Egypt to Canaan (4): Rebellion, Rock, Resource, Resistance — Norman Crawford

Israel’s Rebellion and the Water from the Rock

I'd like to read with you in Exodus chapter 17. All the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed after their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in roses and said, Give us water that we may drink with me.

And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do? Be almost ready unto Moses. Go on before the people and take with thee of the elders of Israel. And Moses turned to blood. Take and stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink.

And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, contention and strife or temptation and strife. Because of thee, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us or not?

Amalek, Intercession, and the Lord Our Banner

Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, That's the first time Joshua is mentioned, by the way, Choose us out men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

But Moses' hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat there on. And Aaron and Hur stayed up his hand, the one on the one side and the other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

And Joshua discomfited. Doesn't say he destroyed him, but he discomfited Amalek and his people. Then unto Moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua. For I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nisi. Jehovah or my banner, the Lord is my banner. For he said, because the Lord has sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Moses’ Failure at the Rock in Numbers 20

Now numbers, please. Numbers chapter 20 and verse 6. And Moses and Aaron, the assembly onto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. This is 40 years after the event that we've just been reading in Exodus chapter 17.

They fell upon their faces and the glory of the Lord appeared onto them. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, take the rod and gather all the assembly together. Thou and Aaron, my brother, and speak onto the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shall bring forth to them water out of the rock.

So thou shall give the congregation and their blood from before the Lord as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock. He said unto them, here now you rebels, must we fetch you water out of this rock?

Moses lifted up his hand and with his rod, he smote the rock twice. And the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because you believe me not to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Therefore, you shall not bring this congregation into the land, which I have given them. Now a New Testament commentary, please. First Corinthians chapter 10, first Corinthians chapter 10. And moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant.

This were under the cloud at the Red Sea. The cloud was evidently over them when they passed through that Red Sea and the cloud were over them, baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. And it all eats the same spiritual meat.

For they drank of that spiritual rock. You have your Bible open. It would be good to see that we have divine authority for teaching that the passage through the Red Sea is a picture of baptism to believers today.

And you'll notice that the eating of the manna is spiritual food here. And the drinking of the water from the rock is spiritual drink. And that rock followed them. And that rock was Christ. And so we have New Testament authority for the subject that we're dealing with tonight.

Four Lessons: Rebellion, the Rock, Resource, and Resistance

I have to say tonight can very easily be put under four simple headings. I may not refer to the headings again. Sometimes preachers only use and sometimes we work very hard to get headings. And I often wonder why I've been at this getting headings for myself about the wisdom of it.

I suppose the excuse I have for keeping at it is that when I'm listening to someone else preach and they have no particular outline or order to what they have to say, I have the greatest difficulty following it.

And then I have great difficulty remembering it after I succeed at it, by the way. But we try to at least have some order to what we have to say so that you can follow. Now, we've read tonight of an inexcusable rebellion.

And this is the constant history of these people. Spares us from the heart of every child of God. I'm oftentimes amazed at how God displayed his mighty power in delivering these people. How quickly they forgot that and how soon they began to charge God into the wilderness to perish.

And yet, in all the rebellion against God, I can see in myself. And then, of course, you have an inexhaustible rock. That rock followed them. This was a miracle. I'm not going to try to give you a natural explanation of it.

I'm not going to tell you it was some kind of a river of water that followed them. I'm going to tell you that 1 Corinthians 10 says the rock followed them. And I'm just going to leave it there. Because I believe that we should take the word of God as it's written.

There are principles of interpretation in the Bible. And one of the first laws of interpretation, if you're a young Christian here tonight, is this. Makes good sense. Seek for no other sense. And someone has added to that.

If you do seek for any other sense, it'll likely be nonsense. Sense makes good sense. The rock followed them. 1 Corinthians 10 leaves us in no doubt about the rock was Christ. A resource. They couldn't do without.

Intersection of Moses there on the mount. When Joshua with his sword and with his men of war fought against Amalek. An incessant resistance. Generation to generation. Events in the book of Exodus is divine order.

Redemption, the Holy Spirit, and the Conflict with Amalek

You know, I can't read this Bible. A single day of my life. Impressed again and again with the wonder of the word of God. I hope that's the way it impresses you. Stand in awe of the word of God. The wonder of it.

You're impressed with the fact. This is God speaking. This is the word of the living God. So the order of events in the book of Exodus and in the chapters we've been reading the last couple of nights is divine order.

In other words, Christ died to deliver me from the world. That's what Galatians 1 and 4 says. He gave himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age. The Lord Jesus died to deliver me from the bondage just as these people were redeemed by blood out of Egypt.

The death of Christ has affected eternal redemption for me. And then Christ died that I might have the Holy Spirit. John 7 and verses 38 and 39 tell us that the Holy Spirit was not yet given for Christ was not yet glorified.

I'm not going to leave you in any mystery or doubt tonight what I'm going to be preaching about because the water out of that rock is Christ sending the spirit. So the water is a type to us of the Holy Spirit of God.

As John 7 points out, Christ had to die for that purpose. The Lord Jesus had to die. And no sooner did they drink of the water from the rock than Amalek appeared. And of course, that's flesh lusted against the spirit against the flesh.

And these two are contrary to one to the other. And it will always be so dear child of God. It will always be so. And so you see, as soon as they drank from the water that came from the rock, they had to contend with the flesh because Amalek, as older Christians and as perhaps the most of you know, is a picture to us of the fleshly nature that every believer has that gets no better at conversion.

Now, one of the reasons for the wilderness experience was that they might learn their own hearts. And here we have people rebelling against God. They were even going to stone Moses, or at least it got so bad that Moses said they were close to it.

Man given to exaggeration. Beside, this is the comment of the spirit of God about their actions. In fact, what they said was, is God among us or not? I wonder, could Christians really get to that place?

I wonder, could children of God today ever come to the place where they'd ask the question, is God among us or not? In one of the darkest days in Israel's history, God raised up Haggai the prophet and Haggai's message was, my spirit remaineth among you.

But these people were in one of his writings years ago. He said, if the depravity of the human heart was exposed anywhere, but in the presence of divine grace, it would drive reason from its throne. And I thank God that a little God has exposed my heart for what it is.

He has shown me what I am. It's been in the presence of divine grace, sovereign grace, or sin abounding. And while God has showed me the wickedness of my own nature, that it's totally corrupt, that it's completely sinful.

And I've learned that more in the almost 36 years I've been saved, just how sinful it is. But it's been in the presence of divine grace. I wonder, is there someone in the meeting, not reason God wants to show you your sin, opening a sinner's eyes to what it is that he might open their eyes.

I believe that every warning of the Bible regarding hell and the lake of fire, every time God warns sinners of the end of their ways, every time he brings before them the reality of eternal fire. It's a mercy.

It's a tender mercy. It's a mercy from the heart of our God. Why? So that you will not perish, so that you'll be able to appreciate the work of Christ of Calvary. Now, tonight we're speaking about a rock.

Christ as the Rock of Refuge and Shepherd

I made this chart last week and I made it very rapidly, far too rapidly. Back in this hall and look up at this chart. I hope your eyes are better than mine because there's quite a few things on it that I can't see from the back of the hall.

But, uh, right here was given. Well, you know that in the Old Testament, for instance, in Deuteronomy chapter 32, God has spoken of as the rock of Israel, of the rock that begat thee, thou art unmindful and has forgotten God that formed thee.

So that would be a familiar term to these Israelites. You know, in Isaiah chapter 32 in verse two, you read of a rock spoken of and a man shall be as in hiding place from the wind and a cover from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

I'm glad of a great rock in the weary land. I found a shelter in that great rock and the storm has broken upon the rock and all its fury feel the storm. I'm hiding in the rock of ages. So Isaiah 32 and two says a man shall be as a great rock, not spoken of a strange to say in Numbers chapter 20.

We read of a rock that was to be spoken to speak to the rock. That's the way over here on the chart, by the way, right here. Moses was to speak to the rock and the rock would give it because that's where Moses failed.

So that was the rock that was to be spoken to. The Bible has more than that to say about the rock. In second Samuel 23, you read of a rock that spoke. So Isaiah 32 tells us of a rock that was spoken of.

Numbers chapter 20, a rock that was spoken to and second Samuel 23, a rock that spoke. Who is the rock? First Corinthians 10 says that rock was Christ. Well, actually, they had a shepherd leading them through that wilderness.

This is perhaps the first time we've come to this directly. That rock was Christ had a leader and sing from their hearts. Complete truth today. Tongue can never tell by a tender shepherd's heart. You know, the rock has three thoughts about it.

Christ the Strong, Everlasting, and Exalted One

But I want to leave with you just as quickly as I can. And if I don't move along tonight, I've been well aware today as I've been reading the word of God that I'm certainly not going to be able to cover the material of chapter 17.

But I'm going to try to do it if the Lord gives help. Let me tell you that when you think of a rock, you think of its strength. That's the language the Bible uses about a rock. Shall the rock be removed out of his place?

Job asks many a time I've trembled on the rock, but thank God the rock cannot be shaken. You remember the man who built his house? The evangelist Luke says he dug deep and he founded it upon the rock.

The rock for death, the storm, the tempest, the floods can never move it. It's a rock for strength. And as I've said, I've trembled on the rock, but I've never felt a tremor in the rock yet. It's never trembled beneath me.

Thank God we have a kingdom which cannot be shaken. And so the rock tells me that Christ is the all-powerful one. The language of the prophet is in Isaiah 9 and 6. He is the mighty God. He's the strong one for his people, the Lord Jesus.

And then, of course, you think of the rock for durability. The rock of ages. They're interested today in the age of the rocks. And there's a great deal of false intellectualism today. Our young people are facing this in school, in high schools, in college and universities.

Creation, Geology, and Biblical Authority

Why do I call it false intellectualism? Because men oftentimes profess to know a great deal that they do not know. And if it's something that's against God or against his word, it's remarkable how quickly men will swallow anything that seems to be contrary to the word of God.

I was speaking to some college students lately about the subject of the age of the rocks. I'm not going to try to go into that here tonight as well as I do, that the geologist. And there are some Christians who say they believe the Bible and believe the Bible account of creation, who want to make all that room for the historical geologist.

And by the way, that is historical geology. It is not practical geology. It's historical geology that deals with origins. And there are some Christians who actually want to make allowance for those five billion years of Earth history.

And just where they're going to fit Adam into it, I don't know, because the same uniformitarian who believes in five billion years of Earth history, he believes in a billion years of life on Earth. And he believes at the very minimum, at least a million years of the history of man.

Now, I'm going to tell you very quickly that although I was taught all this in school, and though I had a major in geophysics, which is physical geography and geology, I do not believe in uniformity. I do not believe in an ancient Earth.

I believe in a recently created world, and I believe in a recent creation of man. In other words, I believe the Bible just as it's written. And I have never found anything to make me believe otherwise.

And if some of you feel quite happy about trying to fit the geologic ages into what is called the gap theory between the first and second verse of Genesis 1, if you can fit it in, go ahead and fit it.

But I hardly need to tell you that you're trying to fit something in that is a figment of man's imagination and has no basis in fact whatever. You know, I sometimes ask young people, how do geologists know how old the rocks are?

I don't know how I got on this subject, but maybe God has this for someone in the meeting tonight. Just how do they know how old the rocks are? Well, of course, the very first simple answer that sometimes comes to the mind is, well, they look very old.

Well, just how old is a rock supposed to look? But really, of course, that's not how they tell how old the rocks are. They would tell you that they know how old the rocks are by the fossils that are in them, the living organisms that have become embedded in that sedimentary rock, which covers 70 of the Earth's surface.

And so they tell you that they know the age of the rocks by the fossils that are found in them. By the way, be very careful about that, because it's really only index fossils that they use. In other words, they just have a certain number of simple fossils that they call index fossils.

And if anything else disagrees with that particular artificial calendar, then, of course, they throw it out. It's like the little lad who told his mother he was nine feet tall. And his mother said, well, how do you know that?

Oh, he said, I measured myself. Well, she said, what did you use to measure yourself with? Well, he said, I used a ruler. Well, she said, let me see it. And he brought his little ruler. He had made it himself.

And he had put all the markings on it himself. And according to the ruler, he really was nine feet tall. But it was only his own little measuring stick. And you know, you might smile at that, but perhaps you have more reason to smile than you think.

How do men know the age of the rocks? By the fossils that are in them. Well, then tell me, how do they know the age of the fossils? By the rocks, of course. That's circle reasoning. That would be laugh.

It would be considered a joke. This is something that's against God. This atheistic, materialistic, rationalistic philosophy of the 20th century has left us with a lawless world and the fear of God gone from the hearts of men.

And much of it can be traced to so-called scientific theories that are supposed to be contrary to God's divine revelation. I was very interested. And I'll stop for a moment and tell you this. Just last year, there was a story in the newspapers in this country about a skull that was dug up in the Mississippi Delta.

A dredging machine was doing some work in the filth of the Delta, and this human skull was exposed. Immediately, of course, the paleontologists and the anthropologists were glad of the find. And they took it to a university there in the southern United States, and they used their radioactive digging upon it and all their scientific methods.

And after a good bit of study and learned discussion about this skull, they came to the conclusion that it was 57 ,000 years old, not 50. Mind you, that's too round of a figure. Oh, they're much more accurate than that.

57 ,000 years old. Of course, I must tell you that so far as geology is concerned, that is only like yesterday. That is man's geology. However, the skull was supposed to be 57 ,000 years old. They had even proved it by radioactive digging.

After all, who's going to argue against a scientific tool like that? So the dredging machine went on digging. And within another week or two, it dug up something else. It happened to be a board. It was fossilized.

It had turned into stone. And when they examined the board, they found engraving on it, and they turned it over to the scientists. They had slightly red faces. The board was the gunwale of a Kentucky flatboat.

And it had been found much deeper than the skull that was supposed to be 57 ,000 years old. And finally, when they revised their estimates, they considered that the skull was really the skull of a white man who died about 200 years ago.

A lot of people are interested in the age of the rock. I'm far more interested in the rock of ages. And here in the wilderness, God provided a rock. And that rock was to meet the need of these dear people.

It was durable. It tells me that Christ is the everlasting one. From everlasting to everlasting, our God. The Bible tells us about creation, that it will all wax old as a garment, and as a vesture, it shall be folded up.

And I'm reminded of that every day, that I live in a creation that's getting old like a garment. The very fact that it's getting old tells me that it had a youth. But it's getting old. God's about ready to fold it up.

An old man in France many, many years ago, 100 years ago, he was a brilliant man in his day. His name was Berchelt. And he made this statement. He said, when men have cracked the secret of the atom and learned to harness its power, it seems to me that God Almighty will come down with a great ring of keys in his hand.

And he'll say to man, gentlemen, it's closing time, getting ready to wind up. I believe it, my friend. It all shall wax oldest of the garment. And as a vesture, thou shall fold it up. We're just about getting here, the folding up time.

Are you not saved tonight? Are you in your sins? I wouldn't be in your place for a million worlds. Thank God for solid, certain, absolute truth. Rock of Holy Scripture. Rock is known for its durability.

Christ is the everlasting one. The rock is known for its elevation. And you know, the word in Exodus 17 is a low rock. And the word in Numbers 20 is a high rock. You see, Christ is the exalted one. So I learned those three things about the rock very simply.

I learned, first of all, that Christ is the strong one. I learned that he's the everlasting one. And I learned, of course, that he's the exalted one. The humiliation of Bethlehem is Exodus 16. Last night, we were speaking about the manna being given.

The manna that came down from heaven upon the dew of the desert. That's Christ coming down in wondrous grace to meet the need of guilty sinners. That's Exodus 16. Isn't it remarkable that Exodus 17 is the sufferings of the cross?

You see, God is perfect in his order. I'm ashamed lots of times that I've read through scriptures and I've read chapter after chapter after chapter and never even heard what God was saying to me in it.

I'm ashamed of that. I believe that we should careful, careful reading of the word of God because there's wondrous truth here that we often miss. And it isn't that deep and difficult. It's only there if we'd look for it.

The Rock Smitten at Calvary

So Exodus 16 is the one who came down in grace and mercy to sinners. Exodus 17 is the sufferings of the cross. For, of course, the rock is smitten. That's the great truth of Exodus chapter 17. Now the rock was smitten by the rod of Moses.

The rod in his hand had been the symbol of judgment in the land of Egypt. He had stretched that rod over the Red Sea and the waters had closed in on the armies of Pharaoh and destroyed them. And now it's the same rod in his hand, the symbol of judgment.

The first time that rod is mentioned, it turns to a serpent. Reminds me of a curse. And so Moses that day, he goes to the rock and he has the rod in his hand that speaks of the judgment of God. The Lord himself was to stand upon the rock.

We read that in verse chapter 17 and verse 6 of Exodus 17. Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb, and thou shalt smite the rock. God was there when the rock was smitten. Well, I enjoyed that today.

God was there when the rock was smitten. You know what it reminded me of? Isaiah 53 and verse 4, smitten of God and afflicted. The rock was smitten there at Calvary. God was there. The rod of judgment was there.

And the Savior cries, I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me and brought me into darkness and not into light. Surely against me is his hand turned. He turned his hand against me all the day.

The Lord Jesus felt the rod of the wrath of God. But notice the condition of the people to whom this water was given. In Exodus 17, it says Moses was to strike the rock and the water was to gush out. The rock was smitten at Calvary.

That makes it clear enough to you. I don't want anybody to mistake what I'm saying. I can't stand it when men get on the platform and use language that just makes it more difficult to understand. And if I do that, I hope you'll tell me after the meeting.

The idea of ministering the word of God or preaching the gospel is to make it as simple as you can. And if the man doesn't make it simple, it's his fault. The Lord Jesus was smitten at the cross. Who smote him?

God smote him. Smitten for me. Why? So that the waters could rush out to meet the need of a thirsty people. And these people were in what kind of a condition? They were murmuring. They were saying, is God among us or not?

They were going to stone the man that God had used to bring them out of Egypt. What a condition they were in. And listen, here's sovereign grace if ever I saw it. When Moses smote the rock, the water gushed out.

It says, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of the rock that the people may drink. There's a movement around us today in the religious world and they claim it's the fastest growing religious organization in America.

It's called Pentecostalism. It's the fastest growing denominational organization in America. Professors that you get the spirit in the right condition by prayer, by self-emptying, by what they call days and sometimes weeks and months, a soul affliction.

And finally, if God finds you a worthy vessel, then you receive the Holy Spirit as a second blessing after salvation. How contrary Exodus 17 is to that. Here were a people, what kind of state were they in?

A state of rebellion. Anything but a spiritual condition. They were carnal and fleshly and murmuring against God and blaming God for their troubles. And as such a people, God gave the water. That water is the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit as God’s Gift to Every Believer

The New Testament teaches us that very, very clearly. You see, 1 Corinthians 10 says that all drank of that spiritual rock. They all did. And in 1 Corinthians 12 and verse 13, it says, for by one spirit were ye all baptized into one body, whether ye be Jews or Gentiles, whether ye be bond or free and listen, have all been made to drink into one spirit.

1 Corinthians 12 and verse 13. All. What were the Corinthians like? Envy among them. And whenever you get envy, you get strife. And whenever you get strife, you get division and go back the other way.

And it's still true. Division, strife, the divine order that's given to us in scripture of man's rebellion. Here were a people in Corinth where they fit, where they exercised. Were they in the right condition to receive some particular blessing?

No. And yet every one of them, every single one of them had been made to drink into that self same spirit. So don't try to tell me that the spirit of God is given as some condition in the life of the believer.

The Holy Spirit is a blessed gift. The Holy Spirit is a divine guest. And the moment I was saved, he came to dwell within me and thank God for his grace and his gentleness. Always a gentle guest. Often grieved him in word and deed.

I've often grieved his Holy person. He is a person. You know, you can't have more or less of the Holy Spirit. He's a person can have more or less of a person. You either have the Holy Spirit or you don't.

And if you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not saved. For Romans 8 and verse 9 says, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he has none of his. But it has often been pointed out that the Holy Spirit can have more or less of me.

To be filled with the spirit means that he controls me in every part. He fills every part of my being, every part of my life. I wonder how much the spirit has of me. I know I have the Holy Spirit, a divine person, a gentle, blessed, holy guest.

But how much does he have of me? He yearns for the whole man. He's not content with just half a heart. And I'm afraid sometimes that's all he gets from us. Forty years later in Numbers 20, the rock again.

It says in 1 Corinthians 10, that rock followed them. So through all those 38 years of wandering, the rock followed them. But why is it in Numbers 20 that there's no water? The condition of the people has been so bad.

They've been so far from God. They've been so rebellious that the water has dried up from the rock. And so God tells Moses now to go to the rock. And Moses, the word that's used for the rock over here is a different word than is used for the rock over here.

This is a low, a flinty rock. The word that's used for a rock here is a high rock. So this rock is Christ smitten at Calvary. This rock is Christ exalted and seated at the right hand of the majesty on high.

Now, do you see the difference? Do you see why Moses was to smite that rock? And yet he was to... There again shall God Jehovah smite the shepherd with a sword. There again shall cruel sinners set at naught our glorious Lord.

In Exodus 17, the elders were present. But in Numbers 20, the whole congregation were present. In Exodus 20, it was Moses' own rod which spoke of judgment. After 20, it was the rod of the Lord that came from the tabernacle.

It was Aaron's rod. In Exodus 17, Aaron is not mentioned. Whereas in Numbers 20, Moses is told distinctly to take Aaron with him and to go to the rock. And that Aaron and Moses were to speak to the rock.

What does it tell me of? It tells me I have a great high priest above. And he tends with sweet unwearied care his people here on earth. He's there for my infirmity. He's there to intercede for me. And he carries on an unfinished blessed work in the Father's presence.

Moses Spoils the Type by Striking the Rock Twice

And he only has to be spoken to. And what did Moses do? He spoiled the type. Moses in his anger. And Moses had reason to be angry. His heart was grieved with a rebellious people. And Moses said, shall we bring water out of the rocks for ye rebels?

Rock twice. Meekest man in all the earth lost his temper. He became angry. You know, sometimes people say, well, I don't really have too much. You know, I lose my temper once in a while. Here's a man and he lost his temper.

And because of losing his temper, the consequences were that he was not allowed to lead Israel into the land. He smoked the rock. But listen, there's more to it than that. Moses spoiled the type. God is very careful about types.

God is a jealous care over these types. Because you see, they were types of his own beloved. I wonder sometimes today when 1 Corinthians 11 says that a man should have short hair and a woman should have long hair and a woman should have a covering on her head.

And the angels are looking on and they're seeing in that a picture of divine submission and subjection to the Lordship of Christ. I wonder what God thinks about when we're rebellious and we disobey his word.

Because when Moses was so serious, God said that he would not be allowed to go into the land. Help us not to spoil the picture. In an assembly of God's people, there's a beautiful picture. A woman with her long hair and her covered head is a beautiful picture of the church who is subject to Christ.

Don't spoil the picture. Now, there may be some here tonight and that's entirely new to you. God will not hold you responsible for what you have not been taught. But I would suggest to you, if you're going to understand what I'm saying, that you read 1 Corinthians 11, where the great subject of headship in creation is being described.