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Sep 25, 2016

To Cover of Not to Cover? That Isn't the Question

Passage: 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Preacher: Pastor Tim W. Young

Series: God's Love Letter to an Unlovely Church

Category: 1 Corinthians

Summary:

Main Text - 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Detail:

"God’s Love Letter To an Unlovely Church”

 “To Cover or Not to Cover? – That Isn’t the Question”

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

 

  1. Maintain Order - 2 & 16 –   

              

               2  Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as           I delivered them to you…..16  If anyone is inclined to be contentious, we have no such practice, nor do   the churches of God.

 

               1 Corinthians 14:40  

 

  1. The isues at Corinth –

 

  1. The meeting of the two issues –

 

  1. The Two extremes

 

  1. Maintain Good Order – 13-14

 

               There is “good order” and “bad order”    

 

               To maintain good order God gave us culture

 

               Acts 17:24-27  

                               

               The way that order is displayed symbolically can change –  

 

               Culture can change and often approves what God disapproves.

                                              

               Therefore, the issue is not head coverings but  

 

  1. Maintain God’s Order – 3-12

 

                              To maintain God’s order God gave us “heads”  

              

     God tells us the head of the woman is man  - vs 3 and the head of every man is Christ

 

                              4 - The man represents Christ’s headship and should  

 

                              5- The woman represents her husband and shoul                   

 

               Paul presents God’s order in His order of Creation – 7-10

 

God ordained order must be maintained in church in the Gosple age even as culture changes