Bereans Corner
Bereans Corner
Iron Sharpens Iron #12: Should "bishop" Mariann Budde Been in the Pulpit?
How is everyone doing? I do hope that you are doing well. It has been a while since I posted a video on my YouTube channel. Generally, I'm just doing my podcast, but this story came across my eyes and it was something that I felt like we needed some audio, I'm excuse me, some video visual to see and not just audio. I actually may put this on my Bereans Corner podcast, which is, as you know, is audio only, but I wanted to put this on my YouTube page, particularly since I haven't posted on YouTube in a while.
Speaker 1:This quote unquote Bishop you see in the title I have it in there was addressing the newly elected president and vice president, and I think it might have been some other members of the chamber in the audience, and this person had a very strange message that was given in the church. There was no mention of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, in this message. It was nothing about his saving grace, it was nothing about the gospel. It was just this bishop's own personal opinion. This bishop's own personal opinion, something that the church is not here for.
Speaker 1:The church is not given a 501c3 so you can get up there and spew your personal beliefs. You are supposed to be helping the people, giving the people the word of God and helping the people with their financial and sometimes physical needs, but not spreading your political agenda. But before we get into too much, if you haven't heard this message, this is about under a two minute clip of what she was talking about. I want to say that this may have been Tuesday. I'll play it and we'll listen to it together and then we'll get back into it.
Speaker 2:Let me make one final plea, mr President.
Speaker 2:Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives, and the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. I ask you to have mercy, mr President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we will all want strangers.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to stop it right there. As you know, this is a Bible study channel, so we don't make it too political. I will still jump on a couple of things that she said. One she mentioned the strangers in the land. She mentioned about people not being citizens. Well, we know that the word of God says that we are to obey the authorities and the laws, and the laws in the United States are if you want to come into this country, you have to come in the proper way. You cannot come in through illegal means. You can't come in through the border illegally.
Speaker 1:So she skipped over that part and went straight to the heartstrings of these people do this, this, this and the other? And what about the kids? And then, as of course she started out with, what are LGBT children who are afraid? Blah, blah, blah. I don't know exactly what it is they're afraid of, because it's not a witch hunt for them. Afraid of, because it's not a witch hunt for them, but for this person to stand in the pool pit that is supposed to be the holy place of the Lord and spew that nonsense obviously has not read the book and obviously is not going by the letter of what the book says listen, this is not something that we need to draw out. We know that. We know what the word of God says when it comes to those type of things and those type of lifestyles. And it's always interesting to me that the people who claim to be ministers or bishops or whatever, they all kind of look the same way. You know, when it's a woman like this, I know they always have the short hair and they're always wearing collared shirts. It just seems that they always go about and look the same way.
Speaker 1:But the biggest issue that I really want to talk about is the fact that she is even in this pulpit. To begin with, if you have your Bible, go to First Timothy, chapter two. I'm going over two scriptures, and they're both in First Timothy. First Timothy, chapter two. We're going to two scriptures, and they're both in 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy, chapter 2, we're going to look at verses 9 through 15. And I'm getting right to what my main issue is here 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 9.
Speaker 1:Likewise, I want women to endure themselves with proper clothing, modesty and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim of godliness. A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submission. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. Let me pause right there real quick, because this Bishop Marianne, be honest with your last name slips my mind. This is a woman, this is a female. Verse 12 again. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. She has no business being in that pulpit anyway, calling herself teaching anything. Verse 14 says what. I'm sorry, verse 13, not 14 says what. For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve, and it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived fell into transgression. Adam was created first and then Eve. She would be in the role of Eve. She is not to have dominion over Adam, but yet, and still, she was in this pulpit talking to the new president of the United States and any of his other council that was sitting there. So she's up there giving instruction, teaching in the church. More importantly, more importantly, she is not even supposed to be up there teaching out of the word of God anyway. Now, when it comes to a woman's prayer group, women's study group. That is something that women are allowed to do, but to be up in front of everyone with the authority that she is not supposed to do.
Speaker 1:And how did we come to this conclusion? Because let's go and see what Paul said in first Timothy three. Remember I told you we had two scriptures, both in first Timothy, first Timothy three. You know, let's, uh, let's start with verse one. It is a trustworthy statement. If any man expires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. Notice the personal pronoun he, and notice that it says if any man aspires and that word in the Greek is a male, not mankind If a man aspires to the office of overseer verse two an overseer, then must be above reproach the husband of one wife. Listen, we can stop right there. I don't even have to go through the rest of the qualifications that the Lord told Paul to teach what men needed to do to be overseers, because when you read on you see that there's a lot of that. Every man isn't called to teach because there's a lot of qualifications he has to meet.
Speaker 1:But we can stop right here and I can show you right there why Bishop Mary Ann was not allowed to be in that pulpit. One of the qualifications is the husband of one wife. She is not a husband, she was called by God to be a wife. That, right there, shows you that she is disqualified from being called a quote unquote bishop, and she's disqualified for being up in the pulpit calling herself teaching the word of God. Not to mention, right there, she didn't teach any of the word of God.
Speaker 1:Now, to be honest, I did not hear the whole 45 minute. I think it may have been where I looked up a sermon that she gave, but that's the part that stood out is that she calls herself being in this pulpit and she calls herself teaching the word of God when she has no business being up there anyway. Now, if, if one of the other bishops in the church wanted to get up there and do his sermon and then she wanted to pull the president aside when it was all over with quietly, that's fine, you know, it's nothing wrong with that at all. But for her to be in the pulpit, we know how the Lord feels about that and I know I know, because I saw the comments of people there's going to be some of those who are going to be twisting scripture. Hey brother, I have a female pastor and she delivered me from this. She, she did this, she did that.
Speaker 1:No, sir, you could try to twist the scriptures all you want, but you're going to have to do with the Lord in the end with that. There is no scripture that says that a woman could be a pastor, a minister, a bishop and that she could be up in the pulpit teaching. Now, don't get this twisted. There are women who have skills. There are women who have been under their husband or been under a good pastor and they are good teachers to other women. Like I said, women's prayer group women are powerful prayers Women's Bible study groups that's fine, but women are not supposed to teach men, no matter how good of a teacher she is.
Speaker 1:All right, people, I want you to give me your thoughts on this, tell me what you think about this quote-un, unquote bishop up in the pulpit calling herself, preaching to the president and the rest of the government officials that was out there, and give me your thoughts on the scriptures that we read, on whether she should or should not be in the pulpit teaching.
Speaker 1:To be honest with you, I'm just doing it for open discussion, but I go by what the word of God says. The word of God says that she should not. All right, if you haven't already over here on YouTube like comment and subscribe, and if you look into the description, you will find my Bereans Corner podcast. That's mostly what I do is my podcast. I don't do a lot of YouTube videos, I just kind of bounce in here from here and there. But if you will, you can look into the descriptions. You can go over there and you can hear our Bible study where we go through books of the Bible, our Bible study where we go through books of the Bible verse by verse, word for word. That's all I have on this one, until next time, god bless.