1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,120 The glory of the Lord covers the earth as the water covers the 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:08,520 sea. Scripture says Amen. 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,920 Just a few things to be again reminded of. 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:17,800 This coming Sunday will be our camp focus Sunday in the event 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:20,720 that we are going to pray for camp and we're also going to 6 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,120 take up a special offering for camp meeting to help offset the 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,320 cost. Camp is always expensive and of 8 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:30,400 course it gets more expenses over the years. 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,600 You go to the grocery store, you know you don't pay for groceries 10 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,960 what you did five years ago. And so to feed all those folks, 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,080 we still have a cheap camp in my estimation because I've been to 12 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,440 a lot of camps, preached at a lot of different camps and we 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:46,640 still have a cheap camp. Whenever you consider you get a 14 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:50,960 place to stay for five days and you get 2 meals a day with that 15 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,440 registration. So we're going to try to pay, 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,640 help pay and help pray for camp. And then on the 27th Monday, 17 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:01,920 that Monday will be camp registration. 18 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:05,720 And so again, I know you're like you kick a dead horse because 19 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,440 you talk about this all the time. 20 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,680 Well, whenever you don't have a room, you're going to say, I 21 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,600 should have listened to him. I'm just saying it goes that 22 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,120 quick folks. So just just be mindful, be 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,480 mindful of that. All the things looking again 24 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,080 toward May, May, we have Mother's Day. 25 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,760 We'll be feeding our firefighters for National 26 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:27,160 Firefighters Day. We'll be feeding our teachers 27 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,200 across our city for national teacher appreciation. 28 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:34,200 We'll have a revival that will start at the end of that the 29 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,480 very end of that month. We'll have our summer kicked off 30 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:41,240 over Memorial Day weekend with one service and such and potluck 31 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:43,280 food on the ground. However you want to state it 32 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,160 always was kind of adverse to the idea of food on the ground, 33 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,520 but nonetheless, mom said I could eat it. 34 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:55,320 So nonetheless, man, we're going to be turning to 1st Corinthians 35 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,720 chapter #11 tonight. We are still talking about the 36 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,560 the identity principle or the principle of identity. 37 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:03,400 Probably wrap that part of it tonight. 38 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,120 Still got some other things, principles to look at, but 39 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:10,520 again, just as a over overarching, just think tonight, 40 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:12,840 anybody that comes into this church is welcome. 41 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,240 All right. There's people all different 42 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,880 walks and stages of life come from different backgrounds. 43 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,600 Some with more what we may call volatile histories than the 44 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,680 others. But whenever Jesus came in his 45 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,040 earthly ministry, he said it's not the whole that's in need of 46 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,880 the physician. It's not the whole that's in 47 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:31,840 need of physician. He said he came for the sick. 48 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,440 They come to call the righteous, but sinners Amen us to 49 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,200 repentance. So as each of us are on our own 50 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,800 salvation journey and even after we receive salvation, a journey 51 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,560 of maturity, right? It's just your birth 52 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,640 certificate. We still got growth and maturity 53 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:53,960 that takes place. And some some areas of our 54 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,200 maturity are faster than others. All you got to go to is in the 55 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,120 real world nature. Go just to a junior high, you're 56 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,760 going to see people towering, people small, you're going to be 57 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:10,000 seeing people in different phases of muscular structures 58 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,800 and all the things, girls approaching things at different 59 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,600 ages and times, Amen. Through this maturity process. 60 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:22,520 And so the great thing for us is that God loves us at every stage 61 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:27,400 and he's loving us to growth and he's loving us to maturity, and 62 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,800 he's patient with us. And so tonight I want to look at 63 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:34,320 another identity, identity thing that again, for the distinction 64 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,560 and distinguishment of male and female. 65 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:38,800 First Corinthians Chapter 11. I'm just going to read a couple 66 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,080 of verses and we'll look at a few of more of them before we're 67 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,280 set and done. But just verses 14 and 15 here 68 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,960 this evening. First Corinthians 11, verses 14 69 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,600 and 15, Death, not even nature. Here we are again, Apostle Paul 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,360 referring back to nature. Does not even nature itself 71 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,760 teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto 72 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:03,880 him, but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her. 73 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,640 For her hair is given her for a covering. 74 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,640 Her hair is given her for a covering. 75 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,440 Just tonight, want to talk about distinction that directs glory? 76 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:22,800 Distinction that directs glory. Hallelujah Father, I thank you 77 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:26,480 again God, for those that have made the effort Lord and come 78 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:31,280 Lord, on this Wednesday night, God, to center our lives one 79 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:35,400 more time about your word. God, your word is settled. 80 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:37,800 Your word is true. It can be depended upon. 81 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:42,600 It is God, a good Lord Jesus book of guidance for our life. 82 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:44,840 I pray, O Lord, that you have to help us tonight. 83 00:04:44,840 --> 00:04:47,640 God, we look into this word. God, we'll praise you. 84 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,640 Thank you Lord for what you accomplished and do in the name 85 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,680 of Jesus Christ said I pray in the church, Amen, Amen. 86 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,680 Praise the Lord. I paused as I read because 87 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,600 again, the Apostle Paul is taking our attention and 88 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,000 directing it back once again to nature. 89 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,640 That's not even nature itself. Teach us. 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,040 And whenever he has used this, and I've told you this before, 91 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:17,600 but let's the repetition sometimes helps our memory and 92 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,880 for us to learn something. That Greek word for nature is 93 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:25,280 fusus, all right? It is meaning the original 94 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:30,600 inherent constitution of a thing, basically speaking about 95 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,160 its origin, its beginning. And so there are in scripture 96 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,600 that we have already looked at, there are some natural 97 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:41,680 distinctives between men and women. 98 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:45,000 There are some nature driven distinctives and another one of 99 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,840 those has to do with the hair of men and women. 100 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:54,000 Stephen Jay Gold, who wrote The Pandas Thumb. 101 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,760 It's a book, he said. He said baldness is apparently 102 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:06,680 inherited and is in a small way a sign of masculinity, since the 103 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:11,600 tendency does not manifest itself even though inherited, 104 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:17,280 unless there is more than a certain critical concentration 105 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,560 of male sex hormone in the blood. 106 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,280 As a result, women rarely go bald. 107 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:30,320 Men who are castrated before adolescence apparently never do 108 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,960 so again. Although baldness in, in, in, in 109 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:40,760 humanity is an inherited thing, what brings its manifestation to 110 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:46,480 pass is whether or not that individual has a male hormone of 111 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,080 masculinity in it that will bring it to pass. 112 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:53,080 So I think we could all, I don't think there'd probably be anyone 113 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:58,520 who participate that's in that upper age group, but not all men 114 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,120 are going to go bald. Or it might not be inherited, 115 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,160 but those of us who are inheriting it and have that male 116 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:09,720 gene, if we were all to stand up here like this tonight or maybe 117 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:18,080 like this and had ladies of the same or similar age up here, we 118 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:23,560 are by virtue of nature headed toward a determination that that 119 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:26,360 if you have that male gene and you're predisposed to the 120 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,600 inheritance, you're going to go bald. 121 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:32,320 It is a rarity for women to experience that. 122 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,520 I'm not saying it never happens, but usually if it does, there's 123 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,360 some type of imbalance or some type of illness or something. 124 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:42,520 There's something else that is going on inside of the human 125 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,720 body if that is taking place. But it is very much so more of a 126 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,320 normal occurrence for men than it is women. 127 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,760 That's one thing. But another thing is looking at 128 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:56,840 the Scripture in the Book of Revelation chapter #9 and verse 129 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:00,920 number 7 and 8, the Bible states these words and a description is 130 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:04,120 really being given of, of, of some locusts. 131 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,320 And this is not your typical locus. 132 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,880 So it is describing different aspects of this locus in order 133 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,840 to bring the full picture into view. 134 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,840 And it says, and the shapes of the locusts were like unto 135 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,560 horses. So see, it's given us some 136 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,960 descriptors here to really put all this together. 137 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,360 Prepared into battle and other All their heads were as it were 138 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:28,720 crowns like goat and their faces were as the faces of men. 139 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,080 That word for men right there means mankind or humanity. 140 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,440 It's just speaking about the generality of humanity. 141 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,679 Their faces were as the faces of mankind or humanity. 142 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:40,440 In other words, it's differentiating that this is not 143 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,560 like the the face of an insect or animal, but it's the face of 144 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:49,240 a human face and verse 8 it says and they had hair as the hair of 145 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:52,680 women and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 146 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:58,800 Now being that their faces were as humanity, if it were just 147 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,040 proper just to make a description of their hair and 148 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,040 wanted it, well that's like humanity too. 149 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,000 They could have just easily use the same word mankind or 150 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,760 humanity men in order to differentiate that. 151 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,640 But it didn't. It specifically got specific 152 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:18,440 with what part of humanity that this hair was like and said it 153 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,960 was like the hair of women. And so John the revelator makes 154 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:26,800 a distinguishment here in the description of their hair being 155 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,600 like the hair of women. So there must have been some 156 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:36,520 difference of some sort between what was man's hair and women's 157 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:38,920 hair for John to describe it like that. 158 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,040 And maybe we even back that truck up just a little bit more 159 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:44,320 for God. The Bible says that the 160 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:46,440 Scripture, when you read in Revelation chapter one, this is 161 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:49,320 the revelation of Jesus Christ that was given to John by God 162 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,120 for God to have John state it like that because here's the 163 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,120 sin. If there was no difference, it 164 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,840 would make no sense to make the statement, make no sense to make 165 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,360 the statement. In Luke chapter #7 and verse #37 166 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:09,480 we read of a story that many are familiar with, and this is kind 167 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,440 of diving into the story just a little bit. 168 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,440 And the Bible says and behold a woman in the city which was a 169 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:20,240 Sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at meat and the Pharisees 170 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,560 house brought an alabaster box of ointment. 171 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:25,520 Many of you are familiar. Anybody familiar? 172 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:27,560 Someone just help me. I want to make sure someone 173 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:29,160 reads their Bible out there. Amen. 174 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,920 Alabaster box of ointment and stood at his feet behind him 175 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:40,160 weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe 176 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,880 them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed 177 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:51,040 them with with the ointment. Now we know per custom of this 178 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,000 day that when they're eating at a table, it's not as we eat, 179 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,760 pull out the chairs, sit down that they ate on on beds or 180 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,920 couches and they would recline with their head toward the table 181 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,240 and their feet away from the table. 182 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,680 I get that. But nonetheless, with these feet 183 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:10,680 away from the table as he is eating, here's this woman, her 184 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:15,000 her tears is becoming the water for washing his feet and then 185 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,560 the hairs of her head she uses for wiping his feet. 186 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,080 Even if even if that couch or bed was elevated to a certain 187 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:32,000 degree, Paul McGee, washing your feet with my head of hair is 188 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:38,200 going to be quite a I'm I'm not trying to I'm really not trying 189 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:39,880 to. But what I'm saying is this, 190 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:46,640 that there must have been some length to this woman's hair in 191 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,800 order to accomplish what the Bible says she accomplished. 192 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,600 As a matter of fact, several other just a few commentaries. 193 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,080 There are other people that come to bear on this, John Gill says, 194 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaking of the hairs of her head, he said which were long 195 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:01,880 and hung loose about her shoulders. 196 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,160 It be unusual and comely for women to wear long hair. 197 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,880 Jameson Fawcett and Brown says she hastened to wipe them, 198 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaking of the feet off with only the towel. 199 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:16,480 She had the long tresses of her own hair. 200 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:20,360 The pulpit commentary says she wiped the tear wet feet with her 201 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,960 long hair, which she evidently loosed for this lovingly 202 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,760 purpose. And so again we have revelation, 203 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,680 we have Luke. Here we go to the Song of 204 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:34,080 Solomon chapter #4 and verse #1 and the Song of Solomon, of 205 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,280 course, Solomon is, is adoring and there's this companionship 206 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,640 and courtship between Solomon and the Shulamite, which I've 207 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,040 told you before, which basically means Mrs. All right. 208 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,280 And so there's this courtship that's happening to their 209 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,720 wedding and after their wedding day and they ofttimes are 210 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:55,360 admiring one another, even even physicalities of one another, 211 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,720 they are admiring. And the Bible says the Song of 212 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,240 Solomon four and verse one. Here's Solomon admiring her and 213 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:05,960 says, Behold thou some ladies just say they don't talk like 214 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:12,000 that no more. Behold, thou art fair, my love. 215 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:17,600 Behold thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes within thy 216 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:22,920 locks. Thy hair is as a flock of goats 217 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:26,440 that appear from Mount Gilead. You tell me, Ray, the last time 218 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:33,200 a man said to you, your hair is like a flock of goats that 219 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,320 appeared from the Mount of Gilead. 220 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,200 But the mountain in in as the mountain of Gilead is a mountain 221 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,040 in Israel that that is beyond the Jordan. 222 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,960 And that is a place that commonly that that that 223 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,560 shepherds and people that were tending their flocks, they would 224 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:54,240 feed them up on the mountain slopes of Gilead where goats 225 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,880 were fed. And according to John Gill, 226 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,360 being well fed, their hair was long. 227 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaking of the goats themselves, neat and glistering, 228 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:09,720 but even more so than that at a distance, a group of goats 229 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,680 leading up or even down a mountainside. 230 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,040 Who these goats we know in particular had smooth knee 231 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,000 glistering long hair. When you have them in a row 232 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,920 going up a mountain, You can almost get the picture then of 233 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:32,160 why he may have said your hair is like a flock of goats that 234 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:37,840 appear on the mountainside. Just just goats after goat head 235 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:42,560 to tail, head to tail, head to tail is a long line of goat hair 236 00:14:43,520 --> 00:14:48,680 that is trailing up the mountain as almost looking like strands 237 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,800 of hair. And then in the Old Testament 238 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:54,440 scripture we know this that and God does this for the New 239 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,600 Testament church as well. He OFT times refers to them in 240 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,360 the female the female sex or female gender. 241 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,160 Israel's even described as that the Old Testament oftimes 242 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:11,160 described as as as God's wife. We see this relationship that he 243 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,680 depicts in the Old Testament prophets in Scripture and so 244 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,640 always symbolically a woman. So whenever God deals with 245 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:22,800 Israel at different times when she is not in good standing with 246 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:27,120 God, when she is not listening to the Lord or turning her back 247 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:32,000 on the Lord or refusing His, his commandments and His ways, God 248 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,360 brings judgment many times upon Israel. 249 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,640 And that's Israel, she being in her backslidden state. 250 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,440 And whenever she's in that state of being backslidder, that state 251 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:46,320 of being away from God or not in covenant with God as she should, 252 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:53,280 that He, he refers to her and He symbolizes her by cutting of the 253 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,760 hair or the shaving of her head. That's the way that he talks 254 00:15:56,760 --> 00:15:59,800 about it in Scripture. And Isaiah chapter 3 and verse 255 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,320 24, he says basically, you know, you're away from me, you're part 256 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:04,920 of me, you're breaking covenant with me. 257 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:09,040 Basically he tells her this. He said instead of well set 258 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,560 hair, he said baldness shall be upon thee. 259 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,640 It was a emblem really of a breaking of covenant with God or 260 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,280 having being a refusal toward God. 261 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,720 He, he spoke to her in one place because of her separation from 262 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,520 him at that moment he's speaking this, he's saying cut off thy 263 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,720 hair because it was going to be a shame unto her. 264 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,640 It was going to be a note of someone that was out of step of 265 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:33,320 covenant, his wife, his bride, so to speak out of covenant with 266 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,160 him and God used cut hair on a woman even as a symbol then the 267 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,200 course of Israel's backslidden condition. 268 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,360 And so when Israel disobeyed God, she was told at different 269 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:46,960 times and other places in Michael one and verse 16, she 270 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:52,320 was told make thee bald and pull thee basically pull thy head or 271 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,880 trim, trim your hair, trim it because you disobey that we 272 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,200 we're just going to put a separation right here. 273 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,560 And then there were times that his blessing would be upon her 274 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:06,920 when she would be back in covenant with her. 275 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,400 And whenever that covenant came back or they're back in 276 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,440 relationship with one another, such as in Ezekiel 16 and 7, he 277 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,839 would speak of her in these terms and say thine hair is 278 00:17:16,839 --> 00:17:20,319 grown, Amen. Now there is the growing of the 279 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,160 hair rather than the the shaving off or the cutting, there's the 280 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,680 growing because before this he says that you were naked and 281 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,320 bare, but now your hair is growing white. 282 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:31,880 There has been a change of relationship, a change of 283 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:37,960 covenant, Amen, with me, Amen. Also in the scripture, and this 284 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,760 is according to the Jewish Talmud, but we also have 285 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,080 scripture to support this, but in the Jewish Talmud, Talmud 286 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:49,320 there is an instruction that every 30 days all the priests 287 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:54,320 which were men were to cut their hair every 30 days. 288 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:59,560 And the instruction is so because otherwise their hair 289 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:02,600 would continue to grow and grow long. 290 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,840 And so the priests were well aware of this in Ezekiel 44 and 291 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:11,400 verse 20, the Bible says neither shall they shave their heads nor 292 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,800 suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only pull or trim 293 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:21,320 their heads. And so he said, we're going to 294 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,600 do a trim job here. It's not to be long, and you 295 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:26,480 don't necessarily have to shave it totally off, but you got to 296 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:29,040 trim it. You got to let there be a moment 297 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,440 of trimming. And so God intended the priests, 298 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:36,320 who in this day were males only to do what set the example for 299 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:39,320 the rest of the male community. Amen. 300 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:42,760 As a matter of fact, further investigation in the Jewish toll 301 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:43,920 mode, right? And why you say that? 302 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:45,960 Because that's like a primary source. 303 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,720 We're going way back whenever we're talking about that reveals 304 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,280 that the hairstyles of men in that day were Julian or what 305 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:58,080 they would call a Caesar cut, like Julius Caesar of the Roman 306 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:01,000 Greco day of like around the time when first Corinthians 307 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,280 would even be written. It was of a Caesar cut. 308 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,760 You look it up on your phone what a Caesar cut looks like. 309 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:09,400 It's just short off off the ears, off the collar type of 310 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,280 cut. And so that's the type of things 311 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,440 that matter of fact, every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar down 312 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,840 to 1 by the name of Tarjan had short hair. 313 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:23,560 And for that day in that culture, listen, the Jews, I 314 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,840 mean, we were a separate community of, but at that time 315 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:30,960 the community was under Roman rule, all right. 316 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,520 And so the emperor, it was on that day, this is government 317 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,600 cultural thing. The emperor set the pattern in 318 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:44,680 the style of mode of dress and appearance for those that were 319 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:48,920 under his, his, his rule. And so we see it very common, 320 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,800 not just in Rome, but even among the Jews. 321 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:54,200 Amen. Whenever we even look back, and 322 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:56,880 this is something that's been hard for years, and that is 323 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:01,360 archaeologists going back and finding artifacts or unearthing 324 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:07,320 artifacts that would find Jewish people and depictions of Jewish 325 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,040 people like graven on, on, on anything. 326 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:15,400 Number one, because the Lord made his mission clear, they 327 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,120 shouldn't have any graven images. 328 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:19,600 So I mean, there's even, you know, whenever he talked about 329 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:23,160 making an altar, a lot of times it was of a hewing stone because 330 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:27,400 he didn't want the Israelites to even have a temptation that 331 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,200 while hewing the stone, they would make it into any likeness 332 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:32,480 of anything that was going to be knelt down at. 333 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,440 And so you don't see a lot of images of graving archaeology 334 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,480 wise because of the command of the Lord. 335 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,160 However, there are a lot of depictions of like Assyrian 336 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,960 people and Philistine people and other heathen nations that you 337 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,680 see depictions of and a lot of them have long hair. 338 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,920 However, a little more recently in the past few years in order 339 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,360 in Israel, they did come across a piece of of a pottery or a 340 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:06,560 piece of clay of some sort that they found that they have a time 341 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:10,280 whenever the Israelites were enslaved by the Philistines. 342 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,560 And all of the Israelite men that are depicted in that and 343 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,000 that little fresco or what it was that they had on there had 344 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:20,880 very short hair, unlike the heathens that they were enslaved 345 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,800 to. Revelation chapter #1 and verse 346 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:28,240 14 says his. Everybody say his It's speaking 347 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,920 about Jesus Christ. It's speaking about the Son of 348 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:33,880 Man that's being spoken of here in Scripture. 349 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:40,000 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as 350 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,840 snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire. 351 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,960 That phrase white like wool or white wool. 352 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:55,920 According to the Jews, white wool is the wool of a lamb just 353 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:05,080 born of a lamb just born, and the wool on a newborn lamb is 354 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:11,760 typically short and a fluffy coat that's over across the 355 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,000 skin. The description of the Son of 356 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,520 Man of Christ Jesus was that his hairs were white like wool. 357 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,720 I know what we are conditioned for because someone grabbed the 358 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:30,720 canvas and a palette and a brush and painted their depiction of 359 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,480 the Lord Jesus Christ a particular way. 360 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:39,960 But according to the Book of Revelation, that's not the way 361 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:45,600 that he's described. Number one said, well, Jesus was 362 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,680 a Nazarite. No, Jesus was a Nazarene. 363 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,920 He grew up most of his life in Nazarene, thus he was called 364 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,920 Jesus of Nazareth. There's a difference between 365 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,920 being the Nazarite and being the Nazareth. 366 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,760 Being of a Nazarite held some particular roles according to 367 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,160 Numbers chapter 16 that you were to follow and no contact with 368 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:15,080 the dead, not to drink any wine. There were certain things of 369 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,560 covenant or things that they abided by in the vow. 370 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,640 But a Nazarene being brought up in Nazareth, that's was Jesus. 371 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:26,000 He was an inhabitant growing up as Nazareth and this 372 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,120 Furthermore, if Jesus did have long hair, which would have been 373 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:36,280 a totally at odds with with his time, then why did Judas have to 374 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:43,440 betray him with a kiss among all these different ones to point 375 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:48,320 out who He was? If all the other time was sure 376 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:51,880 here but He had long hair, why did He have to point Him out? 377 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,640 Because He had the appearance of any other man of his day? 378 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,960 Amen. To know who to apprehend. 379 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:05,600 So according to the scripture here, men are not to have long 380 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,880 hair while women are to have long hair. 381 00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,600 This is just another distinguishment of the sexes. 382 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:21,240 How long is longwell, verses 14 and 50, when the word long is 383 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,240 used, there's a few different words that come to bear in the 384 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:30,760 Greek and the their root words and both of them mean let the 385 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:38,600 hair grow or uncut long. Then hair for a woman, it's not 386 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:40,680 well, it's three feet, so that's longer. 387 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:44,640 It's 6 feet or it's longer, it's 2 feet or it's long, it's uncut 388 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,920 that's long. The amazing thing about that 389 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,680 someone can come to the Lord and they can stop practicing cutting 390 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,080 their hair and the moment they stop their hair's long in the 391 00:24:54,080 --> 00:25:00,360 sight of God. By definition, it's long because 392 00:25:00,360 --> 00:25:03,240 we have different people even in this church today, hair just 393 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,440 don't grow anymore, or it only grew so long. 394 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,600 But they've never, never cut their hair. 395 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,000 Their hair's always been long according to Scripture, 396 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,960 according to these verses. And so when we look at that, the 397 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,600 verbs that are used here, the verbs that are used here in the 398 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,360 Scripture, in these particular verses and throughout First 399 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:29,200 Corinthians chapter #11 they imply their, their, their tenses 400 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,400 and their voices. And I ain't go get all that, but 401 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,440 that they have a present. Well, maybe OK, a present tense, 402 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,240 active voice, all these different things concerning 403 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,120 these verses is describing a condition which remains to be 404 00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,800 seen expressed. All right. 405 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,280 It's the expressing of themself in this manner. 406 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:53,240 Paul is saying a man that continues to have short hair, so 407 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,480 thus regularly trimming that continues to have short hair. 408 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,360 Then he maintains and he respects his authority, which is 409 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:06,720 the Lord Jesus Christ and the presence of God, and he doesn't 410 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,480 have to worry about being shamed. 411 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,920 And then a woman that continues to have her hair uncut, 412 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:18,000 therefore long by that definition, then it's a glory to 413 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,320 her according to Scripture. And she maintains and, and she 414 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:23,560 honors her authority, which we'll look at in a little bit, 415 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:28,440 which is her husband in the presence of the Lord. 416 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,040 Amen. So with, with the tense of the 417 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:34,560 verses, it's something that isn't just a moment or a segment 418 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,080 of time. And you know, is it for two 419 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,480 weeks? No, it's something that's a 420 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,120 continuous thing that occurs and happens. 421 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,760 And so the condition of a man or a woman's hair is a continuing 422 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,640 yet incomplete action. If you could think of it like 423 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,560 that, it's a continuing yet incomplete action because the 424 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,080 man is always going to be trimming and the woman is always 425 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:58,880 going to be abstaining from trimming men. 426 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:08,000 So here in Scripture, we want to talk about, we could talk about 427 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,920 other things, and I don't have time to talk about everything. 428 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,320 That's First Corinthians 11. I've done that before, and I 429 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,320 think it took me 3 maybe times. So we don't have time for all of 430 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,000 that. I'm trying to stay in alignment 431 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,040 with the distinction aspect, OK. Because we could talk about the 432 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,280 power on the head because of the angels. 433 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,560 We could talk about if there be contentious, if there be 434 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,120 anything contentious, then we have no such. 435 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:29,440 We could talk about all that and we could talk about the whole 436 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,080 veil aspect. But we need to stay on track 437 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,760 here with this, this distinction thing. 438 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,320 And so with that, I'm going to start with verse #3 you say 439 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,640 you're not going to read it all. Well, verse three, wow, you 440 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:41,760 really took some off, but I'm not going to read them all 441 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,080 right? Verse #3 First Corinthians 11. 442 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:49,480 But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, 443 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:56,960 and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is 444 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:02,160 God, head of woman, man and a man, Christ, head of Godhead of 445 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,680 Christ, God. That word head is important 446 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,760 there in Scripture. Some consider that the Greek 447 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:16,440 word head to mean nothing more but source, that God is the 448 00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,040 source of Christ. Christ is the source of man. 449 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,840 Man is the source. If you think back to Genesis, 450 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:30,120 taken from the side of Eve, source almost like a river 451 00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:33,760 source that has the head of a river right where its origin, 452 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,920 where it begins. But Paul isn't just saying that 453 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,120 a man came from Jesus, or that woman came from man, or that 454 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,800 that that Jesus came from God or was even God. 455 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:49,200 All of that is true, but it goes just a little deeper, a little 456 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,400 scratching the surface goes a little under that, that a source 457 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,880 has to do with an inherit authority in a person's life, 458 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:58,920 inherit authority in someone's life. 459 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,360 If someone has come from me, there's some appropriate 460 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:07,880 authority that I have and sway that I have and I like to stay 461 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:12,120 better like this responsibility that I have. 462 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,280 I mean, I got two people sitting right in front of me. 463 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,360 That is a result of my wife and I. 464 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:24,520 So to a degree we have certain sway of responsibility by virtue 465 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,640 of being the head, if you want to say that of them. 466 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,280 So yes, origin, yes, but also that that idea of of 467 00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:38,840 responsibility of relational responsibility toward them. 468 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:43,640 First Corinthians 11 verse 4, Every man praying or prophesying 469 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,960 having his head. A note this word head is 470 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:52,760 speaking about your literal natural head. 471 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,720 Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered 472 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,480 dishonoreth his head. It switches on us. 473 00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,880 Now it's talking about his spiritual head. 474 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:10,120 So every man having his natural head covered dishonoreth his 475 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:14,160 spiritual head. Who's his spiritual head? 476 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:22,400 Christ and verse 5 but every woman that prays for prophesieth 477 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,840 Let's let's hooked. I'm fine next work through me. 478 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,880 Amen Prophesieth with her head again literal natural head 479 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:37,560 uncovered, dishonoureth her head spiritual aspect. 480 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,680 So if she does this with her head uncovered, her natural 481 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,200 literal head uncovered, she's dishonouring her spiritual head, 482 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:53,080 which is what the man husband, the Bible says for this even all 483 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,320 as if she were shaved, she might as well just be totally shaved. 484 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,840 Let's quickly address something the matters of the head being 485 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,360 covered or uncovered. Well, it said, if you're praying 486 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:10,640 or prophecy, Oh well, potato, potato. 487 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,520 The book of Thessalonians tell us that we should pray without 488 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,360 ceasing. All right. 489 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:25,560 And so it matters in everyday life. 1st Corinthians 11 verse 6 490 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:31,440 The Bible says, For if the woman be not covered, let her also be 491 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,680 shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman 492 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,840 to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered. 493 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:45,000 Verse 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, literal 494 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,720 natural head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God. 495 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:58,320 But the woman is the glory of the man. 496 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,800 So if she isn't, if she isn't covered, she might as well be 497 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,080 shorn or shaved, leveled at stubble, if she'd be not 498 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:10,360 covered. And he says this is an action of 499 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,760 shame. He tells us in the verses that 500 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:16,000 we read that it's a shame. It's a shame for a woman or a 501 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,640 shame for a man to have long hair and for a woman to have it. 502 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,520 It is her glory to not have it. Then the inverse would be true. 503 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,880 It would be not glorious. It would be shame. 504 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:33,000 So man, look at it here in your scripture again, verse #7 man is 505 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:39,280 the image and glory of God. Woman is the glory of man. 506 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,800 This is what always has got me. We see long hair, short hair. 507 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,080 God sees who's getting the glory. 508 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,680 Just wait a moment. We see long short, God sees 509 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:58,520 who's getting the glory. Man, don't cover your natural 510 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:04,160 head because to do so you are the image and the glory of God. 511 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:12,000 When you remain trimmed quote UN quote uncovered, the glory of 512 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:18,960 God is showcased woman whenever you remain covered, which are 513 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,320 beginning Scripture there verse #15 her hair's given her for a 514 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:27,040 covering. When you remain covered, then 515 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,120 you're concealing the woman is the glory of man. 516 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,480 You're concealing man's glory. So when the woman has her long 517 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,640 hair and the man has her short hair, man's glory is covered up, 518 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:46,200 but God's glory is visible. It's not just, it's not just 519 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,680 about long and short. The difference of the sexes 520 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:53,360 brings us back to Genesis of who gets the glory. 521 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,680 Everything that Christ did in the beginning, the planetary 522 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:01,160 systems, the animals, the grass, the creation of mankind, the 523 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,480 possibility of reproduction. What was that? 524 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:05,800 To bring glory to each of those individual things? 525 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,320 No, it was to do as we should do. 526 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,840 Scratch our head and say there's a designer here somewhere. 527 00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:17,480 It's to point the fingers back to a sovereign God. 528 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,120 He gets. He deserves all the glory, all 529 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:27,120 the honor and all the praise. But when we tamper with the 530 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:32,280 origin from the beginning, we're messing up who gets the glory. 531 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:44,199 Amen. So I want to, I want God, 532 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:49,080 through the way that we live our lives, bring honor and glory to 533 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:55,120 the Lord of anything. Bring it to the Lord, not to 534 00:34:55,120 --> 00:35:02,480 yourself, not to an institution. Give it back to where it came 535 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,280 from. Give it back to the Lord. 536 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,920 And that's the case in all these things, Fred, we talked about 537 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:12,160 ideas to begin with, discerning, you know, good ideas from bad 538 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,800 ideas or God inspired that man. Whenever you get that right, 539 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,680 that gives glory to God, that that's where we talk about, you 540 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,320 know, let your light so shine before men in Matthew 5 that 541 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:27,600 they may see your good works, yes, but what they glorify your 542 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,320 Father, which is in heaven. I know you were a participant in 543 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,520 the way, but the glory goes to God. 544 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,880 It doesn't go to me. It doesn't go to you when it's 545 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,040 all properly ordered and organized, it goes to where it 546 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,720 should go. It goes to God. 547 00:35:50,720 --> 00:35:57,280 So I want not, not to cover her natural head so that she doesn't 548 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,320 dishonor her spiritual head. And he should not, he should 549 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:06,080 not, he should not cover his natural head so he doesn't 550 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,480 dishonor his spiritual head. I want to give honor. 551 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,280 I want to give honor. And so the prescription through 552 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,840 Scripture again, uncovering the glory of God and we're going to 553 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,400 cover up the glory of men, so to speak. 554 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:27,600 And this, this, this distinguishment in a sense, long 555 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:33,600 hair, short hair covered, uncovered God's glory revealed 556 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:38,160 God's glory concealed. In doing so, God gets ray all 557 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,960 the glory. I don't want it to be blurred. 558 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,920 I don't want it to be confused because we talked several weeks 559 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,720 here over the past several weeks concerning identity, and the 560 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,480 adversary to identity is confusion. 561 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,360 I, the adversary to identity is confusion. 562 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:04,360 Mix it, muddle it. Let it be so loosely defined it 563 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:12,000 could pass either or confuse it. What I want to do tonight, I'm 564 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,400 coming to a close. I'm not even holding you that 565 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,560 long. What I want to do tonight is as 566 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,480 a man. I want to commit as a man to 567 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,960 reflecting the image and the glory of God openly. 568 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:31,910 It's not closet Christianity for the apostles, he said. 569 00:37:31,910 --> 00:37:33,950 This thing was not done in a corner somewhere. 570 00:37:37,270 --> 00:37:38,630 Was it done in a corner somewhere? 571 00:37:39,430 --> 00:37:42,950 You're talking about men that were willing to unabashedly 572 00:37:42,950 --> 00:37:46,110 pronounce the name of Christ, even pulled off to prison, told 573 00:37:46,110 --> 00:37:48,510 not to do it again, go right out to the street and do it again. 574 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,840 That gave their life's blood as martyrs. 575 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,440 Now, if you don't believe they believed in it, we're all just 576 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:01,560 eating baloney here tonight because they gave their life's 577 00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,960 blood. They believe it so adamantly. 578 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,560 I saw something done in the corner, mom. 579 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,880 Now that's something they said I unashamedly and we'll get to 580 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,200 this next week. But folks, it leads us into the 581 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:19,760 next principle, right? The principle of love because 582 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,920 we, we, we do some of the things we do. 583 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,480 We think we're really doing it because we love him, but we're 584 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,560 really doing it because he first loved us. 585 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:37,040 And I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed that he would 586 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:42,200 predispose love to me, what I'm doing to. 587 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:47,680 I'm just reacting. I'm reacting to love. 588 00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:51,160 I know it looks like me loving him, but I'm really just 589 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,000 reacting to this super abundance of love. 590 00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:02,720 Oh God, man, I feel the Holy Ghost because I there's some 591 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,480 things you all are in relationships. 592 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,000 There's some things you do in relationships. 593 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,560 And when I ask why, why I love her. 594 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,560 But when it really comes down, you have just been loved so much 595 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,080 by that individual. It's just a response for you. 596 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:23,480 It's just a response. I don't need to get in the next 597 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,360 week. Get me up here. 598 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:33,920 Teary mess here, though not why do you do what you do? 599 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:40,280 It's what did he do? I can't believe. 600 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,520 I can't believe you do that. I can't believe they make you do 601 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:43,960 that. Nobody's making me do anything. 602 00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,880 Listen, my name is Paul McGee. I decide when I want to get up 603 00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,440 in the morning, when I'm going to take a shower, when I'm going 604 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,600 to eat my meal. I decide what time I'm going to 605 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,640 come over here to the church. I'm a grown adult. 606 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,200 I decide what I decide who I'm going to work for. 607 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,320 Cindy. At the end of the day, it's not 608 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,720 about me. It's about him. 609 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:22,440 And I want my life to point the glory in the proper direction 610 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:29,800 because Paul Mcgee's a slob. Paul Mcgee's a no good low down 611 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,080 Sinner. Had it not been for the grace of 612 00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:39,240 God, I wouldn't have a chance. I don't have nothing to stand up 613 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:42,200 here on my own. I can't make my own way and 614 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:47,600 chart my own path. So if anybody's going to have a 615 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,280 testimony about what Paul Mcgee's done, they're lying. 616 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,920 The moment they start speaking, we better be testifying about 617 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:01,760 what He has done. Look what the Lord has to He 618 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,920 healed my body. He changed my mind. 619 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:12,560 He saved me just in time. Oh yeah, My shield vocoda, my 620 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:17,400 tie on my you'll stand with me tonight. 621 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:25,280 God, I love you. Can we just raise our hands? 622 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,040 Man? I feel the Spirit of the Lord 623 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:42,160 right now. God, you deserve it all. 624 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,680 God, you deserve it all. You deserve it all. 625 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:47,680 You deserve it all. You deserve it all. 626 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,280 It's yours, God. It's yours, God, It's yours, 627 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,600 God, The glory, the honor, the majesty, Lord, it all belongs to 628 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,640 you, Jesus. It all belongs to you, Jesus. 629 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:36,440 It all belongs to you, Jesus. I love you, O Lord. 630 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,120 I love you, O Lord, I love you O. 631 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:47,240 Lord God is all things. Lord, to you, through you. 632 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,560 Lord Jesus, from you. Thank you, Jesus. 633 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:55,520 Thank you, Jesus, thank you. Jesus, Hallelujah. 634 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:06,880 Hallelujah. Maybe when's the last time just 635 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:11,560 I mean, do you ever just have moments in prayer or any other 636 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,880 time that you just kind of set there every once in a while and 637 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:26,200 just in All in all of your God, whether it be just little 638 00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,160 sentences like in Genesis, where kind of like a footnote it says 639 00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,480 and he made the stars also. And we can't even number him. 640 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,800 But it's kind of like if I don't he did that or then 641 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,880 understanding what he's done for you personally, Do you ever just 642 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:46,760 step back? Why me? 643 00:43:47,880 --> 00:44:01,560 Why then? God, I love you, man. 644 00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:08,640 He's a good God. You can shake hands and be 645 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:09,640 friendly, hug one another's neck. 646 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:17,680 Hannah, just all. He's been good to me, Brother 647 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:28,760 Reese been good to me. When I look back over my life 648 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:36,840 and I think things over, I can truly say I've been blessed. 649 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,640 Lori, I'm serious folks. You, you all can. 650 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,200 I'm just going to sit up here and just be a blurry mess, OK? 651 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,480 Amen. I hope you have a great week. 652 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:56,440 Remember our things for Sunday Spring conferences this Friday 653 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,480 and Saturday in Indianapolis at where the Canons Church. 654 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:02,840 If anybody desires to go, I'll kind of put this out here, 655 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,880 Brother Ethan. Brother Ethan was asking if 656 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:06,720 anybody was going to go up Friday and come back home 657 00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,520 Friday. I told him I didn't know. 658 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,720 I told him he could pay something and maybe the connect 659 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:15,040 group linked and maybe find out. So if that happens to be you, 660 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:17,440 talk to Brother Ethan. I think he would like to ride 661 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,760 with you or maybe have a group effort. 662 00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,080 So just kind of putting that out there. 663 00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:24,480 God bless you tonight in Jesus name, Amen. 664 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,080 Thank you for your attention, your diligence tonight, Amen. 665 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:27,720 God bless you.