Look at Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 5, the Bible reads, "The woman should not wear that
which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for all that
do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."
Now how would Jesus read this command?
If Jesus were reading this command, he wouldn't just understand this to mean, oh well, you
don't put on a woman's garment, but you can paint your fingernails and toenails as a man.
You think that's how Jesus would read this?
No, because what's the spirit of this law?
The spirit of this law is that men and women would look differently.
That they would not be cross-dressed, okay?
I was out soul winning the other day, literally like, I think it was three weeks ago.
I knocked on the door of a guy, and he is an ordained minister of a non-denominational
church and his toenails were painted black with nail polish.
I've seen dudes painting their nails, fingernails, toenails.
Now, you say, "Well, the Bible didn't say not to paint my nails.
The Bible didn't say not to wear pink and have lace on my underwear.
Where's that in the Bible?"
Because the Bible is saying here, don't put on a woman's garment.
What's the point?
Is to look masculine and not to look feminine.
That's the point here.
So if we're going to read this the way we should read the whole Bible, we would understand
this to cover a whole gamut of men looking like a woman or women looking like a man.
Now if you would go to 1 Corinthians chapter 11, because a lot of people will try to pull
out something like, "Oh, well that's Deuteronomy, Old Testament, we're under grace," and try
to throw this out, as if God changed his mind about this, as if God got into some new gender
bending dispensation or something like that, or the dispensation of gender neutral.
But look, that's what people say when you hit them with Deuteronomy 22.5.
They want to just reject that verse out of hand.
But what do we have in the New Testament?
The Apostle Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 14, "Did not even nature itself
teach you that if a man have long hair, it's a shame unto him.
But if a woman have long hair, it is glory to her, for her hair is given her for covering."
So if we have a guy who's got short hair, and he's in a man's garment, but he's got
makeup and his nails painted, well, he's in compliance.
He's in compliance with scripture, wrong.
Because we need to expand God's command, and not just get the letter of the law, but get
the spirit of the law.
If God's telling you have men's hair on men and women's hair on women, wouldn't that be
pretty much reiterating what he taught back in Deuteronomy 22.5?
This is showing that God's view of Deuteronomy 22.5 has not changed.
It's the same viewpoint that he had back there of men dressing, appearing, looking, and being
groomed as men, women dressing, appearing, and being groomed as women.
He just wants there to be a difference between the genders, folks.
It's not that hard to understand what God's getting at here, and he shouldn't have to
prohibit every little thing.
You know, okay, man, that means no skirts, no dresses, no lace, no pink shirt, no, what?
No polka dots.
Yeah, there you go.
Thank you.
I know I was missing something.
No polka dots, no makeup, don't paint your nails, don't paint your toenails, don't paint
your fingernails.
I mean, it'd be like, okay, good night, that'd be a long book of the law to read.
The Bible would become like an encyclopedia at that point.
You know, God's expecting you to realize that when he says these things, there's a reason
behind them, and we're supposed to get the full meaning of the commandment and expand
that to everything that's similar or the same thing, okay?