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Biblical Modesty - 12/28/25 - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to Meadows Baptist Church of
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  Walnut Cove, North Carolina. We're so
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  Now, let's join Pastor Charlie Branch
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  with a word from God.
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  Amen. I can say to you tonight for
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  assurance if he's all you got, he's all
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  that you need. Amen.
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  >> I appreciate the good singing tonight.
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  Appreciate the good singing. All right.
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  If you have a Bible, take it and turn
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  just anywhere. It's all good. Somebody
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  say, "Amen."
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  >> Amen. And uh that might be the most
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  joyful thing to get said tonight. So
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  just buckle up. Amen. But uh I'm just
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  kidding. Amen. Going to deal with the
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  subject tonight. Be honest with you, I
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  don't really have a springboard text.
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  I'm just going to start somewhere and
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  kind of see where we end up tonight.
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  Don't never preach like this. Just kind
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  of felt what the Lord pressed upon my
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  heart for tonight. And uh uh say this.
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  I'll give you my subject tonight. My
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  subject this evening is biblical
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  modesty.
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  Biblical modesty. And uh I hear the
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  crickets chirping.
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  >> Amen. And uh I want to deal with this
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  subject. I'm going to tell you tonight.
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  I'm not going to speak any of my
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  opinions. I'm going to give you all
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  scripture tonight and uh consider this
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  subject. And I just ask that the Lord
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  would help us. You pray for us. I want
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  to be obedient to the Lord. I Let's
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  Let's look. Let's go back to where it
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  started. Genesis chapter number three.
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  Genesis chapter number three. Keep your
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  Bible handy tonight and a notepad and
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  you might want to mark these verses
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  down, study them for yourself. We're
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  going to kind of take a helicopter ride
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  tonight through the scriptures and uh
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  it's not going to be uh taking them out
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  of context. I'm going to give you uh the
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  text in context and give you some truths
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  here out of this. And uh let's read
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  Genesis 3 verse number 7. Genesis 3
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  verse number 7.
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  And uh I doubt I get too wound up
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  tonight, but just as soon as I say that,
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  I might anyway. So So uh I'm just going
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  to preach. Amen. I don't know. It just
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  feels good in here tonight.
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  >> And I appreciate the Lord's presence.
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  You know what I I know it's whether it's
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  a house for a handful. Amen. Two or
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  three are gathered in his name. He said
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  there I'd be in the midst of them.
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  >> And man, I'm telling you, I'm just glad
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  I'm saved. Amen. And I'm on the winning
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  side. Let's look in the text tonight.
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  Genesis 3 verse number 7. Bible says,
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  "And the eyes of them both were open."
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  This, of course, is Adam and Eve. The
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  Bible says, "And they knew that they
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  were naked. They sewed fig leaves
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  together and made themselves aprons.
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  They heard the voice of the Lord God
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  walking in the garden in the cool of the
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  day. And Adam and his wife hid
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  themselves from the presence of the Lord
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  God amongst the trees of the garden. And
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  the Lord God called unto Adam, said unto
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  him, Where art thou? And he said, I
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  heard thy voice in the garden, and I was
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  afraid because I was naked and hid
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  myself. Let's pray real quick tonight
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  and ask the Lord to help us. Father,
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  thank you for this time tonight. Thank
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  you for this service. And Lord, I know
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  it's different, but God, I know this is
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  your word. And so I pray that you would
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  help me. I ask that you would give me
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  liberty, give me vocabulary. I pray
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  you'd set a watch about my lips, God,
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  that I would say nothing. It would bring
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  dishonor or displeasure to you, but
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  Lord, I pray that it would exalt you.
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  And Lord, I know you're holy. And you
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  told us in your word to be you holy, for
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  I am holy. And so, God, I pray that you
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  will help us to consider the text
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  tonight that I'm going to share. And
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  Lord, I pray that you would uh use it
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  for your glory and honor and cleanse us
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  of sin and self, rid us of the flesh,
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  and do the work that only you can do.
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  We'll be sure to thank you for it
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  because we ask it in Jesus name. Amen.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> This text tonight, of course, we know
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  this is the beginning of beginnings here
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  in the book of Genesis. And Adam and Eve
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  have sinned in the garden. And uh I find
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  it interesting. I was thinking about
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  this this morning. We I made the comment
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  in the message this morning concerning
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  the doctrine of separation that
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  separation is really as big a Bible
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  doctrine as salvation is. And the more
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  I've studied and read, I've cons conss
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  of immodesty and nakedness is just as
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  big. And uh I want to give you some
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  principles this evening. The Lord
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  helping me from these text. And uh I
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  look through my Bible and just praying
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  this afternoon and I want to give you a
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  few just to help us get off the the
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  precipice tonight looking at this this
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  thought of biblical modesty and
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  nakedness. We come to this text in
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  Genesis 3. We know it's Adam and Eve.
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  And I want to point out to you here in
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  the text, the Bible says that when their
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  eyes were open, they knew that they were
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  naked. Now we know that spiritual death
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  had brought this upon them in verse
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  number seven. And so out of that man's
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  effort is seen. In verse 7, they sewed
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  fig leaves together and made themselves
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  aprons. Now aprons by definition is a
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  clothing. It's a piece of garment that
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  goes about the waist. And the Bible says
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  in verse number eight that they heard
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  the voice of the Lord God walking in the
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  garden, the cool of the day. And Adam
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  and his wife hid themselves from the
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  presence of the Lord God amongst the
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  trees of the garden. And the Lord God
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  called unto Adam and said unto him,
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  Where art thou? And he said, 'I heard
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  thy voice in the garden. I was afraid
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  because I was naked and I hid myself.'
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  Now, I want to ask you this question at
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  this point in time in this scripture.
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  Had Adam not just made himself a
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  garment.
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  Adam had already made himself a garment
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  here out of those branches. It's off
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  it's often assumed that they use well,
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  it says they're fig leaves, but it said
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  that um you know there's other things
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  that they say is assumed that they use
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  in this text. But I do know it says they
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  made aprons and so these were garments
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  that went about their waist. Of course,
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  we know covering the private areas of
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  their body. And the Bible says that
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  after here God calls unto them. He asks
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  where they at and they go hide
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  themselves. Well, the Bible says that
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  they've got a garment on. But it also
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  says that even though they had a garment
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  on, they were still naked.
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  >> Right?
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  >> And so here begins this first principle.
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  Well, Adam and Eve knew they were naked,
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  and they sewed fig leaves together, but
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  it did not cover their nakedness. And
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  so, the world today says that as long as
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  your uh genitals are covered, your
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  private parts are covered, that that's
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  not nakedness.
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  But I submit to you that's not what the
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  Bible teaches,
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  >> right?
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  >> They were naked and they went and hid
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  themselves because they were ashamed of
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  their nakedness. So, I we consider Adam
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  and Eve first of all. I want to consider
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  second of all Noah and his son Ham.
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  Notice Genesis chapter number nine.
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  Genesis chapter number N.
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  I'm going to take a walk through the
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  pages of scripture here. Consider some
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  events. Genesis 9. Notice verse number
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  21. Verse number 20.
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  Genesis 9:20.
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  And Noah began to be an husbandman, and
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  he planted a vineyard, and he drank of
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  the wine, and was drunken, and he was
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  uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the
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  father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of
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  his father, and told his two brethren
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  without. And Shim and Japheth took a
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  garment, laid it upon both their
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  shoulders, and went backward, and
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  covered the nakedness of their father,
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  and their faces were backward, and they
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  saw not their father's nakedness. So, we
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  revealed already that there's shame in
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  this thought of just not being
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  completely unclothed, but partially
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  unclothed. in this text reveals to us
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  the thought that Canaan here receives a
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  curse. Now Canaan is not the even the
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  one that is mentioned. But I find it
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  interesting in verse 22. Notice what
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  your Bible says. Ham the father of
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  Canaan. Isn't that interesting? Your
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  Bible says that you see Canaan had
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  absolutely nothing to do with this
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  event. The first mention of wine in your
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  Bible is in verse number 21. And because
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  Noah had become drunken off of this
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  wine, he found himself in a stouper and
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  he was uncovered in his tent. And his
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  son Ham walks into the tent and he lays
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  eyes on his father there unclothed. And
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  the Bible says that out of this there
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  arises a curse. Now there's two schools
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  of thought on what Ham did in this text
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  and I'm not going to take time to deal
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  with that tonight, but I am going to
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  deal with the application of this just
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  because in this text, let let me say
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  this. You may be able to dress how you
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  want to, all right, and get by with it.
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  But you might cause somebody else to be
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  in a deeper curse or sin than you ever
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  could have imagined,
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  >> right?
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  >> Noah cursed this child with a curse that
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  would last for perpetual generations.
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  All of Ham's children were cursed,
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  >> right?
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  >> Because of his nakedness. And I want to
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  remind you that just because you can get
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  by with it doesn't mean that those that
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  see you will.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Amen. Notice this. Not only Adam and Eve
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  and Noah and Ham. Consider Exodus 32.
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  Exodus chapter number 32.
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  Exodus 32 and verse number 20 to get you
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  up to speed on where we're at. Aaron and
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  Moses here have uh Moses is up on the
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  mountain with Joshua. Verse number 20
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  here. The uh the calf that Aaron has
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  made, the children of Israel have danced
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  around it. Verse number six, they rose
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  up early on the morning and offered
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  burnt offerings, brought peace
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  offerings, and the people sat down to
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  eat and to drink and to and rose up to
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  play. And uh the Lord tells Moses, "Go
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  down." He goes down. Joshua hears the
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  noise of war. Verse 17, verse number 20,
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  they come to the calf. Verse 19, angry.
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  Moses was angry. Verse 20, they took the
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  calf. They burn it in the fire. Verse
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  21, Aaron begins his excuse. Listen to
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  what the Bible says in verse 24. Aaron
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  said, he said, I said unto them,
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  whosoever hath any gold, let them break
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  it off, so they gave it me. Then I cast
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  it into the fire. And there came out
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  this calf.
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  Now, let's just stop there for a minute.
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  That already shows you how big of a
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  gross lie this is.
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  >> Notice verse 25. And when Moses saw that
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  the people were what? Naked. For Aaron,
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  notice this, had made them naked unto
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  their shame among their enemies. Now,
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  I'm just going to go ahead and put this
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  out and begin the message. Every text
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  that I deal with, nakedness is going to
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  lead to shame.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Every one of them. All right? So, that's
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  off the table. Now, consider this. Okay?
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  Aaron has made this molten calf. All of
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  Israel is worshiping, worshiping it,
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  drinking and dancing according to verse
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  number six. And not only this, they are
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  drinking and dancing unclothed.
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  You say, "What's the evidence of this?"
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  Well, basically what this tells us that
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  nakedness is a part of devil worship.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> You look at rituals that go on in the
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  world today, and I'll not elaborate on
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  this, but many of the demonic rituals
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  that take place in the church of Satan
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  involve this.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Offering of little babies unclothed.
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  Telling you, it's godless. You say,
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  "Preacher, well, that's all Old
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  Testament." Well, there's more examples
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  than just that.
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  >> We think of David and Ba Sheba. David,
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  the sweet psalmist of Israel. He was
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  plunged into this because of him being
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  at the wrong place at the wrong time and
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  with the wrong mindset. Amnan and Tamar
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  had the same problem. Azerus and Vast in
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  the book of Ezra in in the book of
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  Esther had the same problem. Nakedness
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  is obviously a sin according to the Old
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  Testament. Let's consider the New
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  Testament for a minute. You you say,
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  "Preacher, what does the New Testament
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  have to say about it?" Well, it has a
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  whole lot to say about it in the New
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  Testament. The one of the instances that
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  come to mind first of all, let me begin
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  with this. The first instance that comes
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  to mind in the New Testament is our
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  Lord.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Our Lord. You say, "Preacher, what do
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  you mean about Jesus?" Well, turn to the
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  book of John, chapter number 19.
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  I'm going somewhere with all this. Just
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  stay with me. John, chapter number 19.
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  Verse 23 and 24. John 19 23 and 24. The
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  Bible says, "Then the soldiers
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  when they had crucified Jesus took his
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  garments and made four parts to every
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  soldier apart and also his coat. Now the
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  coat was without seam woven from the top
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  throughout. They said therefore among
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  themselves, let us not rend it but cast
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  lots for it. whose it shall be that the
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  scripture might be fulfilled which said
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  they parted my raignment and among them
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  and for my vesture they did cast lots
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  these things therefore the soldiers did.
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  Now Jesus is is hanging there on the
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  cross and he and not like the pictures
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  portray he does not have a loin cloth on
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  him. Jesus is completely stripped.
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  >> Jesus is there on Calvar's cross and the
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  Bible says notice what they're doing
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  with his garments. They're gambling.
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  Isn't it interesting, and I'm just put
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  this out there, okay? Isn't it
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  interesting that literally every sin has
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  come up with these verses,
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  >> right?
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  >> There's just nakedness, then there's
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  drinking and nakedness, there's partying
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  and ga and nakedness, now there's
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  gambling and nakedness.
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  You say, "Preacher, that's just that's
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  just stretched an application." It's the
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  Bible. That's
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  >> right.
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  >> You think about this. Jesus there on the
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  cross, what what did that nakedness
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  represent? They were trying to shame
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  him.
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  >> That's right. You say, "Well, how do you
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  know that?" Well, the Bible says in
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  Hebrews 12 and verse number two that he
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  despised the shame. What was that shame?
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  Being born about before the whole world
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  completely unclothed as the son of God.
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  You say, "Preacher, that's not what that
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  means." Well, then if that's not what it
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  means, why did God turn the light out?
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  >> Yeah.
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  >> When Jesus was hanging on that cross,
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  God cut the sun off. Why'd he do that?
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  So he could hide the shame,
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  >> right,
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  >> of his son's nakedness.
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  So there's the first one I think of. It
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  was his nakedness that was a part of his
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  shame. He despised that shame and the
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  darkness. It was a It was God covering
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  the shame of his son's nakedness on the
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  cross. I I think not only of this, but I
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  think about Peter.
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  Turn over two pages. John 21. This is
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  where the rubber is really going to
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  start to meet the road here. All right.
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  John 21
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  talking about nakedness. John 21 verse
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  number verse number five verse4 let's
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  read there
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  Peter's going fishing verse 3 verse4
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  when the morning was now come Jesus
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  stood on the shore but the disciples
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  knew not that it was Jesus then Jesus
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  saith unto them children have you any
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  meat they answered him no he said unto
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  them cast the net on the right side of
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  the ship and ye shall find they cast
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  therefore now they were not able to draw
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  it for the multitude of fishes verse
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  seven therefore that disciple whom Jesus
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  Jesus, love sitha unto the pet unto
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  Peter, it is the Lord. Now when Simon
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  Peter heard that it was the Lord, notice
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  what your Bible says, he g his fisher's
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  coat unto him, for he was naked. Did he
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  cast himself into the sea? I'm talking
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  about what the Bible says about this
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  subject. Okay, you say, "Preacher, was
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  Peter completely unclothed?" No.
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  No. Matter of fact, the only thing that
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  Peter was missing was a shirt.
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  You say, "How is that?" Well, notice the
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  text again. And the Bible says that he g
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  his fisher's coat unto him. You look up
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  that that that word fisher's coat. It
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  literally means the top garment.
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  >> He was missing his upper garment. Do you
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  know what that tells us? Men walking
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  around shirtless. That's nakedness,
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  >> right?
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  >> Amen.
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  >> By the Bible, that's nakedness.
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  So we consider Peter. Peter was naked.
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  The fisher's coat, that upper garment,
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  it's this bare chestedness. its
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  nakedness. So Jesus was seen naked.
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  Peter was found naked. And I know this
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  is a weird sermon. It's weird for me to
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  preach it, but I'm telling you the
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  truth. All right? You consider not only
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  Jesus and Peter, but consider this young
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  man. Mark chapter number 11.
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  Mark chapter number 11. I'm giving you
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  principles here.
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  Mark chapter number 11. Actually, Mark
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  14. Excuse me. I wrote this wrong in my
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  notes. Wrote too many verses down. Mark
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  chapter 14.
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  Mark chapter 14 verse 50.
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  Mark chapter 14:E 50.
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  The Bible says, "And they all forsook
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  him and fled." That's the disciples. The
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  enemy has come to take Jesus away. The
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  Jews are come to take him. They all
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  forsake him and fled. Verse 51. And
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  there followed him a certain young man
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  having a linen cloth cast about his
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  naked body. and the young man young the
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  young men laid hold on him. Verse 52 and
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  he left the linen cloth and fled from
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  them naked. You say, "Preacher, what's
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  the emphasis of that?" Well, what this
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  emphasizes is is that this young man had
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  he had an outward appearance of
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  godliness. That linen cloth is a picture
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  of purity. But you know what happened
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  when adversity struck? You know what
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  happened? He left the purity behind.
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  You're
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  >> right.
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  >> And what resulted in that? Well, he
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  turned his back on his savior. Number
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  one. Number two, he left in shame.
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  What I'm saying to you, it's it's always
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  shame. It's always condemnation. Notice
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  this. Fourthly, there's three re three
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  men in the New Testament that deal with
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  this subject. Let's consider this one.
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  The book of Mark, chapter number five.
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  Mark chapter 5.
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  The Bible says in verse number two of
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  Mark chapter number five, when he was
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  come out of the ship, this Jesus
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  immediately there met him out of the
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  tombs a man with an unclean spirit.
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  He had his dwelling among the tombs, no
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  man could bind him, no not with chains,
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  cause that he'd been often bound with
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  feathers and chains, and the chains had
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  been plucked to sunder by him, and the
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  feathers broke in pieces. Neither could
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  any man tame him. This is the demoniac
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  of Gadine.
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  This man's crazy. Bible says, and I
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  believe it's Luke's account, that he has
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  seven, I think it's a legion of of
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  devils that's in him. Bible says that
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  demon literally spoke and said, "We are
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  many." And you notice in this text that
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  Jesus here, he he comes to Jesus and he
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  cries out to him as those demons speak
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  in verse 7, "What have I to do with
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  thee, Jesus, thou son of the most high
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  God?" And he is he is naked in our text.
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  Verse number let's see here verse number
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  12. Verse 13. The devils there. They
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  leave in verse 12. Verse 13. They went
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  out entered into the swine. The herd ran
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  violently down a steep place in the sea.
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  They were about 2,000. They were choked
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  in the sea. Verse 15, notice this. And
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  they come to Jesus. This is the crowd
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  that's in the country. And see him that
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  was possessed with the devil and had the
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  legion sitting. And what's the next
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  word?
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  >> Clothed.
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  Sitting and clothed. And what's the next
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  phrase?
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  >> And in his right mind.
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  While he was possessed, he was
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  unclothed. While he was possessed, he
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  was uncontrolled. While he was
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  possessed, he was unckempt. But when he
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  got right with God and the demons got
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  out, what happened? He put some clothes
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  on.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Amen.
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  So the de demoniac was naked. I'll say
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  this. When you consider this thought,
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  our stance on immodesty reveals what's
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  in our mind.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Somebody's consumed by pride, consumed
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  by lust, selfishness, they don't have a
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  problem unclo themselves because they
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  think really highly of themselves.
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  Notice this. I want to move on here.
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  We'll be done early tonight. I just just
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  had this burden on my heart. So we
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  considered all these truths, all these
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  times in the Bible where nakedness is
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  dealt with. Now what is some principles
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  in scripture? How do we measure that? We
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  know that God's against nakedness. We
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  know that's not right. Okay? We know
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  that's that's wrong. But we've already
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  considered some principles about what
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  nakedness is. You see, who defines the
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  term wins the battle. Amen.
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  So, we've discovered by Adam and Eve
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  that nakedness is not only just being
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  completely uncovered, but only have
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  certain portions of your body covered is
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  nakedness.
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  Those parts that are deemed the private
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  parts. And then not only that, but a a
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  man's having his upper body uncovered is
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  nakedness by the scripture.
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  So, we move on from that. And you say,
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  "Preacher, well, what else is said?"
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  Well, there's another text I want to
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  deal with and I'll say this. All right,
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  and hear me out. Okay, these short
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  shorts that people are wearing this day
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  and time. That's nakedness.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> That's nakedness.
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  So, how do you get that, preacher? Well,
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  I told you I was going to give you Bible
• 21:27
  for everything. So, turn with me to the
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  book of Isaiah.
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  Isaiah 47.
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  Isaiah chapter number 47.
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  And if you don't make it there, you can
• 21:44
  write them down and come back to them
• 21:45
  later. Isaiah 47. There's a text here
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  that's revealed. It's the prophecy of
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  the virgin daughter of Babylon. Verse
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  number one, come down, sit in the dust,
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  oh virgin daughter of Babylon. Sit on
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  the ground. There is no throne. Oh
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  daughter of the Chaldans, for thou shalt
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  no more be called tender and delicate.
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  Verse two, take the millstones and grind
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  meal. Uncover thy locks, make bear the
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  leg, uncover
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  the thigh,
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  pass over the rivers. Thy nakedness
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  shall be uncovered. Isn't that
• 22:19
  interesting? Yay, thy shame shall be
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  seen. I will take vengeance, and I will
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  not meet thee as a man. As for our
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  redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name,
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  the Holy One of Israel. Sit thou silent
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  and get thee into darkness, oh daughter
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  of the Chaldans. Notice this. For thou
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  shalt no more be called the Lady of
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  Kingdoms.
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  The implication of this text, to make a
• 22:40
  long story short, is this, that the
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  virgin daughter of Babylon is still a
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  virgin, but she loses her virginity in
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  showing her nakedness.
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  She loses her standing
• 22:52
  as a lady. Notice it again. He said in
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  verse five, he said, "No more shall you
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  be called the lady of kingdoms." Verse
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  number two, what was the reason why he
• 23:03
  said, "Make bear the leg, uncover thy
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  thigh." Verse three, "Thy nakedness
• 23:08
  shall be uncovered." So that tells me
• 23:10
  that the thigh is nakedness.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, that's stretching."
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  No, that's what what the text says.
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  If you uncover the thigh, that is
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  nakedness.
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  You say, "Preacher, well, what's not?"
• 23:23
  If you're saying all of this, well,
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  being clothed properly,
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Rick Grley said this. He said, "Clothes
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  are not made to reveal, but they're made
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  to conceal."
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  >> Right?
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  >> Some people, I don't even know why they
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  wear clothes.
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  >> I mean, I'm being honest. Being honest.
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  Sad thing is, it's happened in church.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> It's happening in churches all over our
• 23:47
  country. Why is that? Because people
• 23:49
  have refused to see what the Bible says
• 23:53
  about these matters. All exposure of the
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  thighs is thus condemned by scripture.
• 23:59
  It represents nakedness. Notice this in
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  our text. Not only is the all these
• 24:06
  other points I've covered, I want to
• 24:07
  rehearse that again, but I'll say this.
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  It goes much further than that.
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  So, it goes beyond just being uncovered,
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  having certain parts uncovered. But it
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  even goes to the place of where you
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  wearing something that's fitting that
• 24:22
  you're covered, but you're showing
• 24:25
  everything.
• 24:27
  You say, "Well, how do you see that?"
• 24:29
  Well, basically this is tight clothing,
• 24:33
  spandex pants, painted on skirts, men
• 24:35
  wearing muscle shirts and short shirt,
• 24:37
  short shorts, and trying to show off
• 24:40
  their physique. God ain't within a
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  million miles of that,
• 24:44
  >> right?
• 24:45
  >> Notice the book of Exodus 28. And this
• 24:48
  is next to last thing I'm going to share
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  with you tonight.
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  Exodus 28.
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  And the one verse that we use for
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  modesty in our church, I've not even
• 25:04
  touched it tonight.
• 25:06
  Not even touched it. I'm going to read
• 25:08
  it here in a little while, but I I'll
• 25:10
  mention that in a minute. But notice
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  this. Exodus 28 verse number 39.
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  Exodus 28:39.
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  Here this is the this is the instruction
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  of God to Moses here to make the coat
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  for Aaron and his sons the priest
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  without stretching the scripture too
• 25:35
  very much we are all priests amen
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  believer priest in Christ Jesus kings
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  and priests amen notice what the Bible
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  says in verse 40
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  and for Aaron's sons thou shalt make
• 25:46
  coats and thou shalt make for them
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  girdles and bonnets shalt thou make for
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  them for glory and for beauty. And thou
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  shalt put them upon Aaron thy brethren,
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  his sons with him, and shalt anoint
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  them, and consecrate them, and sanctify
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  them, that they minister, may minister
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  unto me in the priest's office. Now, I
• 26:03
  missed verse 39. They made a coat of
• 26:05
  fine linen. So, that outward apparel of
• 26:07
  the priest was that coat of fine linen
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  that was made. It had those miders upon
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  it and and and the girdle that they
• 26:14
  would wear with that. But it does not
• 26:16
  stop there. Notice verse 42.
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  And thou shalt make them linen breaches
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  to cover their nakedness. From the
• 26:23
  loins, even unto the thighs shall they
• 26:26
  shall reach, and they shall be upon
• 26:27
  Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come
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  in unto the tabernacle of the
• 26:31
  congregation, or when they come near
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  unto the altar to minister in the holy
• 26:35
  place, that they bear not iniquity and
• 26:37
  die, it shall be a statute forever unto
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  him and his seed after him. So what this
• 26:41
  is, all right, verse 42, those linen
• 26:44
  breaches, look what it says they do. It
• 26:46
  says it covers their nakedness. Now, I
• 26:48
  want to remind you this linen shaw that
• 26:50
  the priest wore was completely from head
• 26:53
  to toe. You're
• 26:54
  >> right.
• 26:54
  >> They were completely covered. Now, what
• 26:56
  was their nakedness then? Well, when the
• 26:59
  shadow would pass by and the sun would
• 27:01
  cast on them, that white cloth, the
• 27:03
  shadow would be seen through it. They're
• 27:05
  completely covered, but they're
• 27:08
  completely seen because of the shadow.
• 27:11
  And so, what was made for that? These
• 27:14
  breaches were made to cover their
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  nakedness. You say that's the only place
• 27:17
  in scripture you find that. Well, I I
• 27:19
  can show you another place here in the
• 27:22
  Bible where some men were wearing these.
• 27:23
  We actually dealt with this not too long
• 27:25
  ago. Daniel chapter number three.
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  I ain't no hurry tonight, y'all. All
• 27:34
  right. Daniel chapter number three. I
• 27:37
  want I want to read here. Let's look
• 27:41
  Daniel 3
• 27:46
  verse number 21 verse 20. Daniel 3:20.
• 27:50
  He commanded the most mighty men that
• 27:52
  were in his army to bind Shadrach,
• 27:54
  Meshach, and Abedneo and to cast them
• 27:55
  into the burning fiery furnace. Now
• 27:57
  verse 21, notice this. Then these men
• 27:59
  were bound in their coats, their hos,
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  and their hats, and their other
• 28:05
  garments, and were cast into the midst
• 28:07
  of the burning fiery furnace. That
• 28:10
  little word in the midst of that verse,
• 28:12
  their coats, that's the outer covering
• 28:14
  that that tunic that they would wear.
• 28:16
  And then that hos, and that is that
• 28:18
  those breaches
• 28:19
  >> that they would wear that would cover up
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  the inside. That's why ladies wear
• 28:24
  slips.
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  >> You're right.
• 28:28
  Come on.
• 28:28
  >> I know this is uncomfortable. I know it
• 28:30
  is, but it needs to be preached. Okay.
• 28:33
  >> That's why men wear undershirts. You're
• 28:35
  >> right.
• 28:37
  >> Okay. You say, "Preacher, you you have
• 28:39
  lost your mind." I might have, but I'm
• 28:41
  telling you, it's in that book.
• 28:43
  >> Amen.
• 28:44
  >> What did it do? It covered their
• 28:46
  nakedness. You should not wear something
• 28:48
  that form fits you.
• 28:50
  >> You're right.
• 28:51
  >> You're not m It's not meant for you to
• 28:53
  be seen. You are meant to be covered and
• 28:57
  concealed.
• 28:59
  And so what does this this tell us? All
• 29:01
  right, you say, "Well, preacher, I I
• 29:04
  wear what I want to wear because I'm not
• 29:06
  hurting anybody by what I wear. I'm
• 29:08
  confident in the way I look, and that
• 29:10
  does not bother me."
• 29:13
  Well, you see, if you show yourself off
• 29:15
  to the world, you need to remember
• 29:17
  something. You're not just showing
• 29:18
  yourself off,
• 29:20
  >> but you're showing your family off.
• 29:22
  >> You're right,
• 29:23
  >> son. You're showing your dad. You're
• 29:24
  showing your brother. You're showing
• 29:26
  your children.
• 29:28
  Daughter. You're showing your mama.
• 29:30
  You're showing your sister. You're
• 29:31
  showing your children.
• 29:32
  >> You're right.
• 29:34
  >> Say, "How is that, preacher?" Well,
• 29:36
  notice Leviticus chapter 20.
• 29:41
  Leviticus 20. It's found in chapter 18
• 29:44
  6-19, but it's found in chapter 20 verse
• 29:48
  number 19- 21.
• 29:58
  Leviticus 20 19 through 21.
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  Leviticus 20:1 19. Thou shalt not
• 30:05
  uncover the nakedness of thy mother's
• 30:06
  sister, nor thy father's sister. For he
• 30:08
  uncoverth his near kin, they shall bear
• 30:10
  their iniquity. And if a man shall lie
• 30:12
  with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered
• 30:14
  his uncle's nakedness. They shall bear
• 30:15
  their sin. They shall die childless.
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  Verse 21. And if a man shall take his
• 30:20
  brother's wife as an unclean thing,
• 30:21
  heath uncovered his brother's nakedness.
• 30:23
  They shall be childless. When you reveal
• 30:26
  yourself, this is what you're doing.
• 30:28
  You are saying to the entire world that
• 30:30
  you don't care about yourself and your
• 30:33
  family.
• 30:34
  >> You're right.
• 30:35
  >> You don't care about what you look like
• 30:38
  and you don't care about your family and
• 30:40
  how the world sees them. Let me say
• 30:43
  this. All right. Just some principles
• 30:44
  throw out at you tonight. And I have
• 30:46
  used literally none of the verses that I
• 30:47
  would normally preach for this to preach
• 30:49
  this message to you tonight. Let me say
• 30:51
  this to you. Dress should not be
• 30:52
  primarily for comfort.
• 30:54
  >> You're right.
• 30:55
  >> Dress should not primarily be for
• 30:57
  attraction. Dress primarily is meant to
• 31:00
  conceal, but secondarily, it's meant to
• 31:03
  promote character. You're
• 31:04
  >> right.
• 31:05
  >> You know, people judge you by the way
• 31:07
  you dress. If you show up at your place
• 31:10
  of business, Amen. dressed down and you
• 31:12
  are high ranking individual in that
• 31:14
  thing and everybody else in there is
• 31:16
  wearing suits and ties and nice clothes
• 31:19
  and you show up dressed down like you
• 31:20
  just got out of bed. You know what
• 31:22
  they're going to do? They're going to
• 31:22
  look at you and say, "Man, he's not
• 31:24
  ready for the job.
• 31:25
  >> You're right.
• 31:26
  >> She's not ready for the job." Why is it
• 31:29
  we think it's any different in our life?
• 31:31
  >> That's good. As the church of the living
• 31:34
  God, we have been called out as a
• 31:37
  peculiar people to look different than
• 31:41
  the rest of the world.
• 31:42
  >> Right?
• 31:43
  >> And the way we dress is number one to
• 31:45
  conceal. Amen. We're not to see
• 31:47
  ourselves. We're to be hidden behind the
• 31:48
  cross. And so if you're bearing flesh,
• 31:51
  that means that you are revealing
• 31:53
  yourself to the world.
• 31:56
  And you're definitely not promoting
• 31:58
  character.
• 31:58
  >> You're right. Because you know what
• 32:00
  happens when you reveal yourself? It has
• 32:02
  the tend it will ha it will have the
• 32:04
  ability to cause others to sin. Right?
• 32:08
  >> I'll say this. You say, "Preacher, but I
• 32:09
  don't want to lose my individuality."
• 32:13
  >> Come on.
• 32:15
  >> Let me say this to you. Okay?
• 32:17
  Individuality ain't nowhere in that
• 32:19
  book.
• 32:20
  >> Right?
• 32:20
  >> Jesus, the Bible said, he made himself
• 32:22
  of no what? Reputation.
• 32:25
  >> Right?
• 32:26
  >> No reputation. You think about this. the
• 32:28
  very son of God himself. He became a man
• 32:31
  so that we might be made like him.
• 32:33
  >> I'm individuality is off the table for a
• 32:35
  child of God.
• 32:37
  >> Amen. We're made to be like him. Amen.
• 32:41
  >> We're made to be conformed to his image.
• 32:44
  For by grace are you saved through faith
• 32:46
  and that not of yourselves. It's the
• 32:47
  gift of God, not of works, lest any man
• 32:50
  should boast. We are his workmanship
• 32:52
  created in Christ Jesus unto good works
• 32:56
  which God hath verely for ordained that
• 32:59
  we should walk in them. Our life should
• 33:02
  represent Jesus and that includes what
• 33:04
  we wear.
• 33:06
  >> Amen.
• 33:09
  People fear losing their individuality.
• 33:11
  This is not a servant's heart. Let me
• 33:14
  say this to you. And I've had people say
• 33:16
  this, preacher, you might as well just
• 33:17
  make us all wear robes.
• 33:21
  Well, one of these days you all are
• 33:22
  going to be wearing robes.
• 33:24
  >> Amen.
• 33:25
  >> Just putting that out there. Okay.
• 33:28
  >> Say, "Preacher, that's legalism." Let me
• 33:29
  let me ask you something, okay? What do
• 33:32
  you think Jesus is most pleased with?
• 33:35
  >> Amen.
• 33:36
  >> When you stand in front of the mirror
• 33:38
  wearing what you're going to wear to
• 33:40
  work or school or whatever it is
• 33:42
  tomorrow, ask yourself this question.
• 33:44
  Jesus, would you approve of how I look
• 33:46
  today?
• 33:47
  >> Right?
• 33:48
  I'll tell you, he'll make it clear.
• 33:50
  >> Right?
• 33:53
  >> Immodesty brings distraction. I'm not
• 33:56
  just talking about women. We always link
• 33:57
  modesty to a a female problem. I'll say
• 34:00
  this, it's as much as a male problem as
• 34:01
  it is a woman problem. You're
• 34:02
  >> right.
• 34:04
  >> I think the reason why a lot of churches
• 34:06
  fall out of sorts about it is because
• 34:07
  the men are always hounding on the women
• 34:09
  and nobody ever says nothing about the
• 34:11
  men. Preachers and pastors and Sunday
• 34:14
  school teachers and men in the church
• 34:16
  ought not go around. day, man, showing
• 34:18
  their muscles and looking like Hulk to
• 34:19
  everybody cuz it's not about us.
• 34:22
  >> Conceal yourself.
• 34:24
  >> I know it's funny, but it's the truth,
• 34:26
  >> right?
• 34:27
  >> We are not meant to reveal ourselves.
• 34:31
  Immodesty brings distraction. That
• 34:33
  distraction often leads to digression.
• 34:36
  That degression leads to defilement.
• 34:38
  That defilement brings division. And you
• 34:40
  know what happens when division comes?
• 34:42
  You know what that leads to? Divorce.
• 34:46
  That's what it leads to.
• 34:49
  >> Some man gets his eyes on a lady that
• 34:51
  won't wear no clothes.
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  >> That's good.
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  >> Thinking the grass is greener on the
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  other side because she looks better.
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  That doesn't matter. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> When you get married, young people
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  that's here tonight, everybody's sick.
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  Amen. I feel like I'm preaching to A. I
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  don't know what I'm preaching to
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  tonight. Somebody help me. Amen.
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  We don't we young people, they're not to
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  marry somebody for the container.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> That container is going to go away.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Ricky Grabley said this. He said he
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  might have a tattoo that says mom. He
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  said one of these days it'll say wow.
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  >> I'm being real with you.
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  >> Why is this such a problem in our
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  churches today?
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  >> You know what? Here's here's what it
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  comes down to. I think preachers have
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  failed to preach on it.
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  >> Wouldn't you agree with that? I think
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  they failed to preach on it. That's why
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  I'm preaching it tonight.
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  >> Cuz here's what it comes down to. I know
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  if we're going to be right with God on
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  the inside, we're going to have to get
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  the outside right at some point.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> You're not going to live and walk in sin
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  and parade yourself around in pride
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  because that's what it is. That's what
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  individuality is. I I I said something
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  this afternoon to some men. I said
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  individuality is found nowhere in the
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  Bible except in a fiveletter word and
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  it's pride.
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  >> That's what that is.
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  >> Yes.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, are you telling us
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  all to wear this?" No, that's not what
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  I'm telling you. Just had some common
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  sense.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Man, God help us. That's just that's a
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  famine in this day and time.
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  >> It is.
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  >> I'll say this. It's the dressing of the
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  outward that often hinders the ministry
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  of the spirit inward.
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  >> You know what? There's been many times
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  in church services down through the
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  years where God wanted to do a work and
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  you know what happened? A young lady
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  come in or a young man come in. You know
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  what? Our flesh we get distracted.
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  You're
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  >> right.
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  >> Say, "Preacher, that don't happen here."
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  I'm going to tell you,
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  >> young ladies that come in here and they
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  don't listen to their mom and daddy.
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  Either that or their mom and daddy don't
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  care. And and and the men in here, Amen.
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  Not indicting all of you, but I know
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  that that it's it's a distraction.
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  >> It is. You say, "Preacher, well that's
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  their problem." Let let me say this to
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  you, okay? Every one of us have the
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  flesh inside of us.
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  >> Both sides of the aisle,
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  >> if a young man walked in here dressed
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  improperly, he would draw attention to
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  himself.
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  >> Right?
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  >> And it's that dressing that often
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  hinders the ministry of the inward. If
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  we do not have the outward right, the
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  inward, there's no way it can be right.
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  >> Right.
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  So, in essence, this is what I'm saying
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  tonight. Modesty comes down to this. Be
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  covered.
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  >> Be covered.
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  I, you know, it's not that hard. Really,
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  it's not. You know, we got more clothes
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  in this dead time.
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  We can get all kinds.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> There's no excuse.
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  No excuse.
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  I don't know how to give an altar call
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  for this message tonight.
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  >> Well, let me ask you this. Is it real to
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  you?
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  >> You see, my wife and I, we had to come
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  to this conclusion in our life.
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  Our standard couldn't be her parents'
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  standard
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  >> and it couldn't be my parents' standard,
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  >> right?
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  >> And it couldn't be any other preacher,
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  pastor's standard.
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  >> But we had to go to that book for
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  oursel, didn't we, baby?
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  and figure out what God said to us and
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  do our best to follow that.
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  >> Right?
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  >> And anything decision that I make for
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  this church as far as this matter is
• 38:37
  concerned, it's going to be based on
• 38:38
  that. It's not going to be based on
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  somebody else's opinion.
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  >> And the truth is tonight, biblical
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  modesty come down comes down to one
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  thing. When we get up every morning, we
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  ought to dress with one purpose in mind
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  that I ought to look like I want to
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  glorify God.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Yes, sir. Good.
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  >> I want to look like God can use me.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Every head bowed and every eye closed
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  for just a moment of time.
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  I think if nothing else tonight, it'd be
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  good to pray for our children,
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  grandchildren, young people. Pray for
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  our youth. God would help them. See,
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  this is what the devil's fighting them
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  on.
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  He'd love to wipe them out.
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  And it's like I said to you tonight,
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  every sin can be traced back to this
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  very thing. If you allow this to slip,
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  it's the door that allows the floodgates
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  of hell to rush in.
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  Father, thank you so much for the truth
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  tonight. God, I know it's a lot
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  different, but Lord, I'm thankful that
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  you're the same and your word is true.
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  And God, I've done my best to mind you
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  tonight,
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  to be obedient to you.
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  Lord, I thank you for this church and I
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  thank you for these people. God, I pray
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  you'd help us to live this every day of
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  our life.
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  Lord that we would dress to glorify you,
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  exalt you.
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  Thank you, Father, for so much for
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  giving us salvation,
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  the precious blood to save us from sin.
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  Lord, I love you. Thank you for loving
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  me. And I ask it all in Jesus name.
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  Amen. Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
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  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988 Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.