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church of God in its scope.
What is this custom of headcovering of which Paul speaks? He continues by declaring
the heart of the matter.

I Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is
the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ.

The matter being discussed is one of government. It has to do with Yahweh’s
established order in the kingdom of God. In the government of Yahweh, He is the head of
all things. It is from Yahweh that all authority originates. Yahweh is the source of all rule.
In the government of Yahweh, He has determined that there should be authorities and
there should be those who submit to these authorities. Recognizing the government of
Yahweh, and submitting oneself to it, results in rest. Failing to recognize Yahweh’s
government, or to submit to it, results in striving. He has set an order both among the
Godhead and among all of creation.
Among the Godhead the Son takes the position of the Christ, the Sent One of Yahweh.
He freely emptied Himself of His equality with Yahweh and He humbled Himself and
learned obedience to the Father. He took the Father to be His head.
In essence, Christ has no head of His own. He does not determine His own way. He
does not do His own will. He declares that He lives to do the will of the Father. He states
over and over that He does nothing of His own initiative. He only does those things the
Father reveals to Him. In His earthly walk, He was so perfect in this matter that He did not
even speak a word of His own. He only spoke those things the Father commanded Him to
speak. God the Father was and is the head of Christ, and Christ responds to this headship
in perfect submission and obedience.
We further see, although Paul does not mention it here, that the Spirit of God also has
a place in the established order of the Godhead. The Spirit is in submission to the Son. We
find this stated in the gospel of John.

John 16:13-15
“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He
will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He
will disclose to you what is to come. He shall glorify Me; for He shall take of Mine,
and shall disclose it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said,
that He takes of Mine, and will disclose it to you.”

The established order in the Godhead has nothing to do with who is greater. It is a
matter of government agreed upon in the Godhead. We are told that, as the Son, Yahshua
is equal to the Father. The Jews knew that Yahshua claimed this to be true and for this
reason they attempted to stone Him as a blasphemer.

John 5:18
For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He
not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making
Himself equal with God.