1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:11,360 Yeah, isn't he good? God just must not know what day 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:19,880 of the week it is. It doesn't matter to God. 3 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,360 It don't even have to be a church day for him. 4 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:28,680 Every day is a church day for him, I guess. 5 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,560 Amen. Praise the Lord. 6 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,280 Can we just raise your hands and thank him right now for his 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:38,040 spirit? And I thank you for your spirit, 8 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:45,800 God, it's rich and it's real and God, it ministers at the level. 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:50,480 Lord of our core. I thank you, O Lord Jesus, today 10 00:00:50,480 --> 00:00:55,560 I'll worship you. O God, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 11 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:01,560 Hallelujah, Amen and Amen. You may be seated tonight, Amen. 12 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:06,640 It's good to be back home, Amen. Good to be back here at 1121 13 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:08,240 Cedar St. Amen. 14 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,480 And give a course. Thanks to Doctor Mason on Sunday 15 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,720 morning and Brother Alex Mason on Sunday night. 16 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,320 As we were travelling home Sunday, we were able to be live 17 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:23,720 with you on Sunday night and then after that was done we 18 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,760 turned over and went to the morning service. 19 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:28,520 Caught both of them could catch a whole lot more in the amount 20 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:31,960 of time we had to drive. But we got our two services for 21 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:36,840 sure in so appreciate them between two Passovers Sunday 22 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,560 night and then that the sons accord died. 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:44,960 Not a man on Sunday morning. We're so we're grateful, 24 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,800 grateful for their attendance. Your attendance to the House of 25 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,040 the Lord, a man on Sunday. Just a few announcements to be 26 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:58,760 aware of the Green Team Shepherd Shepherd's Flock on Saturday at 27 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,840 4:00 PM. That login is the meal for the 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,440 winning team. If you're a part of that team 29 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,720 and you plan on being there, please see my wife after 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:08,840 service. If you had a guest that came 31 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,960 with you during that period of time and you know that they're 32 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:12,560 going to be there, just let us know. 33 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,680 That would be great. Or we need also to find out kind 34 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,800 of a number about how many to expect. 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,000 That'll help. Login. 36 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,160 Right now we kind of got this big number, but we need to get a 37 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,440 little bit more precise number as far as who is actually going 38 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,880 to show up at that time at 4:00 PM on Saturday. 39 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:37,000 Also this coming Sunday, Sunday in our evening service will have 40 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:41,840 Brother and sister Rhodes missionaries to Uganda. 41 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,240 They will be here with us and be sharing their burden for Uganda 42 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,800 and what's going on in Uganda. So you can come and be a part of 43 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,920 that, not just come be a part. If you're usually here on Sunday 44 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,760 night, then come a man and just be in service Sunday evening as 45 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:01,880 they share with us their burden for the Lord. 46 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,840 Also in this month, 24th and 25th is our District Spring 47 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,080 Conference in the Indianapolis, IN. 48 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,760 Pastor Tim Hammond will be there ministering. 49 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:16,600 Also the 26th of this month, which is a Sunday, will be all 50 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:21,640 in Camp focus Sunday, meaning that we're going to pray about 51 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:25,440 camp meeting that's coming up in the month of July and also 52 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,080 contribute and put money toward camp meeting. 53 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,000 And then on the 27th, which is a Monday, camp registration opens. 54 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,960 And that's important for anybody that is desiring to go and be at 55 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,040 camp meeting on the old campgrounds. 56 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,320 Amen. So we want to be mindful of that 57 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:45,480 as well. Hallelujah. 58 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,200 We are continuing in our series here tonight. 59 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:55,720 And just as a preface this evening, just because I don't 60 00:03:55,720 --> 00:04:00,200 want to be a misunderstood, this is like #12 along the way. 61 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,200 And the difficult thing with this is that sometimes you can 62 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,320 hear a lesson and not hear the Ho Ho series and you don't get 63 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:15,120 the real gravity of what's being said because it's kind of like 64 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,760 reading a chapter out of a book and not reading the whole book. 65 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,160 And so with that tonight that the purpose of this series, even 66 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,480 from the very beginning, is to just to Plumb the depths a 67 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,040 little bit of what it means to be his, right? 68 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:36,440 And really how far, how far being his extends into our 69 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:40,760 lives, to our thoughts, to our behaviors. 70 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:45,960 And so the purpose really is to provoke our thinking, is to 71 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,800 provoke us to think maybe be made aware of some things maybe 72 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,800 we were not aware of before. None of this over the past 73 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,360 several weeks, whether we did on Sunday morning tonight, none of 74 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,760 this is to make anybody feel inferior or necessarily 75 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,520 uncomfortable because we are all on a journey in our Christian 76 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:08,160 experience. We're all on a becoming like the 77 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,720 Holy One journey and that journey that the Bible says is a 78 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,200 separating from the world and then a separating unto the Lord 79 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,520 type of scenario that's taking place. 80 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:24,600 And each of us are at different stages in that journey and that 81 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,120 is OK. No one, no one. 82 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,920 And we've said this for ages and for all the world out there in 83 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,560 Facebook land, we said this for ages since we've been in Mount 84 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,720 Carmel and even before. No one is expected to dress a 85 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,280 certain way to come to the first Apostolic Church. 86 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,040 We believe that the Lord accepts us as we are. 87 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,760 But here is the caveat. He accepts us as we are, but he 88 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,760 also empowers us to become as we ought to be. 89 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,080 That's the glorious thing about the Lord. 90 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,880 And so with all that, my, my advice is if you ever sit in any 91 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,200 of these services, not just this one, any of these services, 92 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:07,320 you're like that preacher, the way he preached tonight or the 93 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:09,400 way he explained that word tonight and you're like, I'm 94 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:12,320 going to jump ship. Well, listen, don't jump ship. 95 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,280 Don't ever jump ship. Stay around. 96 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,800 Now the Spirit of the Lord to touch your heart, allow the 97 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,320 spirit of his word to open your understanding. 98 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,920 You realize how many relationships you would be in 99 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,440 and out of at every disagreement you decide to change 100 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:39,720 relationships. We be relationship less, right? 101 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,200 Amen. And so we want to grow. 102 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:47,880 The Bible says that we may grow up into him in Ephesians 4, that 103 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:53,360 we may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even 104 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,040 Christ. All right, so with that tonight 105 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,000 and go to my text. It's just one verse. 106 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,960 We've been talking about the principle of identity. 107 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,560 We've been talking about the concepts of principle of 108 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,560 identity in our ideas and in our thought processes. 109 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,960 We talked about it in identity, identity the the male and the 110 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:13,480 female. That was very in the very 111 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:15,600 beginning. And continuing in that line of 112 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:17,480 thought, some other distinguishments in that male 113 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,440 female thing. I want to talk tonight about 114 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:24,520 being clothed with purpose. Being clothed with purpose. 115 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:30,240 This is a verse from Deuteronomy 22 and verse #5 the Bible says. 116 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,200 And this is among other laws and prescriptions that are given 117 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:38,280 here. And I'm having a real hard time 118 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:40,840 not dragging my feet through a lot of stuff because always 119 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,800 think of what everybody else is probably thinking. 120 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,240 OK? And that causes my mind to go 121 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,720 sundry places. But there's a lot of different 122 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:55,280 laws here about not mixing seed, about not putting 2 animals of 123 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,960 different kinds together. For, for, for, for plowing. 124 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:03,480 It's it talks about not, not not mixing like two different woven 125 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:06,600 threads of cloth, all these different things. 126 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:10,480 A lot of these things are ceremonial laws that was for 127 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,560 Israel. But there's other things listed 128 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,920 in this chapter that are moral law issues. 129 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,600 There are things that the Bible states. 130 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:21,680 There's things, again, I've alluded to this, there's things 131 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:24,440 that the Bible says that were abomination into Israel, and 132 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:26,600 then there were things that are abomination into the Lord. 133 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,720 So there are other moral law issues, ceremonial laws 134 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,640 captivated and you know, completed by the Lord Jesus 135 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,840 Christ in the New Testament, largely, right, that pertained 136 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,679 to Israel. But the moral law is something 137 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,400 that changes not whether old, whether new, whether now it 138 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,720 changes not. So this is one of those things 139 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,520 that's part of the moral law of God. 140 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,720 It's an abomination. The Bible says unto the Lord thy 141 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,000 God. Deuteronomy 22 and 5 The woman 142 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,400 shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither 143 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,280 shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are 144 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,600 abomination unto the Lord thy God. 145 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:07,920 Now listen, if we look at this verse and just look at as at 146 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:13,840 that, and we don't understand that the underlining context or 147 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,280 the underlining application pertains to this principle of 148 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,440 identity. We look at it just as some 149 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:24,360 outmoded or outdated rule rather than seeing that it's tied to a 150 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:29,400 principle of identity, then we'll miss it because much of 151 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:33,360 what we call in the Christian journey is as holiness 152 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:40,000 applications is predicated on the fact that we do not confuse. 153 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:44,040 Much of our application of holiness is predicated on the 154 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:48,960 fact of keeping straight who is and what is male and who is and 155 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,240 what is female through God's Word. 156 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,040 A lot of it. I see your face. 157 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,960 So I'm going to explain it a little bit more. 158 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,400 A lot of what we call holiness in Scripture, yes, there are 159 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:02,120 parts that have to do with modesty, but there's a greater 160 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,520 part that has to do with distinguishing the sexes. 161 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,560 And I don't know if that cleared it up for anybody, what I just 162 00:10:08,560 --> 00:10:11,320 said. And so when when we understand 163 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,480 this, then we understand what God is, is warning to the 164 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,520 Israelites is making sense what he's doing. 165 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,600 He's protecting his creative order of what he created in 166 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:23,440 creation, in Genesis with this distinction. 167 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,120 Amen. And I'm just going to pray that 168 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:29,800 the Lord would help us tonight. All right, I'm going to try to 169 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,160 walk at a good pace, but I'm don't want to go too quick. 170 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:37,240 All right, I don't want to go too quick, but I do want to make 171 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:41,160 some distinctions here because we are clothed with purpose, 172 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,240 with purpose. Father, I love you that I thank 173 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:47,720 you, Lord, for your goodness and Lord, our ability together. 174 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:49,840 Lord, here tonight. We're thankful for your word. 175 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:55,200 God help us all, Lord, that's on a journey at our own varying 176 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,840 speeds and our own varying levels that we leave ourselves 177 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:03,040 open, Lord, to your word and God more so than anything that we 178 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,680 would, that we would lean heavily upon relationship and by 179 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:10,720 virtue of that relationship with you, God, that we Lord, have 180 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,560 this ebb and flow and give and take, Lord, our relationship 181 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:15,000 with you of what's pleasing to you. 182 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,200 God will honor you, Lord Jesus with our lives in the lovely 183 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,440 name of Jesus Christ and I pray Amen the church say Amen. 184 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:26,120 And so we've looked at identity again and ideas and identity. 185 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,480 But tonight I also want to look at them and how men and women 186 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,160 clothe themselves. Every man that's committed to 187 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:38,120 living out his God-given identity as a male ought to 188 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:43,440 clothe himself then like a man. And I know that right there may 189 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,840 be already just cause a little shudder in the atmosphere. 190 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,320 And every woman likewise committed Amen, ought to to 191 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,360 clothe herself like like a woman. 192 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,440 And even to certain degree, we've looked at this in previous 193 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,880 weeks, even to a certain degree, society has understood these 194 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,560 distinctions to a degree. Because whenever a woman, 195 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,280 there's a woman who wants to function quote UN quote, like a 196 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:09,600 man, she seems to take on the appearance of the dress of a man 197 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,160 that whenever a woman didn't want a man wants to do on on the 198 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:19,160 other side, wants to function as a woman, then he tends to steer 199 00:12:19,160 --> 00:12:23,560 towards those venom and items, if you will, to to adopt that. 200 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,880 But when we do this, when we blur the distinctions, when we 201 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,680 blur the distinctions that we lose the male and the female 202 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:34,800 identity and we confuse the roles of male and female. 203 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:36,680 Amen. That was ordered all the way 204 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:42,080 back in the book of Genesis. HDM Spencer and Joseph S excel 205 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,880 in the pulpit. Carmen Terry said this said 206 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:50,840 whatever tends to obliterate the distinction between the sexes 207 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:56,240 tends to lassitiousness, which means wanton of disregard. 208 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,240 It tends to a a wanton disregard of things. 209 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:02,360 And that one sex should assume the dress of the other has 210 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:06,600 always been regarded as a natural or indecent. 211 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:11,200 That's the reason why the Lord says in the Bible in Deuteronomy 212 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,400 that dressing as the opposite sex is seen as an abomination. 213 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,760 Amen. It violates the principle of 214 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:24,680 identity according to God's word of assuming a different sex or 215 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:28,600 breaking down that distinction between this two and bringing 216 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,440 and causing confusion among them. 217 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:34,720 And So what prompts the question then for us then what? 218 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,960 What garments are specifically for men or for women? 219 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,480 Well, for the readers of Deuteronomy, of Deuteronomy 22 220 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,480 and verse 5, for the readers of Deuteronomy in that error, them 221 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,280 speaking about what pertaineth to a man or a woman's garment 222 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:54,760 didn't specifically refer to women wearing pants or a man 223 00:13:54,760 --> 00:14:00,640 wearing a dress, because in that era women didn't wear pants. 224 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,960 All right. Men and women of that era wore 225 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,840 robes. They wore robes of one kind or 226 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,000 another. For a a good major part of human 227 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,680 history, men and women wore robes. 228 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,680 But even in them wearing robes, there was distinctive 229 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:26,160 differences between what was a masculine or feminine attire as 230 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:30,680 far as the construction of the robe and the ornamentation of 231 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,360 the robe. And differences in the style 232 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,560 between the male and the female robe or colors or markings or 233 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:43,440 links or cuts or trims differentiated between male and 234 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,120 female robes. As a matter of fact, here's just 235 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,600 something just to think about. This is very practical. 236 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,680 But if there was no difference in the robes, why did 237 00:14:53,680 --> 00:15:01,600 Deuteronomy even give a command to indicate that which pertained 238 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,080 to a woman or to a man or a woman's garment? 239 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,880 Wouldn't have been necessary even to say that if there was 240 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,440 absolutely no difference between 1:00 or the other, Amen. 241 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:18,720 And so it must have been different enough, obvious, 242 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,960 obviously quite significant enough, because the Scripture 243 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:28,040 even tells us that at some distance one could casually 244 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,480 observe if it was a male or a female that they were 245 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,800 approaching. The Bible says in Genesis 24 and 246 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:39,600 verse 63, this is that very long chapter of Abraham's servant 247 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:43,360 that's going to find a wife. For Isaac comes and gets Rebecca 248 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,440 and brings her back to Isaac to be his wife. 249 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,160 The Bible says, and Isaac went out to meditate in the field at 250 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:56,480 the even tide, and he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold the 251 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,520 camels were coming. These camels were carrying his 252 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,480 bride. Verse 64 says, And Rebecca 253 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,240 lifted up her eyes when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel 254 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:14,760 and she had said unto the servant, What man is this that 255 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:18,440 walketh in the field to meet us? And the sermon has said, it is 256 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:21,040 my master. Therefore she took a veil and 257 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,280 covered herself. So understand they're 258 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:26,320 approaching a field. They're not quite yet there. 259 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:29,000 Something else I think is important to note is the Bible 260 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,840 says the time of day that this was, it's even tide. 261 00:16:32,160 --> 00:16:35,520 This is a time that's in the afternoon or late evening before 262 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:38,840 sunset. You know how it gets before the 263 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,640 sun completely sets. It's not quite completely light, 264 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:47,800 but it's not dark and yet at a distance at this time of day. 265 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:54,400 Rebecca says what man she was able to tell and distinguish 266 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:58,400 that this individual out here, all of them of that day wearing 267 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:02,280 robes that evidently something about his was distinguished as a 268 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:09,560 masculine attire for a man. We also read in scripture. 269 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,160 We we we, we read in Scripture. The word is this. 270 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,119 This is the word in Scripture. The word is breeches. 271 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:21,440 It's where we get the word breeches, where we get the word 272 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:27,240 eventually pants in our English dictionaries with the breeches 273 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:34,320 that were worn in the Bible were worn by priest under the robes. 274 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:39,600 As a matter of fact, every case that the word breaches BREECHES 275 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:45,160 is mentioned, which is a few. It is a man's apparel. 276 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:50,320 You can read of this in Exodus 28, Exodus 39, Leviticus 6, 277 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:54,840 Leviticus 16, Ezekiel 44. Throughout the Scripture, it was 278 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,120 always a man's apparel. Women were not allowed to wear 279 00:17:58,120 --> 00:17:59,920 breeches. Amen. 280 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:03,120 Here again we get our English word britches and then our 281 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:08,640 concept of pants from this In biblical times, a woman was not 282 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:15,200 to wear a a crotched garment. Crotched garment because of the 283 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,720 command and the standard regarding for the priests being 284 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,880 males who were breeches. The Bible says in Scripture at 285 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,320 different places it talks about to gird up your loins. 286 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,760 We read a new test about girding up the loin of your mind, but we 287 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,960 read it throughout other places in Job where the Bible says gird 288 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:34,800 up by loins. It was always a phrase that was 289 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:38,800 applicable to men. It was to address men twice In 290 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,360 Job it is used once. It says gird up. 291 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,480 Now the loins like a man in Genesis 38 and three, and 292 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,200 another time it says gird up by loins like a man in Job 40 and 293 00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,640 verse #7 to gird up the loins. This is what it meant to gird up 294 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:00,320 the loins a man has on his robe. That has the distinction of a 295 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:04,440 masculine man and he would take the back part of his robe 296 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,480 through his legs and tuck it in his girdle right here. 297 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,880 And he would transform his robe into something that was closer 298 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:15,880 fitting by bringing the vacuum of his robe up between his legs, 299 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:20,760 creating almost a trouser like effect for running or going 300 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,000 quickly. It gave him a distinctive 301 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,880 masculine, what we would consider today, a distinctive 302 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,880 masculine appearance. Women are never told in 303 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:32,640 scripture to girt up their loins. 304 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,480 It's never addressed to them, Amen. 305 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,080 They could lift up the hem of their of their garment, of their 306 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,760 robe, but they were not admonished to gird up their 307 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,960 loins as men were. It wasn't permissive for them. 308 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:50,680 Again, girding up the loins was an action that was associated 309 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,680 with masculine rows, masculine functions and masculine 310 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,880 responsibilities. Amen. 311 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,920 Everybody doing all right, everybody OK, OK Amen. 312 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:05,520 So even over the years. And we'll, we'll look at just 313 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:10,320 some real world history, U.S. history tonight a little bit. 314 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:14,800 But over the years, and I say this, please, I hope you know my 315 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:16,720 heart and everything I'm saying tonight. 316 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,640 But over the years, years ago, they used to say, and sometimes 317 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,080 it was a comical thing. Who wears the pants in your 318 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,640 family? You ever heard it? 319 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,200 Now, you could already start to explain to me what that meant. 320 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,920 It's from a older phrase really that happened back in 16-12. 321 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:39,360 A man wrote talk about who who wears the breeches, Sir John the 322 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:40,880 Harrington said who wore the breeches. 323 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,000 They even had an English comedy that was going around at the 324 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,640 time called The Woman Wears the Breeches. 325 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,680 It debuted in 1650 and it was a comedy. 326 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,880 And the whole, the whole gist of the comedy was it was implying 327 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,560 how a wife was having, having dominated her husband by 328 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:04,520 adopting his role back then. And so our text notice has a 329 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,360 little bit of a different command for the man and for the 330 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,840 woman. The woman shall not wear that 331 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:15,160 which pertaineth unto a man. And then neither shall a man put 332 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,000 on a woman's garment. All right, put on a woman's 333 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,880 garment or anything feminine attire or distinctive styling 334 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:30,840 that was to the feminine side and we, we might argue a little 335 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,320 bit. Well, Brother McGee, I've read 336 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:37,000 of the word skirt in Scripture more than once and how a lot of 337 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:41,720 times that even that even lent to the man when it was talking 338 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,960 about a skirt. Well, when you read that your 339 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,840 Bible's like in the King James Version and it's talking about 340 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,840 skirt and it's talking about a man. 341 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,320 The word skirt in our Bible doesn't refer to the same thing 342 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:58,600 we think of today. The Hebrew word for skirt, it 343 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:04,280 meant the extremity or the corner of a garment like a hymn. 344 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,440 Yes, the Bible speaks of in the book of First Samuel 15, the 345 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,280 Bible talks how Saul he he, he tore the skirt of Samuel's 346 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:18,520 mantle, the prophet's mantle, meaning he tore a piece of the 347 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:20,800 hymn or the corner of his garment. 348 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:26,400 We'd read in Scripture that David cut off the skirt of 349 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,480 Saul's garment while they were in The Cave. 350 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,640 He was tucked over about. Some people want them to kill. 351 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:36,040 So he says, I'll, I'll just cut off the skirt. 352 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,360 And he was even smoking his heart for doing that. 353 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,240 It was just a piece of corner or extremity of the garment. 354 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,400 And so it's not talking about it in the terms that we talked 355 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,000 about it today. It's talking about those corners 356 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,480 of the garment of a man. It says neither shall a man put 357 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,240 on a woman's garment. And that seemed to be sufficient 358 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,480 instruction for the man and here's part and parse the reason 359 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,320 why we see from from the Bible This is the case also because 360 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:04,760 men have a problem that's bigger than the way that they adorned 361 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,320 themselves in Scripture. We'll look at it according to 362 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:14,000 the apostle Paul the big the big rock for man is the way that he 363 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,800 acts. The Bible says in first Timothy 364 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:20,360 2:00 and 8:00. I will therefore that doesn't 365 00:23:20,360 --> 00:23:23,920 mean that we disregard just the way he clothes himself. 366 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:29,000 It's just talking about he has a propensity to act incorrectly 367 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,960 more so than to clothe incorrectly. 368 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,800 The Bible says I wear will therefore that men pray 369 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,800 everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and 370 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:41,040 doubting. I'm just going to go and read 371 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:42,600 both of them together in verse 9. 372 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,520 In like manner also the woman adorned themselves in modest 373 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:54,560 apparel with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered 374 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,160 hair or gold or pearls or costly array. 375 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,520 So on one hand he's talking that men would pray without wrath, 376 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,800 without doubting. And then he says enlightenment 377 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,680 are also the woman adorning themselves. 378 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:10,480 So we go from the way the man is acting wrath doubting them to 379 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,400 the man the way that the woman is clothing herself. 380 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,520 Because in this instance, the Apostle Paul has pinpointed two 381 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:21,400 major things that both the female and the male are prone 382 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,000 to. The male sometimes has a bad 383 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:34,800 problem with his attitude. He is angry quickly, frustrated 384 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,000 easily. But then there's a propensity of 385 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,640 a woman that she may struggle with than what she wears or how 386 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:45,680 she appears. And so he addresses these two 387 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,680 things right away. And so whenever the Old 388 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,680 Testament in the Old Testament says that a man should not put 389 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,600 on a woman's garment, I mean, it seems very sufficient for the 390 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,280 man again, because majorly the masculine male has a problem 391 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,360 oftimes with his attitude. And so when we get Deuteronomy, 392 00:25:02,360 --> 00:25:04,960 then the instruction for the woman is a little more precise. 393 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,640 Amen. Because she seems to have 394 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,320 testing in this area of attire and appearance according to the 395 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,760 apostle Paul. And so Paul even tells us that 396 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:16,320 her vice is her adornment and her apparel. 397 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,400 Amen. She, according to Deuteronomy, 398 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,400 should not wear that which pertaineth unto a man. 399 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:26,360 And the word pertain there in the Hebrew means relate or have 400 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:31,680 reference to be appropriate for or belong to as an accessory, 401 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:35,640 attribute, feature or function to a man. 402 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,080 So that's the long definition of of pertinent. 403 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,640 It's Latin root means to reach towards. 404 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,600 She should not she should not wear that which reaches toward 405 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,520 that masculinity or a man. She must refrain from that. 406 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:51,880 All right. The Wickliffe Bible Commentary 407 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,880 notes that the distinction between man and woman should not 408 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:59,480 be blurred by either one appropriating the characteristic 409 00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,160 of one or the other. Again, what is this doing? 410 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,720 This is just helping safeguard God's original intent from 411 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:11,880 Genesis of male and female. All right? 412 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,160 It's just, it's just protecting His representation. 413 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:22,360 Amen. In 1890, Charles Gibson was a 414 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:27,760 cartoonist and he used pen and ink and he created a likeness of 415 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,800 what in that day was considered to be a beautiful woman who 416 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:38,040 epitomized the female ideal of that hour and this, this concept 417 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,120 and this pen and ink. And he did several of them. 418 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,480 You can look it up tonight. When you go home, preferably 419 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,240 when you go home. Not right now in the service. 420 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,960 Some people do that and go on, I guess, if you just absolutely 421 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,800 not going to be able to go any further. 422 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,280 But it remained popular for about 20 years. 423 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,080 And he drew different scenarios of her drew scenarios of her at 424 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,120 at gatherings with other people, do her scenarios of being on the 425 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:04,480 golf course, do her scenarios of of of even swimming. 426 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,320 She became known and his name was Gibson, of course, Charles 427 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,200 Gibson. She became known as the Gibson 428 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:11,360 girl. You can read of this in history. 429 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:16,720 And she typified a beautiful feminine ideal of her time. 430 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,480 And when you see the different things of her, most of them, 431 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,080 almost all of them is is this lady that is very mod. 432 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,200 She has long beautiful dresses or skirts. 433 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,440 She's very womanly. And that was the Gibson Girl for 434 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,640 almost 20 years of our history that depicted what was commonly 435 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,000 accepted as this feminine woman type of nature thing. 436 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,440 Kill and the lych, say it's a commoner, says the immediate 437 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,400 design of this prohibition between not taking that which is 438 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,240 male or that which is female was to maintain the sanctity of that 439 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,000 distinction of the sexes which was by creation man and woman. 440 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:57,720 And so when we begin to wipe that away and we blur the lines 441 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,800 of male and female, then in the sight of God again he said that 442 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,920 was an abomination unto him. And we see this, we see this 443 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,040 come over time, right? We didn't get where we are in 444 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,360 the world today in just a turn of the key. 445 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:17,680 It happened gradually. I mean, when you start with Adam 446 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,040 and the Eve in this perfect paradise in the garden compared 447 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,480 to where we are today, that didn't just happen by turning 448 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,360 over a leaf. The the old songs, what's the 449 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,920 lyrics of the old song? It's the slow fade. 450 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:38,760 It's the slow fade, right? I mean, years ago, Bishop Mccool 451 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,760 talked about when he taken, he's given advice to new pastor says 452 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,120 if you don't like the piano on that side and you want it on 453 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,000 that side, he said don't just move it over there because 454 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,440 people have a hard time with change, he says. 455 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,640 But if you move it an inch every year, he says, it'll eventually 456 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,400 get there and they won't even really notice. 457 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,360 It's the slow fade. Things just happen over time. 458 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,600 And so, and I'm probably going to butcher the word femininity a 459 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,280 few times because it just don't roll off my tongue very easily. 460 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:15,160 But there was a book or article called Femininity by Susan Brown 461 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:21,040 Miller in 1984, and she wrote and said femininity is in 462 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:26,280 essence a romantic sentiment, A nostalgic tradition of imposed 463 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,600 limitations. As a matter of fact, she implied 464 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,440 that women who adopt feminine styles are trapped. 465 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,600 And as part of her personal revoke against it, she said that 466 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,600 she would just stop wearing dresses and skirts all together 467 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,480 because she didn't want to be trapped by such a thing. 468 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,760 But for what purpose? Why did she do this? 469 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,800 She revoked it against femininity because in her 470 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,080 writing she says she wouldn't be set free from what was 471 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,120 traditional. She wanted to discard what was 472 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,000 traditional. And so she said if I didn't want 473 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,480 to be, if I didn't want to be identified with the feminine 474 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,680 side of humanity, then I was going to need to disregard my 475 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:14,360 skirts and my dresses. That's her words, not mine. 476 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,160 Now, here's what we know for history, Sister Maya. 477 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:23,480 We know during World War 2 that there are men in the draft has 478 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:25,320 been taken. There are several men that are 479 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:30,600 off to war in our American history and as a result of that, 480 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000 to keep the supplies of what was needed in war that was being 481 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,600 made on American soil, many of the women went to the factories 482 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:45,680 to work that beforehand weren't in the factories. 483 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,520 They were typically at home and they were taking care of their 484 00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:51,440 home and nurturing their children. 485 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,880 And so they were leaving that and they were going into these 486 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,640 factories and they begin doing jobs that were typically held 487 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:07,640 only by men in that age. And as they were doing the work 488 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,800 in these factories and doing men's work and men's jobs, what 489 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:16,880 started to happen was these ladies that had been carers of 490 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,840 the home started then to begin to dress like men. 491 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,480 You can look this in your history. 492 00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,360 And so during this time, this is also in this same period time is 493 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,760 when largely women start even taking up smoking cigarettes, 494 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,520 swearing, which was unheard of before this time, that if we 495 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,640 wouldn't do this before this time, they they, they begin even 496 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,640 bobbing their hair. They're fulfilling this role of 497 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,640 a man. So they're taking on these other 498 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,120 things, if you will, into their behavior. 499 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,960 And so as time passed, though, wearing the apparel of a man 500 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,760 wasn't just regulated for the factory when they went to work, 501 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:01,120 now they're doing it outside the factory in their everyday lives, 502 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,720 even whenever they go home. And so we have this complete 503 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:10,400 turn around that happened almost during the World War 2. 504 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,400 Amen. And so when we think about this, 505 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,720 we're keeping the distinctions right, keeping the distinctions 506 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,800 male and female as God has has created it in the beginning. 507 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,040 Let me ask you this. And then we've done this for 508 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,120 years. Bishop has done this probably 509 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,640 generations of people before they've done it. 510 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,320 If you walk toward the restroom and the word woman or the word 511 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,840 man is not on the door, and it has a little icon, a little 512 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:45,240 figure there, you know which restroom to go into by that 513 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:49,200 little icon on the door. 1 is a little picture of a figure with 514 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,880 two legs going all the way up to a crotch region. 515 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,480 And I'm not trying to be vulgar, but the other than has that 516 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:04,080 little triangular skirt or dress that goes so far down on those 517 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:09,320 stick legs as the ladies restroom because we know in our 518 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:17,040 core a distinction from the beginning. 519 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:26,720 In my house at the garage, I still have bicycles that my kids 520 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:31,680 have had, my wife's had. I have that bicycle that I have 521 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,760 has a bar that goes from the seat over to the handlebars 522 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:40,360 that's straight. The one that my wife has droops 523 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:48,240 down male and female bikes, it slopes down in the middle 524 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:54,280 because that accommodated a woman's clothing of her skirt or 525 00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:58,400 her dress. So it ride high as far as I 526 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,400 haven't bought a bike lately, but I think they still hold 527 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,560 pretty close to that pattern today. 528 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,480 Why? Because there's a distinction 529 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,120 whether we go on and live life differently, there's a 530 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,840 distinction that's still even ingrained in some of those 531 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:21,040 things while while while riding, even bicycles to accommodate the 532 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,520 flow of a dress. Whereas a man would not need 533 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,760 that with the trousers that he has, he has on. 534 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:33,199 We look today again, how we even put measurements on clothing 535 00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:38,360 that is female and male. I'm going to the store to buy me 536 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:43,400 a pair of trousers and at this stage of life I need more of a 537 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,800 waste than what I did when I first got married. 538 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:52,760 I was like, I think a waste of 29 when I got married and I'm 539 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:54,600 not in the 20s anymore, brother Earl. 540 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:02,800 But let's just say 30 something. So I'm looking for 30 something 541 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,280 and you know, about a length of 34. 542 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,440 And so I'm looking at that number, whatever it is, 323434, 543 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,200 one telling me my waist size, the other one telling me my 544 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,800 inseam, how he ever even if a woman were to buy a pair of 545 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:23,280 pants today, a lot of times they still not always a lot of times 546 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,880 they still go by sizes like size 8, size 16. 547 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:30,240 Now there's some that take an account both waist size and hip 548 00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:33,480 size. Some have vanity sizes and you 549 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,880 got to check the sizing charts to even see what you are. 550 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,800 But All in all, what I'm saying is this. 551 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,880 They didn't give an inseam. Why not? 552 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:46,840 Because they use the same measurements that they use for a 553 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,640 woman wearing a dress or a skirt. 554 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:54,120 Size 8, size 10 size. It never change. 555 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,400 Why? Again, it just goes back to the 556 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:05,200 origin of a differentiating of the sexes between male and 557 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,800 female. And folks, I don't know about 558 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,000 you. And I think it's beautiful. 559 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:18,520 I think it's beautiful that we would hold on to something that 560 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,560 God thought well enough of. He would start it like that. 561 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:22,800 Yeah. Yeah. 562 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:26,840 Yeah. So, well, Brother McGee, we got. 563 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,240 Yeah, we have anatomic differences. 564 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:31,760 And that's the way it was before the fall. 565 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:34,440 The Bible says they were naked and unashamed. 566 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:39,520 That's right, but after the transgression they are ashamed, 567 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:44,480 they are hiding, they're making themselves aprons and then he's 568 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,400 in. That's not sufficient puts them 569 00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:50,640 in coach skins. And so now he if if there was 570 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,680 ever no sin in the world, we could have just went with the 571 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:58,760 anatomical differences, but since we had then because of sin 572 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,920 start to cover what he did through anatomy. 573 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:12,080 He still has to express some way to distinguish what he ordained 574 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,480 from the beginning. Amen. 575 00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:21,920 So he, he, God never wanted our identity to be per SE hidden or 576 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,720 confused. If I'd say like confused, it was 577 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:29,480 meant to be known. But that's a man. 578 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,920 That's a woman. And he created them with those 579 00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,920 roles, with those outward expressions, as it was before 580 00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,280 all right, creation. And then even how that was 581 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:46,280 managed or reapplied after the transgression in the garden. 582 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:52,000 And they were unquestionable. That which was in the beginning 583 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:57,520 was unquestionable. And overtime culture, overtime 584 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,280 culture and society and people has blurred it, right? 585 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,040 But the principle has not changed. 586 00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,880 And again, and I cannot emphasize this enough, and I 587 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,920 hope you're understanding the spirit, I'm saying this again, 588 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,840 this was never merely about clothing. 589 00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:21,040 It was about identity. If you leave here thinking 590 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,680 anything, that's what I want you to understand. 591 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,400 This isn't merely about clothing. 592 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,640 It's about identity. That's masculine. 593 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,680 That's male, that's feminine, that's female. 594 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,880 What God called it was the 6th day. 595 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,600 He says it's very good in creation. 596 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:49,360 What he called very good, which was created he male and female 597 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,440 created he them. That very good is still good 598 00:38:52,440 --> 00:39:01,720 today. It it's still good today and 599 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,280 again, I'll close here soon. I know we've already had good 600 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,960 time and service. Holiness really isn't about 601 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,560 restriction as much in this particular mode here. 602 00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:24,560 It's about reflection. It's about reflection. 603 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:30,400 Have I aligned in such a way that I've represented with what 604 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,960 God has established? You didn't stand with me. 605 00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,360 Just a few questions to think of as as as we depart from here 606 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:41,800 tonight. So the the big question isn't 607 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,320 what am I wearing? That's not the big question. 608 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,600 It's not the big question. The big question is what am I 609 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:55,240 representing? What am I representing? 610 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,760 Are you embracing your your God-given identity? 611 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,600 You embracing that or, or or is there a reaching towards 612 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:10,400 something else and are you reflecting the distinction or or 613 00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:14,280 is there is there confusion? Years ago I did it when I had a 614 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,800 little, I had a little image I had up on the screen. 615 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,360 It was someone on the beach and the silhouette. 616 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,840 I had the silhouette. The silhouette, I said who? 617 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,720 What does that mean for you? We're like male. 618 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:27,720 And I took the black silhouette off. 619 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:34,120 It was a woman. I'm just saying because we just 620 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:40,560 identify. OK, Case in point, how many 621 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,560 today? And I know we live in a world 622 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,160 where there's every flavor under the sun, but how many today has 623 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,000 had trouble checking outgoing through a drive through? 624 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,600 I'm wondering if you're like me. I'm like, I wasn't born in the 625 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,040 South, but I have Southern tendencies. 626 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:57,800 I say yes ma'am, no Sir, those things. 627 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:07,550 How many has ever had problems knowing what to say or may have 628 00:41:07,550 --> 00:41:18,230 even said something wrong and then course correct confusion, 629 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:25,000 Yes, a New Testament says God is not the author of confusion. 630 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,600 Amen. So again, and I hope you 631 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,360 understand the Spirit, I'm saying that this is not about 632 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,800 condemnation. This is about consecration. 633 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,320 So what do we do? We come to church, we keep 634 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:40,200 coming to church. We could come to church the way 635 00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:42,720 that we are. We keep showing up. 636 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:44,960 That's right, just the way we are. 637 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,480 And we let God speak into our hearts and we read a little bit 638 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,600 more of His word and we investigate a little bit more 639 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:53,720 and we allow it to speak into our lives. 640 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,760 And then sometimes we feel that little tugging and that we call 641 00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,960 the conviction of the Holy Ghost or the conviction of the Lord, 642 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,280 and we follow that conviction, we respond to it. 643 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,320 The fact is, wherever we are on our journey, you know what we 644 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,800 do? We take the next step that He's 645 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,200 enlightening for us. And your next step may not be 646 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,200 the ones I've been Speaking of tonight, but as long as you take 647 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:18,560 the next step, you're still in a process going forward. 648 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,120 This next step could be 20 steps from now. 649 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:30,320 Keep coming, keep believing, keep seeking, keep loving, keep 650 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:36,240 drawing close. Because here's the fact of the 651 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:38,400 matter, and I hope you got this from me. 652 00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:45,680 I love you regardless. God loves you regardless, but 653 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,640 he's wanting to take you on a journey, Amen. 654 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,080 He's wanting to take you on a journey and reveal more of 655 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:58,320 himself to you, to you than than you've ever experienced thus 656 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,600 far, Amen. Can we bow our heads tonight, 657 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,160 Father? I thank you, Lord, this evening, 658 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,800 God, for your people. I thank you, Lord, for your 659 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,040 word. I thank you, O Lord Jesus, today 660 00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,280 because you are a long-suffering and a patient God, Lord, and you 661 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:19,000 deal with us at every level and every degree of our walk and our 662 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:21,840 path. I pray, O God, tonight, Lord, 663 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,960 let your word become alive in our lives. 664 00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,080 God, as we study them, as we look them over, as we ponder 665 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,200 them. I pray, O Lord Jesus, we're so 666 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:36,440 thankful, God, that we can come to you that while we were yet 667 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,400 sinners, Lord Jesus, you died for us. 668 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,640 But God, you also, Lord, provoke us, Lord, in a growth pattern, 669 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:49,520 Lord, to grow up, Lord Jesus, into you in all things. 670 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,920 God, I want my mind and my heart to be open to your Spirit. 671 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,960 Lord, as you would deal with me and speak with me and guide me, 672 00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:01,280 Help me, Lord, to have a soft heart that's always open, Jesus, 673 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,000 to you and to your word. We can trust it in the name of 674 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,880 Jesus Christ that we pray Amen and Amen and the church say 675 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,800 Amen. Amen. 676 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:17,200 If you were on the winning team and you plan on being there 677 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:21,960 Saturday at 4:00 at login, please let my wife know. 678 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:23,920 Amen. And if you know those guests 679 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,880 that you had are coming, let us know.