Secure Church Women

 Secure Church Women


One of the glories of the gospel's influence in the church, is to see believers become so secure in Jesus, that they, in time, become almost "immune" to all the outside pressures to compromise themselves, pollute themselves, and hurt themselves.

 

This is especially beautiful, when it is witnessed in the true and regenerate church's women.  They are so happy to be who they are in Jesus, they would not want to be anyone (or anything) else. . . . The world--especially the religious world--comes to them, and says, "Become like a man; you can be as bad and vile as any male. You can be 'empowered' with all the things that the world offers. Come, be part of it."  The secure, Christ-loving churched woman says, "No way. You can keep your alleged 'power' to yourself. Mine (in Jesus) is much greater than yours. Nothing you can offer me can make me happier than I am right now."

 

. . . And corrupted religious men will say to these women, "Come, do what we do, even in the church--you will find greater fulfillment in this. You cannot be truly content, unless you do what we do, i.e. preach, lead, etc." . . . But, again, the secure, Spirit-filled church woman says, "Keep your things to yourself. I do not need them. Your alleged 'kindness' to me is really cruelty and abuse. I am not buying it."

 

The kind of women we are talking about here do not "come out of the blue."  They are made this way by the Spirit of God as He inculcates the gospel of grace in them--Sunday by Sunday--as they hear Jesus Christ and His grace preached to them from the Sacred Text of the written Word of God.  They become fortified in their faith; and they do not need anything more than (or less than) Jesus.

 

. . . For all the poor religious women who have "taken the bait" of the world; and have tasted the bitter futility and disappointment of it (and all its claims)--you may come to Jesus, too.  Find yourself a true church, an authentic pastor, and a thriving, Christ-loving congregation.  You do not need to wallow any longer in the misery, vanity, and pointlessness of the world.  Christ has reserved the best things for you in Himself, His gospel, and His church.

 

Rev. Mark J. Henninger

Treatise #95

4 May 2026

 

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