This study clarifies what and how godly woman
should dress; the biblical perspectives of godly
dress.
As people who have been enlightened by the light
of the true Word of God, we will teach on this.
There are several wrong perceptions and teachings
about Christian clothing and dressing, and it is
better to mention some of them before we share
the 4 Biblical Perspectives of Godly Dressing.
AVOIDING?
Avoiding of Bible standard on godly dress.
Some Pastors and churches say they don’t have to
emphasize on Christian dress or preach against
worldly dressing because Jesus didn’t mention
anything about it. This assumption and conclusion is
erroneous and a deceptive excuse, because Jesus
didn’t mention everything during His earthly
ministration because His disciples could not
understand everything then so He committed the
disciples unto the Holy Spirit who would teach them
“all things”. So it was the same Spirit of Jesus
Christ that inspired the Apostles who unequivocally
taught against worldliness and on how Christians
should dress. Romans 12:1, 1 Timothy 2:9, 10, 1
Peter 3:3, 4.
ANYTHING GOES?
While some preachers and churches are trying to
avoid the teaching of godly dress style, some
others say anything goes. These type of preachers
from America to Africa say your outward look and
dressing does not matter to God. They say it is
your heart that matters to God not your body or
what you wear. This is a pure satanic, destructive
doctrine. The Bible states it clear from Old
Testament that God is not delighted in His children
exposing their nakedness. From Genesis, God made
the first clothing for humanity after they fell into
sin and were sent out of the Garden of Eden. The
LORD God made the clothing from animal skin for
a purpose - to cover their nakedness. So from here
the primary purpose of clothing, of dressing, is to
cover our nakedness. All senses will agree with this,
spiritually, physically, philosophically and mentally;
that we wear clothes primarily to cover our
nakedness. So when a person wears clothes and the
nakedness is not properly covered, the person is
not just being fashionable but working against
God’s natural purpose; that is ungodly and out of
sense. If being half naked is the latest fashions,
then animals are more fashionable, and humanity
has descended below animal.
When a Christian who has the knowledge of the
Almighty God claims that she is dressing not to
cover her body but for fashion, that Christian is
both spiritually and naturally insane.
The Bible
admonishes us in Romans 12:1, to present our
bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to
God. What does that means? God is interested in
how you present your body as well your heart. God
will not accept half naked presented body. How you
present your body is more important to God than
the sacrifice you present. He told Moses that the
children of Israel should be careful so that their
nakedness is not exposed, because that might
attracts God’s wrath. Exodus 20:26
Any pastor or church that ignores to teach you
biblical ways and manner of proper and godly
dressing is an ungodly pastor and church . The
deception of the devil to lure many women and
even men to hell through worldly dressings are now
accepted in many churches, they don't see
anything wrong with how you dress, it doesn't
matter how you present your body. The kind of
wears women can’t wear to night parties about 20
years ago because of natural sense of decency are
what our Christian women are wearing to churches
today with confidence. The same women are
pastor's wives, deaconesses and workers; the same
women can speak in tongues of angels and men,
they can pray with thunders. Such women are
operating under the spirit of Jezebel. At the same
time you see Christian brothers doing jerry curls,
inordinate hair-do, using earrings and so on.
LEGALISM?
While some churches and their pastors declare
anything goes-style of dressing, another side also
goes extreme in legalistically dressing. They claim
to be conservative and then go extreme. This other
side speaks against women wearing “ready made”
clothes, buttons down shirts and they narrow them
down to some specific styles they can wear; some
even oppose women using hats and so on. Going
extreme cannot bring godliness, it will only bring
hypocrisy; such denominations have double
standards, their standards of godly dress in Africa
is different from what they have in the Western
countries. If it is true that wearing trouser,
buttons down shirts, using hats and so on are sins,
then it should be sins everywhere, every time and
at every situation.
The truth about sin is that sin is sin universally and
at every condition. Then why do we see the same
denominational women wearing hats, button down
shirts and suits in Western countries? Why do we
see the pictures of their women on their websites
and on Facebook wearing suits, button-down shirts
and even trousers in some occasions in western
nations? Some excuse it is because of the weather
there and I do wonder, “Is it possible for
something that is sin in a particular country not to
be sin in another country?” If women wearing suits,
trousers, not covering their heads are sins in
Africa or Asia, then they are sins in America and
everywhere, irrespective of the weather, condition,
country or the profession.
MODERATION!
The standard of the Bible is not anything goes
permissive styles neither is it conservative legalism,
Bible standard is MODERATION! One of the
attributes of Christianity is moderation.
Moderation in everything: how you live, what you
say, what you eat, what you drink, how you dress,
what you wear, car you ride, house you live in,
what you use and so on. When you are in Christ,
you don’t show off your self, because your self is
death, you don’t show your body, your riches, your
pride; you show Christ and Him alone. Anything
that will share or take glory from Christ you don't
get involves.
THE FOUR BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES!
So what are the Biblical standards for dressing for
godly women? The answer is that a godly,
regenerated woman can wear anything as long as it
goes along with these four biblical perspectives:
(1) WELL COVERED: When you give your life to
Jesus and living a new life in Him, you are not
controlled by the world fashion's sense, you are not
dressing to belong or please yourself, you dress
primarily to cover your body as a living sacrifice to
God. Because you realize your body is a temple of
Holy Spirit. Anything you wear must cover you well.
How? Your skirts must reach below your knees;
your shirts must well cover your chest; any tops,
gowns, etc. Your wears on top must not show the
trace of your breasts if you bend down and your
underwear must be under, not over. That is the
meaning of well-covered dress.
Wearing shirt or top that shows your cleavage as a
woman is sign of satanic influence on your soul. If a
Christian woman wears a cloths that doesn't cover
her knees, that the trace of her breasts can be
seen, that people can see any of her under-wears
outside, she does not present her body as a holy
temple of God, she is defiling God’s temple since
she claims to be a child of God, and the
punishment is serious.
NOTE: Any dress you wear as a woman, on the top,
that reveals your cleavage is the most sinful and
ungodly dress of all. Those Christian women who
wear such are under the trap of Satan, they are
satanic agents of pollution, and the bad news is
majority of Christian women are victims.
(2) NO TRANSPARENCY: Any clothing you wear as a
godly woman must not be transparent or
evaporated that your under wears will be seen.
Since the purpose of wearing clothes is the cover
your nakedness, wearing transparent or evaporated
clothes has defeated that God’s purpose in such
woman's life. Wearing transparent, evaporated
clothes is an indirect nakedness and disobedience
to God; it is as bad as half naked. As a Christian,
godly woman, you are watchful of what you wear
and how you wear them so that you are not
disqualified by God just because of your dress-
style.
If you don't wear trouser as a woman but you wear
cut-and-sow or ready-made clothing that reveal
your cleavage, then you are walking in the better
trap of Satan.
(3) NO TIGHT: If you are wearing skirts, gowns,
shirts, native dress, self made, uniforms, sport
wears, whatever, where ever, it must not be tight.
Wearing tight clothes that shows the shape and
anatomy of your body to the world is also an
indirect nakedness. You wear clothes to cover your
body not to show your body shape. When the motive
is to show the shape of your body then something it
wrong, it is called inordinate motive. A godly woman
does not dress to show the shape of her body, so
body hugs and all sorts of tight clothing are
ungodly and can lead to damnation and
condemnation of one’s soul at the end.
(4) NOT EXPENSIVE: Either a woman or a man, as
a child of God, Bible directly warns us not to buy,
wear expensive clothing, not because you can’t
afford it but because you are a Christian, modest.
Christianity is all about modesty, meaning showing
little about your self, your financial capacity. You
don’t buy clothes by the reason of your financial
capacity; you buy clothes by the reason of modesty.
Wasting money on expensive clothing and accessories
is un-biblical. Our modern preachers can tell you
opposite but here is what the Bible says, “in like
manner also, that the women adorn themselves in
modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not
with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly
clothing,” 1 Timothy 2:9.
Costly clothing is unbecoming for a heavenly
conscious woman or man. Then how can we measure
costly clothing and every other thing we buy?
Simply apply the principle of moderation: (I) ask
yourself why you want to buy it for that price, are
you buying it for its quality, for ego, to class and
prove your financial level? Or because it is the
reigning fashion and you want to belong? (II) Ask
yourself if you can get another clothing of same
quality with lesser price. Then let the Spirit of God
guide you. God knows our intentions and thoughts,
so we can’t deceive Him.
GOOD MOTIVE + BAD MANNER = CONDEMNED
PERSON
Some women claim that they wear any clothes with
pure motive, without any bad motive to seduce. If
you have a pure motive and you don’t care about
the manner you express that motive, it is a sin. If
your pure motive is generating un-pure thoughts
from those who see you then you have become the
source and cause of un-pure thoughts. When you
are a child of God, you show God’s glory, people
see you and see Christ not otherwise.
Some say they wear what they want to wear, and
if it affects any man, such man should close his
eyes. Such statement should not be from a
regenerated person who is a child of God, because
(1) closing eyes will only lead the world into
darkness, but a child of God is a source of light, to
help open the eyes of the people in darkness, it is
not to close the eyes of people into deeper
darkness. (2) A child of God dresses to edify not
to instigate lust or shows self.
May the Lord give us understanding of the truth,
and may we take to necessary correction but it
gets too late.
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