Chris Jones
Series: Love BREAKS THROUGH
Speaker: Chris Jones
Date: 21st June 2014
Passage: 1 Corinthians 11:1-34
00:00:00 --> 00:00:04 1 Corinthians 11, quick walk, two big sections.
00:00:05 --> 00:00:07 First section, verses 1 to 16.
00:00:07 --> 00:00:10 Second section, verses 17 to 34.
00:00:10 --> 00:00:14 And I wasn't even going to bother with the first section
00:00:14 --> 00:00:16 until we had our community group the other night.
00:00:16 --> 00:00:16 Thank you.
00:00:17 --> 00:00:19 That's my sign of authority.
00:00:19 --> 00:00:21 I forgot to have it on when I started this message.
00:00:21 --> 00:00:23 I want you to know that it's okay for me to be out the front.
00:00:23 --> 00:00:26 I'm operating under Steve's authority and the Archbishop's licence
00:00:26 --> 00:00:27 or something like that.
00:00:30 --> 00:00:34 We read the passage in our community group the other night.
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 We had a great discussion and towards the end,
00:00:37 --> 00:00:40 somebody tentatively but also boldly said,
00:00:41 --> 00:00:44 when you hear this read, it's really hard
00:00:44 --> 00:00:49 for the hairs on the back of your neck not to stand on their end.
00:00:52 --> 00:00:57 And they were reflecting, I think some of the words used were
00:00:57 --> 00:00:59 that when we come to a passage like this,
00:00:59 --> 00:01:03 it sounds old-fashioned, it sounds fuddy-duddy,
00:01:03 --> 00:01:05 it sounds out of touch.
00:01:05 --> 00:01:08 And in some ways, and even in worse ways,
00:01:08 --> 00:01:12 for women, sounds like a considerable put-down.
00:01:14 --> 00:01:15 And we could go off and have a...
00:01:15 --> 00:01:17 You could talk heaps about all that
00:01:17 --> 00:01:18 without even looking at the passage.
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 We've already found our positions,
00:01:21 --> 00:01:22 we know where we stand,
00:01:22 --> 00:01:25 and we're ready to interact with one another in our groups, aren't we?
00:01:25 --> 00:01:26 And we haven't even read the Bible any further.
00:01:32 --> 00:01:34 But what if he's dealing...
00:01:34 --> 00:01:36 I think he's dealing with problems in both places,
00:01:36 --> 00:01:38 but what we see in the first half,
00:01:38 --> 00:01:39 he says, verse 2,
00:01:39 --> 00:01:42 I praise you for remembering me in everything
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00:01:44 --> 00:01:46 just as I pass them on to you.
00:01:46 --> 00:01:48 He's been involved in tradition,
00:01:48 --> 00:01:50 the transmission of something which wasn't his,
00:01:50 --> 00:01:51 it was given to him,
00:01:51 --> 00:01:54 and he's tried to faithfully pass it on to them.
00:01:54 --> 00:01:55 And however they've handled it,
00:01:55 --> 00:01:57 he's saying, I really want to praise you for this.
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 So the first half of chapter 11 is reasonably positive,
00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 and the second part is incredibly negative.
00:02:04 --> 00:02:05 Verse 17,
00:02:06 --> 00:02:07 In the following directives,
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 I have no praise for you,
00:02:10 --> 00:02:12 for your meetings do more harm than good.
00:02:12 --> 00:02:14 So if we look at the first half,
00:02:14 --> 00:02:15 we're seeing they're praiseful,
00:02:16 --> 00:02:17 and we move into the second half,
00:02:17 --> 00:02:18 which we'll do in a minute,
00:02:18 --> 00:02:20 I have no praise for you.
00:02:20 --> 00:02:21 He's hot with anger
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 for the way that the Christians in Corinth
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00:02:28 --> 00:02:29 So come back to women.
00:02:29 --> 00:02:31 We're not going to cover everything.
00:02:32 --> 00:02:35 We got a reaction in our community group the other night
00:02:35 --> 00:02:36 that sort of said,
00:02:36 --> 00:02:38 this just seems so out of touch.
00:02:39 --> 00:02:41 And yet what if,
00:02:41 --> 00:02:43 what if we looked around our group
00:02:43 --> 00:02:45 and we said, all of us have daughters.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:49 What would it take for our daughter
00:02:49 --> 00:02:54 to present shamefully out there in the community?
00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 If we were at a community gathering the football
00:02:57 --> 00:02:58 down in Westfield,
00:02:59 --> 00:03:01 if they took their tops off and walked around,
00:03:01 --> 00:03:03 would that be perceived as a shameful thing?
00:03:05 --> 00:03:06 And most of us would say,
00:03:06 --> 00:03:08 yeah, the whole of society would see that as shameful.
00:03:08 --> 00:03:11 And we added to it and said,
00:03:11 --> 00:03:13 yeah, well, even if they dressed really skimpily.
00:03:13 --> 00:03:15 And then we started to talk about,
00:03:15 --> 00:03:16 well, what about out the front of church?
00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 And we've got a woman speaking to us
00:03:18 --> 00:03:19 and her skirt's up, you know,
00:03:19 --> 00:03:20 halfway up her thighs
00:03:20 --> 00:03:22 and her cleavage is well down the middle
00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 and the guys are paying a tremendous amount of attention
00:03:25 --> 00:03:27 to everything that she's saying.
00:03:27 --> 00:03:32 There's something culturally inappropriate
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34 that gets in the way of the message.
00:03:34 --> 00:03:37 And I think there are some dynamics at play here
00:03:37 --> 00:03:38 that bear on that.
00:03:38 --> 00:03:39 And I'm saying it now
00:03:39 --> 00:03:41 because this is going to feed perhaps
00:03:41 --> 00:03:42 into some of the things
00:03:42 --> 00:03:45 that Sam might want to talk about tomorrow afternoon.
00:03:47 --> 00:03:49 What I want you to see in terms of the text,
00:03:49 --> 00:03:51 verse 4,
00:03:52 --> 00:03:56 every man who prays or prophesies
00:03:56 --> 00:04:00 with his head covered dishonours his head.
00:04:02 --> 00:04:04 So there's a presumption there
00:04:04 --> 00:04:08 that a man amongst in the church of God
00:04:08 --> 00:04:11 may be praying and prophesying,
00:04:11 --> 00:04:14 which is the forth telling of the word of God,
00:04:14 --> 00:04:15 bringing the word of God to bear.
00:04:16 --> 00:04:19 And he will present in a particular way
00:04:19 --> 00:04:21 and possibly reflects the Old Testament glory
00:04:21 --> 00:04:24 where Moses didn't have his head covered
00:04:24 --> 00:04:26 in the presence of God.
00:04:27 --> 00:04:28 But it may be wider than that
00:04:28 --> 00:04:30 in terms of Corinthian culture.
00:04:31 --> 00:04:33 And then verse 5, look really carefully.
00:04:34 --> 00:04:37 Every woman who prays or prophesies
00:04:37 --> 00:04:41 with her head uncovered dishonours her head.
00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 Now what have they both got in common?
00:04:45 --> 00:04:46 In both contexts,
00:04:46 --> 00:04:49 a man or a woman
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00:04:52 --> 00:04:54 in public.
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56 They're doing the same thing
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 but they're presenting differently
00:04:59 --> 00:05:01 in the cultural context.
00:05:03 --> 00:05:03 And what if,
00:05:04 --> 00:05:05 and I think I've read this
00:05:05 --> 00:05:07 but I won't go to the cross on it
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 because I might get contradicted,
00:05:09 --> 00:05:10 but what if in Corinth
00:05:10 --> 00:05:12 to be a woman
00:05:12 --> 00:05:14 out the front of the congregation
00:05:14 --> 00:05:16 with your head shaven
00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 said something about
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 your social standing,
00:05:20 --> 00:05:22 maybe even your connection
00:05:22 --> 00:05:23 with prostitution
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 or it said something
00:05:25 --> 00:05:27 about you as a woman
00:05:27 --> 00:05:28 in that setting,
00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 might that not get in the way
00:05:32 --> 00:05:33 of the prayer being prayed
00:05:33 --> 00:05:36 or the word of God
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00:05:37 --> 00:05:39 in terms of prophecy?
00:05:39 --> 00:05:42 Now I don't think
00:05:42 --> 00:05:42 I want to go
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00:05:43 --> 00:05:44 than that.
00:05:44 --> 00:05:45 There's obviously
00:05:45 --> 00:05:46 bucket loads
00:05:46 --> 00:05:47 that could be said
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48 and here's your opportunity
00:05:48 --> 00:05:49 to write your own questions
00:05:49 --> 00:05:50 down right now
00:05:50 --> 00:05:50 on your sheet
00:05:50 --> 00:05:51 and they can be brought
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00:05:52 --> 00:05:53 That's the way we can deal
00:05:53 --> 00:05:54 with some of this stuff
00:05:54 --> 00:05:54 in this context.
00:05:54 --> 00:05:55 It's fantastic.
00:05:57 --> 00:05:58 But coming to the second half,
00:05:59 --> 00:06:00 verse 17,
00:06:00 --> 00:06:04 in the following directives
00:06:04 --> 00:06:05 I have no praise for you.
00:06:07 --> 00:06:09 Your meetings do more harm
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00:06:17 --> 00:06:19 verse 17 to verse 22.
00:06:20 --> 00:06:20 He said,
00:06:20 --> 00:06:21 you come together
00:06:21 --> 00:06:22 in verse 20,
00:06:24 --> 00:06:25 when you come together
00:06:25 --> 00:06:26 it's not the Lord's supper
00:06:26 --> 00:06:26 you eat.
00:06:29 --> 00:06:30 For as you eat
00:06:30 --> 00:06:31 each of you
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00:06:34 --> 00:06:35 Would you mind
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00:06:36 --> 00:06:37 Like I can see
00:06:37 --> 00:06:37 everybody's eyes
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00:06:38 --> 00:06:40 but I'd really like
00:06:40 --> 00:06:40 your eyes back here,
00:06:40 --> 00:06:41 okay?
00:06:47 --> 00:06:48 And in verse 21
00:06:48 --> 00:06:49 he literally says,
00:06:49 --> 00:06:50 you're not eating
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00:06:51 --> 00:06:52 you're eating to self.
00:06:52 --> 00:06:55 You're doing
00:06:55 --> 00:06:56 your own stuff.
00:06:58 --> 00:06:59 And we know
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00:07:04 --> 00:07:05 and so when we talk
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00:07:05 --> 00:07:06 in Christian life
00:07:06 --> 00:07:07 we're talking about
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 the corporate life
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00:07:11 --> 00:07:11 We are a body.
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00:07:12 --> 00:07:13 gathered today
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00:07:14 --> 00:07:15 it's an exciting body
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00:07:21 --> 00:07:22 Just awesome.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:25 But he's saying
00:07:25 --> 00:07:26 to the Corinthians
00:07:26 --> 00:07:28 there's something
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00:07:30 --> 00:07:31 which is just out of
00:07:31 --> 00:07:33 what are you guys doing?
00:07:33 --> 00:07:34 We're just having
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00:07:38 --> 00:07:39 We're having lunch.
00:07:41 --> 00:07:43 I did say bring lunch
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00:07:44 --> 00:08:05 there's some really nice wine
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00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 Well it's going to be great
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00:08:14 --> 00:08:17 This is ours.
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00:08:26 --> 00:08:27 the leaf and the carrot
00:08:27 --> 00:08:28 you can have that.
00:08:28 --> 00:08:32 It's no ordinary salad.
00:08:32 --> 00:08:32 It's no ordinary salad.
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00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 The very best chicken.
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00:08:48 --> 00:08:56 It's distracting
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00:08:57 --> 00:08:58 What was the word?
00:09:03 --> 00:09:04 He says
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00:09:32 --> 00:09:33 those who have nothing
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00:09:35 --> 00:09:36 Certainly I shall not
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00:09:38 --> 00:09:39 Certainly not.
00:09:40 --> 00:09:41 And then he goes
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00:09:58 --> 00:09:59 on the night
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00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 and he took bread
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00:10:17 --> 00:10:20 and in the same way
00:10:20 --> 00:10:20 after supper
00:10:20 --> 00:10:21 he took the cup
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00:10:25 --> 00:10:26 of me
00:10:26 --> 00:10:28 for whenever you eat
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00:10:30 --> 00:10:31 death until he comes
00:10:31 --> 00:10:35 so he's directing
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00:10:38 --> 00:10:41 and he's doing
00:10:41 --> 00:10:42 what has happened
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00:10:44 --> 00:10:45 in Corinthians
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00:11:00 --> 00:11:01 God the Lord Jesus
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00:11:03 --> 00:11:05 so this is not
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00:11:07 --> 00:11:07 go with
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00:11:17 --> 00:11:18 it's a sideshow
00:11:18 --> 00:11:20 but what is
00:11:20 --> 00:11:21 the centre of
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00:11:21 --> 00:11:22 that there's a
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00:11:47 --> 00:11:47 it says whoever
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00:11:51 --> 00:11:51 we're not
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00:12:04 --> 00:12:06 so whoever
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00:12:17 --> 00:12:18 so should
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