Month: February 2016

Women in Perilous Times

/ M. (Marcia) Evangeline Anderson / Leave a comment

Because of recent events in our lives, I thank God today for my husband, and that I have learnt to submit to him, under God. Submitting to my husband, under God, has kept me out of a lot of trouble! If the day ever comes when I don’t have a husband to whom I can submit under God, I will seek out a pastor and his wife with proven accountability to higher authorities in the Body of Yeshua / Christ, to fill that role for me.

In 2 Timothy 3:1-5 the scripture warns about the times in which we’re living, listing 20 ungodly character traits that will be prevalent, being summed up in people espousing “an outward form of godliness but denying its power.”  Then the warning continues: “Avoid these people! For among these are those who slip into households and deceive weak women…”

Every household has a head. In a Christian household the ultimate head is God – to whom the whole body of believers should submit – but where there are a husband and a wife in the household, there is a scriptural instruction for submission under God. Ephesians 5:21-23 describes this order for us: “Submit yourselves to one another out of reverence for Messiah— wives to your OWN husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as Messiah also is head of His community—Himself the Savior of the body. But as Messiah’s community is submitted to Messiah, so also the wives (should be submitted) to their husbands in everything.”

That highlights one of the perils that specifically targets married women today, which is not spelled out in the 2 Timothy passage: lack of submission to the right spiritual headship for spiritual protection. The spirit of this age tells women that whether they are married or not, they should operate independently of male authority, and that is what makes them vulnerable to those “men of corrupt mind” described in the 2 Timothy passage, who creep into households to deceive and exploit.

I will stop here. Look into these matters ladies. Do not let your household suffer because of you opening the door to such men by doing things behind your husband’s back. Submit to your OWN husbands under God, not someone else’s.

What a Man!

/ M. (Marcia) Evangeline Anderson / Leave a comment
You know, Yeshua haMashiach / Jesus the Christ was the most perfect man who ever lived. He was fully God and fully man. I don’t really understand that but I believe it because God said so (Colossians 2:9, Hebrews 2:14-17). Yet there is so much of ‘life’ that Yeshua forfeited in order to save my soul and yours. If He’d taken time to build a house for himself, to marry and have a family, to accumulate assests, etc., we’d all be going to hell!
The thing is, He owned the universe so He had no need for bits of paper giving Him rights to acreage on earth, or for currency to give Him ‘buying power’. He had the sure promise of a bride who’d become one with Him in supernatural ways, and a family that would be supernaturally unlimited, so He had no need to spend time seeking union with a ‘rib’ or ‘begetting’ descendants.
He had such a commitment to His mission that He could not be distracted by the appetite for what lesser men lust after, although he did have normal appetites. He declared at different times, for the record: “I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him Who sent Me. … My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me and to finish His work.”
So the sacrifice of Yeshua (which provided salvation for everyone who wants to accept it) did not start at Golgotha, or on the way to the cross that day, or even with His bloody sweat at Gethsemane. It started with Yeshua denying Himself many of those ‘natural’ things that His mortal body craved, in order that He could accomplish His unprecedented and unrepeatable assignment – the redemption of our souls. He set the supreme example of ‘putting the body under’ during His entire life and ministry.
I see no indication in scripture that Yeshua was gifted with low testosterone. The writer to the Hebrews – without doubt a male – described Yeshua as “One who has been tempted in all things as we are.”  Yet I see no manifestations of ‘male ego’ tainting the agape love with which Yeshua ministered to men, women and children. Even the prophecies of His triumph in the Revelation are not coloured with ‘machismo’. If that Samaritan woman who met Yeshua at the well had seen even the slightest glint in His eyes that was reminiscent of the men she’d known all her life, she wouldn’t have rushed into the town with great excitement, shouting especially to the men there, “Come! You all have to see this man…”