God

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• Matthew 2820 - "teaching them to observe all
  things that I have commanded you and lo, I am
  with you always, even to the end of the age."
  Amen.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• The revelation of God covers every area of our
  hearts and our lives! (Heb 412-13)

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• (Hebrews 412-13 NKJV) - For the word of God is
  living and powerful, and sharper than any
  two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of
  soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is
  a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the
  heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from
  His sight, but all things are naked and open to
  the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• The challenge we face is our willingness to allow
  Jesus to rule in every area.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• The challenge we face is our willingness to allow
  Jesus to rule in every area.
• Too often men will only allow their religion to
  involve certain things. Any other involvement of
  Gods word is off limits.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• In the area of our dress we face great pressures.
  (1 John 215-16)

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• (1 John 215-16 NKJV) - Do not love the world or
  the things in the world. If anyone loves the
  world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16
  For all that is in the world the lust of the
  flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
  life is not of the Father but is of the world.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• This is a highly personal area in which many are
  sensitive.

9
Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• This is an area where there is great
  peer-pressure.

10
Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• This is an area where there is great
  peer-pressure.
• This is also an area that greatly affects our
  young during a critical time of their lives.

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Gods Instruction Touches Every Aspect of Our
Lives

• I believe as a whole we are loosing the battle of
  teaching future generations about this subject.
  Will you weigh the evidence?

12
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• The way we dress should reflect on the character
  within us. (1 Pet 29-10) KJV

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• (1 Timothy 29-10 KJV) 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 10
  But (which becometh women professing godliness)
  with good works.

14
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.

15
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.
• Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the
  idea of downcast eyes a sense of shame or
  honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard
  for others, respect.

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• Modest - (kosmios) - of good behaviour , well
  arranged, seemly.
• Shamefacedness - (aidos) - perhaps ..through the
  idea of downcast eyes a sense of shame or
  honour, modesty, bashfulness, reverence, regard
  for others, respect.
• sobriety - (sophrosune) 1) soundness of mind
  2) self-control

17
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• A Godly woman is not to be seeking attention but
  rather have a meek and quiet spirit. (1
  Pet 33-4)

18
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• (1 Peter 33-4 NKJV) - Do not let your adornment
  be merely outward arranging the hair, wearing
  gold, or putting on fine apparel 4 rather let
  it be the hidden person of the heart, with the
  incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet
  spirit, which is very precious in the sight of
  God.

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• Our women face tremendous pressures from the
  world to conform.

20
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• The modern day womens movement scorns the Bible
  teaching of character. Immorality is openly
  encouraged and praised.

21
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• The modern day womens movement scorns the Bible
  teaching of character. Immorality is openly
  encouraged and praised.
• What does a woman face when she goes against the
  modern fashion?

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• God made men and women different therefore you
  will see emphasis towards women in these areas.
  Men are very stimulated by sight. (Mt 527-30)
  (Ex. How many Adult magazines are toward men?)

23
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• (Matthew 527-30 NKJV) - You have heard that it
  was said to those of old, You shall not commit
  adultery. 28 But I say to you that whoever
  looks at a woman to lust for her has already
  committed adultery with her in his heart.

24
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck
  it out and cast it from you for it is more
  profitable for you that one of your members
  perish, than for your whole body to be cast into
  hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to
  sin, cut it off and cast it from you for it is
  more profitable for you that one of your members
  perish, than for your whole body to be cast into
  hell.

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• Women you may be wearing clothing that is an
  invitation to ungodliness and you not be aware of
  it! Sadly some are aware. (Prov 710 Gen
  3813-15) (Ex. Fishing)

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• (Proverbs 710 NKJV) And there a woman met him,
  With the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart.

27
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• (Genesis 3813-15 NKJV) And it was told Tamar,
  saying, Look, your father-in-law is going up to
  Timnah to shear his sheep. 14 So she took off
  her widows garments, covered herself with a veil
  and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place
  which was on the way to Timnah for she saw that
  Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as
  a wife.

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The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• 15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a
  harlot, because she had covered her face.

29
The Bible Teaches that We are to Dress Modestly.

• We need fathers to take a strong stand in these
  areas! Do you give in?

30
The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• The Bible has always expected men and women to be
  ashamed in their nakedness. (Rev 317-18)

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Revelation 317-18 NKJV) Because you say, I
  am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of
  nothing and do not know that you are wretched,
  miserable, poor, blind, and naked 18 I
  counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the
  fire, that you may be rich and white garments,
  that you may be clothed, that the shame of your
  nakedness may not be revealed and anoint your
  eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• Often the verses are making a spiritual
  application with the understanding of an
  underlying principle of the shame of physical
  nakedness.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• Often the verses are making a spiritual
  application with the understanding of an
  underlying principle of the shame of physical
  nakedness.
• Shame however is something that can be lost! (Jer
  615 812)

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Jeremiah 615 NKJV) - Were they ashamed when
  they had committed abomination? No! They were not
  at all ashamed Nor did they know how to blush.
  Therefore they shall fall among those who fall
  At the time I punish them, They shall be cast
  down, says the LORD.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Jeremiah 812 NKJV) - Were they ashamed when
  they had committed abomination? No! They were not
  at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush.
  Therefore they shall fall among those who fall
  In the time of their punishment They shall be
  cast down, says the LORD.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• We are facing a problem in the church where men
  and women are making judgments on how they feel
  and not on the word of God! This is a mark of
  apostasy! (Ex. Liberal Services.)

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• We are facing a problem in the church where men
  and women are making judgments on how they feel
  and not on the word of God! This is a mark of
  apostasy! (Ex. Liberal Services.)
• What is nakedness according to the Bible?

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Gen 225) - Adam and Eve were naked when they
  had no clothes.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Genesis 225 NKJV) And they were both naked,
  the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Gen 37,10-11) - They were still naked when they
  made the equivalent of mens swimming trunks!

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Genesis 37 NKJV) - Then the eyes of both of
  them were opened, and they knew that they were
  naked and they sewed fig leaves together and
  made themselves coverings.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Genesis 310-11 NKJV) - So he said, I heard
  Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid
  because I was naked and I hid myself. 11 And
  He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have
  you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you
  that you should not eat?

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Gen 321) - They were no longer naked when God
  made them tunics of skin. These are defined as
  "generally with sleeves, coming down to the
  knees" (v. 21 Gesenius, Hebrew Chaldee
  Lexicon, 420).

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Genesis 321 NKJV) - Also for Adam and his wife
  the LORD God made tunics of skin, and clothed
  them.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• God replaced their shorts with garments covering
  from the shoulders down to the knees to cover the
  shame of their nakedness.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Ex 2841-42Isa 472-3) - God was very concerned
  with improper clothing that still left one naked!
  How much was covered? Look at the passages!

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Exodus 2841-42 NKJV) - So you shall put them
  on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him.
  You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and
  sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as
  priests. 42 And you shall make for them linen
  trousers to cover their nakedness they shall
  reach from the waist to the thighs.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• (Isaiah 472-3 NKJV) - Take the millstones and
  grind meal. Remove your veil, Take off the skirt,
  Uncover the thigh, Pass through the rivers. 3
  Your nakedness shall be uncovered, Yes, your
  shame will be seen I will take vengeance, And I
  will not arbitrate with a man.

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The Bible Teaches that Nakedness Should Produce
Shame in Us.

• Have you lost your shame concerning nakedness?

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What is not the issue

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What is not the issue
• Whether or not small children are included. They
  are not.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What is not the issue
• Whether or not small children are included. They
  are not.
• Whether or not the place one is in determines
  modest dress. It does.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What is not the issue
• Whether or not small children are included. They
  are not.
• Whether or not the place one is in determines
  modest dress. It does.
• Whether or not social customs effect how a
  Christian dresses, They do.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• Whether Christians are to be modest and different
  from the world in appearance and action. They are.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• Whether Christians are to be modest and different
  from the world in appearance and action. They
  are.
• Whether clothing that produces sensuality is
  wrong. It is.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What the issue is

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• What the issue is
• What constitutes modest apparel?

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• Bathing Suits? Halters? Shorts? Tight fitting
  clothes? Low cut dresses? Low buttoned shirts?
  Slits up skirts?

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• Bathing Suits? Halters? Shorts? Tight fitting
  clothes? Low cut dresses? Low buttoned shirts?
  Slits up skirts?
• It does not become immodest because of what we
  call the garment, but by what the garment covers
  and what it communicates to others.

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How Should We Apply These Truths?

• Dress is only part of the picture. A person can
  dress modestly and act immodest!

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Some Common Objections

• Everyone is doing it. (Matt 713-14)

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Some Common Objections

• (Matthew 713-14 NKJV) - Enter by the narrow
  gate for wide is the gate and broad is the way
  that leads to destruction, and there are many who
  go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and
  difficult is the way which leads to life, and
  there are few who find it.

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Some Common Objections

• You cannot say this is definitely immodest. (1
  Tim 29)

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Some Common Objections

• (1 Timothy 29 NKJV) - in like manner also, that
  the women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
  with propriety and moderation, not with braided
  hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,

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Some Common Objections

• This give me more comfort. (Rom 38)

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Some Common Objections

• (Romans 38 NKJV) - And why not say, Let us do
  evil that good may come? as we are slanderously
  reported and as some affirm that we say. Their
  condemnation is just.

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Some Common Objections

• Evil is in the eye of the beholder. (Matt 186-7)

68
Some Common Objections

• (Matthew 186-7 NKJV) - But whoever causes one
  of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it
  would be better for him if a millstone were hung
  around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth
  of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of
  offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that
  man by whom the offense comes!

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Some Common Objections

• I am (old, fat, ugly) so I will wear what I
  want. (1 Tim 29, Titus 23-5)

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Some Common Objections

• (1 Timothy 29 NKJV) - in like manner also, that
  the women adorn themselves in modest apparel,
  with propriety and moderation, not with braided
  hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing,

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Some Common Objections

• (Titus 23-5 NKJV) - the older women likewise,
  that they be reverent in behavior, not
  slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of
  good things 4 that they admonish the young
  women to love their husbands, to love their
  children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers,
  good, obedient to their own husbands, that the
  word of God may not be blasphemed.

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Some Common Objections

• Others will make fun of me. I will not make the
  team, play, etc.. (Heb 1124-26)

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Some Common Objections

• (Hebrews 1124-26 NKJV) - By faith Moses, when
  he became of age, refused to be called the son of
  Pharaohs daughter, 25 choosing rather to
  suffer affliction with the people of God than to
  enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, 26
  esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches
  than the treasures in Egypt for he looked to the
  reward.

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Some Common Objections

• These clothes are all that I have.

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Some Common Objections

• These clothes are all that I have.
• Do you care what you wear before God?

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Some Common Objections

• These clothes are all that I have.
• Do you care what you wear before God?
• What kind of attitude do you have? Do you get as
  close to the border as possible?

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Some Common Objections

• Why not have this attitude How can I best dress
  to be recognized as a servant of God? (Ruth 311)

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Some Common Objections

• (Ruth 311 NKJV) - And now, my daughter, do not
  fear. I will do for you all that you request, for
  all the people of my town know that you are a
  virtuous woman.