Christian Appearance (Part 2) — Paul Lloyd

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Prayer for Spiritual Transformation

Lord, I am afraid I need you, Lord, and I come to you by faith, Lord. Thank you for that encouraging verse up on the back of the wall this morning. Lord, make me a fountain of your life today. Jesus, we want to hear from you today, that I could just melt out of the picture, Lord, and we could sit in heavenly places with you, Lord, that you could speak as only you can speak, Lord, and that we would be changed more into your likeness by having gazed at you again.

So, Lord, take my words. You know, I have things written on the paper here, Father, but I pray that I give you all authority and right, Lord, to just order things as you see it. I want that, Lord, and I ask it in Jesus' name, amen.

The Need for Teaching on Modesty

Greetings to everyone here this morning in the name of Jesus. This message today is part two of a message that I shared three weeks ago, I believe it was. And it's one that I have, I guess I found it difficult to prepare for.

I found a little, I've had something in the pit of my stomach for two or three days that has caused me to cry out to God for his blessing. About a month ago at our last brother's meeting, we had a beautiful meeting.

One of the things we talked about was the subject of modesty and had a very good discussion, very free discussion. And several of the brothers who were maybe more new to the fellowship said, can we have some teaching on that?

I'd love, you know, we'd love to have some teaching. I haven't heard any teaching on that subject. And so I made a note of that and purpose that if God would give me a message that I'd like to do that.

So three weeks ago, I shared that I felt like I had to have two messages because of what the Lord put in my heart. One more of the word for it, one practical message and one that's more doctrinal or the background attitude message.

And I didn't think I could do that in one time. So the last message was focused on that, the attitude, because that has everything to do with modesty, with clothing, with pleasing God in this area. And we hadn't taught on it here, I think, for several years.

And for those of you visiting, this is not something we teach on every week, but it is in the Bible. Praise God. And it's something that should be taught, I believe. There's always been people, a people who have taken literally the Bible's command for simple, not adorned, modest clothing.

True or false? Has there ever been a time since the days of Christ where there was not a people on earth who literally believed those commands in the scriptures concerning this? I don't believe there's ever been a time.

I don't believe there's ever been a time somewhere throughout the ages of history. There was a people, maybe several peoples or many peoples, but there was a people who just believed the word of God, who just took it for what it said and purpose that I'm just going to do what it says.

And if you're like me living in 2009, sometimes you feel like a weirdo. Sometimes you wonder if, you know, you're way off base even because our culture is so anti-modesty, humility, that everything seems to come against us.

And it's in the air that we breathe, the atmosphere. We talked about that last time. I just wanted to say, to get the full understanding of what this message is about, you should really listen to that first message also, if you didn't hear it, because you're not going to get the right balance of scripture.

So I did want to say that. I don't want to have to. I'm going to go over a little review today, but I don't want to have to do a lot of that. So don't be ashamed. Don't let the devil make you feel ashamed that you're different.

There's always been people that were different. It's nothing new for people of God who take his word literally to have to face even from other believers criticism. You're going too far. You don't have to be that radical.

It's always been that way. I took comfort. I went in council with my older brother, John, John Wesley, this week. You know, he went through kind of the same things that we go through. So sometimes it's nice to have some history.

And I took comfort in going to his writings. I have I have I think it's seven books that have all his writings in it. And sometimes I like to see what he had to say on subjects. I think he could be very welcome here from where he was coming from.

Probably in his own church, they'd kick him out. They'd never let him in the church. He started the Methodist church. But, you know, I hope and I do believe that he could be welcome here to come and speak to us.

So there's always been somebody on the earth who's taken God at his word and just said, Lord, I'm just going to believe the simple face value of what you wrote. I'm not ashamed to be in that number. I'm glad to be in that number.

In fact, that's the crowd I want to be with. That's the crowd I'd like to be with whatever age I was born in. All right. I want to share just a little quote from from John Wesley to start with here. This is strong material.

I'm going to warn you right away. So and hang in there. Don't kick me out of the pulpit before I'm done, because I do want to explain a little bit what he says. Don't turn the mic off. But it's strong meat.

And that's the way this man preached. He had a message on what's called on obedience to pastors and a powerful message. He's speaking on Hebrews 13, 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves, for they watch for your soul.

They that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief. For that is unprofitable for you. And that word obey there. I used to think it was just the same thing as children. Obey your parents and the Lord.

But it's actually a different word. It's actually a word that means if you look it up there in the Greek, it means to open up your heart, to allow yourself to be persuaded, to allow yourself to be persuaded.

To not put up a wall, not put up a block. To open your heart up to this man who someday is going to give account for your soul before God. And to let there be an opening there. To hear. And to allow yourself to be persuaded.

And that's the spirit that I would beg for this morning. To have that kind of a heart to hear. I care for your soul. I have to give account to God. And he's going to say this maybe a little bit stronger, but if I read it all, you'd see that he understands the same thing about that word.

But listen to what he said. I would now apply myself in a more particular matter to you who desire me to watch over your souls. Do you make it a point of conscience to obey me for my master's sake? To submit yourself to me in all things indifferent.

Things not determined in the word of God. In all things that are not enjoined, nor yet forbidden in scripture. Are you easy to be entreated, as by men in general, so by me in particular. Easy to be convinced of any truth, however contrary to your former prejudices.

And easy to be persuaded to do or forbear any indifferent thing at my desire. You cannot but see that all this is clearly contained in the very words of the text. Hebrews 13. And you cannot but acknowledge that it is highly reasonable for you to do so to do.

If I do employ all my time, all my substance, all my strength, both of body and soul. Not in seeking my own honor or pleasure, but in promoting your present and eternal salvation. If I do indeed watch over your souls, as one that must give account.

Do you then take my advice? I ask in the presence of God and all the world. With regard to dress. I published that advice above 30 years ago. I have repeated it a thousand times since. I have advised you not to be conformable to the world herein.

To lay aside all needless ornaments. To avoid all expense. To be patterns of plainness to all that are around about. Have you taken this advice? Have you all, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, laid aside all those needless ornaments, which I particularly objected to?

Are you all exemplarily plain in your apparel? As plain as Quakers, so-called, or Moravians? If not, if you are still dressed like the generality of people of your own rank and fortune, you declare hereby to all the world that you will not obey them that are over you in the Lord.

You declare an open defiance of God and man that you will not submit yourself to them. If I were now called to give an account of you, it would be with groans and not with joy. And sure, that would be unprofitable for you.

The loss would fall upon your own head. Perhaps you will say, this is only a little thing. It is a mere trifle. I answer, if it be, you are the more inexcusable before God and man. What, will you disobey a plain commandment of God for a mere trifle?

God forbid. Is it a trifle to sin against God, to set His authority at naught? Is this a little thing? And I could go on. It's powerful stuff. If you read it all, you get the heart that I shared with you.

It's not me commanding, or us, or this church demanding of these things, but it's rather men that love you, that watch over your souls, that someday must give account to God. I will give an account to God someday for what I share.

And it's saying, I'm going to open up myself. I'll allow you to persuade me. You care for my soul. And that's what it means to come under authority. Open yourself up. Here. So I pray that we can have that kind of a spirit.

Personal Submission to Spiritual Counsel

Just an example of my own life. You know, when we came here 15 years ago, we moved here. We didn't really do it right. We didn't contact anybody from the ministry. We just knew a brother at church, and we just moved from Colorado.

And we just felt the Lord was leading us to be here. And after a time of six months, or however long it was, we were convinced of that. This is our place. This is our tribe in the kingdom of God. This is where God wants us to be.

And so there came a point where we asked to be members, become members. And we shared our testimony in the front here. And after that time, a brother, right after that, a dear brother, came up to me and he said, you know, Brother Paul, we don't really believe in wearing wedding rings and gold and diamonds and things like that, which we had on when we shared our testimonies.

And I guess I wasn't aware of that, or I'm not sure what, but it kind of caught me off guard. And I said, oh, I said, OK, well, you know, help me to understand. And he shared with me that, you know, the scriptures talk about not wearing gold.

Very clear scripture there. My background, where I came from, it was a sign that you were married. And it was a, we didn't view it as a status thing ourselves, but I could see, OK, the Bible does say that.

You know, you're not supposed to wear gold. And my wife and I, we took that home, you know, and discussed that in the following week. And we said, you know what? We don't exactly see it that way at this point.

But the Bible does say that. And that is a valid interpretation of scripture. This is where God's called us to be. We know that. This is where we're supposed to be. And we didn't say it in these words, but we allowed ourselves to be persuaded.

If this is where God wants us, we can agree with that. We can be persuaded of that. Today, I'm persuaded. It's not something that is, I do just because the church does it. I'm persuaded. But there was a point where I allowed myself to be persuaded.

And that is the spirit, I think, that is pleasing to the Lord and what he's saying about it here in Hebrews. You know, when you know some places where God is calling you to be, you allow yourself to be persuaded.

Inward Beauty Over Outward Adornment

All right. Just briefly here in review of the last time. First point. God wants us to focus on inward beauty, not on outward beauty. It's in the text, the main text that we read. First Timothy, chapter two.

First Peter, chapter three. If you want to turn to those two texts, maybe, and you can be ready there. It's quite interesting and revealing that in these two texts, the main text that we would use to talk about clothing and adornment and so forth.

Both of those texts do not emphasize clothing. Outward. They emphasize the inward. We'll read here in First Timothy. He says in chapter two, verse nine. And like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair, gold, pearls or costly array, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works.

The point one that we see here is that God wants us to focus on the adornment that comes from his spirit in us. That's the beautiful thing. Okay. First Peter, chapter three and verse three. We'll start in verse one.

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 or the way of living of the wives. While they behold your chase conversation coupled with fear, who's adorning?

Let it not be that outward adorning of plating the hair of wearing of gold or putting on of apparel, 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.

That word great price. It means it's extremely expensive in the sight of God. Extremely expensive. You want to have some expensive ornaments. These are the most expensive right here because you can't buy them with money.

You can get them on your knees. You can get them by dying to yourself. All right. So that was our point. One of the main points of the last message was God's not focused on the outward. He wants us to focus on the inward.

I don't want to talk about clothes next week. I don't want to talk about clothes a month from now. I don't want to focus on that. Even sometimes with our plain desires, we can make that something that's a big deal to us.

We were focused on it. We're thinking about it a lot and we're talking about it all the time. I don't believe that's God's will. I believe it's his will that we understand the principles. We've received the truth of doctrine.

We discover what it means to be modest, what it means to be simple, plain, unadorned. We embrace that and then we go on and serve God in the weightier matters of his work. So that's an important point.

Christ's Unadorned and Spiritual Beauty

Number two point from the first message. Jesus was not outwardly beautiful or attractive. Jesus was not outwardly beautiful or attractive. That's from God's word. God chose to come to earth in a package that was not beautiful.

That's Isaiah 53. He had no form or comeliness about him. There was no beauty in his countenance that we should desire him. He was like a root out of dry ground. Forget all the pictures you may have seen of Jesus in a book.

Tall, dark and handsome. Long hair. That's not who he is. But he was the most beautiful person that ever walked on the earth. Because this beauty shone through this ordinary body that he had. This plain face that the Bible says nobody was impressed with.

In fact, they even despised him and looked down on him. But there was a glory in him that came out of him. That was more glorious and beautiful than any other person. That's the will of God. That's the emphasis.

We talked about being cool. Could we say that we established that there was not a cool bone in Jesus' body? Amen? Where is Jesus' body today? We. For we are members of his body. Of his flesh and of his bones.

Are there any cool bones in his body today? He didn't have a cool bone in his body. Are there any cool bones in his body today? You know, we are called. You're there in 1 Peter. Let's just look at chapter 1.

Let's see, is that chapter 1 or 2? Chapter 2. Look at this high calling that we've been given. Chapter 2, verse 9. But you are a chosen generation. A royal priesthood. A holy nation. A peculiar people.

That you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. We are supposed to show forth the praiseworthy virtues of Jesus Christ. That is our high calling.

Coolness does not do that. Coolness does not show forth the praiseworthy virtue of humility of Jesus. Of simpleness. That's a challenge to us this morning. We talked about how coolness is the. Basically is the love of the world.

Wanting to be loved by the world. What the world calls cool. Is what they love, right? So when we give in to that thing, that pressure that we feel. It's real. It's around us. To want to be cool somehow.

We are. I lost my train of thought there. We are not showing forth his glory. Like we're supposed to. One of the reasons that we want to be cool. Is we're looking for identity. The world wants to be cool because they need identity.

They want to belong. They want to be accepted. There's no better identity than being in Christ. And if we are thoroughly immersed in that fact. That I am in him. I am a member of his body and I am of his flesh and of his bones.

I don't need any better identity than that one. It's good enough. I'm accepted in the beloved. Praise God. Let the other thing go. So what I said, this is going to be more practical message. Coolness.

Would Jesus. Pull his pants down. And have them hang way down on his hips. Would he do it? That's cool. But that's not like him. Jesus wouldn't do that. All right. What about. Things like. Moose. Would Jesus put moose in his hair?

Can you imagine him? Judas, can you hand me some moose out of the bag? The crowd is gathering and I want to be ready for him. It's vain. It's empty. It doesn't fit. Last message I put on these sunglasses.

These really cool sunglasses. And I wish I could have taken a picture of all your faces right at that moment. I thought about doing it again this morning. I just want to see it again. But you are just absolutely blown away.

It did not fit. Cool sunglasses don't fit. We're not representing who he is. To a world around us. And I. I also think of things like. Goatees. I can't picture Jesus with a goatee. I just can't picture him doing all this grooming and.

Long sideburns. Can you picture Jesus doing that? I can't picture it. It's not who he is. And. Those are some of those vain things. That want to. Get our attention on the outward. I shared a quote from Adam Clark last time.

I'll just read it again. He's a I believe he lived in the 1800s. Commentator on the Bible. He said, when either women or men spend much time, cost and attention on decorating their persons, it affords a painful proof that within there is little excellence and that they are endeavoring to supply the want of mind and moral good by the feeble and silly aids of dress and ornament.

It's like there's a direct proportional thing here. In the two verses, the two scriptures we read here talks about don't wear gold jewels, adornment, do wear good works, a meek and quiet spirit. It's like there's a direct proportion.

If we're focused on that outward stuff, the inward stuff is going to be down here. We only have so much energy, effort, ability to do that. The question is, is it what you do? Is it because you love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and love your neighbor as yourself?

Or is there some other motive? God knows our hearts this morning. God knows why you have on what you put on today. If it was God knows if you looked in the mirror and you thought about how this is going to impress somebody today.

God knows your heart. If he if he speaks that to you and you know that, let's take it to heart. Listen to what Brother John said. The wearing of gay and costly apparel naturally tends to breed and increase vanity.

By vanity, I hear mean the love and desire of being admired and praised. Do we make our choices with that love and desire to be admired and praised? Some of you may have done that this morning. I don't know.

If so, I want to. To challenge you, is that the right word? Admonish you. You're focused in the wrong spot. How about. Things like these hairstyles that want to come in. With with the sisters, you know, some some groups, I don't know.

I'm not sure which all they are, but they have like they're covering and they have their hair sort of fall out and be. Style. And it's a fashion, it's a style. Are they doing that because they love God with all their heart and they just want to be more pleasing to Jesus?

Or what is the motive? There's another motive. And this, like I said, this motive is like this is where it's at in this whole matter. Where's your heart turned? So. We want to build conviction in our lives in this area, like every other area.

That is conviction comes from God's word. It doesn't come from anywhere else. When I see something in the word of God and that's plain and clear to me, it's a conviction now. Right. And so we want to use God's word to build that.

Biblical Principles for Modest Apparel

Let's let's look at First Timothy. Two nine. We've already been there. What does the Bible say about it? Observation. What does it mean? Interpretation. How do I apply it? Application. Those are the three steps of.

Of coming to God's word for conviction. First Timothy two nine in like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel. First word I want to look at, and we did talk about this last time, was the word is the word cosmos.

It's the Greek word. Used. To describe adorn. What does that word say to you? Cosmos. It speaks about to me. It speaks about the celestial order. The stars, moons, sun, planets, everything in perfect order.

Everything working seasonally. The amazing way they can predict these things, the eclipses and the showing of the different planets that we can see and things like that. Cosmos means order. Arrangement.

God saying you have a cosmos about you. What does that? What does it revolve around? This solar system revolves around the sun. There's an order. Everything occurs the same way. Does your cosmos revolve around the sun?

S .O .N. Does that does that affect every choice you make in life? Every decision you make. Is that your cosmos? What orbits around you? The parts of your body, the clothes that you wear, the things that you, the glasses you put on or the way you do your hair or...

That's your cosmos. It says something about you. You order that cosmos. Nobody else does. And what is that cosmos revolving around? Is it self? How I can be pleased? Or be loved? Or is it how can I love God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength?

You know, I got this this world book, Encyclopedia, talks about clothing. It's kind of interesting to see what what the world has to say about it. World says about clothes. People communicate by means of the clothes they wear.

Their clothes may tell others who they are, what they're like, how they feel. And what they'd like to be. That's the world. Clothes tell something about people's beliefs and feelings, their personality and their general approach to life.

People who want to belong to a certain group usually dress in a style similar to that of the people in the group. Through their choice of clothes, they tell members of the group that they share their attitudes, beliefs and way of life.

That's the world. Sometimes, you know, the world is wiser than we are. Clothes tell some of these things. They understand. They're not afraid to say the fact. Your clothes mean something. It's not just doesn't mean anything.

If you've heard people say things like, well, you can be just as humble in fancy clothes as you could be in plain clothes. I don't think it's true, but it is true that somebody can be dressed plain, not be humble.

We know that. But clothes matter. Clothes tell who we are. It tells the world right from the first view that they get of us who these people are, what they're about. And I like the. See if I still have it here.

I like what the Salvation Army has written about their clothes, how they have their salvation clothes like their soldier clothes. This is really interesting. Salvation Army. I think I got this off their website.

What does their uniform stand for? Number one, a commitment in the war against evil. Number two is a personal testimony to the wearer's own Christian faith and practice. Three signifies the availability of the salvationist to anyone needing a helping hand and a listening ear.

I like that. They wore their clothes. They have their outfit for a reason. I'm sure many of them, you know, may not follow that, but I like that to take that for my own clothing. I've made a commitment in the war against evil.

I'm not going to be part of it. I'm not going to add to it. I'm not going to make men lust by showing my body as a personal testimony to the wearer's own Christian faith and practice. I'm serving the Lord.

I'm not going to follow the world's fashion. Three signifies the availability of the salvationist to anybody who needs a helping hand and listening ear. I hope that we can have that sort of spirit and that sort of attitude about us in our clothing, in our plain clothing, that people would not feel intimidated, but rather they'd say, hey, these people are humble.

Maybe I could talk to them about something. All right. So the cosmos. What revolve? What do you revolve around? What's your center of your life? Whether, therefore, you eat or drink or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

In the 15 years that I've been here, the standard that we've always had for modesty has been modesty without question. Not close, not even close, just without question. It says in like manner that women adorn themselves in modest apparel.

We're going to look at that, those words there. Modest. What does it mean? What is modest apparel mean? OK, the word there for apparel is the word katastole, which is the name of a Greek garment. Specifically Greek garment that was double layer.

There was a stole underneath it, katastole on top. It was a double layer garment. And Adam Clarke said about that, he said, a more modest and becoming dress than the Grecian was never invented. It wasn't a great measure revived in England about the year 1805.

And in it, simplicity, decency and elegance were united. But it soon gave place to another mode in which frippery, frippery and nonsense once more prevailed. It was too rational to last long and too much like religious simplicity to be suffered in the land of shadows in a world of painted outsides.

I like that. That's what it talked about when it said apparel. And so practically speaking, you know, a double layer of garment or garment should cover the body. And some of the practical applications.

OK, if you can see undergarments through for your clothing, that's not modest. What is that doing? That's I'll tell you what it does to me anyway. It makes me be drawn to that. I noticed that there's a line here.

You know, and man, isn't that isn't that the truth? Isn't that the way we're wired? There's just something about it. That's the way God made us in a good way. But we so perverted it. So, sisters, you know, that's that's a good thing there.

It's not modest if you can see things through it. You can see your underclothes. It's not modest if certain types of dresses. I've noticed that you can kind of see see through the side sometimes that it's not really modest that way.

Those are things you have to watch out for. Some materials really clingy and it clings to your body. And that's not modest because you can see the form. So you have to have certain materials, you know, not get those clingy ones that that stick to your body.

Things are like seat that are see through. Even, you know, I've had some of my my daughters sometimes have had dresses that. The material is just a little bit see through. They didn't mean anything by that.

But when I saw it, like in a certain light or something, I said, I can see through that. That's not that's not all right. So it's something that covers in simple terms. What, you know, what was the problem in the beginning?

We talked about who invented clothes last time. We got two different answers, Adam and Eve and God. Well, they both did. Right. Adam and Eve invented the first skimpy, inadequate clothes and God invented the first covering clothes.

And it's been the same ever since. It's been the same ever since, hasn't it? We need God to help us get the right clothes on. Amen. So from the beginning, if you if you go through the Bible and you do a study on nakedness, you often will find that word mixed with the word shame.

Nakedness, shame, nakedness, shame. It says in Exodus 32, 25, remember when Aaron and they all had a big party when Moses was gone? It's not possible when I read that. But it says that Aaron had made them naked unto their shame.

And it just went wild. They just lost it. I mean, here they were serving the Lord. Moses went to get the commandments and they just he made them naked unto their shame. Revelation 318. Remember the church of Laodicea?

Jesus said that the shame of nakedness do not appear. So naked, public nakedness, public nakedness is shameful. According to the word of God, it's shameful. And so clothes need to cover the body. There's some I've noticed some Amish type dresses that are cut like way, way low.

You can see a lot of the back and the and the body, the upper body. You can see a lot of the body. That to me, that doesn't fit the bill of what God is saying of covering. Because that makes, what does that do?

That draws you to this beautiful body. Bodies are not wrong. Bodies are not shameful. I didn't want to say that. You know, some people raised up in plain background seem to think that there's something dirty and shameful about your body.

That's a lie of the devil. Your body is not shameful. Public nakedness is shameful. It won't go down that other road. So these are some of those type of things. OK, what about these? Sometimes I see Christian ladies dress in these dresses that they have little slits coming up the side.

You see what I'm talking about? There's like skirts and they sort of open up a little bit when they walk. That is wicked. When I see a lady walk by like that, I mean, I just I want to see her legs. Thank God none of you do that.

Let's look at the definition of the word modest. Modest means first in the Greek there means orderly and fitting. Something that's orderly and it fits, fits the occasion. All right, this this subject here can have a lot of different points.

One thing is neatness and cleanness. Is it befitting to the Lord Jesus when we look sloppy? When we are dirty? It's not. I saw a sister, a dear sister that I really love and appreciate her testimony, not from this congregation.

I saw her in a store a while back and she probably had been working in the garden or something. I don't know what all. She had a bunch of little children with her and she's getting ready to have a baby.

And the front of her dress was all dirty in the store. And, you know, this is nothing against her. As a person, like I said, I love her. But yet I thought as I saw that it just kind of made me a little sad.

Because it made me think, you know, there's a lot of people that might see her and think the wrong thing about her. Because they might think she's a slob or that she's. You know, these these plain people are kind of sort of scuzzballs or dirty, whatever the term you want to use.

And it just struck me, you know, we need to be clean. That's an area that I've failed in some and my family has. So, in fact, we ran out of pants for my for one of my younger sons there this morning and wasn't sure what to do.

We found some blue jeans that fit him and were clean. But it's not going to work. We got out the rag and did some wiping real fast. And so I give my confessions this morning. Amen. We're not perfect, but we're striving.

Amen. Yes, neat and clean. It doesn't show Jesus to others when we're looking dirty, disheveled. It's one thing if you're on a job, you know, and you're hot and sweaty and that's we understand that. That's but let's let's try to represent the Lord in that area.