If I Were A Woman – Born-Again-Christian.Org

Dr. T.L. Osborn
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Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ provided total liberation for any man or woman who believes in Him (Jn. 8:36, Gal. 5:1) But outdated church tradition still holds womankind responsible for the fall of humanity, and forbids women to preach or to teach the Gospel.

Biblical Equality

If I were a woman, I would embrace my total salvation by trusting in Christ’s sacrifice for me, and act on His commands. I would never acquiesce to any doctrine, teaching, or cultural tradition that restricts me as Christ’s witness, as His representative, ambassador or co-worker in any private or public ministry to which He calls me.

If I were a woman, I would respond to the wonderful fact that God’s Son died for my sins Ro. 4:25 by receiving Him as my Lord and Saviour. Jn. 1:12 I would accept the fact that I am totally reconciled to God by Jesus’ death on my behalf. Col. 1:22, 2 Co. 5:18

I would embrace my new identity 2 Co. 5:17 as a believer in Christ. Redeemed through His shed Blood, with all the inherited rights, privileges and responsibilities of any believer, male or female in God’s Royal Family. Col. 1:12

Male manipulation of womankind has permeated religions for centuries. All religions suppress women; discriminating against them as inferior, unworthy or second rate. Whatever religion you may be, if you are a woman, you have understood, experienced, or submitted to the doctrine or dogma of female subjugation. Contrary to this, Christ’s message, the Gospel message, declares that when a person believes in Jesus, they are totally redeemed. Women, the same as men, are justified and restored to God as though no sin had ever been committed. Col. 1:21-23 Jesus commanded,

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

Mk. 16:15 KJV

Both sexes, all races, and any skin colour. Jesus promised His followers,

Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses… unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8 KJV

Believing women were present the day that this was first fulfilled. Acts 1:14 The women, as well as the men, were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:4 In male dominated Jewish culture, this was revolutionary! Jesus used the word witness, in a culture where women were forbidden to be witnesses in a court of law. But having redeemed and restored them to God, Jesus qualifies any Spirit filled woman believer to be His witness; anywhere on earth. Col. 1:12, 2 Co. 5:19-20, Mtt. 28:19-20

The word He used for witness means; to preach, to teach, to tell, to speak, to demonstrate, to work miracles, to give proof of His resurrection in the form of testimony or evidence. Both male and female believers are commissioned and empowered for the same purpose. Mk. 16:17 How else could Jesus’ promise be fulfilled;

He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also;

Jn. 14:12 KJV

He said, And these signs shall follow them that believe;

Mk. 16:17 KJV

This includes Christ’s female disciples, the same as it does the male disciples. Jesus values a woman the same as a man. He wants to work with women the same as men. He will endorse a woman the same as a man.

The first person to see and talk with the resurrected Christ was a woman. Jn. 20:1 The first person to proclaim the Gospel was a woman. Mtt. 28:8 The first European believer was a woman. Acts 16:14

Jesus has provided the only way a woman can be truly liberated and fulfilled. Faith in His death and resurrection destroys the power of evil over any believing person. The Holy Bible tells us:-

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen. 1:27 KJV

From the dawn of human history, God’s ideal was a man and a woman side by side; working and living together, loving and playing together; companionship, teamwork, intimacy, partnership. God never created womankind to be the slave or the servant of mankind.

A godly marriage is one woman and one man sharing life together, in love, mutual respect, and in fellowship with God. That was God’s beautiful, and original vision.

Adam and Eve, the first couple, esteemed each other. They were one flesh, one kind of being, but they disobeyed God, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden, because they could no longer live in God’s presence. Since they had sinned, they became slaves of Satan, whom they chose to obey, and their troubles increased.

Lust began to replace love. Greed and evil usurped good. Because of man’s fallen nature and larger physique, he subjugated woman for his own advantage and pleasure. Deterioration and death passed to all succeeding generations.

The wages of sin is death. Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Ro. 6:23, 5:12 KJV

Thank God, Jesus provided perfect redemption for all people. 1 Pe. 2:24 He endured the judgment for all of our sins, Heb. 9:27-28 those of women, as well as those of men. By faith in Him, men and women are restored to God; to share His life, to do His work, and be His instruments; without social, racial or sexual distinction.

On the Cross, Jesus abolished female subservience forever. Eph. 2:15-19 But women, even Christian women, still bear the stigma of inferiority because traditional preachers and theologians have not grasped and emphasized the Gospel fact that Christ’s redemption restores women to their original place with God, the same as men.

Paul emphasizes the equality of redemption through faith in Christ:-

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

Gal. 3:28 KJV

Pontificating pundits point to two brief statements of Paul, 1 Co. 14:34, 1 Tim. 2:12 taken out of cultural context and misapplied, to keep modern women silent in churches, and shackled to house duties. Aborting the plan of God for them, and effectively negating their full redemption, purchased by the precious Blood of God’s Son. Paul never intended to silence women in general; that would have been a contradiction of his own revelation of redemption, and of the direct commands of Christ. Mtt. 28:20, Mk. 16:15, Ac. 1:8

Should educated Christian women acquiesce to sexual discrimination in God’s work, and bow to religious subservience, because prejudicial male preachers have misconstrued Paul’s words, to imply a contradiction of all his own teaching about redemption of both men and women?

Can believing women permit persons, or institutions to limit and stifle their witness for Christ, who first chose a woman to proclaim the greatest message of Christianity, that He is risen? Jn. 20:17

Are Christian women to be silent in God’s work today when so many women in the Bible were His messengers? Can believing women afford to bow to discrimination in the church world, whilst their equality in the secular world is a fact of life?

Is it possible for a believing woman to use Paul’s words as an excuse for her own lack of courage to become fully involved in proclaiming Christ?

If I were A Woman, here are seven positions I would assume with all sincerity:

If I were a woman, I would receive Jesus Christ, God’s Son, as my Lord and Saviour. I would recognize His full redemptive work on my behalf. I would embrace my identity as a believer in Christ.
If I were a woman, who has believed in Christ, I would consider myself a Christian, a follower of Christ, His witness, and a messenger of His resurrection to every creature.
If I were a woman, I would embrace the fact that Christ lives in me, He serves through me, He speaks through me, He loves through me, and ministers through me; that my body is His body; that He is free to continue His same ministry through me that He exercised in Bible times.
If I were a woman, I would do what Christ told me to do as a believer, even if I was criticized for it. Christ suffered reproach for me. No servant is above his or her Master. Mtt. 10:24
If I were a woman, I would receive and be filled with the Holy Spirit to become Christ’s witness to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8
If I were a woman, I would note that Jesus never made a difference between the sexes. I would be impressed by the different women who were associated with His life and ministry. I would be like the woman of Samaria who, as soon as she believed, evangelized a whole city for Jesus.
If I were a woman, I would never allow any voice, edict, dogma, rule or doctrine to limit the exercise of my authority as Christ’s witness, private or public, or to suppress my Christian ministry to people anywhere.

Jesus commissions men and women alike to go out where the people are, to tell the whole world the Good News of redemption.

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