“Jesus, the First Women’s Liberator” Episode 1, Series 9, “Empowered Through Jesus, Our Living Hope”
Hello and welcome to our new series, “Empowered Through Jesus, our Living Hope.” Today, we are going to show how Jesus was the Living Hope for all of us but especially how He was the living hope to women in His day because He was the first women’s liberator. My name is Stephanie Wright. Let’s step into the living waters of hope.
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“Jesus, the First Women’s Liberator” Episode 1, Series 9, “Jesus, Our Living Hope”
Hello and welcome to our new series, “Jesus, our Living Hope.” Because this introductory episode is so short, we will release two episodes this week and return the week of October 11. Today, we are going to show how Jesus was the Living Hope for all of us but especially how He was the living hope to women in His day because He was the first women’s liberator. My name is Stephanie Wright. Let’s step into the living waters of hope.
Jesus was a radical when it came to women. He liberated women in his day. The four gospels, Acts, and the writings of Paul not only bear witness of Jesus' divine mission, but also document Jesus' desire to raise the status of women even if it meant challenging the current social practices of the day. This is from an article called, "Sorting Out the Seven Marys." And this article points out some examples of the Savior's breaks with social norms of the day to include: 1. conversing with the woman at the well in Samaria (Episode 2, in this new series) in which he bears the witness of his divinity, that's in John, chapter four; 2. inviting women to travel with him and be his disciples (now that was unheard of back then). That’s in Luke 8. Here, we are first introduced to Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susanna, and many others who, supported Jesus’ ministry and presumably traveled with him; 3. publicly expressing compassion to the widow of Nain (both in conversation and in the act of raising her son from the dead, Luke, chapter seven); 4. allowing women who were ritually unclean (you know, you didn't do that back in that day), to touch him (that would be the woman with the issue (of blood). This act of liberating a woman from a debilitating affliction was so important, it is in three of the four gospels: Matthew 9:20‑22, Luke 8:43‑48, and Mark 5:25‑34; 5. and on at least two occasions, allowing women to unveil their heads in public to use their hair, to wash or anoint his feet: Luke 7:36‑50, John 12:3; 6. Christ also taught with parables whose central figures were women, for example, the woman who lost a precious piece of silver (Luke 15:8‑10) and the parable of the unjust judge or the persistent woman (Luke 18:1‑8); and 7. he allowed a woman to temporarily abandon certain domestic duties in order to be instructed at his feet (Luke 10:39‑42 , that would be Mary coming and being at his feet and wanting to hear the word while Martha was wrapped up in the kitchen doing so many things. In other words, Jesus got the woman out of the kitchen, praise God! So we just thank God for Jesus today being the first women’s liberator and indeed being the liberator of all mankind through His death, burial, and resurrection from death to everlasting life.
So, how has Jesus liberated you? What were you set free from when you gave your life to Christ. Or, if you have not given your life to him yet, know that He is the same liberator today as he was over 2000 years ago. His power to set women and men free is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8.
Now, stay with us as Apostle Charles closes us out and lets you know how to contact us and comment on this podcast. And if you would like to be a guest on our podcast contact me at cgmpresents@gmail.com
Citations: Lynn H. Cohick, “Was the Samaritan Woman Really an Adulteress?” Christianity Today, October 12, 2015; Blair G. Van Dyke and Ray L. Huntington, “Sorting Out the Seven Marys in the New Testament,” Religious Educator 5, no. 2 (2004): 53–84.