So, there in Genesis chapter 2, verse 25, of course this is talking about when God puts
man and the woman in the garden, and it says in verse 25,
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Now it says they were not ashamed for a reason, and the reason why is that because God knew
that in the future those that would be reading this, that they would wonder about that.
What was their take on being naked in the garden?
And he's saying, look, they were not ashamed.
And the reason he mentions that and is pointing that out is because today, as human beings,
being naked is a shameful thing.
Being naked is not something that we should want.
In fact, it's very innate, it's part of our nature, part of our makeup, to be ashamed
of being naked.
What I want to preach tonight about is the shame of nakedness or the shame of nudity.
The shame of nakedness because of the fact that we're living in a culture now where nakedness
is very commonplace.
Now it's not going to be what the world defines as nakedness and what the Bible defines as
nakedness are two different things.
You say, Brother Corbin, I live in the same country you're living in, I don't see naked
people.
Well, yes you do.
You just don't realize it.
They're around.
It's just that we have two different definitions of what naked means.
So I want to go through tonight and I want to define what nakedness is biblically and
I want to show us why it's something we should avoid and something to be ashamed of.
First of all, we see that here, if you would go over to Genesis chapter three, it says
in verse seven, this is of course is after they have gone to the, Eve has gone and eaten
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that they were commanded to not eat of.
And then she proceeded to go ahead and give to her husband and he also ate and they fell
in sin.
We know that story.
Verse seven, we'll pick it up.
It says in the eyes of them were open and they knew that they were naked.
So what's the first thing they realize after falling into sin is that they're naked and
they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
I mean, they're so ashamed.
The first thing I want to do is cover up and you know, that's the nature that we have today.
You know, kids get to a certain age where they realize that once they, that what nakedness
is and it's a shameful thing, you know, they, they want to, to start covering that up.
You know, we've all had, well, I don't know if we've all had, I don't think I've ever
had it, but I've heard told that there's that, that dream where you go to school and you
realize you get there and you're not wearing any clothes and everyone, it's like the great
fear, right?
And you run out screaming.
But if anyone is to ever, you know, be caught naked in some circumstance, it's a shameful
thing.
It's not something that we want to happen.
At least it shouldn't be.
And it's something that causes just an innate sense of shame.
Right?
That's one of the first things and they fall in sin that they're instantly trying to cover
up their nakedness.
And it says in verse eight, and they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden
in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord.
So it wasn't enough that they had covered up.
Now they're hiding from him.
They hid from the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden and the Lord called on Adam
and said unto him, where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden was afraid because I was naked.
So why is that?
Well, he gives him the reason of why he was afraid.
And the reason was, was that he was naked.
He didn't say, I was afraid because I'd broken your rule, because I'd broken your law, because
I'd gone against your will.
He's saying, look, I'm afraid because I was naked.
That's why he was afraid there.
And I hid myself.
And he said, who told thee that thou was naked, hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded
thee that thou shouldest not eat.
So we see right away that being naked is something that is something to be ashamed of.
It is a shameful state to be in.
We should not, we should be careful not to be naked because God is very careful to avoid
nudity or nakedness.
We see that in the scriptures, if you would turn over to Exodus chapter 20, Exodus chapter
20, and we'll see where that God himself is careful to avoid nudity.
Now of course, when I say that, I don't mean him, but I'm talking about nudity in his presence
or others, people being naked around him in his presence or in his service.
Being naked is something to be ashamed of.
The Bible says, and you're going to Exodus chapter 20, it says in Exodus 32, of course
this is when Moses is coming down the mount for the first time with the tablets of stone
and Aaron has caused the people to worship the golden calf.
And it says, and Moses saw that the people were naked.
So instantly in the rebellion, one of the first things they did was they were naked.
For Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies.
So it was a shameful thing for these people to be naked.
Being naked is shameful and that is why God is careful to avoid nudity or nakedness in
his presence.
Look here in Exodus chapter 20 verse 24, and also of earth shalt thou make unto me, and
that shalt sacrifice thine burnt offerings and thy peace offerings, thy sheep and thy oxen.
So he's telling them, look, you're going to make an altar of earth.
If you want to sacrifice to me or worship me, this is how you're going to do it.
He gives very specific instructions and he says, at all places where I record my name,
I will come unto thee and I will bless thee.
And if thou will make an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone.
For if thou lift thy tool upon it, thou has polluted it.
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy nakedness be not discovered
thereon.
So God does not, he didn't even not want steps built going up to his altar, lest their nakedness
should be discovered.
Now, you kind of have to think that situation through.
What exactly does he mean that, does that mean if we go up a set of stairs, all of a
sudden we're naked?
No.
What he means is that if you're going up a set of stairs and someone is going on ahead
of you, if they're wearing a robe or a skirt, there's a potential that your nakedness would
be discovered to that individual.
So God wanted to avoid that.
He was so careful about it that he told them about it and warned them about it and said,
look, thou shalt not have any stairs lest thou nakedness be discovered.
That's how careful God is to avoid nudity.
So keep that in mind as I preach this tonight.
Lest you think, you know, Corbin's just being a prude.
You know, he's just some old fashioned fuddy duddy that doesn't want to have any fun.
God didn't even want steps.
Let's you know, what if somebody just, you know, not even in case somebody were accidentally
look up and get a glimpse, but what if that person were to fall down and everything's
flying up in the air?
That's how careful God is to avoid nudity.
So keep that in mind as we go through this tonight and to understand that you might think
I'm being old fashioned.
You might be thinking I'm just some old, but you know, God's got some pretty strict rules.
Now go over to Exodus chapter 28.
Keep something in Exodus nine.
We're going to come back later, but go back to Exodus 28, particularly in Exodus 28.
We'll come back here and look at the same verse again.
You say, well, how careful was God to avoid nudity?
Well, you know, he, one, he avoids steps, but then those men that were going to be serving
at that altar, the high priests, he says in verse 42, thou shalt make them linen breeches
to cover their nakedness.
So they, he even wanted undergarments underneath the, the, the priestly robes just, you know,
for extra precautions in case that there was any chance that somehow the robe got lifted,
whatever, that there would be breeches there.
He specifically says the breeches were there to cover their nakedness.
That's what he wanted.
He wanted that nakedness covered.
He did not want exposed in his presence.
So we see that God is very careful to avoid nakedness.
And really another thing we need to understand about nakedness or nudity is that not only
is it shameful, not only is it something that God avoids and is very careful to avoid and
doesn't want in his presence, but it's also something that often is the result of God's
judgment.
Okay.
Now I'm not saying every time the three-year-old comes running out of the bathroom, you know,
in his birthday suit, that God's judging, right?
That's just kids growing up, they're silly.
But when a society becomes naked, often it's because of God's judgment.
It's part of God's judgment.
Go over to Deuteronomy chapter 28.
Someone asked me just recently, you know, why is it that America has become such a naked
country?
Why is it that people in America are so comfortable with just flaunting their bodies so openly
and being naked?
How did this happen?
And in short, the answer is they became godless.
They forgot the God of the Bible, and they've forsaken his commandments.
And when that happens, the nation goes down a path of immorality, and the lusts of man
are unbridled, and they become naked.
And part of that is often sometimes even the judgment of God.
Look here in Deuteronomy 28 verse 45.
Of course, this is when Moses is rehearsing the blessings and the cursings to the nation
of Israel before they go over into the Promised Land.
And he says in verse 45,
Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee and overtake thee
till thou be destroyed, because thou hearkenest not unto the voice of the Lord thy God to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee.
So he's saying, look, if you forsake the word of God, this is what's going to happen.
And they shall be a sign for thee, and for a wonder upon thy scene forever, because thou
servest not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance
of all things.
Therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger
and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things.
So even being naked, that would be something that an enemy would cause to come upon you.
When God would judge a country and they would be overtaken by a foreign enemy, they would
end up naked often.
The enemy would be so calloused and careless about their captives that they wouldn't even
care about whether or not they had proper clothing.
So nakedness often, you know, I'm not saying it's necessarily because we're being overtaken
by a foreign invader, but a lot of the nakedness that we see in our country today is the result
of people forsaking the commandments of God, forsaking the law of God.
It is the same result.
So we see also that a culture that becomes naked, a society that becomes naked, it's
indicative of a godless immoral society.
It is that not what we're living in and we're living in the midst of a perverse and wicked
generation and adulterous generation.
It shouldn't shock us that they're naked out there and they wouldn't say that they're naked,
but they are.
And we're going to look at that.
We're going to see how they are in fact naked.
If you would turn over to 2 Chronicles chapter 28, 2 Chronicles chapter 28, we'll look at
verse 1, 2 Chronicles 28 verse 1, and it says Ahaz was twenty years old when he began
to reign.
So this is one of the kings of Judah coming up, and he began to reign and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem, but he did not that which is right in the sight of the Lord, like David
his father, for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made molten images for
Balaam and moreover the burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom and burnt his
children in the fire after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before
the children of Israel.
So this is a wicked man.
He's forsaken the Lord God and he's even making child sacrifice in the valley of the son of
Hinnom.
He's sacrificing children in literal fire, a wicked individual.
Look at verse 16.
At that time did King Ahaz send the king of Assyria to help him, for again the Enomites
had come and smitten Judah, just like God said would happen, that if you forsake him
the enemy would come upon them, right?
And it smitten him and carried away captives.
The Philistines also invaded the cities of the low country of the south and the Judah
and of Beth-Shemesh and Agilon and Gediroth and Shocho and the villages thereof and Timnath
and the villages thereof and Gizmo and the villages thereof and dwelt there.
For the Lord brought Judah low because the king Ahaz of Israel, for he made Judah naked
and transgressed the sore against the Lord.
One of the sins was not only the fact that this guy was sacrificing children but also
that he was making them naked.
God made them low for he made Judah naked.
They were getting involved in all these heathen practices and you don't have to look very
far into ancient heathen cultures to see just an abundance of nakedness.
We see many examples of that in the statues and the depictions of nudity in ancient civilizations
like Rome and Greece and Egypt, it's all over.
The naked statues, the David statue, that's nudity, it's nakedness, it's not right.
And that's what we see going on with Ahaz here.
Ahaz is a man who forsakes the Lord God, he starts to go after other gods, heathen gods
and part of that is not only the wicked abominations of sacrificing your own children but it's
also the fact that you start making people so immoral that they just become okay with
nakedness.
That natural instinct to cover up gets desensitized and people become comfortable with just taking
off the clothes, walking around naked.
Now today we see the same thing going on, you say no we don't, yes we do.
We see the same thing taking place even today, there are common examples of societies just
becoming naked.
Think about the nudist colony, think about the nudist camps, I mean there's whole campgrounds
that are dedicated to this in this country where it's just where you can go camping and
you can roast a marshmallow and go for a hike and you can do it all naked in the presence
of a bunch of other naked people and I'm not just talking about what the Bible defines
as naked but I'm saying full-blown naked.
And people pursue that and they think that's a good time.
There's nude protests in this country, people that part of their protests are just going
to get naked.
What about the nude bike races, they're going to, for a charity, we're going to ride through
the town naked.
Really?
Nude bike races?
Think about the spring break parties that go on every spring, all the college campuses,
all the nudity that just goes on there.
We are, this is a naked country that we're living in, that people are becoming so desensitized
and so immoral that they just think there's nothing to be naked anymore.
They're perfectly fine with it.
You know, and it's worth noting that often when nakedness is often associated with you
see drugs and alcohol being accompanied with nakedness, you would see that in Scripture.
I don't want to dwell on that point but the Bible says in Lamentations, rejoice and be
glad O daughter of Edom that dwells the land of Oz.
The cup also shall pass through unto thee, thou shall be drunken and shall make thyself
naked.
That's what you see in a lot of the spring break parties and things like that, right?
The drunkenness and then what follows next?
The nakedness.
They go hand in hand.
So there's common examples of nakedness, there's ancient examples of nakedness, there's biblical
examples of nakedness and in every instance we see it's a shameful thing and it's telling
us that we're in an immoral country and we see that God is one that considers nakedness
a shameful thing and it's something that he does not want in his presence and you say
oh well the nakedness in his presence that's just for those that are serving him.
Those are just you know that people who are religious they should be naked yeah but the
Bible says that the eyes of the Lord in every place beholding evil and good.
That God sees everything.
That everything is open and naked unto him to whom we have to do.
That God sees all of us at all times.
We can't just you know think that God doesn't see us outside of the church walls.
So there are of course today that even the world would say there are explicit forms of
nudity.
Now we have to define some terms what is not necessarily terms but some standards we have
to define the standards of what the world calls naked and what the Bible calls naked
because that's what a lot of even Christians today do they think well we're not naked but
they are naked because their standard is not the biblical standard.
Their standard they've let their standards be formed by what the world considers naked
and the world has a very loose interpretation of what naked means.
I mean they've they've moved the boundary pretty far before they'll say somebody's naked.
So one one example to to to look at you know what the world would define as naked and without
getting too crass without being too blunt or just you know using great plainness of
speech here you know what does the world can say consider naked.
Let me just say that we put it this way.
The world can sit what the world can say it considers naked is exposed potty parts.
OK.
If it's if it's not the parts that you use to relieve yourself then it's not naked.
Anything goes besides that.
That's the world standard today.
That's the truth.
That's why you'll see them walking around in the G string the string bikini the speedo
you know.
Now that's the world's definition of nakedness.
That's not ours as Christians.
This is where we get our standard for what is naked and what is not.
I'm going to read to you from the Motion Picture Association of America.
OK.
Their rating system and part when they look at a film and how they rate that film G P
G P G 13 R or X.
Part of what you know it's not just the violence and the drug use and the foul language.
It's also the level of nudity and what the nudity is being used to depict.
They take that into consideration.
OK.
So let's look at the world in the Motion Picture Association and let's let them define for
us what they consider naked.
So when you look at a P.G. film nudity is restricted to P.G. and above.
This is from their Web site.
Nudity is restricted to P.G. and above and anything that constitutes more than brief
nudity will require at least a P.G. 13 rating.
So anything that has more than brief nudity gets a P.G. 13 rating.
All right.
Listening.
You know what that means.
Anything that has less than brief nudity is P.G. meaning if you sit them down to a P.G.
film your children to a P.G. film there's a chance they're going to see nudity.
Yeah.
But it's only going to it's going to be less than brief.
It's a flash.
Maybe just a glimpse.
Does that what you want your children.
How much nudity is acceptable.
How many strangers do you want your children seeing naked.
And for how long and how much you know that I don't want to see any of it.
That's why I'm not going to sit him down in front of that trash and that filth and just
let the motion picture association tell me what's acceptable for my children.
You know we as parents need to take that into control for ourselves because kids are curious
and kids are impressionable and they start seeing things like that.
I mean it it makes a long lasting impression and can get some wheels turning that just
don't need to be turning.
So it's set.
No.
So the world thinks it's fine for your kids to see naked people as long as isn't depicting
copulation.
OK.
And if you don't know what that word means you don't need to know.
OK.
Don't worry about it.
They think it's fine for your kids to go see that taking place as long as that's not taking
place that nudity is acceptable.
Now it also says nudity that is physical.
I replaced that word physical for another word they used.
It will generally require an R rating.
So anything less than people copulating is fine for your children to see that kind of
nakedness the world says that's OK.
You know we suggest parental guidance.
You know like the parents going to know when to cover the eyes.
You know like the parents going to notice it to turn the fast forward or turn the part
off like they've seen the movie before.
And quite frankly the parent probably shouldn't be watching it either.
I mean what makes it right you get to a certain age is like now I can look at naked people.
You know not so that's not how it works.
And the world says you know PG 13 you know they can look at more.
It's OK that they can have more than brief nudity.
Think about the insanity of that of saying it's OK for some hormone laden teenager to
see more than brief nudity.
That's crazy.
You got some teenage kid in there with like a liter of testosterone in his bloodstream.
That's going to see some some nudity.
That's that's you're playing with fire that can lead down paths you don't want to go down.
You know and that's the hypocrisy of the world.
They just had this real loose definition of what's acceptable.
They had this very broad very open ended just you know anything goes standard on nudity.
As if there's no consequences of seeing this stuff.
As if it's not that big a deal.
As if it's not that influential on a person's mind.
To see nakedness and provocative images at any age especially at a young age.
They think there's nothing really going on there.
It's really doesn't have any effect.
OK well then explain all the nudity and the you know I'm trying to use a word other than
the word we probably know all the physical allure all the flesh in the skin that's being
used in advertising.
I mean if it's not that big of a deal if it's not that powerful of an imagery of nudity
if it's not that much of a motivating force and influential on people's minds why is it
all over advertising.
Why is it that every beer billboard or commercial has just bikini babes and six pack abs and
just lots of flesh and skin everywhere.
Because they know that's what sells.
That's what's going to get people to buy their product.
And that's been known for a long time.
You know they started using that a long time ago I mean you could you could find the old
you know the old tobacco cans you know they were selling tobacco with the woman with the
loosely draped you know whatever on her you know not much is left to the imagination.
That's been going on for a long time and it's far more explicit today.
And what it gets into and really and this is why we live in a society that has just
turned women into objects and don't value them for what they really are and just turn
them into these just things almost.
I mean I remember the last times I actually intentionally sat down to watch television
years ago.
I sat down it was like a football you know some football game was on I was over a family
friends I was like you know what what's the harm I'll just watch a football game.
And you know I'll never forget the fact that this Heineken commercial comes on and it's
this Heineken commercial of this robotic woman with like the perfect shape but she's a robot
right in the miniskirt and everything but it's like all robotic and she comes out and
her abdomen opens up and she pulls on an ice cold Heineken and hands it to some guy.
I'm like if that I looked at my my brother-in-law at the time and said if that's not the objectification
of women I don't know what it is.
Like women are just turned into these just these beer serving babes of robotic babes.
That's what the world I mean the people oh it's just a commercial man that stuff is training
you subconsciously to think like that.
You can't tell me it is I mean look at the way women are just being treated in this society.
They're just objects they're just objects of possession.
And that's and that's what we see taking place and that's really hypocritical of the world
isn't it?
People say it's not that influential it's not that big of a deal nudity is not that
big of a thing but they know how powerful it is that's why they use it to influence
our minds and to buy their products.
And here's the thing as Christians we can't base what we believe or our standards on the
shifting sands of culture because there was a time in America where nudity was frowned
upon where if you went to the beach and you showed an ankle you know you were the town
hussy you know you know but go go to some water hole now every other high schoolers
out there you know we're in their underwear quite frankly you know they'll call it a swimsuit
but if it's got the same stitching and pattern as underwear it's underwear friend you know
but it's okay to wear underwear if there's a body of water involved you know you would
never answer the door I remember we lived in Michigan and we you know Michigan's lots
of lakes we live in the Grand Traverse Bay and the main road went right by East and West
Bay big beautiful bodies of water big sands volleyball courts and a whole lot of nakedness
going on and I remembered I'd be driving and I and in our shop we had to drive by the guys
in the work truck you'd have to drive by that place like every other day jobs would take
us by there you know and I just gotten saved I knew he should be should be looking at that
and I wouldn't look and all the guys are like man what's wrong with you look over there look
at all those babes over there and they I mean they practically get in accidents we're doing
45 that's like in a busy street and it's like man just focus on the road please you know and
they're they're about pulling you know getting whiplash whipping their necks over there trying
to look and I remember one guy like trying to make a point of at it like oh it's not that big
a deal you know it's okay to look married guy I said oh yeah I said that's underwear would you
let your wife answer the door in her underwear well of course not I said but it's okay for her
to go down there and wear it and he didn't say anything I could tell I got him thinking but
people never really think about that do they you wouldn't let your wife answer the door in the
things that she'll wear down to the beach but as soon as there's sand and water involved all bets
are off that doesn't make any sense friend and there was a time in this country where that kind
of thing didn't take place where if you went to the beach you jumped in and you were you were
dressed head to toe in clothing so we don't want to base our beliefs on society's standards because
society standards are always moving farther and farther and farther away from God and becoming
more heathen and wicked and abominable you know our standards is the Bible and it's solid it
doesn't move it's it's it's it's a eternal so let's look at the Bible go over to Revelation
chapter 3 in Revelation chapter 3 because according to the Bible today not according to
them you know not according the motion picture Association you know but according to the Bible
today many people are naked and don't even know it they walk around naked all the time some of
God's own people who are professing Christians walk around naked and don't even know it and
that's you know we'll see here a group of people that do just that of course it's addressed on a
loud east the Laodicean church there in verse 14 and under the angel of the church of Laodiceans
right these things say the Amen the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God
I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot I work I would work that thou were cold or hot
so then that because our lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew the out of my mouth
because thou sayest I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and no it's not
that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked he's saying look you don't even
know you're naked that's the how what kind of spiritual you're so spiritually destitute that
you don't even know you're naked now whether or not you want to say that's a physical nakedness
or this is a euphemism talk about their spiritual state you know you could say that and that's
probably correct but it gives us a good idea that there are still some people out there that is do
we not see that today that people are walking around and they think I'm I'm fine I'm here you
know in my underwear oh I'm sorry bathing suit and I'm not naked but the Bible says you are naked
and we're gonna look at that because the Bible the the Bible's very explicitly tells us what
is considered nakedness go over to Exodus 28 Exodus 28 I know I got us turned to a quite a
few pages tonight but we got it we got to take a look we want to get this down we want the Bible
to be our authority and not just what I say and not just what the motion picture Association says
we want to know for ourselves what the Bible says the Bible says in Exodus 28 verse 42 we read this
earlier and thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness God wanted is the men
to be covered up even underneath those robes from the loins even unto the thighs shall they reach
so he's saying look you're gonna cover their nakedness and then he spells out exactly what
nakedness is he says from the loins unto the thighs it's from your lap area to your knee if
you're wondering what your loins are that's what he's saying this is nakedness from here to here
from your from your hip down to your knee the top of your knee the Bible says that let's look at
it again thou shalt make them linen breeches to do what to cover their nakedness from the loins
unto the thighs they shall reach that's so that's the nakedness that needs to get covered up if God
left out something you know then their nakedness isn't covered right I mean that that's very clear
in the Bible there's no question about what God considers nakedness you mean in another passage
let's go over Isaiah 47 Isaiah 47 let's look at what God defines as nakedness look at Isaiah 47
verse 1 I'll begin reading in verse 1 of Isaiah 47 come down and sit in the dust Oh virgin daughter
of Babylon sit on the ground there is no throne Oh daughter of the Chaldeans for thou shalt no
more be called tender and delicate take the millstones and grind meal uncover thy locks
make bare the leg he's saying expose the leg make bare the leg uncover the thigh pass over
the rivers that nakedness shall be uncovered thy shame shall be seen so when he says thy nakedness
shall be uncovered thy shame shall be seen what is he referring to the previous verse make bare
the leg uncover the thigh that's the nakedness that's being exposed there that's the shame
that's being seen so again we have two passages in the Bible that make it very clear that when
A person is exposed from their hip unto the top of their knee, this area of their body.
That is nakedness.
That's what the Bible defines as naked.
And nothing else, by the way.
That's the only thing it defines as nakedness.
Now you say, well, God seems like he kind of takes a loose interpretation of nakedness.
I mean, what about the top?
What about everything from the waist up?
Well, that God does not call that nakedness, but God also has a principle in Scripture
called modesty.
And that's what we want to practice as well.
So don't think that just because the Bible defines this as nakedness that all of a sudden
anything else goes.
There is still biblical, there's biblical nakedness, and then there's the, you know,
what is called modesty, where we have to be modest.
It does not permit modesty, okay?
So that would refer, now what am I referring to?
Okay, so think of this, like the tank top, the tube top, the midriff, right?
The low cut blouse, right?
That's not exposing your nakedness, is it, biblically?
It's not.
You can't tell me that's exposing nakedness, because the Bible doesn't define that area.
Those areas of the flesh that are exposed when you wear a garment like that, the Bible
does not define that as nakedness.
Show me a verse where it does, okay?
I'm not excusing those garments.
I'm not saying those are permissible, you know, you shouldn't wear those.
They're not nakedness, but what they are is immodest.
Go over to 1 Timothy chapter 2, 1 Timothy chapter 2.
Think about the purpose of those garments.
Is it to keep warm?
Probably not.
What are the purpose of those garments?
To draw eyes, to get attention, to say, look at me, to show what mama gave me, right?
That's what the point of that is.
To draw attention, quite frankly, you shouldn't want.
And quite frankly, let me just say, you're going to get the attention of the wrong kind
of guy if you wear that kind of thing.
The guy's only got one thing on his mind, and it's not love and marriage in a baby carriage.
It's everything but that.
The purpose of those garments are immodest because they draw attention to oneself.
So just because we understand that those aren't nakedness, that does not excuse those type
of garments, because they are still contrary to what the Bible defines as modest.
Look at 1 Timothy chapter 2, verse 8.
I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting,
and like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel.
From head to toe, God wants us to be in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety,
not with broided hair, or gold, or pearl, or costly array, but that which becometh women
profess in godliness.
The principle here that God is trying to get across is that God does not want us wearing
clothing, men or women, that is going to draw more attention to ourselves than it should.
I'm not saying you have to go and dress in grandma's drapes, right?
You can still look nice and fashionable and classy without being immodest, and there's
ladies in here that do it.
My wife, I think, is a shining example of that, and I'm not just trying to earn brownie
points right now.
I really believe that.
But you know what?
She's also very careful about that.
She puts a lot of effort into that.
I mean, there's bobby pins involved over there, I'm telling you.
She asks me, how does this look?
She does tests.
She does this, and says, is anything showing?
Right?
Because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself in that way.
She doesn't want people to see.
That's not nakedness for people to get a glimpse of that, but it's not modest.
It's not shamefacedness.
And so if you're going to put on a garment that explicitly exposes that part of your
body with the intent of drawing attention, of drawing another man's eye to look at you
in that way, that is not modesty.
And that's the principle that's being taught here in 1 Timothy 2, that we should not wear
things that are immodest, that would draw attention to us.
Now none of those garments that I mentioned earlier, the tank top, the tube top, the midriff,
the low-cut blouse, those aren't exposing your nakedness, but they're not in compliance
with modesty, are they?
They're not.
And while I'm on the subject, neither is anything that is skin tight, period.
Anything that is form-fitting, specifically yoga pants.
There I said it.
These skin tight athletic pants that women just, I remember I first saw these things
coming out in the early 2000s.
I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, do they realize that those are form-fitting, skin tight?
That they're leaving very little of the imagination of anyone that wants to wonder about what's
under there?
And now it's just blown up.
You see it all the time.
They just walk around in these things.
And let me say it, they look trashy.
I'm sorry.
I don't care how comfortable or whatever they are.
You look trashy in those things.
They come out, they're wearing those things, and they're all, I don't know, came out of
the gym, and they're all sweaty, and the hair is up, and it's like, ew, it's gross.
You don't look good.
Why would you go on it?
And what blows me, what's frustrating, but what really makes me mad is when there's a
guy with them, if it's a husband or something.
They're letting your wife walk out like that, knowing how a man's mind works.
And this is what some women don't get.
They don't understand why they can't wear these type of things, because they're just
trying to look pretty.
They just want to look nice.
They want to fit in.
But here's the thing.
You don't understand how a man's mind works.
It's innate.
It's built in.
It's just the way they're wired.
It's visual.
It's how they are drawn to things, visually.
So when you're wearing skin-tight things, you're going to draw the attention of the
wrong kind of guy.
And for a man to be married to a woman who understands how a man's mind works, to let
his wife walk out wearing something like that, it's weird.
It's weird, man.
You're one of these guys that likes, I mean, does it do something for you to know that
there's some other guy out there lusting for your wife like that?
Like it's a trophy wife or something?
It's weird.
And when you're with her and she's walking around like that, it's weird.
It's just, it's very strange.
So the thing is, the point is that these skin-tight, these form-fitting things, yeah, they're covering
everything up, aren't they?
They're covering from the loins to the thigh, but are they modest?
Can you say that's a modest garment that that woman's wearing?
You know, it just happened, I'm up on the res trip, you're wondering where this sermon
got inspired from, it was the res trip.
Sitting down there at six in the morning, go down to get my breakfast, right?
I figured the only people that are going to be up are old guys.
And I was right, a bunch of old dudes.
We're sitting up, and now that doesn't make me one of them.
So I go down there, we're eating, and about 15 minutes later, here she comes, little miss
yoga pants or whatever, with her man with her, and I'm just like, great, well I'm glad
breakfast is over, I'm glad I finished.
But I thought, I'm going to hang out and just watch how many of these guys, because I figured
maybe guys kind of get to an age where that thing, they don't even notice.
I'm telling you, every old dude in there was like, he noticed, I was like, man, that battle
never ends.
That's a lifelong battle we have to fight.
So don't think that just because you're just sending her over to grandpa's, she can wear
whatever she wants, and they're like, no, they need to not be wearing this stuff at
any time.
Men's minds are just, that's just the way they work.
And shame on a woman that would take advantage of that, or think it's not that big of a deal.
I mean, Jesus said, if a man were to look on a woman to lust after her in his heart,
he had committed adultery already in his heart.
And we fight that.
And we don't want that for ourselves.
But I'm telling you, this society ain't making it very easy, driving down the 10 down here,
every other billboard, fascinations, be bold, be you, you know, cleavage hanging out.
It's like great, good grief, man, trying to drive here.
We don't want to see that stuff.
You know, and we're trying to live godly in Christ Jesus.
I mean, men have to walk around today just like this, because the way women are dressing
themselves and the way their husbands are letting them dress, the way the dads are letting
they dress.
It's wicked.
You know, we go over our recreation later that day on Saturday, go over to Clear Creek
Reservoir to jump in, a whole group of teenagers there from the local high school, just in
their underwear, just just prostate anatomy hanging out everywhere.
Like, we are ready to go.
I mean, I felt convicted for not just immediately throwing the van in reverse and leaving.
actually getting out of the van with God's people and surrounding ourselves
with that and trying to just sit there in the bank of the river and have a
conversation and enjoy fellowship when all around us are just backsides you
know we can't enjoy ourselves we had to leave but you know so we have to
understand what nakedness is what it isn't we also have to understand what
modesty what modesty is because just because you're covering something up
with something that's that is skin tight it does not mean you're not
immodest you might not be naked but you're still immodest here's a good rule
of thumb if it stretches it impresses okay that's the that's that's the kind
of the rule of thumb right there you have to wonder about it well if it if
it's stretching it's impressing you know and we could talk about pants but that
would be like opening up a can of worms too because then you have to like go on
and on about how women are not to wear pants because that would be considered
cross-dressing now I know I can't just throw that out there so Deuteronomy 22
let's all turn there because I I'm not so ignorant to think that there may even
still be godly women they come to church and when they're not at church still
wearing pants now I don't know if that's the case I don't know but it wouldn't be
the first time that I've I've seen that and you know what I'm not gonna go
around policing people and I love in the past and I've run into women I got a
church with and like the grocery store in their pants they think I'm gonna run
and tell the pastor something I don't care what you do you know what I mean
but here's the thing this is what the Bible says and well this is just like I
preach this morning you have the liberty to abide by this or not now I'll say
this if you come in here in in a miniskirt and a tank top I mean we might
draw the line somewhere you know I don't know where that is open but
probably we'll never have to deal with that I hope not but let's look at
Deuteronomy 22 verse 5 probably most of us know this verse the woman shall not
wear that which would pertaineth unto a man and here's a here's one that needs
to be emphasized today neither shall a man put on a woman's garment good night
you can preach a whole sermon on that right there you know U of A you know
promoting your transgenderism promoting your filth your cross-dressing men your
trannies I'm not gonna call them transgender they're there when I grew up
they're called transvestites you know like parasite it's got that it's got a
little bit of a when you put the ight on it it's not as nice right transvestite
no transgender it sounds nicer it's softer it rolls off the tongue easier
less offensive to the ear transvestite let's bring it back tranny you know but
the focus we let's not go off on that okay as tempting as that is as much as
that sermon needs to be preached in 2019 America that men shouldn't dress up as
women is that the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man now
what does that mean it means that there's there is a garment out there
that belongs to a man it's considered a man's garment we have to ask ourselves
what is that garment I mean let's read it again the woman shall not wear that
which pertaineth unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment so
there is some article of clothing that belongs to exclusively to men let's go
down the list hats no you know socks maybe let's start at the bottom socks
definitely not socks right hmm shirts no no it couldn't be sure it's sweaters
maybe specific time or type of shirt you know no it's not that it's pants friend
it's pants I mean look God told his men the men of God the priest that they were
to wear linen breeches those are pants and people want to act like well pants
didn't weren't around back then like it would like like somehow there was just
like this there was like some kind of scientific revolution where somebody
was in a lab somewhere you know and spilled some chemicals and there was a
big puff of smoke and all of a sudden there was this article of clothing that
had two you know two hoes and sewn together at the top they're like amazing
how do we even come up with this like I'm glad I just appeared because we
never could have fathomed of making this at any time in human history like
mankind had to reach some pinnacle of technological advancement you know
before they could come up with the concept of pants it's ridiculous well we
don't see any pictures of Jesus and pants that's because it's drawn by
people who live in a culture that didn't wear pants or they were all wearing
robes like a bunch of freaks you know or kilts you know I was just reading this
on fate this post on Facebook people was like always bring up pants well men wear
kilts in Scotland well they're weird yeah then you stop did you see Brave
Heart did you know that that was that was an inaccurate depiction and I just
saw this today this is perfect timing that's an inaccurate depiction of
William Wallace it's historical fact that William Wallace and lowlanders of
that class did not even wear kilts and that kilts did not even come into
existence to the 17th century so if you don't get anything else you got that
right but it's pants okay and I that's I almost was tempted not even break this
up because whenever you bring us up you have to spend 20 to 30 minutes talking
about how pants are a man's garment and prove that and say well there's women
there's designer women's pants it's like there's still pants though okay they
still do the same thing and and here's the problem with pants so what's the big
deal well women's pants are not designed to be you know utilitarian there are
designed to be provocative they are you know I remember when my wife was first
getting on board with all this you know and she started going to church and
there was a woman's class where the pastor's wife wanted to make a point and
she held up a picture of a woman dressed modestly nicely in in a skirt in a blouse
very nice attire sure they looked at that and she said okay and then she
showed him a picture of a woman you know nothing raunchy or anything that but
just in a pair of jeans and she said where do everyone's eyes go and they
said when when they saw the jeans that their eyes not go to her face when they
saw it when they saw everything else you know they saw the the dress and the
skirt everything the eyes are brought to the face but when it's the pants every
the eyes go down they start to look there right and then you know any man
that's honest will admit that you see her walking down the street and pants
you know this happens look around next time you're around this kind of thing
don't look at her look at all the other guys heads that are turning that's what
I do so it is true and you know and and a pair of jeans a pair of pants had the
same effect you say well it's just because all men are dogs you know it's
because they're wired that way and pants are designed to be provocative they're
form-fitting and now we even got dudes wearing pants that are form-fitting I
mean it's just it's gone crazy you say well I don't I don't agree well you know
that's fine but here why don't we just do this especially in this day and age
that we're living in why don't we all try to dress as you know just
overemphasize our gender by our dress that's what we should be trying to do
women should try to be looking as feminine as they can and men should be
trying to look as masculine as they can and for men that means not putting on
these skinny jeans and these polka dot shirts and everything else they got them
wearing you know go you know buy the Dickies buy the car hearts get the
cargo pants something you know Wrangler you know get something that's gonna be
relax you get the relaxed fit doesn't that sound nicer anyway I don't see how
that's even comfortable at all to put on a pair of skinny jeans I don't even try
it but it just looks uncomfortable to try and pull those things up I mean
they're not even designed to make it to your hips anymore they're designed to
show your your butt excuse my language you know your
posterior anatomy it's it's it's weird it's a weird culture we're living in but
here's here's the bottom line is that when you're you have to understand
something about the way you dress you know not only the the principles of
modesty and nakedness we should understand that we should abide by that
but at the end of the day what's on the inside is reflected on the outside and
what you the way you dress says a lot about what kind of person you are on the
inside I mean go over to Proverbs chapter 7 and we'll wrap this up here
my rants almost over but this subject needs to be preached on because of the
society we're living in and it's the things that we have to be reminded of
because we can become desensitized to this even as God's people even as people
who practice these principles and do dress right and do wear the right thing
and and and and take the time to make sure that we're not being a modest or
or or you know wearing these things that would draw attention that we don't want
we can still become desensitized to it and when we see it and others just think
oh you know that's okay then we end up hanging out too long at the beach you
know we're we got the cute and covered on right we got the outfit that it's
covered everything up and looks nice but now we're gonna go down to the beach and
hang around all that nudity because we're just kind of used to it we're not
naked but we're gonna be around it that's a real danger and we should be
careful to guard ourselves and and try to keep that and it's hard to do at the
best we can do is just keep it to a minimum in our in our lives because it
affects our hearts you know and it what's inside a person's heart comes out
and it's reflected in their dress look at Proverbs chapter 7 verse 6 for I
looked at the window of my house I looked through my casement and beheld
among the simple ones I discerned among the youths a young man void of
understanding it's a real nice way of saying he was a dummy right passing
through the street near the corner and he went the way to her house in the
twilight in the evening in the black and dark night and behold there met him a
man or excuse me there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot now people
read this passage and say well this woman's a whore and she's not in fact
she says she's a she's an adulterous woman and she's trying to get him to
come back and commit adultery says you know the good man has gone away on a
long journey has taken the bag with him and will not be back you know come let
us have our fill of loves but what does it say about her what is how is she
dressed with the attire of an harlot doesn't say she's a harlot she's just
looks like one and that's what we see a lot of today you know whether they
realize it or not a lot of people ladies are walking out there and they look like
harlots and you say well what does a harlot look like oh I I you know when
they've got leather boots that come up to here right and then this is all
exposed and the miniskirt starts here that's what a whore wears that's
literally what the whore Julia Robert the character she played and Pretty
Woman wore that specific outfit and everything else up here was form-fitting
it's the attire of a harlot and women put that on the last time I saw that
kind of outfit was on a newscaster when they came to the protests at Faithful
Ward she came to the lady on the ground right the the whore boots the high boots
on the ground you know was there in the in the flesh you know exposing the flesh
and I remember standing there and when the ladies walked out and she took one
look there she's like is she doing a newscast or turning a trick I was like
burn right I was like well the corners right there I mean 48th and Southern's
pretty busy she could probably you know make a few bucks she's dressed right for
it and I'm not just trying to pick on her I mean she's unsaved and everything
else like that but you know what she knew what she was putting on she got up
that morning they know what that kind of stuff looks like and that's the world
they think oh that looks nice the attire of an harlot so it just goes to prove
this passage right here that you can dress like a whore without actually
being one that's possible to dress up and look like one without actually being
one so the point of sermon is that we should avoid being naked we need to
understand what nakedness is it's not what the world tells us it isn't isn't
so the Bible says now that we understand that we should practice covering up our
nakedness being modest and as much as we can avoid seeing the nakedness that
we're surrounded by just on a daily basis just being barraged with it just
nakedness everywhere and the advertising just in every area and the
immodesty so here here's here's a challenge now I'm gonna challenge the
men first and the more I thought about this challenge I wonder if I should do
it because it could get dangerous all right but men love danger right any time
you see nakedness men or immodesty close your eyes for 30 seconds and recite a
Bible verse you're gonna hear me walk around your eyes closed a lot I was
driving down this morning and there was that fascinations billboard I'm like
I'd be doing 85 with my eyes closed for 30 seconds if I actually were true to
this challenge so take it or leave it I think I'm just trying to make a point
here with this one right don't actually do this you might get in a car wreck you
know but what if you did what if every time you turn on the TV or you scroll
through YouTube and you saw my immodesty you turned it off and so well that's it
for the day that's it once you see it and you're done for the day you would
not watch half as much as you think it is you see you know that's the nice
thing about you know the YouTube subscription is that you can cut out the
ads and kind of as long as you're subscribed to the right feeds and not
the wrong ones you know you can kind of limit that but even then that stuff
still creeps in well here's a challenge to the women because you know I feel
like that's kind of picking on them more than anybody and this is a challenge I
have heard other women put to other women on this this issue of not wearing
pants but wearing skirts you know it's easy to for me to just get up and read
the scriptures and rant and rave but one of the most effective things that I've
I've heard women do to kind of come around on this issue it's just just to
wear it's where it wear modest clothing clothing excuse me exclusively for 30
days just for 30 days you know go out you know and this is you know and if
you're married this is a great opportunity you know to go to your
husband and say hey you know I want to try this out go buy me some clothes
right I need to go to the mall and buy new clothes right I'm trying to get
right with God and husbands by the way if that's us you know we need to go
ahead and give that money that's an investment that's a that's a huge
investment you'll get it's worth every dime to just wear that kind of clothing
you don't wear the pants or 30 days see how you feel and I've I've I've heard
women that after they did that they just they they couldn't understand why they
ever wore pants to begin with you know and sometimes you'll see women out there
that are they're wearing that kind of clothing and you just think that poor
thing she would she would be so much comfortable and so much less
self-conscious if she just understood God's principles of dress and it
practice them and be a happier person right and probably develop a little bit
more self-worth than just being eye candy I mean is that all that women are
that's the all the value you have in yourself today is just to be something
for some stranger to look at and lust after in his heart you know you're
better than that you know and really that's the truth though you know I say
it jokingly but it's true and you know so I just wanted to preach on that
because you know that's the culture we're living in today and we need to be
reminded of these things that you know we're surrounded by nakedness let's not
become desensitized to it and if it's something that's in our lives let's
let's get rid of it and let's let's understand biblical modesty and biblical
nakedness and what it is what is it and let's practice it's good pray