https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAUzP4b1X0
Thursday, March 26, 2015
A Symbol of God's Authority on Their Heads
I notice that nearly every other country of the world still practices this in the Christian churches. It is America that is in deep rebellion against God that has done away with this.
Those women who claim to be in submission to their husbands are not in obedience to God. They have made their husbands their gods, by following his disobedience rather than following Christ.
Women are to be silent in the church, not chattering to disrupt the service, and they are commanded to be covered when they pray and prophesy in the gathering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoAus_slX0
Those women who claim to be in submission to their husbands are not in obedience to God. They have made their husbands their gods, by following his disobedience rather than following Christ.
Women are to be silent in the church, not chattering to disrupt the service, and they are commanded to be covered when they pray and prophesy in the gathering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfoAus_slX0
When a Man Leads in a Loving Way
When a man leads in a loving way, deeply concerned about the welfare spiritually and physically, of his wife, he will generate a strong bond between his wife and himself. When a man emotionally abuses a woman, demanding things, intimidating with mean looks and loud voices, he breaks down any sense of desire to follow him.
Many women live with meanness regularly, a woman will react with frustration and discouragement when she is treated with dismissiveness, negating her desires for the purpose of subjegating her.
Christ never at any time commanded a man to oppress or force his wife through manipulation or intimidation. These are ungodly traits used by pagan cultures, rather than the traits of a man submitted to Christ himself.
When a man has faith, he has no need to force, he merely instructs and prays with all gentleness and deep concern, and God will work His ways in his wife. Many men think they are dealing with a contentious women, and some are, but often they create the contention by their disrespectful attitude toward their wife.
It is easy to break a woman, just negate her, verbally abuse her, never encourage her in the things that she desire to do, you will be successful in destroying her creativity, ruining her walk with God and causing deep depression.
1 Peter 3:7 "You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered."
It is pagan cultures, such as Islam that train their men to emotionally and physically abuse their wives, relegating them to the level of property.
God says that the woman and man in marriage are "fellow heirs" in life, they are to work in tandem, while the man is the head, he is to consider her counsel, honor her decisions within the realm of responsibility as the "keeper of the home."
He is to see that the children honor her too, by upholding her rules of the household and conduct.
Proverbs 1:8 "Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;"
When you are in a church that almost completely negates the spiritual gifts of women and teaches the men to boss their wives to get them into line, then you are in a cult.
Islam is the ultimate extreme of this example of hateful oppression of the weaker vessel. Sadly, there are Christian denominations that teach this tyrannical domination. It is ungodly and narcissistic rule, that destroys the Christian witness.
What to do now? If someone finds themselves in a difficult marriage in which the husband is treating his wife disrespectfully, there is only one recourse for the wife, that is to seek to obey God in prayer, while upholding the example of obedience to God herself. Fighting with a leader who is tyrannical will only produce more conflict and worse consequences. God must work on Him, His own way.
Do not allow the antics of the disobedient leader to devastate or depress you. Those who are in rebellion will seek to destroy your confidence in the gifts and talents God has given you, see it as a challenge to learn to submit in difficult situations, if the submission does not disobey God.
If the husband is a born again believer, try to reason with him, if he will not listen take it to other wise men who are already treating their wives respectfully and ask them to speak to him. Do not take it to the elders if the elders are teaching oppression. It is always good to engage other godly women to pray for you. You need strength to resist the urge to fight bitterly, the devil will entice you to do it, only God can help you to resist this.
Remember, yes you are not perfect and you need work too, but when you can evaluate what is going on in truth, and you see that you are being treated unreasonably to control you rather than being loved, then you will know better how to pray and when to engage other godly people.
Women use this intimidation at times too, to control ladies in the church. I have seen it often, that those who believe in following man made rules will shun those who are not burdened for the same rules. There is nothing you can do about this except to treat them with love and respect even if they will not reciprocate. If you have an opportunity to get out of that oppressive and unloving environment, run like a rabbit. If you cannot, then be a joyful example of a spiritually free woman of God totally submitted to Him.
When we are stuck in an unpleasant situation that we cannot get out of, then we know the Lord has a purpose for our training. Focus on Him and learn the lessons well.
Many women live with meanness regularly, a woman will react with frustration and discouragement when she is treated with dismissiveness, negating her desires for the purpose of subjegating her.
Christ never at any time commanded a man to oppress or force his wife through manipulation or intimidation. These are ungodly traits used by pagan cultures, rather than the traits of a man submitted to Christ himself.
When a man has faith, he has no need to force, he merely instructs and prays with all gentleness and deep concern, and God will work His ways in his wife. Many men think they are dealing with a contentious women, and some are, but often they create the contention by their disrespectful attitude toward their wife.
It is easy to break a woman, just negate her, verbally abuse her, never encourage her in the things that she desire to do, you will be successful in destroying her creativity, ruining her walk with God and causing deep depression.
1 Peter 3:7 "You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered."
It is pagan cultures, such as Islam that train their men to emotionally and physically abuse their wives, relegating them to the level of property.
God says that the woman and man in marriage are "fellow heirs" in life, they are to work in tandem, while the man is the head, he is to consider her counsel, honor her decisions within the realm of responsibility as the "keeper of the home."
He is to see that the children honor her too, by upholding her rules of the household and conduct.
Proverbs 1:8 "Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;"
When you are in a church that almost completely negates the spiritual gifts of women and teaches the men to boss their wives to get them into line, then you are in a cult.
Islam is the ultimate extreme of this example of hateful oppression of the weaker vessel. Sadly, there are Christian denominations that teach this tyrannical domination. It is ungodly and narcissistic rule, that destroys the Christian witness.
What to do now? If someone finds themselves in a difficult marriage in which the husband is treating his wife disrespectfully, there is only one recourse for the wife, that is to seek to obey God in prayer, while upholding the example of obedience to God herself. Fighting with a leader who is tyrannical will only produce more conflict and worse consequences. God must work on Him, His own way.
Do not allow the antics of the disobedient leader to devastate or depress you. Those who are in rebellion will seek to destroy your confidence in the gifts and talents God has given you, see it as a challenge to learn to submit in difficult situations, if the submission does not disobey God.
If the husband is a born again believer, try to reason with him, if he will not listen take it to other wise men who are already treating their wives respectfully and ask them to speak to him. Do not take it to the elders if the elders are teaching oppression. It is always good to engage other godly women to pray for you. You need strength to resist the urge to fight bitterly, the devil will entice you to do it, only God can help you to resist this.
Remember, yes you are not perfect and you need work too, but when you can evaluate what is going on in truth, and you see that you are being treated unreasonably to control you rather than being loved, then you will know better how to pray and when to engage other godly people.
Women use this intimidation at times too, to control ladies in the church. I have seen it often, that those who believe in following man made rules will shun those who are not burdened for the same rules. There is nothing you can do about this except to treat them with love and respect even if they will not reciprocate. If you have an opportunity to get out of that oppressive and unloving environment, run like a rabbit. If you cannot, then be a joyful example of a spiritually free woman of God totally submitted to Him.
When we are stuck in an unpleasant situation that we cannot get out of, then we know the Lord has a purpose for our training. Focus on Him and learn the lessons well.
All Down Through History
All down through history women wore the covering because those who were born again knew the commandment of God to do so. It has only been since the 1960's that women have removed the covering from their heads, right in line with the beginning of liberal teachings in the church. Many women were not comfortable with not wearing a hat or scarf, they did it because it was tradition, sadly not because God commanded it. Because they did it out of tradition without understanding, it eventually fell away. When we do things without understanding they are not commitments but fashion.
Now we have two generations of people who are used to not doing it and think it is strange and for back in the Bible times as a cultural thing, but they think this because they are no longer processing the Bible in terms of God's commands, but reading into it what they want for their own personal comfort.
Many people who demand that a woman obey her husband, will also negate the covering, but the commands for both are in the same book and even the same chapters of the Bible. Why do they think the covering was for "back then", when they demand obedience to the other things in those same passages?
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
"1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.
5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.
6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or [g]her head shaved, let her cover [h]her head.
7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.
10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God."
If we are to say that the covering was for back in the Bible days then we must also say that the pecking order for leadership was also. God did not write about fashion, He wrote about truth. Do you believe Him or not?
Paul taught here in verse 16, that this has been the command from the beginning of the church and all the churches practiced it. There are some who have tried to change the wording to "we have no such custom", which is in the KJV, but is inaccurate according to the original languages.
It would make no sense for Paul to go on and on about the head covering and the pecking order for leadership in a passage and at the end, obliterate all that he said with one sentence, "but we don't do this."
God spoke of modesty in women too in His Word but gives no specific clothing style to follow, but he does give very specific direction for the head covering.
Now we have two generations of people who are used to not doing it and think it is strange and for back in the Bible times as a cultural thing, but they think this because they are no longer processing the Bible in terms of God's commands, but reading into it what they want for their own personal comfort.
Many people who demand that a woman obey her husband, will also negate the covering, but the commands for both are in the same book and even the same chapters of the Bible. Why do they think the covering was for "back then", when they demand obedience to the other things in those same passages?
1 Corinthians 11:1-16
"1 Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.
2 Now I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.
3 But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.
4 Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head.
5 But every woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.
6 For if a woman does not cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or [g]her head shaved, let her cover [h]her head.
7 For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man;
9 for indeed man was not created for the woman’s sake, but woman for the man’s sake.
10 Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as the woman originates from the man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 But if one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God."
If we are to say that the covering was for back in the Bible days then we must also say that the pecking order for leadership was also. God did not write about fashion, He wrote about truth. Do you believe Him or not?
Paul taught here in verse 16, that this has been the command from the beginning of the church and all the churches practiced it. There are some who have tried to change the wording to "we have no such custom", which is in the KJV, but is inaccurate according to the original languages.
It would make no sense for Paul to go on and on about the head covering and the pecking order for leadership in a passage and at the end, obliterate all that he said with one sentence, "but we don't do this."
God spoke of modesty in women too in His Word but gives no specific clothing style to follow, but he does give very specific direction for the head covering.
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