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While many say that women cannot receive from God something that will benefit men (as they believe that all wisdom that God has for humanity must come through the agency of a man) may I remind us today that the Wisdom of God brought God Himself into the world through a woman. The vessel that He used that was meant to bring benefit to all of <\/span>humanity\u00a0was a lowly servant who was a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n Some people today refuse to accept God’s gift that comes through a woman. Their pride will not allow them to benefit from anything that they believe is beneath them. \u00a0They practice hardening their hearts because they do not want to see and do not want to hear what originates from a woman. God cannot use a woman to preach and teach the gospel to the church, for God has limited Himself to only men who by virtue of their maleness, are fit to receive God’s special gifts. They teach\u00a0that only males as teachers and gentle shepherds of God’s people. To them, God’s best is always a man. God’s best is the wisdom of a man. God’s best is the strength of a man. To them, God cannot and will not use what is foolish or weak or insignificant, inferior, common or despised. \u00a0God limits His work through the chosen gender, and God surely sanctions male pride because He created them as first class citizens of the kingdom. \u00a0Is it not the complementarian message that it is through males alone that God can fully express Himself in wisdom, power and leadership?<\/span><\/p>\n But God has a surprise. God does not work that way.<\/span><\/p>\n 1 Cor 1:27 \u00a0but God has chosen the foolish things<\/em><\/strong> of the world to shame the wise<\/em><\/strong>, and God has chosen the weak things<\/em><\/strong> of the world to shame the things which are strong<\/em><\/strong>,<\/span><\/p>\n 1 Cor 1:28 \u00a0and the base things<\/em><\/strong> of the world and the despised God has chosen<\/em><\/strong>, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,<\/span><\/p>\n 1 Cor 1:29 \u00a0so that no man may boast before God.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n God has selected for Himself the rejected. He has chosen to represent Himself by those who are despised and who are looked down on as insignificant and inferior. God is pleased to use them for His glory.<\/span><\/p>\n Those who harbor a pride because of their gender are set up for shame. God will bypass them and use the ones who are considered weak and who have suffered disdain, scorn, contempt and rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n Where will you stand this Christmas? Will you lift up the male gender as the privileged ones? Or will you look past what is on the outside and see the precious gift of God that lives within many apparently weak vessels?<\/span><\/p>\n God has a gift this season which is available to those who will humbly receive. Will you accept God’s best gift as it is offered to you from those who has been rejected and despised by men? Or will you turn your back on God’s way and follow the way of the proud and the strong by saying that you do not need such a despised vessel to teach you anything?<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Receive](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mmoutreach.org\/wim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/christmas-girl.jpg?resize=267%2C400\")
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