People do not seem to be aware of their own public nakedness. Now a days women dress with no regard for decency and are totally unaware of their nakedness. Men in their tight jeans or sport tights and leggings and being shirtless are also immodest. In the Bible Ham looked at his father's nakedness, and was cursed. The other brothers covered their father's nakedness without looking at him and were blessed. (Genesis 9:22-23) Being naked is something a person should be ashamed of, not something to be glorified.
(Hosea 2:9-10“Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness. And then I will uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.
Isaiah 47:3 “Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”)
I see that nakedness is a punishment. The god of this world has blinded people's eyes and made them to be contrary to God. Before I was saved I was blinded to my own nakedness, unaware of my own immodesty until Jesus revealed it to me a few years after my salvation. I was dressed in jeans and shirt; I looked just like everyone else, but Jesus spoke to me and I was able to see and understand. I was on the sidewalk looking at my own reflection off a window of Fred Meyers on Sandy Blvd. in Portland, Oregon when the Lord Jesus spoke to me. I went home and changed my outfit and got rid of the jeans. I have been trying to dress modestly, with decency and propriety ever since and have been teaching my children to do so.
(Revelation 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.)
Does God care about how you look? God cares about your heart and often times how you look reflects your heart. One of my girls suggested that Christians should dress attractively. I replied, not necessarily, it depends whom you are trying to attract. Does the attractive clothes you wear make you feel sensual? This is not God's spirit. God's spirit is clean and pure and if He dwells in you, Jesus will reveal to you what is clean and pure. 1 Peter 3:3-5 and 1 Timothy 2:9 encourages women to focus on beautifying themselves in their heart with a meek and quiet spirit and trusting in the Lord rather then the outward adorning.
Deuteronomy 22: 5 says, "A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this." Obviously the Lord wanted men and women to dress distinctively according to their gender.
Dresses and skirts pertain to women, while pants pertain to men. It used to be said men wear the pants in the family, meaning they are the head of the household.
Not all dresses and skirts are modest; there are tight fitting, short, and reveling clothing. How they fit on you is the key to modesty.
1Timothy 2:9 says, "I want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes." (NIV).
Adorning (beautify, trim)
Modestly (in an unassuming manner, humble, not elaborate or luxurious, to avoid impropriety or indecency, humble
Decency (virtue, purity, tact, thoughtfulness, seemliness)
Propriety (appropriateness, respectability, correctness).
God wants to clothed Christians with garments of salvation and robes of righteous. He wants to gird us with gladness and the mantle of praise. We are asked to clothe ourselves with humility and put on the armor of light. He wants us to take onto us the full armor of God; gird our loins with truth, have on the breastplate of righteousness, feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, take on the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. We are asked to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. We are asked to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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(Hosea 2:9-10“Therefore, I will take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness. And then I will uncover her lewdness In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her out of My hand.
Isaiah 47:3 “Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”)
I see that nakedness is a punishment. The god of this world has blinded people's eyes and made them to be contrary to God. Before I was saved I was blinded to my own nakedness, unaware of my own immodesty until Jesus revealed it to me a few years after my salvation. I was dressed in jeans and shirt; I looked just like everyone else, but Jesus spoke to me and I was able to see and understand. I was on the sidewalk looking at my own reflection off a window of Fred Meyers on Sandy Blvd. in Portland, Oregon when the Lord Jesus spoke to me. I went home and changed my outfit and got rid of the jeans. I have been trying to dress modestly, with decency and propriety ever since and have been teaching my children to do so.
(Revelation 3:18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.)
Does God care about how you look? God cares about your heart and often times how you look reflects your heart. One of my girls suggested that Christians should dress attractively. I replied, not necessarily, it depends whom you are trying to attract. Does the attractive clothes you wear make you feel sensual? This is not God's spirit. God's spirit is clean and pure and if He dwells in you, Jesus will reveal to you what is clean and pure. 1 Peter 3:3-5 and 1 Timothy 2:9 encourages women to focus on beautifying themselves in their heart with a meek and quiet spirit and trusting in the Lord rather then the outward adorning.
Deuteronomy 22: 5 says, "A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this." Obviously the Lord wanted men and women to dress distinctively according to their gender.
Dresses and skirts pertain to women, while pants pertain to men. It used to be said men wear the pants in the family, meaning they are the head of the household.
Not all dresses and skirts are modest; there are tight fitting, short, and reveling clothing. How they fit on you is the key to modesty.
1Timothy 2:9 says, "I want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes." (NIV).
Adorning (beautify, trim)
Modestly (in an unassuming manner, humble, not elaborate or luxurious, to avoid impropriety or indecency, humble
Decency (virtue, purity, tact, thoughtfulness, seemliness)
Propriety (appropriateness, respectability, correctness).
God wants to clothed Christians with garments of salvation and robes of righteous. He wants to gird us with gladness and the mantle of praise. We are asked to clothe ourselves with humility and put on the armor of light. He wants us to take onto us the full armor of God; gird our loins with truth, have on the breastplate of righteousness, feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace, take on the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. We are asked to put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. We are asked to put on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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