God's Family Structure

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Hello, my name is Paul, and I am the voiceover for a ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God is Government, called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ's teaching of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6, verse 11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting Scripture, but Scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. Today's focused discussion will be on God's family structure. I want to show you another portion of Scripture. This one may also be familiar to you. And this is a very interesting portion of Scripture. I'm not going to dig down into it, I've covered it. You can read the notes in the study Bible and it covers the details of it. You can read the commentary on 1 Corinthians, and it's even more detailed there. But I just want you to get a sense of what this passage says. So let me read. Starting in verse 3, I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman. And I want to just stop there and say head is a very important term, kephale in the Greek. Kephala. There are people who say feminists who say that that doesn't mean authority. It does not mean authority, it means origin, they say, or source. That's going back to creation and saying that since woman was taken out of the side of man, man is the source of woman. Listen, Wayne Grudom did a study of the word kephala in the history of the Greek language, and every time it doesn't speak of a specific task, like the head waiter, every time it is used in terms of relationship, it always means authority, always. It never means anything else. Certainly not origin. So Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and God is the head of Christ. God exercises his rule over Christ in his humiliation and incarnation. Christ exercises his authority and rule over us, and men the same over women. And then he goes into illustrating this. Every man who has something on his head while praying or prophesying disgraces his head. Apparently, in that culture, women wore a covering on their head as a sign of their submission. That's been true for centuries. In ancient times, and some places even today. In the Arab world, women are still covered as a sign of their submission. So for a man to put on something that covered his head would be to disgrace his head. Because in that culture, women did that, men didn't do that. They didn't put a scarf on their head the way women have done. You know, the Jews got this a little bit confused, and you have men today that wear a little cap on their heads because of a misinterpretation of Old Testament scripture. On the other hand, every woman who has her head uncovered, and there were two kinds of women in ancient times that did that, protesting women and prostituting women. Feminists and harlots. They had a feminist movement back in Corinth. When women uncover their heads, that is equally wrong, and some in the church must have been doing it. It would just be like someone with a shaved head, and we know from history that women who were feminists shaved their heads as a protest. If a woman doesn't cover her head, let her also have her hair cut off, but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or her head shaved, let her cover her head. In other words, the ultimate disgrace would be to shave your head. But it's also a disgrace to take the covering off in that society, so leave the covering on, and he goes on to talk about that further. Verse 11. We can pick it up there. Well, verse 10. The woman has a symbol of authority on her head, and because of the angels, yes, the angels want to see the woman in submission, because that's God's design, and they want God's will done. In the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. In other words, there's a mutual relationship that they share, there's that mutual submission, but there is nonetheless the authority. The woman originates from the man, the man has his birth through the woman, and all things originate from God. For while there is mutuality, and God is over all, and while we have authority over the woman, we come from a woman, which speaks of our mutuality. Nonetheless, the man is the head of the woman, as Christ is the head of the man, and God is the head of Christ. That's enough out of that passage. As I said, if you want a lot more detail, there's more to be found in other sources. Now I want you to look at Titus, because I want to give you the complete picture. Titus chapter 2. This is an emphatic statement that will broaden a little bit our understanding of what it means to submit to the man or the husband, a very relevant passage. In Titus chapter 2, Titus is giving instruction on relationships in the church. He talks about older men, older women, younger men, younger women, and that's the theme in this second chapter, talks about slaves and how they submit to their masters. So it's about those relationships, very much like Colossians and Ephesians. But notice in verse 3, older women are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good. Okay now, women are to teach, they're to teach what is good, and just exactly what does that refer to? It refers to encouraging the young women, the next generation, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure. And then this workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands. And what's at stake so that the Word of God will not be dishonored. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of God's family structure. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.