Principles of Church-Gathering — G.W. North

The Revealed Ground of Church Gathering

I did say that we would look into principles of church gathering and I know that that could be a vast subject. I want to do it in the first letter of Paul to the Corinthians chiefly. It may be that I've been exercised about it in that I've moved around a bit and seen various groups gathering and I have in many senses been glad that I've been a member of the church at Auckland Heath.

That may surprise you but nevertheless it's true and there are many reasons why I see such disorder in churches. Now I don't mean that there is a disorderly crowd like you find at football matches fighting one another and throwing toilet rolls about and beer cans or anything like that.

That's not what I mean at all. But there's a sad departure from the revealed ground of gathering on every hand and I cannot help but think that it is moving toward worse things. You know it's a sad thing when we throw over the things that God has revealed on any excuse.

The fact that we're 20th century people doesn't mean that God was hatched out in the 20th century or that he has changed his mind about things at all. He hasn't given us a Bible to be written in the 20th century.

We haven't been able to write a new Bible. God has not inspired one to get hold of original truth and try and doctor it. Sorry about the word doctor but you know what I mean. Doctors usually make you better.

Doctor it to make it fit into a sort of a decadent notion of things then I believe we're on very very sad ground and troubling ourselves needlessly and as the next generation comes up it'll want to fiddle about with it again and as the generation beyond that comes up they'll also want to do more fiddling.

If the world goes on and where in the end shall the church of Jesus Christ finish up? It is not only correct but safest to come back to this and so this afternoon I want to look into this epistle and remind ourselves that oh I see my arms come off my fiddle until it's come off.

It always does it. Well alright I'll just have to, you mend the mic will you? Good job I've got a good memory. A pin will do thanks. Is it a screw? We'll have to examine the hoover tomorrow Jack. Alright then beloved.

The Christian Race and the Spirit of Victory

Remember that this epistle to the Corinthians was written by a man who cared. If you turn for instance to the end of the ninth chapter you will find this man speaking of himself as an athlete. You know the thing it's sort of based on what we might now call the Olympic Games before they were developed to the outrageous place they hold today in the worshipful company of sportsmen.

You will find he's talking about running a race, you'll find he's talking about wrestling and he's also talking about boxing. He's running a race and he warns us as we approach this subject that though everybody runs only one gets the prize.

Apparently in those days there were no second and third prizes. Only one gets the prize. The first one passed the post. There were no consolation prizes for trying your hardest. That is a very human thing.

Try your hardest and we'll make some kind of reward. The reward rather reminds me of the days when I used to be superintendent of a Sunday school many years ago now as you will know. And when we were giving out the prizes we not only had to have the prizes for those who won prizes but for all the other disappointed people too.

Because little people didn't understand that they hadn't got the top prize. As though little people really were the people that counted. It was their stupid parents who didn't send them along. It wasn't the children's fault.

And so the parents were rewarded for getting their children to miss 50 of the Sundays and not bringing their Bibles or all sorts of things like that which were scoring points in the league. In my day anyway.

I don't know what you do at Ockenheath. I guess you're even more sentimental than that. I don't know. But here then is where God is concerned. Notice. And this man he says he's in the race. And you know in a race you may contend with say a hundred other people.

But only one. He's got to get in front of a hundred people who's going to win. Now think. That's what he's talking about. Because that's the spirit and the mentality in which he is approaching it. And this is why so many people can't get on in the true Church of Jesus Christ.

The lackadaisical. 50 attendance if you like. Whether or not you pay attention to know what's being preached doesn't matter. As long as you're there. Now I know that with some people work keeps them away.

That's not what I'm talking about. The normal person. Paul said I don't care how many people are running in this race. It may be a million. I'm going to be first. That's the spirit Paul. Or reduce it to the other contest.

Wrestling. It's just man to man. Got to beat one person. That's right. Or boxing. It's man to man. So that whether it's one among a crowd or one to one. I am going to win. Now that's the spirit. Once you let this grip you.

And stop all the lackadaisical approach. And see what it's all about. And realize that there's only a church because one man. Not Paul but Jesus. Set himself out to beat everybody. If it was face to face contest with the devil.

Then he'd wrestle him out of existence too. That's right. Now that's the spirit. And that is the spirit of the church. If you haven't got it you must doubt whether you're in the church. That's the spirit that's in the body.

One Body and One Spirit

Amen. You will recall this. Turn your Bible over. Into the 12th chapter. And I think it's verses 12 and 13 of 1 Corinthians 1. It says that as the body is one. And hath many members. So also is Christ.

For we have all been baptized into one body. We've all been made to drink of one spirit. Now that's the spirit. I've been talking about. It is the spirit of Jesus. It's the spirit of Jesus firstly. And secondly it was the spirit that was in Paul.

Same spirit. Paul got it from Jesus. You're supposed to get it from Jesus. It may come down through a Paul or an Apollos or a Cephas. But let's have a look at them. We're turning to the end of chapter 3.

We're moving about in the epistle. The Lord, he says in verse 20, knoweth the thoughts of the wise. That they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours. There it is. You've got the one spirit of Jesus Christ.

And everything is yours. The fight is yours. The race is yours. Let's go right through it. Whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours.

All are yours. What a tremendous thing for us to understand. Well, who then is Paul? He says in another place. Who is Apollos? They're just ministers by whom you believe. That's all. That's all they are.

The thing is for you and I to receive this glorious spirit. Now I want to ask you, is this spirit of contest and of running to win, is it in you? Is this spirit in you to fight and triumph? Well, is it?

This is how you're going to know that we don't sort of dream along saying, oh, I'm baptizing the spirit. I've got the spirit and all this. And when you come to check up with the book you find you're not of the spirit at all.

Anything knocks you down. You drop out of the race at the least thing. The prize never enters your head. Run for the prize. All you're concerned about is you're hurt or that you're lame or that something's happened and you drop out.

Places full of dropouts. I don't necessarily mean this place. Full of dropouts. People to whom Paul could write and say, oh, you foolish people. You did run well. What's hindering you? I want to waken everybody up.

God give me a voice like a clarion trumpet to wake you up. Unless you're going to drop right back out of it, beloved. And you will know, even as I do, that mere attendance at meetings is no criteria that you're there.

Whether you've got a spirit in you that's going to go through with God. Now that's the thing. Hallelujah. Well, having got that and realized that this man who's speaking to us is quite like this, we are, I hope, prepared to receive what he has to say.

Glory is a man that's gone through with God. He's going to go through with God. And I think that in the end you'll have to say, well, if you're not coming with me, I'm going to go on alone. I'm going to run on.

That's what I'm going to do. That's the position in the end. Is it in you? Well, yes or no, and I hope you're answering the question. Not only that you're striving to get the idea of it, but the spirit of it is in you.

If the spirit of it all is in you, you can't help it. You're urged forward. Overcomes everything. All tiredness, all offenses, all things, it just goes on. What a glorious thing. Don't try to puzzle everything out.

Realizing, as we read here, that God has made foolish the wisdom of the world. It's no good trying to philosophize and work it all out. When you arrive in heaven, I guess you're going to arrive bruised.

That's how Jesus was in the grave. Bruised and torn. But that didn't matter. What a wonderful thing it is for the Lord to make these things clear. To us. In the book. Lest we get into a world of fancy.

Imitating Paul in Perseverance

And you will remember in verse 1 of chapter 11, this is how he speaks. He says, Now you are to be followers of me. That's clear, isn't it? Now the word followers doesn't mean to say that I'm expecting to be beating you in the race, so you're sure to be following me, that is behind me.

It's the word imitators. You're to be an imitator of me. That means you're going to be right out there. Running. Running. Well, that's the glory of it all. You know, it's so easy to settle down and be comfortable.

So easy. And Paul knows that. So he exhorts us. The basis of our gathering together then, beloved, is this. That we're all in contention. Well, that sounds funny, doesn't it? Well, we're all supposed to be here as sort of like little lovey-doveys all huddled together in a nest.

Yeah, you know, even the person sitting beside me. I hope he's a good man or a good woman. We're going to run. We're going to go on. That's what we're going to do. Praise God. Not that we're reaching out for false crowns or anything like that.

But seeing that only the one that wins, wins. What a glorious truth it is. All right then. Understand so clearly too that Paul puts something that we're to see in this tenth chapter right down at the end.

We're not to give offense neither to the Jews nor to the Gentiles nor to the Church of God. That's not what we're to do. We're to please all in all things not seeking our own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved.

Isn't that lovely? Do you go about to please everybody? Do you? Going about to please everybody. Now you say, well, that's impossible. That's right. But that doesn't mean that your attitude has to change toward them.

If you can't please them, don't stop trying to please. See, that's where people drop out of the race. Chicken-hearted. Well, I've tried but I've given up after about the second attempt anyway. Given up.

But you see, a spirit produces an attitude and this race is this attitude of heart. We're in it. We're going to keep on, Lord. We're going to keep on. We're not throwing up the sponge. We're not throwing in the towel.

We're not dropping out of it. Oh, that God would baptize and really immerse us in this glorious truth. Now, all of us are to see it so clearly that we belong to the Church of Jesus Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ we belong to.

We don't belong to our own church. Certainly not to any denomination or anything like that or nation. The Church is not a nationality. Paul successfully killed that idea of a national church, you may remember.

He did that with the Galatian epistle. You must understand these things when you read your Bible. The Galatians was written primarily to destroy the idea of a national church or a racial church. There's no such thing as a racial church on the face of the earth.

Couldn't help thinking of Brother Tom. He's going home to his people. That is, his natural people in a week or two or at least for a week or two. But there's no such thing as a national or racial church.

Glory be to the name of the Lord. This thing is a spiritual thing. It's spiritual. But you know, in the end, you can't gather with people who aren't of the same spirit. You can't. You can try it. They may speak another language.

They may use different phrases. They may approach in an entirely different manner from us, these great things. But beloved, you can't in the end have fellowship with and continue to gather with people if you're not of the same spirit.

Not in the end, you can't. Have you ever tried it? You can try to get fellowship with people say that they're a very sort of free people and they can sing and that. Or you can try to get fellowship on the fact that they do certain kinds of works and so on and so on.

But in the end, although your personality may be molded along certain lines, you'll only have fellowship with those who are of the same spirit. You've been made to drink into one spirit. That's right.

Isn't this a glorious truth? Let's look at it this way. Chapter 10, verse 1. Brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant that our fathers, all of them, were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud, in the sea.

What a tremendous thing that is. Everybody of ancient Israel had that same one baptism. That's right. They all had it. There were no exceptions anywhere. Isn't this a glorious truth for us to understand?

They were baptized unto Moses in the cloud, in the sea. Praise the name of the Lord. One baptism in that baptism you've been made to drink into that one spirit. Have you or haven't you? That's the thing that decides it.

Hallelujah. It isn't my spirit. It isn't his spirit. It isn't her spirit. It's His glorious spirit. Amen. She may have it. He may have it. I may have it. We may all have it, but it's not ours. It's His.

There has been a definite turning away from everything else and a giving, a complete application of self. Oh Lord, I realize I must have this spirit. I want this spirit. I forsake every other spirit. I forsake every other attitude.

I leave it all for this. Has it ever got you? That's the spirit in which the athlete enters a race. That's the spirit in which the wrestler goes into the ring. Oh. Amen. One baptism baptized unto Jesus Christ.

It means that you've come to Jesus and said, now Lord, I am unto you. Utterly. That's what it means. I am completely unto you, Lord. Is that what the baptism is about? Yes, that's what the baptism is about.

Glory. Before that, you will know, these children of Israel, they didn't know where they were or what or where they were unto or whom they were unto. You know, they were standing at the Red Sea. They were looking at Pharaoh.

They were looking at Moses. They were looking back. They were looking forward. You know, a typical mister facing two ways. And that's exactly how many people are. But once they got into the sea and through the sea, they knew that they were then unto Moses.

They'd been baptized unto Him. Glory. And nobody is fully unto Jesus or can be unto Jesus unless they've been through this glorious baptism. Amen. It was a spirit and water baptism. The cloud, as you know, representing that blessed Christ after the Spirit into whom they were baptized.

Wasn't that a wonderful thing? Now nobody can be in this. They may desire to be. God bless you if you do. That's what it's all about. But let me tell you this. You can't be there until you've gone this way.

You can't be. You may want to be. You may turn up here and go there and you may strive about this and strive about that but God knows and this is why He's provided it that there's no way that you can be in and unto Jesus Christ except by this glorious baptism.

That is not possible. What is called Christianity so many times is nothing but good human endeavour. A wanting to be. Commendables. Better to want to be that than a drunkard or a drug addict or a spiteful wretched worldly whatever it may be.

It's better to be that. Better a thousand times but oh always to be on the borders of it and never in it. What a tragedy. Yet men call themselves under these conditions Christians. I want you to know says Paul.

I want you to know that all our fathers verse 1 they were all baptised verse 2 unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea and listen they all ate the same spiritual meat, they all drank the same spiritual drink.

All of them. One baptism one head unto Moses one food one drink. Everybody. Now that's a principle. That's a principle inescapable. How foolish for any of us to think that it can be in any degree less or other than this.

If you are baptised unto Jesus Christ if this has happened to you and he is your head Lord and leader then beloved he provides the food he provides the drink he is your Lord he is your head he has undertaken to supply you with everything he has committed himself to it.

But there are those and it says it's here with many of them God was not well pleased, verse 5 and they were overthrown they lusted after this, they tempted the Lord on that they did all sorts of things.

You could read the verses in your spare time. Here is a great principle beloved as we approach this. Is this spirit in you? Lord I only want this one thing. That's all I want. Are we wanting in this realm him among several other things.

Do you know beloved there must come a time in everybody's life when the blessed desires and intentions of the Lord so grip you that you can't shake them off. That has to happen. If you are more powerful than the Holy Spirit you haven't even got an idea of what it's all about.

The great urge and desire comes on you. David said that it was more than his necessary meat. His wife would say to him sit down you must eat this. Look at you. You'll starve if you don't eat. David was so taken up with these great things of the Lord.

This is more to me than my necessary food. Tremendous. And that's an Old Testament man. Some of these had really learned beloved hadn't they? Glory, glory, glory. Now you my beloved verse 33 of chapter 10 you've got to please the true church of God.

That's what you have to do. It doesn't mean to say that everybody's got to sort of design and fix their lives to please the whim of any member of a local church. But what you have to do is to live to please the church.

The true church. Because the true church is the body of Jesus Christ. This is taught us very clearly on another principle of life in the church. Chapter 6. Go back. He says this. Dare any of you having a matter against another go to law before the unjust and not before the saints.

This morning I was talking about people having matters against another and talking about behind their back and murmuring and muttering and complaining. I hope you read or are going to read in chapter 10 that God destroyed the murmurers.

A murmurer destroys him or herself. The tragedy is they may destroy others too that listen to them. You're right. In which case that person is as bad as the person they're listening to. So you've got two people destroyed straight away.

Not effective. Nothing at all in the church. Now this time we're reading about legal matters and he says this. You know, I suppose you've read this chapter. I hope you're familiar with it. He says verse 5.

Is it so that there is not a wise man among you? No not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren. That's right. You see the church the real church of Jesus Christ is a court of appeal. That's what it is.

It isn't to take the place of the laws of our land. That's not what it's about. But on the great matters over which many people want to go to law the church should be able to do that. We've got to please the church.

You see we're so far removed from this reality today that probably shocks you to hear me say that. It probably startles you. And you've never thought of doing that. Never. Yet there it is. Principles of life in the church of God.

Glory be to God. It's so great that if we go back to chapter 10 again this is what we read. Again he's speaking to the wise in verse 15 You judge what I say the cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?

The bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we many are one bread one body we are all partakers of that one bread. Hallelujah. Isn't it a great thing? Beloved we should be so desirous so full of love one for another that we regard one another as bread.

That should mean that we seek out each other's company. That isn't to say you aren't to go and visit your relatives at times and all that sort of thing. I mean even your unsaved relatives. That's not what I'm talking about.

But I think and I'm absolutely sure that in most hearts there's been such a denial or a constant wittering away of the real truth that this is completely lost sight of. We're looking for different food.

We're looking for different drink. That's what we're doing. We're wanting other sources of inward satisfaction. The bread that we break it's the communion of the body. Hallelujah. Now you know that the bread that we break and broke this morning was not the real body but it was the symbol of the body.

So you were symbolizing that it was your joy to feed on everybody else. Now if you don't have the right approach to this it means that in the end you become idolatrous about what's called the morning meeting.

And that's why occasionally I like to miss the breaking of bread and drinking of wine on Sunday. What's the only time that lots of the saints can come? I know, well it's a pity. But nevertheless I'd still break it because it will weave a bigger bondage around people's hearts.

I'll take the risk of cutting out sister so-and-so on a Sunday morning or two or brother so-and-so if they're going to be away for some good reason. I'll take that risk because I know that the bigger bondage is that we just come together and the bigger risk lies in that well we're going to eat, every Sunday morning we're going to break bread, that's right.

It gets so important we have to run with a plate of this and a glass of that to some brother or sister who's having to sit up on the landing because it's become almost an idol. Hmm. Hmm. I'll tell you this if I had my way I'd rather break it Sunday nights than Sunday mornings.

Hope that shocks you. But I would. God instituted it at night time when the Lord instituted it. He instituted it at night time. That's what he did. After all it's called the Lord's supper not the Lord's breakfast.

Here I'd like to do that personally because I'm always coming up with revolutionary ideas that everybody would say no to in the church meeting tonight and I'm not trying to prime you for it. Don't think I am.

I won't even mention it. I've said it now. And it's on tape. Here is the whole glorious thing beloved. It's the communion of the body. It's the communion of the body. Praise the name of the Lord. Well of course if you've been building everybody up in your conversations, thoughts and prayers during the week.

If you haven't been niggling and nagging about them and saying all this and grumbling and groaning, it's a great feast when you come together on Sunday mornings or when you come. That's what it should be.

A church should be the company of people that you think to be the greatest in the world. That's what it should be. If you're inclined to be cynical about that, that may be you have good reason or it may be you found a neat excuse.

I don't know. The heart that's filled with God. The heart that doesn't look upon another to judge that one. The heart that looks upon another to see the love of God in that person. The heart that just wants to really build that person up.

I'm coming there again before I'm through if I have time. This is the whole glorious approach to it. Amen. Somebody said to me it isn't the first time it's been said, but it gets said to me fairly regularly, aren't you tired of meetings?

They say to me, because you know I live my life in them. Well, perhaps a good part of it. Aren't you tired of meetings? And if I'm very honest I say, well I do get a bit weary, but you know when I get in the meetings and we worship God and the Spirit of the Lord comes, oh I want to go around and put my arms around everybody and love them and hug them.

I know some of them look very straight at you and some have got good old square, granite, Scots faces. And some have got stupid English ones. You know, oh yeah, that's right. Most anything about Malaysia, Tom.

Yeah, he's got a lovely face, hasn't he? Look, that's it. You see, here is the whole glorious truth. Oh, beloved, that quickens you. I never go out of a meeting exhausted unless perhaps I've had about three, two hour sessions and in between when I'm physically tired.

Oh, we come together to feast. We come together to see the light dawn on another face and say, Amen, Lord. That's right. We come to hear the lilt in another's spirit. That's what we come for. And we're hungry for that.

Are we not? That's what it's all about. This is food. This is natural air. This is the sweetness. This is light. Christ in his body. Not, oh dear, I've got to go out in a meeting again. Oh, I've got to go do this or go that or something else.

There's one thing about it, beloved. Men and women have got to sort out their priorities. They've got to see what God says is first and what God says is important. But more important than just seeing what God says, we have to receive the spirit of it all.

Amen. I wonder if we have that spirit. Glory, glory, glory. And then, excuse me, and here is one of the reasons why I said I'm glad I'm a member of the church in Ockham Heath. Here's one of the reasons.

I'm not glossing over or passing over the past ones I've mentioned. But for this reason I am very pleased. Verse 2 of chapter 11. Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I deliver them to you.

Headship, Covering, and Order in the Church

And here's one of the ordinances. But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ. The head of the woman is the man. And the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonorous his head.

But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonorous her head. That is even all one as if she were shaven. Which you know means that she is an immoral woman. 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. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.

For the man is not of the woman. But the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for the man. For this cause the woman ought to have power on her head because of the angels.

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. Judge in yourselves.

Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it's a shame unto him. If a woman have long hair it is a glory to her. For her hair is given her for a covering.

But if any man seem to be contentious we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. Well, that's great. And I say, I'm very glad I belong to this church on that issue. For over and over again I say to elders and men round the churches I say you will have to deal with this matter again in your churches.

That the original people, the women that came in in the beginning once they got this matter clear, they immediately covered their heads. But in come others that have been used to going other churches other ways they've been taught other things they've read all other kinds of literature and so there they are uncovered.

Oh, you know Beloved, as I say, I have no criticisms about you precious sisters, none at all. And that's a wonderful thing. And it's a good thing as long as it isn't just a bondage thing that we keep in you know, and then it becomes just a tradition among us.

But nevertheless to have a true custom as Paul says talking about customs is good like it may be customary for you to get up at six in the morning and have your breakfast or a cup of tea it's not bad, provided you don't put too much sugar in it I guess.

But there it is this is the way you see with us and I'm so thrilled and you women do see this. I'm thinking perhaps I'll call in the tract I've written on sign of authority and add to it and expand it.

I'm talking on my home ground now. You'll have to scrub this off the tape sometime I guess. I don't know. Here is the tremendous thing that you have to see this. You precious women, you understand this, but by you covering your head, do you know what you're doing?

You're covering the men. Now, you've always thought it was the men covered the women so it is in certain relationships. But in this relationship you are covering the men because the man is the head of the woman.

Did you read that? In verse three the head of the woman is the man. The woman must be covered, verse six, right at the end, because she is saying the men are my head. Their heads need to be covered. You say, well that's funny, I thought I was covering my own.

So you are with a hat, but you're covering the men who you will remember, now you've got this clear, in the Old Testament used to have to cover their heads. The men had to wear the hats under the Old Covenant.

They still do. The Jews cover their heads when the law is written. But now the man is commanded not to cover his head. It's a complete reversal. And the woman has to provide that cover. He mustn't cover his head because if he covered his head he would be covering Christ his head.

And Christ is God's. Alright. And the head of Christ is God. We read it. Have you got that? That if I covered my head I would symbolically be covering Christ. And he doesn't need that because it's all in the Spirit.

And God, His Father is His head. But when a woman covers her head, she is saying, we're covering this man. Covering this man. Thank you for covering me. I know it's only symbolic. And I don't know whether it's ever appealed to your heart that way before.

And if it hasn't, let it appeal to it now that way. And see the privilege. And see how much we depend upon you, sisters. I don't understand it. Well, Paul said in chapter 13, in case you may have forgotten it, but we'd better look to see.

Verse 12. Now we see but through a glass and only darkly. That's all. So, if you say to me, can you give me every explanation for it? No, I can't. But I know that it's an ordination in God. And I obey it, just as I obeyed when I read that I should be baptized in water.

And when I was baptized in water, I couldn't explain all that I can explain about it now. And I guess all that I can explain about it now is only seeing through a glass darkly. Everybody wants to get into the church by their mind.

I sat out in Canada talking with a wealthy man who made his millions in dollars and his wife. She was a great woman. She's a dear soul. But she was arguing for not covering her head. He said, I think it's a cult.

I think it's a cult. All these women sitting about with bits of rag on their heads, he said. Mind you, I would agree with him a little bit about that. I mean, now you just imagine me sitting here like that.

You say, get that old rag off you. It's not a cloth. Well, we know all about that. When you get married, Mike, buy your wife a good hat, a nice one. I mean, I'm not complaining about her. I'm just giving him a way to start properly.

Amen. Well, here then is the whole and glorious truth. Er, part of what I say is my personal feeling. The principle of it, beloved, is that you cover your heads. Congratulations, all you ladies. Congratulations.

Because for some mysterious reason that I don't fully grasp in my mind, yet somehow my spirit understands. That's very strange, isn't it? Don't you know what it is to understand by your spirit when you don't understand with your mind?