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Introduction
Last week we concluded what ended up being a 2 part message covering 1 Corinthians 11:3
The last message centered around this thought.
God is all about relationships.
He created us for relationships.
Our primary relationship is with Him.
In fact, we are soon going to be at verse 11, which states-
The essence of that verse within its context is that all of us are of God, men and women alike.
It is every person’s responsibility to re-establish and maintain their relationship with God.
God also designed us, so we might enjoy relationships with one another.
Thus, God established order within relationships for two primary reasons.
Relationships, done God’s way, produce unity.
Relationships, done God’s way, teach submission.
For this reason, God clearly says that Christ is the head (leader) of every man, and men are the head (leaders) of every woman.
God uses the physical head of a person’s body as a beautiful illustration of His design within relationships.
Our heads contain our faces and our brain.
The brain, as we know, is crucial to the entire nervous system within the body.
It is the headquarters, so to speak.
The brain is responsible for sending instructions that help the body to function in unity.
A clear head (healthy mind, aka brain) creates harmony helping the hands, feet, fingers, and face work efficiently and productively.
At the same time, the brain clearly leads and guides all other members of the body.
Each member of the body must submit to its authority.
If your little toe tells your brain what to do, you are in big trouble.
That is not how the body functions, and there is something seriously wrong.
No, the brain creates unity and keeps the other members in submission.
So it is with relationships under God’s design.
When we do things God’s way, there is harmony and production.
Through His design, we learn a valuable lesson about submission.
All of which we spent much time talking about last week.
This week, the Holy Spirit moves us forward to the local church and public worship.
He takes the principle of verse 3 and applies it now to local churches.
Remember that this letter is God’s instructions to the local church at Corinth.
Therefore, it stands today as our instruction for our church as well.
That is the whole reason we are doing this extensive study.
Our desire is to be the local church God desires.
So let’s look at how we are to Deploy God’s Pattern of Relationships in the Public Worship of our local church.
Note first-
A Practical Design
You may have noticed something important here.
In verse 4, we read “every man praying or prophesying,” In verse 5, it says “every woman that prayeth or prophesieth.”
Prayer and prophesying are essential elements of public worship.
We can summarize both of these actions this way.
In the most general senses praying is talking to God about people, including ourselves, and prophesying is talking to people about God.
-MacArthur, John. 1 Corinthians MacArthur New Testament Commentary (MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series) .
Moody Publishers.
Kindle Edition.
Remember there are two basic types of relationships identified in Scripture.
There is our relationship with God which is vertical.
The second is our relationship with others which is horizontal.
Therefore, God established two actions representing these essential relationships within a believer’s life.
We are to pray (talk to God about others) and prophesy (speak to others about God).
Going back to our text, we see the Holy Spirit applying the principle of verse 3 to the area of public worship.
Public worship includes these two actions of praying and prophesying.
What is the focus of verse 3?
God made us relational, so we could work in harmony and learn submission.
The Holy Spirit applies this principle to a local church’s public worship.
He starts with men.
Why men? God ordained men to be the spiritual leaders within their families, communities, and, especially, their local church.
For that reason, the Holy Spirit states:
Now, let’s stop for a minute and address an issue before us.
The problem is custom and context.
You will note the phrase “having his head covereth.”
It literally means “having (something) down from the head.”
Many students of God’s Word and history understand this to mean a veil.
As you probably know, a cover was often worn in many Asian and Middle Eastern cultures.
In fact, it is a custom still practiced in many of those areas, especially within Muslim communities.
In many of those cultures, the veil was for a woman only.
Men did not wear them.
It is considered absurd and rude in such cultures for a man to wear a veil.
However, for a woman, it was proper.
It would seem then that the Holy Spirit not giving us a universal divine requirement about head coverings in these verses.
Instead, He is simply acknowledging the local customs of that day as He teaches some practical application of the principle in verse 3. Look again at verse 3.
Who is the head (leader) of men?
It is Christ.
Thus, according to verse 4, a man who covered his head brought shame (dishonoureth) to his head (leader), the Lord Jesus Christ.
By that same token, we read verse 5, which states:
A woman who did not cover her head with a veil brought shame (dishonour) to her head, her husband.
Both verses reinforce God’s design for relationships.
The accepted practice of that day was men did not cover their heads, for they answered to God.
Women covered their heads because they answered to their husbands.
These were symbolic acts signifying submission to God’s divine order.
A woman’s veil, in Greek and Roman culture, signified a married woman’s commitment to her husband.
As I said earlier, in many Eastern cultures, it still signifies her promise not to expose herself to other men and that her beauty and charms are reserved only for her husband.
It was the same at the time 1 Corinthians was written.
Now, remember the local church at Corinth has its share of problems.
It would seem from these verses that women were not submitting to their husbands as they were praying and prophesying without their veils.
The Roman Empire was a hotbed of cultural and spiritual upheavals.
Among those was a growing sense of what we know today as the women’s liberation movement and feminism.
Women were bucking the norms of society by removing their veils and even cutting their hair to look like men.
There were even hints of them demanding treatment as men.
Attacks on marriage and raising children were on the rise.
Obviously, the local church saw infiltration of those movements.
This issue of wearing or not wearing a head covering falls into the same area as eating meat offered unto idols.
It was not an issue of whether it was right or wrong to wear or not wear a head covering.
The real problem was this.
There was a rebellion taking place against God-ordained roles and relationships.
A rebellion demonstrated by women praying and prophesying within the local church with no head coverings.
SIDE NOTE: The issue in these verses is not about dress or modesty.
There are places in Scripture that address that issue.
Dress is primarily a cultural issue.
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