1. Welcome

2. What God Says About
Modesty

3. About covering our body
“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;” Rev. 3:18
Figurative language
Positive = Be covered
Negative = Not exposed
What the Bible Teaches
About covering our body

4. No clothing at birth History of Clothing our Bodies
Job 1:21 “...Naked came I out of my mother's womb,...”
No clothing at birth

5. Not Ashamed Adam and Eve were naked In the Garden of Eden
Gen. 2:25 “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.”

6. They knew they were naked
After They Sinned
They knew they were naked
Gen. 3:7 “And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Ashamed
Made Aprons

7. Was God Pleased With the aprons ? No
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Genesis 3:21

8. Difference between Nudity
And Nakedness
Nude = no clothing Naked = some clothing
Adam & Eve - Fig Leaves = Aprons
Gen.3:9 God asked “Where art thou?”
Gen.3:10 “…I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked: and I hid myself.”
Gen. 3:21 God made coats to “clothe them”.

9. Animal Skins to clothe Adam and Eve

10. How much should be Covered in Public ?
“that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear” Revelation 3:18
Certain parts of our body are to be covered
Appear = when we are seen in public
An Apron was Not enough
For Adam and Eve

11. “Coats” “Clothed” Coats = “kottoneth” Clothed = “labash”
“Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Gen.3:21
Coats = “kottoneth”
“covered from shoulders to their knees”
Clothed = “labash”
“wrap around, put on a garment”

12. Coats Tunic Hebrew: KUTTONET –
“a tunic...; generally with sleeves, coming down to the knees, rarely to the ankles”
Tunic

13. Fred H. Wright, Manners and Customs of Bible Lands, 91 says:
“The Tunic (inappropriately translated ‘coat’) 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 cotton. The simplest form of it was without sleeves and reached to the knees or sometimes to the ankles. The well-to-do wore it with sleeves and extending to the ankles. Women as well as men wore it. Although there was no doubt a difference in style and pattern in what was worn by the two.”

14. An Apron was not enough for Adam & Eve
Genesis 3
V. 11
Naked
(Relatively)
Apron
Tunic
V. 21
Clothed
& Modest
V. 7
Naked
(Nude)
From the Shoulder to the knee

15. Ex. 28:42 “And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.”
Priest ascending the platform
Cover your nakedness
Linen trousers
From the waist to the thighs

16. Clothing and Sanity People in their right mind will cover their body
Luke 8:27 tells about a man who did not wear clothes
He was possessed with demons
Jesus cast out the demons
Luke 8:35 Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid.”

17. How Christians Should Dress
1.Wear clothing that pleases God
“wool and flax given to cover her nakedness.” Hosea 2:9
Conceal, to be placed out of sight
God’s will is that people wear clothes to cover their nakedness.

18. How Christians Should Dress
2.Wear clothing that is Modest
“in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel,...” 1 Tim. 2:9
Decent or orderly
What is Modest Apparel ?

19. Too Short Too Low Too Tight Too Thin Too Loose Too Wild Too ????
Modest Apparel is NOT…
Too Short
Too Low
Too Tight
Too Thin
Too Loose
Too Wild
Too ????

20. How Christians Should Dress
3. Do Not Dress Like the People of the World
They expose the shame of their nakedness
We are different - we are the children of God.
Romans 12:2 “Be not conformed to this world:”
To fashion alike

21. How Christians Should Dress
4. Clothing Reveals our Character
Gen. 38: Tamar was judged to be a harlot
Prov. 7:10 “the attire of an harlot” KJV
“dressed as a prostitute” ESV
Christians wear clothing that shows something about our character!

22. What is the Standard for our Clothing ?
The Bible is our guidebook
God Clothed Adam & Eve
From shoulders to the knees
Rev.3:18 shame of our nakedness should be covered

23. What God Says About
Modesty
Cover Your Body

25. Nelson Chapel Church of Christ
5039 Six Mile Road
Maryville, Tn
August 20, 2017
Sermon by Arthur Pigman
2705 Druid Hill Dr.
Maryville, Tn
CCL