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our Lord Jesus.
What a joy to be here and worship
together our God, our Lord, and our Savior.
I was greatly challenged by the family worship
and songs, and what a joy it is
to know the Lord in such a way.
When we fully realize all that Christ is
to us, there should be nothing but adoration
and praise and worship ascending out of our
lips continually in praise to our God.
And then, if that's the reality in our
life, we will walk and be practical.
We'll live it out.
It will be a practical thing in our
life every day.
Not because we have to do it, but
because we want to.
We don't obey God because we have to.
We obey Him out of our pure heart
of love.
There is such a difference.
And you know, most of us, quite a
few of us, grew up in a setting
where we were taught to do the right
things, but because the heart was not right
with God, it just became a form, and
therefore was empty and was not a testimony
to the world around us.
I want to share this morning a message
that God has been laying on my heart
for several months.
I only know of it being taught in
principle here one time in the last 11
years that I've been here.
And it's a principle that we all hold
to very tightly.
The title of the message is, The Principles
Behind a Woman's Head Covering.
The principles behind a woman's head covering.
Well, some might ask, what is a woman's
head covering?
And we'll go into the Bible, the Word
of God, to find out what that is
or what it says about that.
The Bible has quite a bit to say
about that.
In the past number of years, I have
been watching closely a few things concerning this.
Something happens in the spirit realm when a
godly woman puts on that symbol of authority
on her head.
Something happens in the spirit realm.
You know it.
I know it.
I think of a family testifying how they
saw in the Word of God the principle
of the woman's head covering and they decided
to practice it.
They went to the local assembly the next
Sunday morning.
His wife, for the first time, had a
piece of cloth on her head.
Well, something happened there that morning which astonished
them.
The men, they responded to this woman in
honor.
They had a spirit of honor and reverence
about this woman.
Somehow, it was almost like they bowed down
to her but they honored her.
The men did.
The women, they got angry and hated her
for it.
Now, why could one piece of cloth on
the top of a woman's head create such
a different expression from men and from women?
Why?
I want to find out why.
I also think of our background.
I was raised in the, quote, plain church
where this was practiced.
All the women would wear a head covering.
All the, even the young girls would wear
a head covering in going to church.
Little baby girls would come to church with
a little head covering on.
And it was a principle that we knew
was in the Bible but we didn't quite
understand it.
So we knew it was to be done
and we practiced it but the spirit and
the heart behind it was not there.
Many plain folks who leave the plain community
or church, they go out into the world
and they live like the world.
And one thing that I've noticed that about
the same time that a couple like that
goes out into the world, about the same
time that they get the television into their
home, her head covering goes off.
And then I've noticed remnant families especially coming
from the worldly type settings and they come
to the word of God and they look
at this thing seriously and about the same
time that that woman puts on a head
covering, the television goes out the door.
And there's more things like that.
There's a lot more behind the head covering
than meets the natural eye.
There are principles of submission under authority there.
There are principles of rebellion that come when
a woman doesn't wear that.
And again, this is not law.
There are some who would say we are
under grace, therefore we don't have to do
this.
Well, I only say that if you love
Jesus and you're following Jesus, you will do
as Jesus did and He said, I do
always please my Father.
He didn't say I do always obey my
Father, He did that too.
But to please His Father is going beyond
what His Father has required and obey Him
willingly out of a pure heart.
Because of the work of the grace of
God, we want to please God.
I've had several questions about this for many
years.
I've had doubts in my heart about it
for many years.
I believe that if I would have a
raise of hands here this morning, on the
sister's side, asking for those who are convinced
deep in their heart about this principle.
Without any question.
If I would ask them to raise their
hand, I believe there's not very many that
would do it.
We have been taught the principle.
Many of us don't fully understand what it
is.
We only know to do it.
I would to God that we could find
the principle deep in our hearts.
A principle of submission to authority and out
of that worship God.
And out of that, follow the example, put
on the symbol of submission.
One of my questions has been, as I
looked at many Christian women who don't wear
a head covering.
I believe they're Christians.
I believe they're born again by the Spirit
of God.
I don't doubt that.
My question has been, if the head covering
is so important, why then does God answer
their prayers when they pray uncovered?
That's been one of my questions.
Or does God answer their prayers?
And as I've studied their lives, I have
to say yes.
He does answer their prayers when they don't
wear a head covering.
The question I had was, why?
And then if God does answer their prayers,
why then do we need to wear it?
That's been a question on my heart many
years.
Let's turn now to 1 Corinthians chapter 11,
which is where we'll read about this.
There are other places in the Bible where
we could read about the head covering, but
this is the main one, so we'll read
these verses.
1 Corinthians chapter 11.
Let's bow our heads for prayer.
Heavenly Father, we do come in Jesus Christ's
name.
Our blessed and only potentate, our Lord and
our Savior.
Your only begotten Son, in whom we believe
and have life.
And Father, it's because we believe in Him
and because we have life that we come
to You with a heart.
Our hearts washed with pure water.
Our bodies washed with pure water.
Our hearts sanctified by the blood of Jesus
and desiring to serve You with our full
ability all the days of our life.
Father, now as we read Your Word, I
ask You to anoint Your Word, anoint Your
servant, and anoint the ears of all those
that hear this Word.
Father, we thank You and give it to
You.
For Your glory and Your honor, in Jesus'
name, Amen.
Reading in 1 Corinthians chapter 11, the Apostle
Paul is writing to the Corinth Church, and
it's basically a letter of correction, reproof, and
direction.
And evidently there must have been a question
that he wrote this to them.
There must have been a question from the
Corinth Church to Paul about this situation.
I'm not sure what the question said, but
we can see the answer.
And perhaps if we fully understand the answer,
we'll be able to understand the question also.
Verse 1, Be ye followers of me, even
as I also am of Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember
me in all things and keep the ordinances
as I delivered them to you.
But I would have you know that the
head of every man is Christ, and the
head of the woman is the man, and
the head of Christ is God.
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head
covered, dishonoreth his head.
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with
her head uncovered, dishonoreth her head, for that
is even all one as if she were
shaven.
For if the woman be not covered, let
her also be shorn.
But if it be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to cover
his head, forasmuch as he is the image
and glory of God.
But the woman is the glory of the
man.
For the man is not of the woman,
but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman,
but the woman for the man.
For this cause ought the woman to have
power on her head because of the angels.
Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman,
neither the woman without the man in the
Lord.
For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the
woman.
But all things of God.
Judge in yourselves.
Is it common that a woman pray unto
God uncovered?
Doth not even nature itself teach you that
if a man have long hair, it is
a shame unto him?
But if a woman have long hair, it
is a glory to her, for her hair
is given her for a covering.
But if any man seem to be contentious,
we have no such custom, neither the churches
of God.
Several years ago, I remember Brother Denny preaching
a message, maybe it was Brother Moe's, on
the practical side of the Christian life.
I think Brother Moe's titled his message, The
Other Half of the Christian Life.
It was a good message, and I enjoyed
that, but I did not fully understand what
he was talking about.
Until this past spring, we went to a
Hard Craft Revival type meeting here in Lancaster.
And there was a lot of different churches
represented there, and basically they were not the
plain background churches.
This was a meeting held for pastors and
their wives, which we attended.
And we were basically the only ones that
were dressed plain, or I might say our
wives were about the only ones that wore
a head covering.
They stood out like sore thumbs in the
crowd.
It was talked about over the pulpit, about
these people who have gone too far.
But I sat there and I looked and
I listened and I watched, and I had
a question about the head covering.
Is it important?
Does it really matter?
So I began to study this principle.
I knew that I had never done a
real deep study on it.
I just believed what others told me.
So I decided I'm going to do a
deep study, and I did.
I've been studying it for months, actually.
God has shown me a few things, and
my heart is to share with you what
God has shown me.
I do not have the all-inclusive answers,
but I do believe that God has given
me clear direction and clear vision on this
subject.
One thing I saw in that Heartcraft Revival
meeting was that the gospel there is a
good gospel, but the practical outworking of the
Word of God is missing.
So it began to make sense to me
when I thought about the second half of
the Christian life being a practical Christian life.
And you all, probably most of you, have
read the book, The Secret of the Strength,
which gives a history of the Anabaptist background,
starting back with Martin Luther, Swingly, and Calvin,
and how those three men came to a
reformation.
I believe it seemed like they got born
again.
They had the Word of God with them,
and God used them to open the doors
to a new enlightenment for that age, where
the Anabaptists took from those three men which
were teaching, they took the Word of God
literally and began to practice it literally.
And that practicing the Word of God literally
made a great division between those three men
and the Anabaptists.
And there is still a great division between
those type of churches and the churches that
practice the Christian life.
There's a difference there.
And I saw this difference.
I know some would say it's legalism, but
obedience to Christ is never legalism.
Never.
Legalism.
Obedience to Christ.
Out of a heart that is thankful and
grateful, we obey God.
We please God.
We go beyond obedience and please God in
every area of our lives.
Let's look again at verse 1 and 2.
Be ye followers of me, even as I
also am of Christ.
Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember
me in all things and keep the ordinances
as I deliver them to you.
Turn to 1 Corinthians 4, verse 17.
We'll read a verse there.
Verse 16.
Actually, Paul writes, Wherefore I beseech you, be
ye followers of me.
He is begging the people, be ye followers
of me.
For this cause have I sent unto you
Timotheus, who is my beloved son in faith
with the Lord, who shall bring you into
remembrance of my ways, which be in Christ
as I teach everywhere in every church.
Some have a question whether this means today.
This means the church back there, some would
say.
But if you turn to verse 1 in
the first chapter of Corinthians, or verse 2,
you will see that Paul is writing, Unto
the church of God, which is at Corinth.
To them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus
called to be saints, with all that in
every place call upon the name of Jesus
Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.
So we see this epistle is written to
the church at Corinth and to all that
in every place call upon the name of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
And Paul is beseeching us to remember the
ordinances as he delivered them and to keep
them and do them.
Now it seems that there was a question
and Paul takes this question and he answers
the question.
And I think the question had to do
with some women in a church service who
were praying or prophesying uncovered.
Some history might tell us or some documentation
would say that the Corinth church was in
a place where there was much ungodliness and
heathenism, much idol worship.
We would learn that from the Bible.
And some of these idol worshipping women, when
they went to worship at their idols, at
the temples of their idols, they would go
into those temples and bow down in front
of those idols and when they worshipped there,
they would uncover their heads.
The heathen women were doing that.
Now you have some of these heathen women,
they're hearing the gospel, they're getting saved and
they started coming to church now at Corinth
and as was their practice, when they went
to pray or to worship or to prophesy,
they would uncover their heads.
Maybe that is the question that was brought
to Paul.
What should we do with these women?
Or Paul, can you teach us something about
this?
Their custom was to pray or prophesy uncovered.
If you look at verse 16, the last
verse in this teaching here, it says, But
if any man seem to be contentious, we
have no such custom.
What custom?
Is it the custom of praying or prophesying
uncovered?
It seems like it might be.
Some would dare to say that after Paul
teaches this very clearly, he ends it with,
in the last verse, saying, We don't have
such a custom anymore.
That's not what he's saying.
Verse 3, let's go to verse 3.
But I would have you know...
Now he's answering the question.
He's not only going to answer the question,
he's going to give them a principle so
they can understand clearly why the women need
to have their heads covered when they pray
or prophesy.
Now he's going to give the principle for
that.
But I would have you know that the
head of every man is Christ, and the
head of the woman is the man, and
the head of Christ is God.
I'm going to draw on the board here
just a little diagram, if I may.
We put a place up here we should
call God.
And then here we have Jesus.
Or I should put in there Christ, maybe.
And then down here we have a little
stick figure of a woman.
Here we have a stick figure of a
man.
Here you have God, here you have Christ,
here you have man, here you have woman.
Now it says that the head of every
man is Christ, the head of the woman
is the man.
I would have you know that the head
of every man is Christ, the head of
the woman is the man, and the head
of Christ is God.
So we have an authority structure here.
We actually have four levels here of an
authority structure.
And he's going to teach us something about
authority.
Why does he want to teach us something
about authority?
Because the head covering has a lot to
do with authority, or you might say submission
and rebellion.
Now he says, every man praying or prophesying,
having his head covered dishonors his head.
Now if this man here prays to God,
or prophesies, having his head covered, which means
having a head covering on, he dishonors his
head.
And the word head there, it's the same
word but it means differently.
The first word, head, means if he has
his head covered, which is his physical head,
when his physical head is covered when he
prays or prophesies, then he dishonors his head,
which is Lord.
Okay?
So when he prays or prophesies with his
head covered, he dishonors his head, which is
Christ, in the verse before that.
Okay?
And the word pray, when this man prays,
he's making connection with his father that way.
Okay?
When he prophesies, he's making connection from God
this way.
So it's both ways, praying, making our supplication
to God, or prophesying, speaking the mind and
will of God.
Okay?
That's what verse 5 says.
Verse 4 says that.
Then it says in verse 5, But every
woman that prayeth or prophesies with her head
uncovered dishonors her head, for that is even
all one as if she were shaven.
For if the woman be not covered, let
her also be shorn.
But if it be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be covered.
Every woman praying or prophesying with her head
uncovered, it is even one as if she
were shaven, it says.
So if you have a woman here praying
or prophesying uncovered, she dishonors her head, which
is man, because man is next in authority.
So she dishonors her authority above her, which
she prays or prophesies, with her head uncovered.
We all understand the principle of our workplace.
We have the boss who gives direction on
the job.
Then we have a foreman, which under the
foreman we have what you might say workers.
Or the worker, let's say the worker there.
And this principle is what I see here.
When the boss wants some work done, he
gives direction to whom?
He gives direction to his foreman and his
foreman takes that direction and gives it to
his worker.
We understand that very clearly.
Now if the foreman wants something from his
boss, he goes to his boss and he
makes his request known.
Or he prays to his boss.
Even in the Bible you sometimes see how
they prayed to someone.
I pray you please give me this.
So the word here, if the foreman needs
something, he prays his boss to give him
something.
If the worker needs something, he goes to
his foreman, because he's next in authority there,
and he asks the foreman for something.
He prays to the foreman and says, Foreman,
please give me this.
This is what I need to do the
work.
And the foreman likewise gives it to the
worker.
Or if the foreman doesn't have it, he
goes to his boss who then gives it
to him and then gives it to the
worker.
Now we would think it strange indeed if
the worker, when he needs something, if he
would bypass his authority and go straight to
the boss for something.
Wouldn't we?
It's a breach of authority.
And the worker, he dishonors the foreman when
he bypasses the foreman and goes to his
boss for something.
He dishonors the foreman.
If the foreman, if the owner is up
here and the foreman dishonors his authority or
his head and goes around his head to
the owner, he dishonors the boss.
Is that clear?
Very clear, right?
Okay, so now we have the picture here.
You and I know that when we pray,
especially look at us men, when you and
I pray, we lift up our voice to
God and we make our prayer to God.
We intercede to God in heaven and we
go up this way through Christ to God
because Jesus said, Whatsoever you ask in my
name of my Father, I will give it
you.
So our prayer is not to Jesus, but
it's to God in Jesus' name.
When we go to God, we go to
God in Christ's name, with the full authority
of Christ to ask something of God.
And when God gives us something, He comes
right down through Christ, we receive it through
Christ, back down to the man.
Now when a woman goes to pray, what
does she do?
She goes to pray and she goes out
around her authority, which is man, and goes
directly to God.
How?
How can she do that?
And when she prophesies, she gets something from
God.
In fact, God even sends it out around
the man.
This, I believe, is the principle that Paul
wants to teach us.
Now how can a woman go out around
her authority and it says, in verse 10
it says, for this cause ought the woman
to have power on her head because of
the angels.
Because of the angels.
Why is that?
Why should she have something on her head
because of the angels?
Maybe we'll get to that a little bit
later.
Let's look at verse 7.
Actually, I should finish up in verse 5
and 6 about shaven.
If she prays or prophesies uncovered, that is
the same as if she were shaven.
And I looked up the word shaven and
I found a reference in Deuteronomy 21.12
which says that it talks about a man
going forth to war and taking captive women.
And if he finds a woman that he
likes, he can take her to wife.
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine
house and she shall shave her head and
pair her nails.
Why should she shave her head and pair
her nails?
I believe it's because it's a shame for
her to be taken captive and brought home
that way.
So we have this reference here from 1
Corinthians 5 and 6 about a woman praying
uncovered.
She dishonors her head.
And what she does when she does that
is even as if she were shaven or
shorn or shameful.
Uncovered.
Adam and Eve in the garden, they were
uncovered.
And they had no shame.
But after sin came, they were ashamed when
they were uncovered.
Likewise, a woman needs to be ashamed if
she is uncovered.
For if the woman be not covered, let
her also be shorn.
But if it be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her
be covered.
And why is that?
For the man indeed ought not to cover
his head forasmuch as he is the image
and glory of God, but the woman is
the glory of the man.
I preached a message a little while ago
on the glory of God, which is man.
I'm sure most of you probably remember that.
But man is made in the image and
glory of God.
In the beginning when God created heaven and
earth, He made all those beautiful things, all
the animals, the birds, the sea, the trees,
everything out there that has life in it.
And then He made something which brought God
more glory than anything else.
And it was man which was created, which
God created man, in the image and glory
of God.
The word image comes from the word icon.
Icon.
We use that quite a bit in this
computer world.
We have icons on our computer screen.
The Catholics have icons which they bow down
and worship to.
An icon is an image of something.
Brothers, you and I are icons of God.
We are the image of God and the
glory of God.
I see part of the principle behind this
whole thing is of the angels.
The angels, the good and bad, see the
image and glory of God in you and
I as men.
And you and I have an opportunity to
bring great glory and honor to God by
worshiping Him.
And it says, But the woman is the
glory of man.
The woman is the glory of men.
The word glory simply means, let me say
it this way, that which draws attention to
a thing.
Or that which makes a certain thing beautiful.
That which makes a certain thing stand out
and be noticed.
One of the first things you would notice
if you would see Jesus, is you would
see the glory.
As we read in Revelations, the Apostle John
when he saw the Lord, he saw the
glory of God.
Ezekiel, what did he see?
He saw the glory of God.
That's one of the first things they saw
was the glory of God.
And I believe that if you would get
the vision of God, you'd see the glory
of God.
That's something that would stand out to you.
It's something that would draw your attention to
God.
It is the glory that surrounds Him.
And now if a husband or a man
has a beautiful wife, she brings glory to
him.
And I see that when God created Adam,
then He took from Adam a rib and
He made the woman.
He made her to be a glory for
Adam.
And I notice that God spoke to Adam
in the garden, not necessarily to Eve.
Because He followed the chain of command there.
However, God did curse Eve after the fall.
But before that, you don't see that God
talks to her.
He talked with Adam.
Eve was the glory of man.
She was the glory of the man.
The woman was.
She still is the glory of man.
If a man has a beautiful wife standing
beside him, most people will see the glory
of the man first.
They'll look at the man and they'll look
at his glory, which is his wife, and
they will agree he has a beautiful wife.
So the beautiful wife brings glory to the
man.
If your wife is beautiful, she will glorify
you.
And I don't think we should care much
for outward beauty, but the inward beauty, the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, that
is the ornament of grace that is upon
a woman which truly glorifies her husband.
The woman is the glory of the man.
Since the woman's head is the representation of
man, and to have her glory exposed is
to expose the glory of man.
Let me say that again.
The woman's head is a representation of the
man, which is her head.
Her physical head is a representation of her
Lord, or her leader, her next authority, which
is man.
And if this woman reveals her own glory
to the world around her, she dishonors the
man.
Because man is not fit to have his
own glory.
But man, he has his head uncovered because
his physical head represents his head, which is
Christ.
And if Christ represents the head or equals
this, you don't cover that glory.
Because Christ's glory should not be covered.
Therefore when man prays or prophesies having his
head covered, he dishonors his head, which is
Christ.
Am I confusing you?
And why is this?
Why is this woman below the man?
Why is the woman not equal with the
man?
Verse 8 For the man is not of
the woman, but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman,
but the woman for the man.
So we see very clearly that this woman
was created for the man, not the man
for the woman.
And there's a principle in that that I
see very clearly.
If a woman is created for the man,
what should her purpose in life be?
What should her sole purpose in life be?
It's very simple.
She's created for him.
She should live for him.
She should work for him.
She should serve him.
She should make his priorities her priorities.
She should make his goals her goals.
She needs to make his dreams her dreams,
because she's created for him.
Sisters, do you realize you are created for
your husband?
You've been created to help your husband succeed
and fulfill his dreams and his goals in
every area that he goes into.
If you look at verse 15, we look
at the glory of the woman.
The glory of the woman is her hair.
And her hair is given her for a
covering.
And I believe and the question I have
is when was her hair given her for
a covering?
When did God make woman?
God made the woman in the Garden of
Eden.
He made her out of the man.
And I believe he made her with long
hair, which was a natural covering, which showed
that she was under her husband.
Her natural covering of her head shows that
she's under her husband.
Why then do we need to put a
covering on the hair nowadays?
In the Garden of Eden, very clearly, they
didn't have any clothes on.
And they were naked but they were not
ashamed.
Because I believe the glory of God covered
them.
But the woman had a natural covering and
this word here in verse 15, the word
covering there is a different word than the
word further up in verse 5.
The word covering in verse 15 is parabolaio,
which means thrown about.
Meaning simply that when the woman was made,
her hair was given for her to throw
about her.
You know, cast around her and cover her.
The word cover up in verse 5, verse
6, is the word katakalupta, which means to
cover or to hide.
When, what is one of the first things
that a woman will do to draw attention
to herself?
She will flaunt her glory.
She'll puff it, she'll comb it, she'll roll
it, she'll curl it, she'll do anything she
can to flaunt or to show or to
make seen or to show her glory, which
is her hair.
And the purpose for that is to bring
glory to herself.
Right?
That's to draw attention to herself.
Should a woman be drawing attention to herself?
No.
Because she's created for Him.
She's created for the man.
She is created to bring attention to the
man.
She's created that all would be able to
look at the man and honor and reverence
him.
She doesn't draw attention to herself.
If you would look at 1 Peter 3,
we can look at a few verses there.
1 Peter 3, Likewise ye wives, be in
subjection to your own husbands, that if any
obey not the word, they also may without
the word be won by the conversation of
the wives.
While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with
fear, whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, or of
wearing of gold, or putting on apparel, but
let it be the hidden man of the
heart, in that which is not corruptible, even
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
which is in the sight of God of
great price.
The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit,
let it be the hidden man of the
heart.
So we see that that's what a woman
should be dressed like.
Also we have the scripture in 1 Timothy
2.9 It says in like manner also
that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with
shame, facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair
or gold or pearls or costly array, but
which become as women professing godliness with good
works.
Let all, let the women learn in silence
with all subjection, but I suffer not a
woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over
the man, but to be in silence.
Just a few verses there to help us
understand that a woman should not adorn herself
to draw attention to herself, but she should
be solely for the man.
Now we look at verse 10 again.
For this cause ought the woman to have
power on her head because of the angels.
That's a scripture that has fascinated me for
many days because of the angels.
What do the angels have to do with
this thing?
If we study the angels we'll see.
If you look in Genesis 28 verse 12,
don't turn there, that's when Jacob was sleeping
out there at night.
He had just left home, was on his
way up to his uncle Laban and he
fell asleep there and he had a dream.
In his dream he saw a ladder going
up to heaven and he saw angels descending
and ascending on this stairway or ladder and
at the very top of the ladder he
saw the almighty God.
So there you have a picture of the
angels coming down and going up.
Psalm 91 says verse 11, for he shall
give his angels charge over thee to keep
thee in all thy ways.
It seems like God if you look at
that chapter 91 there, he's speaking about those
who love God.
He's speaking to those who are Christians and
he's saying that he gives his angels charge
over thee to keep thee in all thy
ways.
So evidently from that I believe God has
given his angels charge over us.
I would tend to believe he has given
each one of us who is a Christian
a specific angel to watch over us.
Matthew 18.10 says, take heed that ye
despise not one of these little ones, talking
about small children or talking about newborn babes
in Christ.
And he says, take heed that ye despise
not one of these little ones, for I
say unto you that in heaven their angels
do always behold the face of my Father
which is in heaven.
So we see that be careful what you
say or do to some little child or
to some young Christian babed in Christ.
Why?
Because their angel is always watching the Father's
face in heaven.
Why is he doing that?
What's that angel doing?
I believe that angel is given it says
their angel individual their angel, this child's angel
is watching the face of the Father in
heaven in case you would tend to do
something to him that's wrong this angel is
watching.
Okay?
Let us beware, brethren, lest we displease the
angels.
Hebrews 1.14 says, are they not all
ministering spirits sent forth to minister to them
who shall be heirs of salvation?
There you have it again.
They are ministering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who are heirs of salvation.
Hebrews 12.22 says, but ye are come
unto Mount Zion and the city of the
living God, the heaven of Jerusalem, and to
an innumerable company of angels.
If you're a Christian, this is what you've
come to.
You have come to an innumerable company of
angels.
1 Peter 1.12 makes a statement there,
it says talks about the gospel being preached
and then it says, which things the angels
desire to look into.
The angels desire to look into these things
that are happening down here on the earth.
So I see the angels of God are
watching us and they are intently desiring to
look into the things that happen here on
the earth.
Now let's look at this verse again.
Verse 10, for this cause ought a woman
to have power on her head because of
the angels.
That word power means symbol of submission.
For this cause, because the woman is created
for the man and is created from the
man for that cause, for that reason, a
woman needs to have on her head a
symbol of submission because of the angels.
Now, let's look at this principle here again.
Well, let me share this with you yet.
When I think of the angels, I think
of the angels, the holy angels of God,
and I think of the angels of the
devil, the demons.
Likewise, I believe that even as God has
given us each one of us at least
one holy angel to watch over us, according
to Matthew 18, verse 10, I believe Satan
has also assigned one of his demons to
watch over us.
And the evil angels are continually also designed
to watch what's happening here in the earth
and to stop the work of God.
There's something happens to us when we learn
a lesson.
If I could give you an illustration of,
if you would take a dog or something
like that and set a trap there and
bait the trap and that dog would get
his foot caught in that trap, he would
learn from there on to be careful of
traps and to never again step in a
trap.
And I think of my own life and
how as a young Christian I thought I
knew it all pretty much and I fell
into rebellion not really realizing it, but I
began to rebel against authority and it took
a year or two until I finally came
around to that and I repented of that
rebellion and then I saw very clearly that
I had been deceived and had fallen into
rebellion against authority.
Since that time I have been very keenly
watching carefully lest I fall again into rebellion.
So that lesson I learned has made me
very keen about rebellion and submission.
Okay?
Now look at the angels who were all
angels around the throne of God when Lucifer
rose up there and usurped that authority and
said, I will be like God, I will
be like the Most High and he rebelled
against the Most High God and he drew
one third of the angels with him down
and they were cast into hell.
They were cast down to the earth in
chains of darkness it says.
So I believe the holy angels of God
today that are left up there they are
carefully watching and analyzing watching and desiring into
you and I's lives, our lives, and they're
studying and the number one principle of their
watching is what?
Rebellion and submission.
They have learned through that lesson, if I
may say it that way, very keenly are
they aware of any spirit of rebellion that
comes out of any one of us and
they also I believe they get excited when
they see someone with a spirit of submission.
Amen?
Because of the angels.
Now we have here this graph on the
board, we see very clearly this worker situation,
he goes to the foreman, the foreman goes
to the boss.
If this foreman goes around the boss to
the owner, he dishonors his authority.
If the worker goes around the foreman to
his boss, he dishonors his authority.
But God is teaching you and I, God
wants a personal relationship with all the men.
So all the men, they get to pray
to God through Christ and God speaks to
the man through Christ.
Praying, upward, prophesying, coming down.
Now you have this woman who is under
the man and she has the audacity she
takes, she is so bold in her prayer
life, she goes right around her authority of
the man and goes to God directly.
It appears from all from these scriptures here
it appears as though the woman would be
in rebellion to pray to God without first
going to the man.
We know that Paul says in the churches,
let the woman go to the man, to
the husband and ask him at home.
But yet God invites the woman to come
and pray to him directly without going to
the man.
Now she can do that but his verse
says because of the angels she ought to
have this covering on.
Now we have the angels watching this scene
and the angels are always beholding the face
of their father in heaven and they are
watching you and what do the angels do?
The angels are the ones that take the
commands of God and they go and do
them, they bring them the pass they fulfill
God's will and if you go to pray
if the man goes to pray right, the
angels are there watching and then they are
watching God's face, they see this man praying
they are watching God at the same time
and they hear this prayer being prayed and
they look up in the face of God
and maybe God just you know, nods to
them a little bit or gives them a
command and they go and fulfill do what
God tells them and they bring the answer
for the prayer back to the man.
Now when a woman goes to pray, you
again have the angels watching this whole scene
and the angels know the principle rebellion authority
very well and when they see a woman
praying they know she's bypassed her authority but
if she has this symbol of submission on
her head then they can see that the
woman is under authority So you have a
woman who is praying here with a head
covering on, as the Bible says and the
angels are watching and they see this woman
pray, they see her go right around her
authority and come straight to God in Jesus
name and they are watching the face of
the Father in Heaven and the angels see
this woman praying she's got a head covering
on which is covering her glory and the
angels know she's in her place, they know
she's under her husband, they know she is
submissive because they can see the symbol of
submission Now, if a woman prays uncovered what
do you suppose the angels will do?
Can you imagine the holy angel of God
standing there around the throne of God and
they're watching the face of God and they
see a woman praying uncovered Can you imagine
the reaction of the angels when they see
this woman uncovered showing her glory, drawing attention
to herself, dishonoring her husband because they just
suppose she's not under authority she's in rebellion
It seems to me like the angels go
by signs and symbols you can go down
to Haiti and see what the devil worshippers
do, they set up symbols and signs, they
set up altars dedicated to the devil, they
put icons set icons there outside their door,
you can go over to Benin and see
all the icons set right outside the door
they represent their gods and their evil gods,
evil spirits, they see that and that's a
sign to them of the dedication of those
people to them Now you have the holy
angels when they see a woman wearing this
sign of submission they know it's a dedication
of submission to their husband which ultimately is
to God.
If she's uncovered I don't know what the
angels do but I only can surmise.
You know how we're sometimes just awestruck when
we see something awesome happening and there you
have those angels seeing that woman praying and
they don't know if she's under authority or
not because they don't see a symbol or
sign of submission and then that woman who's
praying is asking God a petition and then
they're watching God to see what God will
say and God tells them to take the
answer of prayer to that woman.
It's awesome Why would God do that?
I'm not sure why all my question
was does God answer the prayers of women
who are uncovered?
The answer is yes.
The foundation for prayer the foundation for answered
prayer is not a head covering right?
What is the foundation for answered prayer?
A heart issue?
Well, sinners can get their prayers answered too
when they cry out to God for salvation
even though their heart's not clear.
When they place their trust and faith in
Christ God answers prayer.
The basis for answered prayer is not the
head covering but the basis for answered prayer
is faith in God.
Whoever comes to God must believe that God
is and that God is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek Him.
So God does answer prayers of those who
believe, those who ask in faith.
The Bible says, ask and it shall be
given you.
Seek and ye shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
For everyone that asketh shall receive and everyone
that seeks shall find and everyone that knocketh
it shall be opened unto him.
So do we need a head covering?
If God answers our prayer without a head
covering, do we need it?
I believe so.
Very clearly.
What happens when women pray uncovered?
If her prayers are answered, whether she has
a covering on or not.
My question was what happens when women pray
uncovered?
Again, I'll go back to that heart crab
revival meeting that I was at and I
saw the women there uncovered.
I believe they were Christians.
I believe God answers their prayer.
But there's a principle behind this whole thing
which I was, I knew was there but
I did not clearly see.
There's a principle behind this whole thing which
God in His grace opened up to me.
Someone asked me that question when I was
doing a little teaching on this one time
and this sister said and she was wearing
a head covering and she said, well if
God answers the prayer of those who don't
wear a head covering, then what happens when
women pray uncovered?
And all of a sudden God did this.
He just opened the window of heaven and
showed me the picture of what happens when
women pray uncovered.
And all that you and I need to
do is to look in the worldly Christian
home and church of the day and you
will see the results of women praying uncovered.
You have women who are in rebellion to
their husbands.
Women who are not submitted to their husbands,
even as Eve.
She was under her husband but when she
stepped out from underneath her husband there and
decided on her own, made her own choice,
went her own way and ate of that
fruit, she sinned.
Even I noticed in Genesis, when God cursed
the woman, he cursed her for two reasons.
And the first reason was not because she
ate the apple.
I mean, excuse me, God cursed Adam for
two reasons.
He said in verse 17, unto Adam he
said, because thou hast hearkened to the voice
of thy of the woman, of thy wife.
This is why God cursed him.
Because you have hearkened to the voice of
thy wife.
And because you have eaten of the fruit
of the tree that I told you not
to eat thereof.
The one, was the one equal to the
other?
I don't know but it was certainly there.
Because thou hast hearkened to the one under
you and have eaten of the tree.
The result of women praying uncovered is women
going off to fulfill their dreams instead of
their husbands dreams or visions.
This brings contention in the home when the
man is around.
The husband and wife they argue because she
is rebellious.
She's not submissive.
And we can make it sound a little
nicer by saying she's insubmissive, but it's rebellion.
It is rebellion.
She has her own career in mind.
She puts the children in daycare centers so
she can go and fulfill her dream.
Her career.
Her children are raised by the daycare center
and then are sent off to public school
and raised by the government.
They end up hating their father and mother
because their father and mother never had time
to raise them.
They go to hate their parents because they
were too busy to tend to them.
You have the women taking the lead in
the home.
You have women taking responsibility which does not
belong to them.
You have women who are flaunting their glory
and drawing the attention of other men because
they're not covered.
They're not in submission to their husband and
that expresses itself in flaunting the glory which
she wants to do in a natural fleshly
way and draw attention to herself which is
flesh and not the spirit.
Therefore you end up with divorce.
You end up with remarriage.
When the woman wants to go out and
have her own career, she doesn't want to
have children.
She'll go to the abortion clinic and take
the life of her young children in her
womb.
It's the result of a woman in rebellion.
It's what it is.
Children are unwanted if she allows it to
be born.
The child grows up rejected.
The men are reduced to wimps who find
it easier to comply to the woman's whims
and dreams.
And the men cannot rise above it, I
tell you.
When a woman is in the saddle, a
man cannot rise above it in spirit.
I've never yet seen a man do it.
I've never seen a man who had a
wife who was in the lead in the
home.
I have never seen a man rise above
that and take his rightful place unless the
woman first takes her rightful place of submission
under the husband.
The woman was made for the man, not
man for the woman.
The man has divided affection.
He goes after other women.
And he divorces his wife and remarries.
And that is why.
That is a picture that I see is
there because women are praying without their heads
covered, without their glory being hidden.
That's the result that I see in the
churches today.
Broken homes, rebellious teenagers, and then a falling
away from the faith.
On this example here, an example of when
the woman dishonors her head, she is very
clearly dishonoring his head.
I think of an example of wartime like
maybe when World War II was in its
stages there and the Germans, they torpedoed a
U.S. ship and sank it in about
a half an hour.
I think it might have been Louisiana or
something like that.
The Germans destroyed that American ship which was
a representation of America, of U.S. If
this woman destroys or dishonors her husband, she
automatically dishonors Christ.
When those Germans dishonored that U.S. ship,
they very clearly dishonored U.S. and they
paid for it.
It's not just that the woman dishonors her
husband when she prays or prophesies uncovered, she
dishonors her husband which is her head and
that which he represents which is Christ.
Verse 11, nevertheless neither is the man without
the woman, neither the woman without the man
in the Lord.
For as the woman is of the man,
even so is the man also by the
woman but all things of God.
He's simply saying man cannot survive alone without
the woman.
Man needs the woman because woman is what
gives birth to men.
So he's saying the man is not without
the woman, neither can a woman survive if
the man is not around.
You can't have just men or just women.
You must have men and women to keep
this human race going.
Verse 13, judging yourselves, is it common that
a woman pray unto God uncovered?
Doth not even nature itself teach you that
if a man have long hair it is
a shame unto him?
Yes, nature does teach us that.
There is something that turns us off when
we see a man with long flowing hair
and nature will teach us there in verse
15 that if a woman have long hair
it's a glory to her for her hair
is given her for a covering.
There again, we see that her hair is
given her for a covering back in the
garden of Eden.
When sin entered into the garden they were
ashamed of their nakedness because they were not
covered and they felt like they were uncovered.
They felt like they were naked and it
says they made themselves fig leaves to cover
themselves and it says later on God made
them coats of the skins of animals to
cover them.
And I believe that when the man and
woman were made in the garden she had
long hair which was given for a covering
for her but when sin came she was
uncovered so she needed to put something on
her head which represented her husband.
And she needed to cover that glory.
It does say clearly the hair is her
glory.
The hair is the glory of a woman.
Woman is the glory of man.
If she doesn't cover her glory, she's drawing
glory to herself and honoring herself and lifting
up herself.
Verse 16, but if any man seem to
be contentious we have no such custom, neither
the church of God.
And what custom is that?
Well it may be the custom of those
heathen women coming to worship and uncovering their
heads when they're prayed or prophesied.
It might also be a custom of, I'm
not sure I had enough thought there but
I'm not sure what that was.
Well what is a head covering?
A head covering is simply something that a
woman puts on as a symbol of submission.
Submission to her authority is of great price.
I see our time is far gone.
I just wanted to share what God has
taught me.
There is no longer a question in my
mind whether or not a woman needs to
cover her head when she prays or prophesies.
It'd be good to have some time for
discussion maybe or questions.
And I'll let that up to Aaron.
Lord willing.
But we can bow our heads for prayer.
Heavenly Father we come in Jesus name.
Lord it's a delight to honor your word.
I confess Father I don't understand it all
thoroughly or clearly but I have taught that
which you've given me Father and I pray
that it would be a blessing to everyone
here and to everyone who hears the word
of God.
Father now I pray that you'll bless the
service that you would get glory and honor
and that we might give glory to you
Father and not to draw glory to ourselves.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
I've asked a brother to share a testimony
concerning this situation.
If you would bring a mic up here.
We were traveling together one time and this
brother shared a testimony of the victory in
their home in this area.
So may God bless you brothers you've come
to share.
This principle of submission is a very important
one and Brother Emmanuel mentioned just a little
while ago in his message about how something
happens in the spiritual realm when a woman
takes her place in submission in the home.
And I shared a testimony with him one
day about that and by God's grace I
would like to share that again this morning.
About 7 or 8 years ago I recall
an incident that happened.
My wife and I had both been Christians
at that time probably about 5 years maybe
6 and the Lord had begun working in
our life in many different areas.
We'd received some good teaching different tapes.
We were looking into the word of God.
We were diligently seeking God.
We were asking questions.
We were knocking and we wanted so much
to serve God.
And yet there were still some things that
didn't seem to be working out quite right
in the home.
We had a good home life in many
ways.
There was much blessing.
But I really didn't know what it was.
I just didn't seem to be able to
take my place in the home the way
I knew I should.
And I wasn't even sure why.
My wife was cooperative.
She was helpful.
She prayed for me.
We prayed for one another.
But it didn't just seem to work out
right and I was I guess lazy as
men sometimes are.
Passive spiritually about many things that I should
not have been passive about.
And I remember one day I came home
from work.
I actually came home from work a little
bit early.
Didn't have anything in particular in my mind.
And I walked into our house and my
wife was in the dining room area.
She was dusting or cleaning.
I don't recall exactly what she was doing.
And I greeted her.
She greeted me.
And then she turned her back and kept
working there.
And as I was getting ready to go
in the bedroom door something stopped me.
And I said something is different about my
wife.
And I started to ask her what it
was.
She wasn't dressed any different.
She didn't look any different.
She didn't have a head curving on at
this time by the way.
But there was just something different.
And I didn't know what it was.
And it bothered me that I didn't know
but I couldn't bring myself to ask either.
So I went on.
Well this thing, whatever it was I kept
feeling it in our home.
And I noticed a change in my wife's
attitude toward me.
And a change in her spirit toward me.
And at first it was actually a little
scary or frustrating.
I didn't know what to do with it.
Why is she relating to me this way?
You know, I didn't really understand the principles
of submission so I wasn't using all the
right Bible words, but I knew things were
going almost too smoothly.
And she was being submissive although I didn't
really understand what all that was.
And what I found that it did in
my life and in my heart, I began
to feel conviction.
And I began to see even more clearly
where I was not rising up and taking
my place in the home.
And as she walked in this truth, even
though I still wouldn't go to her and
ask her what it was because the whole
thing was a little bit new to me
at that time, but I knew there was
a change in her life.
And finally after about three or four weeks
I went to her and asked her.
And by then God had been doing a
work in my heart.
I began repenting about many things.
God was releasing me and changing me.
Family devotions were getting more regular.
Again, not a word passed about this between
us.
But I was just feeling more free in
my spirit.
All these things were happening in the spirit
world in our home.
So I finally went to her and asked
her, you know, honey, what?
I know something happened and I named the
day.
And she got a big smile and she
said it was that day that God broke
my heart and changed my life.
And I decided that day I purposed in
my heart.
She told me that I was going to
be submissive, that I was going to be.
I guess we've had tapes here called the
hidden woman that I was going to take
my place in the home under you and
allow you to be the head.
And again, without a lot of teaching and
without a lot of understanding, God started working
those things out as I was able to
be released and freed because of her taking
her place to begin to take my place.
And you know, there are many things that
I could testify about that.
But the truth of that I believe was
one of the great things that the grace
that God gave us because of that was
one of the most transforming things in my
life.
As I said, I'd already been a Christian
five or six years and I know it
was true.
And the life, the spiritual life in our
home and it wasn't very many years.
I think it was only about a year
or two later that my wife began to
wear a hood covering.
And by the way, the TV did go
about that same time too, brother.
So there is something here.
I don't fully understand it, but I would
say amen to what Brother Emanuel preached this
morning.
It is true.
There is something that happens that when a
woman takes that place of submission, it frees
the man.
There is a release spiritually speaking in his
heart and his life to rise up.
And when that happens, it's a beautiful thing
and it can totally change a home.
I know it did ours and I give
God the glory for that.
Thank you, brother Rick.
I was so blessed when he shared that
with me.
I just want to lift up that principle
of husbands and wives.
This principle of rebellion and submission to the
husband is no little thing.
What happens when a woman, and I believe
Rick's wife probably was even very submissive before
that, but us husbands, we can feel the
spirit of resistance.
The spirit of rebellion.
Even though it is only in spirit, not
in words.
The husband knows it and it pulls him
down.
My plea is to you sisters.
Can you release your husbands to become what
they need to become?
If your husband is not what you want
him to be, I would encourage you to
let him go and go to the Father,
which is your husband's authority.
And tell the Father in Heaven that your
authority needs some grace.
And you can do that.
This principle will change many, many homes.
Not only in this place, but everywhere this
message would go.
My cry is that this principle would be
known.
That homes could be changed.
That husbands would then be able to rise
up.
Your husband will never rise up until you
release him and let him go.
God bless you.
I say then this morning, thank you Brother
Emmanuel for sharing.
We should have a couple hours as Brother
Emmanuel shared for discussion.
I would like to just clarify one area
which I'm sure Emmanuel and Rick would both
agree with.
We did look at it.
The woman and the man.
We also looked at it and it shows
up very clearly in husband and wife.
But what about the woman who is not
married?
Does the same principle supply?
Yes, they do.
I thank God for this teaching this morning.
And I believe it's something we need to
take home, meditate upon, let it become meat
to our Christian experience.
And I just thank God for the word
this morning.
I would have the thought in two weeks,
Lord willing, we'll have a Wednesday night time
for sharing here at the church.
And we might be able to just pick
up again and go on into some practical
areas and testimonies and discussion.
How many would appreciate that?
Can I see a raise of hands?
Yes, many hands.
It's something to consider that we might do
that.
Alright, well may God bless His word to
our hearts and our experience.
It's 20 after 12.
I don't think we'll open it up this
morning.
If you can just save it for next
Wednesday night for the following, we can maybe
share at that time.