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00:00:01 good morning brothers and sisters today's scripture reading is from the book of First Corinthians 11: 1 to1 17 verse one follow my example as I follow the example of Christ I praise you for remembering me in everything and for holding to the Traditions just as I pass them on to you but I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ and the head head of the woman is man and the head of Christ is God every man who prays or for prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head but every woman who prays or prophesies with
00:00:44 her head uncovered dishonors her head it is the same as having her head shaved for if a woman does not cover her head she might as well have her hair cut off but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved then she should cover her head a man ought not to cover his head since he's the image and glory of God but woman is a glory of man for man did not come from woman but woman for man neither was Man created for woman but woman for man it is for this reason that a woman ought to have authority over her
00:01:28 own head because of the Angels nevertheless in the Lord woman is not independent of men nor is men independent of woman for as woman came from man so also man is born of woman but everything comes from God judge for yourselves is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has has long hair it is a disgrace to him but that if a woman has long hair it is her glory for long hair is given to her as a covering if anyone wants to be
00:02:13 contentious about this we have no other practice nor do the Churches of God in the following directives I have no praise for you for your meetings do more harm than good this is the word of the Lord thank you Clementine next week's uh sermon will be on one Corinthians chapter 11 the second half William G will be preaching on the Lord's Supper after that Elder yalim will be preaching on gender identity and the gospel and then I'll come back again with spiritual gifts one and two can we alter the sound is too much
00:02:59 Reverb tone it down thank you let's start with a word of prayer father Lord we ask that you uh be with us today open up our eyes to this rather contentious topic that we as a people of God will learn to live under the authority of God and be unstained by the difficulties and cultures of in the land which you live we ask for Jesus sake amen So today we're going to be preaching on a very controversial topic nothing more controversial than gender issues okay wearing a veil right hopefully at the end of the sermon all the women will
00:03:44 come forward and wear veils if I'm successful I hope not I think we all misunderstand some of some people take the veil as a U emblem of spirituality In some cultures like even in amongst our mids our own congregation there are who come from Pakistan and other areas they wear veils some are comfortable some are not human M congregation here not a single sight woman with a veil right different cultures is it so of what relevance is it to us outside in the world we've got a clash uh Muslim World um veils are threat to French
00:04:28 values according to maon Obama says women's rights to wear if she so chooses even our church there only one person I spotted who purposely wore a hat okay and it was United States Congress actually voted to lift the 181 year old ban on headwear recently because they had a Muslim woman who insisted wearing her veil elected to congress okay some reason why women wear veils is because they say a veil accentuates her beauty some women pray better because she feels that way it's a right thing uh veils are sacred things
00:05:07 like a tabernacle are these actually biblical so today we need to go back to scripture on the other hand recently uh Reverend Christan Muse was condemned by fellow Southern Baptist convention people why because she went to preach or to to lead the worship wearing this you see that long hair which is totally the opposite so the controversy is veils headgear are they repressive subjugation of women a sign of discrimination or are they warn in defense of a woman's modesty against assault of a increasingly sexual
00:05:52 society's values that's a controversy if you look back at that particular time in Corinth there were all sorts of things going on and here is a picture of Marcus aelius the Roman Emperor and he's going to a worship session and his gods and you notice he's wearing what long it's a it's a Shaw head covering that's right so sometimes men also wear head coverings all right and every man who prays or prophesies with head covered dishonors his head and Paul says that's a no no all right this a pagan worship being brought into the
00:06:28 Christian worship itself does not nature teach you that a man wears long hair and is a disgrace to him I purposely put the pony tail because you know who right so that's what that's Paul's opinion so let's see let's examine scripture properly we need to look at what is cultural we need to look at how it applies directly to us I mean if you want to be very straightforward then what happens that then everybody all the women here wear Veil all the men here cut B and and and I don't think that's how we ought to
00:07:07 read scripture we look at the Timeless principles that come up what is the principles that underg good Paul's teaching here that is the important thing that comes out so what has Paul written so far concerning matters of which you wrote relationship between Sexes one Corinthians 7 food offered to Idols these are remember the church is no more than 5 years old you know they just come to know Christ so a lot of the cultural influences of the day will start to creep in and they need to discern what is cultural and what is
00:07:42 biblical and then two issues here women praying in public uh and prophesying and lots of abuse right let's take a trip back thousands of years to give you the context because a text without context is a pretext so therefore Greek Roman women what were they like they were only hidden at home they only supervise slaves they only attend certain events weddings and funerals and always accompanied by men very short visits to female friends you cannot own property you cannot choose a husband it is this
00:08:17 is falling love business is because of Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare before that everything was a business transaction you always married people you know above a certain level all right so it's different so they always a limited education except Spartan women Spartan women whoo can own property have military training can mix freely educated simple life but no jewelry yeah well the husbands go off to fight and they have short hair right in fact queen gorgo says why are Spartan women the only ones who can rule men because we
00:08:53 are the only ones who give birth to real men wow that is women's live in the Greek times first century right that's but that's an exception isn't it if you look at the hairstyles you go to British Museum and you and it's a wonderful place I love the British museum they've stolen Treasures from all over the world you know then you can see uh this is the the the hairstyles of Greek women at the time uh only slaves women would have short hair the rest of them would have long hair and they would wear it up like
00:09:26 this and have it covered all right that is the right thing to do it is the respectable thing to do men would have short hair all right and they do not often cover it up if you saw a woman like this she would usually in public be a prostitute that's the issue so if you see somebody walking down there everybody you know they will like have a heart attack that's the culture all right so that's shameful now here we actually have a breach of societal Norm first of all women in corent you know what they're doing they're standing in
00:10:06 public and they're praying in public and they're prophesying in public women who are supposed to be hidden at home huge upheaval in the society at that time not only that they're doing it without H veils so therefore it actually jeopardizes the Evangelistic activ ity of the church because this church is crazy one they're all women simply speaking and and preaching and and prophesying and they don't have head veils so and and this brings shame to the men and so therefore there is a breach of societal Norms it causes
00:10:45 upheaval and so therefore affects the church so we need to look at underlying principles there's eschatological or end time reality versus societal Norms the end time reality is men and women are filled with the spirit and are equal but then there are societal Norms if you escalate directly to equality what happens is that you will be looked at as a cult or a sect actually threatens the norms and hierarchies of societies and and Paul says chapter N I become all things to all people that by all means I may save some and do it all
00:11:23 for the sake of the Gospel that must share with them in its blessing so he's not only thinking of my rights you know he's thinking about others just before chapter 11 give no offense to the G Jews or the Greeks or the Church of God just as I try to please everyone in everything I do not seeking my own Advantage but that of many that they may be saved be imitators of me as I am of Christ so when Paul preaches this he's not talking about whether I like to wear the veil or I don't like to wear the
00:11:53 whale I want to look at the witness of the church to Society at large if you you keep that context in mind then you will understand why Paul says what he does so he the Timeless principles are to seek the things that build up and to seek the good of others so his solution was just to fast forward let the women speak because spiritually they're equal they can prophesy they can pray they can do whatever they want in public but keep the head coverings that's what he said because he he basically contextualizes
00:12:30 spiritual realities to the society at that time now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the Traditions even as I delivered them to you so these are traditions of worship we you pass them down to the the Corinthians I want you to understand the head of every man is Christ the head of the wife is a husband and the head of Christ is God the key word here is kapala all right in Malay Kabal kabala in Greek is Cale so it could mean Authority Supremacy leadership it could mean the source or it could mean
00:13:09 preeminence these are three uh most common interpretations of the word head and uh it fits in so God is the head of Christ Christ is the head of man so therefore man is head of woman it's Authority but the problem here is that the Greek word Cale used usually does not mean lordship so we have a problem with the use of the word Kali at that time all right some people say it could be the source because the man was not made from woman woman from man neither was the Man created for woman but woman for man but the problem if you interpret
00:13:47 Cale as Source if you look into the Wayne gudum has looked at 36 Greek authors from the 8th Century BC to 4th Century ad and you can find none you use the word as Source you can use physical head metaphorical use uh but very very rarely used as Source if you look at the Greek Old Testament the seint written by a group of 70 Greek speaking Jews at Alexandria Cale means preeminent or the most foremost it's basically a sticy sticy is a figure of speech which a part is made to represent the whole so which
00:14:32 means for example 50 head of cattle that mean not it's not the heads bobbing around the head represents the whole cattle so that 50 head of cattle if you go to the Navy all hands on deck that means everybody standing on Deck not all the hands floating around right so the part represents the whole it's called a synect the key so basically what we're assigned to say is that the the head is the most preeminent part of the couple or the church church and it is the representative role it's a representative role so if that's the
00:15:04 case we interpret it as a representative role why why do women have to cover up well let's look into the passage every man who prays or prophesies with head covered dis honors his head every woman wife who who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head since it is the same as if her head was unshaven was shaven so the absence of head covering causes shame to the man so therefore you come to worship uh and then the wife wears long hair then the husband has to sleck away in shame in
00:15:39 that culture okay uh for a woman will not cover her head then she should cut her head short since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair and shave her head let her cover her head this a logic if you come and you don't cover it's like cutting short cut short is very disgraceful so therefore you should cover your head that's his logic isn't it all right right and you can see uh The Testament of job which is a literature written Around Jesus time it shows in in in this passage job's wife
00:16:08 is reduced to having a hair cut off in exchange for food it is done disgracefully in the marketplace while the crowd stood by and Marvel so if you take a woman and you shave a head in public even today it is very very shameful so having your head shaved or cut your hair short is basically a very shame ful thing so this is what they saying Paul is saying in his Society if you wear your head long in the worship meeting and you don't cover it it's shameful if it's short it's shameful if it's bald it's also shameful in that
00:16:42 culture okay you must understand all right what is Honorable is like this okay now don't all go rush out and buy one of these uh let's see how we can apply later on so for men this is Honorable uh what is shameful for the men is is oh long hair at that time okay uh so here you have a system in society where there's an honor shame and honor shame system is basically based on gender differentiation this is Honorable because it clearly differentiates what's a man and what's a woman this brings shame in their culture all right his
00:17:25 concern is not subordination but with gender differentiation so same thing as today if Paul will be here today and you put on lipstick and as a man it doesn't differentiate you from the women and that's the actual principle which you're saying you're actually blurring the distinction between genders now the head coverings reflect creative order for a man ought not to cover his head since he the image and the glory of God but woman is the glory of man for man was not made from woman woman from man neither was the Man
00:18:00 created for woman but woman for man so what's happening is that the head covering reflects creation order which basically implies purpose right what God created men and woman and if you look at Genesis 2 127 is male and female created them they were in image of God equally but when you go down Genesis chapter 2 it's more specific he goes down to granular detail where he say he created man first and then women to be her helper so therefore she's the Glory of man so glory is a sign of Honor image
00:18:32 the function of image is to bring honor so therefore women were created to bring honor to men if you look at this old fell not impressive isn't it if you didn't know his bank account right so therefore he marries this it brings honor to him Sylvia berkone and he has to marry somebody like that she brings honor to him and he brings you see the women bring honor to men with some exceptions I couldn't res resist that I didn't say anything right an excellent wife is the crown of your husband he she who brings shame is
00:19:16 like rotness in his bones this is Proverbs so that's a relationship what the wife does in terms of reflection with a husband but there's a qualifying statement women are just not created to be that uh decorative piece that highlights the husband look for a man was not made from women women from man neither was Man created for woman but woman for man that is why the woman ought to have a symbol authority over her head because of the Angels nevertheless in the Lord woman is not independent of man nor man of woman for
00:19:49 as women were made from man now man is the born of woman All Things are from God now is Paul contradicting himself on one hand he says Woman made from man and the other hand he says woman was made from man and man is now born of woman all things from God so what he trying to do is he's holding attention while there is created order and purpose there is also equality right from the beginning it is written right there so he holds it in ttention it is we who misinterpret gender differentiation into gender hierarchy
00:20:30 that's the problem all right different roles but the same quality look at uh John 12 for I have not written spoken on my own authority that's what Jesus said but the father sent me himself has given me a Commandment that means father gave him a commandment what to say what to speak now imagine if if if the the husband you then tells Le lean what to say what to uh to speak in a meeting she will will be very upset right but Jesus is able to do that and he says do not do do you not believe that I am in the
00:21:07 father and the father is in me the words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority but the father who dwells in me does his work and he capts it off I and the father are one now if lean says things which are opposite to what yian says then obviously they're not one you know but in situation of perfect relationship as in the Trinity the father and the son are one so therefore when the father when the son says I only speak what the father says it's perfectly okay so second reason it pleases the angel now this is
00:21:45 difficult why does the wife have to have symbol Authority and head because Angels the commentators are all in the you know all confused we don't really know what he meant there are three possibilities in the commentaries Angels meaning the priests because the priests don't like to see women without the veils or horny angels look down and get very sexually excited or the last one is the holy Guardian Angels but you know uh there's a deep sea uh tradition okay de sea tradition that angels are present at human worship
00:22:20 and they're upset under the disruption of the normal order of authority in the church that's a possible I think that's the closest I think the most most likely interpretation I'll leave this empty for the time being argument from reflecting Glory the man ought not to cover his head because he is the image and the glory of God but the woman is the glory of man judge yourself whether it's proper for wife to pray to God with her head uncovered does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair
00:22:53 is a disgrace so what does nature mean n nature basically is what is accepted by Common consent and usage at the time of his culture what is nature now and nature then is different all right you have to understand that okay um and but if a woman has long hair it's for her glory for her hair is given to her for covering if anyone is inclined to be contentious we have no such practice nor to the churches so what's happening here is that women have long hair is given by God as a natural covering okay so it
00:23:24 points to them as a need for their need to be covered when they actually praying or prophesying so long hair is her glory so when she's actually praying in the worship meeting man is the glory of God right woman is the glory of man and we is standing and worshiping God what should be the glory which is reflected is the glory of God which is man so therefore man is the glory of God so therefore he takes off his Veil he wears his short hair and the woman covers her head because that beautiful head
00:24:02 that she has is reflective of her glory and her glory is the glory of her husband so therefore in respect of created order she puts on her veil that's the reason what Paul gives okay if she uncovers her head and she shines out at the worship meeting and her glory is seen for all as her own Glory rather reflecting the glory of her husband which is created order then she causes a uproar non-christians will look inside say what kind of church is this and all the men will react you know why because their Authority or their
00:24:41 position in life in family will be threat they are equal to their male counterparts so therefore I don't care I'm going to stand up here and do whatever I need to do just like the men all right uh and the other hand there's um ethic of self-control to reflect created order so that's a struggle the third one the fifth one is that if anyone inclined to be contentious we have no such practice nor the the churches of the so therefore he's saying that all the churches practice this so why wear head covering
00:25:12 absence head covering brings shame to the husband it breaches the headship of man head covering reflect created order it pleases the angels and teaches us it's dignified for woman to wear head covering okay so this reduces the impact on society so so today's worship meeting today here FBC 2024 what do we do do you have to ask ourselves the questions do does the wearing of head veils today right does it reflect what Paul was saying in those days the important thing is the submission where there's order in in in
00:25:54 in creation where men is created first then women and she is his helper and so therefore we want created order to be reflected does is that reflected by head coverings I think the answer in this Hall today is no right you could wear a head covering and then go and sco your husband upside down no I mean what's the point because you are being hypocritical the issue is the underlying principle where you recognize leadership within the family uh headship rest with the husband and the wife submits which is what Biblical marriage
00:26:32 is about it's behavior all right we' have gone past emblem to behavior so there are some parts of our church where this is the kyos worship where they women are very comfortable wearing those veils and and as Paul says we we whatever is makes you happy in terms of your culture right you carry on doing this but imagine if five women in this Hall start wearing Veil and then turn around and condemn the rest of you 95% didn't wear Veil that's a problem isn't it because you're judging if five women wear Veil and more
00:27:09 power to you and the rest of you don't care whe wear Veil or don't wear anything or shave your head who cares that is okay the principle is seek for what up bills you see I mean so basically no issue whether you Avil where Avail or not this is the underlying principle of submission right so here what is Paul actually advocating just the important principle here he's advocating two things gender distinctions and gender equality all right so so gender distinctions today is misinterpreted because what is distinct
00:27:44 is interpreted as hierarchy we're talking about gender complimentarity or gender hierarchy the issue is hierarchy and and and this comes from Genesis it's the curse if you look at Genesis says to woman he says I will multiply your pain in childbearing in pain you shall bring forth children your desire shall be contrary to the husband but he shall rule you so you may disagree with him but he will rule you he's just stating the obvious effect of sin he's not telling you that he will rule you know
00:28:17 he just saying because of sin of what you have done you will reap the Harvest of your sin and he will rule you how does he rule you well female gender is lost of less worth and weak you know uh here here is a woman in Afghanistan and she said I have no worth because my that's why my husband left me which is actually entirely untrue gender distinctions are misinterpreted and used to justify male domination obedient Wives Club Mohammad ishak 2011 domestic violence infidelity prostitution stem from the lack of
00:28:56 belief in God and a failure of women to satisfy their husbands so we know where he comes from right so the female gender is blamed again gender distinctions misinterpreted now you can even divorce your wife with an SMS three times which actually degrades women all right now even in the west this American Association of University women women had to publish three times more papers in the most prestigious journals or 20 more in the less prestigious one to be considered as productive as male applicants it happens today even in the
00:29:37 west where they they claim everybody is equal so gender distinctions are misinterpreted okay so therefore what do the women do they become like men yeah that's called the feminist movement we don't like the fact that uh hospital is calling me would you mind answering for me Arnold in case it's emergency I have to rush off so women try to become men and in trying to become men they lose the very gender distinction that God had given them their preciousness you know all the qualities that make a woman a woman and not a man
00:30:17 they abandon that because they try to become man and that's actually quite silly isn't it women should be proud of the fact that they are women right so they they real against it they says all the women stereotype cooking cleaning all that we don't want to do we want to take the M16 and go out on the field and start shooting people as well and you think that makes them look better it doesn't Keller says equality is like medicine it is only useful if you're are sick and you don't celebrate the fact
00:30:49 that God made you as a woman so views on traditional roles if you can see uh the the the agree that man's job is to earn money and woman job is to look after the home is a red color one you can see that all going down the green one is you disagree which means equal uh you go out and eat your job the man stays at home whatever the views are changing when you compete in a man's world you assert yourself now you this the old slide last time was Hillary Clinton today is Kamala Harris right if a woman asserts herself
00:31:24 she is aggressive ambitious and and out for herself if a man asserts himself confident and strong isn't it double standards right if you look at Women's CEOs if you look at as a survey they're most likely to be called emotional annoying or unfair they're least likely to be called genius interesting or influential why women are more likely to be called helpful and pleasant very condescending isn't it and then men are experts or experienced this is what we do gender distinctions are misinterpreted women
00:32:06 must be like man in order to gain the quality which they actually have in God's eyes which is a distortion so therefore they go to the extreme and they lose all feminine traits uh you know how would you like your your wife packing bigger guns than you probably strangle you in bed then there are those who Abandon All gender distinctives gender fluidity gender Choice nonbinary uh people I leave that expertise to honor them to unravel the next sermon in fact in 19 uh in California Elon Musk that that famous billionaire
00:32:54 left California took his company SpaceX left you know why because California passed the law AB 1955 that says that if your child decides that he has become a she the school has no right to call the parents and tell them they have to keep a secret which actually undermines the responsibility and authority of parents and you're asking a 5-year-old to suddenly decide today I will be a she tomorrow I'll be a rabbit if you become a rabbit it's a fact isn't it you can decide to be whatever you want to be and
00:33:38 you know what that is that's called sin when you actually reach it it's the beginning sin is in the garden of Edom where man stands up and says I am not a creature anymore I am equal to Creator because I decide what is right and what is wrong that is the crisis facing our society today it is no different in ancient Greek you've got dionis which is their God okay and what he was uh was that he actually is a god of wine he actually acts in a very effeminate way he dresses as a woman aphroditus see has
00:34:17 a beard and if you look underneath the the skirt there he's got a penis they're mixed and these are their gods hemor frittis has female parts parts and male parts together they're blurring the distinction all right and affecting if you look here is a hav survey of the called the future is female and they're saying that girls should be the statement girls should be raised as girls and boys as boys how many agree or disagree and you look at Malaysia thank God 58% of Malaysians say girls should be raised as girls boys
00:34:53 should be raised as boys if you go to Australia h H 56% saying don't tell them whatever sex okay uh if you have a nowadays in the west if a gender reveal party my son is going to have a gender revealed party immediately condemn because gender is a bad word uh this is how the the world is changing so the all the man ought not to cover his head since he's the image and glory of God woman is the glory of man man was not made from woman but woman from man neither was the man was the Man created for woman but woman for God so
00:35:32 here we're talking about gender equality but equality is not in the way that you think it is all right it's biblical equality when the Lord said in Genesis it is not good that a man should be alone I will make him a helper fit for him so gender distinctions are real and designed by God and not result of fall here you have a helper what is the word helper you helper is not a Filipino M it's used 21 times in the Old Testament and in 16 times refers to God himself it's like behold God is my helper and
00:36:11 the Lord is the upholder of my life is not denigrating the woman all right the the other word kigo is fit for him means corresponding it means someone to help you but who corresponds to you which means you got differences are your strengths every sex has differences and these sex are supposed to supplement what you don't have that is what we mean by the gender so therefore there's an interdependence because Paul says as the W was made from man man is now born of woman and all things are from God so
00:36:46 therefore you are different but you are interdependent and Paul reemphasizes this in Galatians says for in Christ you all sons of God talking about women I've seen some people pray uh we are Sons and Daughters or you know the reason why Paul uses the word everybody are sons of God is because in their culture there's a doctrine of primogen where all property passes to the number one son so when I call you a woman a son it means you inherit that kind of privilege in Christ you are all sons of God there is
00:37:25 no gender difference in that sense in terms of inheritance for many of you were baptized into Christ and put on Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek slave nor free male or female you're all one in Christ so on one dimension Paul celebrates what God has done in creation where there gender differences and distinctives which are beautiful and precious and reflect his purpose on the other hand he also emphasized the fact that in the end you are Also spiritually equal there's the two are held in tension and the two beautiful uh IAL
00:37:58 truths so I want you to understand that the head of the man every man is Christ the head of wife is the husband the head of Christ is God right when all things are subject to him then the son himself will be subject to him who put all things together and subject under him that God may be all in all so there is a purpose if it does not assault Jesus Christ dignity why should it assault ours when women are said that they are subject to their husbands why why should it be all right different roles do not
00:38:31 mean different Essence if you go to a football match liel Messi cannot touch the ball can he touch the ball no you know who can touch the ball the goalkeeper so he's more Superior Lon Messi or the goalkeeper the same they have different roles but we take the differences the gender differences and reinterpret it for our own benefit an Ibrahim flies on Air Force One I don't know whether we going Air Force One he gets on the plane and the pilot says uh an sit down don't stand up an can't stand up and say hey I'm Prime Minister
00:39:13 Malaysia you know I don't get to sit you don't get to tell me to sit down and fasten my seat belt you see there are different on the plane the pilot is the boss right outside the plane now Isa for the pilot it's different it doesn't mean one is more Superior than other so we reinterpret gender differences and distinctions in terms of hierarchy because there a natural way we think especially the men everything is who's got bigger muscles who's taller the other guy so that that's the influence of sin if you look at
00:39:51 different ring roles in leadership in Exodus The Midwives feared God did not do the king of Egypt said to kill all the male children and they actually save who Moses without them we got no Moses we have no Ten Commandments we have no uh pentat Esther saves the entire Jewish race when he says then I will go to the king against uh though it is against the law if I perish I perish only Esther could do that if it weren't for Esther the Jewish race is finished and they actually celebrate that particular event
00:40:30 in history even today women in leadership Deborah a prophet prophetess the wife of lapidot was judging Israel at a time she used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Rama and Bethel on the Hills so and the people came out for judgment women there have been women in leadership roles as well although not many all right what about the women who accomplished who accompanied Jesus in suffering and crucifixion they were first to witness Jesus crucifixion Jesus arranged so that they would be the first
00:40:59 ones to witness the resurrection and Jesus chose Mary Magdalene to announce this news to the disciples if you look in history of Christianity the first 300 years Rodney start's article says Christian women had a higher status within Pagan culture sub Christian subculture than the Pagan ones women had leadership position in the church all right so the gospel makes everything possible you know why because gospel is about servanthood if you look at the cross forward backward Dimension inside outside Dimension and
00:41:37 an upside down Dimension where Jesus came to serve and serving is an honorable calling right at which women are now called here he puts this balance into perspective it's Ephesians chapter 5 women wives submit to your own husbands as as to the Lord for the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ the head of the church his body and himself the Savior on the other hand husbands love your wives as Christ loved and gave himself up for him for her so if you look at it you think there's a difference between the s
00:42:19 word submit and sacrifice there's actually no difference because it's not that you get to choose the man that we go holiday in Japan right and woman say I don't want you have to sacrifice your desires and your Ambitions and your wants for what would make her flourish and grow and then if you're that kind of husband then she submits herself to you in a way that's honorable to God then you look women are very important now you look at the word there submit your own husband as to the Lord doesn't matter whether is a no good
00:42:59 bum he never said if your husband looks like Brad Pit then you submit to him right if if he doesn't then you don't sub you answer to God submission sacrifice is a mutuality there this is Kathy Keller Tim Keller's wife she says the basic roles of leader and helper are binding but every couple must work out how that will be expressed in in their marriage so some of you the wife may want to work and and God has configured her in such a way that she is more successful in the market than you every time you start business you go bankrupt
00:43:40 and then she does well so so so you thank God for her she bring in the bread let her go and bring more bread all right what is that it doesn't detract from your manhood does it because we we can't be controlled by gender stereotypes there are gender stereotypes within our our our society this is Rachel held Evans New York Times bestselling author and she's an egalitarian equal and you she says I don't believe those differences should be Universal prescriptive or indicative of hierarchy and she's right the
00:44:16 differences in man should not be Universal uh prescriptive or indicative hierarchy within the genders as an egalitarian I truly believe that truly complimentary relationship is one in which differences are celebrated and not forced that the Beauty and the qualities of a woman are to be extoled and not and they do not have to abandon those differences and become a man in order to be treated equally so the gospel changes the gender question there are gender distinctions do not blur them they are right and godly and
00:45:00 reflective of God's purposes we live in a society that increasingly wanting to blur them and we need to stand up against and be Bullocks against this trend gender complimentarity which means you have different roles as women and men and the roles have basically different they have be celebrated and because whatever role you have in the end in the God's eyes you are equal you are all sons of God so how do you apply today s sermon well I leave that to you okay let's end with a word of prayer father
00:45:45 Lord we thank you for your word and we pray that uh as we depart we think very carefully about about gender it is the biggest issue in our society today and Father Lord we just for all the faults of this country we actually thank you we live in a Muslim dominated country where this issue is not much of a threat and we remember our friends and relatives who live in a western Society where the distinctions are more blurred that they will stand as a bullwark against this disturbing Trend we thank you for our gender distin distinctions
00:46:28 we thank you that we are complimentary to each other men and women we pray as we depart that we celebrate our differences that we are not ashamed the fact that we are men or women because in your eyes we are all sons of God we ask this for Jesus sake amen right so they're going to end with a final song and the final song is very useful because we chose it because when woman stands up and fulfills her role as only she can uniquely do men try to B you see it magnifies God's name when a wife submits to a husband when a husband
00:47:12 sacrific for the wife Christ is glorified gender magnifies Christ's name I also want to thank we have a new pianist in our midst I always say celebrate because so so lack of musicians so today we got over there give me a hand second time playing for us please come forward to to share your gifts playing piano can be man or woman H okay anyone okay I better call amen Church shall We All Rise As we sing the song Christ be magnified in all that we do let us let us fix our eyes on God let us glorify
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00:54:27 Christ be magnified from the altar of my life Christ be magnifi in me and Christ be magnified let his praise arise Christ be magnified in me and Christ be magnified from the altar of my life Christ be magnified in [Music] me let's pray let's pray there's there's an old Jewish prayer that a Jewish man stands up and thanks God he was not created as a woman that's abominable today we want to thank God that every single one of us it's no mistake he created us as a man or as a woman as we stand in our individual
00:55:48 genders in the individual roles within the family there's only one purpose to celebrate what God has created in US every distinctive Beauty and strong points and use that to honor God because in the end it matters father God we go home believing that we have to be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord even within our relationships as husband as wife father Lord we're not always married to the perfect spouse there may be abuse there may be disappointment there may be lack of respect but father we
00:56:36 know that we do this that your name be glorified knowing that in the Lord our labor is not in vain we ask for Jesus sake and your blessing as we depart for Jesus sake amen [Music]
