Braggs Church of Christ

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Braggs Church of Christ
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Women The Gift Of Prophecy In The 1st Century
Church
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Introduction

• A. Role of Women
• B. Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• Acts 2
• Acts 8

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1. The Gift Of Prophecy

• One of 9 Miraculous gift

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1 Cor. 128-11

• For to one is given by the Spirit the word of
  wisdom to another the word of knowledge by the
  same Spirit To another faith by the same Spirit
  to another the gifts of healing by the same
  Spirit

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1 Cor. 128-11

• 10 To another the working of miracles to
  another prophecy to another discerning of
  spirits to another divers kinds of tongues to
  another the interpretation of tongues

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1 Cor. 128-11

• 11 But all these worketh that one and the
  selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally
  as he will.

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Acts 1128

• And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and
  signified by the spirit that there should be
  great dearth throughout all the world which came
  to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.

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Acts 2110

• And as we tarried there many days, there came
  down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus.

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2. Some Women In The Early Church Had This Gift
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Acts 218-9

• And the next day we that were of Paul's company
  departed, and came unto Caesarea and we entered
  into the house of Philip the evangelist, which
  was one of the seven and abode with him. And the
  same man had four daughters, virgins, which did
  prophesy.

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1 Cor. 115

• But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with
  her head uncovered dishonoureth her head for
  that is even all one as if she were shaven.

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Joel 228-29

• And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will
  pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons
  and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men
  shall dream dreams, your young men shall see
  visionsAnd also upon the servants and upon the
  handmaids in those days will I pour out my
  spirit.

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Joel 228-29

• And it shall come to pass afterward That I will
  pour out My Spirit on all flesh Your sons and
  your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall
  dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.
  And also on My menservants and on My maidservants
  I will pour out My Spirit in those days. NKJV

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3. Definition of Prophecy

• This was the supernatural gift of inspiration.
  A prophet was one who spoke for God the subject
  might address the past, the present, or the
  future its nature might be negative or positive
  it might be instructional or corrective. Bob
  Winton

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3. Definition of Prophecy

• To prophesy was to edify in a language all
  present could understand. Guy N. Woods
• Inspired messages from God
• This is teaching, of course as directed by the
  Holy Spirit

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1 Cor. 143

• But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to
  edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

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4. Restrictions On The Womans Use Of This Gift
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1 Tim. 212-13

• But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp
  authority over the man, but to be in silence. For
  Adam was first formed, then Eve.

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1 Tim. 212

• And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have
  authority over a man NKJV
• I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise
  authority over a man ESV

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1 Tim. 212

• But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have
  dominion over a man ASV

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1 Cor. 1434

• Let your women keep silence in the churches for
  it is not permitted unto them to speak but they
  are commanded to be under obedience, as also
  saith the law.

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1 Cor. 1434

• Let your women keep silent in the churches, for
  they are not permitted to speak but they are to
  be submissive, as the law also says.

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5. Proper Use Of This Gift By Women

• Private teaching
• Teach children
• Teach other women

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Acts 1826

• And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue
  whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they
  took him unto them, and expounded unto him the
  way of God more perfectly.

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Titus 23-5

• The aged women likewise, that they be in
  behaviour as becometh holiness, not false
  accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of
  good things

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Titus 23-5

• That they may teach the young women to be sober,
  to love their husbands, to love their children,To
  be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
  obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
  God be not blasphemed.

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Miraculous Gifts Have Ceased

• 1 Cor. 138-10
• Charity never faileth but whether there be
  prophecies, they shall fail whether there be
  tongues, they shall cease whether there be
  knowledge, it shall vanish away.

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Miraculous Gifts Have Ceased

• 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
  But when that which is perfect is come, then
  that which is in part shall be done away.

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Conclusion

• Col. 317
• And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in
  the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God
  and the Father by him.