the remainder of this service at this time give us ears to hear the message
you've laid on brother Dylan's heart Jesus name I pray amen for our next him
if you would turn in your hymnals to him number 449 dwelling in view land him
number 449 449 we'll start there right on the first
full of strife of missions copy faith word Baptist sermons are preached there
it's about Germany and so did brother on slum he was just talking a lot about
the persecution that the Germans have been through and if you want to get
encouraged and just realize how great we have it here in the United States and
how much we take for granted definitely would encourage you to go listen to his
sermon it'll make you realize that we do have a lot of freedoms here that we take
for granted on the front of our bulletin is the Bible memory verse of the week
and I did want to showcase our prizes to try to encourage you guys to do the
memorization of the chapter you're gonna have a choice between two options so
this is option number one this is an anchor Baptist Church hat with like a
little leather patch on the front looks really sharp that's gonna be option
number one if you can quote this to a non-family member adult and then this is
gonna be option number two very nice coffee cup here anchor Baptist Church
but you got to quote the chapter so there's still plenty of time to do this
and I ordered lots so even perhaps if people don't use them all in the future
there might be leftovers for other chapters that we do but I definitely
encourage you guys to do that it's not too late to even start there's even apps
that are dedicated to Bible memorization that you could record your own voice and
talk along with I know people have made AI songs out of these Bible chapters
there's lots of ways you can memorize it so I definitely want to encourage
everyone to work hard on that chapter on the inside our service times are listed
there Sunday morning 1030 Sunday evening 430 and our Wednesday evening Bible
study in first Samuel at 7 o'clock soul winning times are listed there please do
report salvations to the leader of that time or you could always email the
church for that nursing home ministry schedule is listed there as well as our
year-to-date statistics you know just to give you an idea of you know because
I've been thinking about Germany just doing this conference brother Anselm
told me that in one year they had very similar numbers to what we have
year-to-date here in Oklahoma so it just goes to show that you know there is a
door open there right now but the devil is fighting them so if you remember to
pray for the Christians in Germany I'm sure they would really appreciate that
because they are they're doing a great work for God over there and they just
need some encouragement for sure. On the top right please be in prayer for Miss
Whitney Reed for her pregnancy. Upcoming events November 24th is going to be the
transition from Steadfast Baptist Church to Anchor Baptist Church really
looking forward to that day. December 20th is going to be the ladies
Christmas party and December 21st is going to be the Christmas soul-winning
push just like a regular Saturday soul-winning rally but this time we'll
cater some food and coffee should be a great time. Online giving is there on
that QR code as well as some rules to look over at your own time. On the back
is the prayer list make sure to keep those requests in prayer throughout the
week and if you have any requests please email the church we'd be happy to add
that for you. It's gonna be it for announcements this evening we'll go ahead
and go to our third song. Right for a third song if you would turn in your
hymnals to hymn number 364 standing on the promises. Hymn number 364 start
there right on the first. Standing on the promises of Christ my King through
eternal ages let his praises ring. The offering plates are being passed turn if
you would to Matthew chapter number 20 Matthew chapter number 23. Good evening
Matthew 23 the Bible reads inspect Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples
saying the scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses's seat all therefore
whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do but do not ye after their
works for they say and do not for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
born and lay them on men's shoulders but they themselves will not move them with
one of their fingers but all their works they do for to be seen of men they make
broad their factories and enlarge the borders of their garments and love the
uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats and the synagogues and greetings
in the markets and to be called of men rabbi rabbi but be not ye called rabbi
for one is your master even Christ and all ye are brethren and call no man your
father upon earth for one is your father which is in heaven neither be he called
master masters for one is your master even Christ but he that is greatest
among you shall be your servant and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be
abased and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted but woe unto you
scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against
men for you neither go in yourselves neither suffer you them that are
entering to go in woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites free devour
widows houses and for a pretense make long prayer therefore you shall receive
the greater damnation woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye
compass see and land to make one proselyte and when he is made you make
him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves woe unto you ye blind guides
which which say whosoever shall swear by the temple it is nothing but whosoever
shall swear by the gold of the temple he is a debtor he fools and blind for
whether is greater the gold or the temple that sanctify the gold and
whatsoever shall swear and whosoever shall swear by the altar it is nothing
but whosoever swears by the gift that is upon it he is guilty he fools and
blind for whether is greater the gift or the altar that sanctify the gift whoso
therefore shall swear by the altar sweareth by it and by all things thereon
and whoso shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth
therein and he that shall swear by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and
by him that sitteth thereon woe unto you scribes and Pharisees
hypocrites for you paid tithe of mint and anise and cumin and have omitted the
weightier matters of the law judgment mercy and faith these ought you to have
done not to leave the other undone you blind guides which strain in a gnat and
swallow a camel woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you make 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 in the platter that the outside of them may be clean also woe
unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for your for your like unto
white sepulchres which indeed appear beautiful outward but are within full
of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness even so you also outwardly
appear righteous on the men but within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity
woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites because you build the tombs
of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous and say if
we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with
them in the blood of the prophets wherefore you be witnesses under yourselves
that you are the children of them which killed the prophets fill ye up then the
measure of your fathers you serpents you generation of vipers how can ye escape
the damnation of hell wherefore behold I sent unto you prophets and wise men
and scribes and some of them you shall kill and crucify and some of them show
you scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city that
upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood
of righteous Abel until the blood of Zacharias the son of Baruchias whom he
slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you all these things
shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem Jerusalem thou that killest
the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee how often would I have
gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her
wings and ye would not. Behold your house is left unto you desolate for I
say unto you ye shall not see me henceforth till you shall say blessed is
he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Let's bow our heads forward to prayer. Father in
heaven we thank you for this day and help them brothers always make it back safely. Amen all right well
Matthew chapter number 23 start reading in verse 25 Jesus said 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 platter that the outside of them
may be clean also and the title my sermon this evening is look like a
Christian look like a Christian you know there's many people today even
pastors that will preach God doesn't care about your appearance God only
cares about the heart God only cares about what's inside but that is
actually not biblical now of course the inside is the most important and when
Jesus is looking at these Pharisees he's making an observation about them
that they like to clean up the outside they like to appear very righteous you
know their physical appearance is not the big issue in their life the problem
is that within they're full of sin they're full of extortion and excess and
false doctrine and all sorts of big problems within but the admonition that
Jesus gives them is hey don't worry about the outside the outside doesn't
matter at all only clean the inside no verse 26 he says thou blind Pharisee
cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter that the outside of them
may be clean also so of course the thing that God cares about most is us getting
saved and then what he cares about after that is us cleaning up the sin in our
lives and sins of the heart but when you do that the natural result result of
that is that the outside of the cup will appear clean also and there are very
specific things in the Bible where God cares about our physical appearance and
that's my first point this evening God cares about your physical appearance now
it's not the most important thing it's not the thing that he cares the most
about but God does care what you look like go to 1st Corinthians chapter
number 11 now there's very there's several ways in which God cares how you
appear how you present yourself one of those is your hair and today you could
go to many churches and you could probably go there for 20 30 years and
you will never ever hear a preacher talk about how you should have your hair
right but yet the Bible actually has a good portion of a chapter in the New
Testament dedicated to this very issue and by the way the New Testament I said
not the Old Testament the New Testament talks about this look at 1st Corinthians
11 verse 3 but I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ
that's saying Christ is the authority of everyone and the head of the woman is
the man and the head of Christ is God so to set this up the Bible is teaching us
about authority Christ is in charge of everyone you know the husband is in
charge of the wife and God the father is in charge of Jesus Christ verse 4 every
man praying or prophesying that means preaching having his head covered
dishonoreth his head so the Bible is kind of you know doing a little bit of
play on words here when it's saying that his head is covered that's talking about
having long hair so the Bible saying if a man preaches or prays while having
long hair he's dishonoring his head who is his head Jesus Christ okay so the
Bible's saying if a man gets up and preaches the Bible or prays having long
hair that person is dishonoring Jesus Christ now there are pastors today that
have long hair there's this guy in Vancouver Washington who runs a very big
church you run into his church members all the time his name is Daniel Fusco
he's this guy that has super long dreadlocks like down to his belt but let
me just tell you anytime he opens his mouth preaching the Word of God anytime
he prays you know what he's doing he's dishonoring Jesus Christ because that is
what the New Testament says verse 5 but every woman that prayeth or prophesieth
with her head uncovered so now we're talking about a woman praying or
preaching which this would be obviously preaching the gospel with a short hair
cut without long hair notice this dishonoreth her head so when a woman
goes and does these things with a short haircut who is she dishonoring she's
dishonoring her husband which by extension is also dishonoring Jesus
Christ for that is even all one as if she were shaving so the Bible saying if
a woman has her head uncovered that's basically the same thing as her head
being shaved this is how you know that when it's talking about her head being
covered it's not talking about like those Russian bonnets you know you see
in Vancouver again there's a lot of Russians there and these Russian ladies
Russian Baptist Russian Pentecostals they wear this little head cover on the
back of their head because they think that first Corinthians 11 is referring
to some sort of religious head cover but it's actually referring to her hair
length because that's why the Bible saying if she has her head uncovered
that's the same as if she had a shaved head that wouldn't make sense say like
you know her not wearing her bonnet is the same thing as her having a shaved
head that doesn't make sense right but when you see a woman that's got a high
and tight when you see a woman that's got a butch haircut yeah it's pretty much
shaving off I mean you might as well just do it because it's it's already
terrible it already looks hideous it's already dishonoring to your husband and
dishonoring to Jesus Christ verse 6 for if the woman be not covered let her also
be shorn now this is the Bible is kind of being like a little sarcastic here
the Bible isn't saying like ladies go shave your head unfortunately some women
have taken this to heart you go to Portland Oregon and you know a while ago
used to be ladies just had the butch haircut now you go to Portland and
there's women that have like half of their head literally shaved to the skin
this is new weird thing all the way down to the skin and then like this side of
their head will have long hair it's like this wasn't a serious
recommendation the Bible is saying like you're already screwing up and it's so
hideous and it's so dishonoring to your husband and to Jesus Christ you might
as well just get the clippers and be bald because that's you're going down
such a dark path here verse 7 for a man indeed ought not to cover his head so he
should not have long hair why for as much as he is the image and glory of God
but the woman is the glory of the man why is it that men need to have short
hair because men look like God okay women do not look like God and I'll
prove that to you stay here Genesis 127 says so God created man in his own image
in the image of God created he him male and female created he them God is a man
the Lord Jesus Christ is a man and when Adam was created by God Adam looks like
God and Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible father Jesus Christ looks like
God the father and all of us men though we don't look identical we all share
some sort of resemblance with God and with Jesus Christ because we're made in
the image of God by the way this is how you know for sure that Jesus Christ did
not have long hair because Jesus is God and the Bible is telling us men should
not have long hair because they look like God so how would you say well Jesus
had this long hippie haircut when the Bible is literally saying hey men have
short hair because you need to look like God looks Jesus did not have long hair
Jesus had short hair verse 8 for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the
man how was woman created by the rib of Adam that's how woman was created in
this world verse 9 neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for
the man take that feminists the reason why woman was created was for her
husband and that is a lady's role in life is to be a help meet for her
husband meet meaning fitting suitable that is a lady's role in life is to be
a help for her husband verse 10 for this cause ought the woman to have power on
her head because of the angels nevertheless neither is the man without
the woman neither the woman without the man in the Lord so of course between man
and woman there is a complementary relationship we need each other you know
it's a great to be married to have a wife it's great for a wife to have a
husband verse 12 for as the woman is of the man even so is the man also by the
woman but all things of God right so every man is born of a woman but God
created all of us at the end of the day verse 13 judge in yourselves is it
comely meaning is it suitable is it fitting is it good that a woman pray
unto God uncovered you know if you saw Will Smith's wife in church with her
bald shiny head and you saw her praying is that fitting is that comely or is
that gross is that unseemly is that unnatural that's what it is verse 14
doth not even nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a
shame unto him so the Bible saying this isn't even a Bible doctrine necessarily
this is just nature this is just instinct living life when you see a man
with long hair everyone thinks that's gross that's shameful and it's only
because of brainwashing from TV Hollywood commercials billboards where
people want to act like oh man it's so cool your locks man I wish I could grow
locks like that that's so awesome man these this Viking guy he looks so manly
because he's got a man bun it's what an oxymoron calling it a man bun it's
calling it an unnatural bun it's weird it's gross it's unseemly nature itself
tells you whoa this is shameful this is bad verse 15 but if a woman have long
hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given for her a covering hey doesn't
nature itself to teach you that when you see a woman with long hair she's
beautiful right and her hair just looks good naturally every guy likes a woman
with long hair every single guy likes that when when you see a woman who used
to have long hair and then you see her cut her hair there's a drastic
difference between the two it's just it looks bad it's not natural every guy
wants a woman to have long hair because her long hair is her glory it's one of
the things that makes women beautiful is having long hair and when women
purposely cut off their hair not talking about someone that's going through a
terrible time with health gets cancer has to do chemotherapy obviously you
would never want to judge someone like that that would be a wicked thing to do
you'd want to have compassion on that person and even thank God we got things
like wigs right where ladies can wear those things and still have some sort of
artificial glory right great do that but when a woman purposely shaves her head
it tells you something about her and let me just say this oh never judge
someone's appearance never judge what someone looks like if saw if a man has
long hair you can judge there's something wrong with that person if a
man has long hair he has a heart issue he is rebellious against God yay against
nature he's just trying to be a freak so explain to me this if it's against the
Bible and it's against nature why in the hell would a pastor ever have long hair
does that pastor love God absolutely not I don't even need to hear his doctrine I
don't need to see his Bible way to heaven video I don't need to go to his
website pastor has long hair he's bad period teenager has long hair he's far
from God he needs to repent some ladies walking down the street she shaved her
head she's probably a lesbian or a Biden voter or a Kamala voter or some sort of
abortion loving freak wow you're so judgmental yeah because nature says
women should have long hair that's nature God cares about what you look like go to
Leviticus chapter 19 Leviticus chapter 19 God wants us to be able to see a
person walking down the road and say hey that's a man hey that's a woman not
wondering like is this a woman on steroids is this a really effeminate
dude what what's going on here look at Leviticus 19 27 says ye shall not round
the corners of your heads neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard now
what I think the principle this is teaching is that God just doesn't want
us to look like a freak show right I mean I don't have a beard but what if I
had a beard and I just like took some clippers and just went like this or
something and just like left this like strip through just like making it look
ridiculous you know this is Portland Oregon this is San Francisco California
this is Seattle you know it's like it's like the capital of the Hunger Games it
wasn't it wasn't art or it wasn't life imitating art it's art imitating life
is what that was it was like hey look at Portland look at Seattle look at
San Francisco look at all these freaks dress and they're like let's you know
portray that on the screen and how do they do that they got the weird
hairstyles they got the weird beard styles all these weird things look God
doesn't want you looking like a freak God wants you to look normal go to
Leviticus 19 you're already there verse 28 Bible says you shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the dead nor print any marks upon you I am the Lord
what are we talking about God cares about your physical appearance and he
says hey I don't want you to take your body and print marks on your body so you
know what tattoos are unbiblical tattoos are sinful and you know when I
was going to high school I was talking to this girl and she up and went and
decided to get a tattoo and I kind of reacted I was like why did you do that
she goes oh no it's okay it's a Christian tattoo it says fearfully and
wonderfully made and I'm just like the irony like if you actually believed you
were fearfully and wonderfully made why are you defiling your body with this
permanent ink it's like you might as well just tattoo this verse on your body
that just says not to do what you just did there's no such thing as a Christian
tattoo that's like saying let's go to the Christian bar hey let's go to the to
the Christian blasphemy club let's go to the Christian fornication house it's
like no this is unbiblical Christians should not get tattoos and look today in
America it's hard to find anyone that doesn't have a tattoo so I'm not mad at
you if you've done this in the past but you know what I'm just hoping that your
children don't make the same stupid mistake don't get a tattoo and I see it
all the time kids grow up in church they hear this kind of preaching they turn 18
there's like I'm just gonna get it anyways you're such an idiot because in
ten years you're gonna be regretting that if it even takes that long and let
me tell you something well I did it because I was in the military still
don't care it's still not cool oh I was a Navy SEAL still wrong well you know my
mom died when I was young so I got a tattoo of my mom's name still bad
doesn't matter your your reason behind it oh you know it's sentimental to me
doesn't matter there's no excuse to get a tattoo there's no such thing as a cool
tattoo there's no such thing as a Christian tattoo don't go tattooing
Bible verses on your body God cares about what you look like go to Deuteronomy
22 Deuteronomy 22 God also cares that we wear gender specific clothing
Deuteronomy 22 verse 5 says the woman shall not wear that which pertaineth
unto a man neither shall a man put on a woman's garment for all that do so are
abomination unto the Lord thy God and you know throughout most of our country's
history we understood and in fact it was even the law that women could not go
around wearing pants and men could not wear go around wearing dresses why
because of this verse right here and in fact when it became federally legal in
the United States for women to wear dresses I believe was 1923 someone
could fact-check me on that but I believe 1923 so 101 years ago is when it
became legal for women to wear pants now that's not when it became socially
acceptable that was way later than that but I'm just saying like that was when
you just wouldn't get arrested and thrown into jail for wearing pants and
correct me if I'm wrong I believe Hillary Clinton was the first female
politician to start wearing pants before that no female politician ever did that
even though it was legal for them to do so why because our nation has always for
most of our history at least understood that God does not want us going around
dressing like the opposite gender and you know people at first you know they
want to mock saying well why would you want to be that stringent why don't have
a law that says that you know but then here we are in 2024 and we literally
have men putting on makeup wearing dresses and dancing with little kids in
the public square and no one seems a bat an eye about it city governments are
putting these things on and allowing this stuff in our cities in our states
you know what it started back when we allowed women to put on a pair of pants
oh you're so hateful you're so misogynistic it's like it doesn't even
matter what your opinion is it just matters what the Bible says okay the
Bible says that if a woman puts on a man's garment that she is an
abomination to God and people freak out about that but yet if I reverse that
most people would agree that a man wearing a dress is an abomination to
God now sadly we're living in a time where people are so brainwashed where
not even every man agrees with that I know someone that is not a homo does not
support the LGBT but they took their family to a drag show for fun because
this person has been so brainwashed into thinking that's just a fun activity
they're just playing around it's just funny you know what there's nothing
funny about being an abomination inside of God you know what this should be a
crime in America it should be a crime for a man to dress up like a woman or
for a woman to dress up like a man and you know because of this level of
perversion it's just constantly desensitizing our nation more and more
and more and if if we're here in 2024 where there's straight men some straight
men that think this is okay you know think about where we're gonna be in
2034 think about where we're gonna be in 2044 like what debauchery is gonna be
going on in our nation where Christians are just gonna be like all these
fundamentalists are such funny duddies who cares it's just having fun you know
what why don't we just not play the game of trying to appease people or trying to
reason or debate with liberals why don't we just draw the line where the Bible
draws the line let's not say like yeah it's okay for women to wear pants but I
mean yeah of course come on guys we don't have want to have men wearing
dresses why don't we just say Deuteronomy 22 five it's a sin for a
woman to wear pants it is a sin for a man to put on a dress and look if you
disagree with this whatever I don't care I'm never gonna be the pants police you
know and I don't want people to you know not receive a visitor who's not saved
or who's a babe in Christ because a woman's wearing pants because
unfortunately we live in a society that has just gone so far from the Bible
where that is common to just meet a normal woman that isn't a reprobate that
isn't a freak that just wears pants right but of course we want those people
to grow to learn the Bible and to eventually burn those pants throw those
pants in the garbage you know but but I will say this men are never allowed in
here wearing a dress say safety guy you see a man walk into the front door of
the dress yeah do what you got to do to get that guy out of here because that
person is a pervert that person is a reprobate go to Matthew chapter number
six Matthew chapter number six when it comes to your physical appearance God
also doesn't approve of any type of disfiguration of your body especially in
regards to spiritual things here Matthew 6 verse 16 the Bible says moreover when
you fast be not as the hypocrites of a sad countenance so God even cares about
the expression on your face in certain cases for they disfigure their faces
that they may appear unto men to fast verily I say unto you they have their
reward but thou and thou fastest anoint thine head and wash thy face that thou
appear not unto men to fast but unto thy father which is in secret and thy
father would see it in secret shall reward thee openly you know this verse
isn't about clothing or anything like that but I'm just using this to prove
that God cares about your appearance God cares about how you look where Jesus
said hey if you're fasting I don't want you to look sad and I don't want you to
disfigure your face like the Catholics do where they literally put a giant cross
of ash on their forehead to disfigure their face telling everyone that they're
fasting but if God didn't care about your appearance why would Jesus be
giving these instructions no he does care about your appearance and we should
look like Christians go to Hebrews chapter 12 Hebrews chapter number 12
believe that God wants us to dress respectfully Hebrews 12 verse 28 the
Bible says wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us
have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear
what is reverence it's an extreme level of respect you know that's
why I have a rule that if you preach behind this pulpit if you song lead if
you read the Bible if you're part of any ministry you need to be wearing a
shirt and tie because I believe that we should be serving God with reverence and
godly fear now of course again I'm not gonna be the the suit police for random
visitors or just church members but people that are participating in the
ministry I want them to do this not because the Bible says thou shalt wear a
tie but the Bible does say we should serve God with reverence and so that is
a personal standard of mine that I have but I believe it's from a good place
here that we're supposed to be serving God with reverence you know how would
you go if you met the president of the United States or you met the governor of
Oklahoma you know you probably put on a shirt and tie and so I believe we should
keep that same standard in church and as the world's becoming more liberal more
progressive you know it just makes me want to be more of an independent
fundamental Baptist you know as the world just everything's relaxed and
loosened and people's standards are just going down the toilet you know I want to
bring culture where it's normal to see a guy in a shirt and tie in public you
know you look at like the 1920s and 30s you look at pictures of the World
Series and it's just like every single spectator is wearing a shirt and tie at
a World Series you know that would be weird today we would be like what's
going on but used to just be like hey men dress nice they dress respectfully
women did the same thing you know I know a girl that was born in Russia and I'm
not saying that this is like we need to do this or whatever but they just had
more of a high dress standard for themselves where she told me that if
ladies walked out of their house to go put the garbage to the street that they
would put on a dress do their hair and makeup to do that I'm not saying you
have to go that extreme I'm just saying like you know in other places in the
world they will dress more reverently more respectfully go to Genesis chapter
number three so number one God cares about your parents number two
Christians should cover their nakedness Christians should cover their nakedness
Genesis 3 verse 6 the Bible says and when the woman saw that the tree was
good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to
make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto
her husband with her and he did eat verse 7 and the eyes of them both were
opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together
and made themselves aprons so after they sinned they realized that they were
naked and they made this little apron of a fig leaf okay but this wasn't good
enough for God's standard because verse 21 the Bible says unto Adam also and to
his wife did the Lord God made make coats of skins and clothed them so you
know once they realized that they were naked God's saying hey this fig leaf
thing is not gonna do it okay this is not this is - this is rated R this is
this is too bad you know we need to get this we need to get you a coat on and he
made them coats of skins by the way this proves that God is okay with killing
animals because God himself made them a coats of a coat of skin you know you
can't take the skin off of an animal without killing it and unfortunately
America has a big problem with this today America has a big problem with
nakedness and if you if you were born here if you lived here your whole life
it's probably just normal to you now but you know recently I went to Germany and
one of the things that shocked me about the culture there was walking around and
all the ladies there were dressed modestly and stylishly and that was
kind of strange because here it's like ladies are like dressing for a club it
looks like or they're dressing for a beach or they're just they're just
dressed in a way that is extremely ungodly and unseemly but you know what
we need to get back to covering our nakedness in America and realize that
God cares that you cover your nakedness and it makes me wonder you know is the
reason why things like fornication and adultery is is it part of the reason why
those things are exploding in our country because we have a bunch of women
just walking around naked all the time everywhere every day like what do you
expect to be the result of that like you really just expect unsaved dudes that
can't even walk in the spirit and it's hard enough for men that are saved that
can walk in the spirit to just have a bunch of women just naked in front of
them at all times and people's hearts aren't gonna be turned away from the
things of God with that kind of stuff of course it will of course there's gonna
be problems like that you know what you can't just play with fire in this area
and think that you could just look at a woman like this and not have lustful
thoughts in your heart you know that's just unrealistic go to Exodus chapter
number 20 but you know God does not want people's nakedness to be discovered
Exodus chapter number 20 look at verse 24 an altar of earth shalt thou make
unto me and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings and thy peace offerings
thy sheep and thine oxen in all places where I record my name I will come unto
thee and I will bless thee and if that will make me an altar of stone thou
shalt not build it of hewn stone for if thou lift up thy tool upon it that was
polluted it neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar that thy
nakedness be not discovered thereon so God says hey I don't want you going up
these steps when you're doing the sacrifices when you're doing the
spiritual work of God because I don't want your nakedness to be discovered and
if you think about this you know if you're wearing clothing let's say that
you're wearing a pair of shorts and it's it's like right here it's covering
your nakedness it's right to the knee while you're standing you're good but
what if you got to go up some steps who you know let's say that the steps are
eight inches tall or six inches tall you know your garment is gonna ride up
on your body to where sure your garment was fine while you were standing but all
of a sudden you start walking up steps and your nakedness is being discovered
or sometimes ladies will be wearing a dress or a skirt that's totally fine
when they're standing but all of a sudden they sit down and it's obscene and
they're now showing their nakedness and so you know it's very important and
especially this is something that you know parents need to teach their young
daughters to be mindful of that when you put on clothing it's not just how it
looks when you're standing still and standing up you have to think about
movement steps sitting stuff like that these this has to be taught to a
generation that has not cared about modesty you know our parents most of us
in this room growing up we never heard anything like this you know America has
been loose in this area for a very very long time and so a lot of this just
common sense wisdom is no longer common sense and you have to like literally
tell people like hey don't go up these steps your nakedness will be discovered
there on I've even heard of Bible colleges having a rule that men were not
allowed to follow women going upstairs I kind of understand why especially if
they're wearing clothing that's very immodest right or they're not wearing
you know something underneath to cover that stuff what ladies have slips my
wife told me this today in preparation for this sermon okay this isn't
something I just knew by myself let me know but you know there's ways to dress
to cover your nakedness and you know we need to teach the ladies in our church
the young daughters being raised in this movement in churches that hey you need
to learn how to cover your nakedness not just when you're standing you're
sitting you're moving stuff like that go to if you would Exodus chapter 28 and
the Bible is actually gonna define for us what nakedness is because when I say
your nakedness being discovered an American probably has something in their
mind of what nakedness is and it's probably not matching up with what the
Bible defines nakedness as look at Exodus 28 verse 42 and thou shalt make
them linen breeches to cover their nakedness from the loins even unto the
thighs shall they reach so according the Bible your thigh is your nakedness so
you know if you're going up steps or you're sitting down in a chair or you're
doing something that's causing your thigh to be exposed you are exposing
your nakedness and God does not want his people exposing their nakedness now
thankfully in our culture we're not living in the 1980s right now and men
aren't wearing around these little short shorts at least that I don't see
thank God but obviously what I'm preaching right now applies to both
ladies and men we don't want to see any thighs of the guys we don't want to see
any of the thighs of the girls okay God wants us to cover our nakedness and
please especially in the house of God look Exodus 20 is saying when you're
doing the sacrifices when you're going up to the altar please don't discover
your nakedness doing spiritual things you know please come to church dressed
reverently please come to church covering your nakedness no one wants to
see that and if they do why would you want them to see that that's weird you
know ladies your nakedness is for your husband only for no one else and you
know what it's unseemly it's ungodly and it's unbiblical to be showing your
nakedness to anyone other than your husband you need to cover your
nakedness verse number 43 or actually let's go to Isaiah 47 Isaiah chapter
47 Isaiah chapter number 47 verse 22 the Bible says take the millstones and
grind meal uncover thy locks make bare the leg uncover the thigh pass over the
rivers thy nakedness shall be uncovered yay thy shame shall be seen I will take
vengeance and I will not meet thee as a man so notice the according the Bible
when your nakedness is discovered your shame is being seen and it used to be
that if someone was naked they would have intense feelings of shame in fact
I believe in the 50s when bikinis started becoming popular it was big in
the culture how women were struggling with shame transitioning from what
other bathing suit they had before to a bikini you know what we should get back
to people having shame to expose their nakedness and but here's the thing we
have such weak dads and such weak husbands in this country where children
girls are from age 5 exposing their nakedness I mean from age 5 you go to
Target you go to the kids section and there's kids bikinis there's kids short
shorts there's just these unseemly ungodly clothing for kids and so girls
are walking around naked since age 5 you know how are they gonna feel about it
when they're 15 they're used to it by now how are they gonna feel about when
they're 25 in college they're they're way past used to it they're past feeling
when it comes to that issue there's no shame anymore and women are not ashamed
whatsoever in our country to just walk around naked and you know who should
really be ashamed is you dad you husband allowing your children or your wife to
walk around naked you know what that is pathetic and it shows a weak man that
doesn't even love own wife or his own daughters enough to cover them from the
eyes of creepy men because let me just explain to you men stare at women is
anyone surprised by that in here okay I didn't think so men stare at women you
go to the workplace men what a man talk about all day long look at her look at
her look at her look at her this is what men do okay now I hope that the men in
here aren't like that I hope the men in here walking in the spirit I hope the
men in here are putting no wicked thing before their eyes you know but I'm just
telling you what the world is like and you're just gonna let your daughters and
your wife walk around naked well let me tell you what's happening to her all
day as people are staring at her all day and if you're comfortable with that
you're a weirdo you're a freak go to first Timothy chapter number two number
one God cares about what we look like he cares about our physical appearance
number two Christians should cover their nakedness number three Christians
should dress modestly modestly because just because you're not naked still
does not mean you're dressed in a way that's pleasing to God there's
nakedness and there's modesty let me show you that first Timothy chapter 2
verse 9 in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel what
is modest apparel it's apparel that's not drawing attention to yourself with
shame faceless and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearls or
costly array but which become if women professing godliness with good works
you know wasn't talking about there with shame faceless shame faceless means
that it would be evident on your face that you are ashamed if your nakedness
was discovered right you know we've all seen like some sort of you know probably
movie when you're a kid or some sort of meme or whatever where the wind like
pushes a woman's dress and she's like ashamed right you see that look on her
face she's like ashamed that her dress is coming up that's shame faceless but
most women don't have that today because they're not even wearing a dress to
begin with there's there's nothing for the wind to even hit because they're
already walking around like a whore being naked but you know a godly woman
she was a shame if her nakedness was discovered and obviously men too but you
know what the Bible is talking about women for a reason here is because I'm
not really going around struggling showing my nakedness to anyone never
struggled with that in my life fact my legs would blind you I'm so white you
know you wouldn't even see it because the Sun would just reflect off me and
you'd be blind all right it's like the Apostle Paul he makes him blind for a
season I just show my leg you'd be blind no it's good all right enough joking
around broided hair right you know as a lady you shouldn't be obsessed with your
hair have nice hair that's great the Bible says your hair is given you as a
covering and it's your glory right but women could be self-obsessed and start
to just obsess with their hair to where they're no longer modest they have to
just put all this time and all this money into broidered hair and you could
go you could go drop a thousand bucks at a hair place if you're a woman if you
wanted to and that's insane okay it's nothing wrong with having nice hair but
you know what you could start crossing a line where you're no longer modest where
you're just obsessing over yourself that's not a godly attitude gold pearls
costly array you know there's some ladies out there that are not happy
unless they are wearing the most expensive designer clothing right and
hey there's nothing wrong with having nice clothes that are stylish that are
beautiful that's fine but you know if you're a lady and you just have this in
your heart like I have to wear the designer clothing you know I know that
we're struggling to pay rent but honey I need this thousand dollar purse today
it's like you might have a problem you might be someone that's struggling with
being modest the Bible says but verse 10 which become with women professing
godliness with good works you know the best way for a lady to be attractive and
to stay attractive is to be godly and I mean that both in a literal objective
sense and in a you know beauty is that in the eye of the beholder fence you
know have you ever noticed that when you just look at a crop of independent
fundamental Baptists or even just like regular conservative people how they're
just they're just like literally more attractive from a carnal perspective and
then like you look at Antifa you look at Biden voters you look at communists and
they just got beat to death with the ugly stick why because sin makes you
ugly it does drinking alcohol makes you ugly it makes you fat it makes your
nose blow blow up smoking cigarettes it makes you ugly doing drugs makes you
ugly right you see the women walking around they got that flat jaw because
they've no teeth anymore for all them from all the meth that they've done
right they got the pock marks all over their face and body from scratching
themselves from doing drugs you know their bodies completely abused and
defiled because they have a body count in the double digits or triple digits
they're just objectively less attractive God's people when you follow God's
commandments they're gonna be more attractive and also in the eye of the
beholder too because a godly man is gonna be way more attracted to a woman
that is pleasant that is happy to serve that is submissive that loves God that
loves the Bible you know godly men are gonna be way more attractive to that
type of woman even if she doesn't look like one of these fake Hollywood
superstars then they are gonna be towards Taylor Swift right cuz in the
eyes of the world you know Taylor Swift's so great she's so awesome you
know what you couldn't pay me all the money in the world to have married a
woman like that because it marrying a woman like that is a life full of pain
suffering turmoil just hell on earth okay but you marry a godly woman when
she has good works you know what that is a beautiful thing and that is a way that
ladies can stay beautiful you don't have to drop your modesty to be beautiful if
you are godly you will be beautiful go to 1st Peter chapter 3 1st Peter chapter
3 1st Peter 3 verse 3 it says likewise he wives be in subjection to your own
husbands that if any obey not the word they may they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of the wives Bible saying like hey ladies if you
have an unsaved husband you know the best way you could win him over is by
being in subjection to him by being submissive to him by having a godly
conversation that's the best way to win over an unsaved man verse 2 while they
behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear you know a man is going to
appreciate when his wife is chased not when his wife is loose verse 3 who's
adorning so what does a chaste woman look like who's adorning let it not be
that outward adorning of plating the hair and of wearing of gold or putting
on of apparel so when it comes to being godly or chased what you wear ladies has
nothing to do with whether or not you're godly you know people get this
superiority complex well because I'm attractive because I'm beautiful I'm
superior to these other ladies I'm superior or men it can think the same
thing I'm athletic you know I'm strong therefore I'm superior to other men you
know that has nothing to do with your godliness whatsoever and you know what
God's not impressed by your beauty God's not impressed by your muscles God's not
impressed by your broided hair or by your designer clothing or your cool car
or anything like that but look at verse 4 but let it be the hidden man of the
heart hidden meaning you don't see it on the surface in that which is not
corruptible even the ornament the decoration of a meek and quiet spirit
which is in the sight of God of great price you know ladies you want to wake
up in the morning and deck yourself out with something you want to you know put
some ornaments on why don't why don't you wake up and get in front of the
mirror just be like okay submissiveness there you go do you do your makeup do
your makeup there obedience godliness chastity that's the ornament that you
should be giving yourself meek and quiet spirit notice which is in the sight of
God of great price yeah you'll find you'll you'll find billions of vain men
that will put great price on a woman that is just obsessed with herself
obsessed with her body obsessed with her hair and ever makeup but you know what's
valuable in the sight of God is a woman of a meek and quiet spirit and ladies
you want to attract a godly man or you want your husband to be godly you know
the best thing you could do is to be meek and quiet and again I'm not saying
don't care about your appearance or don't dress nice or anything like that
but you don't want to take it to the point where you're now going over the
line of being modest because that's not pleasing in the sight of God I'll read
for you Proverbs 11 verse 22 the Bible says as a jewel of gold in a swine's
snout so is a fair woman which is without discretion you know the Bible's
comparing a beautiful woman a fair woman that does not have discretion right
that would be someone that's loud she doesn't know what's appropriate to say
or whatnot to say she doesn't know what's appropriate to dress as or not
dressed as right the Bible saying it's like a jewel of gold in a big ugly pigs
snout think about that you just see an ugly pig and pigs are gross okay we're
never getting pigs they're terrible they're terrible they're dirty they stink
they're ugly they make annoying sounds I like eating them that's it I don't want
to raise pigs and it's like wow wonderful this disgusting ugly dirty pig
has a little nice decoration in his nose I'm still not interested in the pig I'm
sorry it's like wow the world thinks Taylor Swift is so beautiful she's a
pig and guess what feminists are pigs feminists are just undesirable as
undesirable as a pig oh I'm so beautiful well no godly man wants you
and I think it's so funny all these feminists are so mad that Donald Trump
got elected that they're making vows of celibacy yeah you show us that's great
oh we're so mad Trump's winning the election we're gonna stop being whores
we'll really show you fundamental Baptist we've been telling you to stop
being whores the whole time and that's actually that's my favorite thing about
liberals is that they don't have a lot of kids you know if God's people just
reproduced like the Bible says you know we'd be just killing these people and
it seems like we are so yes please stop having premarital sex you whores you
stupid feminist whores stop committing fornication stop committing adultery
yeah I guess Trump just needs to stay in office if that's what's happening we've
already have a good thing happening from Trump that's great
there whores folks okay I'm done go to Isaiah chapter 3 Isaiah chapter number
3 while you're turning there Proverbs 31 30 says favor is deceitful and beauty
is vain but a woman that feared the Lord she shall be praised your beauty fades
your nice designer clothes gets old and worn out your cool car breaks down you
know what but a godly woman that is an attribute that stays with her till she's
old and gray and having a godly woman by your side is not something that you
could find on every street corner but you can find a whore on every street
corner you can find a loose woman on every street corner and here's the thing
ladies that are obsessed with their appearance they refuse to be modest they
are just obsessed with themselves here's the danger with that having your
identity and your beauty is that all of that can be taken away from you at any
time at any time you know a story comes to mind of when I was in high school I
took a law enforcement program and this law enforcement instructor told me that
one of the hardest calls he ever got on was this family decided to buy their
like 18 year old daughter a Lamborghini as her first car terrible idea and of
course she's not ready to drive the supercar and she accelerates getting on
the freeway and she accelerates into the back of a logging truck logging
truck comes in her windshield smashes her up and she's dying basically in his
arms and her question to the officer was am I still beautiful that is a sad thing
to be thinking about at that time right you know this lady she's she's possibly
about to die and what is she so concerned about she's concerned about
her looks well there's women that their entire life their entire being even on
their deathbed all they're thinking about is how they look and here's the
thing God could take away your looks at any time if you have an accident you can
go through something bad you can get sick you could go through health problems
you can lose all those looks and so you know what you don't want to ever base
your identity on those things you don't want to make that your whole life if God
made beautiful praise the Lord for it you know enjoy it enjoy your youth but
it's going away soon what you should really focus on is being godly Isaiah
316 says moreover the Lord saith because the daughters of Zion are haughty this
is your prideful tick-tock girls this is your prideful Instagram girls it says
and walk with a stretched with stretched fourth necks and wanton eyes they think
they're so cool don't they walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling
with their feet therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head
of the daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts God's
gonna give these proud women a scab verse 18 in that day the Lord will take
away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet and their
calls and their round tires like the moon makes me think of like the round
earrings or something the chains the bracelets the mufflers the bonnets and
the ornaments of the leg and the headbands and the tablets and the
earrings the rings the nose jewels the changeable suits of apparel the mantles
the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the fine linen and the hoods
and the veils I just read this I'm like man the Bible is the word of God because
the Bible knew that women just liked a big wardrobe even back then it's like as
a man I'm like I can't fathom all these I don't even know what all these things
are just like I just put on pants and a shirt but ladies I mean they got all
these things all these things that they like and it says in verse 24 and it
shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead
of a girdle a rent and instead of well-set hair baldness and instead of a
stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty you know your
beauty can be taken away from you at any time through natural causes or through
supernatural causes you know I would warn ladies against being prideful about
their looks I would warn against you thinking it's cool to be immodest
because God can punish you for that one of the ways he could do that is by
taking away your beauty and obviously same thing applies for men you know I
would caution against men from thinking they're so cool because they're
athletic because they get lift a bunch of weights because they got a bunch of
muscles because you know what God could put you in a wheelchair tomorrow and
what's way more important than your looks is the inner man lastly go to
Romans chapter 12 Romans chapter number 12 Romans chapter 12 look at verse 1 it
says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present
your bodies a living sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God which is your
reasonable service you know that's what you should be thinking about what you're
doing with your body how you look how you present yourself covering your
nakedness being modest you know am I acceptable unto God and be not conformed
to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God you know we're
living in weird times we're living in strange times when conforming to all the
standards of the Bible is gonna cause you to not fit in in the world right but
guess what the Bible tells us not to conform to this world don't be like
everyone else don't dress like everyone else don't have the same standards as
everyone else you should be thinking not hey am I gonna look cool am I gonna fit
in with all the girls am I gonna fit in with all the guys you know you should be
worried about is this pleasing to God is this acceptable unto the Lord number
one God cares about what we look like number two Christians should cover
their nakedness number three Christians should dress modestly let's pray Lord
thank you for this day and thank you for the Word of God I just pray that you
would help us all to grow in this area if we need to Lord and I just pray that
you would help preachers in America to get back to preaching standards from the
Word of God and that we could bring back some semblance of normalcy at least in
our lives in our communities Lord and we love you and you see me pray amen
inclusion we'll go ahead and sing one last song you would grab a hymnal and
turn to him number 179 such love number 179 and start there right on the first
that God should love a sinner such as I should yearn to change my sorrow into
bliss nor rest till he had planned to bring me not how wonderful is love like
the dress love such love such love such love such as I so freely escape although
death on Calvary love I know would be better than parts of me
dress love such love dress love such as I so freely escape although death on Calvary love I know would be better than parts of me