Staying Holy in a Sinfilled World

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Staying Holy in a Sin-filled World Be Holy
in Dress
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Holy Apparel

• Be holy in our conduct.
• 1 Pet 114-16

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Holy Apparel

• Specific instructions to the women.
• 1 Tim 29-10
• Modest kosmios well arranged, seemly,
  modest.
• Propriety aidos a sense of shame or honour,
  modesty, bashfulness
• Moderation sophrosune 1) soundness of mind
  2) self-control, sobriety.

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Holy Apparel

• Men are to take care for what they wear.
• Could his apparel (or lack thereof) cause a woman
  to lust after him?
• Men are to lift up holy hands in prayers. (1 Tim
  28)
• Cannot be done if he is guilty of leading a woman
  into lustful thoughts.

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Unholy Apparel

• The opposite of holy dress would be unholy dress.
  
• When a person dresses in a way that incites a
  person to lustful thoughts, that person has
  engaged in lascivious behavior.
• (Gal 519)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• any type of lust that is not kept in check or in
  control.

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. disregarding commonly accepted rules or
  principles. 2. not restrained by law or
  morality lawless immoral...." (The World Book
  Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. feeling lust. 2. showing lust lewd wanton.
  3. causing lust or wantonness..." (The World Book
  Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. reckless heartless...2. without reason or
  excuse...3. a. not moral not chaste...b. lewd
  lascivious..." (The World Book Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. very offensive or insulting shocking..."
  (The World Book Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. without shame improper... 2. not modest."
  (The World Book Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• What is lasciviousness?
• unbridled lust, excess, licentiousness,
  lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness,
  shamelessness, insolence.
• "1. bold rudeness insulting behavior or
  speech..." (The World Book Dictionary)

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Unholy Apparel

• How lasciviousness is used . . .
• ". . . I shall mourn for many who have sinned
  before and have not repented of the uncleanness,
  fornication, and LEWDNESS (lasciviousness, KJV,
  licentiousness, NRSV) which they have practiced."
  2 Cor 1221, NKJV

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Unholy Apparel

• How lasciviousness is used . . .
• "Now the works of the flesh are evident, which
  are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, LEWDNESS
  (lasciviousness, KJV, licentiousness, NRSV)" Gal
  519, NKJV

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Unholy Apparel

• How lasciviousness is used . . .
• ". . . have given themselves over to lewdness
  (lasciviousness, KJV, licentiousness, NRSV), to
  work all uncleanness with greediness." Eph 419

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Unholy Apparel

• How lasciviousness is used . . .
• "For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in
  doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in
  lewdness (lasciviousness, KJV, licentiousness,
  NRSV), lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking
  parties, and abominable idolatries." I Pet 43

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Unholy Apparel

• How lasciviousness is used . . .
• "For certain men have crept in unnoticed,...ungodl
  y men, who turn the grace of our God into
  lewdness (lasciviousness, KJV, licentiousness,
  NRSV) and deny the only Lord God and our Lord
  Jesus Christ." Jude 14, NKJV

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Unholy Apparel

• We must recognize . . .
• there are external enticements which can lead
  one's mind in the direction of possessing lustful
  and lewd thoughts. (Matthew 528)
• The most common form of external enticements is
  the wearing of certain types of clothing.

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Conclusion

• If we engage in any type of behavior that would
  entice another person to have lustful thoughts
  about us, then we have sinned.
• If our apparel leads or entices another person to
  lustful or lewd thoughts, then we have sinned.

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Conclusion

• If you are a women, or a young lady, then dress
  yourself as a woman professing godliness.
• If you are a man, then please behave as one who
  has every intention of lifting up holy hands in
  prayer to God.