You and I are going to go to all four Gospels, and we're going to stand in that soil near the cross of Christ,

and you and I are going to look for women in that scene, because it would have taken some courageous women, as what I'd like to suggest to you, to go to that place and to bear that sight.

Let me tell you what's up in the scriptures for us in this gathering place.

You and I are a large gathering of women who are going to encircle and surround an original little path of women

that traveled alongside the living Lord Jesus Christ throughout the region of Galilee

and on into Jerusalem. And I want you to see it. Luke chapter 8, we're going to start there

verses 1 through 3 and then we're going to go all manner of place in the Gospels tonight.

Luke chapter 8, verses 1 through 3.

Soon afterwards, he went on through cities and villages, this is talking about Jesus,

proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God, and the 12 were with him, and also some women who had been

healed of evil spirits and infirmities. Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,

and Joanna, the wife of Cusa, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others,

who provided for them out of their means.

I want you to notice that with me, that Jesus is traveling throughout the cities and villages.

He's proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God.

The 12 apostles are with him, and we are told in verse 2, something that I did not see until full on into my adulthood

years and years and years into women's ministry like staring at a page with such astonishment

coming to the the absolute authentic conclusion based on sacred

scripture that these women were literally traveling around in this same pack of people with the living

Lord Jesus Christ going all my life without sin.

It's not that anybody was hiding it from me.

It had been there all along.

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