Remember my friend Gary Harwell, he has lung cancer, so that's for sure he does. And they're going to start treating him all in pretty soon. Brother Bill, will you come up here and lead us in prayer? We haven't had you up here for a while. The final message is to veil or not to veil. All right? To veil or not to veil. Lord, our Heavenly Father Jesus, we just thank you for this precious opportunity to be in your house today with our fellow Christians and to join Jim's teaching, Lord, and learn what we're doing and to be able to go out and show other people, Lord, what there is up here in the Church and the love and the blessings that you get from being a Christian. Father, pray that you'll just go with us and guide us this week, that we might be able to meet someone, Lord, that we can share you with, Lord, and we ask all these things in Jesus Christ's holy name, Lord. Amen. Amen. 11 and verse 3. 11 and verse 3. We probably ought to read from 1 down here, 1 and 2, before we get started with that. Are either one of you girls got your Bibles open? Penny, you got yours open? You want to come up here? Rebecca, you just got down there. Both of you have the Amplified Bible, and that is good. 11 and verse 1 and 2. Pattern yourselves after me. Follow my example as I imitate and follow Christ the Messiah. I appreciate and commend you because you always remember me in everything and keep firm possession of the traditions. The substance of my teachings are instructions just as I have verbally passed them on to you. There you go Sharon. There it is. There it is. That is the book. Alright. She asked me a question just before class, and that is the answer right there. Well, to bail or not to bail? That's the question. To bail or not to bail? Now, we hear about all that today, don't we, all over the world. The Muslim girls in Muslim countries, if they do not wear a veil, they can take them out and horse whip them, stone them, do whatever else to them, okay? And in America, we've had all kinds of religious traditions for a couple hundred years, going back and forth. And tonight, we're into that part of the lesson. This is Paul making some direct instructions on hair and woman's apparel, or the way a woman looks. Levitin, verse three. Thelo. Thelo. Dei. Hemos. Adenei. Hotei. Antos. Andros. Hei. Cephali. Ho. Christos. Essen. Cephali. I wish you to thoroughly understand that word edene, that's perfect, to have perfectly understood. He said, I want you to perfectly understand this. Sharon had a question for me about the Apostles' Creed and different things. What we have here is a letter to the Corinthian church. And this letter to the Corinthian church is valid how to act in God's churches. This is a letter from the Apostle Paul by the inspiration of God to the Corinthian church which had all kinds of problems. The multitude problems that they have, we have today. I'm glad that they have all these problems, because now we have instruction for all the problems. What if these churches didn't have any problems? All the problems that we'd have today, we'd have no answers for, okay? And it says, I wish for you to know, to thoroughly understand, to have known that every man, the head, the Christ, He is head and Woman, the man, and head, and the Christ, the God. Okay? Now, that's kind of rough, kind of rough sounding. Rebecca, have you got yours open there for me? You want to come up here and read that for me in the Amplified? And then we're going to go back and discuss this. I've got some little bitty glasses, see, more modern glasses that are thirty-five years old. But I want you to know and realize that Christ is the head of every man, the head of every woman is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Alright. That explains it a little better. Now let me explain it a little more. Brother Bill, you made a translation of this right at the beginning of the classroom, remember? Alright. But I want you to thoroughly understand that Christ Is the head has sovereignty over look at that word that head there means sovereignty over sovereignty. What does sovereignty mean? What does sovereignty mean? Will, will it has power over authority, power, sovereignty. OK. Then I want you to know that. That Christ has sovereignty over every man. And that the man has sovereignty over his wife. Okay, that's what it says. Has sovereignty over his wife. Look, Bill. This is inspiration, Bill. Alright. Sovereignty over his wife and that God as a whole has sovereignty and power and right of the head of Christ's work when he was a redeemer on this earth. God, the Father, had power or sovereignty over Christ, did he not? What did Jesus say in the Garden of Gethsemane? Not my will, but thy will be done. Now, in our lives, there are men that beat up women and women that beat up men. That's just the way it is. We know in the Garden, in Genesis, the third chapter, the woman, Brother Bill, the woman was the one that took the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What did she do? Okay. The woman did it. All right. But the woman was deceived. Was she not? She was lied to by another. Another deceiving one in there. The Nahash. Say Nahash. The Nahash. Alright. The Nahash. Probably the Nahash or the snake was probably the king of the beast. Okay. Very beautiful. And they were on talking terms and so Eve was talking to the snake. What should that have been doing? He should have been between the woman and this Nahash. Alright? I don't know what he was doing, Bill. Maybe he was building helicopters. Who knows? But he was not watching over that woman. And the woman was deceived. But the man was not deceived. He was not deceived. Alright? And the curse was that the man, after he woefully took from the woman, knowing He could see in her what had happened. Man and woman were clothed with the glory of God. They were clothed with God's clothes. God's clothing. They were like shining ones. And you can just imagine that when Adam saw Eve, she wasn't shining quite like she was before. But she said, take of this. This is really good and it tastes really good. And he kept on taking it, kept on eating. They just gorged themselves on this fruit. They were gorging themselves. First of all, it wasn't theirs. It was God's. God says, don't touch it. It's mine. Don't touch it. So they stole it and then they lied to God. And they hid themselves and they tried to cover up their nakedness because now they were naked. They really became naked, it says in Hebrew. They became naked and they were unclothed before God. They didn't have that barrier of protection. Now, when you're born again today, believe it or not, you're clothed in Christ's righteousness like they were before. You're clothed in it. Now, like I said, women beat up men and men beat up women. The Bible simply states that man is the head of the wife. That's a flat statement. That we have to really accept. In the garden, the curse to the woman was, is that she would have pain in childbearing, but what else? That she would run after and be in subjection to her husband. And that's the hardest thing for a woman to do in the world. That just goes against their brain, doesn't it? It really bothers women. Because so many men try to lord it over them, too, don't they? A long time ago, I've trained horses all my life, and I've seen animals that were really abused. The hardest horses to train were children's horses or kids' horses, which were spoiled, and they learned every trick. They'll run underneath the tree, knock them off. They'll bite them when they try to get in the saddle. They'll run backwards and scare them or rub them off on a fence or whatever. They do all these things to you. And they learn all these tricks and to break a horse from doing all those things and then you've got to train the kid how to ride the horse afterwards and not let him try to do it. Okay? But sometimes horses are extremely abused. Harry Rolls got a bucking horse one time by the name of Lucky Buck. And that horse, this guy tried to train him a long time ago and he put a spade bit in his mouth. And he bucked him off and he pulled on him and he cut his tongue almost in two. And Lucky Buck was one of the greatest horses in history. But his tongue was almost cut in two. It was just hanging by a thread. And we had to put a twitch on him every time we put a bridle on him because of that. Even though for ten years he was in the top ten in the world cutting horse in the world. My stepfather Dale Remley won second in the world on him when Bucky Buck was 21 years old. He won second in the world at the Cow Palace. Well, sometimes you see horses at rare views. If it hadn't been for Harry Rose, that horse probably would have never been broke. He'd have been a buck and string in some rodeo. But he turned out to be one of the greatest horses in the world, cutting horses. And he's still in the legendary Hall of Fame. There's a movie someplace with Dale riding that horse, and it's called Legends. He was a tremendous cutting horse. Well, I was running the horse stable for my mother a long time ago, and these Mexican boys had a little, they were men actually, and they roped, but they drank every Saturday and Sunday. They just got falling down drunk. And they had this little old Shetland pony and Hackney cross, and he was a Palomino, beautiful little thing, the most perfect specimen of a little miniature horse, and he was about this tall, but he was just like a little quarter horse. Beautiful, beautiful lines and everything on him. But boy, they had abused him so badly. They had a kid's saddle there with him, a pony saddle and a bridle and everything else. And they'd get drunk and they'd get out there and put their spurs on. And they'd over and under him and they'd ride him and he'd buck and squeal. And when they got one in the pen to catch him, they'd have to rope him. And he'd come at him with his feet and his teeth and swirling and kicking and everything else because they had hurt him so much, so bad for so long. And they were paying my mother, I built all these horse corrals out there for her, and they were paying her like $15 a month for rent. And they decided they didn't want him anymore. And they said, would you give me $25 for that horse saddle and bridle? I said, yeah, I'll do it. Because we don't want to, we're just going to take him out and shoot him or whatever. Boy, he was mean. I fed him every day and everything, go out there and look at him, but he was mean. Because he'd been abused. He was so beat up that he would fight everything in sight. I went out there, and he'd come at me when I'd walk into the corral. Well, they roped him, so I took my rope with him, and I roped him. I took a buggy hook with me, and I had to whip him off of me with a buggy hook. I mean, I hit him hard. I got him out of the horse corral. I got him out there, and I started working him in the arena and working him on a jib line, what's called a jib line or lunging line, they call them today. I had a rope on him to make him run in circles and then I'd pop him on the butt a little bit gently and I'd say, come here. And I had some cookies and stuff in my pocket. And I'd get him to come up here and boy, he wanted to charge me. I'd whip him off of me. He'd strike me and stand on his hind feet and come at you and everything. Finally, I got him to where I could touch him and he just trembled when I touched him because he had been hurt every time he had been touched by a human being. And I just petted him and started rubbing him down and brushing him and cleaning his little feet out. His feet were so long and everything. Nobody could do with him. I got to where I trimmed his feet and everything. And I gave him $25 for it. I had some harness and I had some buggies and things. And so I, first of all, just started making friends with him and showing him that I wasn't going to hurt him and the kids could get around him and everything. And then he wanted to see us. He'd come up. went in and was glad to see him. I got out there and we had a cut-off tree and I had him jump up on the tree and I'd get him out there and I'd do tricks. My stepdad knew how to make a horse do anything and talk. I'd say, turn to the right, Skeeter. His name was Skeeter. He turned to the right and he turned to the left and spin on top of that tree trunk. He'd stand up on his hind feet and I'd say, shake hands. And he'd shake hands with me and I'd say, do you like me? And I'd have him do like that and I'd say, do you like her? He'd do all things like this. My dad did this kind of stuff. And I said, Count, how old are you? And I had him count and doing all this stuff. He was like a little trick horse. Then I trained him in the harness. And boy, he loved to be petted and loved. But he had been abused all his life. Sometimes men abuse women like that. How in the world can you teach them that you love them if you abuse them? And sometimes men abuse women or women abuse men. It's real hard. When you've been hurt, when you've been beat up like Skeeter was, I got him out there and I would drive him up and down the neighborhood and everybody just fell in love with that little horse. They wanted to ride him. We got to where we could ride him and everything else. And I could pace him. He could go about 25, 30 miles an hour just, you know, like these harness ponies with their legs stretched all out. Boy, he'd go like that and he'd just be moving on. One time we were out there in the field and there was a lot of gophers out there. I was going around this corner really fast, and I had my two boys with me. We went through this, which we didn't know, but we went through this gopher hole and the whole cart turned over. It threw us all out. The little old skeeter took off and ran all the way home. He was scared when I got home. He thought he'd done something wrong. We were all bleeding and everything. We were going about 25 miles an hour when that happened. It was like jumping out a car door at 25 miles an hour. But about three years later, I sold him for over $500. And he was a great horse. But he was just about to be dog food because somebody had abused him so badly. But I want you to thoroughly understand that Christ is the head, or has sovereignty over every man, and that the man is the head, or has sovereignty over every woman, that is why. And that God as head, as whole, has sovereignty over Jesus Christ in his redemptive work. They're basically all equal now, aren't they? Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are basically equal today. The work of the Redeemer And Jesus, when He subjected Himself to flesh and space and time, is done in it. That work is over. All right? 11 and verse 4 now. Pas, aner, profucopenos, hei, or hei, that is, profetion, kara, kafales, eko, kataiskene, tein, The following out to every man praying. All right. Look at that word praying there. It's nominee singular masculine present participle middle. That's middle voice. He's doing this himself in the middle voice. Every man doing this or prophesying and word prophesying their profiteo. What does that mean? Profiteo. We got a word profit out of it. But how am I prophesying tonight? Yes, I am. What am I doing? I'm pro faithio. I'm speaking for the Word of God. So that means I'm prophesying. Now, back at this period of time, in these churches, when the gifts of the Spirit were still active, they didn't have the Bible, OK? They would run into different kind of problems and stuff and God would have a message for them and the person would stand up and God would inspire them to say what they wanted to say right there because they didn't have the Bible. They didn't have it. They did not have the Bible. They were receiving the Word of God. We're going to get in later on in the 13th chapter and 14th chapter and get into that. But the subject here is the one, the man praying and the man Now, the man praying, look, it's middle voice there. And here we got present, participle, active, nominee, singular, masculine. It's active voice, not middle voice. Now, you can pray, and that's what we call volition, praying. You pray from inside, all right? But when you prophesy at this period of time, that's when God was acting, all right? That's when you're acting. you're acting by inspiration. According to the head, like Caracafales having, he downshames the head of him. And, Rebecca, you want to come up and read that one for me again, please? Number four. Number four. Any man who prays or prophesies, teaches, refutes, reproves, admonishes, and comforts with his head covered dishonors his head Christ. All right, thank you. Every man who has a woman wielding authority over him Every man who is wielding sovereignty and authority over him, even while she is his wife, and is supposed to be head of his home while praying or prophesying, disgraces himself and his work and his ministry and his home and his God. Boy, that's pretty powerful stuff right there. That's what it says from Greek, okay? That's what we're talking about. Everything that happens in a home, the man is responsible for it to God. A man is supposed to lead in such a way as not to beat his wife up, but to lead her and to love her and admonish her. But the man is the head of the wife. That's just the way it is. That's the way God set it in the home. When women look for husbands, they ought to look for one that would be a real good person to be sovereign over the home. Because that's really important. That's real important. If she wants to be the head of the home, then I think maybe she better not get married. Just be alone. Alright? Because if you are married, and you're a woman, the man is supposed to be the head of the home. That's it. There are no options. That's what God said. That's His order. That's God's order. Now we're going to talk about veiling. Alright? Veiling. Just think about to veil or not to veil. Now, by the way, this covering the head that you're talking about, what the Apostle Paul says here, man, you're putting the veil over you if you're not the head of your home. You're veiling yourself. You're not the one that's supposed to be veiling. You're being veiled. All right? We're going to get into that in a minute, but every Jew when he prays today, every Jewish person, every Jewish man, what does he do? He won't pray until he does what? Puts his head over his head, puts his shawl over his head, or puts his hand on his head, and he has a little skullcap up there. Okay? God says here that a man's not supposed to pray like that. Okay? Don't pray with your head covered. But it's not talking about literalness. It's talking about don't be a spiritual leader or don't pray or you shouldn't even be a leader in the church unless you have your home in order. That's it. Your home and the authority in your home must be in order. That's real hard to get after it's all run away. You know, after it's run off the other direction, it's hard to do that. And a woman ought to be willing to subject herself to the sovereignty of her husband. Because that is inspired, isn't it? Isn't it enough? It's inspired, okay? Is the Bible inspired? I believe it is. I believe every mode, tense, and voice in the original language is inspired of God. Now, we've been looking at these modes, tense, and voices here and there. Alright? Levin in verse 5. Hosea. Dei. Genei. prosyukha-mane, te, prosthetusa, akata-lito, te, kaphale, kataisa-kene, ten, kaphale, alte, ten, gar, esten, kai, to, alto, ten, U-REH-MEH-NEH. But every one woman praying. Now, what voice is that word praying in there? What voice is in that? It is a nominative singular feminine. It's inflected. It's feminine. That word there, PROSYUCHO-MEH-NEH. And it's present participle, but it's middle voice, isn't it? Now, she's praying. Coming from inside the prayers are coming from inside of her. Are prophesying. Okay. Are prophesying. And that means that she's speaking forth the Word of God. Okay. Unveiled. Or undowncovered is what it means. Undowncovered. To the head. For in the head she shaved the head of her. For one he is the same thing the having been shaved. All right? Early Christian women did not cut their hair. At all. Spiros Odioses makes a real good kind of elongated comment about this. A woman that was a prostitute had short hair, real short hair. And slave women had short hair. It kind of says that their head is shaved, but their hair was cut short. You could see a prostitute or a slave girl and you could tell instantly she was not allowed to have long hair. She was not allowed to have long hair at all. But the wife, and this is in a church capacity that will not subject herself to her husband, should be looked upon as a prostitute and just a common slave woman. Bill? This is what the Bible is saying now. I mean, this is it. Alright, this is it. It says every woman praying or prophesying, and you know women teach, we have women teaching in classes here at church. They teach children and things like that. But women that are teaching, praying, and prophesying in church capacity on their levels, and they are not in subject to their husbands, Shaming the husband and the shaming God. Shaming. The word shame there means to be naked. It means to be naked. To be unclothed before God. Remember what happened in the garden? When they sinned, they were unclothed. They were unclothed. When a woman will not be in subject to her husband, she is unclothed. She is unclothed. She is shamed. She is looked upon, God looks upon her as a prostitute and a common slave person with faith. A slave didn't have any rights, did she? Didn't have any rights at all. No rights at all. Alright. Rebecca, you want to bring that back up here and look at number five in the Amplified Bible? To veil or not to veil? Just read 5 and 6. And any woman who publicly prays or prophesies, teaching, refutes, reproves, admonishes, or comforts, when she is bareheaded, dishonors her head, her husband. It is the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman will not wear a head covering, then she should cut off her hair too. But it is disgraceful for a woman to have her head shorn or shaven. Let her cover her head. What is it talking about? Is it talking about her head? What's the subject? It's not really talking about hair, is it? It's talking about what? Position. Position in the home. It's talking about position in the home. Now, we live in a world that is totally demolished. America has just basically demolished their American home. I mean, the Christian home, pretty much. Women are stronger than men. Did you know that? They usually last longer than men. Okay? They work harder than men. And they have forever. For 6,000 years, they have. The Bible woman. You go back into the Bible and you look at what Solomon's mother said for him to find a wife like that. You know, he had a lot of them, didn't he? How many wives did Solomon have? He had 700 wives, but he had 300 concubines also, didn't he? And they were actually wives too, so we have a thousand wives, plus one more. Who was the other one? Sheba. He had a thousand and one wives. But his mother said, I want you to look for a wife. Huh? This is the wife for you to look for. I want you to look for a wife that has these qualities. These qualities. She is modest. Okay? She is modest. She is a hard worker. She goes out in the fields. Out in the fields. And she works. And she makes money. And she makes profit. And she dresses her husband with fine clothing. And she dresses her husband with fine clothing. And she goes and buys in the markets. And she has oil in her lamps at night because there was no other way to light the house. In the wintertime, especially, it gets dark early. So even sitting around in the evening, you've got to have lights. But she had lights. Remember the ten virgins and all that in the New Testament? They didn't have any oil for the lanterns because they were not wise. They were not prudent. He said, this woman is wise and she's prudent. At one time in America, the American home was an agricultural setting. Little farms. The American Indians that were here way before any white contact, the women did most of the work, didn't they? Men protected the family, protected the tribes and different ones, and they would go out and hunt and do everything else, but the women did the majority of the work. They did the majority of the work. And among the Iroquois, the women were actually the heads. And the lineage of the family was through the woman, not the man. And the lineage of the Hebrew people is through the woman, not the man. All right? What do you say about that? And the Iroquois, the women, picked the chiefs. But once they picked the chiefs, they were in subjection to the chief. Okay? So all the world, Through Europe. Through slavery. Slavery is one of the plagues of mankind. All great societies have been formed upon what? Slavery. That's how they got great. With slavery. There were a few people at the top of it. A few elite princes and everybody else paupers. If you go through Europe you look and The morality in Europe was horrible. All the way through Europe and into the Middle East, one thing about the Middle East, their wives were almost like cattle to them, like property, which was not really good. But they were insubjection. In Europe, the families were helter-skelter in so much of it. They were so poor that they made it like dogs. And many women were just prostitutes and running from one to the other and men were just wild running in gangs. You had families and different things and later on you had families in Ireland and Scotland and things like that. But boy, the greatest majority of it, there were peons, the serfs, and the princes. And there were a lot of serfs and a few princes. They were holding all the property. Then they come to America and they wanted freedom. Over there, you lived in a caste system. You come over here and you got freedom. They wanted freedom like the American Indian experience. They wanted democracy. That's where we get democracy. This is it. They didn't experience that over there, but they came here and they started conquering and taking over and everything. Then they started building their farms and the women did most of the work. The men did the fighting almost all the time. I tell you what, women worked hard through history. Women are hard workers. Okay? And it seems like men are always fighting wars, aren't they? Always fighting wars. Just go through history and just figure that out. We got wars every 20 years at least. We had a war all the time in the last 40 years. And America then, America started, and in the big cities in Europe, you have lots of crime, don't you? All right? And the home was all messed up. In America, when it was an agricultural society, they were very religious people. Women were working hard and the kids were all working hard. The more kids you had, the more property you could take care of. Things like that. And then World War I came along. Well, actually the Civil War came along and the men were taken out by mass. Okay? And then you have promiscuity and all kinds of stuff at home, you know, on the farms and raping and pillaging and things. And then we have World War I. Again, in America. It started breaking down the American home. I mean, there were wars. And somebody needed to protect somebody, but it started breaking up the homes. People would go and when you lose all your men and women alone There's a few men around and all kinds of stuff happened. And you know what I'm talking about. World War II came along. And they started putting women to work in the workforce. Rosie the Riveter and all that. Remember that? That was a big thing to look forward to. Women that worked out in the field. But when they did that, the American family just kind of began to sink. Women didn't think that they needed a man anymore because they could support themselves now. out in society. And then people started, the man and the woman were equal now. Were equal! And of course, way back in the late 1800s and early 1900s, women wanted the right to vote. And among the American Indian people, women always voted anyway. They could go to school. But there was a caste system that was brought from Europe here. And women were fighting that caste system. And God destroyed the caste system in Christ. Did you know that? He destroyed it. Because when he looks upon a man or woman, you're on equal ground with him. You get saved the same way. A man or woman does not answer to her husband for salvation. She should answer to her husband for her standing, but not salvation. And the home, the man is the head of the home and the woman is the foundation of the home in so many ways. The home depends upon her. Today, women and men both have to work, don't they? To just get something inside, many times. I mean, from about 1950 until about 1980 or so, a man could work and a woman could stay home. Only for that short period of time in history in America. And there was what? Retirement and all this kind of stuff. We're going through a little history lesson with this tonight, okay? And everything now, it's all... In the late 1800s, when a child got to be 5, 6, 7 years old, he had to go into the workforce. Teddy Roosevelt turned that around. He broke big business. And broke it down. And he stood behind the unions and got people out there working. and trying to build up rights for the workers. That's when the FDA was all started and everything else during Teddy Roosevelt. He had America going right, and that, because of what he started in the 1950s, that's when you had freedom and that's when you could work like this and you could have a home. But what happened after that? Greed and power again. The first big leap was when the oil companies powered that false gas crisis in the 70s and they broke all the little companies. And then we have monopolies. That's what Teddy Roosevelt wrote was monopolies. Now all we have is monopolies. It's all monopolies, isn't it? And now your children are going to have to go to work. Just like they did back in the late 1800s. Remember why Sunday schools were started? So children could learn how to read and write so they could get above. John B. Stetson. Remember when I told you about John B. Stetson? John B. Stetson began the American dream. He provided homes for his workers and health care and retirement and company benefits. They could have part of the company. And medical. Before it was ever forced upon him. And then Henry Ford did the same thing. There's where we have the beginning of the American dream, and now we have the fall of the American dream. Well, back to the home. To bail or not to bail. Now, financially, before about 1960, a woman didn't even have any rights. Did you know that in so many ways? When a husband died, many times, he could leave his money to whoever he wanted to leave it to. Did you know that? thing that we've come up here with now that a woman has rights on a piece of paper with a man. But it's so easy to get divorces now, isn't it? And a woman doesn't have to be subject to her husband. And a man just doesn't have to put up with that woman that won't be subject to him, does he? All right? It's so easy now because you can just... Men and women are equal now, but they're not equal, though, aren't they? In the home, how are they? But just like I trained that little old horse with love, you can't do that. You can't beat a woman up and beat her head. You have to love her. And there's a place in the home. The man is the head of the home. The woman is the foundation of the home in so many ways. The foundation of it. Because it is going to succeed or it's going to fall apart based upon her. Do you believe that? That's just common sense. All right. All right. Number five now. Let's go to number six. Let me read you a little bit something out of here first. Get too far along, won't be able to do it. Spiros Odeokes had this to say. Paul is writing here to Corinthian Christians who, living in Greece, customarily complied with Greek traditions. Men had their heads uncovered and the women covered theirs, which, however, was contrary to Jewish tradition. Even to this day, Jewish men covered their heads at worship, but not the women. The question put to the Corinthians was what to do with the existing custom of the day. Paul's advice is to examine the symbolism of the custom. It is nothing in it that is contrary to God's word. or order in creation, accept it. Do not allow contentions to arise regarding customs which symbolize something that is proper. In the early Charismatic churches, women wouldn't shave their legs. Did you know that? They wouldn't do that. They wouldn't cut their hair at all. And they would not cut their hair or trim their hair at all. They would leave it long, long, and then pile it up bigger and bigger and bigger. Because they were really literalists to this. But that's not what it's talking about, is it? How many of them were bosses in their homes? They didn't shave their legs, they didn't cut their hair, but they were bosses in their homes. They were the spiritual leaders of their homes and they demanded it. That's not so many times than that. Because a lot of those churches are led by women, not men. In this case, Greeks believed that by not covering their heads, the men declared their independence as contrasted to the slaves who had covered themselves. The women uncovered themselves. or covered themselves, symbolizing the protectors that they enjoyed from their husbands. Paul intimated that there is nothing wrong with this, for in creation God created man, and from man there came woman. And we're going to get into that in just a few minutes. That is good as far as it goes, but remember that man also, in spite of the fact that he prays without a covering, still has a head that is Christ. Every man in every home is still subject to to Christ. Christ is his head, so he must lead his home as Christ would have him lead it. Not the way he wants it done, but the way Christ would want it done. Okay? However, he equates both man and woman in the Lord, as also stressed in Galatians 3.28 and 1 Peter 3 and 7. In spite of this equality in Christ, still in creation and in the present order of things, a husband is the head of the family. God made him physically stronger than the woman. Now, as a warrior, but I've seen women as strong as men, okay? In some Indian societies, there were women warriors. You hear the stories of the Amazon down in South America? Stronger than women to protect the women. Men like to make wars, so when they want to make wars, they want to get out there and fight. He ought to recognize position as protector and show it overly. She ought to recognize her protector and abide under his position as protector and show it overly. She ought to recognize her protector and abide under his care. God is responsible for the difference in the makeup of male and female. In 1 Corinthians 4 and 7, no man should at any time endeavor in any way to diminish the difference between the two, either physically or emotionally, constitution, appearance and function of life. In Greece, when Paul was writing this, there were men that were cross-dressing, weren't they? They were men prostitutes. Nero killed his wife. Over there, and in Corinth, what was the biggest business in Corinth? What was the biggest business in Corinth? Prostitution. But what you fail to see, I mean, there was a lot of female prostitutes up there, but there were male prostitutes, and there were male prostitutes that were black females. Romans, the first chapter, tells us that homosexuality in Laguz, Paul the Apostle is talking about it here in dress. A man ought to look like a man, he ought to act like a man, and a woman ought to look like a woman, and she ought to act like a woman. Since this custom and head covering show beautifully that which is true in creation, also in the order of things, why should the Corinthian Christians living in Greece reject the Greek custom and assume the Jewish one? This decision, however, was entirely left to the Corinthians, as we see. Decide in regard to your own selves, therefore. These are personal decisions which must be exercised and following custom as long as the symbol is good, and there is no contrary teaching involved in the symbolism. Now, therefore, these personal decisions, which must be exercised in following custom as long as the symbol is good and there is no contrary teaching involved in symbolism. The whole scripture teaches that existing customs, as long as they are not contrary to the morals of scripture, are to be adhered to for the sake of unity, not to be flawed. The little phrase at the end of verse 10, which we're going to get to, because of the angel, means that a young woman covers her head or wears her hair like a woman, it accomplishes four things. Four things. She gives visible attestation to her womanhood. She looks like a woman. Okay? Number two, she shows that she recognizes her husband's protectedness over her. Number three, she does not deserve a good custom. Number four, she shows that heaven is pleased by her actions in the home. She shows that heaven is pleased. What watches over us? Who watches over us? What do we have watching over us all the time? Angels. Angels. All right. Now, are church members really going to judge angels in the end according to 1 Corinthians? They're going to judge angels. OK. And angels watch over us. We have protective angels. All right? Protective angels. And we marry angels. Yeah. And sometimes God even sends you an angel that's not your wife or not your brother or your sister to watch over you, doesn't He? We've seen people that are angels to us. But we have real angels watching over us. And when a woman acts like a woman and glorifies her home, she pleases the angels in heaven along with God. All right? She knows that heaven is pleased by her actions, and she does what she does also on account of angels. The preposition dia. All right. I wanted to read that little thing to you. 1 in verse, 11 in verse 6 now, 11 in verse 6. Now, Galatians 3.28, 1 Peter 3.17 and 1 Corinthians 4.7 all cross reference to this. For since not is veiled. The word veiled there is heavily veiled. That means really veiled, heavily veiled. If a woman will not subject herself in the place in the home, let her shave herself. Let her cut her own hair and realize that she is shaming God, and she's shaming her home, and she's shaming her husband. That's what it's talking about. For since shameful, naked this woman is. This woman is, remember what ice-grown means? That means to be naked. So since she is naked, so since she will not be subject to her husband, let her shave herself, as the letter literally says, middle voice by the way, 3rd Corinthians, 1st Hebrews, in parity. That's a command of God. Let her understand that she's supposed to be in subjection. And if she won't be in subjection, let her to be sure. All right? First Aries, infinitive passive. To be shorn by somebody else or to be shaved. Let her be heavily veiled. All right? Let her wear a veil. Now, some of these women in Corinth that were prostitutes got converted. All right? They got converted and they had short hair. And the Apostle Paul says, since you've got short hair, wear a veil so you won't look like the world. You won't look like those slave girls and you won't look like those prostitutes. Wear a veil. Cover your hair up so you don't look like the world. So many of us today want to look like the world, don't we? So many young women want to look like the world. Young men want to look like the thing that's in bold or in style, all right? A woman who is not subject to her husband is as bad as a prostitute. God has a plan for the home, and his plan was laid out in the garden of Eden. This is a hard language, isn't it? I'm going to have a lot of women mad at me out there all over the world over this. But I didn't do it. This is Paul's work. All right? 11 and verse 7. We're almost finished for tonight. 11 and verse 7. dar uke ofele kata kalipeste ten kafale aiko he doksa tyu iparko he gne de doksa andros esten. For indeed a man, he ought to be Not he ought to be veiled. The man should not wear the veil. But how many men are wearing veils today in the Christian home? How many men are wearing veils in the Christian home? How many are? See, that's not good. The man shouldn't wear the veil. Now, this means to be heavily veiled, okay? Now, there's a lot of people today, when you go into church, in Catholicism and different religions, a woman has to cover her hair. You've ever seen that? But what is it talking about? Is it talking about literally wearing a veil? Literally wearing a hat on your head? What is it talking about? It's talking about in subjection to your home. That's it. It's not talking about how short or how long your hair is. It's talking about Position. Position. Position. Not to be veiled. The head is the image and the glory of God being. And the woman, but the glory of man is. Rebecca, can you come up and read 6 and 7 for me real quick? 6 and 7. I think maybe, oh, you read 5, didn't you? Go ahead and read 5, 6 and 7 again. Veil or not to veil. And any woman who publicly prays or prophesies, teaches, refutes, reproves, admonishes, or comforts, when she is bare-headed, dishonors her husband. It is the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman will not wear a head covering, then she should cut off her hair too. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her head shorn or shaven, let her cover her head. For a man ought not to wear anything on his head in church, for he is the image and reflected glory of God. His function of government reflects the majesty of the divine rule. But woman is the expression of man's glory, majesty, preeminence. God made man first, then he took from man and he made woman, and he made perfection. Women are really pretty, aren't they? They're pretty. They're beautiful in God's order like that. And a woman on her own, she is her own head, isn't she? But a woman in the home, she has a head. She has a sovereignty over her, which is man, her husband, and what else? And God. We have to look at it that way. Man and God. Well, next week we'll start on 11 and 8. We went to 11, 3 through 7, didn't we? Next week we'll get into creation, that the woman, that's just about what I stated here at last, that the woman was not a primary creation of God, but a secondary creation of God. And the woman was made for man, was she not? She was made for man, for man's pleasure. He needed a farmer. Alright, do you have any questions? Remember Skeeter now. You're not supposed to beat them in line. Alright? You're not supposed to beat them up. Love them. Love them. Alright. No questions? Go out and do something eternal? Practice is it? But should we practice it? Should we practice it? Brother Roger, would you mind coming up here and dismiss us in prayer, brother? Thank you for your attention tonight. Thank you for your prayers. Go ahead, Brother Roger. Remember my friend Gary Harwell. Father, thank you for allowing us to gather one more time and hear your Word. Thank you for someone that can explain it to us, because sometimes it's difficult to understand, even difficult to apply. Guide us and direct us in your will and your way, and be with those in our midst that need your help and their help. In your name I pray. Amen.