Another Sermon About Modesty

CLOTHING REVEALS CHARACTER 9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments, 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. 1 Timothy 2:9–10 And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. (Proverbs 7:10)

ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? CLOTHING REVEALS CONCERN ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:28)

ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? CLOTHING REVEALS CONCERN ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea. (Mark 9:42)

ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? CLOTHING REVEALS CONCERN ARE YOU CONCERNED FOR THE SOULS OF OTHERS? The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. (1 John 2:10)

“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 loin coverings. …Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, ‘Where are you?’ He said, ‘I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.’” (Genesis 3:7–10, NAS) When is One Naked?

“Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living. The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. ” (Genesis 3:20–21, NAS) The Divine Standard

Original I.S.B.E. article on “Dress” says chiton “resembled the Roman tunic, corresponding most nearly to our long shirt, reaching below the knee always, and, in case it was designed for dress occasions, reaching almost to the ground” (I.S.B.E., II:877). . . . the chiton of the peasantry was shorter like modern kamis which is to the knee. The Divine Standard

“The tunic. was a shirt which was worn next to the skin “The tunic . . . was a shirt which was worn next to the skin. It was made of leather, hair-cloth, wool, linen, or in modern times, usually of . . . The simplest form of it was without sleeves and reached to the knees or sometimes to the ankles. . . . Women as well as men wore it [see Cant. 5:3, A.R.V.], although there was no doubt a difference in style and pattern in what was worn by the two” (Fred H. Wight, Manners and Customs of Bible Lands, 91). The Divine Standard

When is One Naked? Nakedness ““You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs. “They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him. ” (Exodus 28:42–43) When is One Naked? Nakedness

““Take the millstones and grind meal ““Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers. “Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.” ” (Isaiah 47:2–3, NAS) When is One Naked? Nakedness

When is One Naked? Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments (1 Timothy 2:9)

When is One Naked?

“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and a glad heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. ” (Deuteronomy 28:47–48) Naked = Shame

“Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.” (Isaiah 47:3) Naked = Shame

“I will also give you into the hands of your lovers, and they will tear down your shrines, demolish your high places, strip you of your clothing, take away your jewels, and will leave you naked and bare.” (Ezekiel 16:39) Naked = Shame

“Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked” (Revelation 3:17) Naked = Shame

Fathers Guide the Home 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (NASB95) It is the responsibility of Father’s to train their children in Godliness “I never noticed” is no excuse for failing to instruct Mothers/Wives - support your husbands

Saints Show Concern Create an environment of proactive care 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, 4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored. 6 Likewise urge the young men to be sensible; Titus 2:3–6 (NASB95) Create an environment of proactive care Speak to Fathers Speak to the wayward Use wisdom, love and grace