The Greek word for “modest” in 1st Timothy 2:9 is “Kosmios” which means “of good behavior.” Hence, the attire which a woman wears sends a message as to the type of moral character which she possess. Women who wear pants either do not recognize, or do not care, about the spiritual dangers of lasciviousness. The clothes that women wear send a message.
Proof of this is found in Proverb 7:10... “And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.” The Bible speaks about the attire of a harlot. One cannot deny that sexually suggestive clothing is the attire of a harlot. Any type of clothing that exposes a woman's thighs, breast cleavage or is tight is immodest and sinful.
It doesn't surprise me that the same society that has murdered over 50,000,000 of it's own children, in a Rock 'N' Roll culture of celebrity idol worship, would also scoff and laugh at my preaching concerning Biblical morality. It is a sin for women to wear tight pants, miniskirts and open blouses. It is a sin for women to pose in women's catalogs, because they KNOW that millions of men will also look through those catalogs and commit adultery. It is a sin to become a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, stripping down almost naked and showing the crowds their underwear while kicking their legs in the air. Bally dancing is the most filthy trash on earth. Plays and theatre performances are nothing but whore shows. Get right with God America!!!
When the demon-possessed maniac of Gadarenes found Jesus Christ, he came into his right mind, put his clothes back on and sat down at the feet of Jesus. Jesus is the cure for nudity!
The demon-possessed singer Katy Perry parades her lewdness, featured on the heathen cover of Rolling Stone magazine in her panties, hypocritically talking about what God means to her. Evidently God doesn't mean enough for Katy Perry to keep her clothes on. Perry says her parents channeled God by speaking-in-tongues. They raised a spoiled brat. Perry went from Gospel singer to a lesbian-lusting loser. Katy Perry is of the Devil. In Perry's latest 2010 album and song of the same title, TEENAGE DREAM, she invites the listener to put your hands down into her skin tight pants...
Let you put your hands on meIt is heathendom! Katy Perry is a CURSE to teenagers and young children. Sesame Street promotes Katy Perry to small children. Add to that a Godless public school system, now infiltrated by GLSEN, and you've got an upcoming generation of militant lesbians and fornicators. Katy Perry exposes the evils of women wearing pants, literally. Repent America!
In my skin-tight jeans
Be your teenage dream tonight
There are godly men who are trying to maintain clean minds, and you're helping to hurt them spiritually. God will hold every woman accountable for EVERY lust she intentionally caused in men by her immodest apparel.
The Sin of Women Dressing Immodestly
1st Timothy 2:9, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.” The Bible plainly evidences in the account of king David committing adultery with Bath-sheba the dangers of women displaying their naked bodies in public. David went out on his roof and saw Bathsheba bathing naked and the rest is history . . .
2nd Samuel 11:2, “And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her.”
Bath-sheba was either careless or deliberately seduced king David. The man after God's own heart chose to commit adultery because of a naked woman. This plainly evidences WHY women ought to wear proper attire in public. Godless women don't care; Christian women do care. It is sinful for whores like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry to lie on the ground in sensual poses, rolling around in lingerie on TV, jumping around in their panties on YouTube, behaving like demon-possessed heathens, and leading the world's young girls to follow their evil example. No wonder the abortion rate is so high, adultery and fornication are epidemic in America, and moral looseness has become the norm. Lesbianism is everywhere, a consequence of unrestrained lusts (Romans 1:24-27). God's curse is upon our nation.
Nothing has changed in 3,000 years since David and Bath-Sheba. Sexual sins are commonplace in the world today, especially in America because of all the whorishly unclothed women. Americans live in a sexually degenerate, perverted, and sensual society... a SEX-SICKO SOCIETY! Such women are evil in their hearts, who value the lustful attention of men rather than the praise of God for being a virtuous woman. There are no women any uglier spiritually than whores like Madonna, Anna Nicole Smith, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry (Hudson), Sandra Bullock, and hundreds more who strip naked for the world to lust upon.
Many Women Sinfully Sport in Causing Lasciviousness
It is evil for any woman to deliberately cause lasciviousness by her immodest attire. Some women are very cruel and want to hurt others. This evil is commonplace today. Sensual smut flows out of Hollywood and Walt Disney like sewage flowing into a cesspool. It is a cesspool of iniquity!
In fact, many people today think it's perfectly normal and acceptable for women to dress whorish to arouse men, with no consideration for the sexual sins caused by their evil influence. Woman who purposely dress immodestly are guilty of idolatry. She is placing her own will above God's Word, making herself to be a god, and is causing men to worship her body instead of God. It is evil.
Many secular songs have been written to attest to this fact, such as John Mayer's “Your Body Is A Wonderland.” This one song in particular has brought Mr. Mayer worldwide fame and fortune. The song is nothing more than idolatrous worship of a woman's body—SEX! Selena Gomez and Katy Perry admit the demonic influences of Rock music upon the fans. Katy Perry doesn't even wear clothes on her latest album, TEENAGE DREAM. The Word of God commands us, as believers, not to love the lusts of this world (1st John 2:15-17). John Mayer, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry (Hudson), Madonna, Britney Spears, Cher, and all of Hollywood, Walt Disney, Las Vegas, and an untold multitude of whores and whoremongers across America, are serving the Devil.
There is nothing more evil than a woman like Britney Spears who deliberately entices men with immoral clothing, nudity or lewd behavior.
Here are the words that Proverb 7:18 tells us the whore says...
Proverb 7:18 , “Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.”Now here are the lyrics from Britney Spears' filthy song, SODA POP...
" . . . we might start riding to the music tonight. . . a WICKED TIME to the end . . . we'll flex tonight until they break down the door . . . It's cool Britney when we get down on the floor. . . and we go on and on until the break of dawn"
No wonder our mentally-ill society has to give out condoms to all the public school kids! So your teen's in an abortion clinic from listening to this kind of sicko music, which has made Miss Spears filthy rich. You just lost your job because of the recession, while Britney Spears spends $16,000 a month just on her clothes!1 Yep, I'd say Americans are mentally-ill.
Read what the Bible has to say about the whorish woman...Proverb 7:25-27, “Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”God never changes (Malachi 3:6). The Old Testament magnifies the wrath of God; but the New Testament the love of God. God loves humanity and has made a way of escape through faith in His only begotten son, Jesus Christ. But don't mistake God's longsuffering and patience, Christ-rejecters will burn in the Lake of Fire forever (2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 20:11-15; 21:8). If you want a clear picture of God today, then you must take the Bible as a whole.
Most Women Don't Care, So What is a Christian Man to Do?
But you ask, “Preacher, isn't it normal for a man to want to lust upon a women?” Yes, for the carnal man. I'd worry about any man who didn't have such desires. Any man who doesn't desire to look upon a beautiful woman is either sick or needs to move to San Fransicko. Albeit, I'm not talking about being normal in the carnal sense; I'm talking about living by faith to please God. Jesus plainly taught that lust is adultery. Matthew 5:28, “But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” There is no room for debate. Sexual lust is a sin, unless it's your wife or husband.
It is normal to be a heathen, but God saved us so we wouldn't live like that anymore. God wants His children to be zealous of good works (Titus 2:14). I'm talking about walking in the Spirit of God. Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” Every saved person LIVES in the Sprit, i.e., they have the Holy Spirit of God indwelling them (Romans 8:9). But to walk in the Spirit is to yield in obedience to the teachings of God's Word as a believer, as evidenced by Galatians 5:25.
How does a person avoid sexually impure thoughts? The answer is found in multiple Scriptures...
Modest" means not extreme or bold, and not morally loose. Those can apply to pants, yes; but when I have on a pair of pants, I don't feel that my body is covered. Pants are form-fitting, thus exposing my body. That's just how I feel. The illustration that Cathy Corle uses is two pictures of the same woman. The first one has her in a nice dress. She asked a group of ladies what they noticed about this woman, and they answered her face. Then she showed them the picture of the same woman in a pair of jeans and asked what they noticed. They said their eyes were immediately drawn to the crotch area! That drove home to me that clothes can emphasize the body or the face; I'd rather have folks, especially men, notice my face and not my body. Again, this is my feeling.
The other thing that convinced me was the doctrine of separation from the world. The fashion of the world is to wear pants (patterned after men's clothing). This wasn't the case until about 100 years ago, when actresses began wearing pant suits that resembled men's suits. Before that, women almost universally wore dresses (I remember my Granny saying that she wore her brother's overalls to pick cotton to keep her legs from getting all scratched up). So the fashion of the world became women wearing pants. I felt that, to be separate from the world, I needed to dress differently than the world. I also needed to be feminine and distinctively female; there should be a noticeable difference between my clothes and a man's clothes. The difference in our culture is that women wear dresses and men wear pants, so I believe it's right for me to wear dresses.
Several years ago, my pastor gave some principles for Christian dress. They're very helpful, and they can be applied to male or female, pants or dresses.
A saved man will encourage his wife to do what God is laying on her heart. Several ladies have mentioned how their husbands didn't see the need for dresses only, but supported them in wearing them because the ladies felt that is what God wanted them to do. With an unsaved husband, the dress issue can be a witness to her husband in one of two ways: if he doesn't mind her wearing dresses only, it can be a witness of her changed life; if he doesn't want her to wear dresses only, her submission to him in this area will be a witness to him (especially if she makes sure to wear what pleases him when they are at home, even if she wears dresses all the rest of the time).
This issue is just like any other that families have to make a decision about. If your heart is open to do whatever God wants you to, and you study scriptures related to it and come to a different conclusion than others, you've done what you need to to follow God's leading. We have freedom in Christ to follow Him as He leads us to. I don't know why some people develop certain convictions and others don't. How people dress is not a salvation issue; it's a separation issue. It's not my job to win them over to my way of thinking on separation - it's the Holy Spirit's job to teach them how God wants them to live. If they ask why I believe something, I'll tell them; otherwise, I stay quiet.
"Pornography" is a layperson's term, with no particular legal significance. Jones may believe that Penthouse is non-pornographic, while Smith believes that it is. Neither is incorrect.
The term of legal significance is "obscenity", which, after struggling for many years and through many cases, the U.S. Supreme Court defined in Miller v. California in 1973. It is a three-part test, as follows:
"The basic guidelines for the trier of fact must be:
(a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, Kois v. Wisconsin, supra, at 230, quoting Roth v. United States, supra, at 489;
(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and
(c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
(a) whether "the average person, applying contemporary community standards" would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, Kois v. Wisconsin, supra, at 230, quoting Roth v. United States, supra, at 489;
(b) whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law; and
(c) whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value."
Note that part (a) does employ community standards. However, all three parts must be met for a work to be deemed obscene, and part (c), as the Court has held elsewhere, is a national threshold, not a community test.
She is committing idolatry! The heathen world worships sex! Few Christians realize that sex is often used in ritualistic ceremonies within Satanism and witchcraft. According to former Wiccan high priest and 32 degree Mason, William Schnoebelen ... "Witchcraft, in its religious sense, involves the veneration of the forces of reproduction—both in plant, animal and human life. Thus, human and animal sexuality are revered, the cycle of the seasons celebrated; and rituals do frequently involve the use of ritual tools which symbolize the human reproductive organs (wands, daggers, goblets, cauldrons, etc.) Many Witchcraft groups even have ritual sex, believing that this is an important way to encounter the gods." Hence, sex is their god. The American and European cultures have deteriorated into a state of sexual licentiousness. Everywhere we turn nowadays...sex, sex, sex! Few people fully realize the Satanic agenda behind the rock-n-roll industry to corrupt our youth. Women rarely wore pants until the rock-n-roll revolution came along. Then came feminism as a result of Rock-n-roll. Literally, rock-n-roll music and feminism have converted America over to a godless religion of immoral sex, lewdness, illegal drugs, and every other form of debauchery imaginable. As a result, we are increasingly seeing masculine women and effeminate men in society. Women are dressing and acting like men, and men are dressing and acting like women. This is because they are worshipping the gods of rock-and-roll instead of Jesus Christ. Sadly, they don't even realize it. That rock stars that you think about all the time--buying their albums, hanging their pictures on your wall, praising them at their concerts, etc...you are committing idolatry!!! Don't believe it? The rock-n-roll stars admit it themselves...
I can respect your mother in law for preferring dresses to pants as is often the case due to generational traditions. However, when anyone attempts to present their own preference as a Biblical command they are crossing the line into a spirit of legalism and I think that is harmful. Let me show you some scripture that helps us to understand what is acceptable for us to wear as women. Many who believe that women should not wear pants point to Deuteronomy 22:5 which reads “A woman must not wear a man’s clothes and a man must not wear women’s clothes. The Lord your God hates anyone who does that.” This simply does not mean that women cannot wear pants. Let me explain why? First of all, keep in mind that this was written during Old Testament times in the Middle East when and where a man was wearing a tunic or dress just as was a woman. Second of all, you must study scripture in context. This particular verse is believed to be referring to the practice of the day in that area of worshipping Venus whereby a woman wore armour and a man wore feminine attire. (This view is supported by verse 10 in the same chapter which warns the people of God not to wear clothes made of interwoven wool and linen as this was the custom of another group of idol worshippers.) Thus, the main point of these verses is to encourage those people of the day to avoid doing things that could be associated with the occult. At best, it begs men to appear masculine and women to appear feminine. The pants and jeans that I wear are cut for the female body. The pants and jeans that my husband wears are cut for the male body. We’d look ridiculous in each others clothes. That said, even women’s pants or jeans or shorts that are too tight, too low or too short miss the mark of God’s call for us to be modest in how we dress, considering our Christian brother’s God-given weakness for our female shape. Don’t be proud in your liberty to wear pants. Anytime I am asked to speak where the church prefers that women wear dresses, I pack dresses. Anytime I represent another speaker or author who prefers that women wear dresses, I have worked through my closet until I have a good wardrobe to honor her. Most of the time, I’m more comfortable in pants. But always be testing your fashion choices to make sure that you are not showing off too much of that God-given shape. As much as we sometimes hate to admit it, you CAN find modest fashion options and should go out of your way to do so!
