HOW Important IS Dress Codes?

I was sorta shocked last night to run across a man speaking as a Christian, against a popular merchant, … This company makes and sells clothing for all people, but it seems they are in hot water about making a padded bikini swimsuit top for 7/8 year old girls… He was saying that this company should be sued for marketing such clothing, because it is putting our children out there, advertising them to pedophiles, predators, and the evil of this world…
Well, I live with my head under a rock most of the time, because enough immoral and degrading stuff has passed before my eyes on the TV and in real life contacts with people and yes some of them Church going, religion defined ~good folk~..
But this kinda made my chin do a bounce of’n the floor… This man was saying that many of the children in his Church were proudly wearing these clothes made by this company, and that he wanted to pull them over and tell them that they should not support this company, by buying their product…. Well, here my chin went bouncing again..
I have preached in every way that I know against parents allowing their children to dress provocatively and even encouraging it, because they themselves follow the trends of flashing their fleshly bodies to the world, whether the world wants to see it or not….. IT has always been *Just plain ugly* to me even as a young person, to wear a garment that bares the shoulders, and that was the daring attire when I was young… BUT I am really offended when a young mother or teenager or even some older women walk into a Church service, with half of their boobs spilling out over the top of their spaghetti strap tops, their underarms grinning when thy raise their hands, and the skirts so short that their thong under wear doesn’t hide nothing when they raise their arms… Their backs bare almost to the waist, and then they want to heat the congregation that wore clothes in the Worship Before The LORD, to death, by turning the heaters on so that they can be comfortable in the nearly nude state….. ALL Sarcasm I know BUT!
Then who monitors the schools promotions of undress.. As in ~~Cheerleaders~~ flipping and showing where their underpants should be. . Parents proudly put their children out there in these fields, or in beauty pageants, 5 year olds dressed up like pretty woman hookers, being taught to walk provocatively, hips popping… faces, painted… like Jezebel…
It really saddens my heart to see this sort of behavior in the examples that the adults set for the youth, and then dress their tiny 4/5 year old children in clothes that are bare, and provocative… The point that I am making IS: We can’t blame any ~ONE~ maker of these duds, cause a lot of these strings that are sold as clothing, comes from other companies, cheep companies, and then there is the ~Home Alterations~ , *IF* IT Ain’t bare enough or don’t show enough flesh then mama, daughter, dad , or son WILL take a pair of scissors to it and modify *IT*….
IF, I sew, or make a garment to sell and no one buys IT, well, I ain’t gonna keep mass producing *IT*… Cause IT IS A *BUYERS* Market, ain’t IT?… I mean, Let’s Face *BARE* Facts here, *IF* folks did not buy the abominable dozen eggs and other traditional items, that are supposed to represent the Memorial of Christ Resurrection, or His Birth, but only ties it up with the false teachings of pagan cultures and sacrifices to false gods, and I’m talking Christians here too, then there would be ~~NO Market~ for false teachings, would there?
But IT IS The ~Christian Book Companies~ THAT carry and promote this product, and IT IS The followers of Christ that buy ~Them~ & tote them into the Church Services, that are supposed to be set aside FOR Truthful Unadulterated Worship of our LORD…
Well, I know that I ain’t very popular with many folk and will probably be less now, BUT, I gotta stand on ~THE~ *Bible Principles*, that I have written about before so many times, ~Messages~ that God has given me to warn folks of the dangers that they are putting their beloved children in by, dressing them up to look like little hookers, and gangsters, painting their faces, tattooing their little bodies, with stick on tattoo’s teaching them to walk provocatively, in the ways of an *Immoral* world that Satan ~NOW Rules~~ because they think IT IS Cute… BUT Folks, IT ain’t cute to see a child lead away from the moral protection that God gave us in HIS Book of ALL Instruction, and parade them before the world as you would a worm on a hook before a hungry catfish, and then break out in tears, blaming the merchants, predators, and any and every one except the… ~~ONE~~ that God gave this precious child to; TO train up in HIS Way, TO care for this child in a manner that IS Pleasing to God….. Harsh Words I know. BUT, Folks had better wake up, cause this world ain’t gonna get no morally better, we just have to be stayed up in Gods Will and Way by HIS Written Word and IN The Love of Jesus, guided by the Holy Spirit… IN Order to withstand and overcome the things that are to come….. AND IF WE, don’t teach our children *TRUTH*, MORALS; & HONESTY, what on earth have they to stand on?
(I Timothy 2:8-10)… I will therefore that men pray ~Everywhere~ lifting up holy hands, without ~Wrath & Doubting~ In like manner ALSO, (meaning too this includes the women to lift their hands in prayer, BUT, dress also in a manner that befit’s the Christian walk)…. “That women adorn themselves IN Modest Apparel,” (modest ain’t bare or nearly none, but covering the body, because we still walk this earth in the sin of the flesh of Adam & Eve and so they proved ~~Ashamed~~ of their nakedness, & God made them coats of animal hides, before HE sent them out to live in the world, (Gen. 3:21) so as long as the flesh covers us and we live in this world, we should cover our bodies up) …~With Shamefacedness, AND Sobriety.. (sincerely, serious, not the silly chattering’s of Jezebel)… *NOT* with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array: *BUT* That which becometh a woman ~~Professing~ godliness with good works……
How many women do you see sporting tattoo’s of the world of paganism, of the dead, faces painted red, hair dyed a different color every week, the most clothing on their bodies is the baubles and bangles of Jezebel, or the shiny hip boots of fashion, and dressing their children like wise, strolling into the services in God‘s House…? AND THE SAD Thing, the leaders are ~~SHUSH~~ don’t say anything we may run them off; and then they won’t have the Christian influence in their lives….
Well, bro, IF we don’t teach them according to: AS IT IS Written, I got news for you, they still don’t have the *True Christian* Influence in their lives, but the ways of a lost and dying world…. And we are sitting there on our dead tails smiling in agreement, and going right along with-- Be-li-al….
(II Corinthians 6:15).. What ~Concord~ (peaceful co-existence) hath Christ *WITH* Be-li-al?
(I Thessalonians 4:1)… we beseech and exhort you BY: The Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us, “how ye ~Ought~ to walk and TO Please God”, SO ye abound more & more..
(I Thessalonians 5:14)…NOW, we ~~Exhort~~ *you* brethren, ~~WARN~~ them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient toward ~~ALL~~ men…
(SO *IF* we sit and smile and don’t warn, then those who are not walking according TO: AS IT IS Written, are NOT Receiving of us ~~Godly Instruction~~ NOR are we supporting the weak, for we should be exhorting them to grow in God’s Will and Way, not leaving them to walk about in the lost and dying world….IN Ignorance…
(Proverbs 28:9)…*he that turneth ~away~ his *ear* from hearing ~~The Law~~ Even his *Prayer* IS an abomination…
(Revelation 2:20) A few things that God has against the Church, ~Because~ thou sufferest~ (ALLOW) that woman Jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess to preach…
Wouldn’t this be the same as allowing the influence of one who dresses like, or undresses, And acts, like the world, to come into the meetings as a Christian and teach the children that enter to learn God’s Will and Way? IF, we don’t tell them, show them, read IT faithfully to them, to stay in the Truth’s of God’s Word, then we bear their guilt also, and our hands are just as dirty as theirs….
(Titus 2:12)… teaching us that, ~denying *ungodliness* & *worldly lust*, we should live soberly, righteously, & godly ~~IN~~ *This Present World* (not trotting along in the ways of IT but living apart from IT while passing through IT..)
*IF* while walking along the road, you saw a nest of nettles, a bunch of briers, or a mound of fire ants, would you stop and roll in them because it might look good… and some briers and nettles have beautiful flowers and fruits, and fire ants can build interesting mounds, BUT you can tell that there IS danger there and avoid IT… IT IS The Very Same *Principle* that works here, we are walking through a world that has many stubbles and stumbling blocks, that seem to have pleasant and alluring things to offer, BUT *IF* we are learned, and warned, of them in God’s Book OF ALL Instruction, to stay away from them, then *IF* we choose to ignore those warnings we may find that we are in a bad way in the end… AND IF we see someone stepping over into this nest of disobedient sin, and knowing better, we fail to warn them, then their blood IS on our hands…..
(Ezekiel 3:18-19)….When I (THE LORD) say unto the wicked thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him *NOT Warning*… ~~NOR Speakest TO *WARN* the wicked ~~FROM~~ his way, TO Save his life, the same shall die, *BUT* his blood will I (The LORD) require at thine hand…. BUT *IF* thou warn the wicked and he turn *NOT* from his ways he shall die, *BUT* thou hast delivered thy soul….
SO IF we warn, exhort, teach, the truth of God’s Word, speaking out even if IT IS Not popular in the world and the wicked (simply disobedient, whether unlearned or not)… and they learn and obey the Way of God, then we have saved them from their lost walk, and washed our hands,, but if we don’t warn them then their sin is also upon our hands and we will pay the cost of A disobedient walk also..
You might not think that the way you dress is in disobedience to God’s Way, but read IT, how you train you child IS Also… THE Influence that you allow in their lives… in your homes and IN God’s House of Worship… BE Consciously AWARE of stumbling that small one and ~~Forbidding them to come to Jesus by leading them into the world~~……..
NO! I am not condoning any merchants ware, but I Am warning parents of: Where Responsibility for a child’s safety BEGINS! AND IT Ain’t with a protest march, or a law suit, IT IS With:
(Proverbs 22:6)..Train up a child *IN* the WAY he should go… &
(Ephesians 6:4)… fathers provoke *NOT * your children to wrath, (This means moms too) but bring them up in the ~~Nurture~~ & ~~Admonition~~ OF THE LORD, NOT THE World of Satan… (Nurture means: encouraging IN & Admonition means: mild but earnest rebuke, teaching emphatically…)
Remember what we think is ~Cute~ the LORD may frown on, (Read HIS INSTURECTION TO Learn) and a pedophile or predator, may see as us offering our child to them.. IS That the ~Impression~~ that you want to give of that precious child that the LORD entrusted to you hand to raise up and train IN HIS WILL & WAY?