We'll sing the big first song at last, on the last verse.
The Lord is bleeding on to certain victory, The bowl of promise begs to use this night.
His glory has made, and their revenge shall honor me, The morn will bring, the dawn of peace is nigh.
The fight is on, O Christian soldier, And face to face in stern array.
With armor gleaming, and colors streaming, The right and wrong engage today.
The fight is on, but be not weary, He's stronger in His final grasp.
With God before us, He's better for us, We'll sing the big first song at last.
Sweetly, Lord, have we heard Thee calling, Come, follow me.
Then we see where the good friends calling Lead us to Thee.
The good friends of Jesus Can make the path we go.
We will follow the steps of Jesus, Here, here we go.
Though they lead o'er the cold, Dark mountains seeking His sheep,
For along those cold mountains they'll be going.
The good friends of Jesus Can make the path we go.
We will follow the steps of Jesus, Here, here we go.
Sewing in the moorings, Sewing sheeps of kindness,
Sewing in the loom tight and the dewy, Waiting for the harvest and the time of bringing,
We shall come rejoicing, Bringing in the sheeps,
Bringing in the sheeps, Bringing in the sheeps,
We shall come rejoicing, Bringing in the sheeps,
Bringing in the sheeps, Bringing in the sheeps,
We shall come rejoicing, Bringing in the sheeps.
Heart is the shepherds voice I hear, Loud in the desert, dark and clear,
Calling the sheep who've gone astray, Far from the shepherds, pull away,
Bring them in, bring them in, Bring them in from the fields of sin,
Bring them in, bring them in, Bring the wandering ones to tease us,
Who'll go and help this shepherd find, Help him, the wandering ones to find,
Who'll bring the lost ones to the fold, Where they'll be sheltered from the cold,
Bring them in, bring them in, Bring them in from the fields of sin,
Bring them in, bring them in, Bring the wandering ones to tease us,
Loud in the desert, hear them cry, Out of the mountains, wild and high,
Heart is the master speaks to thee, Go find my sheep, where e'er they be,
Bring them in, bring them in from the fields of sin,
Send the light, send the light, There are souls to rescue, there are souls to save,
Send the light, send the light, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the storm is strong, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine forevermore, We have heard the mass anointing call today,
Send the light, send the light, In the golden offering at the cross we lay,
Send the light, send the light, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the storm is strong, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine forevermore, Let us pray and praise him everywhere around,
Send the light, send the light, In the Christlike spirit everywhere he comes,
Send the light, send the light, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine, the storm is strong, Send the light, the blessed gospel light,
Let it shine forevermore, Let us not grow weary in the work of God,
Send the light, send the light, Let it shine forevermore,
Far away the noise of strife upon my ear is calling,
Then I know the sins of earth he said on every hand,
Doubt and fear and pains of earth in vain to me are calling,
None of these shall move me from here to out there,
I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky,
I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry,
Oh yes, I'm feasting on the manna from the mountain full supply,
For I am dwelling in you the Lamb, Far below the storm of doubt upon the world.
This day, wonderful grace of Jesus, Reaching to all the lost,
Why is that happening all day? Say to the other gods,
Things have returned us under giving liberty,
For the wonderful grace of Jesus rejects me,
Wonderful the rapture's grace awaits us,
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,
High in the mountains free, By the thousand halls of Israel we're meeting,
Louder than the scope of heights whose treasure's sitting,
Greater far than all my sin is singing,
O magnified, the precious fame of Jesus,
Praise him!
Bless with me now, wonderful grace of Jesus,
Reaching the most divine, High in his glory power,
Making God's dear child, Purchasing peace and health,
For all eternity, And the wonderful grace of Jesus,
Reaches me, Wonderful the rapture's grace awaits us,
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,
High in the mountains free, By the thousand halls of Israel we're meeting,
Louder than the scope of heights whose treasure's sitting,
Greater far than all my sin is singing,
O magnified, the precious fame of Jesus,
Praise him!
O magnified, the precious fame of Jesus,
Praise him!
All right, everybody, welcome to Shirk Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could find your seats and grab your green and red songbooks and turn to page number 263.
We're going to be singing verily, verily.
Welcome to Shirk Foundation Baptist Church.
If you could find your seats and grab your songbooks and turn to page number 263.
We're going to be singing verily, verily.
Song 263, let's sing it together on the first.
O what a savior that he died for me,
From condemnation he hath made me free,
He that believeth on the sunset he,
Hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the sun tis true,
Hath everlasting life.
All my iniquities on him were laid,
My indebtedness by him was paid,
All who believe on him the Lord hath said,
Hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the sun tis true,
Hath everlasting life.
Though poor and needy I can trust my Lord,
Though weak and simple I believe his word,
O glad message every child of God,
Hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the sun tis true,
Hath everlasting life.
Though all unworthy yet I will not doubt,
For him that cometh he will not cast out,
He that believeth on the good news shout,
Hath everlasting life.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Verily, verily, message ever new,
He that believeth on the sun tis true,
Hath everlasting life.
Amen.
Our next song will be song number 467.
As a family integrated church we've got to throw in some kids' songs every once in a while.
Song 467, the chance to redeem yourselves
On the B-I-B-L-E
Song 467, let's sing it together on the first.
The B-I-B-L-E
Yes, that's the book for me
I stand alone on the word of God
The B-I-B-L-E
Bible!
Amen, with that being said, we'll have our announcements.
Let's sing it one more time.
Ready?
The B-I-B-L-E
Hold on, I screwed it up.
That's why I shouldn't do this.
Alright, ready?
The B-I-B-L-E
Yes, that's the book for me
I stand alone on the word of God
The B-I-B-L-E
Bible!
Alright, very good.
You redeemed yourself, church.
Alright, welcome to Shore Foundation Baptist Church for our midweek service.
Let's take our bulletins and look at some upcoming events.
Does anybody need a bulletin? Just lift up your hand.
One of the ushers will bring you a bulletin. Anybody need one?
Going once, going twice.
Alright, on the front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, her children will rise up and call her blessed.
Her husband also, and he praises her.
Proverbs 31, verse 28.
And I hope everybody had a wonderful Mother's Day last Sunday.
On the inside there we have our service times.
Our Sunday morning service, 10.30 a.m.
Sunday evening service, 3.30 p.m.
Thursday Bible study, 6.30 p.m.
We're in Exodus chapter 39. We're almost finished with the book of Exodus.
We'll be finishing chapter 39 tonight.
And our sowing times are listed below.
We had sowing tonight.
And do we have any salvations out there?
Oh, we did? Oh, we did.
We had one.
Nobody's holding up their finger.
Who's the finger holder? Oh, it was Ms. Sherry.
She didn't want to be ultra-spiritual back there.
No, she was holding a baby.
Okay, so one salvation, so we'll praise the Lord for that.
And if you looked down, you can see the praise report,
the salvation, baptisms, and attendance totals from last week.
And then the Mother's Day stuff, everybody hopefully got a gift.
If you didn't get a Mother's Day gift, just see one of the ushers.
I think that they can get you one or just see me after the service.
And let's see, the lady's tea is going to be Saturday, this Saturday at 11 a.m.
It's going to be here at the church building.
Now please see Ms. Sherry if you have any questions about anything.
And all the other information is there.
And the Chicago sowing event and preaching event is coming up this next coming week.
Not this weekend, but next weekend.
And I'll be preaching with Pastor Shelley in, we're going to be in Indiana,
but also preaching, the sowing event is going to be in Cicero.
All the information is there.
That email is still wrong.
It's sfbcindy, not nday, at gmail.com.
For any of the details that you need, and if you have any questions,
just see me or email that email address.
For the venue location, I do have a schedule.
If anybody needs one, just ask me for one.
I'll make sure to email it to you.
June 7th through 9th is the ordination of Brother Jim Wiebe.
And that's going to be in Winnipeg.
All the information is there below.
And the Red Hot Preaching Conference is coming quickly.
And there's the lineup for the preachers there.
The dates, it's going to be in Sacramento, California.
Who all is going to that?
Anybody in this room going to Red Hot?
Red Hot.
Wow.
All right.
Okay.
Cool.
So that's coming up, and we're a family-integrated church.
That means the children and infants are welcome during the church services.
Please utilize those rooms for your convenience.
They're in the back of the building there,
mom baby room back there, dad baby room back there.
All the rules are there.
Please silence your cell phone.
If you would at this time, please, the tithes and offerings for the month so far
down at the bottom of the page.
We're going to sing Happy Birthday to Jack.
He turned 10 years old.
He's living his best life now.
And not a care in the world.
Just living the dream at 10 years old.
Man, that was a fun time.
Anyway, that's all I have for announcements.
Let's go ahead and sing another song.
We'll receive the offering.
Next song is going to be song number 315, Take My Life and Let It Be.
Song number 315, Take My Life and Let It Be.
Let's sing it together on the first.
Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to thee.
Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of thy love,
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee.
Take my voice and let me sing, always only for my King,
always only for my King.
Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold.
Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Let them flow in ceaseless praise.
Take my will and make it thine, it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart, it is thine own, it shall be thy royal throne.
It shall be thy royal throne.
Amen. Good to see you, brother Ramon. Would you bless the offering for us?
Thank you.
Thanks, Dan. Are we all flying there?
Thank you.
Amen. Good to see you this evening.
Would you please turn with me to the book of Exodus, chapter 39. Exodus 39, please.
We'll be reading the whole chapter, starting in verse 1. Would you please read along quietly with me, starting in verse 1 of Exodus 39.
The Bible reads...
They made shoulder pieces for it, to couple it together. By the two edges was it coupled together.
And the curious girdle of his ephod that was upon it was of the same, according to the work thereof, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-twined linen, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they wrought onyx stones, enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven with the names of the children of Israel.
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine-twined linen.
It was foursquare. They made the breastplate double. A span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
And they set in it four rows of stones. The first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle. This was the first row.
And the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligur, an agate, and an amethyst.
And the fourth row a barrel, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in ouches of gold in their enclosings.
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, everyone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
And they made two ouches of gold and two gold rings, and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.
And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod before it.
And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.
And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the fore part of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work all of blue.
And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an herbrogen, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet and twined linen.
And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates, upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates.
A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron and his sons, and a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen, and a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue and purple, and scarlet of needlework, as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, Holiness to the Lord.
And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre, as the Lord commanded Moses.
Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished, and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so did they.
And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent and all his furniture, his tatches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets, and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the veil of the covering,
the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat, the table and all the vessels thereof, and the showbread, the pure candlestick with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order,
and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light, and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door, the brazen altar and his grate of brass, his staves and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
the hangings of the court, his pillars and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of the congregation,
the cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garment for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office, according to all that the Lord commanded Moses.
So the children of Israel made all the work, and Moses did look upon all the work, and behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it, and Moses blessed them.
Father Jeremy, would you pray for us?
Dear Lord, thank you for your word, and for the opportunity to be at church today. Please fill the pastor with the Holy Spirit, and please give us the ears to hear.
Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Amen. All right, well, we're getting close to wrapping up this series here, and I've preached in pretty great detail about the priest's garments before.
So I am going to take some liberties tonight here, and I'm going to preach a little bit about just something specific.
So about does God care how we dress? Does God care how we dress?
So like I said, I've gone into a lot of detail about all these different details, but the main context of this passage is it's just explaining
how they made the priest's garment.
Moses has already been instructed how to do it.
Now he's just explaining how he made everything exactly how God told him to make it.
And then at the end, they're just bringing all the things that have been made and bringing it before Moses.
Moses inspects everything and says, yep, we've done it exactly the way God said to.
And so they're kind of gathering it all together, and then the next chapter is going to be the last chapter in Exodus.
And then they'll go on into the wilderness after this.
So really, Exodus is just kind of telling us the first part before they even actually go into the wilderness itself,
before they actually mess everything up and have to wander for 40 years.
And basically, we get the main story of the beginning of the Exodus,
and then we kind of get into all these different explainings of how the tabernacle works.
And I've explained a lot of different things of symbolism.
But I did want to preach about, does God care how we dress tonight?
So I'll hit on many different aspects of that.
But many people say God doesn't care how we dress.
And I'll say this, there's no specific clothing standards of specific brand names that you have to wear,
or whether ties, you know, the Bible doesn't say thou shalt wear ties,
and suits, and three-piece suits, and all these other things, okay?
But there are certain standards of how much skin you will allow yourself to be shown in public,
and things like that.
The Bible has standards for nakedness and not allowing yourself to be naked in public,
and what God's standard for that is.
And also, you know, we're not supposed to be of the world in the New Testament.
So to, and it instructs us how we shouldn't overdo, and women should be dressed modestly,
so not drawing attention to themselves in a way that would be not godly, and things like that.
I'll get into all that stuff.
But when it comes to the making of the priestly garments, what's the picture that we're seeing here?
Well, the picture we're seeing here is, it's a physical picture of a spiritual truth, right?
So the spiritual truth is what? That all these different pomegranates and the needlework,
you know, is all these different things woven together to picture a bloody high priest.
A high priest that actually offers himself a bloody sacrifice, a bruised sacrifice,
because there really wasn't a part of Jesus' body that probably wasn't black and blue and bloody when he went to the cross.
And, you know, you've got the gold being woven through his garments and things like that.
Of course, Jesus Christ is a king.
And so he's not just a high priest, but he's also a king as a high priest.
And so you have all these pictures, these outward pictures of,
and they're made, the Bible says they're made for beauty in other places, right?
We'll go through those scriptures too, but the outfits they wore were made for beauty,
and it is beautiful for us.
But in reality, the real picture is ugly about what he looked like when he actually died,
but for us it's a beautiful thing because those things are the reason why we're able to be saved.
The blood that he shed, go ahead and turn to Matthew chapter 23 real quick.
Now, I would say this also, and you're probably going to agree with me because the Bible says it,
so hopefully you agree with the Bible tonight, but Matthew chapter 23,
I think that we should care how we dress to a certain extent,
but we should care what's on the inside also.
I think we should be both.
You know, it's not like God just doesn't care how we dress.
He just cares on what's on the inside.
I would say that God probably cares about both.
And there would be people, oh, you're just a Pharisee for saying that.
Well, you know, I don't think that that's true.
I mean, he had the high priest wear these things for a reason.
He had the priest wear these things for a reason,
and we'll go through what Jesus wore when he was on this earth,
and I'm not saying he was wearing a three-piece suit, but he wasn't wearing rags either.
So, Matthew chapter 23 verse 25, look what the Bible says.
It says, woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you may clean the outside of the cup and of the platter,
but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and the platter,
and the outside of them may be clean also.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
For you are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.
Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men,
but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
So, the Pharisees like to look good on the outside
and look beautiful on the outside,
but on the inside there were ugly people, there were wicked people.
But I would say to this that he's saying,
hey, make both clean the inside up first and also make the outside look good.
Now, don't dress in wizard outfits, okay?
Don't look like you're about to cast some spells in a Harry Potter movie or something,
but to look good on the outside, there's nothing wrong with that.
There's nothing wrong with smelling clean, looking clean, being clean, having okay clothes.
I'm not saying wear flashy clothes,
Jesus said, what went you out to see?
A reed shaking in the wind about John the Baptist?
And he said, they that wear soft raiment are in king's houses.
So, John the Baptist was wearing what, a camel?
He was wearing camel hair, a belt, he was just kind of a manly guy.
He looked like a manly dude.
But he wasn't wearing some fancy, soft, kingly robe.
People thought, he was like, what did you think you were going out to see?
Some guy in some kingly robe?
So, Jesus isn't saying that that's necessarily bad,
but he's just saying those people that want to dress all fancy,
those people are in king's houses.
So, I'm not saying you can't have nice clothes either.
You can have nice clothes, but should that be the focus of our lives?
Probably not.
If your clothes are, it's just such a big thing for you to have the most expensive and newest clothes,
that's a worldly mindset. It really is.
There's more things that are important than just how stylish your clothes are.
But I would just say this also, make sure the outside and the inside look good.
That's a good way to look at things.
Now, the high priest, again, he wears these specific things,
and red, purple, and blue and fine twine linen are throughout this chapter.
It's been talked about multiple chapters.
It's talked about in multiple chapters in the Bible,
because I think God wants us to understand this.
Look at verse 1.
And of the blue and the purple and the scarlet,
they made clothes of service to do service in the holy place,
and made the holy garments for Aaron as the Lord commanded Moses.
And he made the ephod of gold, blue and purple and scarlet and fine twine linen.
So that's just one of the things that we're going to see through this whole chapter,
and that Brother Eli read.
But let's look at Proverbs 20, verse 30.
And I mention this kind of almost every sermon, it seems like.
But I just kind of want to remind us of the verses of kind of what this is talking about,
what it represents.
Proverbs 20, verse 30.
The spiritual reasoning for these outwardly beautiful looking things
is actually kind of an ugly thing to think about.
So Proverbs 20, verse 30, the Bible says,
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil.
So do stripes the inward parts of the belly.
So the blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil.
So when you're talking about the Lord Jesus Christ,
those stripes, we are healed by those stripes.
The blueness of a wound, it says, cleanseth away evil.
So when Christ was receiving the beatings that he got,
by those stripes, by that wounding, we are healed.
That's what it represents in the clothing of the high priest.
Mark, chapter 15, verse 17.
You don't have to turn there.
Go ahead and turn back to Exodus, chapter 39.
Or actually turn to Revelation, chapter 19.
Mark, chapter 15, verse 17 says,
And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns,
and put it about his head.
So you have this, they clothed him with purple clothing,
and platted a crown of thorns upon his head.
So that crown of thorns, when they put that crown of thorns upon his head,
you know, we're not talking about just like, you know, some blackberry bushes or something.
These are probably like these thick, spiny, you know,
really, really long thorns that they put upon his head,
and instantly, blood is probably just pouring down his face.
So you got that picture, plus you got the purple.
So, I mean, you see the picture in the high priest's outfit,
the blue, the purple, and the scarlet is the red.
It represents the blood of Christ,
which, by those things, we are healed.
Look at Revelation 19, seven, where I had you turn, it says,
Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him,
for the marriage of the Lamb is come.
And his wife hath made herself ready,
and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen,
clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.
So, that interpretation of what the fine linen represents
in the book of Exodus is right there for you.
He gives us that fine linen,
and that represents the righteousness of the saints.
It's not our own righteousness, it's the righteousness that Jesus gave us,
the imputed righteousness of Christ unto us.
And so, we don't, he gives us that righteousness,
just like it shows in the passage there,
those white robes are given to them, right?
Just like our righteousness is given to us from Jesus Christ.
Now, back to our text there in Exodus 39 and 3, it says,
And they did beat the gold into thin plates,
and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue,
and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen,
with cunning work.
Again, representing the fact that the true high priest would be the king and high priest.
Verse 4,
And they made shoulder pieces for it,
to couple it together by the two edges,
was it coupled together.
So, probably representing what the Old Testament
and the New Testament, or something like that.
Verse 5,
And the curious girdle of the ephod that was upon it
was the same according to the work thereof,
of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they wrought onyx stones,
enclosed in ouches of gold,
graven in signets,
or graven with the names of the children of Israel,
and he put them on the shoulders of the ephod,
that they should be stones for a memorial
to the children of Israel,
as the Lord commanded Moses.
So, he carried these things on his shoulders,
these onyx stones that had the names of the children of Israel
upon his shoulders,
and the sins of the people
were the burden on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not just the children of Israel, but the whole world, right?
He was heavily laden with the sins of the people,
and he bore the sin of all the people
with that weight of their sin.
And also, he had that memorial that's talking about,
the stones for memorial,
didn't he promise Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
that he would always keep his covenant with them?
And he did, didn't he?
In the Old Testament and in the New Testament.
So you had the two different shoulder pieces tied together,
because really, Abraham was promised,
it was promised through Abraham,
the faith of Abraham would come to the Gentiles,
and that is in the New Testament, isn't it?
But faith has always been how people are saved.
But that faith of the New Testament
didn't come until after Jesus Christ died on the cross, of course.
So, you have that picture there.
Now, we're going to skip ahead in the story here,
and go to verse 23 there.
It says,
And there was a hole in the midst of the robe,
as the hole of a haberdron,
with a band around about the hole that it should not rend.
Now, this immediately makes me think of
when the Lord Jesus Christ,
they take his clothes off,
and they divide it among the soldiers
to cast lots upon it.
So, this haberdron,
what it's talking about, that's like a coat of mail.
So, a coat of mail is a haberdron,
it would go over you,
and it's made to where it won't rend, okay?
So, the hole in the midst of the robe,
so the robe he was wearing had,
it was built so that it would not be able to be torn or rend.
And verse 27, it says,
And they made coats of fine linen,
of woven work for Aaron and for his son.
So, they did wear coats.
They wore robes, they wore coats.
God told them exactly how to build these things.
Now, turn to John chapter 19, verse 23.
John chapter 19, verse 23.
We'll look at that story real quick
about Jesus with the Roman soldiers.
So, they made coats for them,
and look, the high priest and the other priest,
they could not go in the tabernacle of the congregation
without these clothes on.
So, did it matter what kind of clothes that they wore
in the Old Testament?
Yes, it did, because if they did not have those clothes on,
what would happen to them?
They would die.
What would happen if they didn't have their little hats on?
You know, that said, Holiness to the Lord?
What would happen?
They would die, okay?
So, they would die without those clothes on,
so does it matter what you wear?
It does.
Did it matter what they wore?
It absolutely did.
It mattered.
So, you're like, well, that's just them.
Well, no, it matters what we wear, too,
because what does the high priest picture?
It pictures Christ, ultimately.
He's the high priest forever
after the order of Melchizedek,
and then what do the priests represent?
The priests represent us,
and so they had to wear different stuff.
Jesus had to, you know,
the high priest had to wear something different,
the priest had to wear something different,
and so, I mean, just translate that
into the New Testament.
I'm not saying we have to wear those clothes.
I'm just saying that we should be wearing something different.
We shouldn't be looking and acting
and being just like the world,
and so, I'm saying in a spiritual sense,
we should apply that in a spiritual way
and say, hey, yeah, we shouldn't be just like the world
in the way that we wear our clothes.
So John chapter 19, verse 23, the Bible says,
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments and made four parts
to every soldier apart,
and also his coat.
So there's four parts plus the coat, right?
We're all doing the math here.
Now the coat was without seam,
woven from the top throughout.
So this coat was not just like a regular coat.
It's a special coat.
They said, therefore, among themselves,
let us not rend it,
but cast lots for it,
whose it shall be,
that the scripture might be fulfilled,
which saith, they parted my raiment among them,
and for my vesture did they cast lots.
These things, therefore, the soldiers did.
Now what I want to point out to you
by these verses, though,
well, first of all, it was an interesting coat
that he was wearing,
and he's not just wearing some regular old clothes,
but he's also not wearing clothes
that would just draw some unnecessary,
you know, like, wow, he's wearing a wizard outfit or something.
No, he's not wearing some
highly religious-looking outfit or something,
but he is wearing something that people would want.
It's not like, you know,
because Jesus was born
and took upon himself
the form of a servant, right?
He was born in a manger.
He wasn't born in a castle
to the richest family in Jerusalem.
He was born to a carpenter's family.
He was born to a poor family.
He didn't have any certain dwelling place at this point.
The foxes had holes and everything,
but the Son of Man had no place
where to lay his head.
But the one thing he did have
is he had at least one outfit
that was pretty decent,
and it was so decent, in fact,
that the soldiers were gambling for it.
They were like, hey, let's cast lots for this.
And they had all these different parts.
They had the four different parts,
but then they cast lots for the coat.
I mean, if he was wearing rags
in some poor man's outfit,
why would they want that outfit?
I mean, they're Roman soldiers.
Do you think that they just wanted
anybody's Kmart follow-parts or something?
I mean, Kmart's not really a thing anymore, I guess,
but Walmart follow-parts
or whatever you want to say?
He's probably a fairly expensive outfit,
or at least a high-quality outfit.
I'm not saying he got it
at Nordstrom Rack or something,
but it was probably a quality outfit.
And it was something that...
So I'm not saying,
like, well, yeah, we should wear
what Jesus wore exactly.
It doesn't really explain everything,
but it did say he had a coat.
Do you want to get up and say,
well, pastor, where does the Bible say
that you should wear a coat and a tie?
Well, Jesus wore a coat.
Doesn't it say he wore a coat?
Okay, well, what's wrong with wearing a coat?
I think ties, personally, might be in hell
when we go to heaven.
But, I mean, for now,
when people see you wear a tie,
they're like, well, okay,
that's a professional businessperson.
But they don't go,
I bet that guy's a wizard.
I wonder if that guy's a pastor.
I mean, they might think that
but they're not going to think that
if you're just walking down the street
in New York City, are they?
No, we just look like, you know,
as a pastor or as someone
that gets up in this pulpit and preaches,
you just look like a normal businessperson.
You know?
We're not trying to look flashy.
I'm not wearing a tailored suit
that I got specifically tailored for me.
And even if I did,
I don't think that's wrong.
But, like, if you're spending
thousands of dollars for a suit,
I do think that's probably wrong, okay?
Unless you're a self-made millionaire or something.
But I wouldn't even imagine
spending that much on a suit, ever,
for any reason.
So, if somebody wants to buy me one,
then, you know, I'm okay with that.
But even then, I might not even accept it.
Like, that's, you know,
that's a lot of money.
But there's pastors out there
and they have these tailored suits.
You know, you think about these guys
on television and stuff
where they have these tailored suits
that, you know, some company prepares for them
every episode that they do on some show,
some sporting event show or whatever,
they have these new tailored suits or whatever.
They get those things for free.
They get them just because
they're some kind of a star or something.
But, you know, Jesus had a decent outfit.
That's all I'll say, okay?
He didn't look like a scrub,
but he also didn't look like some
rich person in a king's house, okay?
I would just say he probably just looked like
a regular business person, you know?
And I think that that's perfectly fine.
I don't think we should even
always have to look like
you're a regular business person.
But look, the priest, the high priest,
and the priest, they did look
a little bit more fancy
than other people, didn't they?
Now, if I came up and I had
like this outfit like the high priest,
I think that you guys would probably
think that's pretty weird, right?
Because that would be weird, okay?
Because there's no high priest anymore,
except for Jesus.
And he doesn't wear something like that anymore.
He's probably just wearing something else.
But, you know,
that was a symbolic thing for that time.
But what's wrong with looking nice
when you're serving God?
There's nothing wrong with that at all.
I don't think, you know,
we were talking about the pictures
that those urchins took of us.
You know, we've had some protests before,
and people have taken some
really good pictures of us, man.
Some top quality pictures, like,
you know, people would pay money
to have some of the great pictures
that have been taken of us
over the years.
But, you know, I mean,
it's just, yeah, anyway, let me move on.
But when it comes to the clothes,
you know, specifically, you know,
the coat that, you know,
they wanted, these soldiers wanted this coat.
They gambled for it, didn't they?
And it had, you know, the characteristics
like the high priest garment
that was designed to not rend.
So that's where you kind of see
the correlation with Jesus.
Why was he wearing that coat
that wouldn't ramble?
It kind of pictures also that same coat
that the old high priest would wear.
Look at Exodus 39, 28.
And a mitre of fine linen
and goodly bonnets of fine linen
and linen breeches of fine twined linen.
So, again, even in the hat that he wore.
So, and by the way, that hat,
you know, they had to pray
with that hat on or they died.
So it's funny when people go
to First Corinthians chapter 11,
they'll say, yeah,
if you pray with a hat on,
churches will say,
yeah, get that hat off, man.
You're not supposed to be wearing
a hat in the house of the Lord.
Well, in the Old Testament,
if they didn't wear that hat
and they prayed in the house of the Lord,
they'd be struck dead.
So where do you come up with that?
You're just with your doctrines of men.
So, I had a deacon rebuke me
one time when I came into a Baptist church.
I was just wearing,
and it wasn't like a,
I wasn't wearing like a Seattle Mariners hat
or something, I was wearing
like a nice kind of like
a Sean Harrington type hat, right?
You know, like a nice hat, right?
And he was like,
get that hat off in the house of the Lord.
And I was just like,
okay, I just bit my lip
and shut up and put it up.
But after church,
I was like, look, deacon,
the Bible does not teach that, okay?
It's like, yes it does.
Okay, whatever.
Anyway, that was nice,
but hats, you know,
there's nothing wrong with wearing hats.
The covering of the head
that's talked about in 1 Corinthians 11
is the hair, okay?
In no place does it say
that it's talking about hats
or head coverings.
So, now the other thing is,
is that the breeches
that it's talked about
that the high priests
were supposed to wear
and that the priests
were supposed to wear
are pants.
Anybody struggling with that right now?
That's what they were?
Okay, so the breeches
that it was talking about
in the chapter are pants.
There's no place in the whole Bible
where you see women wearing these.
There's no place in the whole Bible.
So, this is a man's garment.
Otherwise,
you'd see women wearing them too.
And verse 29 says,
and a girdle,
okay, I'm sorry,
verse 28, yeah,
the mitre, the fine linen,
the fine linen,
and the goodly bonnets of fine linen
and linen breeches of fine twine linen.
So, only the priests were allowed
to wear these,
proving that it is
a man's garment, right?
The linen breeches,
fine twine linen,
then the next verse,
and a girdle of fine twine linen.
Well, what is the modern word
for a girdle?
A belt, right?
I mean, obviously,
they still have girdles
that like suck the tummies in
or whatever that's what they call them,
but, you know,
like William Shatner wore.
Or whatever, but anyway,
I think women still wear them too, right?
I think men wear them too.
I don't know.
Maybe I need to wear one.
But anyway,
but the girdle,
you know, a belt,
like a leathering girdle is what
John the Baptist wore.
Leathering belt,
leathering girdle,
but what are these designed for?
To hold up pants, right?
Have you ever worked with someone
they don't wear a belt,
and every time they bend over,
it's like, ah, you know?
It's like, crack kills, bro.
Like, get a belt.
That's like the worst nightmare ever
of a construction worker
is going to work without a belt.
You forget to put your belt on.
You're like, ugh.
Then you gotta like put a pair,
like a rope,
and tie it together for the whole day.
It's really annoying.
But what's my point?
Well, you know,
that the Bible says over and over
gird up thy loins like a man.
It doesn't say gird up thy loins
like a woman, does it?
Have you ever heard of that verse before?
Gird up thy loins like a woman.
You know why it doesn't say
gird up thy loins like a woman?
Because men gird up their loins.
Men pull up their pants
and tighten their belt.
That's what it's talking about, right?
And so he says that to Job
in Job 38 verse 3.
Job 40 verse 7 says
gird up thy loins now like a man.
I will demand of thee
and declare thou unto me.
So God, you know, twice says that to Job.
There's other verses,
plenty of other verses in the Bible
that says gird up thy loins like a man.
It never says to gird up thy loins like a woman
because women don't gird up their loins
in the Bible because they don't wear pants.
So, you know why I believe that God
says for Job to gird up his loins like a man?
Because men wear pants
and they wear belts
and they're the ones that have to pull them up
and hold them up.
So, and I get that people believe that
there's women cut pants that
those are completely acceptable.
I understand why you believe that.
I just think you're wrong.
And I will say that till
kingdom come and Jesus says
by the way, Pastor Thompson was right about that.
I'm just kidding.
Show me, just show me the verse where women
wear breeches or hose in
or gird up their loins
or wear belts
or wear pants.
Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 5.
This sermon has taken a turn
for the dark side now.
Now it's time to duck and cover.
It's time to use the bathroom ladies
if you'd like to.
But, or men.
Deuteronomy chapter 22 verse 5.
So this verse is real clear.
Very, very clear.
This verse will not get preached
in 99.9% of churches right now.
It just won't.
And if it is, it's followed by an apology
right afterwards.
Or the pastor
going like this.
Ducking behind the pulpit
afraid to say what's
true and right.
According to some people though
women can basically wear anything
that a man wears because nothing
is forbidden. It's just the style
of what they wear and that any man can wear
anything that women wear too
because just according to the style
that they wear. And I just say
that that's just not true. It's just
not true. If I walk
in here wearing anything resembling
a dress, please
beat me to
death
and then throw me outside.
Okay?
Might take a few people to pick me up, but
throw me out of here.
If I wear anything resembling
a dress, ever.
Cause then you'll know that I was possessed
by Satan
himself. And that can't
happen because then you'll know I wasn't
even safe so go ahead and kill me.
But look
I'm not going to wear a dress
for any reason. Not even for pretend
for fun. It's not fun.
When I see men dressed up in dresses
playing their little
fun games on Saturday Night Live or
anything like that, I just think it's gross.
I think it's weird.
I think it's bizarre when men dress up like
women for any reason even if it's
just to joke around.
I feel like it's just not
a funny joke. It's just a joke that
never lands for me.
Ever. And I think it's
hypocritical for people to think
that it's
wrong for men to wear dresses
but it's okay for women to wear pants.
I think it's a hypocritical doctrine to believe.
I think it is.
Isaiah chapter 47. Turn to
Isaiah chapter 47.
Now
I'm going to be dealing with the
nakedness part here for a second
but
this is a specific verse
that I think will
help you to see that women
don't wear pants and even
though it doesn't say they don't wear pants here
it's very easy to see
in the text.
It says, come down and sit in the dust of
virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on
the ground. There is no throne
oh daughter of the Chaldeans for thou
shall no more be called tender and
delicate. Take the millstones and
grind the meal. Uncover the locks.
Make bare the leg.
Uncover the thigh. Pass
over the rivers.
So in order to, I mean if you're getting a mental
picture here, if a woman was
to make bare the leg
uncover the thigh and pass
over the rivers, now there's
two different kinds of garments they could be wearing. If you
think that women were
wearing pants at this time
then they would have to what?
They'd have to pull their pants down in order
to bare their leg, wouldn't they?
It's funny, I know.
It's just like
mind-blowingly stupid to think that that was possible.
But
I don't believe that.
I think they would probably be
they uncover by pulling up
their skirt or dress or whatever
it is that they are wearing
and they, it says,
nakedness shall be uncovered,
yea, thy shame shall be seen.
So what is
this teaching? Well, when you
uncover the thigh, your nakedness
is being seen. And anything
beyond that nether
region there, those
regions around the loins, those are the
regions that you're not supposed to let other people
see. And God is saying,
hey, once you get to the thighs being
exposed, everything up above
that part is
from the loins to the thighs
is nakedness.
That is not something that you want people to see. It says
thy shame shall be seen.
And who would not be ashamed
if they had to completely take all their clothes
off in front of somebody
in front of a group of people and walk across the river?
Would you be ashamed?
Who would be ashamed to do that?
I would be.
I think anybody would be.
That's why God says your shame
shall be shown. Your nakedness
is being uncovered. And so God defines
nakedness as your thighs
being uncovered.
But would it be pretty hard
if you were wearing pants as a lady
to uncover your thighs and walk across
the river with your pants on like this?
I mean, that doesn't make sense.
It doesn't.
But
to pull up your dress and do that
would be a lot
more, you know,
mentally
I mean, the picture.
It doesn't say it specifically.
But, and I don't want you to have to
picture any wicked thing. I'm not saying that,
but just saying it doesn't
make sense unless you're wearing
a dress or a skirt, okay?
Now turn to Exodus chapter 28.
Now, because
nakedness is defined on women here,
but it's also defined on men in Exodus
chapter 28.
So the first time that God explains,
hey, make these specific
outfits for Aaron and his sons,
then he
explains what those things
are and what
needs to be covered up to avoid being
naked. Look at Exodus 28
verse 40. The Bible says,
For, and for Aaron's
sons thou shalt make coats,
and thou shalt make for them
girdles and bonnets shalt thou make for them,
for glory and for
beauty. And thou shalt
put them upon Aaron
thy brother and his sons with him,
and shall anoint
him and consecrate him,
and sanctify them
that they may minister unto me in the
priest's office. And thou
shalt make them linen
breeches to cover their nakedness
from the loins even
unto the thighs
they shall reach.
So there he's given, this is how far they have
to cover. From the loins
unto the thighs shall they
reach, then their nakedness
is covered. Is that what it says?
Just like Isaiah 43
explains, it doesn't
explain how far, but
it does say that if you uncover the
thighs, that is nakedness. So this is
not what this, this is where it kind of gives you
the definition of nakedness right here.
And they shall be upon Aaron, upon his sons,
and when they come into the tabernacle of the
congregation, or when they come near
unto the altar to minister to the
holy place, that they bear not
their iniquity and die.
It shall be a statute
forever unto them and his
seed after him.
So, again I'm not teaching
that you have to wear a suit and a tie
or you're not right with God.
I'm not saying that. You should
cover up your nakedness though, right?
That's one thing that both these
passages, regardless of whether you disagree
with me on the pants thing
or whatever.
Covering
up your nakedness is, you know,
is what the Bible teaches.
Wearing a suit and tie doing
ministry work is something I
want the men at this church to do
and when they're doing certain tasks.
So if you're an usher, that's what
I require. If you're preaching
sermons or leading songs,
that's what I require. If
you're soul wanting, it's not required,
but it's recommended. And
because people do take you more serious, I feel like,
but some people don't. You know, it just depends.
And some people, you know,
if you're in Detroit, they might think you're a federal agent
or they might think you're a cop. I don't know.
But I'd rather have them
think that than
I'm just some random white dude
or something. I don't know. Maybe
they wouldn't be afraid to stomp me out or something.
I don't know.
But, you know, what I am
saying though is what you wear has an
effect and an influence
on those that are around you.
That you can't deny.
Exodus 39-30,
and they made the plate
of the holy crown of pure gold
and wrote upon it in a writing
like to the engravings
of a signet, holiness
unto the Lord.
So, it's an interesting thing to say there.
You know, the hat says
holiness unto the Lord. So,
you know, I just have this question
for you. If Jesus showed
up at church and told you
to do something, would you do it?
Would you, if He said,
if He could just clearly show you
in the Bible, hey, you ought to
just stop doing this
thing and obey.
Would you obey? Would you
do what He said? I think that everybody here would.
And
once you're saved, you should
probably ask yourself
questions like, what
is pleasing to God?
Is what I'm wearing pleasing
to God? And
there are some things that God just simply
does not approve of.
There is.
Go ahead and turn to 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 21.
1 Thessalonians 5 verse 21.
The Bible says
in 1 Thessalonians 5, 21, it says
prove all things.
Hold fast to that which is good.
So, what is this saying?
Well, that we need to prove
or test the things
that God approves of.
What does He approve of?
Well, how do you know?
Well, prove all things.
Hold fast to that which is good.
And people say, well, I don't mind.
I don't see anything wrong with that.
Or, what's the big deal?
That doesn't really matter.
Well, maybe it doesn't matter to you,
but maybe it does matter to God.
Maybe you don't think it matters,
but is your opinion the ultimate
opinion in the universe,
or is God's opinion the ultimate
opinion in the universe?
We need to just be able to take the Bible
and prove what is right.
It's really not complicated.
The Bible just says what it says
plainly for most of the things
that He wants us to do.
It's really not that hard.
So, if you're a dude,
dress like a man.
Don't dress like a woman.
If you're a woman,
don't dress like a man.
Don't show off your nakedness.
Don't wear clothes
that show your nakedness,
or reveal what your naked body
would look like,
from the loins to the thighs.
And you know what? Breasts might not be
biblically defined as nakedness,
but men sure are drawn to them, aren't they?
And now you're starting to get uncomfortable.
Okay, well, be uncomfortable for a minute.
But why does the Bible say
let her breasts satisfy the always?
You know, when it's talking about your wife.
Because
he's trying to
reprove you, men.
That's why.
You know, when people are like,
well, breasts aren't a sexy thing.
Shut up.
Every guy in here would be like,
whatever.
Don't be stupid.
But why am I saying that?
Because what we wear
does matter.
Does matter.
And I would say, and I've said this before,
I said it not too long ago,
men are more interested in women's chests
than women are interested in men's chests.
That's just a
100% fact.
Okay? And you can lie to yourself
all you want, but that's just a true
statement.
But the Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5
22, abstain from
all appearance of evil.
And what does appearance mean?
Appearance means
that which strikes the eye.
You might say, well,
it's what's on the inside that matters, pastor.
Didn't you just say that? Well, yeah.
That is true.
But the lost see what's on the outside.
They can't see what's on the inside,
can they?
And our clothes,
our hair,
everything about us, it tells people
a story about who we are.
It really does.
If you're saved and you have
long, stringy, faggoty
looking hair,
you could be saved.
Sure, you could be saved and have long hair.
You can be.
And there are people that are saved that have long hair.
But what do people think
about you?
I mean, obviously the unsaved don't care.
The unsaved might think, well,
he's so cool, he looks like Jesus.
Well, Jesus didn't have long hair.
So try again, bozo.
Jesus didn't have long hair.
Jesus had short hair.
Jesus didn't say, hey, let me kiss the one with the long hair.
He said, let me, you know,
the one that I kissed, that's the one.
Because he looked like all the rest of the people.
You think all of Jesus' disciples
had long hair? Is that what you're saying?
I mean, that would be pretty easy.
To just pick
Jesus out of, if he was the only one with long hair.
Right?
So,
look at 1 Corinthians, chapter 6,
verse 19.
1 Corinthians, chapter 6, verse 19.
And I
decided to kind of preach this just because
I've already preached through this
stuff already.
And it's almost summertime.
So I just figured it's kind of a good time to just
lay out some stuff.
I'm not trying to be a Pharisee.
I'm not trying to just tell you,
you have to wear this and it has to be this many inches
from the knee and all this.
Look, I'm not going that far with it, okay?
You can figure that out for yourself.
If you
feel comfortable walking out
of your house dressed like that,
then that's on you.
But,
you should know what the Bible says about it, that's all.
1 Corinthians 6, 19.
Know ye not that your body is the temple
of the Holy Ghost which is in you,
which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price.
Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit,
which are God's.
Does that include the clothes you wear?
Does that include how your hairstyle is?
Does that include how you
sprayed your makeup on today?
It includes all those things, doesn't it?
And so
turn to Ephesians chapter 5 or 6.
Ephesians chapter 5 or 6.
All I'm saying is
that everything matters
to God.
If you think that there's just an aspect of your life
that doesn't matter to God, it doesn't.
Everything matters.
Ephesians chapter 5 or 6 says,
Let no man deceive you
with vain words,
for because of these
things cometh the wrath of God
upon the children of disobedience.
Be ye not therefore
partakers with them,
for ye were sometimes in darkness,
but now are ye light in the
Lord. Walk as
children of light, for the
fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness
and righteousness and truth, proving
what is acceptable
unto the Lord.
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather
reprove them, for it is a shame
even to speak of those things which are
done of them in secret. But all things
that are reproved are made manifest
by light, for whatsoever doeth
our doth make
manifest is light.
So we're children of light,
so how we dress
should be not as
the goths, or
like we just came out of a punk
concert or something,
we should look like children
of light. When people see
us, they shouldn't think that
we are some kind of, you know, we just
came out of a cannibal corpse
concert or something like that.
Right? They should think,
hey, that person, maybe that person's a Christian,
look how they're dressed. I'm not saying like
that you should look like you
just came from the little house on the prairies
set or something, where you're just, you know,
I'm not saying be ridiculous, okay,
but, you know, you can look
normal without
having to draw attention
to yourself too. Because there is
going too far with it and drawing attention
to yourself the other way. Like trying
to look too pious, trying
to look too holy all the time,
that, I mean, there is a balance with
everything that we do in our life.
Okay? So we shouldn't be
over the top in either
fashion here, trying to look
like I was talking about, like the wizard outfits, like
the pope, you know, I mean, don't you think that
he looks a little bizarre?
He walks out and then he
tells people to kiss his big toe or whatever.
It's like, no, you know,
you look weird, dude.
And whatever background
you've got going on in your photo background,
you know, he's got all those like souls
that are like trapped in some like painting
or something in the, you know what I'm talking about?
In the Vatican? It's like some statue
or something where all these souls are like,
it's creepy.
Prince Charles, he's got the
red background
painting that just came out the other day.
Do you guys see that?
It looks like Baphomet or something.
I don't know. I don't know if that's true. It might have been a mind thing,
but it's still a weird picture regardless.
Who puts complete red in all
the whole background? Bizarro.
Alright, so
2 Corinthians
3, verse 2, you don't have to turn there, but I'm just going to read it.
It says, you're an epistle written in
our hearts known and read of all men.
Look, people look at
what you look like. They know
who you are at work. They know
you're a Christian. You might not even tell them,
but they know. They know
because you just can't help
but kind of radiate those things,
but just think about that
your clothes do say something about you.
A sad countenance reveals
a problem in you. If you see, you walk
in and someone's like got a pouty face on,
you instantly know something's wrong
with them.
Some people just can't hide their emotions
very well. They
can be sad and you know it
instantaneously.
I always know when my wife's mad.
She can try to fake it all she wants, but I already
I know. She can just pretend
as much as she wants. Who
knows when their spouse is upset, no matter how
hard they try to fake it.
Some people aren't raising their hands because they know
they're going to be in trouble later, but
no, I'm just kidding.
But, you know, it's true.
That sad countenance or
whatever, even the bad count, the mean
countenance, you can tell.
It tells that there's a problem, but
clothes reveal rebellion
also. Low
self-esteem or
desire for attention or approval.
Clothes are more than just
a covering for the body. They represent
emotions and opinions.
Don't they? I mean, don't people have
styles of clothes?
You know, just like the emo people?
Are emos a thing still?
No?
There's not people that dress in all black and paint their
fingernails black and stuff? That was a
thing in the 90s. I don't know if you guys know that or not,
but there's these people called emos.
What does that stand for, anyway?
Does anybody know?
Emotional music?
Oh, that doesn't make sense, but
yeah, okay.
And then they would cut themselves because they
can't feel pain. I don't know.
They have this music called cutter music
or something. Have you ever heard of that?
Anyway, don't listen to
that, kids. It's wicked.
I don't even know what it is, honestly.
That was past my day, but
anyhow,
so I don't know where I'm at here.
1 John 5.
So, but people
will say that, you know,
that it's legalistic
to tell people what they can and cannot
wear, but I'll just say
this to you, though, that
God died for you, so does He
have the right to tell you what to wear?
Does He have the right to tell you that
those shorts
are too short, or that skirt is
too short, or
you're showing too much
cleavage in that shirt, or
whatever? Does He have
the right to do that? I know I don't have the right to do
that, but does God have the right to do that?
I think He does. And it says,
this is the love of God that we
keep His commandments, and His
commandments are not grievous.
Go ahead and turn to John chapter 14,
verse 15. I'll read
Luke 6, 46. Luke 6, 46
says,
And why call ye me Lord, Lord,
and do not the things
which I say?
Why are you going to call me Lord
when you're not even going to listen?
John 14, 15, where I had you turn, says,
If you love me, keep my
suggestions. Is that what it says?
Keep those
suggestions. Hey, I was, no.
It says, keep my commandments.
So,
we should care about pleasing
God, shouldn't we? In all areas of
our lives, do my clothes
please God? That's a good question
that you might want to ask yourself.
Does my hair please God?
Mine doesn't right now. I look like
a monchi-chi. I need to get it cut.
It's starting to look like John Lennon over
here.
But,
if I get a tattoo or piercing,
will that please God?
I mean, because some people get this idea, well,
it's free grace. I can do whatever I want.
Well, you know, I disagree
with that.
Here's the thing, though. People think
that just because
it's free grace, that God's
just going to be okay with you getting a tattoo.
It's not. That's not how it is.
Leviticus chapter 19, verse 28 says,
you shall not make any cuttings
in your flesh for the dead,
nor print any marks upon you.
I am the Lord.
Look, that transcends
the Old Testament to the New Testament.
That is a moral law.
That is not like some Levitical
priesthood law.
That is actually
a moral law.
Because it has to do
with worshiping the dead.
And you're like, well, how does a tattoo
do with worshiping the dead?
Well, have you ever seen people with their
stretched out picture of their grandma
on their shoulder?
Or their three kids or whatever?
And it's like, they look like cherubs?
Like, that their arms
all stretched out?
It looks weird.
But people that have died in their family, it's like,
I don't really want to say anything about it because
people are pretty touchy about that kind of stuff.
And I wouldn't say anything about it.
But I'm sure
Christians that get those done
and then they get saved, they're probably like, ugh.
But then what are you going to do?
Cross out your family picture?
I mean, I don't know.
Ugh, what do I do?
It's like that button.
The mean button.
Cross them out.
I don't know.
It's better to just not get one.
Keep that Ferrari without the bumper stickers, right?
First Timothy chapter 2 verse 9.
And this is kind of one that goes
for the ladies.
First Timothy chapter 2 verse 9 says,
And like manner also the women
adorn themselves in modest apparel
with shamefacedness and sobriety,
not with broided hair
or gold or pearls or costly array,
but which becometh women
professing godliness
with good works.
Godliness with good works.
So, he's basically
just, I mean, the spirit
of this verse is what?
To be modest with your apparel.
It's not about being the flashiest.
It's not about having the most expensive clothes.
Shamefacedness.
So, I mean, really, your clothing
should accent
not your body, but your
face more than anything else.
If you're going to draw
attention to yourself in some way, it probably
should be your face.
Not to any other body part.
But it says
that you should wear modest
apparel, not with broided hair
or gold or pearls or costly array.
So, you know, the more costly
it is, the less godly
it probably is, in God's
view.
So, adorn means
to bring beauty to something.
Modest means to be covered up
or not bringing attention to yourself.
You could bring attention to yourself wearing a
weird outfit, ladies.
If you're wearing a prairie dress
and your whole family
is, you know, have you ever seen those missionaries at a Baptist
church and they're all wearing the same prairie dress?
It's like,
they're all different. I mean, I'm sorry.
I know that's mean. But it does look
a little, it looks a little
you know, it's a little
it looks a little creepy, okay?
It's not meant to be.
But it still looks that way.
So, I mean
but it does draw attention. So, like,
if they're all at the store and they're all wearing that
same prairie dress, people are gonna
think they're weird, aren't they?
They're gonna be like, you know, what's
going on here?
So, yeah, you can be
immodest in both ways.
So,
an apparel just means clothing. So,
what causes men to lust
after women? Nakedness.
Also, clothing designed
to reveal the thigh or accents
and the sacred parts of a woman's
body. That's what men
will lust after. So, when women
dress in ways that accent
those things, it will
you know, obviously men have
to control themselves and
and all those things, but
let's just be honest. Men are
the more driven in that way, okay?
It's just a fact, okay? It's uncomfortable, I know.
Sorry. But it's just true.
So, what other, what
outfits would be
something that would be something
you need to be aware of? Well, how about
modest bathing suits, really tight
clothing, low necklines,
short shorts,
slits in skirts or dresses
above the knee, braless clothing,
revealed midriff,
and see-through clothing,
of course. So,
you just want to be aware about wearing stuff like this
because it's gonna draw the
attention that you don't want.
It's gonna draw negative
attention, and you might think
it's positive, but it's not,
okay? You don't want men
just ogling over you all the time.
And, you know, dads, don't let
your daughters out of the house wearing
things, you know, just take a look at them before
they walk out of the house. Don't let
them wear something that's gonna make them
embarrassed or make just men
want to, you know,
men are just gonna look anyway,
regardless of what you're wearing
as far as, like, you could be wearing
the most benign outfit
ever, and they're still gonna look,
but what you don't want
is for your daughter to be
wearing something that's very revealing
or
something that's gonna cause men to
focus on areas that they shouldn't
be focusing on, okay?
So, I'm just saying that, and I'm not saying it's
women's fault or whatever, but it kinda
can be, alright?
It can be if you're not aware of what
you're wearing, and let's just be honest, sometimes
women wear things on purpose
to draw attention to themselves, right?
Here's the other uncomfortable elephant in the room.
It is true
that they do that, so
and why do they do that?
Because they want attention, right?
And that's not positive attention.
So, obviously
men need to, again, they need to
get their self in check and
look down or whatever, but
you know,
this is like a big thing
in pop culture right now, is where
you know, don't degrade
women for dressing like whores
or whatever. It's just like,
what do you mean?
They're dressing like whores. Like, what are you
talking about? Bro, what
do you mean? You know, it's like,
you're like, I can't
believe you just said the word whore. Well,
the Bible says the word whore.
It also says the word harlot.
So,
piss and bastard too, so
like, what's the problem?
But we don't want
our daughters to dress
like whores, period.
We don't want our wives
to dress like whores. We don't want
and men, you should dress
appropriately also.
But I'm not trying to throw you in the boat with
them either, but look,
we just, some
things are just uncomfortable truths.
And I'm just saying
that we need to,
as Christians,
have a handle on what
we're wearing. And women,
you know, sometimes they just,
you think they don't know, but I think that sometimes
they do know. So, if you
do know that what you're wearing
is causing people to
have their eyes drift towards you,
you should probably change
into something different.
So, don't wear that outfit anymore.
Look at Luke chapter 8 verse 27.
Breathe.
Luke chapter 8 verse
27. I hate preaching
about this stuff, but
it's necessary. Luke 8
27.
Luke 8 27 says,
And when he went forth to
land, there met him out of the city
a certain man which had devils long time,
and wear no clothes,
neither abode in any house, but
in the tomb. So this is the story of the
maniac of Gedera.
And he just did not like to wear clothes.
He was like Remy when he was like two years old or something.
He just, he couldn't keep clothes
on him. Alright? The maniac of,
Remy was like the maniac of Gedera when he was
two. But this
guy, the maniac of Gedera,
you just couldn't keep clothes on him.
But, you know, when he gets
saved, what's the testimony
of him? You know, he was,
when he was saved, he sat
down and he was clothed
and what? In his right mind.
He, what happened?
Well, he gets saved and he puts some clothes back on.
So, and that's what should happen
to Christians too. You know, if you
dressed inappropriately,
you know, most people don't walk around
naked, but, you know, if you
were prone to wearing things that you probably
shouldn't have been wearing, well, when you get saved, you should probably
change what you wear.
You should wear, put on some clothes.
Cover up.
So Acts 19, verse 16.
What does the devil want for us? What's the devil
want for you? Well, he wants you,
he wants you to be naked.
He does.
Look at Acts 19, 16.
So you've got these seven
sons of Sceva, or Siva,
or however you want to pronounce it,
and they
mess with the wrong demon.
And this demon says, you know, Jesus, I
know, and Paul, I know, but who are,
who are thee? Or who are you?
And then they
were like, me?
And then he just
beats the paste out of them.
And look what it says in verse 16.
And the man in whom the evil spirit was
leaped on them and overcame them
and prevailed against them so
that they fled out of the house, what does it say?
Naked and wounded.
So he ripped
their clothes off. The devil,
the devil's want you naked for some
reason. I don't know what the deal is here.
The devil does want you naked, though,
because think to Adam and Eve.
And they were naked
in the Garden of Eden. But they didn't
realize it, right? They didn't
realize it. But
just like,
you know, Adam, but
the devil deceived Eve, and what happened?
Well, they were naked
and they realized they were
naked, right? And then
God said, who
told thee that thou was
naked? So the devil from the
beginning, he wanted to take
their innocence away
and take them and make them naked
and now from
there on,
we all have to wear clothes, thanks a lot,
you know, for the neckties, Satan
or whatever. You know, that's why I say
these are going to be in hell someday. No, I'm just kidding.
But think about that.
He made them naked.
He made them
have to put clothes on.
God put the clothes on, though, didn't he?
God slew the animals.
They tried to cover themselves up with
the fig leaves or whatever.
And they, you know, I'm sure that those
aprons were pretty revealing, too.
They probably didn't do a very good job.
I'm sure that those weren't, like, neck down
to the
ankle bones of
fig leaves, were they?
God's like, here, let me get you something that'll
cover you up a little bit better. How about coats
of skins?
And gave them coats of skins.
So,
but from now on,
we have to be clothed.
And just like in Revelation chapter 19,
what does God give them?
From here on out, we're clothed.
We're clothed in Christ's
righteousness, and in Revelation 19,
He gives us robes
white and
they're like, they're fine linen
like we have in this chapter.
And that's what we need, you know,
spiritually, but in heaven, He's literally
gonna clothe us with a literal
robe
of white. We're not gonna be
naked again. I don't believe that.
We're gonna always be clothed after this.
But,
God wants us to be clothed. He doesn't
want us to be naked and ashamed
spiritually or physically again.
So, you know,
when we're saved,
we're gonna wake up, we're not gonna be ashamed.
You know, those that
have called upon the name of the Lord will never be ashamed again.
Ever.
We're always going to be accepted
by the Lord.
But, Jesus didn't die on the cross.
You know, ceremonial
laws versus moral laws.
The Old Testament had the ceremonial laws,
and those are done away in Christ.
Jesus didn't die on the cross so fags could go to church
and men could dress like women.
He just didn't.
I mean, that's what people think, though.
Oh, it's okay now
for fags to go to church. No, it's not.
It's not.
It's not okay to dress in drag.
It's never gonna be okay.
Deuteronomy chapter 22, verse 5
is always gonna be God's law.
Whether you like it or not.
And why are they trying to
gender-bend our society? Why are they
trying to make everybody look the same?
Why are they trying to make women into men?
Or be non-binary?
What's non-binary?
You can't tell what they are!
That's what it is.
Jesus didn't die
so we can be non-binary. What are you talking about?
He wants there to be a
difference between men and women.
He wants there to be a difference between
light and dark. He wants there to be a
difference between saved and unsaved.
He wants there to be a difference between the way
we dress and the way they dress.
He wants a difference between
those things.
There'll be a difference between
these naked people and
people he wants there to be a difference between Christians and unsaved period so
and I don't have time to go to this these chapters but you can write them
down for yourself Colossians chapter 2 verse 14 through 17 talking about the
blotting of the handwriting the ordinances Christ took those things
away no doubt but he took away the Sabbath day he took away the the we
can't eat bacon and stuff like that anymore right he took all that away
amen right let's have some bacon tonight but he didn't take away
cross-dressing he didn't take away faggard him he didn't take away all
that stuff so and you know but like how are the women gonna go to work
though in their skirts how they gonna ride horses and dirt bikes and do
gymnastics and volleyball and all that other stuff well who says that that's
what God intended if they can't do it being modest and maybe they shouldn't
just be doing it maybe God's revenge on women being naked in all
these outfits in sports all the time is that he's just letting men beat him
in all their own sports now all these faggots becoming women and then
smoking them in all these relay races you ever think of that I'm not saying he
likes them or something he still hates them but I hate it too it's
disgusting but all their little volleyball shorts and all that how can
you be modest wearing a pair of underwear playing volleyball tell me
that or a string bikini wearing playing beach volleyball how's that how
can you be modest as a lady wearing those outfits so please tell me you
can't so maybe God just did not intend for you to ride a dirt bike and
if you can't you can do it with a skirt you just have to have the
leggings underneath it's not that hard you can ride horses like that
ladies have ridden horses for years they just don't ride them like men do
men are just like the ladies are like sideways on okay the little umbrellas
anyway look you know King Charles a brother bill sent me this video where
King Charles it shows his royal earring that he got he actually got
his head chopped off while he's wearing the earring I was just like
wow but it's like this giant earring and it has a giant pearl on the end of
it but he was wearing when he got beheaded he wanted to make sure that
so-and-so got it and his royal toothpick that was a gold toothpick
that's screwed in the toothpick was cool but the earring was faggy you
know what his hair was faggy and maybe God just was like you know what
this is the end of King James's reign you know his son died his other son
that was actually supposed to take over and then what we got Charles the
Catholic or whatever you know and he probably shouldn't have been deposed
like that but how embarrassing to get killed wearing a pearl earring in your
ear bro with long hair you know you want to raise a man dress him like
a man cut his hair like a man you want to raise a lady dress her like a
lady and raise her to be a lady that's that's all you need to do
make sure they're saved you're like well Deuteronomy 22 verse 5 is only in
the Bible once though Pastor Thompson so is John 3 16 so what's your point it
wasn't till the 1930s that this stuff was even popular the women's pants
Sigmund Freud with all of his weird mother philosophies and you know
some actress named Marlene Dietrich you know wore pants for the first time
in the 1930s and then women started going to see those movies and doing the
same things drinking and dancing smoking cigarettes too and then that's kind of
what you know then World War two and that turned everything on its head so
you know to wrap everything up here I'm out of time but you know what I
what I wanted to kind of the last thought I want to leave you with here
is that in verse 41 it says the clothes of service to do service you know the
purpose of those clothes was to do the service of the Lord so there's
nothing wrong with dressing nice when we're doing the service of the Lord
that's what we're here for you know so there's nothing wrong with dressing
nice when you come to church and you know if you would dress nice to see
Donald Trump or Joe Biden you wouldn't wear a t-shirt and shorts if Donald
Trump was coming over to your house for dinner would you maybe you would I
don't know some liberal people out there but I'm just saying like if a
really important person was coming over to your house you probably would
dress pretty nice so if you're going to meet with God in God's house and this
building is in his house it's meeting with his people then why
won't you dress up for God you know I just I don't see why people have
such a big you know why is that such a big deal for people but anyway I'm
not saying that you're wicked if you wear shorts or if you wear
t-shirts as a man or whatever I'm not saying that but it is people are
going to judge you based upon how you how you dress no matter whether you like
that or not and I'm not saying Christians necessarily but some
Christians will but what but the world will too so just be careful how you
dress and cover up your nakedness at least and don't dress like a wizard
and be there be in the middle there somewhere and it's nice that it says
and Moses looked upon all of his work and behold they had done it as the Lord
had commanded even so had they done it and Moses blessed them so that's the
perfect picture there of the pastor or under Shepherd of the church there
and he doesn't do all the work himself he delegates the work and make
sure it gets done he oversees it and it's a huge blessing to have men and
women that have the mind to do the work of the Lord and to do it as the
Lord commanded that's what's important is doing it white like God said to do it
right and so we do what God says how God says it quit trying to find end
arounds and you know quit trying to justify things that are super clear in
the Bible they just because you don't like the doctrine but you know there
doesn't need to be a verse that says thou shall not wear pants for women
thou shalt not wear dresses for men don't be ridiculous just because you have some
opinion you know just just do what the Bible says it's pretty simple all right
let's pray Lord we thank you so much for book of Exodus chapter 39
pray that you just bless us as we go on our separate ways we thank you for
all the blessings in our life pray just bless each and every person that
came out tonight we thank you for all your tender mercies you just bless
when we come back in your name again Lord Jesus we pray these things in
Jesus name Amen
all right our last song a song number 363
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sing them over again to me wonderful words of life let me more of their beauty see
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wonderful words of life sinner list to the loving call wonderful words of
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amen good seeing brother Robert would you close water prayer
you