Topic: The Apparel commanded by God for inner man and outer man
In other church, what you wear doesn't matter, but in the Church of God, it matters. Women are turning their body to something else to entices men, especially in the movies, women displays their breast so you would have interest in watching.
In the Church of God, there are commandments on what to wear, it implies that the Children of God is different from other men
2 Corinthians 4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
The outward man is flesh and the inward man is the Spirit and the inward man is strong than the outward man
2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Be careful of false prophets, they are human outside, but inward, they are beast
2 Peter 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2 Peter 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
There are people which are human outward but inside, they are beast.
What does man even mean?
Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
There are men that do not want the law
Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
You are a beast if you treat your spouse badly
Whatever knowledge we have, we shouldn't boost of it, it's commandments to help, if you hate the law, then you have God
The inner man delight is the light of God, if you respect the law of God, then you still have man in you
Jeremiah 6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
St. John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
St. John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Let us be careful on what we put on our skin, don't apply what you can't eat on your skin because our skin absorbs if you don't sweat
Don't do what is prohibited by God
If you have underalarm or body odour, it's advice to use alum, it would clean your body and it would suppress the the sweat.
1 Peter 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Christians are prohibited from making use of or jewelries
Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
You'll remember only the jewelry, you won't remember your God if you wear jewelleries, you'll display your jewelries instead of God
Isaiah 3:16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
Isaiah 3:17 Therefore the LORD will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Isaiah 3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
Isaiah 3:19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Isaiah 3:20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
Isaiah 3:21 The rings, and nose jewels,
Isaiah 3:22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
Isaiah 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
Isaiah 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
If you want to maintain goodness, maintain God's commandments
Jeremiah 4:30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
What God want is natural, be contend with natural
Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Romans 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
We shouldn't complain how God made us
1 Peter 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Psalms 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
What we should put on is the Word of God, wear it on your heart and decorate it.
1 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;
Man would feel lost if woman displays half of her body
God looks inside you but man look outside of you
Deuteronomy 22:5 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 so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
How are you going to urinate if you are a man and you wear women cloth, how are you going to urinate if you are a woman and you wear man's cloth?
St. Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
St. Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
St. Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
If your pastor love you, he would teach you jewelries aren't allowed in church and other doctrines of Christ.
Every mention of "Don't do" is prohibited!
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