Steve Hill explains the current rebellion in the name of ‘freedom’ that’s going on:
Here is an excerpt from my article, The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy, which contains the scripture challenged by the TEDS student in the article below:
Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount teaching is so crystal clear. Lust is adultery and a damming sin:
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna. (Matthew 5:27-30)
Likewise, Paul was clear in his teaching toward Christian women:
I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 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; But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. (1 Timothy 2:8-10)
One author interprets shamefacedness this way:
The word shamefacedness comes from a Greek word which means literally “downcast eyes,” but it is meant in a good sense and refers to one who is ashamed to overstep the limit of womanly reserve.
In my Let Us Be One prophecy, God said it this way in the chapter I call Jesus’ Dress Code:
My people, live as one, not judging one another, being critical of how they dress, one more popular than another. We are all different. Everyone is unique. Give people space, as long as it’s holy. You need to have righteousness girded about your loins. Hide yourself. They don’t need to see everything. That is for your husband, only him. Be careful; this is right.
God designed women to be very attractive to men. And there are certain things that only the woman’s husband should see—no matter what the Devil through society is telling us.
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From: Washington Post
Churches grapple with clothing and what’s appropriate as summer heats up
As Ann Cabiness stood in the Communion line at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church on Sunday morning, two things were on her mind: connecting with God and getting out of the humid sanctuary before someone mentioned her skimpy tank top and tight, knee-length running pants.
“I know I’m inappropriate, but I’m trying to save time. I know I’m in the wrong. My mother would not approve,” the 30-year-old said sheepishly as she made a beeline from Mass at the Bethesda church to the gym. “But would it be better that I not come?”
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A popular campaign aimed at young evangelical women called “Modest is Hottest” has triggered backlash by devout younger women who see the slogan as sexist. When the Bible calls for “modesty,” they argue, it refers to displays of things like wealth and is describing the depth of one’s spirit, not their neckline. Teaching women that their value rises if they have more clothes on is objectifying, a torrent of essays have argued.
“A woman’s breasts and buttocks and thighs all proclaim the glory of the Lord,” said Sharon Hodde Miller, a doctoral student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School whose critique of “modest is hottest” in the online evangelical magazine Christianity Today was one of the best-read of recent years. “Modesty is an orientation of the heart, first and foremost. It begins with putting God first. To look at an outfit and say if it’s modest or immodest, I’m not sure you can do that.”
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“We don’t want clothes to ever be a barrier. That’s one reason we don’t talk about it,” said the Rev. Don Davidson of First Baptist Church of Alexandria.
Related:
The Low-Cut Top Epidemic: May We Be Holy
What does God say? Women, children and men exposing themselves to TSAs in NAKED BODY SCANNERS!
Dreneri
The fifties/sixties saw the beginning of the sexual revolution. The rock scene arrived, deliberately introduced in England and France by guess who, yes, the conspirators of this world. They are driven by Satan. Why has the western church not recognized this? The third generation did not know the Lord and they are in our pulpits and Bible Schools/Seminaries. They are our present authors and television preachers. So sex consciousness is filling the minds of our youth. Girls and older women dress provocatively. Ask any honest man. He will give a yes to that. They even serve communion, testify, preach and are leaders of youth and of the churches. No wonder many older folk in Australia have left in disugst at the music scene. Hillsong has played a major part world wide. What would one expect of a church founded by a paedophile? Yes, for years in it and leader first of the A.O.G., N.Z. and then of his own Sydney Church and of his family. He introduced a rock singer to control the music scene there that was to become world-wide today.
The church is dancing to Moloch. They are dancing as they do in rock concerts, before the golden calf of music, sex and worldly drugs of lust of the flesh, the eyes and pride of life. Very few older folk who know better can have a voice in Australia – and it seems elsewhere. Few will listen. The world with Satan in control has invaded and the church has not thrown them out. Instead they are welcomed and followed.
The truths of the gospel no longer prevail. Pentecost, even with its earlier faults, failures, imperfect doctrines and lack of being filled with the Word and the Holy Ghost no longer exists – except in the hearts maybe practices, of a few. The Charismatics always did welcome any doctrine but did have something. That has gone out of the door in Australia. New Age pervades, illicit doctrines, strange fire of practice, worldliness and the music scene. The attraction is to this world. All forget Jesus; kingdom is not of this world. I could go on. Sufficient to say revival would not correct this situation – unless there is a complete reversal in doctrines, beliefs and practices that are unscriptural.