Jesus Christ did not remain in the lives of those who didn't love Him and neither should we remain with those who don't love us.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The Real Symbolism of the Head Covering
The head covering on the woman is an expression of the woman symbolically as the church and the lack of covering on the man is symbolic of Christ.
The covering and the non-covering in the gender roles are pictures of Christ and His church. It has nothing to do with the submission wife to the husband. The wife walks along with her husband as her leader but she is not under him, she is under Christ.
No one should ever take the place of Christ in the believer's life, whether it be man or woman. The man leads by example and teaching not as an authority over.
To be the authority over someone else the man would be taking the place of the Holy Spirit.
A woman is the helpmate to her husband. Her job is to encourage him to keep going when He obeys Christ and to redirect him when he falters from the calling. She is his helper in all Spiritual matters.
Women are to submit to their husbands as we all are to submit to others in general, but only if those we submit to are obeying Christ. We are never required to submit to anyone who is telling us to disobey Christ.
A woman will stand before God one day alone. She will never be able to say "but Lord, my husband told me to sin." She will be accountable for her own sin and her own choices, obeying God or disobeying God.
As believers, we ought to be honoring and deferring to one another. We must evaluate what God is calling us to do and submit to others as God leads. And, at times we might have to resist submitting when God is not calling us to do what others are asking.
Acts 5:29
"But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men."
1 John 5:3 - "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
The covering and the non-covering in the gender roles are pictures of Christ and His church. It has nothing to do with the submission wife to the husband. The wife walks along with her husband as her leader but she is not under him, she is under Christ.
No one should ever take the place of Christ in the believer's life, whether it be man or woman. The man leads by example and teaching not as an authority over.
To be the authority over someone else the man would be taking the place of the Holy Spirit.
A woman is the helpmate to her husband. Her job is to encourage him to keep going when He obeys Christ and to redirect him when he falters from the calling. She is his helper in all Spiritual matters.
Women are to submit to their husbands as we all are to submit to others in general, but only if those we submit to are obeying Christ. We are never required to submit to anyone who is telling us to disobey Christ.
A woman will stand before God one day alone. She will never be able to say "but Lord, my husband told me to sin." She will be accountable for her own sin and her own choices, obeying God or disobeying God.
As believers, we ought to be honoring and deferring to one another. We must evaluate what God is calling us to do and submit to others as God leads. And, at times we might have to resist submitting when God is not calling us to do what others are asking.
Acts 5:29
"But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men."
1 John 5:3 - "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome."
The First Fruit is Essential to all the other Fruit of the Spirit of Christ
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Notice the first fruit in that list of fruit of the Spirit is love. Without love none of the other fruit can exist.
To repeat: None of the other fruit of the Spirit of Christ can exist without that very first one!
My Facebook Friends Whom I Have Never Seen Face to Face
Some people say Facebook friends are not real friends because we have never met them or seen them with our eyes or had coffee with them in person. They are describing our relationships with Jesus Christ.
Paul the apostle wrote letters to people he had never met, inspired letter that live to this day and are written for us whom he has never met.
All my born-again brothers and sisters whom I have not seen will be with me at the marriage supper of the Lamb, we will celebrate our marriage with Christ together. We will be together for eternity.
The greatest joy we have ever known with our brothers and sisters is coming, we look forward to that time when we will never again be separated.
We are one in Spirit with all our brothers and sisters! I yearn for the fellowship that is coming with my family in Christ.
Revelation 22:4-6
4 they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
5 And there will no longer be any night; and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illuminate them; and they will reign forever and ever.
6 And he said to me, “These words are faithful and true”; and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent His angel to show His bond-servants the things which must soon take place."
We can't see Jesus Christ with our physical eyes but we know Him and He lives in us.
Hallelujah!
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