She Is Loyal

Glory to God is the number one purpose of the emancipated woman, 

and evidence that she makes God the first priority of her day, 

and ends each day with God to the exclusion of all else.

Matthew 26:6 While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, 7 a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. 8 When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked. 9 "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."10 Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 11 The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.12 When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. 13 I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."  14 Then one of the Twelve--the one called Judas Iscariot--went to the chief priests 15 and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" So they counted out for him thirty silver coins. 16 From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.”

CROSS-REFERENCES TO MATTHEW 26:6-16

According to Thompson’s Chain Reference

·         Paraphrase of Thompson’s commentary.

o   Personal observations of how this applies to the Christian woman today.

Matthew 15:21-28 

• The Christian woman seeks the Lord’s solutions to her problems before she cries out for help from others, and she praises the Lord’s solutions before expressing her gratitude to others’ aid.

o   In our service to others, us women must purposefully remember that ALL are God’s children and worthy of hearing the Gospel and seeing His love through us, regardless of our personal opinion of that person.

   

Luke 7:1-10 

• The Christian woman believes her prayers are answered at the very moment she prays them, even though she may never “see” the results.

o   In our service to others, us women who feel anxious need to recognize that as a warning - that we are not trusting God enough to handle our problems.  We have to purposefully say to our problems that our God is stronger than our biggest problem.

Luke 7:18-35 

• The Christian woman recognizes that her obedience does not make her greater than any other believer.

o   In our service to others, us women must believe that as a child of God made in His image, we are a reflection of His righteousness, made possible through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ, and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  We must purposefully believe that other Christians carry these same blessings, even if we cannot see them in their lives.

Luke 21:1-4 

• The Christian woman gives of herself unconditionally.

o   In our service to others, us women must purposefully allow our love for God to spill over and pour out to others in our life, and not dam it up and hoard it for ourselves.

Nehemiah13:1-31 

• The Christian woman chooses to be obedient to God, not so that she will be noticed by mankind, but that she will be noticed by God.

o   In our service other others, us women must continually watch out for the dangers of doing our good works before mankind, whether it be from our own volition, or from their whims.  We must make sure our heart is pure before God and our motives are for His glory and not our own or to please anyone else.

Matthew 25:34-36

• The Christian woman recognizes that her faith enables her to do good works for the kingdom of God – but that her good works are not what “saves” her, because she is already a member of the “family” of God, she is already saved by His Grace, so her good works are not “reserving” a place in the kingdom – they are serving the family of God and being a light to the lost.

o   In our service to others, us women need to remember that we do not have anything to prove.  We are accepted by God through the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  That’s all the qualifications we need to be a Christian!

1 Thessalonians 1: 2-10 

• The Christian woman knows that she can do all things through Christ as He empowers her to do so - through her own power.

o   In our service to others, us women need to remember that when our spirit is weak, Jesus is strong, which makes our spirit stronger and our carnal nature weaker.

Revelation 2: 1-7 

• The Christian woman knows that success as a Christian is not simply doing good works or enduring hardships, it is pursuing Christ through it all.

o   In our service to others, us women need to be authentic in our faith journey because God made us unique.  If we are synthetic in our faith journey, we make ourselves out to be a copy-cat of other Christians, instead of living our life in Christ’s image.