the Spiritual, which was the New Heaven and earth just created by Jesus the Christ. -- Not the Carnal Minds of man and woman. ( Flesh yes, Minds No! ) – I think you want me to say what is not said, or say something that is said by the wrong place.
Paul – 092812