The Head of the Wife is Her Husband
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:3Devotional Series: Wives
Teaching: Wives pt. 3 (WED 2024-09-04) by Pastor Star R Scott
Paul, in 1 Corinthians 11:1, talks about them being followers of himself, his apostolic authority, and as he always does, setting the proper order as “I also am of Christ.” “Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; amen? And the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” Powerful verse! Very simple, very powerful. We are all under authority; amen? And anything that moves outside of that role that God has established is disobedience, rebellion, foolishness. All of those things that are contrary to the wisdom of God and the purpose of God.
They’re talking about covering in the church. The Bible tells us that a woman’s glory is her hair. This serves as a covering. We also know, as we read on in the Scriptures, that there’s also the covering that’s through the communion, the relationship of a husband and a wife to where the husband becomes that covering, that protection against the angels, against the assault of principalities and powers. Ladies, Satan is constantly wanting to turn you back to that usurping mentality, that “Eve-ness,” that we crucify daily, Paul said. So, we welcome that input. We recognize it in so many ways. You know, it’s an interesting thing. In 1 Timothy, Chapter 2, verse 9, it talks about the women. We said, “The women have not authority over their own bodies, but the husband.” Timothy says, “The women don’t have any authority over their own ministries, over their own attire, how they respond to fashion.” Many of these things the modern woman takes as an insult and as a statement of their lack of value and inability to accomplish and be successful in the things of life, or how the secular person looks at this. The spiritual person looks at this as a reestablishing of authority of Christ in the home, ultimately, God the head, by keeping women safe from the temptations of the world through the emptying of their lives in the ministry to their husbands, to their children and the keepers of the home. When those are the goals of our hearts, then all of these superficial, temporal things have no place to be that snare that the world is setting out there. Because “all that is in the world, is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.”
Father, we thank You for Your Word, and we just ask that You would give us ears to hear. Father, keep us from that spirit that would say to us, “I know this; we’ve heard this. I know the teaching.” What’s the fruit of your home? Where’s the fruit that proves that this is who you are, faithful before God, successful in the death of self. Your ministry will help your husbands find themselves sitting at the gates. What a great thing to be a part of your husbands being raised up in the kingdom, recognized in the kingdom as a good, godly man, a faithful servant, a lover of his wife and his children—the virtuous woman. Give us that desire, Father, and give us that strength we ask in Jesus’ name; amen.
They’re talking about covering in the church. The Bible tells us that a woman’s glory is her hair. This serves as a covering. We also know, as we read on in the Scriptures, that there’s also the covering that’s through the communion, the relationship of a husband and a wife to where the husband becomes that covering, that protection against the angels, against the assault of principalities and powers. Ladies, Satan is constantly wanting to turn you back to that usurping mentality, that “Eve-ness,” that we crucify daily, Paul said. So, we welcome that input. We recognize it in so many ways. You know, it’s an interesting thing. In 1 Timothy, Chapter 2, verse 9, it talks about the women. We said, “The women have not authority over their own bodies, but the husband.” Timothy says, “The women don’t have any authority over their own ministries, over their own attire, how they respond to fashion.” Many of these things the modern woman takes as an insult and as a statement of their lack of value and inability to accomplish and be successful in the things of life, or how the secular person looks at this. The spiritual person looks at this as a reestablishing of authority of Christ in the home, ultimately, God the head, by keeping women safe from the temptations of the world through the emptying of their lives in the ministry to their husbands, to their children and the keepers of the home. When those are the goals of our hearts, then all of these superficial, temporal things have no place to be that snare that the world is setting out there. Because “all that is in the world, is the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.”
Father, we thank You for Your Word, and we just ask that You would give us ears to hear. Father, keep us from that spirit that would say to us, “I know this; we’ve heard this. I know the teaching.” What’s the fruit of your home? Where’s the fruit that proves that this is who you are, faithful before God, successful in the death of self. Your ministry will help your husbands find themselves sitting at the gates. What a great thing to be a part of your husbands being raised up in the kingdom, recognized in the kingdom as a good, godly man, a faithful servant, a lover of his wife and his children—the virtuous woman. Give us that desire, Father, and give us that strength we ask in Jesus’ name; amen.