Grace University (Part 1) | Pastor Jason Varnum

so [Music] praise the lord church let's go ahead and create an atmosphere of worship here lord we're thankful to be in your presence now we're thankful for the body of christ and the fellowship of believers minister to us tonight like only you can in jesus name [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus no sweeter name than the name of jesus no sweeter name of jesus you are the lie to my heart and my soul you are the lie to the darkness and broken you are the only truth in the way [Music] the name of jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] no sweeter name in the name of jesus no sweeter names my [Music] you are the only the darkness [Music] thank you jesus the ushers are being uh prepared to grab our offering we're gonna give you the chance to give to the lord we've got a few announcements while they do that uh men's prayer is tomorrow morning at six o'clock the men gather here and we have prayer uh family prayer is saturday nights and that is from six o'clock to eight o'clock or whenever you can make it is a good time to be there and looking ahead we've got this is that september 17th and 19th and we need all hands on deck for that uh so let's go ahead and pray over this offering in the name of jesus god i pray that you touch this offering god bless this church this giving and sacrificing church god help us to breach the loss god help us to make disciples in the name of jesus god jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus [Music] jesus jesus the homeless [Music] you are the only true man [Applause] [Music] no other name i know no other name no other name i know no other name no other name i know no other thing no other thing i know no other name no other name i know is is [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord it's so good to be in the house of the lord with everyone be able to grow together and i think it's important that we always reach together and we don't want to leave no one behind no one behind thank you lord jesus i was talking to uh aren't you thankful for this youth choir that just led us i'm so thankful for that and uh last sunday night i don't know he might be here i'm not sure i'm looking around but there was a a gentleman that came for the first time and this youth choir actually saying the fifth sunday of the month when we have service they sing instead of the normal choir man the holy ghost came in and we didn't have any preaching and he said man i came for some preaching i said well come back because there's a lot of it we do a lot of it but every now and then you just gotta let the holy ghost take over can i hear an amen just let the holy ghost flow and we had that sunday night and i'm so thankful for uh not only the youth choir but all those that responded so thankful for all those joining us in prayer uh from nine o'clock to eight o'clock of course there's men's prayer from starting at six what'd i just say yeah you know y'all just go ahead and fix it just fix it in your own mind you know what's going on and um but it's so good just to be with god's people praying together and if you have the time and the opportunity or if you want to make the time uh it is a great opportunity to come pray together before i get started tonight let's just ask the lord to speak to our hearts and our minds open our hearts and our minds to his word let's pray lord i love you i magnify your name lord there is none like you and there is none beside you lord jesus you do all things well i thank you for the opportunity to be in your presence and i pray god that you will touch every hungry heart and every hungry life i pray that you are anoint me to teach your word god let me do it with clarity let me do it with boldness but god let me do it with love and tenderness at the same time i pray god that all of our hearts will be lifted and changed and stirred in the name of the lord jesus we pray everyone said amen everybody say amen god bless you you may be seated in jesus name so if this is your first time here welcome and we're gonna i hope i hope you come back we just got out of a series on the gifts of the spirit and the fivefold ministry and the helps and everything else that go along with it i encourage you to go get a hold of that uh but we are going to be moving in the next probably four wednesdays in a different direction starting here with titus chapter 2 verse number 11. for the grace of god is anyone here thankful for the grace of god i am so thankful for the grace of god for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men oh my goodness there is none of us that deserve to be here i most certainly do not there is nothing that you could ever do to earn your salvation you are saved by the grace of god and you need to thank god for his grace and his mercy every single day i know i do but what happens with the grace of god is a lot of people take take grace and turn it into disgrace when the grace of god comes into you it will come to you however you are but it has no intentions of leaving you like you are so what happens here for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men next verse teaching us grace is a teacher the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world not not that when we get there we're going to have this in this present world so grace does not teach us do whatever you want to do live however you want to live i feel like i'm getting into the adams family now do what you want to do say what you want to say that's not what grace teaches us see people have a a misconception of grace that grace means you can do anything you want that's why paul kept saying shall we continue in sin that grace may abound god forbid because when grace comes in even though you don't deserve it just like a parent comes in and gives you something you don't deserve but then if it's a good parent it's also going to start directing you and helping you see things that you've never seen before and so what does grace teach us deny this is grace university the next four weeks what do we learn at grace university we learn self-denial oh i wish you were here the last few weeks because those were fun because i'm going to teach now this is how this works normally once a year i just stop and i i teach how we dress yes what we listen to what we watch and and and if if you would have showed up in four weeks you probably wouldn't have heard this for until probably next september i normally teach it when everyone starts going back to school again but you have the privilege you watch it online to be here and to grow in grace university tonight i'm going to be speaking on just focused on men and women's apparel and it is both a privilege and a responsibility for me to teach the word of god and for those that have never heard me teach this before welcome and those that have heard it many times welcome philippians chapter 3 and verse 1 says this finally my brethren rejoice in the lord to write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe so if you have heard this teaching before i'm not teaching it because i don't have anything else to say that's what the word grievous means for me indeed it is not grievous that means i'm not slowful or i don't have anything else to do so i'm going to tell you this again he's saying no it is safe for me to repeat some things and that's what we're going to do here tonight we're going to teach it and i'm going to go slower than i normally go so as i talk about men and women's women's apparel i want to make this very clear at the outset that this is not a salvation issue in and of itself i'm going to say that again what i'm going to be teaching tonight is not a salvation issue in and of itself now it's important what i'm saying all of what i'm saying some people say well pastor says this ain't important no this is very important and i'm going to be walking we're going to go slowly through the word of god and i encourage you if you've never heard this before please don't choke just chew don't try to swallow no big piece of steak just chew on it a little bit pray about it a little bit and let's hear the whole word of god but it is not a salvation issue in and of itself otherwise there is nothing you can do to be so holy that now you're going to be saved what does the bible say our righteousness is as filthy rags there's nothing you're going to be able to do that's going to make you be so much so holy that god will save you there's no way you can dress there's nothing you can do that can save you and so it is not a salvation issue in and of itself it is a maturity issue it's maturing you're growing you're learning things you're you're becoming a a closer to god and as you grow there is more that is required of you i'm going to pause just for a moment to say i have a little bit of an echo up here brother thomas that's driving me slightly crazy thank you um and so you know when i was a kid i was i was about four years old we had a a family from california come friends of our family the granquist and uh i was about four their daughter was about four and uh we we were playing in the house and all of a sudden they didn't see us in the house anymore and so they started looking for us and they looked outside and the sprinklers were on and we had taken all of our clothes off and we are just running through the yard you know what they did laugh it's cute i'm sure i was very cute it's cute you know and so they just they got towels and they wrapped us up and they they brought us in the house and and to this day every now and then i hear about that story however if tomorrow my neighbor brother ryan comes driving by my house and the sprinklers are on i'll stop well what's the problem it's the same me what's different maturity maturity someone comes into the church they're growing in god they don't understand or maybe they've been in church for a while but they haven't heard of something and all and so now they're growing in that area god's totally fine with that because we are growing in god and so i'm going to be talking very straightly about how we should dress and what we should do in the next few moments but i want to make this plain because if there was a woman that that walked in here dressed however you imagine a prostitute would be dressed that you're just like everyone's got their line well that's too far whatever that is she comes because the mercies in god drew her just like they drew us aren't you thankful again for his grace but she comes in whenever you think is not appropriate and she gets the hulk repents of her sins gets the holy ghost gets baptized in jesus name puts on that same outfit that you whatever it is that you would say that's too far she gets in her car and on her way home god forbid she got in an accident and died she is going to heaven i want to make that clear do i think that that was right i don't know i haven't seen her yet but it's not whether or not i think it's right i understand it's a maturity thing she's obeyed the gospel however if life goes on and you and i'm still outside in the sprinklers there's a problem the bible says james 4 17 therefore unto him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is sin so it's not a salvation issue in and of itself but if you have been serving god and you're still acting and dressing and living like the world lives it dresses there becomes a point that you know to do something different you know you're an ambassador of jesus christ and you keep doing it there is a problem [Applause] i am i'm preaching it right now so it comes to the point that god at one point remember the scripture the bible says he looked at things and he winked at it but then it came to a point that he said no no no more the bible lets us know that while the ark was preparing god kept back his wrath why he could see the progression he could see the growth he could see the maturity and god just says nope i can see him growing you see it's not always where you are it's the direction you're going in holy ghost so it it's not a salvation issue in and of itself but it can become if you refuse not to not to line up with somebody else but as god begins to show you things and you start seeing the word and you start rejecting it [Applause] oh it's just going to get funner and funnier i assure you before i before i i really dive in here let me just have bishop always did this and i just think it's a good thing because i want you to know this i want everyone to repeat after me say pastor jason is not trying to run me off if i say pastor jason is not condemning me if i say pastor jason is teaching now say this say i am willing to grow all right let's look a little bit in the world that we are living in they are trying to eliminate all types of modesty and gender distinction god made men and women and he made us different huh that's some deep stuff they act like they can't figure that out but it's true our bodies are different our emotions are different how we dress is different and people dress certain ways for different reasons there are some people that dress to please themselves you've seen them they don't care what anyone thinks there's other people that dress to please others don't matter how uncomfortable how whatever they they just dress to please others but as christians we don't do either of those we dress to please and glorify god because we are ambassadors of christ and so the mindset of modesty is based off of god's opinion not my opinion of you or your opinion of me but of god's opinion and the world will try to make us think how we should think and how we should act and what we should look like and the bible lets us know that the god of this world that's the devil little g god of this world is trying to direct things on this earth there's a in my personal opinion if you step back and you look and you say everybody's doing it that might be a reason not to do it because we see the direction this world is going in and the bible lets us know that we are different from the world we are a peculiar people the bible says come out from among them and be ye separate saith the lord touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you the bible lets us know we are in this world but we are not of this world and so we there's a separation that is the bible is asking us that's what the word christian is it's set apart that's who we are if you were to ask jewish rabbis about how they should dress and how they should conduct themselves they will begin to talk about the fact that your dress ultimately how is how you show your own self-image and it's eventually how other people will see you as well so you must see yourself as god's special creation that's the big problem with evolution we're just another animal that's evolved but when you understand you are created in the image of god that you are fearfully and wonderfully made the jewish rabbis talk about precious things you protect and you cover someone that has something very expensive china you put it in a china cabinet you have diamonds you protect them you have something precious you protect it and that's why the jewish people the torah is always covered it it denotes respect and protection for what it for what god has given them that's what it talks about and so when you protect something when you cover something you realize that this body god is this is the temple of the holy ghost i'm getting ahead of myself if you ever go has anyone ever been to the tower of london anyone ever been there a couple of people have been there it's an amazing place had the opportunity to be there a number of years ago the jewels of the crown they have 23 578 precious stones just in the imperial state crown just that one crown it contains 2868 diamonds in that one crown 273 pearls 17 sapphires 11 emeralds and five rubies the total value of the jewels are estimated to exceed 20 billion pounds that's a lot so guess what they protect it because precious things you protect you treasure when you go in there i've been in there and you're walking down a red carpet there's velvet uh ropes on either side my father one time while we were there he was pointing at something and he just put his hands to say did you see this and there was a voice that was not very pleasant that said excuse me remove your hand it's a bad english impression but you know what i got he wasn't nice about it why it was precious so they're protecting it now it it it didn't mean anything the fact that there was a velvet rope there that it was several feet before you even got there and that around each of these uh crowns and different things scepters and whatever else they have there there is three inch bomb proof glass they're not playing games the security is second to none the crown jewels have been in this tower since 1327 in the same tower that's before columbus sell the ocean blue that's in 1492. i learned that right in school 1492 columbus all y'all y'all know y'all know what i'm talking about since that time the jewels have only been stolen one time it was in 1671 by a name of a man by the name of thomas blood he befriended the the keeper of the jewels and when he got him alone he stabbed him he beat him and uh then he grabbed the jewels and took off but he never made it out of the the last gate and the jewels were immediately returned but to this day thomas blood if you were to go to his tombstone and read it today it talks about here lies a man who who has boldly hath run through more villainous than england ever knew they don't like this guy and never to any friend he had was true he never was good to anybody this is on his tombstone here let uh then by by all unpity lie don't have pity on this guy and let us rejoice his time came to die that's on the man's tombstone what am i saying when there's something precious you don't play games it's not you go there the london a tower is is a fortress to withstand attacks the thickness of the vault and the bulletproof glass and the lasers and all of the cameras and and the and all of the the uh security men that are there hundreds of people that are guarding it why because it is precious it's not about the guns it's not about the lasers what's it about there's a treasure in earth and vessels so we put up some barriers and standards in our lives why we don't want to watch stuff listen to stuff act a certain way that could in any way damage or or leave open for the devil so what we do is we put up some barriers in our lives you do it in your marriage if you have a good marriage you don't just go with anybody anywhere you have barriers the same is true in your walk with god we have a treasure in earth and vessels the world wants to cheapen what god has made his dwelling place first corinthians 6 19 what know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you which you have of god that ye are not your own for you have been bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit which are gods you're bought with a price therefore because you're the temple of the holy ghost glorify god in your spirit only and that see that's what is taught my god knows my spirit he does but he don't ask just for your spirit he says i want you to glorify me in your body and in your spirit which are gods that's why the bible says clean first the inside of the cup and don't worry about the outside no it says clean first the inside that the outside may be cleaned also so this is god's dwelling place it says that your body is the temple of the holy ghost if you look at the tabernacle in the wilderness god has always been very precise about his dwelling place he he talked about uh what the curtains are going to be made of how many loops are in the curtain how many stitches are in the curtain how big the furniture is going to be in there and then even to the outside the badger skins he was involved in every detail and i'm here to tell you that today he still cares about his dwelling place he still wants his dwelling place to represent who he is so let's talk about modesty the bible speaks against public displays of nakedness i've already said naked once i'm going to say it a few more times so just brace yourself the bible always puts a bad light from genesis to revelations genesis chapter 9 verse 22 and ham and the father of canaan saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers he's making light of the nakedness of his father but sham verse 23 and sham and japheth took a garment and laid it upon both of their shoulders and walked backwards and covered the nakedness of their father and their faces were backwards that they saw not their father's nakedness when the father wakes up when noah wakes up there's a curse on canaan because of what he's done there's a curse on on what what has happened because they did not respect and give reverence and they made fun of his nakedness leviticus i'm just hitting a few things real quick before we dig in leviticus 2017 and if a man shall take his sister his father's daughter or his mother's daughter talking about a half-sister half-brother and see her nakedness and she see his nakedness that it is a wicked thing they shall be cut off from the sight of their people he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness he shall bear the iniquity revelation chapter 16 verse 15 behold i come as a thief blessed is blessed is he that watches that keepeth his garment lest he walk naked and they see his shame so we're talking about shame we're talking about a wicked thing something that brings a curse so the bible lets us know and puts this always in a bad light the bible also tells us in the last days they will call good evil and evil good do you know that there are some people maybe you're here if you are i love you maybe you're watching online but you are here and you think that even the fact that i'm talking about this in 2021 is insane don't raise your hand you're like that's just crazy but the truth of the matter is is modesty and wanting to be modest is not a sign of insanity it's a sign of being sane if you were ever to go to or read about an insane asylum one of the hardest things they do is try to keep clothes on the inmates removing your clothes is a sign of insanity when you read the bible there was a man that was insane he was demon possessed he he is stripped down he's cutting himself he's he's going crazy jesus walks on the shore falls down in front of jesus jesus rebukes the demons into the pigs it's a powerful powerful story but then the townspeople come out now remember they have been trying to bind him with chains uh he is howling at the moon he's cutting himself no one can do anything about it but this is what it stands out to them when they come up mark chapter 5 verse 15 and they came to jesus and seen him that was possessed with devils and had legions sitting and clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid they could have looked at anything they could have just said he's in his right mind he's sitting still no one's got him tied down they could have talked about how he was talking plainly they could have talked about that he was no longer cutting himself but the thing that stood out to them is that he's clothed and in his right mind because rem i know this is so counter-intuitive to the world that we live in but i'm just trying to establish as i'm getting into this that the world turns everything upside down the world tries to make everyone think that their way is the only way to do it when they're the ones that's changing every other day and the church has never changed we're still doing the same things living by the same word nakedness affects your mind let me get out of of just teaching the word i'm going to come back to that but just so you can see this isn't just a a a preacher pentecostal apostolic uh mindset but understand the effect this is a princeton university a research study the effect of the human brain when it sees another human being scantily clad that's the word they keep using scantily clad new research shows that in men the area of the brain that's associated with handling tools such as hammers and screwdrivers etc light up when viewing images of a woman in a bikini meaning men show no brain activity in the prefrontal cortex which would light up when one person thinks of another person's thoughts feelings and intentions the researchers found this shocking because they almost never see this part of the brain shut down in this way that is to say they are looking at these women as objects and not people the researchers stated it is almost as though they are reacting towards these women as if they are not fully human further stir these beyond just the brain function uh into how men would speak after viewing women that are scantily clad in clothing men tended to associate scantily clad women with the first person action verb such as i push i handle i grab on the other hand when they saw pictures of women that were dressed modestly they associated them in the third person form such as she pushes she handles and she grabs indicating that these women were perceived to be in control of their own actions the researchers concluded that when women are dressed scantily they present themselves as objects to be used and not as humans to be connected with the researchers also said women should be aware of how they are perceived when wearing provocative clothing interesting the case was not the same when they were talking about women in relation that they would had a relationship with such as a sister a mother a wife etc instead the opposite was true they tended to try to protect them and to have a feeling of being apprehensive for them so what i'm saying is just research on the brain and how we talk lets us know that we treat people differently when they're not dressed modestly but here's the big question pastor i hear what you're saying and i hear what princeton's saying but does god care about our clothing it's an important question because it doesn't matter what i think i don't know how many times i've said this in this church but let me say it again if you see me preaching things that are not in this book you need to go leave this place and find a church that preaches the word of god because i will not judge you in the last days the bible says the word will judge you in the last days [Applause] amen so how does god feel about this we find out all the way back in the beginning genesis chapter 2 verse 25 we're going to go after a part at least 8 15 or so genesis chapter 2 verse 25 and they were both naked i told you there's a lot of naked talking this here one they were both naked the man and his wife and they were not ashamed and they should not be husband and wife should not be ashamed but after sin came into their life genesis chapter 3 and verse number 7 and the eyes of them both were open and they knew they were naked and they sowed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons they tried to cover their nakedness by showing these fig leaves together and they are referred to as an apron what is an apron the hebrew word for apron means a girdle a belt a loincloth an apron a loin covering and this apparently was man's idea of covering their nakedness just covering the private region and hips but watch this after they have made these aprons god come walking in the cool of the garden and they hid themselves and god called adam now they have made aprons they had done something but when god called adam in verse number 10 and he said i heard the voice thy voice in the garden adam's talking to god and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself well they had already covered themselves with aprons but something inside of them let them know this isn't enough i'm not really covered i don't know if this has ever happened to you but it has to me when i was a young person and i i would act like oh this is okay until i got some around someone i truly respected spiritually and all of a sudden i'm just like brother stone king walks in and you're just like oh people that you respect when god came in and they really examined themselves they said this is not enough so does god care about clothing that did god say hey you're doing the best you can that's good get over here you no no that's not what god does god says you're right that ain't enough god in verse 21 genesis 3 21 and to adam and also to his wife did the lord god make coats of skin and clothe them god did not say your attempt is good enough well whatever you think that's fine that's not god's attitude god himself became a tailor and made them the word coat here is it was an animal skin that he made this out of the hebrew word this is literally what it means a tunic with sleeves coming down to the knees sometimes to the ankles this is a garment with sleeves covering from the shoulders at least to the knees and this was god's idea of modest apparel the cover their nakedness and it doesn't date back to when i taught it the last time it dates back to adam and eve and since god doesn't change the principles of modesty doesn't change either but this is another big question what does the bible consider covered or naked everyone take a deep breath let it out what does god consider next not not what does the world consider naked who are we trying to please god what does god consider naked exodus chapter 28 and verse 42 and thou shalt make unto the linen breaches i'll get back to that later to cover their nakedness from their loins even unto their thighs shalt their reach to cover nakedness it needs to cover the loins that's this area and the thighs that's what is considered naked to god and i know there's people watching online right now your little fingers just can't wait to comment but it's not your opinion that i'm worried about and you don't need to be worried about their opinion either this is a man he is speaking to here and covering their nakedness was covering their loins and their upper thighs let's go to isaiah 47. i know people ain't never heard this stuff taught before isaiah 47 1-3 come down and sit in the dust old virgin daughter of babylon this is god speaking to israel and he's very upset because he's saying that you are you you have lost your i'm your god you're my people but now you're worshiping these other gods and he's talking about them in a way like they are committing adultery against him that's what's going on here old virgin daughter of babylon sit on the ground uh there is no throne o daughter of the child ease for thou shalt be no more called tender and delicate take a millstone and grind mill uncover thy locks make bear thy legs uncover thy thighs pass over the river thy nakedness shall be uncovered yea thy shame shall be seen so when is their nakedness uncovered when you make bear thy legs uncover thy thighs this is speaking about women so in exodus 28 we're talking about men here we're talking about women we could go over more scriptures and we will but let's just go a little bit further right now so this is both for men and for women what about the new testament in first timothy chapter two verse number eight we're going down to verse 10 i will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting and like men are also that women adorn themselves with modest apparel with shamefaceness and sobriety not with broadened hair nor golden or pearl nor costly or ray but that which becometh women professing godliness with good works we are to dress in verse 9 again modest apparel we're going to look at modest and apparel first the word modest that word literally means well arranged it is referring to re arranging your clothing in a proper way that covers your nakedness the word apparel modest apparel the word that is used here the greek word um it comes from the word which means a long flowing garment it's speaking of that style of the day was a loose fitting flowing long from the neck to the knees and then it just has in parentheses long that's what modest apparel means we should figure out where we're going to get our definition of modesty at where should we get it at should we get it from fashion magazines there are some fashion magazines that will have a modest side and an m modified i don't care i don't get my definition of modesty from the fashion world should we get it from hollywood i'm asking you a sincere question i know i'm being a little bit straight with it but think about it is that where we want to find our definition of modesty no we don't even get our definition we should not get our definition of modesty from our grandmother that's not where we do it we should get the definition from the word of god and where did they get it from now you've got to understand this was the apostle paul he talked about i am a jew among jews when he is talking about modesty this is a jewish definition of modesty and so this word we need to go back to see what where is that root system from because words change right words change i mean there was a day when they said you're looking very gay today it meant you're looking very happy today gay means something different right and so you what what is this coming from where does this come from do you have that that uh sign i've been in uh jerusalem we've walked and prayed um at the what is known as the welling wall um and this is but when you're walking into these areas this is the kind of signs you see this is a jewish definition of modesty please do not pass through our neighborhood in in modest clothing what is the definition of immodest closing clothing closed blouse otherwise no low neckline with long sleeves a long skirt no trousers this is speaking of women right here no tight fitting clothing we want you to dress modestly and here is the jewish definition of modesty these are everywhere in jerusalem anywhere that especially that is a a a holy site and there that we have we i have been there when we are on tours and it people men walking in with with short shorts that they won't let them walk in there ladies wearing they won't let you go in there men or women if you're not dressed in the definition of modesty now you could say well well that's that sign but see that sign matches up with what the bible teaches because in genesis when god made them clothing it was clothing that was a coat not an apron not just a private region but a coat that went to their knees or to the ankles that's the definition of that tunic or if you look at what modest apparel is and what you see the definition through the bible of covering up nakedness it matches even today so we don't look at hollywood we don't look at the world we don't even look at grandma and say what is modesty we want to look back at the original because here's the problem you ready i'm a visual learner this is god this is me can you believe i'm wearing glasses now help me lord i'm trying to wear them help me jesus this is the world god me world this is where we are this is what we do you ready we go oh look at the world over here can you believe their way over here we're closer to god than them and then the world changes and we do this and we say look at the world over there he believes over there i'm not like that i'm closer to god than them and the world changes and we say oh look at those words can you believe where they are when we are where they used to be that's a stop and think about it that is the exact thing that is happening in the christian world today we are so proud that we are not like the world we're not staying connected to the word of god we're just like oh i'm not as bad as them i'm not as bad as them i'm that's not our our objective we're not trying to not be as bad as the world no no no we don't say we're not no i'm gonna go right here to the word of god then the world can go anywhere it wants to go i'm staying with god i'm sticking with his word oh lift your hands for a moment lord help us today jesus name god help us today god help us god to be what you have called us to be let the anointing of god come down and destroy every yoke in jesus name so as i said this is not salvation issues and of themselves but as you grow in god you should want to be less like the world and more like god that's what makes something holy you know according to the word of god i'll probably talk about this in the future weeks but that's what made it holy what makes something holy the ark of the covenant what made it holy the fact that it was separated from the world and dedicated to god the candlesticks what made them holy the bible talks about all the furniture in the tabernacle was holy what makes the brazen altar holy it was separated from the world dedicated unto god and so it's not just that i'm not what the world is i'm not only separated from the world i'm dedicated to god and my desire is to please him and no one else and so it's what it's both men and women as a church and i know this is so counterintuitive for people that just live in this world but the bible says god considers the thighs as naked and so our men when we wear short pants they go below our knee that's what we do that's when we're walking that's when we're running we do that why because it's the world style no it probably will be if you don't like the style of the world just wait around it'll change i mean they're even trying to bring back the the 70 shorts some of those players help me lord like used to play in the nba oh help me help me lord i feel like i'm violated but the styles keep changing but we don't go with it the bible says this is what's considered naked to god and so young men when we went on our father saying camping trip there were some of us that had shorts that were too short we don't do that mom said get those boys we don't do that [Music] we can enjoy life and let me tell you mom said get those boys so let me just stay with that for just a second out of all the stuff in this world that the women of this world do that our ladies have desire to not live like they do there's so many things that are out there that they choose not to live and there's only a few things i mean a guy can live a holy life and still look like everyone else in the world for the most part so the few little things that we do need to be men let's step up and be men and let's do our part okay seriously let's do our part and and ladies the our leggings are not our covering i'm going to get that in just a minute we had our basketball tournament and some of the ladies it's it's not proper it's not what the word of god teaches let me just get into the next section just so i can make sure everybody is um on the same page because now i'm getting into something that is what okay mom wants me to talk about tight pants [Applause] no tight pants modest apparel means flowing it means flowing first of all it makes me a little sick i appreciate you working on with me on that but but seriously we we don't we don't wear tight pants guys modest apparel is a flowing garment there needs to be a little flow in that you don't have to go big barrel bottoms or whatever they're called bell bottoms there we go i'm just saying things should not be tight on us as well with the ladies and i'm kind of getting into that in this next section because i have to go if i want to get this done and what i want to step into for just a moment is gender distinction exodus chapter 28 and verse 42 thou shalt make the linen breaches to cover their nakedness and again there are people that are watching online right now you've never heard anything please don't choke just chew look at the word of god and understand the spirit of our world when i time i'm done stick with me you're going to see what's going on in our world lenin breaches to cover their nakedness from their loins to their thighs shall they reach and so the priests here were leaning linen breeches and this was something that was with their priestly attire the word does not occur very many times in the scriptures but every time it occurs it is always with no exception a man's garment exodus 28 42 exodus 39 28 leviticus 6 and 10 leviticus 16 and 4 uh ezekiel 44 and 18. this is always a man's garment never a lady's garment according to the hebrew lexicon breeches means trousers that extend below the knee later english words they begin to call them britches but they breach like in the army when they when someone pierces the enemy's lines they have breached the lines separated that's what it's referring to but later became britches and then our day normally we call them pants ladies in the bible now i know some people have never heard this before so just listen don't choke just chew women in the bible times did not wear crouch garments pants because god disapproved of it and pants were worn exclusively by men for the first 5900 years of human history only in the relatively recent history has women begin to wear pants and it became just impractical for women not to wear pants and that that's amazing to me when you look at the work that women used to do back in the day compared to the kind of work we do now and it did not start happening until world war ii i can't get into all that tonight but that's when it really started men went to war ladies went in the factory and they decided they were going to start wearing pants and that's really where it took a hold uh in our society but it is a relatively in human history very new very new men in bible times were permitted to gird up their loins while women were not a man could transform his robe into like more trousers by reaching behind grabbing the back of the robe pulling it forward tucking in their belt or their girdle is what they would refer to it uh you have scriptures such as this job 38-3 gird up now thy loins like a man otherwise this is what men do they gird up their loins any garment that was showing a separation in the legs of above the knees is was considered immodest for women to wear now we know there is there is a garment that we just know everybody knows this is a man's garment and this is a woman's garment we all know it i have traveled the world and you see this same image can you put that up there nope that's me i've seen that that it was there for a second that image right there i've been in asia i've been in africa i've been in south america i've been all over the world and i always know which bathroom to go into now some people may roll their eyes but you know it's true you know exactly what garment is attached to what person it's all over the world it has not changed but the big question is is does it matter to god deuteronomy chapter 22 and verse number five 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 an abomination unto the lord thy god the word pertaineth the latin root word there is to reach towards he said we don't even want to reach towards something that pertaineth or resembles the other sex why because god created a man and a woman and believe it or not i'm going to try to explain this here in a moment the things that are happening in our world today with gender distinction started with our decisions with what we wore is exactly right the other day uh well i say the other day it was a little bit ago i was in gainesville and a dude i heard a dude talking and then i turned around and this guy was cross-dressing how do i know he was cross-dressing what was he wearing so someone read this scripture and said pastor don't you think that that scripture is talking about cross-dressing i said yes i said how does a man cross dress well he puts on a skirt fine how does a woman cross dress now today i understand it's very common understand it i don't i don't want anyone feeling bad please don't feel bad you know i'm teaching some things that you probably never heard before please do not feel bad i want us to learn and grow and look at things differently i want us to understand what is going on in our world today and how it gets there but there was a time that the same reaction that if a dude walked in this place today with a dress on that we would be going like oh that that hey hey hey now that was the exact reaction go back 60 70 years go back it was the same but you know what we've just become comfortable with it listen to me it won't be that far down the road that when a dude walks in with a skirt that's the way society is going but does that make it the right thing see god is looking and he says and it's an abomination the word abomination is used 70 times in the word of god the root word this is what the bible this this just stick with me this is what the bible teaches the root word is disgust filth loathsome abhorrent an abomination comes in many forms i can't go through all these scriptures but in in genesis 43 and 32 it's talking about uh an abomination to an egyptian otherwise there's an abomination another one is an abomination to israel so there was things that was an abomination to people but there's only a few things that are an abomination unto the lord and the things that are abomination to the lord that's a moral law let me give you just a couple examples i just want you to see it in deuteronomy 7 25 it talks about graven images of their gods that they are burned with fire and don't desire their gold or their silver and none of these things unless you you get snare by it for it is an abomination unto the lord thy god that's idolatry that falls in the category of being abomination to the lord if you look at deuteronomy 18 beginning with verse 10 and go down to verse 12 these are the things you'll find i won't read it all right now child sacrifice fortune telling witchcraft and then verse 12 speaking of those things and all that do these things are an abomination unto the lord if you look at deuteronomy 23 and 18 it's speaking of male and female prostitution it says thou shalt not be uh being hired of the whoredom that's a woman prostitute or the price of a dog the word this is talking about a male prostitute uh in the house of the lord thy god it goes on to say both are an abomination to the lord thy god deuteronomy 25 14-16 is speaking of cheating and lying and deceiving that is an abomination unto the lord thy god and it's important to note things that are abomination to people might change but not things are abomination to god why because jesus christ is the same yesterday today and forever the bible says i am the lord i change not james says every good and perfect gift coming from above and cometh down from the father of lights and whom there is no variableness nor neither shadow of turning otherwise god is and will always be what he is wearing apparel that pertains to the opposite sex the bible says is an abomination unto him again deuteronomy 22 and 5 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 show are an abomination to the lord their god if we can open our eyes and realize the spirit of the world the devil the antichrist the spirit of the antichrist has an agenda that is pushing in our world it is trying to break away any separation between genders you see it as well as i do it is a push of the devil i'm not talking about treating people right i'm talking about just removing and acting like there's no difference when god made them different he made them male and female he made them what they are and we can just act like oh it don't matter it don't matter it does matter and see this is what time so so i know people have a hard time like pastor come on seriously you're talking about all this gender distinction and you're talking about a man wearing a skirt or a woman wearing pants come on aren't you all right chill little come on now but see understand what god's doing he's looking down the road see let me give you a couple examples of how god does this and i'm wrapping up matthew 5 27 ye have heard it said of them in old times thou shalt not commit adultery don't commit adultery watch jesus this is jesus talking we're in matthew 5 28 now but i say unto you whosoever looketh on to lust after her hath committed adultery already in his heart well jesus don't you think you're kind of reaching there i mean commit adultery looking at someone come on but see god is looking at the pathway so he's looking at david that looks over the wall and sees bashiba bathsheba bathing on the wall and he's looking and the next thing he does is he calls her in and he gets her pregnant and then kills her husband and so what god's saying is if if you commit adultery don't do that but don't even look what is he doing he's saying this is the pathway that's leading you somewhere you don't want to go look at another one one more matthew 5 21 he have heard it said of old times thou shalt not kill that's a good rule and whosoever shall kill shall be danger of the judgment but i say unto you whosoever is angry with his brother is in danger of judgment wait wait i mean angry and kill there's a big difference god what's god doing god says i can see where it's leading to i can go back to cain and abel and i can see where cain was angry with abel and because he wouldn't get his anger right he killed his brother so god is looking at the pathway so god looks at the pathway 70 80 years ago and said no no i want men and women to look different i want there to be a separate how are you connected how they're dressed into that because god's looking at the pathway and we are seeing it unfold in front of our eyes there is a progression that happens when you start taking down barriers that god has established a church of the living god we are in this world but we are not of this world don't let the world pressure you deliver like them men be men women be women don't let the agenda of this world push you holy ghost come out from among them stand with me and be ye separate saith the lord god's calling us to be separate for the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men teaching us grace comes in and said listen you don't deserve me and i've come to you but now that i'm here let me teach you you need to deny some ungodliness worldly lust the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye the pride of life don't don't let the way the world does stuff dictate how we do stuff we need to live soberly oh and nothing matters that i don't really matter no sober serious righteously i want to do things right before god and godly in this present world god let us look down the road and see the direction the world is going in oh god god we don't need to be unfashionable we don't need to be where we just don't care about anything how we appear but lord don't let us violate your word trying to match up with the world and try to get in the flow of the world or this is easier right now god don't let us fall into the trap give us wisdom give us direction give us understanding thank you lord i know i had you stand sit down i have to do this real quick bring me my towel you know why i do this because people act like what did he say what did he say quickly bring me a chair someone bring me a chair come here there we go real quick i want us to understand the bible says this is how this over there so guys if you have a real baggy short and it's right there and you're playing basketball it's coming up so if it matters to you that the bible feels like and teaches us that the thigh is naked then you you can't wear something that's right there's baggy and letting it come out right people are like i ain't never seen nothing like this before ladies if your dress is just right there and and it's right and then you sit down i'm just saying yeah then we start to but see a living person don't sit like this at all times they do in the tuck there's a tuck as well thank you so but if it's if it's if it's a mama or something look this would happen you're my we have four kids my wife and i have four kids you don't just sit around with four kids or with one so that kid goes somewhere and mama you go for them if you if you care about what the bible teaches it needs to be well below your knee so you can operate and live and not flash what god says is naked can i hear an amen in the church so for guys and dudes this is where we stand we don't have things too tight modest apparel is loose you don't have things just all what i do okay i feel you guys and ladies we don't wear things that are super tight god bless sister uh maribel that passed on she said she came to me one time she said late uh pastor she's blind the woman can't see anything she's got tunnel vision like this she's like pastor some of these girls they got skirts too tight and she's like in her 80s i'm just like oh okay sister okay she said no i'm serious said a girl walked back here she had a dime in her back pocket and i could read the date on it there is some material that is just stretchy and tight we're not we're not we're not we ain't advertising for something we ain't selling we ain't doing none of that stuff we need to make sure that we're modest and again guys these tight these tight tight stuff dude come on seriously we need to stop all that let's be modest in how we present ourselves so we want to keep just what we read about mass apparel we want to keep our necklines up higher we don't want to be showing cleavage or your chest hair either one we don't want to see it no one else does either that's right save it save it for your marriage um and uh and we we so we keep make sure we don't do that we don't show our midriff we don't have the little short skirt or shirts that every time you do it you're showing we don't do that we stay covered that's just what we do so it's not too tight it's not too low up here uh it stays a nice length and we live our lives as ambassadors of jesus christ let me say this you don't look down at someone because they're not living what you're living and someone got into church you don't go try to straighten them out i've said it before i say it again i have deputized no holiness police there are no holiness police in this church i will teach the word of god and when they grow into maturity then they will do it please don't go to them and try to force them to grow at your pace let people grow but grow let people mature but mature keep moving forward lord we already pray together thank you for these wonderful people i'm so thankful thanks for letting me teach and preach and pastor these amazing people i know many people are watching online from our church god i pray you'll give them strength and help us together god to do your perfect will in jesus name we pray amen sweetheart anything where's my sweetheart where's my sweetheart anything else anyone else thank you so much for being here we used to stay till nine o'clock don't forget i love you you're dismissed in jesus name you

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