Audio Sermon: The Significance of the Christian Woman's Veiling — Dan Mast

The Christian Woman’s Veiling and Biblical Apostasy

The significance of the Christian woman's veiling. And I'm not this morning as I speak this message. I do not speak to anyone in specific, specifically, because I know in the world today it's not a very popular subject and most people don't practice it.

But I would like to speak specifically on that subject. I wish to speak these things that God revealed to me on this subject and I'll not, I'm not interested in speaking against churches or persons. Because I believe that this is something that in general there has been an apostasy in this, in this area from the Word of God.

I believe there has been in generally throughout the world there has been an apostasy and most of us have been caught in that apostasy. And also another reason that I believe that it's important that we we practice that here, but you know I think it's important that we teach the principles behind it because I see this that most of the time if you, if these principles aren't taught they're lost and we see it, we see the practice of it being lost and we also see that degenerating and the principles behind it being lost and therefore the principle, when the principles of the Word of God are lost then we drift off into apostasy and we finally lose our whole way.

I mean it has that kind of an effect. I would like for us if you could to turn to 1st Corinthians 11 and I would like to read this portion of scripture. I will not get through, I might not even make it through this whole message with everything that I want to speak about this morning on this subject.

I know I'll have to have another message on it because it's just no way. I got a hold of some tapes of a Bible study that was done by Tom Shank and there's 10 tapes in this series and I'm asking Micaiah to make copies of this series because it is very good in-depth study of this subject and I would recommend you to if you have time to listen to tapes to listen to these because they are very deep and profound and you'll be blessed by them.

I would if you want a set of them I would encourage you to say something to Micaiah and he will try to make you copies of these. I'm going to read this a portion of this scripture. I'm not going to read the whole chapter.

I think we'll read down through probably I'll just read the whole portion and we'll read again the next time we have a message on it. Probably the first 16 verses. But I want to read this out of the Amplified for you and you can follow along but I would like to read it out of the Amplified version.

1st Corinthians 11 Pattern after me follow my example as I imitate and follow Christ the Messiah. I appreciate and command you because you always remember me in everything and keep firm position possession of the traditions the substance of my instructions just as I have verbally passed them on to you.

But I want you to know and realize that Christ is the head of every man the head of a woman is her husband and the head of Christ is God. Any man who prays or prophesies that is teaches refutes reproves admonishes and comforts with his head covered dishonoreth his head Christ.

And any woman who publicly prays or prophesies teaches refutes reproves admonishes or comforts when she is bareheaded dishonorous her head her husband it is the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman will not wear a head covering then she should cut off her hair too.

And if it be disgraceful for a woman to have her hair shorn or shaven let her cover her head. For a man ought not to wear anything on his head in church for he is the image and reflected glory of God that is his function of government reflects the majesty of the divine rule but woman is the expression of man's glory majesty preeminence.

For man was not created from woman but woman from man. Neither was man created on account of or for the benefit of woman but woman on account of and for the benefit of man. Therefore she should be subject to his authority and should have a covering on her head as a token in symbol of her submission to authority that she may show reverence as do the angels and not displease them.

Nevertheless in the plan of the Lord and from his point of view woman is not apart from and independent of man nor is man aloft from and independent of woman. For as woman was made from man even so man is also born of woman and all whether male or female go forth from God as their author.

Consider for yourselves is it proper and decent according to your customs for a woman to offer prayer to God publicly with her head uncovered. Does not experience common sense reason and the native sense of propriety itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is a dishonor humiliating and degrading to him.

But if a woman has long hair it is her ornament and glory for her hair is given to her for a covering. Now if anyone is disposed to be argumentative and contentious about this we hold to and recognize no other custom in worship than this nor do the churches of God generally.

I thought that it uses a lot of extra words there, but I found that very informative to me to read it from that from the amplified version. There's three principles taught in 1st Corinthians 11. There's more than this, but there's three principles.

Headship, Modesty, and Honor in 1 Corinthians 11

I'd like to speak about this morning that if I can go through all three of them. The one principle is headship. The second principle is modesty and the third principle is honor and respect. And as we go through this you may wonder what some of the things that I bring out what this has to do with the head veiling or the head covering.

But I believe it applies if we can get a proper picture and I don't know if I'm able to to bring that out to you or not as I see it. But I'd like to if God would give me grace to do it. I would like to bring it out to you that you can understand why it's important for the woman to veil her head.

There's the the headship and that's the first one I want to speak about here. We will find that in verse 3. Maybe before we go into that though, I should speak a little bit about the first two verses.

Paul here says I praise you brethren that you remember me in all things and keep the ordinances as I delivered them to you. And as we look at that we have to remember that Paul did not he didn't have anything but the Old Testament.

He was instructed in the Old Testament. He was instructed in the law of God. He knew what the law of God was and there were things that Paul did not that did teach them that they do not need to observe.

But there are things that he taught that they need to observe and this is one of them. This is a principle these principles that he teaches here in 1st Corinthians 11 were principles that were already from the foundation of time and they they still continue up through and we shall look into some Old Testament scriptures to bring that out Lord willing.

And Paul was just here in this setting. They were apparently getting away from following the principles that of godliness and of headship of modesty of honor and respect. They were getting away from those principles and he brings these out so that encouraging them to follow these principles.

There's there's virtue in it. There's there's benefit in it and that's why he brings it out. Matter of fact it's an ordinance he I believe it this is actually an ordinance or a commandment that God wants his people to continue on in.

Okay, the order of headship it says here but I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ and the head of the woman is a man and the head of Christ is God and there we see the first. That that was an order that was established from creation from the beginning of time the headship order God's chain of command of how God Worked down through through man.

We realize as we go on and read that man is not superior to woman. I mean there's equality there. Man, we men wouldn't be here, but wouldn't be for the woman and neither would the woman be here. Wouldn't be for the man.

So we we are in that sense. We're all equal. But in all of God's organization, you know, God is a very organized person. He really is. I was brother Paul and I were talking about that this morning and God is a very organized person and he has an order for things and He has set up an order right here.

Paul brings out the order that God has set up for for mankind. He says here the head of every man is Christ. The head of the woman is the man and the head of Christ is God. So when we think of the head the head when you look at our own body the head is the controlling factor.

I mean if you would take my head off I I'd fall over and I wouldn't know what I was doing. You take a chop a chicken's head off. They just jump around and if they die, but they just jump do you ever see a chicken jump around after they had their head?

Cut off. I mean they just jump around and and finally they die. There did you have no control of their body without the head and that's Somewhat what we need to recognize this morning that God is was the controlling factor for Christ.

In John 434 Jesus said my meat is to do the will of him that sent me in John 5 30 Jesus said I can of my own self do nothing. I seek the will of my father. You see he was dependent upon God Jesus he depended upon God.

He wouldn't do anything without first God's Approval without first God telling him to do it. He enjoyed God's will it was his meat to do the will of God. He enjoyed it and that was such a good pattern for us, you know.

It's such a good pattern for us to develop that mindset that we enjoy to obey Our God. That we enjoy to obey our head. The one who is over us the one who is our controlling factor. It's a good pattern for us to follow Christ as the head of man.

So God was the head of Christ. Now Christ is the head of man. Colossians 1 18 he and he is the head of the body the church who is the beginning. The firstborn from the dead that in all things he might have the preeminence.

For it pleased the father that in him should all fullness dwell. Matthew 28 18. All power is given unto me by God the Father. So we see there again Christ being the head of the church. Christ is the head of man.

Christ is our head and we'll get into that that has something to do with our Not wearing. Something on our head. How do we as brothers? I think that's the question we could ask ourselves. How do we as brothers relate to our head.

Do we submit to Christ with joy? Do we reflect the majesty of Christ in our lives? You see. There's a chain there a chain of connection. God is the head of Christ. Christ the head of man and we are to reflect Christ.

The lies that we live should reflect Jesus Christ. He is our head. How did Jesus love the church? He gave himself for it. How do you love your wife? How much do you appreciate your wife? You know. This is this is the way you lead your wife.

How about leading in faithfulness being faithful To your wife, are you faithful to Christ? Do you love Christ? Are you faithful to Christ? Do you guide with gentleness? Like Christ guides you. Does Christ ever come and and walk you over the head and make you obey him?

Is that the way Christ leads us. He's our head. No, that isn't God's way is it. Does he get angry with us? Does he threaten us? No Christ doesn't do that to us. How do we guide? Christ is our head. Do we reflect his majesty by the way we live?

That's a question that we need to ask ourselves. Okay. Now man is the head of woman. In Ephesians 522 it says wives submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. And in First Timothy if you'd want to turn there.

Male Headship and Female Submission

Like to read that First Timothy 2 verse 8 9. It says I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety.

Not with broided hair or gold or pearls or costly array. Now the reason I see that in there I see women there as being the ones. As being under man it says but I suffer not a woman to teach nor usurp authority Over the man but to be in silence.

That's in verse 12. We see there the principles. I Guess I should have read on there. But which let's read verse 10 11 and 12. But which becometh women professing godliness with good works let the women learn in silence with all subjection.

But I suffer not a woman to teach nor to usurp authority over the man but to be in silence. We see there that man is the head of woman and the woman is not to teach or usurp authority over the man but to be in silence and.

That's that is more. I know that some of us think that that is talking about in church and possibly could be. But I really believe it's more than that. I believe that's a principle that the woman is under subjection to the man and she's willing to keep it to be in silence and To be obedient to the husband.

So There we see the chain. Do we not the chain of God's chain of command. God being the head of Christ. Christ being the head of man. Man being the head of of the woman. Now I want to speak to the men First and then I'll I have some questions for the woman.

Do we embrace these principles of authority? Surely we do, you know. We men really, you know, we were a thing. Oh, we got authority. We can have the wrong attitude in it. We can have the wrong attitude in it.

We have no more authority. Than what Christ then what we get. From God we have a responsibility. Do we take our proper place in God's order? Are we sometimes just passive? I mean when I say these things I'm saying it for myself because I found myself that way already.

Being passive sometimes. Sometimes it's easier to push it on your wife. Let her do it the other morning or the other evening it was the phone rang and it was a salesman and My wife answered the phone.

I was really glad she did. But I found myself afterwards examining myself I was passive about it. You know, it's much easier for you tell him off, you know. It's being passive. Do we as men lead? Initiate go ahead.

Do we set the groundwork for your home? Do you set as a husband as a man? Do you set the groundwork for your home? And are you subject to Christ when you do that in teaching? Do you do you lead ahead in teaching?

Do you lead ahead in your family devotions or making decisions? Do you lead out? See this is all part of 1st Corinthians 11, you know, we're not just talking about The head veiling we're talking about the principles behind this men with vision for a family.

Finances. Are you provider? Do you provide? It's a man's responsibility To provide so if we really embrace these principles of authority. We need to embrace all these things that go with it. Do we demand submission or do we?

Lead in love. Do you get angry with your wife? These are questions for the men. Is that the way Christ leads you. It's a good question for us to ask ourselves do we. Is this the way Christ leads us. Do we does he demand us?

Our submission now to the sisters. Do you encourage your? Hubby to be the head. Do you encourage him to go that way? Do you promote his cause? Are you interested in what he's interested in? In other words if your husband is a bricklayer.

Do you encourage him in laying brick? This is his work. Or do you discourage him? Do you promote his cause? What he's doing to provide for you or Do you? What he wants to teach as a husband as a father to your children do you stand by your husband and Support him in it.

Can you do that? This is important. This is very important. It's part of 1st Corinthians 11. Do you honor him? Is there a reverence and honor for him, you know, sometimes I? Think it was over here Kidron they used to have on route 250.

There's an old saloon there along the road, that's I think they called it the doghouse. Men would go there. They go to the doghouse. Sometimes you hear expressions like that men saying well, I'm in the doghouse.

It shouldn't be that in a Christian home. Should be honor there should be respect. Let it be so. What is your response if he doesn't want you to go somewhere or do something how do you respond. Do you throw a fit?

Sisters, do you throw a fit? If you wanted to go and and your husband said no not today. Can you lay down issues? You know, sometimes there's issues arise between husband and wife. Are you willing to lay down the issue and let your husband be the head?

I mean, these are important things I believe for us to learn if we want our Controlling factor if we want our head to be head. If we want the blessing of God you see there's a chain of command and this is was ordained from the beginning.

Modesty, Clothing, and the Fall

Let it be so. The next subject I'd like to talk about is modesty. We need to see how this relates to the principles of the covered or veiled woman. And I know when you look at that you wonder how could that be in that chapter?

I mean you haven't Touched it there. But it's there. Before we go into that. I would like to turn back to Genesis. And we're going to read a little bit in Genesis if you would Genesis the second chapter starting to read a verse 19.

Verse 18 and the Lord God said is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him and help me for him and out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every fowl of the air and he brought them unto Adam to see what he Would call them and he and whatsoever Adam called every living creature That was named thereof and Adam gave names to all cattle to the fowl of the air to the beast of the field.

But for Adam there was not found and helped me for him and the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam and He slept and he took one of those ribs 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 him unto the man and Adam said this is now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh.

She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife and they shall be one flesh and They were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed.

You know as we look at in this in the beginning of time When man was first created Man was upright. There was no sin. I Inwardly he was perfect man. There was no sin. No shame because there was no sin in man and then as we go on reading in Genesis there it tells us about how man was Beguiled by the serpent.

He was beguiled by Satan and he's and then they sinned and then in verse 7 It says the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.

As soon as they sinned suddenly their eyes opened up. Different eyes their conscience awakened that they were naked before this there was a possibility I believe that The glory of God clothed them. I don't know how it would have been and I don't know that they necessarily have.

They didn't have clothes, but it says they were naked. But I believe that there was such a glory in their lives. There was such a glory. There was no there was no need they were they they had the glory of God just like Like Jesus, you know when he was Transfigured from this life up there on the mountain his raiment was changed and he shone and he was bright.

And I believe there was something like that in the garden with man, I believe there was a glory upon Sinless man there was the glory upon their relationship. They had a wonderful relationship with God and there was no sin.

But through their through that disobedience when Eve disobeyed God and listened to the serpent It Awakened up a whole world of sinful character. It activated the lower nature of man. I believe so and Immediately they sewed fig leaves together to cover the reproductive parts of their body and I believe that was Simply the first thing they cover because that was the first thing that they realized that they were naked and they had sinned and Disobeyed God and that was who that awakened in them.

That word aprons means same as girdle. What happened? What happened through all this? We see here. God's chain of command is totally reversed. Now when this sin happened the serpent was the first one He led in this rebellion against God he led the woman and The woman led her man and God was out of the picture.

Do you see that the reverse? Instead of God First man, and then the woman it was totally reversed now Satan Was first the woman next and man last. It was a terrible dilemma. I mean that thing Has affected us up to now And will affect mankind forever.

That's him. You see it. See how terrible it was. If we go on and and read there It says therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. Maybe it's before that.

No, it's verse 21. I read verse 23 verse 21 unto Adam also and to his wife. Did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them it wasn't sufficient what they had done and God Slew animals and took the skins made clothes for them and I really believe That that is where person is my conviction and I'm not.

I don't have no real clear evidence at this point to to say To prove out of the Word of God this but it it's my belief that God covered the woman from that time on and It was God's plan that the woman be covered as.

Because if you look Through the Old Testament, this was the mentality of the Old Testament people. I mean it was a disgrace for a woman to be unveiled in public. She always was covered the only ones that were unveiled were the ones who were unfaithful or harlots and that was through the Old Testament time that was the way it it Followed all the way through and Paul.

This was what Paul had in mind when he when he taught them this principle this was something it was that it was a principle of modesty it was a principle of Reverence toward headship. I mean these were principles that they were taught From the beginning of time up through and see we're living in a time of apostasy.

I believe where if even if we would go back probably a hundred years We would for the most part see that these principles were still Correct. I mean people still believe these principles. But we have come into a new a new age so to speak when People have turned away from that and do you know and they say it's not necessary.

The same way with cutting hair with women cutting their hair. There was a time When a virtuous woman would not cut her hair. It was a glory to her and we'll get into that later. But I don't know if we'll get into it anymore in this today I need to move on here.

Okay. So we see they'd sent me had a need of covering themselves the beginning conscience of guilt and shame. They sensed a need to cover themselves. That was what caused them to go after the fig leaves.

They've sensed a need to cover themselves and it's still Godly women still sense a need to cover themselves. It should be that way and we see the chain of command was broken. It was reversed. It cost the blood of animals.

Likewise today a good thought for us to think about is that Christ provides a covering for us today, too for our sin. We could say clothing Acknowledges our sinfulness our need for God this morning the reason you dressed is because there's a sinful nature within you and Within every man and you put clothes on for that reason.

Do you know that? You teach your little children. They come into this world naked, but you teach your little children to close their bodies at a young age for that reason. Because of sin and we're living in a day when that principle is being lost.

We really are people are no longer ashamed as they ought to be ashamed of their bodies and they don't cover their bodies like They ought to. Like it's God's will. I think it's time that the Christians wake up and the Christians get the conviction from God.

That we need to cover our bodies and have a sense of shame for nakedness. It's still wrong. It's because of sin. We wear clothes because we're ashamed of our sinfulness and that's right. We need to wear clothes.

I Think we've lost some things. And I don't know if you realize it or not but we're living in a world when this thing is is going farther and farther down and away from God and The farther it goes away from God the more heathen it becomes and I I have to think.

Over in I think it was over in Africa at one time. Africa was considered. It had more churches. It had more Christian churches than any other country in the world at one point. That's what I was told.

I don't know but I was told that and You know that they fell in when when they fell away from God he degraded in that area, too. And they they don't wear clothes. Because they've fallen away from God to such an extent.

Matter of fact, there's places over there where where if you go in and you preach the gospel to them and That and you you bring Clothes over to them. They there's some of them aren't sure that it's even right to wear clothes.

You know, it's that far degenerated in first Timothy, I guess we did read that didn't we. About First Timothy 2 verse 8 and 9. There it tells us also in like manner in like manner women to adorn themselves in modest apparel and that's talking about about clothes modest or clothes that Cover With shamefacedness and sobriety and that is again a characteristic that God wants to come out of the sisters.

Men and women shall wear clothes to cover not reveal the an interesting thing that I Discovered. I looked it up in the strong skin cordons, but that word coats of skins is the same word that you find in 2nd Samuel 13 18 where It talks there about a garment of different colors that Tamar wore.

Tamar was Absalom's daughter and she was the one that was forced to. She was raped. She was forced Not of her own will she wanted to be a virtuous daughter but her brother forced her into adultery or fornication and Defiled her but it's that same word garments is Used as it is in coats of skins.

It's the same Hebrew word and The king's daughter's apparel was long and flowing. It talks there about the king's daughter is talking about. She wore a long. She was a pair apparel Had wore apparel like a king's daughter and it was a long flowing Robe, it was worn by virgins.

That was the way they dressed. That was a The way that God's people It was right for them to dress that way. That makes me believe that even back in them days when God made coats of skin He made a pattern for them.

It was a coat that covered it was not one that revealed but one that covered. Another interesting thing is if you look in the Bible and find out What clothes were made of? In the beginning it was made out of wool they used wool camels hair and And goats goat hair.

They wore Clothes that were made out of animal skins and and so forth. So we see here modesty. It's it's a part. It's a part of God's Command for a woman and The apparel that a woman wore they did not wear a two-piece covering.

You know today We see all kinds of coverings, but I should get Fred up here Fred. You could draw this better than I could. I don't know if I can't even but but anyhow. They wore a garment that covered all the way down.

They wore an outer garment and an inner garment and the outer garment Went all the way from their head down to their to their feet. The reason that they did that was because the woman didn't put up her hair, but I believe this is probably the reason anyhow.

But the woman had long flowing hair and many times their hair reached to the Down below their waist and they want they needed to cover their hair for the purpose of Modesty. Because There is an attraction to a woman's hair it's a glory.

It's a glory to her and there's an attraction there. That well, actually if you go on and read there It says for her hair is given her for a covering and we'll get. I didn't want to get into that. I wanted to get into that a little more later on but That was a natural covering that God gave her.

But it also is he is Not talking about the covering that Paul was talking about in the first part of the chapter. There are two different words and This covering was to cover that glory. So that it would not be an attraction to another man.

It would not be cause another man to be unfaithful you see. It all connects together and I think we've lost a lot of times. We've lost vision of this because I think there's a lot of women Today in Holmes County that don't have any idea Why they wear something on their head because if they did They'd know They would cover their heads.

I mean they would not just a symbol of a covering but they would cover their heads. Okay. When God is our control Center Christ is man's head man is woman's head. God is Christ's head and the serpent when that's all in order.

The serpent has no control. It's that way When Christ is your head. When God is in Christ God is the head of Christ. When that is all in order when that chain of command is all in order the serpent has no control.

He can try temptations. But we we've learned That that is God's order and we also know that this is why Due to the sinful fall of man and woman man and woman should close or cover their sinful bodies.

Now there's one more I wanted to talk about and if I get through this, but I think I'll try Honor and respect. That's the third principle that I see here. I'd like to turn back to 1st Corinthians 11 verse 4 5 6 and verse 14.

Let's read those. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonor his head. But every woman that prays Excuse me or prophesies with her head Uncovered dishonor her head for that is even all as if she were shaven.

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. And then down in verse 14 It says does not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him here We see some things that reflect upon shame.

It talks about shame. It talks about honoring or dishonoring. The first Verse here we see Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered Dishonor his head. So again now there we come to the man the man covering his head.

Dishonor his head. It is not right for a man to wear a head covering. It was back in the time of the Jews when they when the Jewish man did wear skull caps or little coverings That covered their head but but Paul said it's not right for a man to do that anymore a man is to Reflect the glory in the image of God and of Christ.

Therefore our heads should be uncovered. We should not cover our heads. How does it disrespect. Well first first of all, I guess I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's first look at at there's a little bit here I want to share with you every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonor his head.

That word Covered there the word the Greek word is kata Kalupta it means kata means intensive kalupta means to cover. It means to have something. Every man that would have something down their head covered their head down, you know.

Having actually a covering on for that purpose to cover their heads dishonor his head. All right and then as we go on and We see every woman that prays or prophesies where their head uncovered dishonor at her head.