Extended Authority
Given By Some Man

The doctrine of extended authority is giving permission or sharing the Ministerial authority of someone else. Some believe women do not have in themselves authority to preach. They teach that she gets authority from a Pastor who gives it to her as an extension of his authority. In this manner she is said to be under subjection so she can preach.  So whatever she does or says is by a man's authority not her own.

This doctrine teaches the woman is given a 50% calling to preach by who ever the Pastor is and when she is finished, he takes the 50% calling back, so he will be 100% the Pastor again. She is not a woman preacher except when he gives her the 50% authority to be one. They teach, the woman does not have a Calling of God, that the Pastor has authority to call her to be a preacher. In this manner it was hoped that Church members would stop walking out on women preachers, since they were acting only under the authority and an extension of the Pastor's Ministry. If you walked out on her, it was equivalent to walking out on the Pastor. For this sin, a person might be cast out of the Church, their children be thrown out of the Christian School, and the whole family cursed to the seventh hell. This is all a Pentecostal halloween. Where did the idea first originate in principal?

Eve desired to become a goddess. She accepted the teachings of the serpent and with these came implied extended authority to teach them to Adam. Eve was the first female messenger in the Bible with extended authority and it did not come from God. Her message was sent by the serpent. She received her ordination to carry that first message through "extended authority." Ever since, there have been women manipulating the Word of God any way they can, to make it appear they have an "extended ministry" from a husband or some other Pastor. This is falsehood.

Instead of discussing her actions with her husband, before she made the final decision to eat the fruit, Eve acted on her own feelings. Instead of going to her husband, "her head" for advice, she worked her sin out of her own head. Instead of telling the serpent, "my husband is the head over my actions", she totally ignored Adam and God and did her own thing.

Eve demonstrated the first woman preacher spirit. She got her ordination and unction to teach from the serpent. She disobeyed God. She wanted to be a "goddess." She did not eat to be equal to Adam. She ate to be equal with GOD! As God came to Eden, so Jesus Messiah came to the earth as a Preacher. Women preach today, not to be equal to any man. They will tell you boldly they don't care what any man thinks. Every woman preacher I have ever met has boasted this. They say boldly: "It's better to obey God, than a Man of God." No, they don't care what any man thinks, because it is not man to whom they have made themselves equal. They preach because it makes them equal to JESUS Messiah. Who called them to preach if Jesus did not ordain a single woman Apostle? Who sent them with a message to teach others, if Jesus Messiah did not? We will find the answer in the Message Jesus sent to the Church of Thyatira:

There you have it! "SHE CALLED AND SENT HERSELF."

God will commune and speak to the hearts of the men and women who have an ear to hear what he is saying. God will never tell a person to do something contrary to his Word, or contrary to the Revelations that guide the Church. Therefore, God could never call, ordain, or send any woman with a message of salvation to preach. No woman could have extended authority from Jesus Messiah, simply because he does not give it to them. There were no women in the extended authority given to the twelve Apostles. There were no women in the extended authority Jesus gave to the seventy. If we look at the first chapter of Acts, where the eleven were deliberating on an Apostle to replace Judas, the pool from which the replacement was drawn contained no women. When we look at the choosing of Deacons to look after the ministration of the Grecian women, no women were among the pool of eligible candidates. Surely, if a woman could not be ordained to be in charge to look after women, how could they be ordained to be in charge to look after MEN? The qualifications of Deacons do not apply to women.

There was ample place and time to authenticate that women could have extended authority from men in the New Testament Ministry. The fact that they are omitted from all these accounts proves something. These records can not just be ignored or pretended not to exist. The message they carry can not be minimized. They are a part of the official and certified records of the Church. If a woman is not in the records, as a minister, it's because there were none! I have yet to read or hear an explanation from women preachers or the men who ordain them, as to why women are absent from these examples. I am sure, we will wait many more years before an answer is given.

There is a chain of command here. If a man or woman does not understand that system, it's usually because they don't want to; It's because they don't want to believe the Scriptures as written; It's because they have rejected Scriptures they don't want to reconcile; It's because the Spirit can not speak to them across inbred confusion, traditions of women, and false doctrine. The chain of command is laid out in the home. It is laid out in the Church. She is not over her husband at home, and she can not be over any man in the house of God. When a woman can be over the men in the Church, she can be over her husband at home, and this is unscriptural.

Women in the pulpit preaching, is equivalent to gifts being used out of order in the Church. They must be stopped! While some guard the use of gifts to keep order, they refuse to guard the pulpit with the same justice. They will then turn and say: "Let everything be done decently and in order." A women preaching is certainly out of ORDER, since she is not in the ORDER of Melchizedek of Jesus Messiah. Even if a Preacher presumes to give his wife or some girlfriend extended authority into the Order of Melchizedek of Jesus Messiah, he can not do it. For the moment he attempts or tries, he is out of ORDER and has excluded himself outside the Calling of his own Ministry. He will remain out of ORDER until he stops his erroneous conduct, repents, and makes a public confession of his faults that has hurt THE CHURCH.

Because some men walk disorderly in ordaining women to preach, many Apostolic Ministers rightly refuse to have fellowship with them. Once a Preacher receives the Truth, he is just as responsible for obeying it, as the sinner who learns of Acts 2:38. As stated in another place: we can only practice the Apostolic Faith. We have no right to interpret the Scripture contrary to the Practice and Faith of the Apostles. Any Minister who has ordained a woman to preach is disorderly. By disorderly, we mean that "dis" means "not, out of, and not in harmony; by "orderly" we mean, not according to order, not according to Law, not according to ordained standards of behavior. Thus, a preacher out of ORDER in ordaining women preachers, is one who is out of harmony with ordained standards of behavior in the Apostolic Church.

The doctrine of extended female authority is false. No man may find this doctrine anywhere in the Bible, except with the serpent and Eve. As we search for the Apostolic Woman, we will look for those wonderful women of the Church, who keep good homes, often have jobs to make ends meet, and still worship in the beauty of holiness. Such jewels would never jeopardize a Minister's Calling and or his soul, by pestering him to ordain them. A wife or girl friend who has caused her husband or Pastor to be disorderly and excluded from his rightful place among the Melchizedek Order of Priesthood in Jesus Messiah, will see the danger she has caused and repent.

Because the Melchizedek Order of Jesus Messiah is not bestowed by Man upon Man, but by Messiah upon Man after ordination, it is a Ministers personal responsibility to maintain the qualifications for his Calling thereafter. Those who do not are among that group whom John said:

As fellow Ministers of the same ORDER, we may bless, review qualifications, and ordain new candidates with the Charge of purity of doctrine, but it is God who then bestows and when necessary revokes the Order of Priesthood. No man can obtain the Priesthood without ordination, any more than a person can baptize themselves and then claim to have been Scripturally baptized. Only those qualified may baptize, and only those qualified may ordain. As God recognizes the role of the Apostolic Minister who baptizes, so God recognizes only the role of the Apostolic Pastor in ordaining. After baptism, God signifies the act of faith is acceptable and bestows the Holy Ghost. After Ordination, God signifies the act of faith and bestows the Priesthood.

God will not go against his Word and ordain a woman preacher. If she claims she has been ordained by the Spirit and does not need man's approval, it is evident she is reprobated and working under her own manufactured alleged anointing. God is not in it. I have been around Apostolic Churches since 1948. I have seen a lot of things that on the surface and at the time appeared a move of the Spirit, only to find out it was false, put on, and a lie. When I see a holiness woman in the pew with blessed hands praising God, and she is out of the pulpit and not claiming to be a woman preacher, that woman I know has no lust for extended authority as an excuse to find a better way to show her honor before God.

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