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In your Bibles tonight to 
Deuteronomy chapter 22. 

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And we're going to get there in 
a few minutes. 

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So if you would also like to 
turn a Proverbs Chapter 7 will 

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be there first. 
I know these lessons over the 

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last couple months have really 
pushed people in two directions.

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And again we're going to be 
talking about other this idea of

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standards and convictions, some 
have responded, well to it and 

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embraced it and others have 
pushed back against and I think 

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a lot of that has to do with 
what you've always heard. 

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The way you were raised or just 
maybe a lack of previous 

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teaching on that topic. 
But whatever side you've taken, 

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I want you to understand that in
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Have I taught these lessons 
because I like controversy or 

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push back. 
In fact, I hate it. 

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I've taught these lessons 
because I find them clearly in 

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the word of God. 
And it's my responsibility as 

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your pastor to preach the whole 
counsel of God regardless of 

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whether I like it or whether you
like. 

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And I'm going to answer to God 
someday for what I teach and 

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what I preach. 
I'm not going to answer to 

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anyone of you at the Judgment 
seat. 

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And I don't mean that in a 
disrespectful way at all. 

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I don't mean that in a, in a 
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But I'm going to answer to God. 
And I want to, I want to preach 

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and teach the things and do my 
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preached and taught it. 
Whether it was popular in 

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Christian culture or whether it 
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So, this will be our last study 
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but I think you'll find it to be
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favor of just exactly what I've 
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And that's the idea of stronger,
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standards of dress and there's 
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We could say, there's been a lot
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This topic, but for the sake of 
time and for other important 

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things that I do think we need 
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last. 
And so, just to give you a 

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little bit of a recap in the 
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We looked at two scriptural 
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to this area of what we, where 
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modesty and we looked at the 
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a little bit of time on those, 
but tonight we're going to look 

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at this third principle and 
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it's a Biblical principle and 
one that relates Directly to our

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clothing but it relates directly
to how people viewed clothing in

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Bible times and how people view 
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principle of identity. 
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principle of Distinction and so 
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dress it's not just modesty 
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it. 
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modesty and identity. 
So I want to Define this 

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biblical concept of identity and
see how it applies in our lives,

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in this area of standards and 
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So, Number one, let's look at 
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points here tonight, not not 
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It's going to be real quick. 
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that we lay these things out. 
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understand that your clothes, 
say something your clothes 

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speak. 
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particularly about modest in 
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I'm talking about the fact that 
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reveal something, essentially 
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and, you know, it Be that. 
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different ways that, that can be
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always wears that color, or that
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you know, that lady, always 
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whatever it happens to be. 
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harmless side of that thing. 
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as a slob, the way you dress, 
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Or they may identify you as 
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who is fashionable, or somebody 
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Comfort or you know, that your 
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or that your old, right? 
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based on the way that he dresses
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I'm kidding. 
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else do it because he went and 
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else put those onto. 
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Jackson loves that tie, brother,
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He wears that thing every every 
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school, every time for church, 
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appreciated, I'm teasing, 
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intentional by you, but they do 
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Along that same lines. 
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both. 
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of clothes, being purposely, 
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or practicality, right? 
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as a means of self-expression, 
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around in a mall somewhere to 
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self-expression. 
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there was, there are some some 
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and I'm not up on my clothing 
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So forgive me, but there are 
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more outspoken in their idea of 
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everything else, and you could 
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Fitch. 
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the tooth, you know, the early 
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I think maybe they were probably
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whole charge of that sexualized 
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know, give people that idea, you
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with the Gulf Lifestyle, right. 
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difference in them and they're 
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is, I'm rebelling against the 
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I'm going to wear all black, I 
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to. 
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I want to and you can't say 
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There's a lot of stores that you
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Have that idea, I mean, I don't 
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for you to know that they have 
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how they dress, you know, and go
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You're going to see that they 
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our dress and the way we dress 
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It's a means of self-expression 
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we do have scripture to show us 
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at this one verse in. 
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number 10 it says this and 
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with the attire of a harlot. 
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inappropriate but a prostitute 
then and now Wright had a 

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certain style of clothing that 
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see all the way throughout the 
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necessarily that that idea. 
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priest garments, a Widow's 
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garment so there's obviously 
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get across the certain idea of 
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be. 
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yourself to the world? 
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identifies you and and and those
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sake of time, we're not going to
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but there are simply different 
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truth and that's this your 
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says something about you. 
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clothing, our make up our 
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they're all presentation choices
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through the understanding of who
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Well, Are we biblically? 
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right? 
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Holiness, or at least, we should
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been separated from the world, 
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And and the same thing with that
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principles of vanity and modesty
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identity, directly impacts the 
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Choices that we make in relation
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lot to do with the Brand's, the 
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materials, so many different 
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That we can talk about. 
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choices identify us and they 
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Biblical screen. 
How you look says something 

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about who you are about, how you
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view yourself for that matter. 
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would ask tonight then is, does 
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your appearance choices? 
Reflect, The work of Christ 

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within you or not. 
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identify your Christianity, your
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Christian. 
But also number two, your 

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clothes, identify your gender. 
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I want to focus tonight. 
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chapter 22. 
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idea specifically in First 
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And again, for the sake of time,
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review that tonight. 
But Paul spent a lot of time he 

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took that almost that whole 
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Corinthians 11 to talk about 
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Of course we talked about the 
idea of your hair and your 

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appearance and all that stuff. 
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appearance ought to line up with
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not just reserved a hair like we
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explicitly. 
Died in scripture to our 

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clothing as well. 
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5 says this, the woman shall not
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a man? 
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woman's garment for all that do.
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Lord, thy God. 
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of emphasis. 
It's not only reflects the depth

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of God's feeling about 
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of God's feeling about something
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everything that God condemns as 
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He again, condemns as an 
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Testament, we see that same idea
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For example, which by the way 
that that has obvious gender 

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connections to it as well, 
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God calls homosexuality, an 
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and Deuteronomy 22, God is 
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made you a man, I made you a 
woman, your outward appearance 

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ought to reflect that. 
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around and say that you should 
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sexuality. 
But you should dress to reflect 

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your masculinity or femininity, 
right. 

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The first part of that would be 
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your sexuality, would be 
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that is entirely scriptural 
dressing to reflect your 

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masculinity or femininity right 
doing that is an external 

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reflection of an internal 
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God identifies me as a man or 
God identifies me as a woman. 

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My clothing choices ought to 
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I understand and I agree with 
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We could look at a lot of verses
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show that, which we're not going
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tonight. 
But God made us different, 

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right? 
God gave us different roles. 

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God gave us different 
responsibilities, and we've 

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talked extensively about that 
when it comes to the roles of 

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the husband, and the wife, and 
the man, and the woman in the 

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home, we have different 
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We have different bodies. 
We have different strengths, we 

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have different weaknesses, but 
we're not only different where 

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scripturally required to 
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Look different. 
And so in being briefed, Safe 

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tonight. 
I'm not. 

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I'm not taking time to explain 
how psychology has trying to 

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Ben. 
Has been trying to change the 

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generals for many years. 
But what we're seeing today with

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this trans gender ideology that 
is just being pushed down our 

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throats and and it is you know, 
it is it's transforming schools.

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It's transforming bathroom 
policy to whoever thought you 

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know ten years ago that you were
going to have to wonder if there

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was going to be a guy in a man's
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But this whole idea this trend 
Gender ideology has been given 

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free reign because of all the 
work that's been done in society

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to change those gender roles to 
this point in history, but the 

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simple truth is that we cannot 
change our gender without 

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revolting against our maker. 
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seems to us that God gave you 
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assigned at Birth, right? 
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you don't get to change that. 
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want to change that I got You 
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know, this these features to 
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that's not who I am. 
I'm changing that and you revolt

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against what God made you to be 
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cannot even appear to change our
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sovereignty in our lives. 
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a society? 
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of Deuteronomy which you know 
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It doesn't matter. 
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really that that only applied to
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It doesn't apply today because 
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That's the, that's the book of 
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through what they had to say 
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Most of the Terry's that I have.
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domain are old and have been 
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ago by Christians, that, you 
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transgenderism was being pushed 
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that have been that are being 
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say, they're being written in 
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about those things and that 
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But let's go back a few years 
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commentary said before the 
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Geneva Bible, footnotes about 
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All of these that I'm going to 
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Says that alters the order of 
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21679, he said, now this is 
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Decency's sake that men might 
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confound those Sexes, which God,
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would probably recognize as you 
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the first ones to actually write
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least wrote a commentary on the 
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Be made between Them in their 
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their clothes, John Gill died in
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a difference in Sexes, is made, 
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Otherwise, many evils might 
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gentleman May at times appear 
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Attire wear this to be tolerated
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established and cannot be 
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adoption of the habiliment of 
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outrage on decency. 
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The distinctions of nature by 
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effeminacy in the man impudence 
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well as levity and humor. 
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it opens the door to an influx 
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wear the dress of another sex or
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those were written before, the 
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Women would wear men's clothes 
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that it's not me that's out of 
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Christianity. 
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Christianity Today who really 
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the last 50 years or so. 
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generation that's out of step 
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thinking on this Old Testament 
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understanding of Deuteronomy 
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be out of step with society that
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wearing pants and honestly, this
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little bit about this on 
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the idea of evolution, right 
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saying that this was the way the
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fit science and the Bible 
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the ideas like the Gap Theory 
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of creation. 
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gaps of time for everything to 
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That's. 
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You know, the Bible doesn't then
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the Bible says. 
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evening and the morning were the
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the Bible that ends up getting 
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Christians. 
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the right to adjust. 
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because Society has adjusted, 
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a lot of things. 
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Christianity based on what 
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a lot of these churches? 
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Did the Bible change on that? 
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homosexuality is an Abomination,
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down our throats and telling us,
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Let people decide for 
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do, that's their own life, they 
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there they are allowing 
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Homosexual, marriages in their 
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to be homosexuals. 
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People would have would have 
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the world are you doing? 
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said, Okay, in society is pushed
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accept it. 
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promise you, it'll have no end 
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Look at the constant shifting of
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and gender in Liberal. 
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American Christian churches. 
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books on this subject, but one 
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Barbara, let me borrow it. 
I'd heard of it before I didn't 

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have it, but it was written by 
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Hanford and it's and the title 
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it for you. 
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John all rice, which Brian just 
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We the song that we just sang 
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He's written a lot of the songs 
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this is this is one of his 
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Hanford and the book isn't real 
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How about 100 pages? 
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this whole topic and especially 
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a lady, but I want to read you 
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And I know I don't do this very 
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this out, I came across this 
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summarize it myself. 
I decided I'm just going to read

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it and it's a little bit long 
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this passage here in 
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is excellent. 
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She says, this apparently, this 
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wear a man's clothing, and a man
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Those who do are an Abomination 
to God Abomination is as strong 

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a word of a version as you can 
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It means extreme. 
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hateful, shamefully vile 
Abomination. 

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That's the way the God feels 
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man's garment or a man put on a 
woman's garment. 

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Is this what that verse were 
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Sometimes it's been dismissed by
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That's only ceremonial law. 
That doesn't apply to us 

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Christians it's only ceremonial 
law. 

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Then we not only are not obliged
to keep it, it would be wrong 

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for us to impose it on There's 
when Christ died. 

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He blotted out, the handwriting 
of ordinances that was against 

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us, which was contrary to us and
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way, nailing it to his cross. 
That's Colossians chapter 2 and 

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verse 14. 
Verse 16 and 17. 

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Say, let no, man, therefore 
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or in respect of an holyday or 
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Sabbath days which are a shadow 
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But the body is of Christ, all 
ceremonial laws were abolished 

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at the cross. 
All moral laws are still 

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enforced, so how can we tell if 
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law? 
And therefore For binding, 

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you'll remember that a 
ceremonial law was established 

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by God, especially for the Jews 
had nothing to do with the 

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inherent right or wrong, it 
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hence, the word ceremonial that 
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Something specific about their 
set apartness for God. 

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Jews were commanded to do 
certain things just to show, 

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they were different. 
For example they were forbidden 

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to eat certain animals and birds
but God changed that command 

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after the death of Christ in 
Acts 10 15 God told the Apostle 

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Peter what God hath cleansed 
that call not thou common the 

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Big lesson had been taught. 
It was impossible to earn 

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salvation by keeping rules. 
The lesson is ended, now anyone 

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Jew, or Gentile can eat meat. 
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men will depart from the faith 
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Meats, which God hath created to
be received with Thanksgiving of

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them, which believe and know the
truth for every creature of God 

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is good and nothing to be 
refused. 

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If it be received with 
Thanksgiving is then Deuteronomy

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22:5 ceremonial or moral law, 
the whole chapter is a mixture 

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of both. 
Many verses are obviously Moral 

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law, if you see a neighbor's ox 
or sheep wandering, return it 

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conserve, natural resources. 
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Take responsibility in your home
for the safety of others wife 

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has a right to a fair trial, if 
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impurity. 
Rape is to be severely, 

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punished. 
So, is adultery. 

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These are moral laws for verses 
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ceremonial, don't so mixed seed 
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ox and ass together. 
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do well Fringe on your clothing 
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categories. 
Verse 5 fit one clue. 

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Is that the scripture says a 
woman who wears men's clothing 

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00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,500
is an Abomination unto, the Lord
thy God. 

452
00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,400
It's a terrible offense to God 
himself when a woman puts on 

453
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,300
men's apparel. 
Does God ever used the 

454
00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:04,100
expression, Abomination unto the
Lord? 

455
00:23:04,100 --> 00:23:07,400
When speaking of a ceremonial 
law know, the essence of 

456
00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,900
ceremonial always that Jews 
would make certain things 

457
00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:13,400
unclean to themselves. 
Deuteronomy 14, Leviticus 11, 

458
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,500
listed number of things. 
The Jews were to consider an 

459
00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,600
Abomination. 
He is unclean to you. 

460
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,600
Leviticus 11:7, all fouls. 
That creep, going a On all four 

461
00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,300
shall be an Abomination unto. 
You verse 20, all such 

462
00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:27,500
prohibitions made to Jews in the
Old Testament, were canceled in 

463
00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:31,500
the New Testament, but when the 
phrase an Abomination to me, 

464
00:23:32,100 --> 00:23:35,400
when God is speaking or an 
Abomination to God is used, the 

465
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,700
scripture is forbidding a gross,
moral sin, something inherently 

466
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,900
and obviously, wrong and equally
condemned in the New Testament 

467
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,100
idolatry is an Abomination to 
God. 

468
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,800
So, our human sacrifices 
witchcraft murder and lying in. 

469
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,500
These got, she's got versus for 
all these, but, therefore, when 

470
00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:53,200
God, Is it is an Abomination to 
him when a woman wears, a man's 

471
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,600
clothes. 
We must conclude it is a moral 

472
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,200
command not ceremonial. 
This sin is the same class with 

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00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,400
gross sin of idolatry adultery 
and murder in light of this. 

474
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,200
Many Hebrew scholars believe 
Deuteronomy 22:5 refers to the 

475
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,100
Heathen practice of using male, 
prostitutes and Temple worship 

476
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,800
specifically to transsexual 
cross-dressing for deviant sex 

477
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:15,000
in the worship of pagan gods. 
And maybe this is its primary 

478
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,500
meaning and a deliberate wearing
of the apparel of the opposite 

479
00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,600
sex in order to blur the 
distinctive work. 

480
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,600
God Has in mind for each, sex 
would be wrong to wear the 

481
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,000
clothing of the opposite. 
Sex might betray perhaps 

482
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:29,400
unintentionally an unwillingness
to submit to the plan. 

483
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,700
God especially designed for each
one of us when he created US 

484
00:24:31,700 --> 00:24:34,600
male or female. 
Question that next arises is, 

485
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:36,800
what is men's apparel. 
What is women's apparel? 

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00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,300
The assumption is that the 
reader of this scripture would 

487
00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:43,600
know which was, which God does 
never give a command that we 

488
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,900
can't obey because we don't know
what it means. 

489
00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:48,700
The second assumption is that 
men's and women's clothing, do 

490
00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:51,200
differ. 
First Timothy 2:9 says, In like 

491
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,600
manner, also that women Adorn 
themselves in modest apparel, 

492
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,500
the word apparel is a Greek 
word. 

493
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,600
Casteau Young's analytical 
concordance, translates, it 

494
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,200
long, robe note, for the moment 
that the emphasis is on, robe 

495
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,300
will talk about the long robe 
later. 

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00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:07,100
In this scripture, the 
assumption is that women will 

497
00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,700
wear robes. 
I know of only one situation in 

498
00:25:09,700 --> 00:25:11,700
scripture where men were 
commanded to wear pants. 

499
00:25:11,900 --> 00:25:14,200
The priests were commanded to 
wear breeches to cover the loins

500
00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,900
and thighs. 
When they walked up the steps to

501
00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:19,400
minister at the altar in 1st 
Timothy 2:9 in the in the first 

502
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,200
Timothy 2:9 reference we might 
as Ask if God gave this command 

503
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,800
concerning robes, because it was
the custom in Timothy sculpture 

504
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,900
for women to wear robes, perhaps
not God's word is eternal, it 

505
00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,200
will last forever. 
It is, it is as applicable and 

506
00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,400
relevant to us who live in an 
urban mechanized mobile society.

507
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,600
As it was two people, two, 
thousand years ago, living in a 

508
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,000
rural agricultural, simple 
Society. 

509
00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,000
Furthermore, the stress of 
scriptures that we're not to 

510
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,400
conform to the world's standards
of culture. 

511
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,000
If they violate scripture some 
of Christ, most scathing 

512
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,300
denunciation were against those 
who taught the traditions of In 

513
00:25:51,500 --> 00:25:55,300
as if they were the doctrine of 
God, God didn't notice that most

514
00:25:55,300 --> 00:25:57,300
of the women in Timothy's Church
wore robes. 

515
00:25:57,300 --> 00:25:59,500
And then determined that all 
Christian women in that town 

516
00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:02,300
should wear robes. 
In fact, God graciously makes 

517
00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,500
allowance in scripture for those
of different cultural 

518
00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:06,200
backgrounds in non-moral 
matters. 

519
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,300
The outcome of the Council of 
Jerusalem and X-15. 

520
00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:12,000
Was that Gentile Christians 
ought not to offend Jewish 

521
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,500
Believers. 
And that Jewish Believers ought 

522
00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:16,500
not to require ceremonial 
customs of Gentile Christians. 

523
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:20,000
In fact, when cultural Customs 
are referred to in scripture, 

524
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,500
which might not be Familiar to 
those of another culture. 

525
00:26:22,500 --> 00:26:24,900
The Holy Spirit often takes time
out from the narrative to 

526
00:26:24,900 --> 00:26:28,200
explain that custom, for 
example, in Ruth 47. 

527
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,700
Now this was the manner and 
former time in Israel, 

528
00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:33,200
concerning redeeming a man. 
Plucked off his shoe and gave it

529
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,800
to his neighbor Second Kings 
11:14, Esther 113 for Samuel, 99

530
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,200
have similar explanations. 
I would not ever give a command 

531
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:44,000
in Scripture that depended on 
our knowing about a foreign 

532
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,100
culture from an external Source 
apart from his word before, we 

533
00:26:47,100 --> 00:26:48,700
can understand it enough to obey
it. 

534
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,400
Second Peter, 1 3 and 4 says, 
his divine power hath given unto

535
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,000
us all things that pertain unto 
life and godliness whereby are 

536
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,900
given unto us exceeding, great 
and precious promises. 

537
00:26:59,900 --> 00:27:04,900
So God's word does not require 
light shed on shed on shed on it

538
00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,300
from secular history. 
In order to understand what is 

539
00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:09,500
expected of us. 
Certainly where profited by 

540
00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:12,000
light from other sources on the 
word of God, we are enriched by 

541
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,900
what Bible historians teach us. 
I speak now only of God's 

542
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:17,200
commands themselves being plane 
whatever. 

543
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,200
First Timothy, 2:9 means it's 
not To command a first century 

544
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,900
women and their relationship to 
a local cultural custom. 

545
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,300
It's for women living today in 
our culture, as well. 

546
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,900
The Bible also makes many 
references to men, wearing 

547
00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:31,700
robes, the Greek word stole is 
used of men's garments, as well 

548
00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:34,300
as women's three times. 
The word is translated wrong, 

549
00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:37,900
long, robe or long garment, How 
can there be a distinction of 

550
00:27:37,900 --> 00:27:40,800
men and women? 
Both wore robes a clue is found 

551
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,000
in the Greek word. 
Catus told used only once in 

552
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,300
scripture and there's reference 
to women's clothing There, there

553
00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,400
it refers to women's clothing. 
The great scholar says, that, 

554
00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:53,800
that word means properly a 
lowering letting down. 

555
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,200
Hence, a garment, let down. 
So, this seems to indicate a 

556
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,400
woman's role would be longer 
than a man's. 

557
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,600
Another clue is found in 
Deuteronomy, 25. 

558
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,500
The word garment is the Hebrew 
word. 

559
00:28:03,500 --> 00:28:06,900
Simla in contrast to an inner 
garment or vest. 

560
00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,500
Simla means, outer garment, this
implies, it's the outside the 

561
00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:13,100
obvious, the immediately 
distinguishable garment that 

562
00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:16,400
ought to differ between men and 
women, the silhouette the All 

563
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,900
impression is to be distinctly, 
male or female, you ought to be 

564
00:28:19,900 --> 00:28:24,100
able to tell at a glance whether
one is a man or a woman and zone

565
00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,800
defense, pictorial dictionary, 
the article on Hebrew woman's 

566
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,400
dress, says, a few articles of 
female clothing, carried 

567
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,300
somewhat, the same name and 
basic pattern yet. 

568
00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:35,600
There was always sufficient 
difference in embossing 

569
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,300
embroidery needle work. 
So that in appearance, the line 

570
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:41,300
of demarcation between men and 
women could be readily detected 

571
00:28:41,500 --> 00:28:43,500
in the more remote parts of the 
Arab lands. 

572
00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:46,000
Today, they wear clothing is 
essentially the same as it was 

573
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:47,200
in. 
What times this statement is 

574
00:28:47,208 --> 00:28:50,000
still true, though, the 
traditional Arab dress for men 

575
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:51,900
and women is still the robe. 
There is never the slightest 

576
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:53,600
doubt in your mind as to whether
you are viewing. 

577
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,200
A man or a woman, the entire 
silhouette is different one day.

578
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,300
At the dinner table. 
Our children were discussing our

579
00:28:59,300 --> 00:29:03,500
paper boy, was he a paper girl? 
He wore a shirt and blue jeans 

580
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:05,200
but that proves nothing these 
days. 

581
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,000
His or was it her hair was long 
and curly with cute bangs. 

582
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,100
He wore loafers with a fringe. 
I was inclined to agree with my 

583
00:29:12,100 --> 00:29:15,700
girls, no boy could have curls 
that pretty but my son, Paul won

584
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:16,500
the argument. 
Aunt. 

585
00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:18,800
It's a boy. 
He said, positively, he rides a 

586
00:29:18,808 --> 00:29:21,500
boy's bicycle. 
This is what God meant. 

587
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:24,900
When he described confusion this
Deuteronomy 22:5, then mean a 

588
00:29:24,908 --> 00:29:28,000
woman I'll never wear slacks and
this country, most women wear 

589
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,600
slacks if most women wear them. 
Doesn't that automatically make 

590
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,500
them women's apparel perhaps. 
So. 

591
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,000
But if women's and men's apparel
are to be distinct, how can a 

592
00:29:35,008 --> 00:29:37,200
woman make her slacks distinct 
from a man's? 

593
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,400
Not by color pastels are no 
longer the private province of 

594
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,100
women. 
Color alone no longer conveys 

595
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:46,100
femininity my zippers on the 
side instead of the front. 

596
00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:49,800
Woman explained to me, I made my
slacks for me so you can't say 

597
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,200
they are man's apparel but does 
that meet God's expectation, 

598
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:55,700
that the silhouette the first 
impression be distinctly 

599
00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,800
feminine to tell the truth? 
You wouldn't be very happy if a 

600
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,300
man check to see if the zipper 
on your slacks was in the front 

601
00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:03,800
or on the side. 
But slacks are so much more 

602
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,400
comfortable than a skirt. 
You might say, your comfort is a

603
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,700
subjective matter. 
You really may be more 

604
00:30:08,700 --> 00:30:11,500
comfortable in pants, but should
we make Comfort our first 

605
00:30:11,500 --> 00:30:13,700
consideration? 
A hundred times a day. 

606
00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:15,500
We choose to do. 
What is not comfortable, but 

607
00:30:15,500 --> 00:30:18,000
right, We got a bed every 
morning when staying in bed 

608
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,800
would be more comfortable, but 
slacks are more modest than 

609
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,300
skirts. 
Most women wear isn't it? 

610
00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,600
Better to wear slacks into being
modest aren't pants. 

611
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,500
The lesser of two evils. 
In a later chapter, we'll talk 

612
00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,800
about whether slacks are more 
modest in a skirt and yes, I 

613
00:30:29,808 --> 00:30:32,100
realized that's the third time. 
I've told you will discuss 

614
00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:35,100
something later if you've no 
idea how hard it is to keep this

615
00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,800
how hard it is, to keep this 
book organized right now. 

616
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,100
Let's talk about whether slacks 
of the lesser of two evils, 

617
00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:44,300
Manish, nests or in modesty, 
Charles Spurgeon said, when 

618
00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:48,300
choosing between two evils, 
Neither is it better to be a 

619
00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:51,300
modest or to wear men's apparel 
Spurgeon says choose neither. 

620
00:30:51,300 --> 00:30:54,300
You don't have to choose between
in modesty and on womanliness 

621
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,200
you can be modest and womanly 
when we must make a moral 

622
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,000
decision, let's erase from our 
possible choices, every 

623
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,100
alternative that involves wrong.
If you feel, you have no choice.

624
00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,700
But the lesser of two evils is 
because you have not considered 

625
00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,700
all the Alternatives, you do 
have another Choice somewhere 

626
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,700
somehow, so that you don't have 
to break any of God's commands. 

627
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,100
He promised in First Corinthians
10:13 to provide a way we can. 

628
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,900
Escape from Temptation. 
God always keeps his word. 

629
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,000
There's always some way to solve
a problem without choosing evil.

630
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,400
You may have to do some creative
thinking and perhaps some 

631
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,500
designing and sewing. 
I'm not promising, you, it'll be

632
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400
the easy way out, but you can 
find a garment to wear that is 

633
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:33,200
both feminine, and modest and 
functional, but my husband likes

634
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,200
me to wear slacks. 
You might exclaim knowing that, 

635
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,100
I'm the woman who that wrote 
that just as difficult to handle

636
00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:41,200
book me, obey him, you know, I 
believe God wants us to obey our

637
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,600
husbands. 
Does he want you to wear slacks?

638
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,100
Because you seem to be more fun 
less inhibited. 

639
00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:49,100
And you wear them, they seem to 
make you more his pal, His 

640
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:51,600
companion, that's a gift, you 
can give him no matter how you 

641
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,600
dress, if you are earnestly 
obeying your husband and 

642
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,800
everything. 
Not just where your druthers 

643
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,400
coincide with his his will. 
I've a hunch, I'll defer to your

644
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,800
convictions about this. 
My husband does not feel as 

645
00:32:02,808 --> 00:32:05,800
strongly as I do about my not 
wearing pants, but he Treasures 

646
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,200
my relationship with the Lord 
and wouldn't want me to do 

647
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,500
something against my conscience,
but you might properly object, 

648
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:14,300
you have taken one 
teensy-weensy, scripture in the 

649
00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:16,000
Old Testament and made a federal
case. 

650
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,500
Is out of it. 
If it's as important as you say,

651
00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,800
wouldn't God have repeated 
elsewhere in scripture? 

652
00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:23,700
This command is not repeated 
elsewhere in scripture, but the 

653
00:32:23,708 --> 00:32:26,900
biblical principle underlies, 
all man-woman relationships. 

654
00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:29,900
Even if it's not repeated, we 
have to ask ourselves how many 

655
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:32,700
times must God commands us to do
something before we obey him 

656
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:34,100
twice. 
Three times. 

657
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,900
Is it one clear command enough 
to show us the mind of God if we

658
00:32:37,900 --> 00:32:39,900
won't listen to him the first 
time, would we listen to him the

659
00:32:39,908 --> 00:32:42,900
second or third time? 
Jesus said, we are accountable 

660
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:45,300
for every word that proceeds out
of the mouth of God. 

661
00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:49,300
One command is enough, is it 
legalistic rather than living by

662
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,700
grace, to obey this particular 
element of scripture? 

663
00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:54,600
I think not, I make choices 
every day about my lifestyle to 

664
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:57,700
avoid Temptation not to earn 
God's approval but simply 

665
00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,700
because he showered his great 
grace on me. 

666
00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,500
One of my girls said to me but 
mother lots of women. 

667
00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,100
Don't believe. 
Like you do about this and 

668
00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:06,200
they're just as good of 
Christians as you are. 

669
00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,500
This is absolutely true. 
I have no corner on God's word. 

670
00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:12,900
This is a decision you must make
for Off as you study the word 

671
00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:15,700
and see God's heart. 
God holds me accountable for 

672
00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:17,900
decisions. 
I make while reading his word 

673
00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:21,400
regardless of what others 
believe Proverbs 22 21 says 

674
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,700
we're to know the certainty of 
the words of truth. 

675
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,600
So that we might answer the 
words of truth back to him, who 

676
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,600
sent them to us, we are 
accountable to listen to God's 

677
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:31,700
word, then repeat it back to him
to demonstrate that. 

678
00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:34,900
We really heard him correctly. 
Perhaps the principles given in 

679
00:33:34,900 --> 00:33:37,200
Romans chapter 14, for 
Christians who disagree on 

680
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,000
certain matters of Lifestyle 
will help you make your 

681
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,900
decisions. 
First, it is wrong to Judge 

682
00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:44,000
others about spiritual 
decisions, they make as they try

683
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,400
to serve God, him that is weak 
in the faith receive. 

684
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,600
Ye but not to doubtful 
disputations. 

685
00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:52,700
Let not him that eateth despise 
him that eateth not and let not 

686
00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,400
him, which eateth not judge him.
That eateth for God. 

687
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,200
Hath received him who art thou 
that judgest another man's 

688
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,100
servant to his own Master. 
He standeth or falleth ye shall 

689
00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:03,900
be holding up for God is able to
make him stand for none of us 

690
00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:06,300
liveth to himself and no man, 
dieth to himself. 

691
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:09,300
But why Dost thou judge thy 
brother or why Dost thou set at 

692
00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,800
nought thy brother second? 
Each of us will answer to God 

693
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,800
alone for our decisions. 
For we shall all stand before 

694
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,600
the Judgment seat of Christ for 
it is written. 

695
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,900
As I live saith the Lord, every 
knee shall bow to me, and every 

696
00:34:20,900 --> 00:34:23,400
tongue shall confess to God. 
So then every one of us shall 

697
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,500
give account of himself to God. 
Third, we ought not to give 

698
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:31,000
someone else an excuse to sin. 
Let us not judge there for one 

699
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,000
another anymore. 
But judge this rather that no 

700
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,500
man put a stumbling block or an 
occasion to fall in his brothers

701
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,500
way. 
But if thy, brother be grieved 

702
00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,900
with thy meat, now walkest thou 
not charitably, destroy, not him

703
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:43,500
with thy meat. 
For whom Christ died, let not 

704
00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:46,500
then your good be evil spoken of
for the kingdom of God, is Not 

705
00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:48,600
meat and drink, but 
righteousness and peace and joy 

706
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,300
in the Holy Ghost. 
The last of all, we must not 

707
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:55,900
violate our own conscience hast,
thou Faith, have it to thyself 

708
00:34:55,900 --> 00:34:59,400
before, God, happy as he, that 
condemneth, not himself in that 

709
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,200
thing which he alloweth. 
And he that doubt is, is damned 

710
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,300
if he eat. 
Because he eateth not of faith 

711
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,400
for whatsoever is not of faith 
is sin. 

712
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,600
This surely ought not to be a 
divisive thing among Christians 

713
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,100
a woman. 
A woman's godliness is certainly

714
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:16,600
not determined simply by whether
she wears a skirt or slacks, a 

715
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,900
critical spirit toward others 
about this would be just as 

716
00:35:18,900 --> 00:35:22,500
sinful as disobedience in any 
others fear, you might exclaims 

717
00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:25,600
in exasperation but Libya, I 
just don't like to wear skirts. 

718
00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:28,300
And with that, we have may have 
come to the heart of the 

719
00:35:28,300 --> 00:35:30,500
difficulty. 
Why don't you like to wear 

720
00:35:30,500 --> 00:35:32,100
skirts? 
Instead of slacks, is it because

721
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,500
slacks are more comfortable, 
more stylish cheaper more 

722
00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:37,500
modest, or could there be a more
basic problem of which you are 

723
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,100
not aware? 
Several years ago, I was in the 

724
00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:42,500
library researching a patriotic 
program. 

725
00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,400
I was writing for our Christian 
Day School, leafing through the 

726
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,000
yellowed, 1933 almanach, I came 
across the picture of Marlene 

727
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,200
dietrich's sitting on top of a 
grand piano performing in a 

728
00:35:52,207 --> 00:35:56,000
nightclub the caption said Miss 
Dietrich was the first woman 

729
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,200
ever to wear a man's suit in 
public. 

730
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,300
That was not strictly accurate. 
History tells us of many women 

731
00:36:01,300 --> 00:36:04,700
who wore men's clothing but when
asked why she dared to do so she

732
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,900
retorted because I'm tired of 
men, having all the fun in life.

733
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:10,900
A friend of mine was shopping in
one of the largest department 

734
00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:13,400
stores in Atlanta. 
She was astonished that they had

735
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,600
dozens of racks of pantsuits and
only one rack of dresses and 

736
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,400
suits with skirts. 
She expressed her surprise to 

737
00:36:19,408 --> 00:36:21,100
the saleswoman. 
You bet? 

738
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:23,700
The clerk said, we women are 
finally getting our rights. 

739
00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:25,900
We're not going to let the men 
push us around anymore, 

740
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,700
sometimes. 
Then evidently a woman will 

741
00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:30,700
choose to wear pants because she
doesn't want the role. 

742
00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:34,000
God lovingly designed for her, 
the question who wears the pants

743
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,400
at your house? 
Implies, that whoever wears the 

744
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,100
pants is the boss God. 
Good for the man to be the 

745
00:36:39,107 --> 00:36:42,000
leader in his own home. 
What you where does reflect your

746
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,200
attitude toward an authority 
reveals how you feel about being

747
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,300
a woman. 
God wants even your clothing to 

748
00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:48,500
demonstrate that. 
You gladly. 

749
00:36:48,500 --> 00:36:51,700
Accept the position, he has 
given you, your clothing should 

750
00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,400
say, I enjoyed being a woman and
I gladly submit to God's will 

751
00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,200
for my life. 
I know it's long and a lot to it

752
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,600
and you know, certainly you 
could grab that book and and 

753
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,600
there's a lot more to it that 
kind of explains how she got up 

754
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:08,700
to that point. 
But the simple truth With. 

755
00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:11,100
I think, is that American 
Christianity for the most part? 

756
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:14,100
No longer swims against the 
current, but we always used to 

757
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:17,900
do that it. 
Now, it purposely swims with the

758
00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:21,300
current and it mocks these poor 
dumb, ignorant, legalistic 

759
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:23,800
Christians, who are trying to 
swim against the current and 

760
00:37:23,808 --> 00:37:29,000
that's why it's why there's even
a necessity to teach a lesson on

761
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,300
what it means to be an 
independent fundamental Baptist 

762
00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:36,200
because there are so few left so
many, I mean, just go to any of 

763
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,500
these churches in this area and 
look at At what they are 

764
00:37:39,500 --> 00:37:44,400
allowing in the churches and 
you'll know that, you know, 

765
00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:47,600
we're trying to swim with the 
current instead of against it. 

766
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,600
And in fact what's happening now
is that a lot of Christians are 

767
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,400
apologizing for the fact that 
ever swim against the current 

768
00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:55,400
right? 
How many times have you seen 

769
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,100
people come out and say you know
I know how hurtful the language 

770
00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:01,200
was for us to preach against 
homosexuality and I know how 

771
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,000
hurtful the language was for us 
to save this and say that and do

772
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,600
these other things. 
When all we're doing is 

773
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:08,300
preaching the word of God don't 
need to apologize for preaching.

774
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,600
Word of God. 
But when women began wearing 

775
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,100
pants in Western Society, it was
understood that that was a 

776
00:38:13,107 --> 00:38:15,400
statement by women that they had
assumed for themselves. 

777
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,000
The roles that were 
traditionally taken on by the 

778
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,800
men. 
That and like she mentioned in 

779
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,300
that book, the statement of who 
wears the pants. 

780
00:38:23,300 --> 00:38:26,500
In the family means who's in 
charge who leads, right? 

781
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:32,400
Who provides who sets the pace, 
the reason why my wife and my 

782
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,800
daughter don't wear pants in 
public. 

783
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:39,300
And the reason why honestly, 
every every In that teaches in 

784
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,800
Sunday school or sings in the 
choir, or as a nurse who work, 

785
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,400
or does anything in our church 
should be in a skirt or dress 

786
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,500
during church is not just about 
modesty. 

787
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:49,900
Yes, it's about modesty but it's
also about identity. 

788
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,000
I wouldn't let my son walk out 
of the house in a skirt. 

789
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,700
But you have a big issue with 
that if I let my son walk out of

790
00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:59,800
the house in a skirt, you know, 
I wouldn't allow a deacon to 

791
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,400
serve the Lord supper in a 
dress, right? 

792
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,400
You would think I was joking. 
Probably. 

793
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,700
And then you'd have a big issue 
with me if I got up here to 

794
00:39:07,707 --> 00:39:11,900
preach in a dress, right? 
You would have a heart attack 

795
00:39:11,900 --> 00:39:16,800
probably and and you would never
come back, you know, you. 

796
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,200
But in you might be saying, 
well, men, wearing skirts is 

797
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:20,400
different. 
Everybody knows that men 

798
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,300
shouldn't wear skirts. 
Right. 

799
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,300
But mark my words just not gonna
be long before it's mainstream 

800
00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:27,700
and you're going to see it a 
whole lot more already, trying 

801
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:30,300
to push it in a lot of aspects 
and it may be a few years. 

802
00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:32,800
But eventually American 
Christianity is going to follow 

803
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:36,200
and there will be it's going to 
start in your big 

804
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,200
non-denominational churches 
first, but they'll be guys up 

805
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,200
there preaching, on the stage in
a skirt. 

806
00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:43,200
And they're going to be laughed 
at and made fun of and 

807
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,500
everything else. 
And people are going to leave 

808
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:48,500
that church but some will stay 
and eventually more churches are

809
00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,700
going to do it and eventually 
it's going to be mainstream, 

810
00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,100
it'll be normalized and And men 
are going to wear. 

811
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,500
Skirts fact, can I read you an 
article really quick from from 

812
00:39:56,500 --> 00:40:00,600
this past summer? 
Brad Pitt turn some heads at the

813
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,400
premiere of his latest film by 
donning. 

814
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,400
A skirt for his red carpet 
appearance 58 year old actor was

815
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,200
all smiles when he arrived at 
the Berlin. 

816
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,900
Screening as he posed for photos
while, wearing a brown raw Edge 

817
00:40:11,900 --> 00:40:16,200
hem, knee length, skirt and 
matching jacket pit paired, the 

818
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,300
outfit with combat boots. 
A pink button down multiple 

819
00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:21,900
necklaces and sunglasses. 
As outfit. 

820
00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:25,100
Showed off multiple leg tattoos.
When he was asked why he was 

821
00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:27,500
wearing a skirt. 
The actor told a reporter, the 

822
00:40:27,500 --> 00:40:31,200
breeze, The breeze. 
The actor has apparently 

823
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,100
professed. 
His love of wearing skirts in 

824
00:40:33,100 --> 00:40:36,600
the past according to British 
Vogue magazine, pit predicted 

825
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,200
that skirts would become a 
mainstream fashion for men in no

826
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:40,800
time. 
He made the comments while 

827
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,200
promoting the 2004 historical 
War film. 

828
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:47,500
Troy men will be wearing skirts,
by next summer pit set at the 

829
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:48,800
time. 
That's my prediction and 

830
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,000
Proclamation the film answers. 
To both genders, we're going for

831
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,100
realism and Greeks wore skirts 
all the time. 

832
00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:57,900
That wasn't even the first time 
the actor War, traditionally 

833
00:40:57,900 --> 00:40:59,800
feminine clothing for a photo 
op. 

834
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,800
At the height of his heart throb
days in 1999. 

835
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,500
Brad Pitt appeared on the cover 
of Rolling Stone smoking, a 

836
00:41:05,508 --> 00:41:09,000
cigarette, while wearing, a 
boldly printed dress went pop 

837
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,500
singer, Harry Styles started 
wearing dresses like on the 

838
00:41:11,508 --> 00:41:15,000
cover of Vogue, many fans, Drew 
comparison to pits photoshoot. 

839
00:41:15,300 --> 00:41:18,400
Social media was divided on pit 
skirt and jacket combo for the 

840
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,200
premier. 
One podcaster said, just when 

841
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:24,500
you think Brad Pitt, couldn't 
get any sexier he wears a skirt.

842
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,300
Another person said all the 
dinosaurs a guest today at Brad 

843
00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:30,000
Pitt in a skirt. 
I freaking love it. 

844
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,500
Personally pit previously told 
his Squire that his personal 

845
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,800
approach to style values Comfort
above all other things. 

846
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:41,000
He said this you get older you 
get crankier and comfort becomes

847
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,100
more important. 
I think it's as simple as that. 

848
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,200
I don't want to look 
ostentatious but if you come 

849
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,200
close you notice I like how the 
lining. 

850
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,700
Feels those details that are 
important to me too exhausting 

851
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:53,500
to follow trends. 
I think it's pretty interesting 

852
00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:56,500
that a lot of women use the 
exact same excuse for why they 

853
00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:58,300
wear pants. 
But, you know, there's a lot of 

854
00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:01,000
arguments to that. 
Well, obviously your male 

855
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:04,000
chauvinist, you know, it doesn't
have anything to do with 

856
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,300
control. 
It has everything to do with 

857
00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:08,500
trying to be scripturally 
obedient, right regardless of 

858
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,200
whether well you know because 
people say that you what your 

859
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,800
church is never going to grow. 
You're always going to have a 

860
00:42:12,808 --> 00:42:15,500
small church and honestly, it's 
probably true. 

861
00:42:15,900 --> 00:42:18,800
That's probably true. 
But it's not about church 

862
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:20,600
growth. 
It doesn't have anything to do 

863
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,000
with how big we are or The size 
that we are anything like that 

864
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,100
it has everything to do with 
obedience. 

865
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:28,900
Well I can see your church is 
made up of legalistic dinosaurs,

866
00:42:28,900 --> 00:42:30,500
you know? 
And I think people should run 

867
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:33,400
screaming out of that 
controlling atmosphere and again

868
00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:39,300
you can take it to a whole far 
extreme and and we'll leave it 

869
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:42,800
at that but you know I'm 
certainly not trying to chase 

870
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,500
anybody out am not going to 
speak harshly about you or 

871
00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:49,600
anything like that and but but, 
but you're still going to have 

872
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,500
to answer to God, someday for 
Deuteronomy 22:5 and How you 

873
00:42:52,500 --> 00:42:58,200
responded to it, right? 
And and again, It comes down to 

874
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:02,400
the idea that my wife. 
And honestly you know my I grew 

875
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,500
up with this standard so for me 
it was not something that I'd 

876
00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,500
never heard of before. 
It was not something that I that

877
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:13,800
was foreign to me. 
But when I met my wife and you 

878
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:18,600
know, I honestly had my wife 
worn pants when we met. 

879
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,700
I probably would have said, you 
know, what fine do that? 

880
00:43:20,700 --> 00:43:25,100
Then it doesn't doesn't bother 
me, but she had that standard 

881
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,400
and it was, it was not something
that That she took lightly, it 

882
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,200
was something that she took very
seriously and over the years. 

883
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,300
I've come especially through 
studying these things out myself

884
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:39,000
to get to the point where it is 
important that we do this, it's 

885
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,000
important that we have that as a
standard. 

886
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,100
And you know, and I know the 
argument, you know, if that's a 

887
00:43:45,107 --> 00:43:47,100
rule I'll keep it at church. 
But I'm going to live how I want

888
00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:48,700
you the rest of the week and you
can't stop me. 

889
00:43:48,700 --> 00:43:50,200
And you're right, I can't stop 
you. 

890
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:55,600
And I wouldn't try to stop you, 
I, you know, but I think we need

891
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,800
to have that desire to grow. 
Grace to grow in Holiness. 

892
00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:04,200
It's an inward Grace that works 
its way out, not just that 

893
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,900
church. 
Like obviously, you've never 

894
00:44:06,900 --> 00:44:10,500
seen my wife and a pair of pants
because it's not just that 

895
00:44:10,500 --> 00:44:12,400
church. 
It's at Walmart, it's on the 

896
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,600
sidewalk, it's at home, it's 
everywhere because it's a 

897
00:44:15,607 --> 00:44:19,000
reflection of who you are, not 
just something you do. 

898
00:44:19,900 --> 00:44:23,500
And I think that's I think that 
that mindset has been projected 

899
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:25,000
on people in churches for so 
long. 

900
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,400
This is something you do. 
That it that it becomes just 

901
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:33,300
something you do rather than 
something that you are Melissa. 

902
00:44:33,300 --> 00:44:37,700
Nobody is nobody is happier than
I am that. 

903
00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:39,400
This is the last lesson in this 
series. 

904
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,500
I'm not trying to make you 
unhappy, I'm not trying to make 

905
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:43,800
you uncomfortable. 
I'm not trying to make you 

906
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,900
angry, but as we've looked at 
this whole idea of clothing has 

907
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:52,400
a moral, use the Bible principle
of modesty. 

908
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:56,100
Clearly enters into that closing
clothing has it and it has 

909
00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:58,800
enough. 
Aesthetic, use the Bible 

910
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,600
principle of vanity clearly 
enters into that. 

911
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,800
We've talked about both of those
principal and clothing has an 

912
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:06,100
identifying use, and that's what
we're talking about tonight. 

913
00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:09,800
The Bible principles related to 
looking like a Christian and 

914
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,200
looking like a man or looking 
like a woman clearly enter into 

915
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,500
that. 
And again, it doesn't have to 

916
00:45:15,500 --> 00:45:19,800
just be man, wearing a skirt, 
right? 

917
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,300
There's a lot of ways that men 
today are looking a whole lot 

918
00:45:23,300 --> 00:45:25,000
more effeminate than they ever 
have. 

919
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,000
And you know, the idea of the 
skinny jeans and, you know, all 

920
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,700
these tight clothes and you 
know, just there's a lot of 

921
00:45:31,707 --> 00:45:35,900
different things and honestly 
I'm just I am I am perplexed by,

922
00:45:35,900 --> 00:45:40,000
you know, even in churches that 
I knew for many years to be 

923
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,500
good, churches, how the guys are
all running around. 

924
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:45,200
This long floppy hair, thats 
hanging over their face in their

925
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:47,600
eyes and they're constantly 
doing this kind of stuff. 

926
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:52,000
That's feminine it's effeminate 
and it's not it's not something 

927
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,300
that is is it's just pushing a 
line. 

928
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,500
To try to look more and more 
like the world because that's 

929
00:45:57,500 --> 00:45:59,100
what they're seeing today, 
right? 

930
00:45:59,100 --> 00:46:02,400
You watch basketball games and 
that's what you see you watch. 

931
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:04,600
You know, you watch any of these
other things. 

932
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,500
And that's what you see the 
guys, how all this long floppy 

933
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:09,800
hair. 
And, you know, you notice that 

934
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,800
the the shorts are getting 
shorter again, back in the 80s, 

935
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,100
when the shorts were, this tall 
in a basketball game, you know, 

936
00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:18,700
they're getting back to that 
point again, you know, and, and 

937
00:46:18,700 --> 00:46:20,600
it's moving back in that 
direction. 

938
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,400
And all of Christianity says, 
well, this is what Society is 

939
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:24,500
doing. 
So, this is what we have to do, 

940
00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:27,400
too. 
We move with Society rather than

941
00:46:27,700 --> 00:46:32,500
there should be, one thing that 
will never change and of course 

942
00:46:32,500 --> 00:46:36,400
that's the word of God, but that
should be American Christianity.

943
00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:39,400
Does not matter. 
What Society does, it does not 

944
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,400
matter what society says it does
not matter. 

945
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,600
What changes in our world there 
should be one thing that never 

946
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,800
changes and that should be 
Christians because we basically 

947
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:52,100
are basing it on the word of 
God, but we change and we flow 

948
00:46:52,100 --> 00:46:54,300
with society and we're Society 
starts doing this. 

949
00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:56,800
We float down hill with And we 
might create a little bit of a 

950
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,500
Ripple by pushing back, just a 
little bit against that but 

951
00:46:59,500 --> 00:47:02,700
we're all floating in that same 
direction and at some point we 

952
00:47:02,700 --> 00:47:05,300
have to stand up in the middle 
of the river and say let the 

953
00:47:05,300 --> 00:47:08,300
world flow around us. 
I'm not moving from this spot 

954
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,900
and that's honestly what this 
idea of standards and 

955
00:47:11,900 --> 00:47:15,400
convictions is all about. 
We should be different. 

956
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,200
We should be distinct especially
in a world. 

957
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,100
That is trying to tell us that 
we have to be the same as them. 

958
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,600
Something has to be different. 
Something has to change and It 

959
00:47:25,607 --> 00:47:27,400
shouldn't be us. 
Let the world change. 

960
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,500
Let the rest of American 
so-called Christianity change. 

961
00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:34,000
We need to hold a line that 
we've been given in the word of 

962
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,300
God. 
So your religion is inward. 

963
00:47:36,300 --> 00:47:40,500
Yes, but it's also outward it's 
inside out and it's important 

964
00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:43,000
that God's people apply that to 
our appearance. 

965
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,000
Not going to talk not going to 
do any more lessons on this. 

966
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,900
Although there's probably a lot 
of other things that we could 

967
00:47:48,900 --> 00:47:52,200
say a lot more verses that we 
could look at, I believe we've 

968
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,100
covered it sufficiently. 
But think about it, pray about 

969
00:47:55,100 --> 00:47:56,800
it. 
It's something that has to be a 

970
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,700
decision that you make on your 
own. 

971
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,600
Because again, if obviously, 
we're going to have a standard 

972
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,000
for our church. 
So when you're working in a 

973
00:48:05,008 --> 00:48:07,500
Ministry, this is the standard 
that you have to have because 

974
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:11,000
this is who we are and you 
representing the church but 

975
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,700
everywhere else, that's your 
choice. 

976
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,800
You decide what you're going to 
follow, and what? 

977
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,600
You're not going to follow what 
you're going to be, and what 

978
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:21,700
you're not going to be. 
And again, it's the whole he's 

979
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:25,000
it's if I can convince you, or 
if I can tell you that, you have

980
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,300
to do that, then the moment I'm 
gone or the moment, you're 

981
00:48:28,300 --> 00:48:31,400
somewhere else. 
It's going to change again 

982
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,100
because somebody will convince 
you the other way or you don't 

983
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:37,400
have to do it anymore because 
you're no longer under those 

984
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,800
rules or whatever. 
So I'm not going to tell you 

985
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:43,300
what you can and can't do when 
you are. 

986
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,000
On your own when you're when 
you're at your home when you're 

987
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,500
doing the things that you're 
going to do. 

988
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:51,700
But but I think it's something 
that you ought to seriously 

989
00:48:51,700 --> 00:48:53,700
consider from the word of God, 
especially in light of what we 

990
00:48:53,700 --> 00:48:55,400
talked about tonight when it 
comes to this idea of 

991
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,700
Distinction. 
So modesty, yes, but also 

992
00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:02,200
distinction and those two go 
hand-in-hand and they help us to

993
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:04,600
become an end to be exactly what
God wants us to be. 

994
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,200
There is there's a lot of things
that I that are more important 

995
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:12,300
than that in the Bible, right? 
There's a lot of doctrines that 

996
00:49:12,300 --> 00:49:14,200
that are that are more important
than this. 

997
00:49:14,300 --> 00:49:17,800
Idea of modesty and standards 
and convictions and all that 

998
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,300
stuff. 
Although the idea of Standards 

999
00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:23,000
your convictions is not just, 
you know, we tend to associate, 

1000
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,000
you know, what you wear with 
standards but there's a lot of 

1001
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,500
standards and there's a lot of 
convictions and things that we 

1002
00:49:27,508 --> 00:49:29,500
can have. 
So that's a broad term. 

1003
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:34,500
But you know that's something 
that that the Holy Spirit has to

1004
00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:36,900
convince you about and something
that you really need to pray 

1005
00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:38,400
about it. 
Something that you that you 

1006
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:41,000
really need to search out and 
figure out if there is something

1007
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000
more to it than maybe the way 
that you've always done it. 

1008
00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:47,300
Let's pray and then we'll sing 
Our Song and be dismissed. 

1009
00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:50,400
Thank you for listening. 
I know it's especially if you've

1010
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,700
not heard it before, it's not an
easy thing to listen to. 

1011
00:49:52,700 --> 00:49:56,500
And for me like I've mentioned 
is not an easy thing for me to 

1012
00:49:56,508 --> 00:49:58,600
preach because I know I'm 
talking to people who have never

1013
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:04,600
heard it before and who in a lot
of ways may not like it, I'm not

1014
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,500
trying to make you. 
Like I said, I'm not trying to 

1015
00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:09,400
make you angry. 
I'm not trying to trying to 

1016
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:13,200
ruffle any feathers or anything 
like that, but because it's in 

1017
00:50:13,207 --> 00:50:16,600
the word of God. 
God and and something that we 

1018
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,200
need to talk about and something
that you need to consider. 

1019
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,900
Let's pray and we'll sing, I'll 
be dismissed. 

1020
00:50:22,900 --> 00:50:24,600
Father we love you again. 
We thank you for your goodness 

1021
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,200
to us. 
Thank you for the truth that we 

1022
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,000
have in the word of God. 
I pray that you'd help each one 

1023
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:34,900
of us in our pursuit of Holiness
to be as right with you. 

1024
00:50:34,900 --> 00:50:41,000
As we possibly can be and God 
where we where we are, I pray 

1025
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:44,300
that you help us to change it 
not even in just this Serie but 

1026
00:50:44,300 --> 00:50:49,400
in others sometimes we may go 
over board on some things and if

1027
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,300
we're error if we're airing in 
those things and I pray that you

1028
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:56,200
help us to change where we 
underperform in the things that 

1029
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:57,500
you want us to do. 
I pray that you help us to 

1030
00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:00,700
change them and especially in 
relation to this idea that we're

1031
00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:03,600
talking about with standards of 
dress God, I pray that you would

1032
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,200
help us to to have the holy 
spirit's leading in our lives, 

1033
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,900
on these issues and on these 
things that we could be 

1034
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:14,000
convinced of them, one way or 
another and that you Is it in 

1035
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:15,900
our hearts? 
And I pray that you would help 

1036
00:51:15,900 --> 00:51:19,500
us to be that Solid Rock of 
Christianity. 

1037
00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:22,300
Not for the sake of just 
standing up, not for the sake of

1038
00:51:22,300 --> 00:51:24,100
trying to be noticed or anything
like that. 

1039
00:51:24,100 --> 00:51:27,300
But for the sake of holding the 
truth of the word of God in 

1040
00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:29,100
every area that we find in the 
Bible. 

1041
00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:32,000
And I pray that you help us to 
be Christians that you can use 

1042
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,200
because of it, not not for the 
sake of just being noticed, not 

1043
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:40,600
for the sake of just being 
different, or standing up in 

1044
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:43,300
some ways or whatever God. 
You know what my heart is on 

1045
00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:43,900
this. 
Issue. 

1046
00:51:43,900 --> 00:51:45,900
I'll pray that you help us to be
different because we want to be 

1047
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:48,100
right, but it's obviously be 
different because we want to be 

1048
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:51,000
used and I pray that you would 
use us because of that. 

1049
00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:53,700
Thank you for all that you do 
for us in Jesus name. 

1050
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:54,000
Amen.