Pick on Women Sermon

turn your Bibles to 1 Timothy Chapter 2 as many of you know on Sunday nights we do um we come together and we were studying through first Timothy and we rotate between four of the pastors and uh and doing that and so uh it is my turn to preach and um the challenge is is the other three pastors all chickened out on this passage and they said pastor Wayne can do this one and I titled them message you might have the notes there it's the pick on women sermon uh because this is a passage about women and it's one that's not popular with a lot of people and uh because I think they misunderstand it and so this is one of those passages as a pastor you can get yourself into trouble with if you're not

careful so please listen carefully tonight and understand not only my heart but more importantly understand what God is saying In this passage and so as you look at 1 Timothy Chapter 2 and beginning with verse number 9 down through verse number 15 it says like manner also women Adorn themselves in modest apparel with shame faced and sobriety not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly array but which becometh women professing godliness with good works let the wom learn in Silence with all subjection but I suffer not a woman to teach nor to assert authority over the man but to be to be in silence for Adam was first formed then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived

was in the transgression notwithstanding she shall be saved and childbearing if she continue in faith and charity and Holiness with sobriety and so as we look at this passage we remember we came into this from the previous passage and and in that passage he was talking about prayer in verse number one I exhort therefore the first of all supplications prayers intercessions and giving the thanks be made for all men and then uh talking about praying for Kings especially and and going down through that pastors and and Pastor point out we're also praying for the lost to get saved and and you get down to verse number eight it says I will therefore that men pray everywhere lifting up holy hands

without wrath and doubting and so here he he kind of ends his passage saying you know I'm talking especially to the men and in many cases in the Bible when you read the word man it's generic for both men and women it's a it's a generic term saying all humans all people but in other cases when you're reading the Bible specifically talking about men and then in verse number nine he says in like manner also women so now he's changing his Focus to the wom and and you know what I want to point out here is first of all there's not a double standard here in Genesis 1: 27 the Bible says so God created man his own image and the image of God created him male and female he created them and and in God's

eyes men and women are are equal uh we're all equal in not only in creation but also in Christ in Galatians 3: 26-28 says for you all the children of of God by faith in Christ Jesus for as many as you have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither Bond nor free there's neither male nor female for you're all one in Christ Jesus and so clearly God sees us in creation and God sees us in Salvation as as one in Christ as equal uh we're equal but we are different and that's one of the things the world is trying to change today but uh they cannot change biology turn over to 2 Corinthians chap 11 2 Corinthians chap 11 by the way we have notes here if you want to copy the written notes raise your hand and Peter bring those to you and you can also download the notes at oh.

churli and uh all of our Sunday night services are available there as well but 1 Corinthians chap 11 and veres 8-2 it says I robbed uh let's see first Corin I'm in second Corinthians let me get to the right place 1 Corinthians 11 and verses 8-2 for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man neither was the Man created for the woman but the woman for the man for this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the Angels nevertheless neither is The Man Without The Woman neither the woman without the man in the Lord and so God created men and women as equals but he did create them different and there are many differences in my marriage series I have a whole lesson

about the difference between male and female we are not only different based upon the out outward obvious appearance differences but we're different in every aspect of our makeup uh women have a different physical makeup uh they we have a different uh way of thinking uh uh when the when the bi the scientists tell us that when a male child is born there's a chemical reaction that actually happens within the brain and some of the brain cells are are destroyed in that chemical reaction my wife says that explains a lot and uh what it is is that that there's there's two halves of your brain the iCal and and the emotional side you would so so to speak and and and they have connecting fibers that

connect them together so they can work together and in the male some of those connecting fibers are destroyed and so when men think we primarily think with only half of our brain uh we use the same number of brain cells but we use them all one side or the other and that's why with men quite often uh they are either very very logical or they're very emotional and there's very rarely a blend it's like they flip a switch and they go from one side of the brain to the other they go from being logical to being very emotional very quickly where women have more connections between there and they're constantly going back and forth and and you can go through there and you might want to download those lessons at oh.

church marage uh there's some great lessons on marriage in there and in that lesson we just talk about understanding our differences and our makeup and the way we think and the way we do things and even our hearing is different and and the tone of voice is different a lot of things that are different about men and women we are equal but different now when you get to verse number nine there going back to First Timothy when you get down to verse number nine it says in like manner also that women Adorn themselves so he's saying in like Manner and and the idea of the phrase in like manner doesn't mean this is for men and this is for women but it's the idea of this applies to both but he's

putting his focus on where the need is men struggle with some areas women struggle with other areas and he's kind of putting the focus on those areas look at Titus Chapter 2 Titus Chapter 2 and beginning with verse number one down through verse number six Titus Chapter 2 beginning verse one says he says in verse one but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine that the Aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith and charity and patience the aged women likewise that they be in Behavior as becometh Holiness not false accusers not given to much of wine teachers of good things now it doesn't mean that one set the set in verse three is for men and the set in verse four is for women

only they can cross apply but he's hitting areas where we in our individual sex probably struggle more with and it goes on to verse four that they may teach the young one be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet Chas keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed young men likewise uh exhort to be sober minded so again this idea this word likewise doesn't mean this is what men need to do and this is what women need to do he's saying okay I'm going to talk to the men because this is what you struggle with and I'm going to hit you on this but women likewise you need to work on that as well but here's some other areas and

men don't ignore that so as I talk about these things tonight God's talking specifically to women but men need to hear the same thing we need to apply it in our lives as well these principles apply to us as well as to women now it goes on and talks about back in 1 Timothy Chapter 2 that women are to keep silence in the church in first Thessalonians chapter 4 and: 11 it says that you study be quiet and to do your own business to work with your own hands as we commanded you the idea of being silent is not that they're not to be heard from and they're not to speak and they're not to talk and and they're not to say anything but the idea of silence is the idea of of of really focusing to learn

for yourself to focus to learn for yourself now women are not to teach the Bible tells us that they're not to teach in a mixed situation with men and women both there in 1 Corinthians Chapter 14 verse 34 let your woman keep silence in the church for it's not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also sayith the law and so God has designed that women are not to be the preachers or the teachers in a in a mixed audience that's the calling of men and we'll talk about that a little bit more uh also women are not to be pastors I know there's a lot of churches today that have women pastors but the Bible teaches differently if you look at 1 Timothy CH 3 and

verse number two it says that a bishop which is another name for a pastor then must be blameless the husband of one wife Vigilant sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach now the husband of one wife that that says that he's be a male and he's be married to a female and so a pastor is to be a male is to be a man now why is that why is it that God has chosen that women can't be pastors that they can't stand up and teach in a in a mixed group why has God chosen to do that and my answer to you is I don't know uh I I do know what the Bible says I don't know if I understand it completely but I can tell you if you look at SEC 1 Timothy Chapter 2 and look at verses 13-15 he says for

Adam was not formed was formed first formed and then Eve and Adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression not withstanding she should be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and Holiness with sobriety so he's sh here that that uh because the woman was created second and because she was deceived that's part of the reason why she is not to usurp Authority that she is not to teach in 1 Corinthians chap 11: 8 and9 it says for the man is not of the woman but the woman of the man neither was the Man created for the woman but the woman for the man and so God created man first and then he created Woman as a help me to the man he creator equal the

Bible tells us that male and female he create he saved us equally as well but he's also chosen that the woman is not to usurp Authority and she is to be in subjection in in the home and also in the church now you in first in 1 Timothy Chapter 2 and verse1 15 it says notwithstanding she be she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and Holiness with sobriety um God says your greatest calling in life is to Bear children I I often will joke with the ladies when they're pregnant I'll say Bo I'm glad it's not it's you and not me uh I I I as I watched my wife give birth to our children every one of them every time I was just thanking the lord for our children I was

thanking the lord it was not me giving birth at that moment if men had the children we'd have no children in the world I think that's where it would come down to and you know but but the same time I I'm glad I don't have to go through the pain of childbirth what we as men will never experien is carrying life within you what what an honor what a privilege that God has given to women to be the ones that perpetuate our society and then bring new life into the world and and what a great honor and great privilege that is and so God says listen you you may not be a pastor you may not be one that can stand up and teach in in in a church uh in a mixed situation but you have a great honor and a great

privilege which is to Bear children and so when you go to this first section what we have to come down to is to to accept what God says even though we may not fully understand it you know you can I I could sit here and take a lot of time maybe and talk about the theological reasons and all the rest of it and uh we just don't have time for that tonight but it is clear in the Bible when you get into passages like this and many other passages of scripture that God for whatever reason Sovereign reason he has chosen says I want men to be the of the home I want men to be the pastors of the church I want men to be the teachers it's not that men are smarter or better or anything along that line I've

known a lot of women that are smarter than I am I know a lot of women that are better speakers than I am and I know a lot of women that that are more spiritual than I am but for God for his reasons has chosen to do this and we have some of them that he gives us here tonight but he doesn't explain it in in detail and and so a lot of churches today want to change that and say you know what uh we're not going to accept What God Says and we're going to go and have women preachers or we're going to go and have women doing things that that the Bible says they're not supposed to and and and so we need to accept What God Says and understand that God is Sovereign but God is also good and what is

clear here he's not saying that women are inferior he's not saying that they're lesser than men he's not saying that in in any of that he just says listen you need to accept that this is what my plan is and and and to fit into that plan and I will bless you for that now as you go on further In this passage he talks about let you're adorning themselves in modest apparel with shame face and sobriety the the word Adorn the idea of that word in in Revelation 21:2 it says and I John saw the holy city New Jerusalem coming down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and that's the same word here the word comes from the word Cosmos where we get our word cosmetic from and

and so it's just that that outward adorning and arranging of the woman is the idea here now go to James chapter 2 and I want to make something very clear here because this is again where you can get into trouble as a pastor and uh and people can take offense with as we talk about this passage what I want to make clear is it is not my job nor is it your job to judge people on how they dress okay and James chapter 2 and beginning with verse number one down through verse four it says my brethren have not the Faith of Our Lord Jesus Christ the lord of Glory with respect to persons now in that that verse what he's saying is God wants us to have faith but he says you're not Jesus you're looking on

the outward appearance Jesus can look on the heart and so don't think that you can look at people and judge them on the outside and say this is what they're like on the the Insight but he goes on to verse number two for if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring and goodly apparel and there comeing also a poor man vile reignment and you have respect to him that wearth the gay clothing and say unto him sit thou here in a good place and say to the poor stand there them thou there or sit here under my foot stol are you not then partial yourselves and become judges of evil thoughts so judging people by their outward appearance whether judgeing them by the way they dress or the way

they look or or whatever El in this case they're talking about somebody who may dressed up really nice and looks like they have a lot of money we treat them differently than somebody's dressed up poorly but the idea here is that that he's not talking about how we are to judge others but this passage is applied to each of us individually so when we go back to 1 Timothy Chapter 2 what we want to understand is is how then should we Adorn ourselves and again remember men this is applied to the women because this is just the way women are you know you go into any Apartment Store like Macy's or or pennies or Sears or Target or anywhere else you'll find a whole big section of women's clothing and

then you'll find a very much smaller section of men's clothing because women are more careful about how they dress now my wife which is I was more careful how I dress on the way to church I says your pants don't match your shirt and so uh don't look at it okay and that way I don't get in trouble about that I'll stand behind a Pulpit here but uh women tend to be more focused on how they look on the outside side and they tend to look better as well than men do men we just the reason we don't worry about clothing and jewelry and all the rest of it is because there's just not much we can do to improve on this uh we're just stuck with what we got and nothing's going to help it anyway and um so

the but these principles apply to both of us as we look in our closet as we look in our wardrobe as we choose the clothes that we're going to wear God says there's certain principles that I want you to follow I want you to Adorn yourself and so he's talking about that now the we don't want to Adorn ourselves in the fashion of this world in 1 Peter chap 1:14 as obedient children not fashion yourselves according to the former lust in your ignorance in 1 Corinthians 7:31 it says and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashionist World passes away now there's nothing wrong with dressing up nice there's nothing wrong with having the latest style but we need to be careful that we're

not following the fashion of the world but we're adoring ourselves as God would have us to Adorn ourselves and I've lived long enough I've seen Fashions come and go and and and and you know it's a cycle what was what was popular back when I was uh in a teenager is coming back again now you know and and it just goes around in cycles and the world's fashion just comes and goes but God says there's a basic standard that he wants us to follow as we as we Adorn ourselves the first word he uses here when you come across a list of words you want to understand what they mean and so you want to do two things I think and one is to look them up in the English language or whatever your language is and

then secondly it's also helpful to look them up in the the original language as well to understand them a little bit better so he's look at the word modest the word modest is comes to the same word as the word Adorn it comes to the word Cosmos cosmetics and the word mod the word Cosmos means orderly or arranged when you ladies put on your Cosmetics NE another reason why I'm glad of a man I don't have to have the babies I don't have to put on makeup I don't have to wear jewelry uh I I don't have to wear high heels I don't have to wear dresses uh there's just a lot of good reasons why I'm glad I'm a man and and uh I I pray for you women on that but but he's saying here listen the word modest

means to be orderly or arranged so when you put on your Cosmetics you put them on in a certain order you want to arrange them in a certain order and that's the idea of the word Cosmos now Jeremiah 4 verse number 30 it says and when thou art spoiled what will thou do thou that clothest thyself with Chris chis chis CRI Crim thank you crimson and uh just my tongue wouldn't go the right way there thou that deck thyself thee with ornaments of gold thou that renest thy face with painting in vain shalt thou make thyself Fair thy lovers will despise thee they will seek thy life and so again here the focus is on I've got to have just the right clothes and I've got to have all the right jewelry and

I've got to have all the right makeup and everything else but the idea of this word modest we think of it as being modest is a sexual connotation but that's not what the word means here the idea of the word here means to be orderly or arranged in Philippians chapter 4 and verse 5 it says let your moderation be known unto all men the Lord is at hand so when he says you Adorn himself in modest apparel he's saying that it is orderly or arranged um makeup there's nothing wrong with putting makeup on I don't think there's any biblically wrong about that uh if the bar needs painting paint it you know just put a little bit makeup on but you know when when the makeup is the first thing that you see

then it's not modest you want to put it on in an order in a in a right Arrangement and and and and what we want to understand is the way we Adorn ourselves whether it's the clothes we put on the jewelry the makeup whatever else it is the way we Adorn ourselves is like a frame a a frame that brings the attention on the real Beauty and that's the inside beauty which we'll look at in just a moment and then it's the word shamefacedness shamefacedness is what we would think of the word modest it means to be Pure or chaste not sexual in proverbs 7: 10 it says behold there met him a woman with the attire attire of a harlet and subtle of heart so the Bible says there is an attire of the Harlot so

there is clothing that would be be associated with a prostitute that would be sexual in orientation and God says that when you Adorn yourself what you wear should not be SE sexual in the sense of of um presenting yourself in the wrong way so the idea of the word shamefacedness is having a sense of Shame honor or respect turn over to 1 Peter chapter 3 1 Peter chapter 3 and verses 1-5 1 Peter 3: 1-5 likewise you wives be in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the word they also May without the word be won by the conversation of the wives while they behold your Chase conversation coupled with fear whose adorning let not be the outward adorning of plating the hair or wearing of

gold or putting on of apparel but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit which is in the sight of God of great price for after this manner in Old Time the woman the holy woman also trusted God Adorn himself being of sex subjection unto their own husbands and and so you're dressing in a way that shows honor and respect first of all to God second of all to yourself and thirdly if you're married to your husband it is showing honor respect in in how you dress it it's not in a sexual manner it's not ashamed of your body in Genesis 2 and verse 25 it says they were both naked the man and his wife and we're not ashamed God

created us as male and female he created us with the sexual aspect of our bodies as well and and God does not want us to be ashamed of our bodies and I'm afraid sometimes as a church we've kind of taught our girls growing up you should be ashamed of your body but God created us as sexual human beings and and it's not something you ashamed of in Hebrews 13:4 it says marriage is Honorable in all and the bed undefiled but hor mongers adulterers God will judge and God intends for that that sexual aspect of us to be reserved especially for the marriage relationship it's not something that should be put out there into public but it's something that should be should be honored and respected for the

purpose that God created it for go over to Proverbs Chapter 5 Proverbs Chapter 5 Proverbs 5 and vers 15- 20 what God is encouraging us again as both male and female but he's speaking primarily to the women here but he's speaking to both of us likewise but what he's encouraging us is that we should treat our bodies as secret and sacred the sexual aspect of our bodies are are to be treated as sacred to the marriage relationship they're to be treated as secret in the sense that they're not presented to the world but they're kept secret for that particular particular relationship in Proverbs 5 and beginning with verse number 15 it says drink Waters out of thine own sistern and runny water out of

thine own well let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of waters and Street let them not be let them be only uh be thine only and not strangers with thee let thy Fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth let her be as a loving Hind and pleasant row let her breast satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love and why W thou my son be ravished with a strange wom brace the bosom of a stranger and so what God is saying here is that that with this idea of shamefacedness is not being ashamed of our bodies but to realize that that to show that honor and respect that God has designed us as sexual human beings but to reserve that for the marriage

relationship to reserve that specifically for our spouse and not for something to be be scattered in the streets for everybody to see and so when we dress we we need to look at it and say is this modest from the that's the word we would use in that is it is it not sexual or Cal and so uh in in 1 Corinthians 13:5 the Bible says that love does not behave itself unseemly and the idea of the word unseemly is the idea of a a sexual aspect to it in Romans chap 1 verse 27 and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the women burned in their lust one towards another men with men working that which is UNS seemly and receiving himself as the recompense of their error which was mean and so we

live in a society today where everywhere you turn it's all about sex whether you turn on the TV or whether you turn on the Internet or whether you're walking through the mall or wherever you're at it it's all about the sensal sexual aspect being being put right out there out front and God says no that is something that you need to respect yourself you need to respect me you need to respect your marriage relationship and and and and and keep that honored to that relationship and then I go back to 1 Timothy Chapter 2 the third word he uses there is the word sobriety and sobriety means to have sound judgment now when we talk about sound judgment it is not sound judgment to wear a suit when

you're working on your car that's just not good judgment now I've been known to do that you know and God says listen use sound judgment it's also an out sound judgment to wear a swimsuit to church you see one of the things when you start talking about having standards for the way you dress is the problem is is where do we judge to draw that line I I think all of us would agree that you would not want somebody teaching your children in a Sunday school class wearing a halter top correct I I think that we all agree on that so then the the the question becomes where what what is appropriate for a a teacher in a class to wear what is appropriate for somebody in the choir to wear what is

appropriate for you to wear to church and God says listen you need to choose your what you wear appropriate for the situation that you're in as well in Proverbs 3:21 it says my son let them not depart from Thine Eyes keep sound wisdom and discretion and that's the idea here of sound judgment is using discretion Proverbs 11:22 as a jewel of gold and a swine snout so is a fair woman which is without discretion and so God says listen ladies when you go to your closet or when you go to the store and are going through those dresses on the rack these are the three things you want to look for is it modest is it correct in this idea of shamefacedness is it sexual or emphasizing the wrong the secret

places of my body which reserved for my spouse only does it give honor respect to the Lord and then is it appropriate for for this situation now that's a judgment call and what you choose may not be what I Choose Or what somebody else chooses but here's the challenge in Romans 12: 1-2 the Bible says I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto the Lord which is your reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove was that good and acceptable and perfect will of God now God does not judge us by the way we're dressed on the outside we will tend

to do that with each other but God does not judge us by the way we look on the outside he judges Man based upon his Hearts his heart and so we need to look in our closet and but God also says listen you need to Adorn yourself and gave us three terms to guide us in making those decisions so what becomes a woman the idea of of of of becoming the is is told us here what becomes a woman what what is appropriate in Proverbs 31:30 it says favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that fearth the Lord she shall be praised and uh and so we need to realize that God wants us to to to have things that are that are appropriate for who we are now Exodus 34:29 you remember Theory Moses was up in

the mountain received the Commandments of God had had face to face with God so to speak and and he came down and it says in Exodus 34:29 it came to pass when Moses came down from Mount siani with the two tables of testimony Moses hands when he came down from the mount that Moses wished not that the skin of his face Shone while he talked with him as I mentioned earlier the way we dress needs to be like a frame around a picture you know a frame around the picture if you notice the frame first is not doing its job the purpose of a good frame is to bring the focus onto the picture and the way we dress should bring the focus of the people we meet not on us or our body but it should be focus

should be on the Lord and where do people see Christ in our lives in the face and so our the way we dress should bring the attention of the person we're meeting not to our clothes or to our body but it's should bring the attention of the person we're meeting to the face where they can see Christ in Us in 1 Peter 3:4 again it says but let it be the hidden man of the heart and that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a Meek and quiet Spirit which is in the sight of God of great price see he says don't don't let it be all this outward Ador he's not saying it's wrong to braid your hair he's not saying it's wrong to put on makeup or to wear jewelry he's not saying wrong to wear nice

clothes he's not saying any of that and I think it in fact it's a good thing to do but he is saying that what people need to see is not how fancy your dress is but to see how much you love God and sometimes the clothes that we choose can bring the focus on that in our lives as well you see I can't look at your heart in 1 Samuel chapter 16:7 it says but the Lord said unto Samuel look not in his countenance or in the height of his stature because I refused him for the Lord seeth not as a man seeth for man lookth on the outward appearance but the Lord lookth on the heart and so when people walk in church I I'm not looking at how they're dressed in the outside I'm looking at the fact hey you're

in church and we're glad that you're here and God is looking at the heart and that's what we need to look at as well and too often we as Christians we judge people based upon on how they're dressed or how they are on the outside rather than trying to look on the inside now if your heart is right with God is going to affect the outside as well because I can't see your heart I all I can see is what's on the outside and so we need to realize that in 1 Peter chapter 3 and: 2 it says while they behold your Chase conversation couple would fear the idea of the word Chase it means uh sacred uh physic pure morally blameless and and what God wants is to have Chase Behavior he wants us to to dress in

such a way and to act in such a way that that we are that we are sacred that we treat our bodies as the Temple of the Holy Ghost what know you not that your body is Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God and you're not your own for you're bought with a price therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit when people tell me well God doesn't care what I look like in the outside then they're not reading their Bible because God says in your body he says I want you Adorn yourself and he gives us the the guidelines to do that and and so we we we we need to live in a way and dress in a way that shows Chase Behavior Proverbs 31:10 it says who can find a virtu woman

for her price is far above rubies and so we need to realize that that God wants us to be virtuous and you can dress right on the outside and not be right on the inside you can dress with sobriety and modesty and shamefacedness and still not be right with God and and I've seen that and been times my own life I I I I've felt that way and I've tried to act that way and that's not where God focuses on he says listen what we need to focus on is in the Inner Man and making sure it's right with the Lord but at the same time God says listen don't ignore the outside because that's what people see now going back to what we started out with in Philippians in 1 Timothy Chapter 2 and verse 9 says in like

manner also so again women tend to be more focus on the way we they dress and that's true in every society and so that's why he's speaking to women but men also need to realize that these same principles apply to them and for a long time in church what we've done is we put all of the focus on the girl well you need to dress right and not not cause men to lust after you and the way you dress and I I do think there's truth to that but also importantly we need to understand that we as men have responsibility Matthew Chapter 5 tells us look not upon a woman with lust in your heart and sometimes it doesn't matter how a woman dresses the guy's still going to look at her the wrong way because he's

got the problem inside and so both of us need to focus on the inside but God says I also want you to Adorn yourself to frame yourself in such a way that when people look at you they see me so as we go through this passage as we finish up tonight I hope that you if you have questions about well why can't women do this or why can't women do that I hope that you'll understand that we may not fully understand the reasons why God does give us some basis here to to to to see that teaching but we have to be obedient to that but at the same time let's put our focus on what God puts the focus on there's so much that both men and women can do in serving the lord this church would not function without

the women of this church and they do so much in leadership and and and and in in helping us with to do what God wants done there's so much that God offers to us if we focus on what we can't do then we're going to miss out on what we can do and we need to realize that God says listen I want you to pray and I want you to be right on the inside but I also want you to show your respect in honoring me and honoring your spouse and honoring Yourself by how you dress on the outside and so I hope it's helped you and I hope that I'm not too much trouble here and if you do have questions please give me the respect to come ask me and saywell Pastor I didn't understand this or I didn't understand that

and realize that I I am not here again to judge you I don't want to be the closed policeman I don't I don't want to do that now when we have people involved in Ministry we do have standards for those involved in Ministry and that's right and appropriate those of you in the military you have dress standards you have to abide by and you may not always agree with them and they may not always understand why but they have their reasons and you abide by those but personally this is something that you need to seek the Lord and pray about look at what you wear and say does it honor the Lord and respect him and that's what God wants from each one of us because it's our relationship with him that's most important in doing that as well