327 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 3 - Book 28 - Holy Communion

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 28 Holy Communion I Corinthians 11:2 You want to realize that Paul himself was not anti-women. Paul in Romans Chapter 16 commends so many women who helped him in the ministry, and he certainly recognized the fact that there was a role for women in the Church. Sophocles, a Greek philosopher back even before Paul's time said it like this: "Silence confers grace upon a woman." Don't ever accuse the Apostle Paul of being anti-female, because it's the Apostle Paul's doctrines that opened up the world of freedom to the women. Now verse 4: I Corinthians 11:4 "Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head." For the woman it's the other way around. You don't expect a women to go into any kind of a worship situation without her head covered as we see in verse 5. I Corinthians 11:5 "But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven." Now does that mean that women today have to wear a veil or hat or something to cover their head when they go into church? So Paul is dealing with it under those circumstances. Now verse 6: I Corinthians 11:6 "For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered." Now verse 7: I Corinthians 11:7 "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man." And again that goes back to Adam. As Adam was created in the image of God, and also as Adam was the first created, and the woman was created next, that's what Paul says in so many words in verse 8. I Corinthians 11:8 "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man." Do you remember I stressed that when God created Adam, where was Eve? That the husband was to be the head of the woman, not as a slave master, but in the order of God's things this is the way He has ordained it by virtue of Him creating the man first and then the woman. Verse 9. I Corinthians 11:9-12 "Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man. Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God." Genesis 2:18 Genesis 2:19,20 "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Genesis 2:21,22 "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, (I prefer to use the term side chamber, which is also the same definition for that Hebrew word) and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man." Genesis 5:2 Eve was in Adam, and she was part and parcel of him even as God created him and named him Adam. God created Adam with Eve within him, and then sometime later He takes that part of Eve out of Adam and creates the woman, so now he has his complement, he is now complete, he is no longer alone. God created the man to be the head of the women because she was created next, and that was God's ordained way of setting up the home and family, and it holds to this day, because God never rescinded it. I Corinthians 11:12 "For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God." Now verse 13: I Corinthians 11:13,14 "Judge (make up your own mind) in yourselves: is it comely (proper) that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" Now verse 15: I Corinthians 11:15 "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering." Now verse 16, and here Paul is tempering all this. What does Paul say: I Corinthians 15:22,23 Now verse 16: I Corinthians 11:16 "But if any man seem to be contentious, (always causing problems) we have no such custom, neither the churches of God." Now verse 17, and here Paul is coming back to the instructions concerning the Lord's table. I Corinthians 11:17 Now verse 18: I Corinthians 11:18 Now remember Paul is getting all this by hear-say. Now verse 19. I Corinthians 11:19-21 Right? Hey, they were having a great big pot luck supper before they had the Lord's supper. Well the Corinthians were doing that ahead of the Lord's table for an evening service. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible