Christians in Dress

CHRISTIANS

IN

DRESS

CHRISTIANS IN DRESS

The 26th study in the series.

Studies written by William Carey.

Presentation by Michael Salzman.

All texts are from the New King James version.

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What should be done to the glory of

God?

1 Corinthians 10:31

Therefore, Whether you eat or drink , or whatever you do, do all to the glory of

God .

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Every Christian should make it his first and supreme purpose to please Jesus

Christ in all that he does. When one accepts Christ as his Lord and Saviour, this means that from this time on he is to live, not to please the world, not to please himself, but to live each day as will please Him who he has chosen as his Lord.

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Who should we be living for?

2 Corinthians 5:14-15

For the love of Christ compels us , because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then were all died;

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15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves , but for Him who died for them and rose again .

• Being true Christians, we will eat, drink, dress, talk, sing, and act so as to please Christ.

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The only way we can please Jesus in all things is to see to it that we govern ourselves in all matters according to the principles He has laid down in the

Guidebook, the Bible, and not according to the vain customs of the world.

3-CD


How should we dress?

1 Timothy 2:9

In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel , with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing ,

3-CD


We are to adorn ourselves in modest apparel, and not to adorn ourselves with gold or pearls as ornaments.

According to the Bible, our dress should be plain, modest, healthful, neat, clean, becoming, and appropriate.

3-CD


If fashion prescribes any mode of dress that is unhealthful, immodest, or extravagant, Christians should refuse to follow it, but should stand by the principles laid down in the Bible.

4-CD


Who made the first clothes?

Genesis 3:7 & 21

Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

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21 Also for Adam and his wife the

LORD God made tunics of skin , and clothed them .

Any mode of dress that does not properly cover one’s person is wrong. In harmony with this principle, Christian women should dress modestly.

4-CD


They should not appear in public with sleeveless dresses, or dresses that are too short, or any other form of dress that does not properly cover the body.

5-CD


What about unisex clothes?

Deuteronomy 22:5

“ A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man , nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment , for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.

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God has commanded that His people shall maintain a proper distinction between the sexes in the matter of their dress.

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What should be the condition of our clothes?

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your garments be always be white , And let your head lack no oil.

6-CD


Our garments are to be neat and clean, as well as our bodies.

“Cleanliness is next to Godliness”.

The Bible rule laid down in 1 Tim 2:9 makes it plain that God’s people are not to ornament their clothing as well as their bodies.

7-CD


Can dress a be distinguishing factor?

Judges 8:24

Then Gideon said to them, “I would like to make a request of you, that each of you would give me the earrings from his plunder.” For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites .

7-CD


The Ishmaelites were distinguished as heathen people by the fact that they wore gold earrings.

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What should we do when we accept

Jesus?

Genesis 35:2-5

And Jacob said to his household and to all that were with him, “ Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves , and change your garments .

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3 “Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.”

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4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears ; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by

Shechem.

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5 And they journeyed, and the terror of

God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not purse the sons of Jacob .

• When Jacob’s household gave up the worship of their idols, they also took off their ornaments.

9-CD


What does the world look like?

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her For the days of the

Baals to which she burned incense.

She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry , And went after her lovers ;

But Me she forgot .” says the LORD .

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When the Israelites departed from God, they decked themselves out with jewelry like the people of the world.

God has instructed that Christians are not to love the ways of the world, 1

John 2:15-17.

10-CD


What would God has us do with

Jewelry?

Exodus 33:5-6

For the LORD had said to Moses,

“Say to the children of Israel, `You are a stiff-necked people .

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I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you .

Now therefore , take off your ornaments , that I may know what to do to you.`”

6 So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by Mount

Horeb .

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God commands His people to take off all their ornaments, such as earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces, etc.

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What happened to the gold when the

Israelites stopped wearing it?

Exodus 35:22

They came, both men and women, as many as had a willing heart , and brought earrings , and nose rings , rings and necklaces , all jewelry of gold , that is, every man who made an offering of gold to the LORD .

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Later on these golden ornaments were given to the Lord to be used in building the sanctuary or tabernacle in the wilderness. These texts make it plain that God’s people are to stop wearing everything of an ornamental nature, even such things as feathers.

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Where should our adornments be worn?

1 Peter 3:3-4

“Do not let your adornment be merely outward – arranging the hair, wearing of gold , or putting on fine apparel –

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4 rather let it be the hidden person of the heart , with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God .

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God wants us to have the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, a pure, kind, noble

Christian character, that will make us truly attractive, and which we can take with us into that better eternal City that He has prepared for us.

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When a tree dies, the leaves drop off, never to return; so when we really die with Christ to sin and self is really crucified with Jesus on the cross,

THEN ALL THESE WORLDLY

ADORNMENTS, SUCH AS RINGS,

EARRINGS, NECKLACES, BEADS,

ROUGHE AND LIPSTICK, WILL DROP

OFF FROM US, NEVER TO RETURN.

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Let us seek in the matter of our adornment to show that we love Jesus

Christ best of all. Let us adorn ourselves in keeping with our profession as followers of the meek and lowly Jesus.

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Christians in Dress

CHRISTIANS

IN

DRESS