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HOW THE CHILD OF GOD SHOULD DRESS
Booklet Number 5B
Foreword
The following words are sent forth to help inform the Child of God of
what the Bible teaches.
Please read it carefully and prayerfully.
This has been written with no axe to grind or any animosity from
the heart of the writer. It
is my firm belief that there are many of God’s dear children scattered
across the land who truly love the Lord with all their heart but have
never been taught the principles of Christian dress.
This in no way is an exhaustive study on the subject, but is sent
forth with much prayer in hope that it will find a lodging place in the
hearts of God’s people everywhere.
As you read it, ask God to enlighten your heart concerning the
scriptures.
The Bible has
all the answers to all our questions.
These questions cannot be answered unless we study what it says,
and accept it with all our heart.
Nobody has ever gone wrong trusting, believing, and clinging to
the Holy Word of God.
After thirty three years in the ministry, I certainly see a need
in our Christian realm concerning the dress of the Child of God.
Please read this with an open mind and a praying heart.
Give these pages your undivided attention.
2
Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Bro.
Dennis Dills
The
Christian dress
1 Peter 3:3,4
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting
the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not
corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price.
As you read this booklet, allow the Word of God to speak to your
heart. Ask yourself, “Do I
please the Lord in the way I dress?
Would I be ashamed of what I am wearing if Jesus came back today?
Does what I wear bring reproach upon Christ?
Can the world say by what I wear everyday that I am a child of
God? These questions should
be asked by both men and women.
As a
Child of God, we should desire to please the Lord with all of our heart.
To be like Jesus should be our constant goal.
Anything less would not be proper.
Since we are the purchased possession of the Lord Jesus Christ,
He has the right to dictate our lives.
We should desire for Him to take full control of our lives and
pattern them as He desires.
As you read this booklet, prayerfully consider what the Lord would have
you to do concerning these issues.
Saved men and women should set forth the Biblical standard for
the world. A Child of God
has an obligation to God, the Bible, and the world to dress according to
what God commands and expects.
Many say it does not
matter what we wear but where our heart is.
The fact is, our dress code and outward appearance tells the
world where our hearts are and who we belong to.
In these last days, the world and Hollywood are setting the
standards of dress instead of the Church and the Word of God.
Television and the entertainment world are setting the dress code
for the young people. Young
people in the Churches all over the world are looking everywhere but the
Word of God to determine what they should
wear. Many preachers
will not preach on what a Child of God should or should not wear.
They fear the congregation or their wife, their sons, or their
daughters. Therefore, our
churches are filled with the latest fads and fashions.
It is a shame and disgrace of what you will see in the average
Church today. No wonder the
Power of God is missing.
A Child of God has an obligation to the Bible to dress correct,
go to the right places, and have the right friendships.
Many do not pay any attention to what the Bible says and then
they wonder why God does not bless them.
Many Sunday School teachers and preachers, including multitudes
of pastors, do not teach what the Child of God should wear.
They feel that it is not important or they do not want to make
any so-called “waves” or “rock the boat’.
They say that we should not be “negative” or “controversial”.
We are told that there are a lot more important things to preach
on or about. I agree, but
if we preach the whole counsel of God, dress codes will come up.
The Bible teaches that nakedness is a sin.
Remember, your life may be the only Bible that many people will
read. Woe unto the Child of
God who brings reproach upon the Bible through what he or she wears.
If a lost man sees us coming out or going into the wrong places,
he will not have confidence in us enough to allow us to win him to
Christ. The same is true of
our conversation. If the
lost man or woman hears us speak with profanity or even worldly
conversation, they will not listen to us when we tell them about Jesus.
If our dealings with the public are unethical it will have a
negative bearing upon the sinners life and his destination.
In effect, we will grease the board for him on his way to Hell.
God help us!
Our dress in the public is the same way.
If we dress and wear the latest fashions of the day which reveals
the body, this will cause the lost person to wonder if there is a
difference between the Christian and the unbeliever.
God said his people are a peculiar people.
1
Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy
nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him
who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Counterfeits
If your
life has not been different since you professed Christ, then you were
slipped a counterfeit by the Devil.
According to the Bible, a Child of God will look different, walk
different, act different, dress different, and just be different from
the rest of the world. Even
his conversation will not be of this world.
We are a new creation.
If your life was not changed, you did not get the real salvation
of God. You are still lost
in your sin.
2
Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Many even get mad and upset when a preacher or any other Child of
God tells them what the Bible says.
God blesses those who honor the Word of God.
To ignore the Bible brings distress and turmoil to one’s life.
Every Child of God must have an open mind concerning the Word of
God. I have found down
through the years that those who get mad at the truth have their minds
already made up. God cannot
show anybody a new truth with a closed mind.
Those who are sold out to God will search and seek the truth.
Then when they see the truth, they will accept it and let it make
them free. If you feel that
what you wear is nobody’s business and what I am saying is wrong, then
you don’t have to get mad.
If you are right, you already have the truth.
The reason people get disturbed at this is because the Holy Ghost
has driven it into their hearts like a spike.
So, in effect, you are not getting upset at the man of God but at
God Himself. You don’t get
mad at the mailman for bringing you things you did not want, so don’t
get mad at the preacher, he is God’s delivery boy to you.
I have heard preachers preach things that I knew were contrary to
the Bible. This did not
make me mad, I knew what was right.
Notice what the Bible says:
John
8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
As a fundamental
Baptist preacher, I have been embarrassed many times by the way Church
groups dress. I have been
in quick food restaurants, when a Church bus, loaded with young people,
would stop. These young
people would be dressed indecent as far as the Bible is concerned but
okay according to the standards of the world.
Not only have I seen the youth dressed improperly, but the youth
leaders as well. These all
should be setting an example to the world of how a Child of God should
dress according to the Bible.
Woe unto the preacher who allows his Church to parade around
indecent bringing reproach on Jesus, the Bible, and the Church of the
living God.
It
is a shame
It is a
shame that the Church has bowed so low that they have to be constantly
reminded how to dress. The
pastor should never have to spend as much time as he does trying to
inform the Church how they should dress.
Go to many of our modern churches.
You will see men in the choir with T-shirts (yes T-shirts in the
house of God) advertising some worldly product or activity with hair
down on their shoulders, wearing a necklace and an ear-ring.
The women will have on short dresses with a low or plunging neck
line and painted like they are fixing to go to a war party.
Even a long dress with a split up the side will bring attention
to the body. What has
happened to the Old Time Religion we used to know?
The women would come into the house of God dressed from the head
to the toe. The only
revealing of their body was when the Holy Ghost got them excited and
they began to shout and wave their bonnets.
You can tell that the average woman does not come into the Church
to worship because if God showed up and they began to cry there would be
a real mess running down their face.
Nakedness is a sin and must be dealt with.
In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were covered by the
“Shekinah” glory of God until they disobeyed the Word of God and ate
the forbidden fruit. When
they disobeyed God, they were stripped of the Glory of God and became
naked. Because of this sin,
God expelled them out of the garden of Eden.
But before He expelled them out, He killed innocent animals and
made them coats of skin to cover their nakedness.
The blood of the innocent animals covered their sin and the skins
of the animals covered their nakedness.
Adam and Eve had sewed fig leaves together and made themselves
aprons. God made them coats
of skins. All of us know
that coats cover more than aprons.
God set the example with our first parents on how we should cover
the body. Read the story in
the third chapter of Genesis.
Men and women are still trying to cover their spiritual nakedness
with fig leaves of their own making instead of accepting God’s sacrifice
of His only Begotten Son.
A Child of God, whether a man or woman should never wear anything
that is revealing or brings attention to the body.
To cause someone to look on us to lust after us is just as wrong
as the one doing the lusting.
Today’s fashions major in bringing attention to the body.
The Devil is doing all he can in breaking down the morals of
modesty and decency. Each
year the fashions are more revealing than the year before.
Each year you find the morals and modesty slipping away as well.
For a Child of God to wear these fashions is sin and it must be
repented of. It may be
popular to wear the latest fashions according to the world, but let me
ask you, Does it please the Lord and is it in accordance with the Bible?
Preachers are
afraid to
There
are very few preachers that will preach on modesty any more.
One reason is that their family members, their own children,
their own wife, and many times they themselves do not dress in modest
apparel. A Child of God
should pray over all that he or she wears before putting on something
that will bring reproach on the Lord Jesus and be contrary to the Bible.
It is a shame and a disgrace to see a preacher and his wife out
in the public dressed in immodest apparel.
In these days, it is common to see a preacher out jogging or
working in the yard in shorts or without a shirt.
His wife will be dressed in tight fitting jeans, shorts, a halter
top, or a compromise of culottes, with bobbed hair and thinking nothing
of it. His children will
naturally be dressed likewise or even worse.
It is
amazing how many mothers and dads will dress Godly themselves but allow
their children to dress indecent.
I have seen preachers that would not dress in shorts themselves
but would allow their little boys and girls to wear them.
This is a double standard.
Likewise, pastors wives will not dress in slacks, culottes, or
mini-skirts, but will allow their little girls to do so.
I have even heard them say that they will leave it up to their
children what they want to wear.
If this is your philosophy, you need to bow your head and ask God
to forgive and help you.
Judgment day is coming.
My, how we have lost
our morals and Biblical standards to live by.
Years ago, this would be a disgrace, now, it is accepted.
In addition, those who preach against these things are
considered, “old foggy”, “negative”, “shallow”, “narrow
minded”, or “trouble makers”.
Maybe you have a few other words for them, but thank God for
somebody who will stand for the things of God.
People who will not stand for something will fall for everything.
Jeremiah
6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find
rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
Moses, the prophet
of God, went up on the mountain for forty days.
God gave him the ten commandments and instructions.
While he was gone, the Israelites made a golden calf and danced
before it. The Bible
records that they danced before the golden calf NAKED.
This brought the judgment of God on them and many lost their
lives through God’s wrath that followed.
Read the story in Exodus chapter 32:15-28.
God is not pleased with the way his people dress today either.
A Child of God has a duty to God to dress properly.
Anything short of what God wants is sin.
Another Bible account of nakedness is found in the book of
Genesis chapter 9 verses 20 through 27.
Noah, God’s preacher of righteousness, planted a vineyard after
the flood and got drunk. He
then lay in his tent NAKED.
Ham, Noah’s son looked on his nakedness and told his brothers.
Because of this there was a curse put upon Canaan, (Ham’s son and
Noah’s grandson). God does
not smile on the sin of NAKEDNESS.
Much could be said about drunkenness but that is another issue.
One thing I do want to mention is that drunkenness is associated
with nakedness. Being drunk
on alcohol will cause you to expose yourself, and being drunk on the
things of the world spiritually, will do the same to you spiritually.
We are living in a time when people of God are confused.
In this time of equal rights for men and women, the Devil is
trying to put no difference between the sexes.
Men dress like women and women dress like men.
Men are wearing the apparel of women and women are wearing the
apparel of men. The Bible
said this was an abomination.
An
Abomination
Deuteronomy 22:5 The woman shall not
wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a
woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy
God.
Abomination,
according to the Webster’s dictionary means, extreme disgust and
hatred or loathing.
I realize that many will say that Deuteronomy 22:5 is Old
Testament and we are not under the law anymore.
That is correct, but the Word of God reveals that the Old and New
Testaments are Divinely inspired and to be used.
2
Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
Most church
members get upset when they see Sodomites parade up and down the street
in dresses (women’s clothing) but totally
defend women wearing pants (men’s clothing).
A man who wears dresses (women’s clothing) are called cross
dressers. What would you
call a woman who wears men’s clothing?
This preacher calls them cross dressers also.
1
Timothy 2:9,10 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; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with
good works.
Women have been dressing in slacks for years now, have cut off
their hair, and moved into the work force that should be for men.
The Bible said the woman was to be keepers at home.
Titus
2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
During the days of
preaching the Gospel, I have seen many wives and mothers leave the home
to help make a living with their husband.
I have heard women say that they have to wear slacks on the job
because of the job they have to perform.
My reply has always been that if a lady has to wear something
that is contrary to the Bible, then she is in the wrong place.
Many times when women are on the job they meet somebody else they
think is more interesting to them than their husband and then, you know
the story. Divorce takes
its toll upon the lives of the children.
Sin has crept in while we have slept on our church pews and now
we have so many single parents because of divorce that we have men and
women playing both roles in the home.
Our children are confused and frustrated.
The
Universal Symbol
There is
a universal symbol used to identify the rest rooms for men and women.
The men’s rest room is identified by a stick figure symbol
wearing pants. The women’s
rest room is identified by a stick figure symbol wearing a dress.
It is amazing how much this corresponds to the Word of God.
Many women will say that they have not been convicted of wearing
slacks. That does not
change the Word of God.
Their minds may be closed to the truth.
God does not have a standard for one and another standard for
others. Many women have
been convicted by the Holy Ghost that pants are wrong.
This in itself should be sufficient to convince anyone who is
searching the truth. The
Spirit of God is the person who convicts of sin.
The Holy Ghost will never tell you to do anything that is
contrary to the Word of God.
So when He convicts a woman that wearing the garments pertaining
to men are wrong, it is because the Word of God teaches the same.
Likewise, the Holy Spirit will not tell one that it is right and
another that it is wrong.
The Church and the Child of God should have the highest standards
of all. A Christian lady
should never be seen in the public in slacks, shorts, halter tops,
mini-skirts, culottes, bathing suits, low neck dresses, see through
dresses, or any other revealing garment or even a compromise of these.
Many pastors have endorsed culottes.
This is a compromise.
A woman is to dress in clothing that is becoming of the Lord and
of a Child of God. These
statements are strong, but the Bible is the Word
of God and must be heard.
Many women will say that they don’t see anything wrong with
slacks. As a general rule,
these are usually too tight and they bring attention to the body.
There is nothing modest or Godly about slacks on a woman.
Equal rights for women have destroyed the virtuous woman.
It is not uncommon to see women dressed just like men with short
hair and a masculine walk.
We are living in the day of effeminate men and masculine women.
It is time that men and women come back to the Biblical role of
being a Christian and dressing like one.
It is not uncommon to see women and men who are classified as
“real Church workers”, out in the public in a pair of shorts and many
times short shorts at that, wearing a T-shirt with a scripture verse on
it. Well now sir or madam,
what do you think the Lord thinks about that?
Do you really care?
God describes you in the following scripture:
James
3:10-13 Out of the
same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things
ought not so to be. Doth a
fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine,
figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him
shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Likewise, Christian men should never be seen in the public
wearing shorts or going without a shirt.
He should refrain from wearing a necklace, ear rings, or any
other apparel that demeans his manhood.
This is a day of perversion, cross dressers, sex changes, and men
who get a thrill from wearing clothing pertaining to women.
I’ve always said that I want to dress like a man, walk like a
man, look like a man, and smell like a man even if I have to leave my
right guard off. Men should
always keep their hair cut and not wear it long.
Long hair on a man is a shame unto him.
A woman’s long hair is her glory.
In this day, it is not uncommon to see men with longer hair than
their wives. God help us,
we are in trouble. Sir, get
a hold of yourself, search the scriptures, find out what God wants you
to be. He made you a man,
be a man, a one hundred per cent man.
We are living in the unisex day.
The devil is doing what he can tear down the differences between
men and women. He is using
Hollywood and the fashion industry to help him.
1
Corinthians 11:14.15 Doth
not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a
shame unto him? But if a
woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her
for a covering.
Even at the time
of this writing, it was reported on the news that a boy in one of the
schools in America went to school wearing a dress.
This cause much confusion.
He was sent home.
The news media played it up and reported that the girls in the school
really resented his wearing the dress.
Is this not a double standard?
Girls and women have been wearing the attire of men and boys
for years and do not think anything about it.
There was a time that this was a disgrace.
Now it is accepted.
There will be a time, if the Lord tarries His coming, that men and boys
can and will wear dresses and it will probably become as accepted as
women wearing slacks. They
already carry purses or shoulder bags like women.
Preachers will preach a social gospel or a soothing gospel and
say that it is all right just to please the crowd and keep a job.
All this cross dressing brings confusion, and the Devil is the
author of confusion.
If everyone who claims that they have been born again would begin
dressing according to the Bible, we would send a message to the world
and set an example for them to follow.
Instead, we allow the world to show and tell us what to wear.
God will hold us in account of how we obey or disobey the Word of
God.
In this day of loose standards, the Church, which is the Bride of
Christ has done much to reproach the Bridegroom.
Double standards are so common in the average Church.
Some pastors preach against men and women wearing shorts or women
wearing slacks to the Church but do not preach against wearing them
outside the Church. They
are wrong in both places.
The reason Churches have allowed the wearing of them in the congregation
is because they have been quiet about wearing this kind of apparel in
the home and in the public.
In this day, you better not say anything about shorts, halter
tops, short skirts, low cut dresses, or women’s slacks.
I have found that you can talk about a woman’s children, her
husband, her dog, or her cat, but you had better keep your mouth shut
about her britches. Most
pastors have a “Holy Hush” and “Spiritual Lock Jaw” about these issues.
They hum-haw around and try to evade the issue if you ask them
about it. They are probably
afraid of the Deacons who control their salary.
They do not fear God and have forgotten who put them in the
ministry in the first place, if they have been called at all.
I remember a time when Churches would not allow boys and girls no
matter how small to wear shorts to Vacation Bible School or any other
church function. Today it
has gotten out of control.
Years ago, even lost people in the community would not send their
children to the Church house dressed this way.
They had respect for the House of God.
Today Church folk have dropped the standards and the Church has
lost that respect.
If you start a child off dressing contrary to the Bible, he will
grow up without the bible having any control over him.
No wonder our jails and prisons are full.
They have been taught to live against the Word of God.
Not too long ago there was a Church, not far from where I was
pasturing, that allowed one of its Vacation Bible School teachers to
come to the Church and teach wearing a bathing suit.
God help us and the pastors who will allow this.
For years we have allowed Sunday School teachers to go to the
beach and lay out in the sun without enough on to wad a shotgun and then
try to teach boys and girls how to live for God.
This is an abomination.
Double standards everywhere!
What can they teach them?
Woe unto the pastors and deacons that allow this to go on in
their church. We will stand
before a Holy God and give an account of these unholy practices.
If you drive by some churches on a Saturday, you will see
teen-agers playing ball of some sort in indecent attire.
They may be washing cars or having a bake sale, half naked,
trying to raise money for some unholy trip or swimming party.
God is not broke.
Why would a Church allow this?
We may be entertaining the young people but we are doing it at
the expense of our Biblical standards and also deceiving them of the
truth.
The maniac (Legion) of Gadara, lived in the tombs, cut himself,
and wore no clothes. When
he came to Jesus and the demons were cast out of him, he was found
sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind.
This should tell us that those who follow Jesus with all their
heart will put on garments that will cover their nakedness.
It is an automatic thing.
When you get right with God you will dress according to the
Bible.
Luke
8:35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and
found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet
of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Bad
Examples
Today we
are teaching our children everything but the Word of God about how a
person should dress and especially the Child of God.
The Bible has much to say about nakedness.
We allow our children to dress indecent even in ht home, which is
contrary to the Bible. Then
they go out into the public indecent and have no shame about them.
Parents even expose themselves too much to their children and
this is also against the Bible.
Mothers and dads should not parade themselves before their
children scantily clad no matter how young they are.
Children should not be allowed to parade themselves before
parents or brothers and sisters either.
Strong Biblical teaching and adherence to the Word of God will
produce men and women with Godly character and a strong conviction to
keep themselves covered. It
is a shame how we see young men and women dress in the public.
They have no shame about them.
Many of them, it is sad to say, are parents and if you asked them
about their salvation, they would tell you they were saved and living
for God.
Leviticus
18:6,7 None of you
shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their
nakedness: I am the LORD.
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou
not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus
18:8-16 The nakedness
of thy father's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father's
nakedness. The
nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy
mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their
nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
The nakedness of thy son's daughter, or of thy daughter's
daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is
thine own nakedness. The
nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father, she
is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's sister: she
is thy father's near kinswoman.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister: for
she is thy mother's near kinswoman.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father's brother,
thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she
is thy son's wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is
thy brother's nakedness.
Leviticus 20:11
And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his
father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their
blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:17
And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his
mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it
is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their
people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his
iniquity.
Leviticus
20:19-21 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they
shall bear their iniquity.
And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his
uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean
thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be
childless.
Habakkuk 2:15
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to
him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their
nakedness!
This is not a popular subject, but it is a very important one.
Every Child of God will give an account of the way he or she
dresses when they stand before a Holy God.
Our excuses will not be accepted in that day.
The lives we have affected as well will have to be accounted for.
The Bible is the final authority.
2
Corinthians 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body,
according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Whether we want to admit it or not, the reason for many rapes and
murders has been because of indecent dress.
It may have not been the one who was raped that was indecently
exposed, but pornography or indecent dress on someone else has caused
the individual to commit the crime.
The Devil is using the tool of nakedness to lure many in his
direction. God help us as
God’s people, to wake up!
Ask God what He would have you wear and how you should present
yourself in the public. A
dedicated Child of God will want to please God in everything he or she
does. Too many times we
want to cut the corners and see how far we can get into the world and
still be called a Christian.
If you have been offended by this booklet, it is a sure sign that
you are not where God wants you to be.
There is a rebellious heart in you which needs repented of.
Please repent of it today and allow God to work in your heart.
Believe it or not there are still many who will agree with this
pastor concerning the things that have been written therein.
Allow the Lord to speak to your heart and apply these things to
your life. Our biggest job
is to be a Christian witness and bring many to a saving knowledge of
Jesus Christ. The manner in
which we dress is very important.
Do you dress to please the Lord or to please yourself and others?
A woman dressed in the attire of an harlot would have a hard time
trying to witness and win a lost woman unto God.
A man indecently dressed would have a hard time trying to win a
lost man decently dressed unto the Lord.
As a Child of God we are to major on the salvation of souls and
not particularly on “things”, but how a Child of God dresses is very
important.
I do not want to close before saying that it is very much
possible to dress Biblically correct and be far from God.
Many boast and brag about what they do not wear like others, and
at the same time have other things in their heart that keeps them out of
touch with God. Our
Spiritual life is most important to us.
Let us examine ourselves and get as close to God as we possibly
can.
Many preachers will not agree with this.
They preach that you can do a lot of things if you do it in
moderation. The BIBLE is
the final authority for the Child of God, not an hireling.
It does not matter what the preacher thinks or what the deacon
thinks, but what the Word of God says.
Let us listen to the Word of God and the Holy Ghost concerning
our manner of dress. A-men,
and God Bless you!