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Good morning.

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I was tempted to use that old dinosaur

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thing in the back that Carl always pulls

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out.

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And I took it home and I tried.

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You know, even me, being a technology guy,

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I'd rather that thing.

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But the detail that I want to show

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you in pictures and things I just don't

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think is going to work.

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So I finally just gave in to the

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new way of doing things and we'll hope

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it all works.

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It makes you a lot more nervous when

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you have projectors and wires and I hope

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it all works.

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But this morning I'd like to talk to

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you a little bit about something.

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I know you all know my heart.

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Let me just open this so it stops

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doing that.

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I don't like when we do something and

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we don't know why.

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And I would like this morning to give

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a teaching on why we do something here

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in this church.

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So I'll go back a little bit in

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time.

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I remember years ago when we first started

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fellowshipping in a home church.

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And we had done it because we had

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started seeing in the Bible that there were

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things we were not obeying and we were

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not practicing.

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And we would slowly be examining the scriptures

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as to what they meant.

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I remember going through 1 Peter and seeing

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all the truths there.

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And during that time we became non-resistant.

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And then as time went on we came

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to a place where the group started talking

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about the head covering.

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And I remember my wife, she actually told

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me this morning she would just get up

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and go outside with the children.

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She didn't like us talking about that topic.

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She just hoped we would forget it.

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And it was a struggle for her.

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And so I remember years ago she came

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to me as the group was trying to

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decide where we stood.

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And studying it together she said, Jeremy, I

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want you to study this thing in depth.

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I want you to be sure you believe

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it.

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And I never want to turn back.

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I want you to be so sure that

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you'll never change your mind the rest of

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your life.

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That's a lot of burden on somebody.

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But that's what I tried to do.

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And so this morning I would like to

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do that.

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I would like to go back and answer

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the why the best I can.

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I've spent some time studying this again and

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looking back at sources.

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And that's why I wanted to bring the

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projector here.

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Because I want to go back and look

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at some sources through church history.

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But the first thing before we discuss this,

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and by the way, this is going to

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be more of a teaching, a whole lot

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less of a preaching.

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So prepare that you're sitting in more of

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a classroom mentality here.

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But we all need to be honest.

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I think if we're honest, first of all,

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we're going to realize that we are surrounded

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by the world.

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And that world puts pressure on us all

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the time.

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That world makes us question.

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I'm sure you're like me, where once in

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a while you question, why do I do

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this?

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Why do I look like this?

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Why do I believe this?

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I'm so different with all this voting stuff

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with Trump.

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Did any of you question, well, why don't

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we just go vote?

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In some ways you might stop and think,

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it makes sense.

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I mean, why not vote for the better

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of the two evils?

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But there's a chuckle there.

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But you might question those things sometimes and

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wonder why.

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Well, the world puts this pressure.

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You need to see all this Christianity doing

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it this way, and we're the odd bunch.

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We're the odd ducks that don't do it

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the same way.

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And so I want to be honest with

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that this morning.

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And that's one of the reasons why once

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in a while we need to talk about

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this, because doubts go through our heads.

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We sometimes wonder.

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Number two, I think we also need to

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be honest with our own hearts.

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You can make the Bible say whatever you

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want it to say.

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And for sure in this passage you can

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make the Bible say whatever you want it

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to say.

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So we need to be objective.

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The word objective means that we don't allow

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our feelings and our opinions to enter in.

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And that's really hard sometimes to do when

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you think about it.

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And Jeremiah, it says, I think it was

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Jeremiah, it says, the heart is deceitful above

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all else.

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Now stop and think about that.

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That deceitful means it's cunning, it's sly, it's

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trying to deceive you, and it says above

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all else.

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That means that the heart is deceitful above

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all things.

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Your heart inside of you is more deceitful

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than most things out there.

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I remember that sermon Roger preached, if you

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remember, where the most dangerous thing in the

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world, and we're all wondering, is it money,

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is it this, is it that?

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And he finally comes, it's your own heart

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at the end.

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And that's the truth.

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It's deceitful above all else.

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And it says, and desperately wicked, desperately wicked.

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Do you know what the word desperate here

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means is involving a hopeless sense that a

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situation is so bad, it's impossible to deal

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with.

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Your heart is, it says it's impossible to

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deal with.

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It says only through Christ, only through the

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Holy Spirit can we actually get light on

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something.

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So we need to be honest this morning

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that our heart wants to lead us astray

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and we can make scripture say whatever we

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want, including me standing here right now preaching.

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You know, it's true.

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I could skew stuff too.

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And that's why the Bereans were more wise.

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Okay, so let's all turn to 1 Corinthians

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And I want to just look at this

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passage quickly.

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We do not have a lot of time,

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and I have a lot of material here,

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so I really would not like to have

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to break this into two sermons if possible.

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So we need to kind of move quickly

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where we can, but slow down if I

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possibly can where we need to.

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1 Corinthians 11.

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Let's just quickly read it through.

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It says, Be you followers of me even

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as I am of Christ.

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Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember

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me in all things and keep the ordinances

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as I deliver them to you.

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But I would have you know that the

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head of every man is Christ, the head

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of the woman is the man, the head

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of Christ is God.

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Every man praying or prophesying having his head

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covered dishonors his head.

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But every woman that prays or prophesies with

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her head uncovered dishonors her head.

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For that is even all one as if

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she were shaven.

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For if the woman be not covered, let

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her also be shorn.

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But if it be a shame for a

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woman to be shorn or shaven, let her

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be covered.

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For a man indeed ought not to cover

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his head, for as much as he is

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the image and the glory of God, but

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the woman is the image of the man.

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For man is not of the woman, but

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the woman is of the man.

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Neither was the man created for the woman,

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but the woman for the man.

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For this cause ought the woman to have

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power on her head because of the angels.

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Nevertheless, neither is the man without the woman,

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neither the woman without the man in the

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Lord.

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For as the woman is of the man,

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even so is the man also by the

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woman, but all things of God.

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Judging yourselves, is it comely that a woman

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pray unto God uncovered?

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Does not even nature itself teach you that

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if a man has long hair, it is

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a shame unto him?

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But if a woman has long hair, it

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is a glory to her, for her hair

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is given her for a covering.

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But if any man seem to be contentious,

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we have no such custom, neither the churches

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of God.

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I want to point out a couple of

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First of all, in verse 2, we read

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that he has something.

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He says, I praise you, brothers.

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verse 17, he has something he's not going

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to praise them about in this chapter.

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In verse 17, it says, I declare unto

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you, I praise you not.

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So in this first part, he's saying he

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praises us for something.

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He praises the church of Corinth for something.

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And he says, I praise you, brethren, that

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you remember me in all things and keep

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the ordinances.

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Now, this word here, ordinances, I'm not even

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going to begin to try to pronounce it.

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I don't know Greek like that.

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But it means an apostolic revelation received from

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Christ and delivered.

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That's at least how Paul puts it.

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And we can get that by turning to

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two passages.

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I want you to turn to 2 Thessalonians

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2.

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2 Thessalonians 2, chapter 2, verse 15.

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This is the same Greek word.

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Who can tell me what the word is

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here?

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Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions

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which you have been taught, whether by word

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or by epistle.

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What do you think that word for ordinances

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is?

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Tradition.

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So he tells the brothers over at Thessalonia

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that he says, stand fast in this ordinance,

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this tradition, which you have been taught, probably

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by Paul, either whether it was by an

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epistle or whether it was in person.

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Chapter 3, verse 6 says, Now we command

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you, brethren, in the name of our Lord

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Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourself from every

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brother that walketh disorderly and not after the

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tradition which he received of us.

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Same word, tradition.

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This verse here, Paul is saying that the

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traditions he was teaching them are so important

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that if somebody is not walking according to

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them, you should withdraw yourself.

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That's pretty strong language.

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We could debate about that all day, what

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that means.

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But let's just remember that what Paul was

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using when he said an ordinance was very

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important.

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He was saying over to the Thessalonians, these

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traditions, these ordinances I'm passing unto you, you

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need to stand fast in and you need

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to guard them.

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You need to withdraw yourself if people are

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not holding to them.

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Very important.

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Back to 1 Corinthians, chapter 11.

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He goes on and he says, I would

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have you to know that the head of

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every man is Christ and the head of

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the woman is man and the head of

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Christ is God.

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I'll just quickly write on here.

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We can learn from this passage that this

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is about authority.

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We know that he lists this out, this

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level of authority.

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And I will quickly say this is not

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that Christ is not any less of value

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or equality than God the Father.

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But he is less in authority.

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He is less.

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He has subjected himself in authority in the

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same way woman is of no less value

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or equality than man.

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But God has set it up and he

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did it this way to say that woman

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is under and subjected to authority.

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That's what we're learning in this passage.

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Verse 4 and 5.

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We read, it says, The head of every

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man is Christ and the head of woman

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is man and the head of Christ is

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God.

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Verse 4.

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Every man praying or prophesying with his head

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covered dishonors his head, but every woman that

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prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors

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her head, for that is even all one

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as if she were shaven.

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The third thing we learn from this passage

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is this is not just talking to women.

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How many of you ever, when you think

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of the head covering, we all think this

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is a problem with women, right?

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Women need to wear head coverings, right?

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This is not that.

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It is to men and women.

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Did you notice that?

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It says every man, every woman.

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This is a passage to both genders.

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And we need to remember that.

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That this is not, he was addressing them.

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He was bringing some things to the Corinthians

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that they needed to maybe even change a

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little.

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But they needed to see that this passage

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was to men and women.

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Now verse 6 says that it would be

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as if she, verse 5 says it would

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be as if she were shaven if she

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was not covered.

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And in verse 6 it says for the

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woman be not covered, let her be shorn,

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which is cut short.

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How many of you would like, ladies, how

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many of you would like to wake up

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this morning and realize all your hair just

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fell out?

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I think that's what Paul's trying to talk

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to.

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He's trying to say that this would be

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not a good thing.

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You would struggle if all of your hair,

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your hair later on says is your glory.

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And this was what was hard for my

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wife.

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When we started discussing the subject is we're

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talking about something that is very meaningful to

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a lady, her hair.

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And when we all of a sudden say

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it's all going to be gone, that becomes

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a shame for a woman.

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It's even a shame for a man, right?

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But maybe we can handle it a little

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more.

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My wife asked me what would I feel

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like.

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Well, it's coming out slowly.

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I'm getting used to it.

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And as we keep reading, we read in

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verse 10 that for this cause ought the

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woman have power on her head because of

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the angels.

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So we now read that it's not just

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about authority or creation order, but it's also

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because of this thing, the angels.

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Now, was it good angels?

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Was it bad angels?

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Was it the angels that are in each

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church, maybe pastors?

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I don't know.

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We don't have time to get into that.

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Some of the early church felt it was

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bad angels.

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But there's a reason Paul gives.

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He tells us it's because of the angels.

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And we're not here to decide why, but

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we're here to decide what Paul is meaning

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by all of this.

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Verse 10 also says that she should have

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a sign.

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She should have, for this cause, she should

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have power on her head because of the

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angels.

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So not just the angels, but this word

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power.

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This word is translated in some places in

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your Bible.

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I think it's the Greek word exousia, and

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it means authority.

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So sometimes it's translated power.

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Sometimes it's translated authority.

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I think it's the same word where it

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says let everyone be subject to authorities or

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powers in the King James, so the higher

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powers.

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And so it's a sign of authority.

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When a woman wears a covering, she is

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saying, I'm subjected to God's plan and his

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authority plan.

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And it's a symbol of power on her

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head, the Bible says.

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Okay.

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ESV translates this, she should have a symbol

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of authority.

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And the New Living translates this, a woman

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should wear a covering on her head to

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show she is under authority.

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So we would read this passage and maybe

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we could just shut the book and say,

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okay, we all understand why we're wearing coverings

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and let's go home.

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But there's a lot of objections.

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And that's where I thought instead of trying

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to read you a bunch of boring quotes

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and tell you what something might look like,

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we'll do it on this and maybe you

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can follow along a little better.

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So let's go through some of the objections.

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Can everybody see that?

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Is it clear?

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Let's make sure this can't be any clearer.

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Okay.

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I think that's it.

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So the first objection, this is a pretty,

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I haven't really heard this one a lot,

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but this objection says that Paul didn't really

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intend this for all the churches.

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He just intended it for the Church of

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Corinth.

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Let's all just jump back to chapter one

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of Corinthians.

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And I actually have it on the slide

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so you can watch it there too if

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you want.

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But Paul says in verse one, Paul called

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to be an apostle of Jesus Christ to

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the will of God and Sothenes our brother

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unto the church of God, which is at

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Corinth to them that are sanctified in Christ.

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Jesus called to be saints with all that

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in every place call upon the Lord, the

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name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, both theirs

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and ours.

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So Paul starts off this book saying this

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is not just about Corinth.

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It's about the whole church with all that

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in every place call upon the Lord.

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And in many times, Paul tells churches, hey,

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why don't you share this book with that

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church?

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There wasn't some idea that it was just

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the things he had to say was just

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to one church, especially when we talk about

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ordinances.

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And one of the early church writers confirmed

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this.

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He said this right here.

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This was 150 years later.

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He says throughout all of Greece and certain

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of its barbaric.

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And by the way, we think of barb,

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barb, however you say that.

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We think of like guys gnawing on meat

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and like just savages.

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That's what I think about.

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But barbaric simply meant outside of the Roman

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and Greco cultures.

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And so these were countries that were outside

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of those areas.

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So down in Africa, maybe, maybe there wasn't

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Roman rule there yet.

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So what he's saying is throughout of all

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of Greece and even in barbaric provinces, like

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you might put foreign provinces, the majority of

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their churches keep their virgins covered.

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You may think, well, he said the majority.

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Well, you need to realize that this guy

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is writing a track or a treatise to

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the church, all the churches saying and trying

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to say why they need to cover their

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virgins, not just their wives.

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But unmarried women.

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And the church was a little bit like,

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well, what should we do?

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Should we cover our unmarried women or should

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we just cover our married women?

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Is it a wife thing?

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Is it an all women thing?

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And so he's not just saying, he's specifically

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addressing the virgins.

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He's saying most churches cover their virgins, let

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alone all the churches cover their wives.

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And I do have that.

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We could talk about that if I remember.

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ESV translates it, wives, and I might have

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that in my notes.

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I think I do.

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Okay.

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So I think that's enough time on that

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objection because that's not a big one you

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hear very often.

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Let's talk about this one.

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The head covering was a cultural practice.

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How many of you heard that before?

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That's probably the biggest one or the way

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I was raised.

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I'll show you the other one.

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And so the idea was Paul was encouraging

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the church to do it the same as

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the society around them or because of the

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society around them.

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He had concerns.

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So his commands were because of the culture

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around them.

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Maybe it was because of these things that

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would mean it was a bad thing.

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It's kind of the same thing as the

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holy kiss.

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Was the holy kiss something that was just

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their culture?

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You know, we see certain cultures are all

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greeting each other on the cheek.

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And so we say, well, in our culture,

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it's a handshake.

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So should we change it to a handshake?

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Or is this an ordinance that we should

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follow directly?

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So that's the question here.

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Was it something that was cultural or was

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it not?

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Well, to address that, I want to look

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at an image here.

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And I want to talk a little bit

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about the culture around them.

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Now, in this next image, you're going to

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see this is Augustus.

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Now, Augustus was some kind of Roman Caesar

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or ruler.

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And this word, does anybody know what this

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word pontifix maximus means?

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Anybody?

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From my understanding, it means high priest.

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I think this maximus is like high.

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I believe this pontifix means priest.

554
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And so he's in this sculpture.

555
00:19:48,870 --> 00:19:51,630
There's many, many sculptures of him in places

556
00:19:51,630 --> 00:19:54,690
where he doesn't have a head covering on.

557
00:19:54,890 --> 00:19:57,450
But in this picture, he has a head

558
00:19:57,450 --> 00:19:59,290
covering on because he's acting as the high

559
00:19:59,290 --> 00:19:59,750
priest.

560
00:20:00,950 --> 00:20:03,070
That's significant because when he was, and this

561
00:20:03,070 --> 00:20:05,110
is not the high priest of Christianity, this

562
00:20:05,110 --> 00:20:07,310
is the high priest of their Roman gods,

563
00:20:07,510 --> 00:20:10,470
all of their temples, their pagan temples.

564
00:20:10,610 --> 00:20:11,990
So when he would go there and offer

565
00:20:11,990 --> 00:20:15,210
a sacrifice, he would pull his robe over

566
00:20:15,210 --> 00:20:15,770
his head.

567
00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:17,710
That was their culture.

568
00:20:17,890 --> 00:20:20,570
In their culture, in the Roman culture, men

569
00:20:20,570 --> 00:20:23,470
covered their head when they were praying, when

570
00:20:23,470 --> 00:20:24,790
they were prophesying, when they were in a

571
00:20:24,790 --> 00:20:26,070
church service, essentially.

572
00:20:27,590 --> 00:20:28,530
Okay, here's another picture.

573
00:20:28,530 --> 00:20:35,710
This is Augustus also as pontifix maximus.

574
00:20:36,250 --> 00:20:38,070
He's got, clearly has a head covering.

575
00:20:38,450 --> 00:20:42,570
If you're curious if that's a guy, he's

576
00:20:42,570 --> 00:20:43,230
got a beard too.

577
00:20:45,650 --> 00:20:46,690
Here's a coin.

578
00:20:47,350 --> 00:20:52,330
This is Julius Caesar as pontifix maximus, and

579
00:20:52,330 --> 00:20:53,490
he has a covering on.

580
00:20:53,570 --> 00:20:56,990
It's very, very accepted, and you can do

581
00:20:56,990 --> 00:20:57,310
this.

582
00:20:57,310 --> 00:20:58,870
You can just look it up, and I'm

583
00:20:58,870 --> 00:20:59,750
not pulling your leg.

584
00:21:00,090 --> 00:21:01,970
This is how their culture, the Roman culture,

585
00:21:02,470 --> 00:21:06,530
dealt with men in worship or temple-like

586
00:21:06,530 --> 00:21:07,090
situations.

587
00:21:07,230 --> 00:21:09,950
Here's a picture of a Roman temple sacrifice.

588
00:21:10,110 --> 00:21:11,490
You can see this man over here, he's

589
00:21:11,490 --> 00:21:13,550
got this axe-like device.

590
00:21:13,710 --> 00:21:17,190
They're bringing this ox in, and the man

591
00:21:17,190 --> 00:21:19,870
here, the high priest, and this is pagan,

592
00:21:20,250 --> 00:21:22,130
is offering, he's got a covering on.

593
00:21:22,190 --> 00:21:23,110
Here's another one to make it a little

594
00:21:23,110 --> 00:21:23,490
clearer.

595
00:21:25,250 --> 00:21:27,270
You can see that there's a bull back

596
00:21:27,270 --> 00:21:30,590
there, and it's a temple of Jupiter, optimus

597
00:21:30,590 --> 00:21:31,270
maximus.

598
00:21:31,450 --> 00:21:34,150
I'm not sure what that optimus stands for,

599
00:21:34,370 --> 00:21:36,030
but you can see the high priest here,

600
00:21:36,290 --> 00:21:39,590
or whatever he is, officiating the ceremony, has

601
00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:40,610
a covering on his head.

602
00:21:41,130 --> 00:21:42,550
So I'm just trying to show you that

603
00:21:42,550 --> 00:21:44,910
in Roman culture, men covered their heads in

604
00:21:44,910 --> 00:21:45,670
religious services.

605
00:21:46,170 --> 00:21:51,350
Now this is a Greek picture, some old

606
00:21:51,350 --> 00:21:55,350
artifacts, some old art from that time.

607
00:21:56,170 --> 00:21:57,770
You can see up in the left, the

608
00:21:57,770 --> 00:22:00,690
woman does not have a covering on, and

609
00:22:00,690 --> 00:22:02,810
she is offering something, a liquid offering.

610
00:22:03,050 --> 00:22:07,510
Here, the man has a wreath on his

611
00:22:07,510 --> 00:22:10,330
head, but the woman here doesn't, and I

612
00:22:10,330 --> 00:22:12,250
don't know what the thing on her head

613
00:22:12,250 --> 00:22:12,410
is.

614
00:22:12,410 --> 00:22:15,450
In the Greek culture, there wasn't any specified,

615
00:22:15,690 --> 00:22:16,690
you had to or you couldn't.

616
00:22:17,250 --> 00:22:19,390
They didn't do that, according to what I

617
00:22:19,390 --> 00:22:19,650
found.

618
00:22:20,470 --> 00:22:22,470
And then lastly, we all know the Jewish

619
00:22:22,470 --> 00:22:25,950
culture, priests covered their heads in the temple.

620
00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:31,230
The point here is that there wasn't a

621
00:22:31,230 --> 00:22:32,930
specific cultural practice.

622
00:22:33,050 --> 00:22:34,850
Some cultures did it different, some cultures did

623
00:22:34,850 --> 00:22:35,370
it this way.

624
00:22:36,930 --> 00:22:39,310
I'm going to read you from Tertullian again,

625
00:22:39,310 --> 00:22:42,630
and he was from 150 years later, after

626
00:22:42,630 --> 00:22:44,050
Corinth.

627
00:22:44,570 --> 00:22:47,290
He was an early church theologian, so he

628
00:22:47,290 --> 00:22:49,530
was living around the year 160 to 220,

629
00:22:50,190 --> 00:22:53,570
and he was probably writing this about 150

630
00:22:53,570 --> 00:22:54,590
years after Corinth.

631
00:22:54,750 --> 00:23:03,530
He says, This is in his same treatise

632
00:23:03,530 --> 00:23:06,570
about virgins wearing veils, but he's saying, Don't

633
00:23:06,570 --> 00:23:08,670
try to ascribe this, don't try to assign

634
00:23:08,670 --> 00:23:10,150
this to some kind of custom.

635
00:23:10,570 --> 00:23:11,610
This is what we do.

636
00:23:13,010 --> 00:23:14,470
I want to go up to the second

637
00:23:14,470 --> 00:23:14,870
objection.

638
00:23:15,010 --> 00:23:20,810
That's the objection of culture as in the

639
00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:23,790
culture right around them, and Paul is saying,

640
00:23:24,030 --> 00:23:25,030
let's do it like the culture.

641
00:23:25,610 --> 00:23:27,910
If all the culture shakes hands, let's shake

642
00:23:27,910 --> 00:23:28,210
hands.

643
00:23:28,310 --> 00:23:30,290
If all the culture doesn't wear coverings, let's

644
00:23:30,290 --> 00:23:31,050
not wear coverings.

645
00:23:31,590 --> 00:23:33,130
I don't think that was the case.

646
00:23:33,130 --> 00:23:35,730
The second objection is the head covering was

647
00:23:35,730 --> 00:23:38,190
a culture practice, but a woman without a

648
00:23:38,190 --> 00:23:41,390
veil associated themselves with prostitutes.

649
00:23:41,530 --> 00:23:44,990
Now, how many of you have heard this

650
00:23:44,990 --> 00:23:45,690
argument before?

651
00:23:45,830 --> 00:23:47,230
You bring it up, and the first thing

652
00:23:47,230 --> 00:23:52,270
somebody says is, Well, the Corinthians did that

653
00:23:52,270 --> 00:23:55,490
back then because there were prostitutes who would

654
00:23:55,490 --> 00:23:58,530
not wear a veil, and therefore, if the

655
00:23:58,530 --> 00:24:00,530
Christians would take their head coverings off, they

656
00:24:00,530 --> 00:24:01,490
would look like a prostitute.

657
00:24:01,550 --> 00:24:02,950
That's how the line of thinking goes.

658
00:24:02,950 --> 00:24:04,190
I've heard that one a lot.

659
00:24:05,650 --> 00:24:07,590
That came into being in the Adam Clark

660
00:24:07,590 --> 00:24:09,130
commentary in 1831.

661
00:24:09,950 --> 00:24:11,510
This is from his commentary.

662
00:24:12,450 --> 00:24:14,530
This was and is a common custom through

663
00:24:14,530 --> 00:24:16,950
all the East, and none but public prostitutes

664
00:24:16,950 --> 00:24:19,490
go without veils, and if a woman should

665
00:24:19,490 --> 00:24:21,310
appear in public without a veil, she would

666
00:24:21,310 --> 00:24:25,330
dishonor her head, her husband, and she must

667
00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:27,730
appear like to those women who had their

668
00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:29,750
hair shorn off as the punishment of whoredom

669
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:30,630
or adultery.

670
00:24:31,050 --> 00:24:31,870
Sounds good.

671
00:24:31,870 --> 00:24:35,470
The problem is, David Berceau did a bunch

672
00:24:35,470 --> 00:24:36,990
of research into this, and this was the

673
00:24:36,990 --> 00:24:39,330
earliest commentary he could find it in with

674
00:24:39,330 --> 00:24:41,770
no evidence of it actually being the case,

675
00:24:42,770 --> 00:24:46,190
and I read multiple places who said the

676
00:24:46,190 --> 00:24:46,670
same thing.

677
00:24:48,070 --> 00:24:50,090
How many of you know who R.C.

678
00:24:50,210 --> 00:24:50,770
Sproul is?

679
00:24:51,710 --> 00:24:56,870
He is like a Calvinistic Presbyterian.

680
00:24:56,870 --> 00:24:59,170
He's now dead, but he was a Calvinistic

681
00:24:59,170 --> 00:25:01,030
Presbyterian theologian.

682
00:25:01,770 --> 00:25:03,430
We wouldn't probably line up with him a

683
00:25:03,430 --> 00:25:06,390
lot of things, but he says he's a

684
00:25:06,390 --> 00:25:08,570
lone voice in the wilderness who still believes

685
00:25:08,570 --> 00:25:08,710
this.

686
00:25:08,810 --> 00:25:11,090
He can remember as a child being in

687
00:25:11,090 --> 00:25:14,190
his mother's church with the women wearing coverings

688
00:25:14,190 --> 00:25:15,330
and watched it leave.

689
00:25:16,410 --> 00:25:18,570
We'll get to that later, but he made

690
00:25:18,570 --> 00:25:19,090
this point.

691
00:25:19,230 --> 00:25:22,110
He said, you have to interpret what is

692
00:25:22,110 --> 00:25:24,230
principle and what is custom.

693
00:25:24,910 --> 00:25:27,550
The burden of proof is always on the

694
00:25:27,550 --> 00:25:30,990
one who says it's custom rather than principle.

695
00:25:31,290 --> 00:25:34,310
So if Paul was teaching custom, then we

696
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:34,950
don't need to do it.

697
00:25:35,010 --> 00:25:36,750
If he was teaching a principle, then we

698
00:25:36,750 --> 00:25:37,350
need to do it.

699
00:25:37,530 --> 00:25:38,290
Which one is it?

700
00:25:38,330 --> 00:25:39,370
Is it custom or principle?

701
00:25:39,990 --> 00:25:41,770
He goes on, when the Apostle Paul gives

702
00:25:41,770 --> 00:25:46,870
the reason for instruction that he imposes upon

703
00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:50,950
the church, you never, never, never substitute a

704
00:25:50,950 --> 00:25:51,470
different one.

705
00:25:52,370 --> 00:25:54,970
And Paul doesn't say that the ladies cover

706
00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:57,350
their head because of prostitutes walking around with

707
00:25:57,350 --> 00:25:57,990
bare heads.

708
00:25:57,990 --> 00:26:03,270
In fact, he appeals to creation, and if

709
00:26:03,270 --> 00:26:06,310
anything transcends, that means rises above and goes

710
00:26:06,310 --> 00:26:10,630
from generation to generation, local customs, it's creation

711
00:26:10,630 --> 00:26:11,110
order.

712
00:26:11,330 --> 00:26:12,490
That's this thing right here.

713
00:26:15,370 --> 00:26:16,830
The reason he gives for the woman to

714
00:26:16,830 --> 00:26:19,850
cover is her glory and it shows submission

715
00:26:19,850 --> 00:26:20,630
to her husband.

716
00:26:21,510 --> 00:26:23,590
It's the submission of the wife to the

717
00:26:23,590 --> 00:26:24,830
husband cultural.

718
00:26:26,430 --> 00:26:28,430
Now, when he said that, he said this

719
00:26:28,430 --> 00:26:31,970
live, he said, it's looking like it is

720
00:26:31,970 --> 00:26:34,230
nowadays, and everybody chuckled because it's kind of

721
00:26:34,230 --> 00:26:35,250
becoming that way, right?

722
00:26:35,910 --> 00:26:38,050
It seems to be a cultural thought even

723
00:26:38,050 --> 00:26:38,450
there.

724
00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:41,790
But the idea he's saying here is Paul

725
00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:42,750
gives us the reason.

726
00:26:43,130 --> 00:26:44,850
He doesn't say it was because of prostitutes.

727
00:26:44,930 --> 00:26:45,810
He gives us the reason.

728
00:26:45,910 --> 00:26:47,730
He says it was because of this.

729
00:26:47,870 --> 00:26:49,350
He also said it was because of angels.

730
00:26:50,970 --> 00:26:52,190
Okay, so let's keep discussing.

731
00:26:52,590 --> 00:26:55,170
David Burceau had an interesting, years ago when

732
00:26:55,170 --> 00:26:58,290
I first was studying this, he had a

733
00:26:58,290 --> 00:26:59,870
book called Common Sense, and I don't think

734
00:26:59,870 --> 00:27:03,510
it's in print anymore, but I really appreciated

735
00:27:03,510 --> 00:27:05,770
some of his thoughts in the book about

736
00:27:05,770 --> 00:27:06,650
this subject.

737
00:27:06,830 --> 00:27:08,970
And he says this, how about the interpretation

738
00:27:08,970 --> 00:27:11,030
that the only reason that this passage was

739
00:27:11,030 --> 00:27:13,290
written was so that the Christian women of

740
00:27:13,290 --> 00:27:16,270
Corinth wouldn't be mistaken as prostitutes or pagan

741
00:27:16,270 --> 00:27:16,870
priestesses?

742
00:27:17,030 --> 00:27:18,830
If that is what the passage is all

743
00:27:18,830 --> 00:27:21,790
about, why is part of it addressed to

744
00:27:21,790 --> 00:27:22,070
men?

745
00:27:24,750 --> 00:27:27,370
This isn't just about prostitutes, and he's telling

746
00:27:27,370 --> 00:27:28,730
the men they need to take off their

747
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:29,650
coverings, remember?

748
00:27:30,290 --> 00:27:31,970
It's not just about women.

749
00:27:32,170 --> 00:27:35,610
It's not just about pagan priestesses.

750
00:27:36,210 --> 00:27:38,950
He goes on, furthermore this interpretation contradicts what

751
00:27:38,950 --> 00:27:40,090
Paul said in verse 10.

752
00:27:41,330 --> 00:27:43,410
Remember, he said in verse 10, therefore the

753
00:27:43,410 --> 00:27:45,190
women ought to have a symbol of authority

754
00:27:45,190 --> 00:27:46,350
on her head because of the angels.

755
00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:49,250
If this modern interpretation is correct, then Paul

756
00:27:49,250 --> 00:27:51,270
is either in error or he is lying.

757
00:27:52,670 --> 00:27:53,670
Paul gives us the reason.

758
00:27:53,810 --> 00:27:56,330
We should be very, very careful to come

759
00:27:56,330 --> 00:27:58,030
up with our own reasons when Paul gives

760
00:27:58,030 --> 00:27:58,830
us the reason why.

761
00:28:00,330 --> 00:28:02,190
So here are some of the reasons Paul

762
00:28:02,190 --> 00:28:02,710
gives us.

763
00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:05,430
He gives us, first of all, the creation

764
00:28:05,430 --> 00:28:07,170
order and the headship authority.

765
00:28:07,710 --> 00:28:09,490
He tells us about the angels.

766
00:28:10,230 --> 00:28:12,730
And then he tells us towards the end

767
00:28:12,730 --> 00:28:14,370
of the section about nature's witness.

768
00:28:14,530 --> 00:28:16,470
That's where he said, does not even nature

769
00:28:16,470 --> 00:28:18,370
itself teach you with long hair and all

770
00:28:18,370 --> 00:28:18,750
of this?

771
00:28:19,190 --> 00:28:21,850
And he also says another reason is all

772
00:28:21,850 --> 00:28:23,270
the churches were practicing it.

773
00:28:24,750 --> 00:28:29,030
So this nature's witness here, what he's saying

774
00:28:29,030 --> 00:28:33,110
there is that God gave a woman long

775
00:28:33,110 --> 00:28:35,810
hair in a natural way to prove.

776
00:28:35,910 --> 00:28:37,510
Whether you're Christian or not, he gave you

777
00:28:37,510 --> 00:28:39,150
a natural covering.

778
00:28:39,790 --> 00:28:41,350
And then Paul's point is to say, and

779
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:43,570
in the spiritual way, you also need a

780
00:28:43,570 --> 00:28:43,910
covering.

781
00:28:44,070 --> 00:28:45,750
So he's trying to compare the two and

782
00:28:45,750 --> 00:28:50,050
say, this is an example of why we

783
00:28:50,050 --> 00:28:50,590
need to cover.

784
00:28:51,310 --> 00:28:52,930
Let's go on to the next objection.

785
00:28:53,070 --> 00:28:54,270
We do not have enough time to get

786
00:28:54,270 --> 00:28:55,110
into that any deeper.

787
00:28:56,810 --> 00:28:58,490
How many of you heard this one?

788
00:28:59,070 --> 00:29:00,550
This is how I was raised.

789
00:29:01,230 --> 00:29:03,250
A woman's long hair is given to her

790
00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:03,570
covering.

791
00:29:03,810 --> 00:29:07,330
And honestly, it makes a lot of sense.

792
00:29:08,110 --> 00:29:10,770
If you read over the passage quickly and

793
00:29:10,770 --> 00:29:13,290
you don't really study it, it makes sense

794
00:29:13,290 --> 00:29:15,370
because it says a woman's hair is given

795
00:29:15,370 --> 00:29:16,030
to her covering.

796
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:18,890
And so for years, I never thought anything

797
00:29:18,890 --> 00:29:21,610
different because that's what it says in verse

798
00:29:21,610 --> 00:29:21,990
15.

799
00:29:22,130 --> 00:29:23,270
Her hair is given to her as a

800
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:23,530
covering.

801
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:28,400
So let's read the passage, and I should

802
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:29,520
back up before I tell you.

803
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,180
Let's do a little rule here.

804
00:29:35,810 --> 00:29:46,560
If long hair equals a covering, and

805
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:55,400
short hair equals no covering, if that's what

806
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,100
it really is, then let's take the passage

807
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:01,220
and let's replace the words.

808
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,120
Let's put long hair where covering is and

809
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,760
short hair where no covering is and see

810
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:07,420
if it makes sense.

811
00:30:07,820 --> 00:30:10,320
This is to me one of the biggest

812
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:13,260
arguments that this and one other that convinced

813
00:30:13,260 --> 00:30:13,480
me.

814
00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:14,120
And here we go.

815
00:30:14,500 --> 00:30:15,240
Let's go through it.

816
00:30:15,660 --> 00:30:16,660
This is doing that.

817
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,380
Every man praying or prophesying with long hair

818
00:30:20,380 --> 00:30:22,360
dishonors his head.

819
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,760
But every woman that prays or prophesies with

820
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:30,780
short hair dishonors her head, for that is

821
00:30:30,780 --> 00:30:32,100
as if she were shaven.

822
00:30:33,140 --> 00:30:36,380
For if the woman has short hair, let

823
00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:39,540
her hair also be cut short.

824
00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:45,820
But if it be a shame for a

825
00:30:45,820 --> 00:30:48,060
woman to have her hair cut short or

826
00:30:48,060 --> 00:30:51,260
shaven, let her have long hair.

827
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,640
Now, I'll just give you a funny thing

828
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,040
that happened.

829
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,240
Last night I was working on this and

830
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,540
one of my sons walked in the room

831
00:30:58,540 --> 00:31:00,480
and he reads this and he says, that

832
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,560
makes no sense.

833
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,260
Why are you even thinking about putting that

834
00:31:04,260 --> 00:31:04,480
up?

835
00:31:04,540 --> 00:31:05,460
It makes no sense.

836
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,440
And I had to explain that, well, that's

837
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,000
the point.

838
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:14,040
It doesn't make sense for it to say,

839
00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:15,540
for if the woman has short hair, let

840
00:31:15,540 --> 00:31:16,860
her also have short hair.

841
00:31:17,900 --> 00:31:18,980
It doesn't work.

842
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,840
David Purcell in that Common Sense book said

843
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,220
this, to follow modern interpretation, Paul would be

844
00:31:24,220 --> 00:31:25,840
saying if a woman does not have long

845
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,120
hair, let her also have her hair cut

846
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:28,420
off.

847
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,760
How reasonable is that?

848
00:31:29,820 --> 00:31:31,040
If a woman's hair is short, it is

849
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,760
because it is already cut off.

850
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,020
Can a man's hair be long while he

851
00:31:36,020 --> 00:31:36,960
is doing other things?

852
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,300
This is the second thing that convinced me.

853
00:31:39,740 --> 00:31:42,880
When he decided to prophesy, let's read that

854
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:43,080
again.

855
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,080
Can a man's hair be long while he

856
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:46,380
is doing other things?

857
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,460
Then when he decides to prophesy, he suddenly

858
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:50,140
has short hair.

859
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,520
So I remember reading this passage and thinking,

860
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,200
okay, this is a command for while I'm

861
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,040
praying and prophesying.

862
00:31:55,060 --> 00:31:56,900
I'm supposed to uncover my head.

863
00:31:57,060 --> 00:32:00,140
If my hair is long hair when it's

864
00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:02,240
covered and short hair when it's uncovered, how

865
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,780
do I go, okay, time to prophesy, make

866
00:32:04,780 --> 00:32:07,340
that short, and now it's time to not

867
00:32:07,340 --> 00:32:09,140
prophesy, make it...

868
00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:10,140
Okay, the other way around.

869
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:10,880
You know what I'm saying.

870
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:12,360
How do you take that on and off?

871
00:32:13,380 --> 00:32:13,800
What's that?

872
00:32:16,430 --> 00:32:17,890
Okay, you have a way.

873
00:32:18,330 --> 00:32:19,290
You have a way to do it.

874
00:32:22,030 --> 00:32:23,770
If Paul was addressing length of hair, why

875
00:32:23,770 --> 00:32:25,090
didn't he just come out and say it?

876
00:32:25,330 --> 00:32:26,090
And that's the point.

877
00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:28,850
I want to give one other thought on

878
00:32:28,850 --> 00:32:31,030
this, another thing that convinced me.

879
00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:34,270
It's two different Greek words.

880
00:32:35,610 --> 00:32:37,110
So when we're talking way at the...

881
00:32:37,110 --> 00:32:38,270
There's two parts of the passage.

882
00:32:38,750 --> 00:32:41,430
There's the first part talking about the covering

883
00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:44,030
and the second part talking about the hair.

884
00:32:48,230 --> 00:32:50,370
Okay, and what's hard about all of this

885
00:32:50,370 --> 00:32:52,650
is the word is used covering and covering,

886
00:32:52,790 --> 00:32:52,990
right?

887
00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:55,210
So we all, for a woman's hair, it's

888
00:32:55,210 --> 00:32:56,470
given to her for a covering, and we're

889
00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:57,530
like, well, see, there you go.

890
00:32:58,770 --> 00:33:00,470
But the thing is, is in Paul's language,

891
00:33:00,550 --> 00:33:02,130
when he wrote it in Greek, he did

892
00:33:02,130 --> 00:33:03,550
not use the same words.

893
00:33:03,930 --> 00:33:05,350
So it would be like if I read

894
00:33:05,350 --> 00:33:06,750
the first part of the passage and I

895
00:33:06,750 --> 00:33:08,090
didn't use the word covering.

896
00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:10,410
I used the word veil, and then I

897
00:33:10,410 --> 00:33:11,570
used the word covering here.

898
00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:14,090
You would immediately maybe think of something different

899
00:33:14,090 --> 00:33:16,410
because I'm using two different English words.

900
00:33:17,030 --> 00:33:19,730
But see, the translators, not that it's wrong,

901
00:33:19,730 --> 00:33:23,310
they chose to translate both different Greek words

902
00:33:23,310 --> 00:33:24,410
the same thing.

903
00:33:25,310 --> 00:33:28,230
And so you can clearly see, I'm not

904
00:33:28,230 --> 00:33:29,910
a Greek scholar, but you can clearly see

905
00:33:29,910 --> 00:33:30,990
they're two different words, right?

906
00:33:31,010 --> 00:33:33,830
It doesn't take much looking to say these

907
00:33:33,830 --> 00:33:35,110
are two different words.

908
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,510
I know kata, I know that much means

909
00:33:37,510 --> 00:33:40,070
down upon, and I know peri means around.

910
00:33:40,570 --> 00:33:42,570
So periboleon is kind of a wraparound.

911
00:33:43,630 --> 00:33:45,290
Kata means on top.

912
00:33:47,370 --> 00:33:52,060
Okay, there's a little bit more that helps

913
00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:53,460
with this idea of long hair.

914
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,380
One of the early Christian writers from 130

915
00:33:57,380 --> 00:34:00,680
AD, he translated 1110.

916
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:04,640
Remember it says a woman has a sign

917
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:05,800
of authority on her head?

918
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,820
Well, he translated when he wrote it, a

919
00:34:09,820 --> 00:34:13,060
woman ought to have a veil, a kaloma,

920
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:14,080
however you say that.

921
00:34:15,060 --> 00:34:16,199
Now why is that significant?

922
00:34:17,540 --> 00:34:20,460
It's because he understood that whatever this power

923
00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:23,199
on her head would was a veil, when

924
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:24,020
he wrote it.

925
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:28,760
He knew it wasn't just a hair.

926
00:34:29,060 --> 00:34:30,179
He didn't say her hair.

927
00:34:31,219 --> 00:34:34,020
A woman ought to have long hair upon

928
00:34:34,020 --> 00:34:34,420
her head.

929
00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:36,040
He said a woman ought to have a

930
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:36,380
veil.

931
00:34:36,940 --> 00:34:38,460
Now this was an early church writer writing

932
00:34:39,139 --> 00:34:41,120
130 years later or something like this, or

933
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:48,139
maybe 100, and he's rewriting Corinthians.

934
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:50,960
Two other quick arguments here.

935
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:55,100
Back in the book of Haman, well not

936
00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:59,040
Haman, but about Esther, Haman in Esther, there

937
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,100
was an old Greek Old Testament, so that

938
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,240
means all the underlying words were Greek instead

939
00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:03,620
of Hebrew.

940
00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:07,700
The word used when Haman hurried to his

941
00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:10,020
house morning, it was the same kata, it

942
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:14,620
was the same Greek word kata used in

943
00:35:14,620 --> 00:35:16,740
verse 4 of this, and he was covering

944
00:35:16,740 --> 00:35:17,540
his head in mourning.

945
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:22,840
So the Jewish writers that knew Greek were

946
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,900
using the same words as actual cloth.

947
00:35:26,740 --> 00:35:27,340
That's the point.

948
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,700
I'm not going to take the time to

949
00:35:31,700 --> 00:35:32,740
go through these two arguments.

950
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,220
If you want to know about later, come

951
00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:38,140
talk to me about this word anti, and

952
00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:40,460
some people make a distinction about that, but

953
00:35:40,460 --> 00:35:41,800
we don't have time for that right now.

954
00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:44,540
So let's go with the fourth objection.

955
00:35:44,540 --> 00:35:46,120
Paul was saying if you don't want to

956
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,200
wear a covering, you don't need to.

957
00:35:49,860 --> 00:35:54,340
That is found in verse, I think it's

958
00:35:54,340 --> 00:36:01,400
16, where he says, if any man seems

959
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,700
to be contentious, we have no such custom,

960
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,160
neither the churches of God.

961
00:36:05,380 --> 00:36:07,360
That's kind of a confusing sentence, I admit

962
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:07,500
it.

963
00:36:07,580 --> 00:36:09,800
If you want to be contentious, we understand

964
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:10,120
that.

965
00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:11,480
We have no such custom.

966
00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:12,140
What does that mean?

967
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:13,500
We have no such custom?

968
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,120
Does that mean we don't do this?

969
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:16,660
If you want to be contentious, we really

970
00:36:16,660 --> 00:36:17,360
don't do this.

971
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:19,060
Or does it mean if you want to

972
00:36:19,060 --> 00:36:21,720
be contentious, this is just how we do

973
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:21,860
it.

974
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:22,940
Which one does it mean?

975
00:36:24,260 --> 00:36:27,080
Here are the verses, just looking at a

976
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:28,080
modern translation.

977
00:36:28,820 --> 00:36:31,680
There are three different translations of this verse.

978
00:36:32,420 --> 00:36:34,680
NASB says we have no other practice.

979
00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:36,220
That makes it a little more clear.

980
00:36:37,300 --> 00:36:39,300
NIV says we have no other practice.

981
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:41,920
And New Living, I mean, if you want

982
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,640
to say, which one's the most modern and

983
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,620
thought for thought and away from literal, they

984
00:36:47,620 --> 00:36:49,320
have the opportunity here to make it seem

985
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:50,860
like it's for sure not anything.

986
00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:53,040
They say we have no other custom than

987
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:53,500
this.

988
00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:58,300
David Bersow says, if we say that Paul

989
00:36:58,300 --> 00:37:00,760
was saying there is no other practice than

990
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,820
to be unveiled, so in other words, that's

991
00:37:03,820 --> 00:37:06,560
just not our practice, then why did Paul

992
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,880
even bother to write this practice at all?

993
00:37:09,660 --> 00:37:12,420
We have him giving all this counsel about,

994
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,560
you know, the angels and the order of

995
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:15,140
creation.

996
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:16,520
But then he says at the very end,

997
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,760
if you don't like this, then don't follow

998
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,880
them for no one else is following them

999
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:22,140
either.

1000
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,580
Using logic and common sense, that doesn't make

1001
00:37:26,580 --> 00:37:29,940
sense to go through all these verses about

1002
00:37:29,940 --> 00:37:31,520
this angels and higher order.

1003
00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:34,340
And then at the end say, nobody's following

1004
00:37:34,340 --> 00:37:36,600
them anyway, so don't worry about it.

1005
00:37:38,060 --> 00:37:39,280
This is a Greek scholar.

1006
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,280
He said, how do we recognize verse 2

1007
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,060
with verse 16?

1008
00:37:43,980 --> 00:37:46,700
That is to say, because the practice was

1009
00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:51,060
paradosia, which is ordinances, it was put on

1010
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:52,540
the level of orthopraxy.

1011
00:37:52,660 --> 00:37:54,680
When Paul says it was an ordinance, it

1012
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,020
puts it at a very high level.

1013
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,180
It was a doctrine that the early church

1014
00:37:59,180 --> 00:37:59,520
followed.

1015
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,080
Since it was on this level, most of

1016
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:02,640
the churches followed it religiously.

1017
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,560
Hence, Paul could appeal to what other churches

1018
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,160
were doing, verse 16, as an appeal to

1019
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,400
the reasonableness and pragmatic outworking of this tradition.

1020
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,720
What he's saying is, Paul could say, all

1021
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:15,160
the churches are doing it this way.

1022
00:38:15,260 --> 00:38:17,080
It's an ordinance that I'm passing to you.

1023
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,420
This is how we've all agreed to do

1024
00:38:18,420 --> 00:38:18,580
it.

1025
00:38:19,100 --> 00:38:20,140
And that was the case.

1026
00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:21,600
Here's a picture of all the churches.

1027
00:38:22,540 --> 00:38:24,680
Rome's not in there, but thousands of miles

1028
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,620
apart or something like that, at least a

1029
00:38:27,620 --> 00:38:30,120
thousand is what I read.

1030
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,180
And they were all practicing this according to

1031
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,120
early church writings.

1032
00:38:37,260 --> 00:38:39,160
And even what Paul said, this is what

1033
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,680
we do.

1034
00:38:43,260 --> 00:38:47,180
Tertullian, 150 years later, said this, so too

1035
00:38:47,180 --> 00:38:49,360
did the Corinthians themselves understand him.

1036
00:38:49,420 --> 00:38:52,740
In fact, at this day, 150 years later,

1037
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:55,340
the Corinthians do veil their virgins, not just

1038
00:38:55,340 --> 00:38:58,800
their wives, their virgins, what the apostles taught,

1039
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:00,380
their disciples approve.

1040
00:39:01,060 --> 00:39:04,680
Tertullian, a writer from Carthage, is saying it's

1041
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,820
still happening in Corinth.

1042
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:10,380
R.C. Sproul said, the wearing of fabric,

1043
00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:14,020
a fabric head covering in worship was universally

1044
00:39:14,020 --> 00:39:16,800
practiced of Christian women until the 20th century.

1045
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:17,880
What happened?

1046
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,420
Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to

1047
00:39:20,420 --> 00:39:22,420
which the saints for thousands of years were

1048
00:39:22,420 --> 00:39:22,760
blind?

1049
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,080
Or were our biblical views of women gradually

1050
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,680
eroded by the modern feministic movement that has

1051
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,860
infiltrated the church of Jesus Christ, which is

1052
00:39:31,860 --> 00:39:33,600
the pillar and ground?

1053
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:35,820
The church has rejected, this is his son,

1054
00:39:35,900 --> 00:39:38,120
the church has rejected this practice in the

1055
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,580
last 30 or 40 years, not because of

1056
00:39:40,580 --> 00:39:43,120
new interpretive insights, but because of pressure from

1057
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:43,640
the world.

1058
00:39:45,420 --> 00:39:47,860
Generally, until 50 years ago, every woman in

1059
00:39:47,860 --> 00:39:49,340
every church covered their head.

1060
00:39:49,540 --> 00:39:51,660
What has happened in the last 50 years?

1061
00:39:52,060 --> 00:39:53,500
We've had a feminist movement.

1062
00:39:56,370 --> 00:39:58,910
Another objection is the head covering only needs

1063
00:39:58,910 --> 00:40:00,470
to be worn in a church service.

1064
00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:01,890
We have to move along.

1065
00:40:01,890 --> 00:40:04,130
But you can clearly see that when we

1066
00:40:04,130 --> 00:40:05,970
start off with 1 Corinthians 11, he does

1067
00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:08,810
not address coming together as a church until

1068
00:40:08,810 --> 00:40:09,630
verse 17.

1069
00:40:10,250 --> 00:40:12,670
So everything up to that point, we can't

1070
00:40:12,670 --> 00:40:14,210
say for sure is in a church service.

1071
00:40:14,850 --> 00:40:16,790
And it doesn't make a lot of sense

1072
00:40:16,790 --> 00:40:19,430
because in chapter 14, he tells women they

1073
00:40:19,430 --> 00:40:21,290
need to be silent in the church, right?

1074
00:40:21,870 --> 00:40:24,470
So why would he now say, this is

1075
00:40:24,470 --> 00:40:26,310
a church service because you're praying and prophesying.

1076
00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:28,230
And then in two, three chapters later, he

1077
00:40:28,230 --> 00:40:29,550
says, oh, and be silent.

1078
00:40:29,550 --> 00:40:32,370
This is obviously a gift that was given

1079
00:40:32,370 --> 00:40:32,830
to women.

1080
00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:34,510
You are to pray and you are to

1081
00:40:34,510 --> 00:40:36,350
prophesy, just you're not to do it in

1082
00:40:36,350 --> 00:40:38,190
a church service according to what Paul says

1083
00:40:38,190 --> 00:40:39,130
in chapter 14.

1084
00:40:40,430 --> 00:40:42,530
So this is my most exciting part that

1085
00:40:42,530 --> 00:40:43,230
I want to talk about.

1086
00:40:43,430 --> 00:40:46,030
And I want to, one of the other

1087
00:40:46,030 --> 00:40:47,750
things that convinced me was church history.

1088
00:40:48,130 --> 00:40:49,410
And sorry, if we go a little over,

1089
00:40:49,750 --> 00:40:51,270
I'll try to move quickly, but I don't

1090
00:40:51,270 --> 00:40:53,430
want to miss what's important here.

1091
00:40:56,180 --> 00:40:59,980
Like R.C. Sproul said, he said, who

1092
00:40:59,980 --> 00:41:02,300
are we, if this has been the practice

1093
00:41:02,300 --> 00:41:05,200
for 2000 years, who are we now to

1094
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,760
now come up with new biblical insights?

1095
00:41:09,540 --> 00:41:11,900
Here is one of the earliest writings.

1096
00:41:12,260 --> 00:41:14,880
It says from Clement, he was a theologian

1097
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,040
from Alexandria.

1098
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:17,940
He said, women and men are to go

1099
00:41:17,940 --> 00:41:20,460
to church decently attired for this is the

1100
00:41:20,460 --> 00:41:22,460
wish of the word since it is becoming

1101
00:41:22,460 --> 00:41:25,020
to pray unveiled because of the angels let

1102
00:41:25,020 --> 00:41:25,700
her be veiled.

1103
00:41:26,540 --> 00:41:27,060
Tertullian.

1104
00:41:27,240 --> 00:41:29,120
It is not strange since it is not

1105
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,820
among strangers that we find it, the head

1106
00:41:31,820 --> 00:41:34,620
covering, but among those with whom we share

1107
00:41:34,620 --> 00:41:36,740
the law of peace and the name of

1108
00:41:36,740 --> 00:41:37,140
brotherhood.

1109
00:41:37,220 --> 00:41:40,220
In fact, at this day, still their virgins

1110
00:41:40,220 --> 00:41:44,700
veil, what the apostles taught their disciples approve.

1111
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:45,820
I already read that earlier.

1112
00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:46,900
Hippolytus.

1113
00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:48,820
He was a Roman theologian.

1114
00:41:48,860 --> 00:41:51,420
He said, let all the women have their

1115
00:41:51,420 --> 00:41:54,140
heads covered with an opaque clock, not with

1116
00:41:54,140 --> 00:41:56,340
a veil of thin linen, for this is

1117
00:41:56,340 --> 00:41:57,640
not a true covering.

1118
00:41:57,980 --> 00:41:59,360
Obviously he thought of it as a cloth.

1119
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:03,640
And I wish Jeremy Brackett was here.

1120
00:42:03,700 --> 00:42:04,740
He'd tell me how to say this word.

1121
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,280
I'm Bryce sister.

1122
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,200
He was in the 300s, fourth century.

1123
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,980
Indeed it talking about the man's head ought

1124
00:42:12,980 --> 00:42:15,020
not to be hidden for the glory of

1125
00:42:15,020 --> 00:42:15,900
God is seen in the man.

1126
00:42:16,580 --> 00:42:19,620
A woman therefore ought to cover her head

1127
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,700
in the church out of reverence.

1128
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:25,160
Jerome.

1129
00:42:25,500 --> 00:42:26,660
He was in the fourth century.

1130
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,320
He was the one who translated the Latin

1131
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,440
Vulgate and he was describing women in monasteries

1132
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,880
and he said, he said they would not

1133
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,420
go about with heads uncovered in defiance of

1134
00:42:38,420 --> 00:42:41,100
the apostles command for they wear a close

1135
00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:41,920
fitting cap.

1136
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:43,600
Christosanem.

1137
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,060
He was a Bible commentator.

1138
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,920
He said, however, even if the Corinthians were

1139
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,020
then contentious, yet now the whole world has

1140
00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:52,540
both received and kept the law.

1141
00:42:52,540 --> 00:42:54,640
He said they may have been struggling with

1142
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,100
this at the beginning because if any man

1143
00:42:56,100 --> 00:42:58,100
seemed to be contentious, but he's saying now

1144
00:42:58,100 --> 00:42:59,540
the whole world's practicing it.

1145
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:01,520
Augustine.

1146
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:04,520
It is not becoming even in married women

1147
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:06,680
to uncover their hair since the apostle commands

1148
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,100
women to keep their heads covered.

1149
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,080
And just to give a quick, I can't

1150
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,060
take the time to quote all the quotes

1151
00:43:14,060 --> 00:43:14,820
I read in this.

1152
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,300
If you ever want them all, I can

1153
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:17,760
give you some really great resources.

1154
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,760
But in the Catholic Church, in the Council

1155
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:23,520
of Angers in 453, they upheld the practice

1156
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:25,800
of a covering, a real cloth covering.

1157
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,220
And the Council of Auden, they upheld it

1158
00:43:30,220 --> 00:43:31,560
again in 578.

1159
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:34,340
In the Synax of Auxerre in France, they

1160
00:43:34,340 --> 00:43:35,580
upheld it in 585.

1161
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,640
Pope Nicholas upheld it in 866.

1162
00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:40,680
The Council of Liège in 1287.

1163
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:43,220
And then in 1917, the Code of Canon

1164
00:43:43,220 --> 00:43:46,580
Law, which said men in a church or

1165
00:43:46,580 --> 00:43:48,980
outside a church, while they are assisting at

1166
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:51,200
sacred rites, shall be bareheaded.

1167
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,600
Women, however, shall have a modest covering.

1168
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:55,820
Sorry, I said that wrong.

1169
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:58,180
Shall be covered, have a covered head and

1170
00:43:58,180 --> 00:44:01,020
be modestly dressed, especially when they approach the

1171
00:44:01,020 --> 00:44:01,760
table of the Lord.

1172
00:44:01,780 --> 00:44:05,100
That was in 1917, within our century.

1173
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,200
Here's a list of people that we know.

1174
00:44:10,460 --> 00:44:11,540
There was a whole bunch of more names

1175
00:44:11,540 --> 00:44:12,980
I never knew, but these are names I

1176
00:44:12,980 --> 00:44:13,200
knew.

1177
00:44:13,660 --> 00:44:15,920
Thomas of Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John

1178
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,640
Knox, John Bunyan, Roger Williams, Charles Spurgeon, the

1179
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:22,220
Church of England, the Methodist Church, John Wesley

1180
00:44:22,220 --> 00:44:24,140
had writings about it, the Moravian Church, the

1181
00:44:24,140 --> 00:44:24,840
Salvation Army.

1182
00:44:24,980 --> 00:44:26,540
You mentioned them with their big hats.

1183
00:44:26,740 --> 00:44:27,520
Well, they wore that.

1184
00:44:27,620 --> 00:44:30,720
The actual commander guy who wrote for them,

1185
00:44:30,820 --> 00:44:32,780
I don't remember his name, he said it

1186
00:44:32,780 --> 00:44:34,520
was because of 1 Corinthians 11 that they

1187
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:35,160
wore those hats.

1188
00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:37,100
So now we're going to look at some

1189
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:37,460
pictures.

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00:44:37,740 --> 00:44:41,500
Now, this is from the catacombs from the

1191
00:44:41,500 --> 00:44:42,440
year 200.

1192
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,140
That is a long time ago.

1193
00:44:44,660 --> 00:44:47,580
Whenever you see the hands up like this,

1194
00:44:48,260 --> 00:44:50,600
this is what Christians did to pray.

1195
00:44:52,260 --> 00:44:53,520
I thought that's interesting.

1196
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,380
Remember, it says I would have men raise

1197
00:44:56,380 --> 00:44:57,360
holy hands from prayer.

1198
00:44:57,720 --> 00:44:59,860
In all of the early pictures of Christianity,

1199
00:44:59,860 --> 00:45:01,920
you'll see their hands up, and that means

1200
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:02,560
they're praying.

1201
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,400
Maybe we need to start practicing that more.

1202
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:11,920
But, of course, nobody would see anybody doing

1203
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,120
it because we're all closing our eyes while

1204
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,060
we're doing it, but this is on the

1205
00:45:16,060 --> 00:45:16,960
catacomb of Priscilla.

1206
00:45:18,980 --> 00:45:21,080
And this is supposedly her praying.

1207
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,180
Notice the guy in the background doesn't have

1208
00:45:23,180 --> 00:45:24,300
his head covered.

1209
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,500
Neither do those guys over there, but she

1210
00:45:27,500 --> 00:45:27,820
does.

1211
00:45:28,140 --> 00:45:30,360
Here's another catacomb from the year 200 of

1212
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,080
a woman praying.

1213
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:34,580
It's in Rome.

1214
00:45:36,670 --> 00:45:38,750
This is in the year 300, a picture

1215
00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:42,090
of Gaiordani.

1216
00:45:44,130 --> 00:45:45,850
And it's her catacomb in Rome.

1217
00:45:45,850 --> 00:45:47,970
You can see she's got a very thin

1218
00:45:47,970 --> 00:45:50,690
covering on her head.

1219
00:45:51,070 --> 00:45:54,070
This here is in the 300s.

1220
00:45:54,970 --> 00:45:58,490
It's gold glass in a catacomb in Rome.

1221
00:45:58,970 --> 00:46:01,410
You can see she's praying, and you can

1222
00:46:01,410 --> 00:46:02,870
see she's got a covering on her head.

1223
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:07,440
Here's another picture from the 400s.

1224
00:46:07,460 --> 00:46:09,160
This is a mosaic from the tomb of

1225
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:09,560
Victoria.

1226
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,860
She's got her hands out like this, like

1227
00:46:11,860 --> 00:46:12,400
she's praying.

1228
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:14,820
She's got a shawl wrapped around and up

1229
00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:15,600
over her head.

1230
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,620
This is from the 400s, another praying lady.

1231
00:46:22,140 --> 00:46:23,480
This is from the 500s.

1232
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:24,680
I think this one is so neat.

1233
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:30,060
It was from Italy, and it's a fresco.

1234
00:46:31,260 --> 00:46:33,300
The sign above her head is the sign

1235
00:46:33,300 --> 00:46:35,620
for Christ, so it means she was a

1236
00:46:35,620 --> 00:46:35,840
Christian.

1237
00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:36,640
It's over her tomb.

1238
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,100
The two books here and here have the

1239
00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:42,080
spellings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the

1240
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:42,540
Gospels.

1241
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:47,080
The flames coming out, I only can imagine,

1242
00:46:47,220 --> 00:46:50,300
represent the fire of the Gospel and the

1243
00:46:50,300 --> 00:46:50,860
Kingdom of God.

1244
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:52,640
She's obviously praying.

1245
00:46:52,740 --> 00:46:54,460
She has her hands up, and she has

1246
00:46:54,460 --> 00:46:55,120
a covering on.

1247
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,520
I think that's neat.

1248
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,160
This is from the 900s.

1249
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,280
The inscription I saw about the artwork was

1250
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,760
silent prayer, but she obviously has a covering

1251
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:07,980
on.

1252
00:47:08,980 --> 00:47:12,360
Here is a choir of virgins.

1253
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:15,440
This is on the benedictional, a super old

1254
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:15,800
book.

1255
00:47:16,420 --> 00:47:18,580
It's really interesting, really, really old from the

1256
00:47:18,580 --> 00:47:21,680
900s of these old drawings.

1257
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,260
This is called The Choir of the Virgins,

1258
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,180
and this is in England.

1259
00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:31,060
Notice the ladies, the virgins, all have coverings

1260
00:47:31,060 --> 00:47:31,280
on.

1261
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:37,720
This is from the 1100, 12th century.

1262
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,780
It's a crypt of San Baggio in Italy,

1263
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:45,020
and she has a covering on.

1264
00:47:46,910 --> 00:47:48,710
You could go through this over and over

1265
00:47:48,710 --> 00:47:49,070
and over.

1266
00:47:50,470 --> 00:47:52,670
There are pictures upon pictures from back in

1267
00:47:52,670 --> 00:47:55,410
those times in the 1000s, in the 1200s

1268
00:47:55,410 --> 00:47:57,850
and 1500s, a lot of, like this.

1269
00:47:57,890 --> 00:47:59,530
These are all paintings from those times.

1270
00:48:00,170 --> 00:48:02,210
I was just struggling a little, because here's

1271
00:48:02,210 --> 00:48:02,550
the deal.

1272
00:48:04,570 --> 00:48:05,890
You see a woman here with a covering

1273
00:48:05,890 --> 00:48:06,790
on, but you see a man with a

1274
00:48:06,790 --> 00:48:07,170
hat on.

1275
00:48:08,590 --> 00:48:08,750
Right?

1276
00:48:09,830 --> 00:48:11,290
You see a woman here with a covering,

1277
00:48:11,370 --> 00:48:12,230
and you see a man with a hat

1278
00:48:12,230 --> 00:48:12,390
on.

1279
00:48:15,870 --> 00:48:16,950
So what's the deal?

1280
00:48:17,030 --> 00:48:17,890
I can't figure it out.

1281
00:48:18,930 --> 00:48:19,810
Same thing here.

1282
00:48:20,330 --> 00:48:21,470
A woman with a covering and a man

1283
00:48:21,470 --> 00:48:22,070
with hats on.

1284
00:48:22,970 --> 00:48:24,750
This is a painting from 1504.

1285
00:48:25,650 --> 00:48:27,590
So it's obviously a normal practice for women

1286
00:48:27,590 --> 00:48:31,550
to wear coverings all the time in normal

1287
00:48:31,550 --> 00:48:34,850
life, but it wasn't so much a practice,

1288
00:48:35,070 --> 00:48:36,510
I guess, for guys all the time to

1289
00:48:36,510 --> 00:48:39,390
wear, they seem to wear hats sometimes outside

1290
00:48:39,390 --> 00:48:41,110
of, so what I thought to myself is

1291
00:48:41,110 --> 00:48:43,830
we need to look for paintings and engravings

1292
00:48:43,830 --> 00:48:45,990
and photos with people in church services.

1293
00:48:46,110 --> 00:48:47,670
If I can find those, then we can

1294
00:48:47,670 --> 00:48:48,510
see what people were doing.

1295
00:48:49,710 --> 00:48:52,650
So here's the first, one of the oldest

1296
00:48:52,650 --> 00:48:53,270
ones I found.

1297
00:48:53,410 --> 00:48:54,810
This is from the 1400s.

1298
00:48:54,870 --> 00:48:57,150
It's an Italian painting, and it's called Saint

1299
00:48:57,150 --> 00:48:58,210
Bernardo Preaching.

1300
00:48:59,550 --> 00:49:01,250
And when, it's not in a church service,

1301
00:49:01,310 --> 00:49:04,990
by the way, it's out, it's, he's preaching,

1302
00:49:05,170 --> 00:49:06,410
but it's outside, so that may have been

1303
00:49:06,410 --> 00:49:09,030
considered differently, but either way, zooming in, you

1304
00:49:09,030 --> 00:49:10,650
can see these ladies have coverings on.

1305
00:49:11,530 --> 00:49:14,330
And, what I found interesting here is this

1306
00:49:14,330 --> 00:49:16,510
guy's taking off his hat, like he's coming

1307
00:49:16,510 --> 00:49:17,490
into a church service.

1308
00:49:18,590 --> 00:49:19,390
Not sure.

1309
00:49:21,190 --> 00:49:24,170
This is from the 1500s, and it's a

1310
00:49:24,170 --> 00:49:27,210
Dutch painting of Martin Luther preaching.

1311
00:49:27,470 --> 00:49:29,190
I think it's on a, like an altar

1312
00:49:29,190 --> 00:49:31,790
or something in a building back there, I

1313
00:49:31,790 --> 00:49:32,430
think Germany.

1314
00:49:33,810 --> 00:49:35,430
And just look at that a little bit.

1315
00:49:35,510 --> 00:49:37,070
Martin Luther's preaching up here.

1316
00:49:37,370 --> 00:49:39,030
They're giving her communion.

1317
00:49:39,030 --> 00:49:40,190
They're giving him communion.

1318
00:49:40,350 --> 00:49:41,450
They're listening to the preaching.

1319
00:49:41,850 --> 00:49:43,710
They're baptizing a baby over here.

1320
00:49:46,460 --> 00:49:47,880
Let's zoom in on that a little bit.

1321
00:49:47,980 --> 00:49:50,660
So on the left, she's got a covering

1322
00:49:50,660 --> 00:49:51,380
on clearly.

1323
00:49:52,500 --> 00:49:55,860
These other ladies have coverings on clearly, but

1324
00:49:55,860 --> 00:49:57,500
the men don't have coverings on.

1325
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:00,680
On the right, Martin Luther doesn't have a

1326
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:00,920
covering.

1327
00:50:01,860 --> 00:50:03,700
The men don't have coverings, but the ladies

1328
00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:04,540
have coverings.

1329
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,260
This is a painting from the 1600s, and

1330
00:50:10,260 --> 00:50:12,160
I think it's a Catholic service, but you

1331
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:13,820
can clearly see the men have taken down

1332
00:50:13,820 --> 00:50:16,900
their hoods, and the women have coverings on.

1333
00:50:17,420 --> 00:50:18,680
Way in the back, you can see men

1334
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:19,720
taking down their hoods.

1335
00:50:23,380 --> 00:50:24,680
This is an interesting picture.

1336
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,060
This is an evangelical congregation, the Church of

1337
00:50:27,060 --> 00:50:27,960
Zeis in Netherlands.

1338
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:31,500
And so you can kind of see up

1339
00:50:31,500 --> 00:50:35,720
here, these ladies, I think they're like onlookers.

1340
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:37,700
They've got their big hats on.

1341
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:39,200
This is from the 1700s.

1342
00:50:39,820 --> 00:50:41,920
These guys are very sober sitting up here.

1343
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,860
These guys are all segregated from the ladies

1344
00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:47,480
back here, and notice what they have in

1345
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:47,940
their hands.

1346
00:50:48,820 --> 00:50:49,800
They have their hats off.

1347
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:52,420
We'll zoom in.

1348
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,400
They have their hats off, and the ladies

1349
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:55,820
have all their coverings on.

1350
00:50:58,540 --> 00:50:59,480
Here's another picture.

1351
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,060
I had to throw this one in because

1352
00:51:02,060 --> 00:51:03,400
I knew some of you would be excited

1353
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,060
to see Anabaptists, and I found one actually

1354
00:51:05,060 --> 00:51:08,500
called Mennonites too of this old 1700 engraving.

1355
00:51:09,180 --> 00:51:11,040
But I think these might have been Baptists.

1356
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:13,560
I'm not sure what Baptists come from because

1357
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,020
at one of them, I saw them actually

1358
00:51:15,020 --> 00:51:18,400
baptizing, like immersing.

1359
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,700
But notice the ladies all have coverings.

1360
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:24,160
How would you like to come to church

1361
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:24,880
service like this?

1362
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:28,680
All the ladies face the ladies, and then

1363
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:29,700
the guys sit around the back.

1364
00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:32,340
Some weird seating practices back then.

1365
00:51:32,620 --> 00:51:33,500
There's one Lutheran.

1366
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:34,820
I saw all the men sit around the

1367
00:51:34,820 --> 00:51:36,320
corners, and they had these little places.

1368
00:51:36,460 --> 00:51:38,000
They stood like this, and they had like

1369
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,920
little hands, and all the ladies sat in

1370
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:40,200
the middle.

1371
00:51:42,540 --> 00:51:43,900
We think we have it all together.

1372
00:51:43,900 --> 00:51:47,000
But the point is, they all have coverings

1373
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,880
on, and you can see hats hanging here.

1374
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,240
They don't have hats, and these guys are

1375
00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:52,240
holding their hats.

1376
00:51:54,020 --> 00:51:56,300
These guys serving do not have hats on.

1377
00:51:59,260 --> 00:52:02,680
This is a drawing, I think, from the

1378
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:03,300
1800s.

1379
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,760
It was called Singing in Church, and you

1380
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,500
can see that the ladies have bonnets on,

1381
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,300
and the young boys don't.

1382
00:52:10,540 --> 00:52:13,580
There's another one, another drawing from the 1800s.

1383
00:52:14,780 --> 00:52:16,920
Obviously, this is when we're moving into hats.

1384
00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:18,540
You can see the ladies now have hats

1385
00:52:18,540 --> 00:52:18,780
on.

1386
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,120
The men do not have coverings on.

1387
00:52:22,860 --> 00:52:24,800
Another drawing from the 1800s.

1388
00:52:25,100 --> 00:52:30,180
These ladies' dresses are a little extreme, but

1389
00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:31,340
that's not the point today.

1390
00:52:31,460 --> 00:52:33,100
The point is that they have coverings on,

1391
00:52:33,340 --> 00:52:34,260
and the men don't.

1392
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:34,860
Notice this guy.

1393
00:52:34,980 --> 00:52:35,780
He's holding his hat.

1394
00:52:37,620 --> 00:52:39,180
The men don't have hats on.

1395
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:41,960
The ladies all have coverings on.

1396
00:52:43,380 --> 00:52:46,500
This is a 1903 picture from a Greek

1397
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:48,020
Orthodox church in London.

1398
00:52:48,540 --> 00:52:50,140
You can see it's quite a lot going

1399
00:52:50,140 --> 00:52:52,100
on there, and it's hard to see down

1400
00:52:52,100 --> 00:52:53,580
here, but the ladies are sitting here, and

1401
00:52:53,580 --> 00:52:54,480
the men are sitting here.

1402
00:52:54,540 --> 00:52:55,400
They're sitting segregated.

1403
00:52:55,780 --> 00:52:57,120
You can kind of see they have hats,

1404
00:52:57,180 --> 00:52:58,060
but I did zoom in.

1405
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,560
You can see that they all have hats

1406
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:00,720
on.

1407
00:53:00,780 --> 00:53:03,540
This is in the early 1900s, and over

1408
00:53:03,540 --> 00:53:06,200
on the left, the guys all don't have

1409
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:06,480
hats.

1410
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,640
This is from a 1940s Catholic service.

1411
00:53:13,140 --> 00:53:13,920
Notice all the hats.

1412
00:53:14,620 --> 00:53:15,380
It's pretty quick to see.

1413
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,120
This is from a 1940s Baptist service.

1414
00:53:19,660 --> 00:53:20,880
All the ladies have hats.

1415
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:24,480
I think the men are sitting back here.

1416
00:53:25,900 --> 00:53:27,480
The preacher doesn't have a hat on.

1417
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:30,840
This is a 1960s evangelist.

1418
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:31,860
Now, this is interesting.

1419
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:33,440
We're in the 60s now, and we still

1420
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:37,820
have hats being worn, but if you look

1421
00:53:37,820 --> 00:53:39,680
out through the congregation, you'll see a couple

1422
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,100
ladies not wearing hats.

1423
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,460
This is a 1960s Lutheran service.

1424
00:53:44,460 --> 00:53:45,620
Same thing.

1425
00:53:45,860 --> 00:53:46,600
Still hats.

1426
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,460
A Catholic service in the 1960s.

1427
00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:52,540
This is a Methodist service.

1428
00:53:52,620 --> 00:53:54,000
If you look real hard, you'll see little

1429
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,280
hats still on people.

1430
00:53:57,580 --> 00:53:58,620
Now we're to the 1980s.

1431
00:54:02,900 --> 00:54:05,500
What changed in just 60 years, in just

1432
00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:06,920
20 years, in just 40 years?

1433
00:54:07,540 --> 00:54:10,740
How do these people's children...

1434
00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:12,740
I was listening to a sermon, and he

1435
00:54:12,740 --> 00:54:15,380
said, I never heard from the older generation

1436
00:54:15,380 --> 00:54:16,800
that this was even a thing.

1437
00:54:18,940 --> 00:54:21,260
How do people all wear hats to church,

1438
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:23,940
and then their children don't even know why

1439
00:54:23,940 --> 00:54:24,360
and stop?

1440
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,180
Unless it only turned into it was just

1441
00:54:27,180 --> 00:54:28,780
something they did because they didn't even know

1442
00:54:28,780 --> 00:54:29,060
why.

1443
00:54:33,290 --> 00:54:35,650
This is another picture from the 1980s.

1444
00:54:35,710 --> 00:54:36,370
No more hats.

1445
00:54:36,670 --> 00:54:37,350
They're gone.

1446
00:54:38,370 --> 00:54:39,370
I'll leave it with this.

1447
00:54:39,450 --> 00:54:40,290
We're going to close here.

1448
00:54:40,830 --> 00:54:43,230
The church has rejected this practice in the

1449
00:54:43,230 --> 00:54:44,890
last 30 or 40 years, not because of

1450
00:54:44,890 --> 00:54:47,770
new interpretive insights, but because of pressure from

1451
00:54:47,770 --> 00:54:48,130
the world.

1452
00:54:48,670 --> 00:54:50,930
Generally, until 50 years ago, every woman in

1453
00:54:50,930 --> 00:54:52,230
every church covered their head.

1454
00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:54,430
What has happened in the last 50 years?

1455
00:54:54,770 --> 00:54:56,190
We've had a feminist movement.

1456
00:54:56,670 --> 00:55:04,790
Just to close here, I believe the reason

1457
00:55:04,790 --> 00:55:07,170
why I practiced the head covering, why I

1458
00:55:07,170 --> 00:55:10,050
chose to associate myself with a church that

1459
00:55:10,050 --> 00:55:13,410
believes in practicing the head covering, was because,

1460
00:55:13,670 --> 00:55:14,970
first of all, the text supports it.

1461
00:55:15,310 --> 00:55:16,150
We looked at the text.

1462
00:55:16,250 --> 00:55:17,990
We looked at how it didn't make sense

1463
00:55:17,990 --> 00:55:18,210
without.

1464
00:55:18,530 --> 00:55:21,070
Second of all, I believe because church history

1465
00:55:21,070 --> 00:55:21,790
supports it.

1466
00:55:22,390 --> 00:55:23,650
The early church supported it.

1467
00:55:23,650 --> 00:55:25,470
All through history, it supports it.

1468
00:55:25,830 --> 00:55:28,150
It seems a little hard for me to

1469
00:55:28,150 --> 00:55:30,450
say we knew better than the people of

1470
00:55:30,450 --> 00:55:32,570
the early 1st century, 2nd century.

1471
00:55:32,910 --> 00:55:34,010
We knew better than them.

1472
00:55:34,270 --> 00:55:34,810
They lived.

1473
00:55:34,910 --> 00:55:35,610
They spoke Greek.

1474
00:55:35,790 --> 00:55:36,390
They knew Greek.

1475
00:55:36,770 --> 00:55:37,950
They knew what was meant.

1476
00:55:38,410 --> 00:55:41,590
Yet, somehow, nowadays, we, 2,000 years later,

1477
00:55:41,710 --> 00:55:44,890
have a better idea of how to interpret

1478
00:55:44,890 --> 00:55:45,910
Greek.

1479
00:55:46,890 --> 00:55:47,710
To me, that's dangerous.

1480
00:55:47,910 --> 00:55:50,970
Anyway, I know this wasn't necessarily an inspirational

1481
00:55:50,970 --> 00:55:54,870
sermon, but I'm hoping it just clears up

1482
00:55:54,870 --> 00:55:56,930
some of those doubts in your heart, those

1483
00:55:56,930 --> 00:55:59,610
times when you feel like, why do we

1484
00:55:59,610 --> 00:56:00,150
do this anyway?

1485
00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:02,330
Is this even needed?

1486
00:56:02,830 --> 00:56:05,210
Is this even something that nobody else is

1487
00:56:05,210 --> 00:56:05,690
doing it?

1488
00:56:06,130 --> 00:56:07,110
I want to encourage you.

1489
00:56:07,230 --> 00:56:08,270
You're doing it for a reason.

1490
00:56:08,390 --> 00:56:09,550
You're doing it for a good reason.

1491
00:56:13,170 --> 00:56:15,510
I think God honors you for that.

1492
00:56:15,810 --> 00:56:18,490
I believe with having this symbol of authority

1493
00:56:18,490 --> 00:56:21,270
on your head, he empowers you.

1494
00:56:21,270 --> 00:56:23,690
He sends his Holy Spirit.

1495
00:56:24,050 --> 00:56:25,950
Anyway, I thank you for your time and

1496
00:56:25,950 --> 00:56:29,010
attention, and God bless each one of you.